Cooler and overcast in Houston today? Maybe. I got yesterday wrong at the lake, as it was overcast for at least the morning. Houston was partly sunny, with rain in the distant south. None at the house or while I was driving around.
And that’s mostly what I did yesterday, drove around. Got home, planted myself in front of the panopticon and bathed in the flow from the fat pipe… or plopped down in front of multiple screens and surfed all my normal blogs ’til I was caught up.
I did spend some time cleaning up my ‘family’ blog. We started it for hurricane comms to our families but most of that happens directly or through fakebook now. We haven’t even done a ‘hi there’ post on it in years. But there are some good memories in the comments and posts, so we leave it up. Unfortunately, askismet ran out, the comment spammers found the site, and I never closed comments on old posts. So my inbox has been filling up with ‘someone posted a comment on your blog’ notices, and ‘please moderate this comment’ notices from WordPress. I ended up deleting over 5000 spam comments and locking comments on all the posts. Tedious, took a while, but not hard. I should probably take it down, there is way to much personal info there, and I could save the hosting fees, but some of the comments are from people who have since died, and it doesn’t feel right. For now, it’s up, but frozen.
No shoeboxes full of old photos for this generation. Just bitrot, and ghost sites. Maybe someone in the future will collect old thumbdrives, harddrives, and CDs like people now collect old photos, diaries, and other ephemera. I can almost imagine a gallery show (virtual of course) “Curated photos from before The Fall, a collection of dinner entre’s from the early 2020s” and the adjunct gallery “Desserts commonly available in “restaurants” during pre-Fall times…”
Today I’ve got my local get together, then a shopping trip, and back to the BOL for more work. And a long weekend with family, of course.
Stack some of the things you need to pass on your history and culture to your ‘tribe’. And stack some ‘tribe’ too.
nick
I normally use Firefox, but Edge is what Microsoft integrates into the Windows OS these days so the problem is concerning on both of those machines long term. I’d hate to install clean on either one like the old days with Windows 7.
I’ve thought about that. I have a metric ton of slides dad gave me. I need to get a slide viewer (he used to have one but it died sometime in the past). Actually, I need a device that will take a digital image of a slide. There are several out there, I just haven’t purchased one yet. My goal is not to digitize all of them, just the ones I deem important.
I’ve also started going through all my old pictures. I’m making two piles – 1 are pictures I want to pass on. Those get scanned so I have a digital copy and can label them. The rest I’m keeping and the boy can toss the whole box when the time comes.
Interestingly, digital pictures are tougher. My son only exists in digital pictures. Well, there are a few exceptions – mainly school pictures and a few other portrait sessions from the earlier years. I have all of those scanned and labeled. The real problem is the volume of pictures. With digital, I really didn’t delete any, except the absolute worst quality pics. I do have all pictures organized by date taken. A separate folder for year, month, and day. I’ve gone back and included a description in each day folder name about the general content. No way I’m going back and label each pic.
iphone pics are part of this system. Well, mine, my wife is far less diligent then me. Most of her good photos should be there, since she shares them with me and I subsequently transfer them when I do my pics.
My photo store is backed up in multiple places. Main store lives on a Synology device. That gets backed up to my desktop whenever I add something. The Synology also automatically backs up to my backblaze account in the cloud. I also have 3 of the small WD external hard drives that contain backups. One lives in my car, one at the office. Both of those are encrypted. I have a third in the safe deposit box at the bank. It isn’t encrypted. My reasoning is if I suddenly die, at least one copy will be easily accessible.
For passing on memories, we are doing two things. My wife loves to make scrapbooks. She migrated from doing them all by hand a long time ago to doing them digitally. They cover a certain period of time or a theme (dogs, son’s first year, vacation, etc). She is making one for our son that has all of our favorite pictures from birth to current. It’s a big project, but worth it. He will have all the key photos in one spot. I’m also going to get physical prints of those pictures and keep them in the photo box. Even if he doesn’t keep up with data maintenance and backups after I’m gone, at least there is a chance the keys pics will live on in a box buried in his closet. They can them be thrown out by the following generation…
Most of the photos and phone videos I’ve taken over the last 20 years have gone into iPhoto/Photos on my primary MacBook Pro, which I keep backed up with Time Machine. I haven’t lost anything yet, but the collection is very unorganized.
