Sunny and moderate, another day in paradise. Other than the stiff wind, like gusting to 30 or 40 mph, yesterday was beautiful. Lots of little flying bugs though. Not just skeeters, but some little thing that flies up your nose too. Wearing a headlamp at night is contra-indicated.
Spent the day moving slow and taking it easy. All the time on the lawn tractor moving dirt, concrete, and root debris beat me up. The more time I spend riding that thing, getting all shook up, the more I hurt the next day.
So I took it easy but kept moving. Got the gas line to the furnace installed. The gas to the dryer is the next thing, but our current dryer is electric so priority is low. Getting the furnace online was a major task on the list, and is now completed.
Since I spent the afternoon talking fishing with my neighbor, I didn’t get the hall bath toilet installed. That is on the list for today. Then packing up, getting the house ready, and heading home comes after…
Wife and kids are coming home from camp in the afternoon, and I’m shooting to be home for dinner.
All in all a successful couple of weeks up here. Time to catch up on some stuff at home though. Starting with meeting the plumber at the rent house Monday morning…
Stack all the things. Meet all the people. Always be working.
nick
68 F and cloudy on the West side of the Brazos River.
The dog left me some presents in the middle of the night. I missed the one in my bath mat next to my end of the sinks and found it. Man, having that crap between your toes really wakes you up.
I am hoping for some rain soon. Like Monday but the weather liars lie. I put five hours of water out on the four house foundation hoses yesterday. Probably a $100 of water at our new rate of $7 per thousand gallons.
I’d laugh but I feel your pain. At least it wasn’t warm, was it?
Nah, I am going to laugh.
Home from a long weekend in New Orleans for the 25th anniversary.
To address the comment on Friday about Thursday Night Football on Prime — the game presentation is still rigidly timed for commercials even if you don’t see them streaming. Sitting in a restaurant the other night, I noticed that the local rebroadcast for the Saints road game on the bar TV had typical NFL ad segments at timeouts, etc. Most of the spots, however, were for Amazon … except for one very slyly purchased HBO Max commercial featuring “House of Dragons”.
The Trolls are obviously still here so I didn’t want to break Op Sec until we were home.
My son made it here a little after midnight. Good to see him and visit for a minute before heading to bed. The girlfriends dad gave him gas money…whatever.
71F and 83%RH with mostly clear sky (some thin whispy clouds) and sunshine. Making breakfast and coffee.
I need to get stuff put away, do a couple of things, and get ready to head home.
n
When it comes to feces or vomit from cats or dogs, I’d much rather find it warm. Not only for the reaction to stepping on it, but because by the time it either cools it has soaked into the carpet, which is the preferred surface for deposition.
Mechano-gene-splicing pseudo vaccine:
Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine alters Human DNA
Since this is “just” a Swedish study, the CDC, NIH, WHO etc will disavow it. Now our goobermint wants it injected into all of our kids. Or else. The States are starting to respond with a big F U.
All the lying flucks:
In their own words
If they aren’t lying, they are completely stupid.
This Is Why You Don’t Shoot Them In The Leg
https://bearingarms.com/bobowens-bearingarms/2016/11/27/dont-shoot-leg-n28146
Good example, and some recommendations at the end for flat-pack tourniquets and a carriers, although two out of three are not available at present.
Speaking of hearing loss:
Soundly
h/t cooltools. Non-professional, but a good place to start. My results say I could hear Mr. Ray’s farts at 20 feet. Smell them at 800 feet.
Hhhhrrrrrmmmmmppppfffff.
Pretty much cleaned up and put away. Still need to figure out where to store the doors until I can get them installed. Then I’ll break my rule and pull that hall bath toilet. At minimum I need to know if the flange is good. If it is, I’ll go ahead and install the new toilet. If there is an issue, I can always leave the water off.
n
Oh yeah, let me elevate the tone around here, from one of the great works of English liturature….. and one of my favorites of the Tales…
From The Canterbury Tales:
The Miller’s Tale
lines 698-707: Absalom’s revenge
If I were the losing coach when realizing my win was impossible, I would throw a towel onto the field and order the team to follow me back to dressing room.
