39F and dry here in Santa Fe. Breakfast coming up soon.
Since I forgot last week and didn’t get much response to the reminder, what did you do to prep?
I got two of my raised beds conditioned and planted. Got the window boxes planted. Cilantro is coming up fine. Got the citrus trees pruned and the orange is in blossom. So is the peach. Got 4 more blueberry bushes planted.
I got the antenna mast installed and secured. That meant getting the fence section rebuilt, and reinforced.
Did some work on getting OFD’s pc ready.
And that’s it.
Two days after getting home I have the Rosenburg hamfest and swapmeet. I always do the swapmeet to sell a bunch of stuff that has built up over the year. They’ll be testing for new and upgrade licenses so if you are in the area, Saturday next…get your ticket.
And now for some Santa Fe breakfast….
Nick
Not related to prepping:
1. Picking up more lemons and limes than we know what to do with,
2. Plenty of Navel oranges, eating oranges but I juice them regardless,
3. Overwhelmed with Valencia, juicing oranges of which I juice several daily,
4. Four tomato seedlings (Sweet 100 Cherry, Early Girl, Champion, and Big Boy) in ground and growing well,
5. Will plant another Sweet 100 Cherry, and Big Boy in pots to place in more sunlight location (prefer Cherry variety for salads and Big Boy for BLTs).
@nick, you picked an awesome weather week to leave. We were reputedly 50 F this morning and are 62 F now. There is a blustery (Winnie the Pooh word !) wind blowing out of the north.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/richmond/77469?cm_ven=localwx_10day
Oh man, if we could only save some of this weather for August and September.
I was thinking about working on my master closet shelf and clothes bar today but I managed to get the carpal tunnel aggravated in my left wrist again. I bought a new wrist support last Friday and have been wearing it all weekend and now. I paid $21 for mine at our local disability store but Amazon has it for $7.
https://www.amazon.com/Therall-Joint-Warming-Support-Medium/dp/B003XA0NOC
“Smart Home Security”
https://xkcd.com/1966/
And once again Randall nails it.
And closely related to:
https://xkcd.com/1912/
“FCC Accuses Startup of Launching Tiny Rogue Satellites”
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/265392-fcc-accuses-startup-launching-tiny-rogue-satellites
Hmm. I wonder if the FCC truly has the right to regulate near space. On the other hand, do we need more junk up there ?
“Hmm. I wonder if the FCC truly has the right to regulate near space.”
Good question. If the object were in non-near, stationary, equatorial orbit, over Africa, I would assume not. If not communicating with anything in the USA, probably not.
My good friend turned up with stage 2 prostate cancer a month ago. Three stage 1 tumors and 4 stage 2 tumors. He is 61 and does not want to mess with it so he had prostate removal surgery last Thursday. The urologist used his robot on him with the multiple minor cuts. My friend went home Friday afternoon, is up and eating. He is sore as heck though.
If I turn up with prostate cancer, this is my plan also. Both my grandfathers died of prostate cancer, one was 86 and the other one was 64.
Never stops a bureaucrat from trying to regulate something….
Nice day here. Chilly though…….
N
“Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/12/arnold-schwarzenegger-sxsw-trump-big-oil-me-too-217345
“Arnold Schwarzenegger’s next mission: taking oil companies to court “for knowingly killing people all over the world.””
“The former California governor and global environmental activist announced the move Sunday at a live recording of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast here at the SXSW festival, revealing that he’s in talks with several private law firms and preparing a public push around the effort.”
““This is no different from the smoking issue. The tobacco industry knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would kill people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding that fact from the people and denied it. Then eventually they were taken to court and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars because of that,” Schwarzenegger said. “The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people’s lives, that it would kill.””
What a tool !
BTW, there are two federal lawsuits trying to get the AGW science admitted as a legal fact. Both are in California. I predict that if either succeed then the price of gasoline will be $5/gallon in a year, rising at $1/gallon per year.
https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit/
and
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article203842084.html
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
SXSW, the entire mess, never mind that some marketer decided Austin is the Music Capitol of Texas, needs to eff off with that bullshit and go to California. Or hell. Just go away.
Sure, it was fun at first. SXSW sort of replaced AquaFest. AquaFest was a blast!!! Then the snooty folks had the boat races banned from the local lake “because noise”. The boats moved to Marble Falls about 20 years ago, until this year. Because noise.
Damn VA. My appeal was denied. They stated I showed improvement from my exam on May 11, 2017. Problem is the exam on that date did not do any range of movement tests. Thus there can be no improvement from something that was not measured. I have tried twice to convince the VA that no such measurements were taken but the VA insists that range of motion tests were done as they are using that for their metric.
The last tests they did failed to encompass the issue that I am having with moving my head around a vertical axis. Told this to the examiner but she insisted on doing the tests the VA wanted, not the problem for which I was wanting the increase in disability.
So I am appealing again. This time I will attach a strong letter demanding a proper examination and succinctly explaining that there was no range of movement tests for which they are stating there was improvement.
It’s like the VA is pulling every trick in the book, including fraud, to keep from providing compensation. A lawyer may be my next course of action.
some marketer decided Austin is the Music Capitol of Texas
Wait, what? Tennessee keeps saying that Nashville is the music capital of the world.
