… then 4024…
Probably a cool morning, warming later, and not so cold at night. It got pretty hot in the sun yesterday by mid afternoon. Got to 78F in the house with the doors open. I broke a sweat. ‘Course, long sleeves and long pants…
Crew got a lot of work done yesterday. They leveled the house. Nothing high tech, except the level which was a base station and a sensor connected by a cable. Not sure of the tech, but it has a digital display. Made it easy to measure the floors. They used bottle jacks to lift the house. 5 or 6 of them pumping at the same time. Then they moved to different holes and did it again. They did it in a bunch of small lifts, with foam lifting the middle of the house in between. Very strange to see the massive chimney move upward by half inches.
They got most of the piers secured, but have a couple to finish and some holes left to fill today. They got the plumbing done, water service needs a bit of mortar and insulation, drain line is good. I’ve got the new service entrance connected to my new pex and old copper. When we abandon the copper, I’ll be able to easily reconfigure the connections since I made them at the water heater. Feels like real progress is being made.
Today I will get up in the attic and run the gas line. I may also get the kitchen sink stubbed out with pex. I just put valves on the ends of the run for yesterday. The crew will need me to move some dirt from the pile to fill holes, because I stole some of the sand to fill where the backfill settled around the septic tank. The rain really caused some settling. That should eat some of my time, running back and forth with the garden tractor and dump trailer.
Since the females are at GS camp this weekend, I’m staying up here at least until Saturday night, or Sunday. I’ll keep working the list. And trying to catch a fish.
Work some skills. Stack some things.
nick
Germany? Where are the dogs?
“Hans. Fritz. Be good boys, ja. Full ‘Cujo’ like we trained, but don’t hurt the man children.”
“Woof”
Germany has Soy Boys too.
Germany has much variety
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9JZWKdsao
63F and clear. Time to start moving dirt.
n
Bad news for the IT industry in Texas.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/adderall-shortage-is-so-bad-some-patients-can-t-fill-their-prescriptions/ar-AA13b0Cc
Most of the management in the tolling company job had the usual signs of being “treated”, but one, my boss’s boss, was either OD-ed on Adderall or T-therapy to the point that he had a constant case of the shakes.
Yeah, the VW protest. VW fed and watered them, but refused to bring them anything to pee and poop into. So the protesters pulled their own hands carefully free of the glue, went to the toilet, came back, and glued themselves back down. Ultimately, their hands got so swollen they decided to go to the hospital. Pretty much everybody except hard-core greenies is laughing at them now.
VW could have done even better by simply putting a barrier around the idiots, so no one could even see them. Then ignore them completely. No need to give the idiots free publicity. But it all worked out pretty well: having “scientists” begging for a bowl to pee in (and a privacy barrier!) was pretty funny.
Re: Using Starlink for GPS.
I wasn’t actually looking for this – 4 constellations seems enough tbh – but was surfing Y-combinator news this morning and found a link: someone looked into it and says it could be done.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/21/1062001/spacex-starlink-signals-reverse-engineered-gps/
Well, the drain test failed. The master shower drain did separate after all. There is no evidence it was ever glued.
I either have to pull the whole shower now, or find something that might not exist, an extension to the shower drain. THey make a toilet flange/ring with a long rubber funnel for this issue in a toilet, but never heard of one for a shower. Thin pipe, so anyone with a few spare cycles….
n
GPS is just a refinement of the old Loran system. Doing the same from the Starlink satellites is “easy”. For certain definitions of easy, anyway.
Simplified, each transmitter sends out an accurate time signal. If I know where the transmitter is located, easy for Loran as the transmitters don’t move, I can figure out where I am. With a couple of signals I can determine the range based on the time differences of the received signals. GPS uses 2 different signal frequencies to allow correction of atmospheric refraction. Loran didn’t need that but a Starlink system would.
GPS and presumably the Starlink version, transmit each satellites location. The devil is in the details, of course, and you need to know the rough location of each satellite to lock on to it. That is why the first time a GPS receiver is turned on it can take quite some time to get a fix: the receiver has to download the almanac first and it is hard to recover that data without being able to lock on the signal.
A Starlink version would be the same, BUT there are a LOT more satellites to keep track of and their orbits would be subject to more variation. Especially when the solar activity is high. Those birds are so low that atmospheric drag has a real impact on the lower orbits and solar activity can change that a great deal.
