{"id":10470,"date":"2026-07-19T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:33:01","slug":"scraps-of-lagniappe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/07\/19\/scraps-of-lagniappe\/","title":{"rendered":"Scraps of Lagniappe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I should be on the road for a whole long Sunday, so before I go, I’m preloading a cleanup post.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

“Fact-based.” “Following the evidence, the Science!, the good of the Party and the System.”<\/p>\n

Air India 171, The Pattern Continues | STANDARDS (FULL DOCUMENTARY EPISODE) <\/a><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

There’s a reason why the concept of “fourteen thousand years ago in the Magdalenian times” compels me. <\/p>\n

And it has something to do with the fact that ‘farming’ as a lifestyle wasn’t even a realistic possibility, then. <\/p>\n

12,800 Years Ago Something Stopped the World \u2014 We Still Don’t Know What <\/a><\/p>\n

New Discoveries in the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis <\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Processor Options: Intel 20-Core i7-14700 (33M, 5.40 GHz)
\nRAM: 64GB
\nM.2 SSD Drive\/’OS drive’: 1TB NVME SSD
\nHard Drive: 4TB (NOT SSD, CMR, for data storage)
\n$2,965.70<\/p>\n

All that wouldn’t cover is: any of the GPU necessary to run a local LLM.
\nStrangely, that might could be added on as a peripheral later
\nso long as there is a Thunderbolt 4\/USB4 header (which my current laptop has)
\nand a Tbolt port (which it doesn’t?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, yeah, three grand or so just to sit down at the table and get in the game. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

There’s a bunch more, on the spiritual side, but for now<\/p>\n

I’ll just repost this <\/a><\/p>\n

and mention that just before you get to the fully mad state of sannyasa<\/p>\n

there is a remote place called Forest Dweller; V\u0101naprastha (\u0935\u093e\u0928\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0938\u094d\u0925)<\/p>\n

and that it is where I will likely live the rest of my life this time<\/p>\n

regardless of whether it happens in AZ or NM<\/p>\n

and regardless of whether any ‘nice things’ are done for me or not<\/p>\n

so i got that going for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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