Cool and kinda crisp this am at the lake. Humid as humid gets in Houston. Yesterday was cool but so damp I was sweaty standing still.
Spent the day doing the things I couldn’t leave for a week. Cut and vac sealed and froze 17 pounds of pork loin. Two 3 pound roasts, 3 pounds of the dark end marked for pulled pork, a pound of some extra meat they left attached to chisel and extra buck out of me, and the rest in center cut pork chops, 1 inch thick. It joined the steak I bought on sale in the freezer.
Did a couple of small repairs, sorted some auction stuff, and put out the preliminary Halloween decorations. Getting them down, I found where the possum was going to the bathroom in my garage attic… yeah, not nice at all. Gloves and a bag took care of that, but I’ve got no love for the possum. I set two traps and my wife says she’ll relocate any vermin that get caught while I’m away.
Eventually I got out of the house and on the road. Made it to the BOL and made an early night of it, because the foundation guys return today. I’m really interested to see the new machine and see how the process goes. Then when I’ve had my fill of watching other guys work, I’ll do some of my own.
I guess I can stretch the metaphor and say that doing all the work up here is stacking up a BOL… but it’s a stretch. I did bring a case of beans up to add to my food stack.
So I am doing a bit of stacking. You do some too!
nick
Diwali is a week from today. Management present at an all hands meeting last week talked like the year was over. We have one more major push through Wednesday, and it seems like the assumption is that people will be preoccupied after that.
Also, lots of smaller towns around us start having events this time of year. It looks like Conroe had a “Catfish Festival”.
We had to go to into the city on Saturday night and ate at an restaurant near downtown which has been around forever but is surrounded by gentrification. Just about everyone in the place reeked of California.
I should have noticed the warning signs — among other changes, a new In-n-Out was just up the street, and the location is not near a major freeway exit which is really unusual.
I’d rather see Chargers and Challengers breaking the speed limit than EV owners playing hypermiling games driving 10-15 miles below the limit trying to avoid that stop at the supercharger.
I’ve noticed a lot more of the spots occupied at the Tesla station in the Costco parking lot as of late.
If it makes you feel better, this is the last year for the Charger and Challenger as is. After this production year, Stellantis is going to pretend that they can make EV versions which are just as appealing.
Ford introduced a new Mustang, but this will probably be it for “real” Mustangs before the abomination is all that’s left.
Interesting phrasing. I assume that you have neighbors or she has coworkers who could use a possum in their yard.
63F and clearing. Had a downpour last night. From 1-2am it crashed down. May have continued at a lesser rate after that but it wasn’t keeping me awake.
Some of the foundation holes have water in them, some do not. Lots of settling around the septic tank and lines. I’ll be filling that in today while the guys do foundation work. Sticky red gumbo everywhere it isn’t sand.
crew should get here in the next 30-45 minutes.
n
Well, crew just got here. Hooray.
n
Another of my auctioneers is calling it quits. They were way out of town, and got mostly clothing and household decor so I didn’t buy much from them. They say they are going to concentrate on other selling venues, like ebay and FBMarketplace.
One of the new players must be well capitalized, at least until it’s gone. He’s buying huge loads of Dick’s Sporting Goods merch. He doesn’t seem to ‘get’ the market though, high opening bids being just one of his problems. He’s had entire auctions go without more than one or two bids. He sends out emails without links to current auctions or even any company branding, so you sometimes don’t even know which auctioneer he is. His first and second auctions all had 20% of MSRP as a starting bid. After no bids, he sent out email that the next auction would start at 10% of retail. STILL not getting bids, because buyers HATE high opens, and out of season clothes probably aren’t worth 10% of retail to a reseller. The stuff didn’t sell at Dicks after all… Now he promises to start with low opens, just as soon as he makes enough money to pay for stuff… while showing off the 29 pallets of merch he’s got to in-process at his new location. No one needs 50+ fishing gaffs, and his audience isn’t nearly big enough to sell 50+ fishing gaffs at any price. NOT smart sourcing.