Apple vendor lock in? Kinda, but, to me, organizing and backing up photos is the “killer app” for Apple which sold me on my first iBook 20 years ago. That and WiFi just worked. Photos must have been a priority under Jobs.
Straggler photos and miniDV tapes are eventually going into the archive. The miniDV tapes need to be prioritized since I don’t even know if the camera still works. Sony, but who knows.
I have tens of thousands of pictures. Backed up locally. When I die they will all disappear. My son has no interest. Wife has printed several pictures that are hanging in the hallway. When we both are gone only a very few would be kept by my son. The pictures of the relatives that I scanned from the early 1900’s will be forever gone. My son has zero interest in old photos of his great grandparents.
My transparencies were scanned years ago along with the negatives. After that project the slides, negatives, and projector were tossed.
We have both. Drawers and drawers of physical pictures we were going to sort out, I dunno, more than 20 years ago. Plus piles of auto-uploaded pics on our computers. Plus semi-ghost sites. We started scrapbooks for the kids. For the older son, it stops around age 3-4. For younger son, it didn’t get much past birth.
I pretty much stopped taking family pics about 10 years ago, because…why? Live for the present and the future, not the past – and I really hope I can abide by that as I get older.
As an early lockdown Covid exercise I scanned in key family photographs and documents going back into the 19th century and put them up on ancestry.co.uk, so there is a reasonable chance they may be there for posterity.
A fine explanation of money and credit with an even better description of the implications of the status quo:
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/imploding-credit-the-consequences
CoViD boosters:
I got an appointment for my second CoViD booster last Saturday. Moderna, this time, instead of the Pfizer I’ve had before.
Despite that, there were no more problems with this one than there were previously. Just slight soreness at the injection site, and that went away within a day or so.
G.
I think they are talking about me: https://www.gocomics.com/reallifeadventures/2022/10/08?ct=v&cti=1696588
@Nick – in regards to your family site and comment spam – you should get my anti-comment-spam plugin. They will block the spam bots (automated comment spammers). Very effective. You can see the plugins I added in the admin area, but this one will block comment spam. “Block Comment Spam Bots ”
The plugin works better than Akismet, since it blocks the comment spam before it gets to the database – where Akismet analyzes it. The comments never appear in the database. I’ve put it on sites that were infested with comment spam bots, and they were immediately blocked. (Note that ‘comment spam bots’ are different than ‘comment trolls’.)
And my “CellarWeb Privacy and Security” plugin for some other security settings.
Hobby meeting was good. Good crowd of guys, and very congenial atmosphere. It was cool this morning but is now 93F in the sun.
Couple errands to run, then I’m headed north.
n
Back was stiff and sore. Must have been the 5 plus hours in the driver’s seat, as I did very little. STILL stiff and sore even after stretching and moving around all morning.
>> If El Paso has over 100,000 illegal aliens, imagine the numbers coming through just Matamoros and Reynosa in the Rio Grande Valley. Add on the various little towns between. Then go up the river to Del Rio.
“More than 17,000 illegals have been bused into New York City in the last few months, according to ABC 7 NY.”
Bless your evil heart. The Yankees don’t like wetbacks. Whoda thunk. I don’t like the illegals bused or flown deeper into the country. Wrong direction. But if they are going to get shipped around, FLOOD New York City and D.C. and Chicago and every other “sanctuary city”. Crash their entire welfare system.
‘State of emergency’: Adams says NYC migrant influx to cost city $1B
Hmm, let’s help ‘Da Mayuh’ of NYFC with some simple division … one billion dollars divided by (say) 17,500 equals 57,142 (and some change).
So Mr. Adams, can you account for where all that money has gone per person? They could rent a $2,000 a month apartment for two years and still have almost $400 a month for Cap’n Crunch and raman.
Just asking for a friend…
Uhh…’Lock Him Up!!!’…we’ll wait…
Hunter Biden begged Hallie for cash to go to rehab before gun buy
Bonus points if you can correctly identify the handgun make and model from the photos in the article.
Doesn’t matter. Biden agreed to be the tool of the cabal running him in return for Hunter never serving prison time.
Beau … Beau … Beau.
A trial might happen but that will be to establish a set of charges for which Hunter will receive a pardon … if he’s convicted. The evidence chain on the laptop makes it useless for a criminal procedure.
