David

@dburnette

Accountant, twin dad, windmill enthusiast, ultimate frisbee retiree, Gamecock. Former artillery officer. Lincoln, NE by way of SC.

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David@dburnette· 7d

Best win since Mike Hunt was elected Aiken County sheriff.

Election sign in my hometown for Mike Hunt for Aiken County (SC) Sheriff.

David@dburnette· Jul 4

I had the good fortune to see Patti Smith in Cincinnati a couple years ago and she absolutely rocked.

Patti Smith and her band performaing an outdoor music stage in Cincinnati, OH in September 2023.

David@dburnette· May 28

NPS is also losing money by not staffing some places. I went to Badlands National Park this weekend and the entrance was station was not staffed and instead had a sign asking visitors to instead pay the entry fee by QR code.

NPS entrance station at the Interior, SD entrance to Badlands National Park on Sunday May 24th. It is closed and not accepting payments in person.

It is not visible in the photo, but the cost for every private vehicle to enter the park is $30. There were tons of cars there, I have no idea how many paid.

David@dburnette· Apr 22

Uhhh... were they doing a lot of business in Tehran or something???

Breaking headline from CNBC stating that ServiceNow lost subscription revenue due to the Iran war??? Definitely not AI... For sure the war.

David@dburnette· Mar 27

Cincinnatus mentioned!

David@dburnette· Mar 12

Sun dogs (rainbows??) this morning in south Lincoln. @rustywx.bsky.social

Morning sun with rainbow spots at the 9, 12, and 3 o’clock positions. Partially cloudy.

David@dburnette· Mar 10

We’ll always have the 2017 men’s final four.

Photo from the absolute top of the 2017 Final Four stadium in Phoenix, AZ. A South Carolina player is visible on the big screen in the center.

David@dburnette· Feb 1

Industry there produces just 10% of what it used to. Largely due to disease like you said. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...

Chart of FL citrus industry production showing a 93% over the past 20 years.

https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/

David@dburnette· Jan 27

Weird, the baltic dirty tanker index is at a multi-year high.

12-month chart of baltic dirty tanker index, from Reuter's Japanese site, because for some reason their US version doesn't chart BAID anymore.
https://jp.reuters.com/markets/quote/.BAID/

Related, getting good charts of BAID is unnecessarily difficult for those of us without a Terminal or other paid subscriptions, even CNBC and others don't track it well or at all anymore.

David@dburnette· Dec 23

Big time. Further consolidation in an already tight industry just makes the supply chain more fragile and hurts ranchers and consumers. Chart is as of 2019 from a story about a KS plant fire affecting the industry. It’s probably further consolidated now.

Chart of meatpacking market share showing 3 companies controlling >75% of the capacity.
From the farm bureau:
https://www.fb.org/market-intel/impacts-of-the-packing-plant-fire-in-kansas

David@dburnette· Dec 14

Trust me when I say you gotta get the red top hot and spicy version.

Blenheim Ginger Ale with a red cap denoting it is the hot version. An SC institution!

David@dburnette· Dec 11

Honestly, I thought this from last year was the top.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, signing a fan's bra.

David@dburnette· Nov 18

I am the actual bluesky stereotypical 38 year-old and my parents were in school during integration, this is not ancient history! The middle school I went to was the old black school in town, it even had (has?) an old championship banner in the gym from the pre-1970 teams.

Prior to integration of schools in 1970, Guinyard-Butler Middle School was originally Barnwell’s school for colored people. The existing building on Allen Street was built in 1953 specifically for the colored children of Barnwell 45.

In Barnwell, the public school for colored people was created and organized under Reverend Watson. Professor Butler served as the second principal and later the school was named in his honor. Professor Solomon A. Guinyard served as principal from 1930 until school integration in 1970. In 1967, Butler School was renamed Guinyard-Butler School in honor of Professor Guinyard’s 37 years as principal.

After the integration of schools in 1970, the school on Allen street was named Guinyard-Butler Middle school and housed grades 6-8 until the opening of Barnwell Elementary School in 2005. Currently, Guinyard-Butler Middle School is home to grades 7-8 and boasts an enrollment of approximately 350 students.
https://gbms.bcsd.net/about-us/our-school

David@dburnette· Oct 24

In case anyone is still wondering, this is also an ADA violation. You cannot augment an appropriation without valid statutory authority to do so.

Another type of potential Anti-deficiency Act violation is the augmentation of funds, wherein a Federal agency supplements its appropriations from outside sources without specific statutory authority. This augmentation prohibition rule is derived from several enactments of Congress rather than a specific statute. As explained in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Red Book, “the objective of the rule against augmentation is to prevent a government agency from undercutting the congressional power of the purse by circuitously exceeding the amount Congress has appropriated for that activity.” In addition, Title 31, US Code, Section 1301(a), states that “appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law.”

David@dburnette· Oct 19

New year, new version of the same underlying problem.

Mark Renton’s monologue at the end of Trainspotting.

David@dburnette· Oct 18

Video from higher up.

David@dburnette· Oct 18

Lincoln turnout this morning. #NoKings #LNK

Photo of Nebraska State Capitol filled with protestors.

David@dburnette· Oct 18

Part of the inspiration for my sign today.

Sign reading:
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
FREEDOM OF WORSHIP
FREEDOM FROM WANT
FREEDOM FROM FEAR

David@dburnette· Oct 15

Today is a good day to not violate 13 USC 1341, lest you be subject to the penalties of section 1350.

