Week jokes, I got ’em.
Cool and clear, humid, but hey, lake! Absolutely gorgeous yesterday. The stiff wind might have been an issue for some but it was great for me.
Guys finished up and left. I McGyvered my plumbing issue, and have a real solution standing by (thanks Alan). Site looks good. House feels level. Eggs don’t end up to one side of the pan…
I did mostly ‘helper’ stuff for the crew, moving dirt to refill the holes (since I “stole” their nearby dirt piles to backfill the septic tank) picking up broken concrete and old roots, and leveling dirt in the yard (filling ruts mostly).
After they left I did more yard work and cleanup. I used my favorite leaf blower to blow out the whole house, and did some other cleaning. Then spent a while chatting with my fisherman neighbor.
He must like me, he’s sharing some of his knowledge. SO MUCH knowledge, I didn’t even know what I don’t know. 42 years of passionate hobby = a LOT of detailed and esoteric knowledge. The tabloids assure me that there is “one simple trick” for all kinds of things, and if I can get even one reliable technique or combination of stuff that lets me catch fish, I’ll be very happy.
Meatspace. Tribe. Community. Stack some up.
Today I intend to get that gnu forsaken gas line run to the furnace. And if I have supervision, install some breakers in the panel, and connect the new receptacle in the master bath. Or work under the kitchen sink… I’m sure something will fill the day.
Stack something!
nick
Most people, when they talk about getting their foundations lifted, are talking about this or this or possibly this.
The entire point of posting my horrible experience. Time for a little humor and showing that we all have our not so proud moments.
In redneck territory it is about getting the cowboy Cadillac a new stance.
For a time sink on this Saturday; pictures from a rivalry football match where the score wound up 0-50.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Coalfield
@Greg
He’s effectively dead now. The objective is not to get Biden, the objective is to turn over the rocks and drag the little scuttling things out into the light and put names to them.
John McCain was small fish in Abscam. If they’d properly shown the world what he was, it would have negated the years of “war hero” that culminated in a middle finger to his country.
@Nick
The tabloids are wrong, as you well know. They provide excuses for people that are not willing and able to study, practice, and master a task.
Having your neighbor share the accumulation of knowledge that it takes to successfully fish locally is yuge. Be worthy, grasshopper.
The Dems will find another Jesus Candidate to protect the critters who prefer the darkness.
I’m really suspicious of Tulsi Gabbard’s recent schtick.
67F and 84%RH here at the BOL. It’s Fall. We suddenly have ducks. And egrets. The egrets stalk the mud and muck along the edge of the much diminished lake. I see the tracks in the bed, off my dock, in about 6 inches of water. (Where there should be 3ft.) The ducks are ducking under about 20-30 feet offshore where it’s still a bit deeper. Lake is a bit lower despite the downpour earlier in the week.
Which reminds me… it was abundantly clear after the rain why we can’t have a traditional septic system here. One of the holes they dug was in the clay of the undisturbed hillside. I noticed there was a foot of water in it after the rain. That same foot was STILL in it 5 days later, maybe one inch lower. I even asked to be sure that the foundation guys weren’t filling it every day to “water tamp” the soil. Nope, just slow drainage.
I’ve seen more hawks hunting lately too, although there could be any number of reasons, mostly related to me, and my powers of observation. You don’t see what you don’t look for.
Breakfast is done. A little stretching, some adjustments to my back, and I’ll start my day…
n
WRT Musk, if the government is “investigating” his businesses, they’re looking for what they can steal. They’ll force a split or a ‘divestiture’ and then give the pieces to one of their long time military industrial partners, so they can start milking the cash cow.
Can you imagine what would happen to starlink or spacex with LockMart or MortonThiocol or General Defense in charge?
n
Something like NASA but more expensive and less effective, I imagine.
@Greg
After years of hanging around with maggots, suddenly can’t stand them.
What’s not to believe?
I suppose I had mice in my chicken coop. I never saw any. Never even thought about having mice. I had the feeder hanging on a chain from a hook in a rafter. Once the birds were grown, the feeder hangs about 6 to 8 inches, maybe more, from the ground. Keeps the stupid birds from pooping in the feeder.
I made a “s” hook from a scrap of barb wire to adjust chain length. ‘Cause why buy similar from the hardware store?
Revisiting GPS signals and Starlink, stumbled across this:
That Tulsi Gabbard has walked away from the Prog domestic agenda and all of that WEF training, regardless of how she feels about the Dems handling of international issues.