That is never done. Doing so will cause the loss of the games of the rest of the season by forfeiture. TSSAA rules. The game must continue to completion until the clock runs out. There is nothing from stopping the losing coach from refusing to snap the ball and just take delay of game penalties. Get less than 10 yards from the goal and it is half the distance each time. The goal will never be reached for a safety. Even half an inch off the goal would just mean the ball moves backwards one quarter of an inch.
Any coach that would do that will find they are no longer the coach the following Saturday. And TSSAA may suspend the rest of the season.
New toilet is installed and working. No leaks. Flange was damaged and will be replaced when I do the floor in there. Until then it will be fine, I hope.
Loading up to head home.
Got some stuff off the list. Next weekend is Halloween prep, so I’ll be gone from here for at least 2 weeks. Plenty to do at home.
n
10mm vs Grizzly:
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/10/22/wyoming-hunter-survives-grizzly-attack-by-shooting-at-bear-numerous-times-with-handgun/
Article claims the man won, but the bear walked away and he didn’t, so…
NEw offensive in Ukraine, and China making changes… busy news weekend.
n
Um.
“Hope” isn’t a winning strategy when it comes to plumbing. You might want to take care of that first thing, next time you go up.
I’d laugh but I feel your pain. At least it wasn’t warm, was it?
Nah, I am going to laugh.
Nice and cold !
But, she got half of it on her puppy pad. And then finished on my bath mat. An all tile floor in my bathroom so easy to clean up.
“$4,896,119,000,000: Federal Tax Collections Set Record in Fiscal 2022”
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/4896119000000-federal-tax-collections-set-record-fiscal-2022
“(CNSNews.com) – The federal government collected a record $4,896,119,000,000 in total taxes in fiscal 2022 (October 2021 through September 2022), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.”
“That was up $518,302,170,000—or 11.8 percent–from the previous record of $4,377,816,830,000 (in constant September 2022 dollars) that the federal government collected in fiscal 2021.”
Trump told us that this would happen with his tax rate relief. He was correct.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
@Nick
Would you call that hoity-toilety?
We are converting a 700,000+ Fortran 77 lines of code plus 50,000+ C++ lines of code engineering software product to C++. With all that code, we produce four Win32 EXEs and three Win32 DLLs. My goal is to add four Win64 EXEs and three Win64 DLLs to the product with the same capabilities as the Win32 versions (console, windowed, Excel callable, Excel embeddable). Plus support for Unicode named files and Unicode file paths.
I am using a customized version of f2c at the moment to automate 60% to 80% of the conversion from F77 to C++. I have added support for logical*8, changed the output file from *.c to *.cpp, added an include for the Fable fem.hpp template library, removed the trailing underscores from the subroutine and common block names, removed the ftnlen arguments from the character arguments, converted all F77 comments to the // instead of the /* */, and a few other items. If desired, I am willing to post a copy of my modified f2c on my website with the source code.
https://netlib.org/f2c/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2c
f2c does not get me totally there. The Fortran character strings were poorly handled so they will probably needed fixing for proper sizing and alignment. The i/o code is crap so I take the original F77 i/o code and translate it by hand. The arrays in the argument list are still based at an index of one so I convert those to base index of zero by hand. All of the local and common block arrays were converted to a base index of zero by f2c. I add the new *.cpp file to my Visual Studio project. I then add the new function prototypes to my prototypes.h file and I add any new common block structures to my commons.h file. I then compile and fix until I get a clean compile.
I have converted over 8,000 lines of F77 code to C++ now. Several dozen subroutines and several dozen common blocks. Most are compiling cleanly in Visual C++ 2015. My limited testing is working well and I will expand my testing when I hit 15,000 or 20,000 lines of F77 code converted. I hoping to get a complete build of the smaller of the Win32 DLLs by the end of the year and a full build by next June. One of my programmers thinks that we will be lucky to get a complete build by late 2024.
Could you add a module to for distilling whisky?
Made it home ok. Unloaded the tool box and ladder. I brought them home for my Halloween effort.
Family is home from sailing camp. Dog is home from dog sitter.
Pack is back together.
n
Tom’s still distracted? Or is the age starting to show?
Carolina Panthers (2 – 5) 21 – Yucs (3 – 4) 3
Yup, one FG, zero TDs.
>> This Is Why You Don’t Shoot Them In The Leg
https://bearingarms.com/bobowens-bearingarms/2016/11/27/dont-shoot-leg-n28146
Good example, and some recommendations at the end for flat-pack tourniquets and a carriers, although two out of three are not available at present.