31 U.S. Code § 1341 - Limitations on expending and obligating amounts

(a)
(1)Except as specified in this subchapter or any other provision of law, an officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not—
(A)make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding an amount available in an appropriation or fund for the expenditure or obligation;

31 U.S. Code § 1350 - Criminal penalty

An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government knowingly and willfully violating section 1341(a) or 1342 of this title shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.

David@dburnette· Oct 1

They saw it coming.

Tweet from Geert Wilders, well known far right fascist Dutch politician and all around jerk, reading "We hebben een serieus probleem". This tweet made rounds as a meme several years back due to how ridiculous it sounds to an American reader.

David@dburnette· Sep 28

Me and the family went to downtown Chicago over Labor Day weekend. We walked the streets, played in parks, and rode public transportation the whole time. Never felt unsafe or even uncomfortable. The city was absolutely beautiful and we had a great time.

Photo of Chicago River from a bridge. A large boat filled with tourists passes alongside a single kayaker.
Tall building stand on either side of the river.

My family and friends standing under an awning on the train platform waiting for the train. It is clean and bright outside.

Children play in a public fountain in Millenium Park in downtown Chicago.

Street corner will cool theater sign and near old clock. Unrelated aside I saw Hamilton in this theater back in November 2016, it was fantastic.

David@dburnette· Sep 22

The ol' Aubrey McClendon method.

Screenshot from Wikipedia reading
"On March 1, 2016, McClendon was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring "to rig bids for the purchase of oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma".[2][3] He died the following day in a single-vehicle collision.[4]"

David@dburnette· Sep 5

Continued hangover from 2008, things were still bad. Here is the same data set going further back.

FRED chart of unemployment rate for 20-24 yr olds.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000036

David@dburnette· Aug 29

I was born and raised less than 30 minutes from there and never knew about the Hamburg Massacre until long after I finished college. Same thing for the lynching of 8 black men in Barnwell in 1889.

South Carolina was the site of one of the largest lynchings. On December 28, 1889, in Barnwell County eight African American men were accused of murdering a local merchant. A mob broke them out of jail, tied them to trees, and then shot them. In 1926 Aiken was the site of the Lowman family lynching. A sheriff and his deputies, all members of the Ku Klux Klan, arrived to arrest one of the Lowman sons. Upon hearing that the boy was gone, the sheriff attacked his sister. The resulting scuffle ended with mother Lowman shot by the sheriff, who in turn was killed by a stray bullet. The remaining Lowmans were arrested and tried. When one brother was acquitted, a Klan-led mob stormed the jail, dragged them out, and shot them.
https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/lynching/

David@dburnette· Jul 6

It is hard sometimes! The first time I saw this sign it absolutely confused me.

Green street sign with an arrow that points right and reads "Germans From Russia Museum"

David@dburnette· Apr 9

Anakin meme making a joke that capital gains tax is zero in 2025 due to losses.

David@dburnette· Apr 3

Here is the memo:

MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
April 3, 2025
SUBJECT: Evaluation of the Secretary of Defense's Reported Use of a Commercially Available
Messaging Application for Official Business
(Project No. D2025-DEVOPC-0095.000)
The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we are initiating the subject
evaluation. We are conducting this evaluation in response to a March 26, 2025 letter I received
from the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requesting
that I conduct an inquiry into recent public reporting on the Secretary of Defense's use of an
unclassified commercially available messaging application to discuss information pertaining to
military actions in Yemen in March 2025.1
The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of
Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a
commercial messaging application for official business. Additionally, we will review
compliance with classification and records retention requirements.
We may revise the objective as the evaluation proceeds. We plan to perform this
evaluation in accordance with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
"Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation."
We will perform the evaluation in Washington, D.C. and at the U.S. Central Command
Headquarters in Tampa, Florida. We may identify additional locations during the evaluation.

We request that you designate two points of contact for this evaluation within 5 days of
this memorandum. One point of contact should be a Government employee—a GS-15, pay band
equivalent, or military equivalent—who is knowledgeable of the subject. The second point of
contact should be a member of the Senior Executive Service or a General/Flag Officer who is
familiar with the subject and could serve as a point of engagement with DoD Office of Inspector
General senior leaders, if necessary. Send each contact's name, title, grade/pay band, phone
number, and email address to
The Inspector General Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. §§ 401-424, as amended, authorizes us to
have access to personnel and materials as we determine necessary to perform our oversight in a
timely manner. You can obtain information about the DoD Office of Inspector General from
DoD Directive 5106.01, "Inspector General of the Department of Defense (IG DoD)," April 20,
1 We received similar requests from individual members of Congress and considered those requests in initiating this
evaluation.
2012, as amended, and DoD Instruction 7050.03, "DoD Office of Inspector General Access to
Records and Information," November 13, 2024. Our website is www.dodig.mil.
If you have any questions, please contact
Steven A. Stebbins
Acting
Attachment:
Project Annoucement Memorandum to DoD Components
cc:
General Counsel of the Department of Defense

David@dburnette· Apr 3

How you know you’re doing a great job:

Screenshot of CNBC showing red for all the major averages. Nasdaq 100 down 4.6%! 😬

David@dburnette· Mar 24

I use the rolled biscuits recipe here with butter. I do 1.5x the written amounts in it for a bigger batch. Plus this time I put in a little whipping cream in the milk, it made them a little fluffier. The height just comes from the folding/layers and not rolling the dough out too thin.

Photo of the Rolled Biscuit recipe from the Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer.

David@dburnette· Mar 23

Just made these!