I note that GPS is 27 active satellites now. It was originally planned as 18 or 21 (the number kept changing when I was in the Navy). I’d guess the extras were for the polar regions, as that is something GPS didn’t cover well. The Soviet system used polar orbits to address that.
google returns a bunch of interesting stuff for “shower drain extension” but most of them look like something you use before the shower is installed. Hard to tell when the thousand images load like usenet images on dialup…
n
like rec-arts-anime of course, not whatever you were thinking…
n
🙂
@nick, any chance there’s a ‘for the trade’ plumbing supply anywhere in the vicinity?
@Nick: I looked, but I’m not quite sure what you need?
My visual is that the shower drain came up with the floor as the entire house was raised and the pipe slid out of the p-trap.
In that case can’t you simply use a longer pipe to reach the underlying unmoved p trap?
Or did it pull through the floor?
Or did the p trap come up and there is a horizontal slip or break.
No serious comment, I just like the alliteration. And the sentiment as applied to rodents.
Regarding the previous discussion on GPS issues in Texas, I note this entry from the SANS “NewsBytes” weekly security newsletter (emphasis added):
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@nick, does this help?
https://www.plumbingsupply.com/wing-tite-shower-drain.html
Starlink is most likely using a customized routing client in Quagga which maintains a accurate mathematical model of the satellites’ orbits. Updates to the model probably get published and broadcast by every satellite on a known channel, and a location fix could be calculated with RSSI and the satellites’ lat/long/altitudes calculated from the model.
Dunno how accurate that would be. The receiver antenna would probably have to be outside. Think a ship or a plane.
@Nick, this auction story is for you, “True Stories From A Former Car Dealer #25: Auctions”:
https://www.carpro.com/true-stories/true-stories-from-a-former-car-dealer-25-auctions
“If you need 100 or so cars and you only have a few weeks to get them, the auction is typically your only option. Today, I could sit in my air-conditioned office and buy them online, but in 1985, you had to stand in the auction lanes smelling exhaust, your feet hurting from standing for hours, and the intense pressure of not paying too much for a car, but also not getting outbid.”
The Seattle company I worked for was messing with mesh networks and a custom routing client based on Quagga for a military contract doing something similar to Starlink but with aircraft and drones. I wasn’t cleared to know exactly how everything worked, and they never intended for me to touch the code. However, I picked up enough to know the rough details.
I’m not sure exactly what happened after I walked out in 2013, but Nokia bought them and retained the core staff.
No serious comment, I just like the alliteration. And the sentiment as applied to rodents.
Crap, if we have to be serious to comment around here then I am in serious trouble.
From SRW in the Fort Bend Journal, “A Big Number”:
“Overheard at the fish mongers:
Woman: “I see you’re reading a book. Do you have a favorite?”
Man: 1984.
Woman: “Wow, so many!””
Right. Reference the turd bath.
@Rick: Since you live in the Port Townsend area near Beckett Point, I placed some pictures on a website that you will recognize.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Townsend
If you scroll through the pictures you will see the green house on the hill. That was the place my aunt and uncle owned from 1968 until about 2003. The images overlooking the point were taken from the porch of the house. Almost twenty years ago we had to sell the place. I really did not want to sell but it was an asset my aunt held that needed to be sold to pay for her care.
>> Crap, if we have to be serious to comment around here then I am in serious trouble.
Hey, no cutting the line!
If you can top a turd shower then you are more than welcome to jump the queue.
Whelp, I bought a monitor. An Asus VP32AQ. Amazon and Newegg had the same price. Both with “free shipping”. Ducked around and oh, hey, Provantage sells it too. After all was said and done, with paying for shipping and sales tax, almost a whole dollar more than Newegg.
So I paid the dollar. I feel like I owe them. I bought a CX410dte Multifunction Color Laser Printer from them for $228 with shipping. Some one goofed on the pricing by about $600. Nice printer, should have bought two and sold one on eBay.
Provantage ships pretty fast, too.
Ok. Now to dig through the comments here about networking the w11 beast. I’ll let y’all know what happens.
“Ransomware Takeaways From Q3 2022”
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ransomware-takeaways-from-q3-2022/
“No matter which way war, the global economy, or superstorms are headed, one thing remains constant: ransomware threats continue to persist and evolve. That’s not new information, of course, but understanding the sophistication of emerging attacks is useful for anyone responsible for defending vulnerable infrastructure. Cybercriminals continue to target more industries such as healthcare and education that might not be as well-equipped to defend themselves. New strategies have allowed them to do more damage.”
Kinda fluffy article but some good points. I am getting 4 or 5 phishing emails daily that manage to slip through our corporate gmail filter.
Ok. Now to dig through the comments here about networking the w11 beast. I’ll let y’all know what happens.