You make your money in the auction reselling game when you BUY, not when you sell. If it isn’t cheap enough, you just won’t make your money back, no matter how great the products. And it’s VERY tough to know what your buyers will want or pay for, especially considering that alot of the stuff was unwanted the first time around, either unsold or returned. Gotta be really cheap to make up for that.
n
What does Dick’s actually sell beyond yoga pants these days?
Another Jim Cramer “success” story. Didn’t they drop guns?
Isn’t the new store name Dick’s Without Guns?
Unloaded Dicks?
“’It’s a tsunami’: Storm surge survey crews uncover startling damage from Ian”
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/survey-finds-hurricane-ian-storm-surge-levels-in-fort-myers/1262778
“Fort Myers Beach was ground zero for storm surge — the area was completely submerged as Hurricane Ian struck. Two weeks later, meteorologists from across the country are combing the area and collecting data with hopes of helping refine future hurricane forecasts.”
When they say get out, they mean it. That house looks to be a tear down.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
It is 69 F here at the noncitified area of Fort Bend County. Suppose to be 41 F Wednesday morning.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/sugar%20land/77469
Winter is coming.
63F and clearing. Had a downpour last night. From 1-2am it crashed down. May have continued at a lesser rate after that but it wasn’t keeping me awake.
Some of the foundation holes have water in them, some do not. Lots of settling around the septic tank and lines. I’ll be filling that in today while the guys do foundation work. Sticky red gumbo everywhere it isn’t sand.
crew should get here in the next 30-45 minutes.
n
That is the new septic tank, right ?
YEp, new septic. He said there would be some around the edges of the hole. Hard to get all that clay backfilled.
The helical piles are interesting. They have a hydraulic power head that mounts on a “Dingo” stand on skid steer. They steer the pile by manipulating where the head is in relation to the shaft, as they turn it into the ground. They are going down 12-16 ft at the moment. The brackets that bolt the pipe to the slab are pretty hefty.
I’ve been chatting with the neighbor most of the morning while the guys worked. First hole took the longest so far, and I think they have piles in 4 holes, maybe only 3…
n
Foundation piers, oof. I guess I’m not up on the local geography, but does this indicate sloppy work on the original foundation? Or is this normal for buildings of a certain age?
We have the opposite problem here – bedrock so shallow that you have to chip it out, in order to build.
The Florida media is trying to hang the fatalities around DeSantis’ neck without directly pointing fingers. It probably won’t work, and the media is well aware of that, but Little Marco may see some fallout sitting at the top of the ballot.
https://www.lee.vote/Portals/Lee/2022%20GEN%2011-08-22%2010%20x%2020%20SB%20All%2010-13-22%20PO%208885%20Pub%2010-21.pdf
Fort Myers Beach was not choice real estate until the first housing bubble started inflating about 20 years ago. I’d be really suspicious of any residential construction there, regardless of which code was in effect.
If you feel a bit brighter than usual, perhaps this is why:
From https://scitechdaily.com/strange-long-lasting-pulse-of-high-energy-radiation-swept-over-earth/
I imagine.
TBH, trying to basically suspend a concrete slab not designed for it seems a bit iffy, but if local construction code allows it then it is probably OK. Codes generally err on the conservative side.
Did the get the part they were waiting on, btw?
@RickH: Not only that, but there is a ring around the burst, due to dust in the galaxy:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221017.html
A bit like a ring around the moon, but you’d need x-ray vision to see it.
My “stacking” today was was picking up four more polypropylene fleece blankets from the local dollar / euro /de-stocking type outlet for less than three bucks each. I like these blankets: cheap, available in a range of colours, washable, quick drying, light to carry, they roll up small, are thin, but surprisingly warming, nice to the touch (not scratchy, like wool, albeit not as warm), they make good substitute pillows when rolled, impromptu privacy covers for stuff in the bed of the car, extra insulation for chiller boxes of venison, etc… I keep one in/on my hunting rucksack, others in the car, and the BOBs will probably get one each too.
First day of my autumn hunting season. The colours in the woods are spectacular, as there have been a couple of nights with hard frost, but it has not been windy yet. Today was unseasonably warm- 19C (66F) , with the result that I was much too hot in my autumn attire. Fortunately, no animals were scandalised by my disrobing…
>> If it makes you feel better, this is the last year for the Charger and Challenger as is. After this production year, Stellantis is going to pretend that they can make EV versions which are just as appealing.