Now if Austin music is anything like what is played on Austin City Limits, barf, puke, hack, cough, choke, gag would seem to be appropriate. The only redeeming value is they don’t invite Aretha Franklin whose singing is akin to finger nails running down a chalkboard.
@Ray, here you go, “Twenty One Pilots – Live at Austin City Limits Festival 2015 (Full Show)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM_SdSDe_N8
Cool group ! Yes, they are freaks, why do you ask ?
Yes, the lead singer uses a sharpie to adorn his neck and hands. He is living his freak.
“This Is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/09/bitcoin-mining-energy-prices-smalltown-feature-217230
“Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving.”
Good grief ! That is crazy !
What a tool !
Find a copy of “Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room”. You’ll never look at Ahhh-nold the say way again.
“Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving.”
East Wenatchee. Literally the middle of nowhere.
Find a copy of “Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room”. You’ll never look at Ahhh-nold the say way again.
Why, is Arnold mentioned in the book ?
“Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving.”
During the California and Klondike gold rushes, the REAL winners economically were the entrepreneurs who sold pickaxes and shovels to the miners. Messrs. Carlson and Salcido are those entrepreneurs ‘ modern-day counterparts.
If I turn up with prostate cancer, this is my plan also. Both my grandfathers died of prostate cancer, one was 86 and the other one was 64.
Mr. Lynn, what were the symptoms your friend had to get checked?
@medium wave said:
“During the California and Klondike gold rushes, the REAL winners economically were the entrepreneurs who sold pickaxes and shovels to the miners. Messrs. Carlson and Salcido are those entrepreneurs ‘ modern-day counterparts.”
@medium wave is so right and the real news is is that that supposed abundant electrical power is no longer there. Every spare KW is sold out of state and the power infrastructure to support the defunct businesses in the Wenatchee/Leavenworth area has been ripped out and sold long ago.
The guys/gals who “invented” bitcoin and its clones are laughing all the way to the bank. Talk about snake oil.
If I turn up with prostate cancer, this is my plan also. Both my grandfathers died of prostate cancer, one was 86 and the other one was 64.
Mr. Lynn, what were the symptoms your friend had to get checked?
He had his annual physical exam. His PSA jumped from 1 to 8 or something like that. The digital exam was inconclusive. So our GP sent him to a urologist who ran a sonogram ? on him and went “oh my !’.
I hate digital prostate exams. So does my GP. Now my friend won’t have to have digital exams anymore (nothing to digitally examine !).
The guys/gals who “invented” bitcoin and its clones are laughing all the way to the bank. Talk about snake oil.
The Sovereign guy is claiming that half of the bitcoin clones went bankrupt last year.
https://www.sovereignman.com/investing/nearly-half-of-all-icos-last-year-have-already-failed-and-thats-a-good-thing-23050/
Wow ! I spelled sovereign correctly without correction from the spell checker ! Gonna be a great day !
“The Sovereign guy is claiming that half of the bitcoin clones went bankrupt last year.”
Which only shows that he has no clue what he’s talking about. Half the Bitcoin clones bankrupt? That word doesn’t mean what he thinks it does.
There are over a thousand digital currencies out there, and those are just the ones that bother to register themselves. I’m sure some have disappeared, but not many. And what would it mean for one to go “bankrupt”? It doesn’t cost anything to create one! It’s just some program code, and many (most?) of them are open source, meaning you can just copy someone else’s code, give it a name, and go.
So there’s little effort and no investment of money, there’s just the question of whether anyone pays attention to your new currency. For the vast majority, the answer is “no”. Just as an example, some Reddit forum got a bee in its bonnet, and decided to create Garlicoin. It’s a joke, really, as you can tell from the website. But it’s there, it’s on the official currency exchanges, and some people are participating just for the hell of it.
Probably the top 20 or so digital currencies have a chance of ever being used for anything significant. Maybe there will be a couple of newcomers as well. The others will gradually fade into obscurity, as people stop participating. But bankrupt? There’s no entity behind the vast majority of them, so nothing and no one to go bankrupt.
[Edited to add: No one to go bankrupt, except maybe for idiots who mortgage their houses to participate in the speculation.]
Why, is Arnold mentioned in the book ?
I didn’t know there was a book. Get a copy of the documentary.
Why, is Arnold mentioned in the book ?
I didn’t know there was a book. Get a copy of the documentary.
http://watchdocumentaries.com/enron-the-smartest-guys-in-the-room/
I wonder about the legality of this website.
BTW, I already knew most of what is in the documentary. Enron was a customer of mine. I knew several people working there in various areas. I knew several people who lost it all in the downfall. I watched a marriage fall apart due to the Enron culture, my wife is still best friends with the former wife. The husband owned almost 100,000 shares of stock that went from $68 to $0.05 or so. He learned a very hard lesson about believing in your employer to take care of you.
[Edited to add: No one to go bankrupt, except maybe for idiots who mortgage their houses to participate in the speculation.]
When this crypto currency mining stops, the local utilities that mortgaged the company to trade out their 100 MVar auto-transformer with a 300 MVar auto-transformer and replacement poles / wiring / meters will be hurting.