What else ya got?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/paypals-new-policy-will-fine-users-2500-directly-accounts-spread-misinformation/
– under this policy, as written, I can’t sell a DVD of Schindler’s List, or American History X, or the South Park Movie, just off the top of my head. Weird Science, Revenge of the Nerds, pretty much any movie made in the 80s, including Adventures in Babysitting….
n
and yeah, I got an email directly from paypal, saying they’ve changed the terms, and the pdf they link to (three levels deep) is the one quoted.
Yes … Yes … Yes
🙂
What else ya got?
–how about banking and financial records under subpoena, along with schedules and appointments? Who met with who, when, and when did money change hands?
I’m sure they could get them on tax evasion, that’s what they usually do.
n
And I’m off….
n
Gee, who could could have predicted this? /sarc
Suddenly the sooper injinur is busy Twitting elsewhere. How do you spell “Dumbass” in Afrikaans?
Any professional firefighter dumping water on an EV battery fire should have his hose cut off.
I’d estimate we are two years away from the insurance underwriters forcing a true risk assessment of EV battery fires. Less if someone publishes angle/aiming point instructions for using a .30-06 to bring 4th of July to a Tesla.
Just cut the refrigerant cooling line to the battery and connect a charger to the battery. Bad things will happen.
I suspect that failure of the refrigeration system is the source of the few fires that they have had to date.
Dilbert: Teenage Consultant
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-10-08
Scott Adams went there. I suspect that a few more newspapers will drop him. Or not, I wonder how many are left.
“Midnight Madness” will once again be the secret shame of the Disney corporation. Some of the material in that flick was harmless enough for pre-8PM HBO back in the day, but it would make heads explode now.
From yesterday:
What kind of idiocy is that?
No, you don’t have a “right” to safety. You have the right to defend yourself. Big difference.
On the other hand, there’s #12 on this list.
As an early lockdown Covid exercise I scanned in key family photographs and documents going back into the 19th century and put them up on ancestry.co.uk, so there is a reasonable chance they may be there for posterity.
That is the best reason that I have ever heard for getting on http://ancestry.com . Your kids might not want the picture but their kids might. And since Ancestry.com is owned by the LDS and is important to them, I suspect that it will exist in the long future, hundreds of years.
Doesn’t matter. Biden agreed to be the tool of the cabal running him in return for Hunter never serving prison time.
Beau … Beau … Beau.
A trial might happen but that will be to establish a set of charges for which Hunter will receive a pardon … if he’s convicted. The evidence chain on the laptop makes it useless for a criminal procedure.
What else ya got?
Mark Levin says that the dumbrocrats are using Hunter to justify filing charges of treason on Trump.
A trial might happen but that will be to establish a set of charges for which Hunter will receive a pardon … if he’s convicted. The evidence chain on the laptop makes it useless for a criminal procedure.
What else ya got?
“Mark Levin says that the dumbrocrats are using Hunter to justify filing charges of treason on Trump.”
Bulloney. If they are forced to pull the string on Hunter, they find it attached to Biden’s nuts.
There is nothing in the custody chain for Hunter’s laptop that constitutes illegal search by the feds. They may claim that they can’t verify it due to some nebulous “chain of custody” b.s. that has never stopped them before (see Steele), but that doesn’t prevent them from using the information to develop independent information, such as the multiple meetings that have been uncovered with Hunter’s business partners, as documented by federal documents.
Parse the interviews with Bobulinski this week:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/04/ex-biden-biz-partner-bobulinski-lead-fbi-agent-on-hunter-probe-promised-to-get-the-dirt-from-me-but-didnt/
And ask why Tulsi Gabbard is saying FBI and intelligence community “committed treason”:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/08/tulsi-gabbard-fbi-and-intel-agencies-committed-treason-trying-to-steal-our-democracy-n501826
I think they are working up to a pardon, which would be useless without protection from double jeopardy.
The principle is the same as in the Roger Stone situation under Trump.
Tulsi Gabbard is allowed to stray from the reservation as a fallback plan in case the Dems don’t have a Jesus Candidate for 2028 to use in challenging a Republican in the White House. She sat in the same WEF “future leadership” classes as Mayor Pete and Wee Pierre.
Take whatever she says with a grain of salt. Elect her President with a Dem Congress and you will get full socialized medicine before the first year is done.
