Chilly willy today. Supposed to be clear and breezy. It was pretty chilly all day on Friday, and was 38F when I went to bed.
Did my pickups, did some messing around. Auctioneer did not set a time when I could bring down some more stuff. I did get the breakdown for my sales with his last auction. Stuff did better than I thought and there was a lot of it that I didn’t realize was mine when I looked at the listings. I’ll get a check next week. The big surprise was books with a local theme. I grabbed several last week so I’ll try to get them into an auction too.
Purchase of the lakehouse is proceeding. The title guarantee is the next delay as they do the search. They aren’t in any hurry.
Today’s plan, sleep in. I’m definitely running on empty sleep wise. Then I need to get to work.
I have lost track of what’s going on in Ukraine, so if anyone can summarize below, that would be cool…
Divemedic has been posting about some radio traffic and flight tracking that makes me think that the words are just words as they pick their moment. When that kicks off, it’s going to make some really big waves.
So stack some things. Chances are you’ll need them.
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Is avocado toast still a thing?
Pre-pandemic, I remember Soy Boys on the local Faux News fretting about an "avocado shortage" that the media had created.
No avocado toast at Sunday brunch?!? What's a Soy Boy (and his dog) to do? The End is nigh!
Another "war" will not have the support of the public or even the military beyond the freak shows in Tampa.
They protect their “consultant” soup bowl retirement schemes in Tampa.
@Lynn: In your near future?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/seagate-starts-shipping-enormous-22tb-hard-drives-to-some-customers/
@Greg
Is avocado toast still a thing?
I don’t know if it’s still a thing. On the rare occasion we get a good avocado, I confess, I find heavily buttered toast with avocado is delicious. A local coffee shop next door to work has it on their menu.
Back in the low twenties today. Rabbits are good. Two does due in ten days, seven kits growing well and their eyes should open soon. I need to send two juveniles to freezer camp to make room for the upcoming kits. I’ve got a couple weeks before that gets important. Water barrel would benefit from topping off. I’ve got another week before it’s a priority. Good footing will determine timing.
Our local politics trundle along stripping more rights from people who have the temerity to testify in opposition to our nasty nine. We’ve contributed heavily to the conservatives running. Vote by mail in April.
Lots of activities today. I’m wide awake a couple hours too soon.
Oh, and a tech funny. Daughters school requested help with their firewall equipment. Not my strong suit. Got the principal to set up a call and I chatted with the provider, turned out to be -the- developer, yesterday, about capabilities. I’ve got a remote login and lots of KB articles to read. I told developer I wanted an overview of the tools and understanding of capabilities and was clear we werent configuring it that call. Call went well. Near end he was really agitated by how badly configured our device was. Wanted me to change settings. I told him no. We don’t change things without a plan. We don’t change things late on a Friday.
Long quiet pause.
But I really want you to, he said. In a kinda petulant voice that was hysterical.
Nope! I pointed out his tech support hours ended in 15 minutes and Murphy’s law. He conceded I was right.
It was a good conversation. I’m going to see if my firewall guy at work will get involved. The configuration is the train wreck you’d expect after 10 years of amateur non-tech volunteers.
Getting out of the hospital/rehab is important for infection control.
Your father is safer as the infusion tech because he knows what he doesn't know and isn't going to play doctor.
And, please, all of you know what I mean by that statement. Lots of chips on shoulders exist in medicine because someone couldn't get into [X] school.
"Avocado toast" is a recurring meme of the current Internet bubble, particularly in Austin. Any hint of a shortage of avocados seems to cause great concern in the community, much more than the media-created “gas shortage” around here in 2017.
The local brunch restaurant closed for several months two years ago, and when they reopened for pickup only starting one Sunday, the line of German grocery getters stretched half a mile, in the direction of the new developments in the sliver of the city limits that extends like a middle finger into our county.
Five o'clock on the Friday of the Lunar New Year holiday weekend? The switch equipment vendors aren't going to have competent second level tech support and beyond until Wednesday … maybe.
Part of the problem of the "freeze" disaster in Austin last year was that the weekend included Lunar New Year, Valentines Day, and a Federal Holiday, Presidents' Day, within a four day period. No one was at work in any level of government after that Thursday at noon, despite the forecasts.
Plus, at the risk of being accused of flogging a deceased equine, everyone was still working at home in their jammies. Few in tech have done any meaningful work in two years beyond fighting fires in a figurative sense.
