The Adventures of Roberta X

The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Bottom Line

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     Events of the past week have made it clear: If you're still supporting Republican politicians at this point, you're in favor of...
Friday, July 18, 2025

AI Seeps In

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     My boss recently had occasion to use a packaged microcontroller; I leapfrogged from BASIC Stamps (nice little widgets, as long as what ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Rabbit Hole

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      This morning, Tam was looking at a Mars-lander parachute with a message encoded in the panels.  Over her shoulder, I thought it was a ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

A Mighty Own Goal

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     As I write this, the U. S. Senate is poised to pull the rug out from under funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) f...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

"...Just Ignore The Troubling Politics..."

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     I've gotten that advice in comments quite a lot.  Oh, if only I could!  The problem is, politics won't ignore me.      The Uni...
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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Fighting A Bug Or The Price Of Age?

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     Saturday was a struggle.  My back's been hurting, and by midday Saturday, I had a stomach ache and I was feeling cold.  I kept afte...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

On Monday

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     It looks like I'll need to go in early next Monday: the last pieces will be arriving for the replacement for a major device that ha...
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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Anger

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     One of the things I have difficulty coming to terms with is how angry I am.  Not that Mr. Trump won; I don't expect to like Preside...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2025

We're In The Hands Of Fools

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     I'm starting to see news stories -- you know, the kind with actual news about things that are actually happened, supported by inter...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

"It's All About Salemanship!"

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     Elsewhere on social media, a writer told the tale of doing a book-signing, and having a guy come up and ask why he ought to buy that wr...
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Monday, July 07, 2025

Whining

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     I woke up with a cataclysmic headache, grumped and stumbled my way through the dishes I put off last night, and, having taken an OTC an...
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Sunday, July 06, 2025

Bots And Bots

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     Blog traffic is way up -- and it's all machines.  I'm not here to feed machines.  So I took the weekend off.      Need to figu...
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Roberta X
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
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