Elect her President and you will have Medicaid for All within a year.
Republican men need to look beyond the military background and the blue streak in her hair.
The commonly held theory I’ve seen in various stories of late is that Musk wants the Federal Government to intervene and block the Twitter sale. The bankers can’t be happy that they committed to providing the loan paper at numbers which no longer make sense, and that is becoming an issue now that the Jesus Truck is late and TSLA share price half of what it was a year ago.
The Real Life Tony Stark (TM) may need to raise cash in a hurry.
The ULA partners are not going to give the Feds on demand access to low Earth orbit for the cost of fuel and minor maintenance, and the Pentagon knows this.
90-100 ft isn’t bad. The accuracy probably depends on the mathematical model of the satellites, and the only way to get better there is to have SpaceX cooperation
Hey, that monitor I ordered from Provantage about 1:30 CST yesterday? Friday…. it’s coming via FedEx. Supposedly will be delivered tomorrow, Sunday. “Early, Initially expected: Wednesday”.
Ah. But it’s FedEx. Tracking says it’s in LONOKE, AR wherever that is.
I’m not holding my breath for a Sunday delivery. Heck, Wednesday worked for me.
Interesting…okay scary…from one of the included tweets…
And wait, didn’t he build Starlink for .gov purposes?
Nope. He views Starlink as one way to commercialize space. But the costs have been much higher than he expected. And the saturation happened much faster than he expected. The new satellites will cut the saturation problem significantly but they require Starship for launching.
Musk is all about neat things and leaping the human race forward while making a few bucks.
““Farming Needs to Stop, That’s the Single Biggest Driver of Climate Change””
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/22/farming-needs-to-stop-thats-the-single-biggest-driver-of-climate-change/
I too have no words.
>> For a time sink on this Saturday; pictures from a rivalry football match where the score wound up 0-50.
No ‘mercy rule?’ If not, if I’m the coach with the lead, at least just kick FGs after you have a four(?) TD lead. And let some of the deep bench-warmers get some game time. Or is it “required” to pound the losers into the ground until the fat lady sings?
Musk is all about neat things and leaping the human race forward while making “a few” bucks.
FIFY
Ok, I’ll try to be coherent here.
Done. Then I rebooted. Waala, emu1 has the other machines in Explorer. Why is the default “off”? A WinPro gonna connect to a domain thing perhaps.
Double checked and yes, Private. On wi-fi for now because I’m out of Ethernet ports. Sure, I have another switch/hub but I really don’t want to be crawling under my desk and running power cords and Ethernet across the room for Buddy the Beagle to trip on.
Thanks, a good sanity saving tip!
But I still can’t connect to the Emu1 Desktop. Rebooted Emu for grins and nope, I still don’t have permission.
I’ve wandered around and all I can figure is that’s it being wonky because it’s on wi-fi. Shrug.
I’ve had my PCs networked since the days of Win3.11 and the glory days of puzzling out jumper pins to set IRQs on NICs and video and sound cards. Even had a DOS 6.x 386 with a math co-processor box on the LAN. 🙂 What problem’s I’ve had with any new PCs since is “where the heck did MS hide the setting this time”?
I’ll find the hidden setting eventually. And kick myself for being dense.
Yeah, like NASA has done shit since forever? Since the last space shuttle accident? Musk might be a money grubber but he’s putting stuff in space.
As for the EPA and whatnot, he’s already about as far south as you can go in Texas. He could move it all about 60 miles south and the US gov won’t have a say about anything.
“Centers of Gravity (Frontlines)” by Marko Kloos
https://www.amazon.com/Centers-Gravity-Frontlines-Marko-Kloos/dp/1542032814?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number eight of an eight book military science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by 47North in 2022. I believe that this is the last book in the series but I am hoping that the author reconsiders. After all, he did leave several hanging threads, the foremost of which is who will survive, the humans or the Lankies ?
https://www.markokloos.com/?p=3077
In book seven, Major Grayson and the crew of the battle carrier NACS Washington were left 900 light years away from Earth when they accidentally got caught up with a Lankie ship entering their version of FTL. They ended up in a sunless system that is totally infested by Lankies. After a few weeks, running out of food, water, and fuel, they start looking for supplies. And what they find surprises them.
The author has a website at:
https://www.markokloos.com/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,530 reviews)
Dilbert: Dilbert Quiet Quits
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-10-22
Based on a true story.
Yeah, like NASA has done s*** since forever? Since the last space shuttle accident? Musk might be a money grubber but he’s putting stuff in space.