Well, sometimes literal in the case of the AT&T switch in Nashville.
The firewall developer/vendor is American on some kind of contract. Interesting.
Straightening out the mess will provide the opportunity to learn some skills. And not just Hot Skillz. I’ve minimally touched practical hands-on enterprise-level networking, enough to get projects out of the ditch like at the previous previous job.
When I started my last assignment before being fired, I was shocked that our usual virtual networks hadn’t been established at the test facility by our Wally after two months. When I asked him why, he said, “I’m not a network guy.”
“Neither am I, but I know how to use a friggin’* telephone and ask for help.”
* Substitute “friggin'”. Remember I was fired for using two variations of the f-word in a group call (no customers present) when Wally really dropped the ball later and the demo failed.
Nothing special about that school. The school system I sub with has an "IT" staff. And I use that term loosely. The firewall is just configured to block anything except the web. Which may be a good thing. But the stupid part is that even searches from any of the search engines, Google, Bing, etc. are blocked. It is impossible to find anything.
It may have to do with my computer not being registered as a school asset. There is WiFi in the school, student, guest and staff. I connect to the staff using another teacher's credentials. The guest WiFi does not work at all. The IT staff refuses to give subs a logon to the WiFi system because we are not "full time" staff and don't need access.
The blocking in the firewall from "bad" words is idiotic. Go to a website with any of what the IT staff considers offensive words and the access is blocked. Not just the word, but any word containing the nefarious text.
I have no issues with extreme rules for the students. That should be locked down extremely tight. But not staff, whom are adults, and know the rules.
Schools get by with the cheapest possible. It is hard to convince a school board, many wearing overalls to the meetings, anything about technology. All the members see are dollar signs. In a way I don't blame them because the county commissioners who determine the funding for the school are even lower on the food chain regarding intelligence. In a way it is not entirely the commissioner's fault as they ultimately answer to the taxpayers who as a group drop a couple of levels lower on the food chain.
many wearing overalls to the meetings, anything about technology.
— we've got the opposite problem. Our board wears Gucci loafers, or the 'cowboy' equivalent and are far too clever by half wrt tech. Search here for my previous comments about them wanting to become an ISP or at least run a WAN thru the whole district by leasing ground for cell towers on schools, but reserving the top 15ft for district antennas…
Even though we've been back to in person learning for several semesters, they are still using about 6 different web based platforms as part of daily lessons. They use at least three to communicate with parents.
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81F with the sun out and a crazy low 34% RH. I'll have a chance to dump out every little bucket and rain catcher and have it dry today….
House is quiet. At almost 13yo D1 is starting the 'stay up all night' teen thing. Wife is up but off somewhere in the house being quiet. D2 is probably reading in bed. Somewhere there is a sleeping dog.
I better get my day going.
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Our Congress sucks:
Nancy Pelosi’s comments about Ukraine and Congress’s ‘oath to protect and defend’ raise some eyebrows
This carbuncle can't pass soon enough.
@ray;
This is well-known, so much so that there's a name for it – "Scunthorpe problem" after the town in the north of England. There are other such words.
G.
The Pizza Box dream of firing the phone company dies hard.
Pelosi will run for reelection if only to be in the building until her successor is sworn in as Speaker. Until then, legally, she is two heartbeats away …
she is two heartbeats away
— from being dead herself. Gnu willing.
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@Lynn: In your near future?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/seagate-starts-shipping-enormous-22tb-hard-drives-to-some-customers/
I've bought my last Seagate drive.
The last big drive I bought in November was a WD 12 TB USB external.
Another "war" will not have the support of the public or even the military beyond the freak shows in Tampa.
They protect their “consultant” soup bowl retirement schemes in Tampa.
How are the dumbrocrats going to blame the Ukrainian war on the reguglicans ?
How are the dumbrocrats going to blame the Ukrainian war on the reguglicans ?
— what they usually do is project their own motives, so they'll probably blame something sketchy and financial.
-or the ever useful "human rights" abuses.
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Easy. Both sides of the aisle support doing something stupid, especially if they live in DoD contractor districts. Gotta protect that soup bowl.
Earlier this afternoon, Faux News Radio on the Clear Channel station out of San Antonio had quotes that Congresswoman Salazar (R-Miami) made this morning about the importance of supporting Ukraine and showing force. I can't find a thing about it on the Interwebs right now, however.