An EV Charger with Model S Plaid performance should have some appeal? Just gotta keep the ‘frunk’ closed at the local car show.
WRT suspending the slab, once they get it lifted around the edges they inject foam under it to lift and support the middle. It also fills any gap that results from lifting it.
WRT shoddy original work, why yes, using the wrong fill material to level the site was a big mistake. IDK the details about how the house was originally built, if the guy acted as his own GC or did the work himself, but someone screwed up. Could be it was fine until he cut away the downhill side to make terraces without putting in anything to retain the soil. Could be it was never fine.
WRT lots of foundation work, Houston was one of the places they developed slab on grade construction for residential housing so there was some learning involved. One of the things was that clay soil expands and contracts with changes in moisture level, and that can cause a house to become out of level. VERY common in certain neighborhoods and with houses of certain age to have to re-level the house. Funny thing is that the vernacular style of construction was pier and beam- think double wide trailer on blocks. Very easy to re-level when the soil moves. Slabs, not so much. However they have developed techniques and tools to do the job and it is very common. Some older neighborhoods, you’ve either done it, or will soon be doing it.
Modern residential they pour very deep piers, tie them together with a grade beam, then build the house on top of that. Supposed to minimize movement. LOOKS like the house is on concrete piles (or stacks of blocks) sitting on dirt, but in reality they are sitting on the buried grade beam, which is sitting on deep concrete piers.
They did get the part, which turns out to be the whole drive head that mounts on the Dingo. It’s still not as compact as they would like, but it’s better than what they had.
n
“NGOs sue EPA to force it to act on Texas’s plan exempting 8 coal-fired plants from particulate matter limits”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ngos-sue-epa-to-force-it-to-act-on-texass-plan-exempting-8-coal-fired-plan/634201/
“Wind is blowing pollution from a coal burning power plant.”
Wrong. That picture is H2O in the 250+ F exhaust gas condensing in the cooler air. H2O is the lifeblood of the human race, it is not pollution.
Those eight coal power plants that the EPA is trying to shutdown in Texas provide 6,000 MW of the 85,000+ MW fleet in Texas. They run 85 to 90 % of the time and are extremely reliable even if they were built in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000s. More importantly, they run at full power when normal fuels are tight during extreme weather events, specifically cold weather events below 10 F. All eight of the units are far away from cities and heavily populated areas.
They cannot run their pollution control equipment during the startup and shutdown events since they were not designed for that. To retrofit the pollution control systems for startup and shutdown would cause the units to be retired. Which, is the goal of the EPA and the current administration.
>> You make your money in the auction reselling game when you BUY, not when you sell. If it isn’t cheap enough, you just won’t make your money back, no matter how great the products. And it’s VERY tough to know what your buyers will want or pay for, especially considering that alot of the stuff was unwanted the first time around, either unsold or returned. Gotta be really cheap to make up for that.
Isn’t that one of the benefits of eBay, where you can view completed sales of something you’re looking to buy or sell? I don’t know if it’s as common now with so many ‘buy it now’ listings but in the past I remember many true auction format items being listed with a starting price of a penny and sellers hoping to at least cover their costs.
A Charger is about having the V8. Take that away, and it is just another EV with a very heavy body and limited visibility. GM isn’t even going to try with the Camaro, and Ford already has their Mustang abomination on the market, complete with a “GT” model.
Iacocca is doing cartwheels in his grave. Caroll Shelby too.
>> What does Dick’s actually sell beyond yoga pants these days?
We have a couple of Big 5 sporting goods stores here, better prices that at Dick’s.
“HORROR: Chicago Woman Dismembers Her Elderly Landlord, Puts Body Parts in Freezer After Getting Eviction Notice”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/chicago-woman-dismembers-elderly-landlord-puts-body-parts-freezer-getting-eviction-notice/
Oh Chicago, what has happened to you ?
“”This Is What Annihilation Looks Like”: Biden Export Controls ‘Wreaking Havoc’ On China’s Chip Industry”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/what-annihilation-looks-biden-export-controls-wreaking-havoc-chinas-chip-industry
“Every American executive and engineer working in China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry resigned yesterday, paralyzing Chinese manufacturing overnight.”