I have a mixed shop of a dozen+ Windows 7, 8, and 10 machines. No Windows 11 yet. All networked using plain old SMB. Works like a champ once I get it set up.
IANAL, but I think 18 USC 32 makes it a felony to knowingly interfere with aircraft navigation, 20 years imprisonment & fines.
If not a screw up then someone is playing with fire.
“Greg Abbott widens lead over Beto O’Rourke with likely voters in latest UT poll”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/21/greg-abbott-beto-orourke-poll/
“The 11-point margin is one of the wider advantages Abbott has registered among likely voters in a public survey yet. Abbott had a smaller 5-point advantage in the last UT poll, which was done in August, though that was among registered voters.”
Looks like Bozo O’Rourke is going to have to regroup.
“Sen. Warren leads probe of Bitcoin impact on Texas power grid, ERCOT use of demand response ‘subsidies’”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/warren-bitcoin-texas-power-grid-ercot-demand-response/634462/
“Texas could host up to 20% of the world’s cryptomining computing power worldwide by the end of next year, by some estimates. Miners say their energy use can help keep the grid reliable because it is a flexible load that acts like a demand side battery.”
“As of August there were 33 GW of crypto mining loads wanting to connect to the grid, according to ERCOT. That figure has almost doubled since April, when it was just 17 GW, the grid operator said. Bitcoin finished April trading north of $37,000 and closed out August at around $20,000.”
“While there are dozens of gigawatts of crypto load interested in connecting to ERCOT, the grid operator noted in an email that currently there are only “an estimated few hundred MW currently operational.” ”
Yeek !
“U.S. budget deficit cut in half for biggest decrease ever amid Covid spending declines”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/21/us-budget-deficit-cut-in-half-for-biggest-decrease-ever-amid-covid-spending-declines.html
“The decline would have been steeper had it not been for the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program. Education spending totaled $639.4 billion for the fiscal year, $408 billion higher than estimated.”
I maintain that the loan forgiveness program is not constitutional. Several groups are suing Slow Joe, the liar, the thief, and incompetent, about it.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
I have wrangled A cat, but turd herding has me beat.
https://youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE
I was turd herding back in May when the house septic system plugged up but I did not get them all over me. At least not the chunks but maybe some flying drops as the system started moving about a 1,000 gallons of black water (but it was mostly toilet paper) all of a sudden.
The Payola Seat on the Court just turned down an emergency appeal to halt the program from one of her supervised districts – surprising since it isn’t the Old School Marm scolding us to eat our vegetables and accept the consequences of our political choices this time.
Ginsberg would have done the same thing. The seat shapes the justice IMHO. Kavanaugh is already morphing into Kennedy, and Comey-Barrett just got relieved of lunchroom planning and door duties.
@alan– THANKS! THat looks like exactly the thing to fix it right. I was thinking some sort of insert that would extend down into the pipe, but that thing somehow replaces the drain,strainer, and connection to the pipe.
I’ll order one, but may not get it installed right away. I found a McGyver to fix it temporarily, I glued in a thin sleeve with marine sealant, then added 2 ½ inches of pipe, and slid the new into the old, with more sealant. Looks factory just to glance at it… and drain isn’t under pressure. It really just needs to guide the waste water down.
There is evidence that the drain leaked before the lift. There was a bunch of old silicone sealer in the gasket and pipe. And I could see a void that surrounded the pipe. Don’t know if it was wet from my shower, or had been wet.
The camera inspection of the main drain line showed a puddle, where the pipe sagged, but no breaks. That’s good enough for now.
We stuck the cam down the RV connection to see what that was all about, but could only go 2 feet before a misaligned pipe stopped us. Still mysteries there.
It’s too hot for me in the attic now, so I’m working other plumbing and yard cleanup things.
n
Thank you to everyone who looked at my problem.
re the GPS problem in Texas, is it possible that something enormous and dense blocked all of the receivers’ path to the satellites? Something like … your mom?
Be careful with assumptions.
I had a drain earlier this year that was nearly plugged. It would handle a standard amount of dishwashing, but after two loads in a row would back up. Basically the 25′ of sink line would fill, then slowly drain out overnight through a debris constriction at the lower end, until I stressed it.
It’s getting totally ridiculous:
ANOTHER midterm Hail Mary: January 6th Commission subpoenas Donald Trump
All we can do is pray the Redumblicans don’t blow it taking back Congress. Even then, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The RINOs will probably WANT to subpoena tRump.
re the GPS problem in Texas, is it possible that something enormous and dense blocked all of the receivers’ path to the satellites? Something like … your mom?
It is an alien invasion that they are not telling us about.