As for the EPA and whatnot, he’s already about as far south as you can go in Texas. He could move it all about 60 miles south and the US gov won’t have a say about anything.
I figure that SpaceX will be eventually regulated to death and reborn in Peru or Kenya (equatorial).
Yes, in the second half. 30 point lead and clock only stops for timeouts and injuries. This was a rivalry match, has been for dozens of years. Neither one of the schools have any mercy on the other. Both will run up the score as high as possible. One school is losing 10 seniors, other only losing 3. Next year the score may be reversed. Lots of fat ladies to sing but I don’t think anyone wants to hear them.
I think that it is the same research that the MIT article from yesterday was referencing.
Which is fine. More eyes is better.
As far as cooperation, well, Musk has said more than once that money is an issue.
And, as someone pointed out above, bandwidth saturation for his network is a real thing.
His guy’s are busy releasing upgraded model after model of the satellites, I can see him not wanting his team spending time on an effort that will return SpaceX / StarLink zero dollars.
I remember Dr. Pournelle relating a story about calling DSL support for Pac Bell and having Adams answer the call. I don’t recall Jerry referring to the expense as being negative when dealing with the future cartoonist in that tech job.
Working for the legacy Pac Bell middle management that now runs the Death Star was excellent experience … to become a cartoonist. The place is a cartoon — go look at the name of the current CEO. Folks, you couldn’t make something like that up.
Starlink will never have enough bandwidth for what Musk has promised without cutting MVNO deals with the legacy carriers in the urban areas, and even then it will be iffy. I’ve always believed that the project is a stalking horse for the telecoms to finally get rid of the terrestrial radio and TV in the US with the bandwidth auctioned off to the highest bidder.
The Pizza Box Dream. Brought to you by the leagcy phone company The Dream promised you the opportunity to fire.
My son met his girlfriend today in Birmingham today – it’s about halfway for each of them. I get a call a few minutes ago from him. Her car battery is dead. No problem, as I put a battery pack in his truck before he left for college. He pulls it out and starts her car, but turns it off right after. Poor kid, don’t know what he was thinking. Anyways, it didn’t have enough juice to jump her car again. I told him to get out his jumper cables. He said, “I don’t think I have any.” I told him I guarantee that he does. Like magic, there they were. I instructed him on how to use them and he got her car started. I told him for both of them to drive to a parts store and have them check the battery, buy a new one if needed, and have them install it. I also got a AAA membership before he left as an emergency option as well. He learned something today, so that’s a good thing.
I spent most of last year working for a company trying to produce a Zeek-based IDS relying on a few big iron … read expensive … servers to monitor an organization’s outward facing network connections for mischief. Now it will be built into every machine running Windows, both inside and outside the secure perimeter.
Embrace and extend. And eliminate the profit margin for everyone else.
The opportunity still exists for central collection and analysis tools, but for how long? Microsoft can’t produce an equivalent of Splunk? Please.
After we ditched our custom code and just layered some detection rules on top of an open source security-focused distribution of Linux, I saw the writing on the wall and got out. Plus, staying would have meant continuing working for Clapper indirectly since he was on the board … until the Hunter laptop situation got real.
https://corelight.com/company/zeek-now-component-of-microsoft-windows
Astronomy Outreach tonight, but windy, gusting to almost 40mph and starting to get overcast … thinking not worth bothering with driving into town.
@Nick: I ran across an interesting simile for telescopes the other day.
A 3-4” achromatic telescope is like a Toyota Corolla.
A 3-4” apochromatic scope is like a Camry.
An modern 8” SCT is like a F-150. Best jack of all trades.
I would add this: A dobsonian is like a f-250 flat bed truck, or maybe a big hydraulic dump trailer. Useful, but awkward.
Some parents are garbage.
My son and his girlfriend made it to autozone. Battery tests ok – alternator is bad. Crap. I told my son she needs to call her dad and see what he wants to do. Her dad and her mom started yelling at her (high school senior). Son is pissed, but handles it well and calls me. The dad is calling a tow truck and were going to come down to pick her up, giving her extreme grief about it. My son offered to drive her back home. Her dad then piped up and said that he what he should do.
So they are waiting on the tow truck to get there, then he will drive her home, stay at our house overnight, then drive 2.5 hours back to school tomorrow. I swear to deity, I almost made the boy give me her dad’s phone number so I could explain what a piece of excrement he is. I’ve known the parents weren’t great, but I didn’t know how bad. Growing up is hard enough without dealing with this.