Good.
Or perhaps very un-good. China will not stand for having its electronics manufacturing paralysed, especially not just as Xi has positioned himself to be the new Mao. They will certainly take action to remedy this situation:
– Call in their markers with corrupt US politicians (it is surprising these anti-China sanctions went through at all… perhaps someone in the Biden administration didn’t get the memo, and Biden himself will backtrack immediately)
– call for the US to pay its balance of trade debts to China, possibly in a currency other than the Dollar
– invade Taiwan to gain both semiconductor manufacturing plants and replacement know-how.
None of which would seem to be “good” outcomes.
Not much. Same ol’ fecal matter.
Here is a much happier body-parts story. Moral: if one is slamming the door on a home invader, do so good and hard…
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/severed-finger-left-behind-at-home-invasion-helps-police-id-potential-suspect
The student loan forgiveness application is now live. Or rather the buying votes application is now live. This is nothing more than Spongey and his democratic cretins trying to buy votes from people that owe money to the feds. Same deal as federal marijuana charges. I paid for my son’s college. Where is my money?
His new prison nickname will “Four Fingers”.
>> It is 69 F here at the noncitified area of Fort Bend County. Suppose to be 41 F Wednesday morning.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/tx/sugar%20land/77469
Winter is coming.
But probably not soon enough to cause Abbott much worry.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/near-freezing-temperatures-could-break-records-in-parts-of-the-south/1263998
@Nick: Thanks for the detailed reply, sounds like a good long term fix.
Its amazing the number of specialty fields that combine to make these things possible.
Looks like the rainy season will finally start here in the Olympic Peninsula (WA) this weekend (“Somewhere opposite Mutiny Bay WA”) .
It’s been drier than usual around here; the cool and sometimes rainy weather usually starts sooner than now.
Hopefully, the rain will help with all the fires in the mountains around here (Cascaded east of Seattle, and down near Portland OR / Vancouver WA (or “Vantucky”). A good fire map is here: https://wfca.com/fire-map .
I’m still waiting for a good windstorm to blow all the leaves out of my yard. In the meantime, they are being allowed to ‘compost in place’.
Although a good windstorm is also the cause of the usual short power outages here. I should probably make sure the portable gas generator is ready to go.
In the meantime, work continues on my various self-published author web sites. There is limited staff that helps with this, so progress is sometimes slow. (Me.)
The February freeze disaster was nearly a week of at or below freezing weather in Austin coupled with a double whammy holiday weekend at all levels of government in TX. I don’t see that combination happening in the next two weeks.
The utility companies burned everything that wasn’t nailed down this summer to make sure the lights stayed on. There will be a political price this Spring when the Legislature reconvenes, but Abbott should win reelection.
Right now, the only state-wide politician even remotely in trouble in Texas is Rafael Edward. Fortunately, he has two years to think of a way out of his self-created mess. If he’s lucky, Robert Francis will decide fourth time is a charm and run for that seat again.
I am going to call BS on Governor Abbott’s latest round of campaign commercials, where he’s talking about reducing property taxes. I don’t think any measure restricting taxes, either through a real homestead exemption or a rate cap, would pass the Legislature, and the Governor knows it.
This state would get ugly fast with an income tax.
The Portland Zoo train routes used to be a reliable indicator of late Fall in Vantucky. Fall started when the train stopped running out to the park and restricted the route to just around the zoo. Lately, however, due to a funding standoff between the two agencies governing the train and the park, the train no longer takes the longer route leaving the zoo grounds in Summer.
Fall started really late our first year, and the train ran out to the park through the end of September, with similar weather to this year. When Fall hit, however, the temps changed fast and the rain was like someone turned a spigot.
“Utah emerges as wild card in battle for the Senate”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3689083-utah-emerges-as-wildcard-in-battle-for-the-senate/
“The Utah Senate race between conservative Republican Sen. Mike Lee and Independent Evan McMullin has emerged as a potential wild card in the battle for the Senate.”
Lovely, just lovely.
“Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster” by Bill Quick
https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Fall-Disaster-Bill-Quick/dp/1497360935?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a one book science fiction apocalyptic series. There is a second book planned but has yet to be published. I read the 672 page trade paperback published by the author in 2014 that was well printed on the Amazon POD (print on demand) press in Coppell, Texas. Unfortunately, my first copy of the book was not well bound as every third or fourth page fell out of the perfect binding. I notified Amazon via their excellent web app and they replaced the book at no charge within two days. I returned the defective book to them as requested at my local UPS store. The new book is well printed and well bound (and heavy at 1.95 lbs!).
This is a new look at an EMP attack on the USA. Most EMP books look at the east coast of the USA, this book looks at the west coast of the USA. The book starts off with three freighters of Arab origin, one off the west coast of the USA near San Fransisco, one off the Gulf Coast near New Orleans, and the third off the east coast near Washington, DC on September 11, 2019. Each freighter contains a Sejil-2 solid fuel IRBM with a 100 kton nuclear warhead. The first nuclear bomb explodes 120 km (72 miles) above San Fransisco, sending a devastating EMP shock out in a 1,000 mile radius. The second nuclear bomb malfunctions, lands in Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans, explodes and send a huge cloud of radioactive steam into the air, destroying New Orleans and directly killing many of the inhabitants. The third missile freighter off the east is late, launches its missile which is then destroyed by an USAF anti-missile system.
However, the loss of power on the west coast is a killer for an estimated sixty million Americans west of the Rockies as electric power, fresh water, food, and transportation systems immediately fail. And forty percent of trains and trucks in the USA needed to resupply the west coast are heavily damaged by the EMP pulse. The Navy races its large ships back to the San Fransisco and San Diego harbors but the foreign deployments take weeks to return from. Wild fires, dirty water, and starvation quickly decimate the population.
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (183 reviews)
Note that this book was edited by SteveF.
From Ray:
Well, I made substantial monetary help to my grandson (graduated May, 2022) and my granddaughter (now a junior).
Now, can anybody recommend to me a lawyer doing a bankruptcy for me?
Ok, dinner time. Guys finished putting in the first 5 piers. He says it will go faster tomorrow as he gets used to the new machine. Weather was cool all day, part sun, but mostly mid 60s.
My neighbor’s wife liked the freezer I picked up for them well enough to ask me to look for another. None in this week’s auction though. Says it’s already full and the way he’s catching fish, he needs more space.
Speaking of dinner, I’ve been trying out the Hungry Man frozen dinners for when I’m up here alone. So far, they have been pretty good. Classic fried chicken – good. BBQ pork patty – good. I’m trying the parts is parts chicken entre’ tonight. Not gourmet,but not poison or institutional food either.
n
That wasn’t bad. The veg are crisp, the mashed taters aren’t bad, the brownie is ok and the chicken nugget/strips were exactly what I expected. I’d eat it again. With a slice of bread, I’m actually a bit over-full.
Now to head down for a fire and some radio. I had to find some dry wood and kindling. Most was soaked. Neighbor said his rain gauge read just over an inch, but everything I had sitting out had 2 inches in it. I ended up splitting some 2×4 chunks that were in the shed. They’ll burn and should get the rest of the stuff going.
n
>> The student loan forgiveness application is now live. Or rather the buying votes application is now live. This is nothing more than Spongey and his democratic cretins trying to buy votes from people that owe money to the feds. Same deal as federal marijuana charges. I paid for my son’s college. Where is my money?
Sorry @Ray, you followed the rules, so…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSTiKHOFEI
Inflation report from yesterday’s Sam’s Club run:
$90
We paid off $200k in loans, mostly in a 6% consolidation note.
Much like the Joe Bucks and Trump Bucks bribes -er- stimulus payments and tax credits, in the grand scheme of things, it isn’t a meaningful amount of money compared to what a college educated individual should earn over a 35-40 year career if the money is properly spent. Cough. However, it sends a bad message to current students who are now going to take extra loan money to buy stocks, Bitcoin, and Tonymobiles, counting on the debt forgiveness happening again, whether or not there is any basis in reality for the belief.
@Lynn
Greenies are lying bastards at heart, and the commie sponsored brand we have in the U.S. and their lawyer co-conspirators are worse.