>> re the GPS problem in Texas, is it possible that something enormous and dense blocked all of the receivers’ path to the satellites? Something like … your mom?
Okay, you move up in line to right behind the turd wranglers. Anyone with cat videos, still end of the line.
“Glorious! Musk Plans to Fire 75% of Twitter Employees”
https://www.clayandbuck.com/glorious-musk-plans-to-fire-75-of-twitter-employees/
Reboots are always eventful.
It’s getting totally ridiculous:
ANOTHER midterm Hail Mary: January 6th Commission subpoenas Donald Trump
All we can do is pray the Redumblicans don’t blow it taking back Congress. Even then, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The RINOs will probably WANT to subpoena tRump.
Mittens will subpoena Trump in a heartbeat.
Only the app matters, but you assume that the sale will go through.
More entertaining is the list of tweets on the side of that page on the “Clay and Buck” website. Particularly this one.
https://twitter.com/DeSantisFan2024/status/1583484828548476928?s=20&t=50m4SycIpVLrIUEdyr1npQ
It should read: “Known Meth Head, Facing Federal Indictment Post-Election: 54%”. I trust CNN fired that pollster.
I watched a bit of the Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime last night.
Didn’t really care about the game, just curious if this time I could actually get it. And I could.
And there was something odd. No commercials. It was the last few minutes of the game and…a penalty, a time out, whatever…no commercial.
Is that normal for Prime games?
Al and the other announcer were running their mouths as much a possible, but no commercial. Strange.
Did Amazon trade any cartoon characters to Universal for Al’s contract this time?
Hey! Total Nonsense! I don’t wear Levis, I wear Wranglers, and when I sit on a toilet to defecate, the Wranglers are down around my ankles where they can’t capture the turds.
https://www.bootbarn.com/wrangler-13mwz-cowboy-cut-original-fit-jeans—prewashed-colors/010357.html?dwvar_010357_color=7116#prefn1=ref-fit&prefv1=Regular%2FClassic&start=7
Appeals court temporarily halts Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/court-temporarily-halts-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan
excerpt above from National Review via Ace of Spades HQ.
Biden wouldn’t be found competent to stand trial. But when they go after the worthless piece of shit the focus should be on what others had knowledge of the crime, and prosecute every last flipping one. Including most particularly the FBI agents and execs who knew and did nothing. And in that respect I’m sure they left a trail of emails that will make it a conspiracy.
Court: Fauci Must Testify Under Oath About Involvement in Social Media COVID Censorship
“the Court finds that Plaintiffs have proven that Dr. Fauci has personal knowledge about the issue concerning censorship across social media as it related to COVID-19 and ancillary issues of COVID-19.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/10/court-fauci-must-testify-under-oath-about-involvement-in-social-media-covid-censorship/
Also on the list:
Might just have to read and go to bed early tonight. It’s a beautiful night though, black sky, moderate temps.
Spent some more time with my fishing neighbor. He showed my his tackle boxes and what lures he uses. That is HUGE progress!
Picked up more debris, and more broken concrete. Starting to look like it’s not a construction site… outside at least. Still got a big pile of dirt, a big pile of broken concrete, and a big pile of roots and root balls. No grass in the front yard either, but that might be true for the next 6 months.
I think I’ll go down to the dock and sit without a fire for a bit. See how I like that.
n
It’s balmy out. Warm and damp. Pretty stiff breeze, has the flags out straight. No moon, and only a little haze.
I think I’m going to bed early tonight though. Stayed up late reading and got up early. Might even sleep in a bit tomorrow.
n
Nothing will happen.
Johnny Reno had plans to run for Governor of Florida after Lawton Chiles term limited out when she appointed Ken Starr to look into Whitewater, and she had a reputation in the state as a no-nonsense prosecutor with … quirks … ahem. Marrick Garland is at the end of his career and probably figures he has nothing to lose after being denied the Court.
“The Big Guy” will be dead by the time a Special Prosecutor starts looking into the case.
>> “Glorious! Musk Plans to Fire 75% of Twitter Employees”
https://www.clayandbuck.com/glorious-musk-plans-to-fire-75-of-twitter-employees/
Reboots are always eventful.
Interesting…okay scary…from one of the included tweets…
And wait, didn’t he build Starlink for .gov purposes?
@ray
I got the valve closed as soon as I could but there was still a mess,
Oh my. I can imagine the smell and horror of it. I’m sorry I laughed so hard. I don’t think I’ve ever had a poo situation quite as horrific.
@brad
A cat would be perfect and efficient. Not gonna happen for reasons.
@nick
It has been a joy reading your progress on the house. The foundation lift is fascinating.