Next time she is at the house, I’m going to give the car a once over. No point in a young girl suffering because her genetic donors are trash.
“Tucker Carlson: The Biden administration is demanding Amazon censor books they disagree with”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-biden-administration-demanding-amazon-censor-books-disagree-with
“Tucker says Amazon is violating the First Amendment”
The Biden Administration and the federal agencies are violating the First Amendment.
Hat tip to:
https://areaocho.com/first-amendment-4/
@Lynn
And Amazon is not?
Not if they are enabling the U.S. Government to violate the Constitution?
Not if they are conspiring with the U.S. Government to violate the Constitution?
Answering all three of the above in the negative is probably correct under current law, although the third may have some gray.
It just shows that the loophole in the law–having the government use an NGO to break the law–needs to be closed.
It also provides further proof that Amazon is evil and doing business with them is feeding the evil.
Here is where I confess that I ordered a book from Amazon last week. I needed it pronto, copies were thin on the ground, and I opted for the $100 paperback rather than the $300 hardcover. Turned out to be a POD and I had it in hand two days after it was printed. Yes, modern tech is wonderful until you find the camera behind the mirror.
Report: Iranian Military Operatives Killed in Ukrainian Strike as Russia-Iran Coordinate Drone Warfare
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/10/report-iranian-military-operatives-killed-in-ukrainian-strike-as-russia-iran-coordinate-drone-warfare/
Barack Obama, best friend of terrorists and war criminals.
Finished my dinner, and caught up with comments….
WRT starlink and .mil – he’s admitted that it was indeed the system the .mil RFP’d some time back, with a mesh network in space and free space optical links, etc. I think it’s the primary customer, and they are using the Ukraine war to work out the bugs. I think I’ve previously linked the relevant articles in some .mil trade magazines. Just think about getting launch approval for THOUSANDS of sats, no matter what the world’s astronomers have to say about the light pollution or whatever you call it when there is a shiny sat in every view of the sky. The astronomers were basically told to pound sand, with a sop that they’d ‘look into’ decreasing on orbit albedo. That is someone who thinks they have a very big stick indeed. I think you’d have to see Starlink’s books to know who is primary, .mil or JQPublic.
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Got my gas line run to the furnace. Of course it warmed up today, and is currently 76F. Tested the furnace, cleaned it with the vacuum, inspected the flame, etc. Changed the filter which was crazy dirty.
Fishing neighbor helped guide the gas pipe for me. Then we took a break and he went thru my fishing stuff and identified it, and how to use it. I have several of the things he showed me in his tackle box, now I know what they are meant to catch and how to rig them. I have to get some practice time in 😉
He also thinks I missed my window for a fall garden up here. I’ll look at what I can still get in the ground in Houston. Might be too late there too. Sucks, but I’ve got a level foundation, so there is that in compensation. There is still movement going on in the house as the walls and the rest of the structure slowly shift to undo the distortion caused by the unlevel slab. They took years to settle into their previous state, it’ll take some time to reach a new equilibrium.
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wrt using starlink as a position finding system, I believe the sats maneuver to avoid space weather and debris, and can change their altitude. Musk mentioned that the latest crop fly higher than the ones that died in Feb. from too much contact with atmosphere. The changing position information is probably what the team is not getting from Starlink or SpaceX.
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I think I’ll head down to the dock and have a fire tonight. Might be a week or more until I’m back and it will certainly be chillier. It’s a pretty dark night so far…
n
added- Back in Feb, iirc they lost about 50 satellites. THEY BRUSHED IT OFF, made a change, and moved on. FIFTY. I’d bet money that most people weren’t even aware of it. FIFTY. And it’s a blip. The scale of Musk’s project is sometimes hard to understand for someone who grew up with Nasa and launches every few years.
Our ISD on the national wires.
Tiffanie Harrison tops my “must go” list, but I have to through the sample ballot for the rest of the incumbents.
https://news.yahoo.com/abcs-not-lgbts-battles-over-101036062.html
“URGENT update on yesterday’s article; Moderna has very quietly admitted that its mRNA Covid vaccine caused a case of Type 1 diabetes in a 1-year-old girl in its clinical trial”
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-update-on-yesterdays-article/
Oh my.
I think you’d have to see Starlink’s books to know who is primary, .mil or JQPublic.