The favorite scam shot of greenie photogs is to get a water-rich plume of exhaust gas backlit by the sun, so it looks as dark as raw coal smoke. Hilarity ensues when the stupid idiots try it with vapors for cooling towers at nuclear plants, which are 100% water vapor and have no combustion gases.
@Alan
Twenty years ago eBay’s fee was less than 5% up to $24.95, then dropped in stages from there. No fees on shipping, which caused scammers to inflate shipping and could have been dealt with easily, but eBay’s response was to charge fees on shipping.
Not a big deal then, but eBay now charges about 15% on every dollar, no stages, and takes their cut on the sales tax they collect, too.
And the base charge for sales before the percentage is still $0.30, mostly. but on a $10 item that effectively adds 3%, which eBay tries very hard to hide. Their charges show up as multiple line items and understanding them is easy, if you have a degree in accounting and a good working understanding of weaselese.
The government propaganda artists will have new images for their “Pony Cars” stamps in no time.
I saw those at the Post Office today. Hypocrites.
@Lynn
The Most Telling Chart on Inflation You’ve Ever Seen
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/10/17/the-most-telling-chart-on-inflation-youve-ever-seen-n1637765
Big whup. If you started 2021 with “x” years to go before retirement, you will end 2022 with at least “x” and more likely “x+1” or more. Which do you think will get votes?
Maybe if Trump hadn’t been a little distracted with phony Russian collusion allegations, two phony impeachments, a seditious Deep State, and [just insert the rest of the effing list here].
Let’s see how long it takes the HairSniffer-in-Chief to fold when he has twenty House Committee’s investigating him and making recommendations for impeachment, Pelosi is under investigation for insider trading, Hunter is briefly under investigation before going to jail, and Dr. Jill is up before the fashion board for skinning and wearing old sofa covers.
Twenty years ago eBay’s fee was less than 5% up to $24.95, then dropped in stages from there. No fees on shipping, which caused scammers to inflate shipping and could have been dealt with easily, but eBay’s response was to charge fees on shipping.
Not a big deal then, but eBay now charges about 15% on every dollar, no stages, and takes their cut on the sales tax they collect, too.
And the base charge for sales before the percentage is still $0.30, mostly. but on a $10 item that effectively adds 3%, which eBay tries very hard to hide. Their charges show up as multiple line items and understanding them is easy, if you have a degree in accounting and a good working understanding of weaselese.
The first hit is usually free.
Or perhaps very un-good. China will not stand for having its electronics manufacturing paralysed, especially not just as Xi has positioned himself to be the new Mao. They will certainly take action to remedy this situation:
– Call in their markers with corrupt US politicians (it is surprising these anti-China sanctions went through at all… perhaps someone in the Biden administration didn’t get the memo, and Biden himself will backtrack immediately)
– call for the US to pay its balance of trade debts to China, possibly in a currency other than the Dollar
– invade Taiwan to gain both semiconductor manufacturing plants and replacement know-how.
None of which would seem to be “good” outcomes.
Taiwan citizens reputedly own most of the chip plants in mainland China as they do not have enough manpower to run any more Taiwanese chip plants. One wonders what the mainland Chinese are putting in these chips ?
China has been dumping USA t-bills for quite a while now. I am not sure what you want from trade debts, maybe China should raise their prices to cover their costs instead of underselling the global market to get market share.
China has been threatening to invade or destroy Taiwan for a number of years now. 2 * infinity is still infinity.
So there are now a bunch of chip engineers with USA citizenship or residency looking for jobs and there are a number of chip plants being built in the USA. Winner !
Argh.
Ok, after a 15 year layoff, I’m back to programming for the web. So far, for myself only.
My expectation was that all of the problems I had in 2007 would be solved and encapsulated in libraries now. The web is mature, and html and scripting languages would have matured to the point that it’s just a matter of learning best-in-practice idioms to move forward. All the major bits and pieces would be available as a matter of course from a simple google search, and you just need to put them together like legos. Documentation would exist showing the major breakdowns of web page structures and there would be a common vernacular for describing the components, and consensus on what makes a good design and implementation. The industry would have coalesced into at most 3 or 4 systems and frameworks that everyone could use.