Salazar narrowly defeated Donna Shalala to take what was previously considered a "safe" Dem seat. Florida drew new district boundaries to protect her last year, but Miami is a very fluid place in terms of politics.
Little Marco is a chicken hawk type who likes to rattle the sabre. Someone has a lid on him — he’s up for reelection state-wide this year.
–which is why they want to change it, I guess. 'cuz bizarro world.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10449129/Disney-sparks-outrage-debuting-new-look-Minnie-Mouse-progressive-blue-pantsuit.html
–Minnie has always been drawn in a dress to keep her silhouette distinct from Mickey's.
And nothing says 'cheerful' like a dark pant suit.
–so progress for women is to look like men. Got it. Explains Stella's look.
When all the women become men and the men become women, they I guess we'll all become Diamond Dogs.
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I went into Austin (shudder) this afternoon to drop our external garage light fixtures off for rewiring.
On the way home, passing a cluster of Soy Boy apartments, I noticed a B*TO! Store in one of the old strip malls which hasn't been torn down for more housing yet.
I'm guessing it is Robert Francis’ local campaign headquarters. Signs in the windows indicated "T Shirts", "Hats", and "Signs" were available within.
No word on whether they carry that Kennedy/Addison's shade of foundation O’Rourke uses in appearances.
I also heard the Car Pro show while out. Usually Jerry is a shill for the dealers, but today he was giving outrageous ADM numbers that he'd heard about recently.
$40,000 ADM (Additional Dealer Marketing) on a RAV4 Prime, making the total cost of the vehicle $90,000 rolling off the lot.
Yeah, no one is getting a $20,000 Maverick right now.
The RAV4 Prime is desirable because it is technically the fastest Toyota sold right now due to the hybrid drive train’s unique design, mixing a traditional hybrid transmission up front and an extra electric motor in back. The Supra is faster, but that one is mostly engineered by … BMW … ? … Someone German. Toyota puts their body on it.
“Show Ya” is going to want that RAV4 and will pay for it.
I don't know. It looks an awful lot like a Mao suit. This *is* Disney we're talking about.
Still no word on when they are going to sneak out "Ms. Marvel".
@Lynn — The episode of "The Mandalorian" Favreau/Filoni snuck into the "Book of Boba Fett" timeslot this week isn't bad. Of course, it doesn't have Boba either.
Tyler Durden cowardice reporting something not yet confirmed to the Yucs by Tom Brady or his agent. The Yucs website has nada.
I won't believe it until the Gronk shoe commercials stop running on the local Faux News nightly.
(Gronk will go with Brady.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/tom-brady-retiring-football-after-legendary-career
I don't know if the pic is her or him, or zer, but yikes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10454497/Joni-Mitchell-joins-Neil-Young-removing-music-Spotify-protest-against-Joe-Rogan.html
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these geezers can leave streaming if they want. As Rick Beato points out, that will just mean that they don't earn, and that the next generation never hears their music.
Sweet Jebus send the cleansing fire.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10455219/Squirrels-INHERIT-food-stores-parents-inequality-runs-rampant-natural-world.html
–you mean it reaches out it's old bony male WHITEY hand!!!
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–yup. as racist as the Black Students Association is.
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Troublemaker Studios (Robert Rodriguez's studio) is in several hangars and cargo company offices at the old Austin airport. Netflix is building a $1 billion studio complex in Albuquerque. Tyler Perry built his own a few years ago in Atlanta. There are at least 3 big complexes in Atlanta. The one Marvel and Disney use has a Home Depot onsite, with movie-specific items added (i.e. gaffer's tape, etc.).
But you can't build one just anywhere – Louisiana lost much of their movie business when the state cut subsidies, so they have cooled off quite a bit. The hot spots are New Mexico and Atlanta.
Twenty years ago, what Neil Young thought about someone may have been relevant, but even members of his own generation don't care anymore.
The streaming services ruined the music industry in the US feeding my generation's obsession with what I call "The $20 Reeboks". No one stumbles across Neil Young browsing in a mall store or Best Buy these days.
@Lynn — The episode of "The Mandalorian" Favreau/Filoni snuck into the "Book of Boba Fett" timeslot this week isn't bad. Of course, it doesn't have Boba either.
The wife watched all the way through so I am watching now. Have watched episodes 2 through 5 today. She is watching episode 5 again with me right now.
The Hutt twins are cool.