Never gonna happen. When SpaceX started flying there was a HUGE backlog of black ops satellites that NASA and and/or Boeing could not launch. And we sure did not want the Russians to launch them for us. SpaceX launched them all.
added- Back in Feb, iirc they lost about 50 satellites. THEY BRUSHED IT OFF, made a change, and moved on. FIFTY. I’d bet money that most people weren’t even aware of it. FIFTY. And it’s a blip. The scale of Musk’s project is sometimes hard to understand for someone who grew up with Nasa and launches every few years.
Every real decision that Musk deals with is at least $100 million. Serious money. He has managers for all decisions below that.
BTW, the Starlink 2.0 satellites are 2,500 lbs each. The 1.0 satellites are 660 lbs each. Starlink must have the Starship flying soon.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-deploy-starlink-satellites-pez-dispenser
4900 children received the vaccine in the clinical trial, according to the table accompanying.
No conclusions possible, but certainly cause for concern.
Any school board that tries to make an experimental vaccine a requirement for registration should be presented with a contract specifying that sbecause the manufacturers are not legally responsible for any damages, the school district will assume the liability with the personal backing of all school board members voting for the policy.
“Kindle A Light For The Lost” by Sarah Hoyt
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/10/20/kindle-a-light-for-the-lost/
“Apparently the real unemployment rate, in terms of people simply not working (And not looking for work) among young men — young, able bodied men, 18 to 55 — is eighty percent. [CORRECTION: Cranberry makes a good point that it’s 80% of men not working. I.e. that for every man looking for work, another 4 aren’t. However, it might be worse than they think, because the original rang right to me, and I have acquaintance in the younger age groups. Though honestly, I admit I was including “not working at anything beyond the minimum to barely survive with help” to this count, subconsciously. As well as in “interminable academic training that never ends or provides a job”]”
No freaking way ! If 4 out of 5 men from 18 to 55 do not have jobs, we are sunk !
My 39 year old son maintains that it is a disaster out there for young men. And they have not much to work for as the young ladies do not want to get married unless the man is a millionaire.
Nope, it is 4 out of 5 men from age 18 to 55 who are unemployed are not looking for a job. Still, that is fairly unreal.
By moving the jabs onto the recommended vaccination list for school registrations, the CDC extended the drugmakers’ immunity from criminal prosecution for problems with the shots. Civil courts will be the only way to extract justice, but that’s just money – no one will go to prison.
The school boards now have cover from the CDC since the jabs went on the recommended list.
You’ll have to pay attention to the school board races starting in two weeks. It will be fought school board by school board now.
No trolls allowed ! Trolls will be exterminated posthaste.
Thinking of an entry level 3d printer for grandson for Christmas.
Any recommendations? Reasonable price.
@rick, what does he like to do? The resin based ones do very detailed, but somewhat fragile, and generally small prints. Model makers and table top RPG gamers love them.
Filament printers will make sturdier and larger prints, with some reduction in resolution, but are cheaper. They are also somewhat fussier and the low end ones need a lot of optional upgrades to do good prints consistently.
Creality makes a bunch in the lower end range. The ham radio magazine QST did a good article in the last month or two on them that matched very well to what I know from friends. I think it’s online.
Resin printers seem to work well out of the box, filament seems to need a lot of fussing. And heated beds, self leveling beds, print nozzle fans, enclosures, etc.
One of my non-prepping hobby and ham radio friends has the higher cost one that is mentioned at the end of the QST article. He gets great prints (filament). Sorry I can’t recall the name. Still less than $400 iirc, maybe less than $300. My impression is that the $150 printers aren’t really for beginners despite the price, because they need tweeking.
Someone with direct experience should chime in though.
nick
Small fire was very nice tonight. Radio was nice too.
The bands were open and hams were everywhere. Some contest is going on, so there was a lot of activity, but also propagation was awesome. A guy in South Africa, apparently one of the ‘big guns’ was BOOMING into north America on 40M. Louder than commercial radio. He was well known and got lots of attention. I could hear stations talking to him from all over CONUS, some much quieter than him, despite their lesser distance. Directional antennas make a huge difference.
Shortwave commercial stations were everywhere too.
A great night to sit by a fire under the stars, spinning the dial.
n
‘re 3d printers, I’ve got one of these,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ZBS86ZW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=ttgnet-20
a filament printer, works fine for my needs, doesn’t need a fan or enclosure,non heated plate which i levelled when I got it 6months ago and not touched since. It prints up to 140x140x140mm.only problem i have had was when i printed a12cm long fairly narrow bar and it had a slight warp in it. I would recommend it as a starter machine. (Looked at resin printers,but they’re smelly,toxic and and require an extractor fan to the outside)