My new PC arrived today. A-hole mail man left it …. ok, my mailbox is on a post set in a five gallon bucket of concrete. So, a $350 package just sitting there on top of the bucket.
Nice sturdy packaging and good presentation. The machine is about the size of a CD case by five CD cases thick. The paint job feels sorta rubbery ala Vizio remote control. That may be entertaining in a few years.
I thought, I may be a moron (hah!), that the new critter came with a 512GB SSD like what you swap out spinning rust for /and/ a slot for an m2 drive. No, I opened the hatch and yeah, just an m2 drive. Though the memory slot looks like I can add more.
Well. It supposedly has W11 installed. I’ll find out tomorrow and go down that rabbit hole of Microsoft fuckery. It did come with a USB stick claiming to be 16GB and USB3 and marked as “Gift”. Get around Customs perhaps.
So. Is there an easy way to not have a Microsoft account to use my computer?
I’ve zero interest in using any of their online stuff. I don’t want to dick with a password on my machine…. just turn it on and go. You want to look at the porn I have, when I’m not home, have fun.
As for how new critter compares to an i5-2320 @ 3.00GHz and 6GB ram, running Win7, I expect a boost.
Old photos…. My sisters collected and culled all the pictures Mom had. Then they mailed me a couple of packages. One for me, one for brother.
Culled for sure. Ain’t a picture in what they sent that has a picture of either sister.
I asked one sister why you sent all these pictures and why my beautiful sisters are in none of the pictures.
Crickets.
Yeah, maybe I had BO in High School. Everyone did. Shrug.
30 minutes until kickoff…Roll Tide!
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without-microsoft-account
Yes. When I installed Windows 11 as a test on my T420, I used an “offline” account. Windows 11 wasn’t happy, but I got it to work.
OTOH, I strongly suspect my problems with Edge this weekend are due to me not using a Microsoft account for either my main desktop or ThinkPad.
I’m imaging my primary hard drive to a new drive this weekend since the previous disk reached the end of the warranty period. WD Black. I guess not much R&D has gone into spinning metal lately because the new 2 TB drive is the exact same model as the old one.
In other hardware hacking news, my LG Blu Ray I installed around Christmas didn’t even make it through the warranty period. I think I ripped one Blu Ray and installed Linux from disc a couple of times using the drive. Quality obviously isn’t Job One at LG.
Out comes the beige (!) Sony DVD-RW until I get the warranty on the Blu Ray resolved. 14 years old and the Sony still runs flawlessly despite very heavy use.
UT won at the Cotton Bowl today. Fired Coach Walking is going to keep walking in the building for at least a while longer.
The Oklahoma game was a Must Beatdown, and “Sark” delivered. Though, when that program on the other side of the river rights itself again, that beatdown is going to be remembered.
I saw Gronkowski’s shoe commercial is back on the air, the one filmed in Raymond James Stadium with all of the enshrined and possible future Hall of Fame Yucs players names in the background.
It isn’t a question of “if” but “when”.
“RealClearPolitics Projects Herschel Walker Loses, but GOP Takes Two Seats – and the Senate Majority”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/realclearpolitics-projects-herschel-walker-loses-but-gop-takes-two-seats-and-the-senate-majority/
Interesting.
Hat tip to
https://drudgereport.com/
Yes.
““One-way Dragon” by Dan Koboldt”
https://www.baen.com/one-way-dragon
Free short story on Baen about, dragons.
Any professional firefighter dumping water on an EV battery fire should have his hose cut off.
– I don’t know where the original quote came from but the author has no clue. You dump MASSIVE amounts of water on EV battery fires to cool them down. Hot battery = fire. 100K gallons of water = cooler battery. Seriously, it’s the only way to put out the fire, cool the battery. And it takes truly astonishing amounts of water and time. And there is a pretty good likelihood of re-ignition later when the damage causes the battery to heat up again.
I’m headed to bed. Had a fire and s’mores. Chatted with neighbor while he fished for catfish. Tired with lots to do tomorrow.
n
The Austin Fire Department published a protocol for EV fires since they’ve learned quite a bit about dealing with them. It used to be online somewhere. IIRC, lots of water is involved, but that may or may not have held.
Out here in the suburbs, the Germans still dominate the Grocery Getter market, but Dad has to get the toy. That used to be a Porsche.