The casual use of anti-gravity all over everything is freaking awesome. I wish someone would go ahead and invent it for real.
Twenty years ago, what Neil Young thought about someone may have been relevant, but even members of his own generation don't care anymore.
The streaming services ruined the music industry in the US feeding my generation's obsession with what I call "The $20 Reeboks". No one stumbles across Neil Young browsing in a mall store or Best Buy these days.
Streaming is and has radically changed everything, both audio and video.
For now, no one streaming service can supply someone with everything they would ever want on video.
And people still want to own *some* movies out of nostalgia. "Ghostbusters Afterlife" is going to have a huge home video release on Tuesday, and "Spiderman" will follow on March 1.
Sony, so the BluRays will be good … and heavily encrypted.
No one stumbles across Neil Young browsing in a mall store or Best Buy these days.
— no they don't which is my point (and Beato's). They learn about new music thru the recommendation engine on youtube or one of the streamers. If you aren't there, no one will hear you as your base ages out (of this world).
Since ol Neil already cashed out his lifetime earnings (by selling his catalog to investors) he has no financial incentives. (kinda like a reverse mortgage for IP) That can be a trap or freeing, I guess.
His relevance is pretty close to zero, excepting other aging music industry veterans.
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>> And nothing says 'cheerful' like a dark pant suit.
Just ask the Kamel or Hillary.
Assessing Virginia’s Hidden Wind and Solar Costs
Governor Youngkin and Virginia must address ecological and human costs of ‘green’ energy
Paul Driessen
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/29/assessing-virginias-hidden-wind-and-solar-costs/
https://constitutioncenter.org/learn/educational-resources/historical-documents/perspectives-on-the-constitution-a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it
When the history is written by the scholars of whatever in the future gives a rolling poke at the donut, one of the largest factors ascribed for the downfall of the republic will be that the citizens were too busy streaming.
I've got over 600 DVDs ripped to my server and 4 bankers boxes full of DVD's waiting to rip. Crazy thing is I've either heard of or am familiar with pretty much all of them that I pick up. That's a massive amount of trivia lodged in the ol' peanut.
And more movies than I'll ever watch. I'm sure I'll keep picking them up too.
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The new Nick Fury/Secret Invasion spinoff will take place right after the first Captain Marvel movie in the MCU.
No baby Yoda, either, but a mention.
Given the current tempest in a teacup about one particular dwarf who has already made his fortune in movies, and like a good prog now wants to deny anyone else the chance…
Maybe we should get rid of the whole Tolkien-verse… and every related or derivative work that portrays stereotypical dwarvish behavior as mining… and dwarves as being of short stature.
Maybe that particular dwarf should renounce his earnings and give away whatever he still has, if it's so horrible and exploitive, and negative.
Or maybe, just maybe, the whole world should give the little guy their collective middle finger and say, "Shut your short-statured trap, ya little hypocrite."
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That will happen right after "Elliott" Page gives up "his" earnings from "Juno" and "X-Men".
"He" still says that he would be willing to get back into the very female Kitty Pryde costume if asked to be part of another "X-Men" film
“The streaming services ruined the music industry in the US”
Perhaps. But folks with an iffy ‘net connection don’t stream.
I have to give Amazon a lot of credit for how they degrade the picture when you are watching a show on Prime. Like, “Victoria”. The background blurs out from forest with a blue sky and fluffy clouds to forest green and sky blue. Then the buildings and horses in the back ground. Impressive.
But anyway. How about this? KLBJ-FM in Austin or 97.5 out of Waco. Get in the car to go to work and turn on the radio.
It’s a mile of dirt road to the pavement. 15 MPH is fast if you give a rat’s behind about your car. For a bonus, the neighbors have some really stupid horses.
Then a half mile to CR330. Speed limit is 35 and yeah, depending on the time of day and the time of year (deer) that’s too fast. Then the speed limit is 45 to the railroad under crossing. And OMG what is it with the oncoming traffic of fat women in Suburbans taking “their” lane out of the middle of the road?
Some days I miss the insanity of Lamar from Braker to 2601 N. Lamar.
Anyway. Then it’s 30 through town to the HEB. And you better go 30 because the pigs like to sit around there at random times with their radar guns…. even at 6AM on a rainy morning.
Call it about fifteen minutes from parked to parked if you go fast. Twenty minutes is normal.