15 years ago, it was obvious that XHTML and XML and XSLT were the obvious way to proceed in the future, because it allowed you easier validation, code generation, error detection, debugging, standardization, and simple client-side processing of your data.
No. None of that happened.
The only thing that’s easier than 15 years ago is Ajax, and that’s because Microsoft got out of the way and they mostly unified the DOM. And the nomenclature recognizes the partition into client-side and server-side processing. And JSON, not XML.
What we have instead is a hodge-podge of approaches, mostly by “designers” who produce huge walls of text html files, and since html doesn’t lend itself to comments, you’re expected to be able to parse it into components and sub-components, by sight. They’ve invented terms for things that, while descriptive, are not precise. So is it a card? A container? A panel? Is it modal, or a popper? When is a card a hero?
Honest to God, this is a real line of html from an example aimed at beginners:
If you aren’t brain-damaged when you start looking at this stuff, you are at risk if you look at it too long.
There’s more, but I’m done for the night.
There’s a company called secondsale that sells books on eBay. 2.2 million feedback over 20 years.
They have a sale on their under $5 books going on–buy 3, get one free. Free shipping.
Thing is, they also have their own website, so you can cut eBay right out.
Just sayin’.
For example, they show almost 40 of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolf titles as available and under $5. Four Nero Wolf title for less than $15 is about as cheap as you can find them.
@Lynn
I looked and they don’t have any Perry Rhodan. Are you missing any?
Unfortunately eBay is the only game in town for certain things. If the potential audience is so small you need the world wide reach to sell to the one guy that wants your item, Or the 10 guys, or to the guy who needs it three month later. Very few auctions anymore as most people want it now. The sold listings almost always have auctions selling for less than buy it now. If you have a really desirable item, it might still be worth doing an auction format, but not for most things. Or if you are buying you might want to find your item in an auction format and bid. You’ll wait for the auction to close but will likely save money.
It is currently 63F and crystal clear out. Big dark sky, with a clear milky way. No moon at all, just ground lights and little of that compared to the city.
80 and 40M coming in well. A bit of Cuba. Not much above 8Mhz though. Heard a guy working 40M from South Carolina running only 20W and he was quiet but easily readable. The two guys on freq running 500 and 600W were LOUD.
Had my nice fire to keep me warm. I pulled it close and hovered over the coals for the last 40 minutes. Even with a fleece on, it’s getting to be too cold to sit with shorts on.
n
They need to lock them out of employment in certain countries, and lock the Chinese out of such jobs in the U.S.
@Lynn
I looked and they don’t have any Perry Rhodan. Are you missing any?
I am good through #106 in the original Ace books in English. Plus I have the Atlan books and others. And somebody might have sent me PDFs through #1,200, also translated to English. I am currently at #53.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1893911.Spybot_
My German is pitiful. So is my TexMex.
Had my nice fire to keep me warm. I pulled it close and hovered over the coals for the last 40 minutes. Even with a fleece on, it’s getting to be too cold to sit with shorts on.
I wore my usual shorts with a long sleeve tshirt and a sweatshirt for our 1.2 mile walk tonight at 72 F. The wind was out of the north and cold.
The family with the three girls (8, 5, and 16 months) was out walking too. Well, the 8 year old had skates and the 5 year old had a bike with training wheels. They saw Lily (our dog) and ran for us. Lily was excited to see them again, she loves the 8 year old.
Good dogs have fan clubs.
It may also be too late. To what extent are the US personnel really still needed? By now, I wouldn’t be surprised if China can just pick up the pieces and keep going.
>> Inflation report from yesterday’s Sam’s Club run:
$90
See…here’s Joe’s plan…as the price of food keeps going up you eat less…which saves you money because you need less TP!
>> It may also be too late. To what extent are the US personnel really still needed? By now, I wouldn’t be surprised if China can just pick up the pieces and keep going.
Sometimes, without the right people in the “kitchen”, the results aren’t up to par. Reference ‘Breaking Bad.’
Oh, my sweet summer child! If a problem is well and truly solved, startups and grifting trainers can’t make money anymore.
And, applying the precision and attention to detail expected in Chinese production environments, they’ll produce wafers with 10-100X what the American teams were getting.