So I get in the car, catch the last half of a song, never hear *what* the song is called, ever, and the rest of the trip is commercials and “shock jock assholes” talking about inane crap like Madonna’s cup size. And yeah, I still remember the dude on KLBJ talking about how he doesn’t wipe after his daily duty because he gets right into the shower so why waste the TP? What the ever what.
But you never hear the title or artist of the song that’s coming on or just played anymore.
If you don’t hear that, how can you buy that?
There was a song, I kind of liked it. Never heard who it was. I found Shazam for my phone. Ok, now I know. Why I need a phone app is just stupid…. I’m driving.
Industrial Distribution Two Years into the Covidian Era January 19, 2022
by Dan from Madison
21 thoughts on “Industrial Distribution Two Years into the Covidian Era”
from the comments:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/67159.html
This site looks interesting. I'm going to plumb the old posts a bit.
I have no doubt that someone is going to say
"I've been reading them for years and I've reposted a number of things here. Where have you been?"
The answer is simple: Working on my ternary diagram for milk/coffee/cookies.
Only today it's a double batch of fudge brownies, which I did as the thick version and am seriously thinking about slicing in two and filling with ice cream.
I don't know if the pic is her or him, or zer, but yikes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10454497/Joni-Mitchell-joins-Neil-Young-removing-music-Spotify-protest-against-Joe-Rogan.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell
The woman's 78 years old and a smoker. Whaddya expect?
This point I agree with. D.O.s may be particular examples.
No, but nurses who wanted to be doctors are a big problem.
The Navy doctor who saved Trump's life was a DO. Don’t think for a second that it went unnoticed.
Everybody wants a "work' from home job, which isn't possible.
There is a huge chunk of the working population that absolutely DOES NOT want to be working from home! They go to work to get away from home.
And they generally do the jobs that keep everything else moving.
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78 years old AND a smoker? Thought the cancer sticks were a guaranteed death sentence? Even being NEAR a smoker is supposed to kill you deader than Richard Pryor. After all, OSHA couldn't even set a safe exposure level for the workplace and they do that for cyanide…
BTW, I wonder what sort of funhouse mirrored maze the inside of her brain looks like after all those years of social justice/progressive ideas mixing around and contradicting reality…
—
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Other dwarves are coming forward with the exact sentiment. Food out of their mouths for some woke BS.
Richard Pryor is dead?
dammit!
Does Gene Wilder know?
"The clearest predictor yet of out-of-control inflation"
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-clearest-predictor-yet-of-out-of.html
"Sundance points out that the latest wholesale price increases from Kraft-Heinz amount not just to inflation, but to embryonic hyperinflation. Bold, underlined text is my emphasis."
"This understanding is why we warned everyone in October of last year to make as much preparation as possible for waves of food inflation. The original notification for contracted terms in 30, 60 and 90 days was +20%. Meaning this month, on those group and sectors, prices to retailers went up by 20%, and you are seeing that in the supermarket now."
"For the next wave, Kraft-Heinz is telling wholesalers the fulfillment shipments arriving in March will be up to +30% on the next categories. Oscar Mayer proteins will be the biggest increase at the top end (+30%), Maxwell House coffee on the lower end (+5-10%) and the juice and drink category around +20%. [A $5 beverage pack will cost $6 in a few short weeks.]"
I was just hoping for 15% inflation a year for this year and the next three years, not 30% per year this year and the next three years. My business plan cannot handle 75% inflation over the four years, much less 186% inflation over the four years.
A lot depends on your view of the hereafter.
I’m reminded of a favorite Bogart line from “We’re no angels “. He goes into a bedroom to warn Basil rathbone not to mess with the cage because it contains a venomous snake. He comes out and says “He knows.”
Neil Young isn't really taking "his" music off of Spotify, because he sold a 50% interest in the rights to all Neil Young music – and his co-owner doesn't agree.
Speaking of a funhouse mirror reality, just got done watching The Matrix with D1 and wife…
And it still rocks. The effects still look great, even bullet time and the wire work.
And the Lobby Shootout scene still rocks the world.
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>> I was just hoping for 15% inflation a year for this year and the next three years, not 30% per year this year and the next three years. My business plan cannot handle 75% inflation over the four years, much less 186% inflation over the four years.
What, you're not jacking up your software prices accordingly?
Hey, I was going thru some old posts and comments because I am awake at 2 am so why not??
And Lynn made that prediction BEFORE covid stirred everything around.
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