Maybe, don’t rob the bank in the first place…
>> From The Canterbury Tales:
The Miller’s Tale
lines 698-707: Absalom’s revenge
This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart,
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,
Not sure if others see it but this does not format on my phone. I get two columns but each line has only one or two characters per column.
>> “Hope” isn’t a winning strategy when it comes to plumbing. You might want to take care of that first thing, next time you go up.
Any reason not to shut the main water valve when you leave?
NYFC of course, and their slimy mayor…
Rules for thee, not for me
Boys will be…umm…
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/10/23/trans-athlete-causes-injury-in-unexpected-sporting-event-n505281
Lousy game plan. Lousy execution.
Warren Sapp football but without Warren Sapp and the other names you see on the stadium wall in Gronk’s shoe commercial.
More deja vu – I think the Yucs front office cheaped out on the coaching search again, just like with “Rah” Morris and Lovie. Maybe Sciano.
Lovie is 1-3-1 in what is his third gig as head coach, and some of the sportswriters are trying to get “Rah” another shot at a head coaching job at the end of the year.
I just got off the phone with customer service for a credit card.
I expected and got someone outside the U.S.
They followed the script and did the task I needed.
I know what a rooster sounds like.
There was a rooster in the background.
The Pretendians
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php
@alan, sorry for the format issue. The cut and past was from a two column format, it pasted as a table with olde english on the left column, one line per row, and the modern english in the right column. I was actually a bit surprised that the columns were captured and on the pc, they look ok.
Here is the modern english…
From The Canterbury Tales:
The Miller’s Tale
lines 698-707: Absalom’s revenge
This Nicholas just then let fly a fart
As loud as it had been a thunder-clap,
And well-nigh blinded Absalom, poor chap;
But he was ready with his iron hot
And Nicholas right in the arse he got.
Off went the skin a hand’s-breadth broad, about,
The coulter burned his bottom so, throughout,
That for the pain he thought that he should die.
And like one mad he started in to cry,
“Help! Water! Water! For God’s dear heart!”
http://www.librarius.com/canttran/milltale/milltale698-707.htm
n
I’m still wondering if the Yacc/Bison source has syntax errors or something unique to the Plan 9 version of the parser generator.
I’ve been beyond buried at work, and I just had my BP meds doubled again. This was the first weekend I wasn’t playing with work code on Saturday and Sunday mornings, but that’s only because we were out of town and I left my company laptop at home.
From earlier in the Tale, the lover (Absalom) comes in the middle of the night to see the Miller’s wife and calls out to her…
Darling, my sweetest bird, I wait your will.”
The window she unbarred, and that in haste.
620 “Have done,” said she, “come on, and do it fast,
Before we’re seen by any neighbour’s eye.”
This Absalom did wipe his mouth all dry;
Dark was the night as pitch, aye dark as coal,
And through the window she put out her hole.
625 And Absalom no better felt nor worse,
But with his mouth he kissed her naked arse
Right greedily, before he knew of this.
Aback he leapt- it seemed somehow amiss,
For well he knew a woman has no beard;
630 He’d felt a thing all rough and longish haired,
And said, “Oh fie, alas! What did I do?”
“Teehee!” she laughed, and closed the window too;
And Absalom went forth a sorry pace.
n
@lynn, there’s an auction you might be interested in,
https://hibid.com/lot/135962493/vintage-perry-rhodan-peacelord-of-the-universe?ref=catalog
the link to the page with all the books, starting around lot 175
https://hibid.com/catalog/406387/october-warehouse-online-auction—tools–collectibles-and?apage=2
I could pick them up for you if you won them…
n
Biden’s Next Crisis: Home Heating Oil Rationing Begins in Northeast, and It’s Not Even Winter Yet
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ryanledendecker/2022/10/23/bidens-next-crisis-home-heating-oil-rationing-begins-in-northeast-and-its-not-even-winter-yet-n1639328
Who said “Elections have consequences?”
When Biden’s neighbors get shorted and are freezing, I wonder if he will invite them over? Because, mysteriously, there will be no shortage at the Biden homestead.
Someone will no doubt make a map. So easy to do nowadays. Natural gas deposits in the NE, developed and undeveloped (unfracked). Add a layer with the pipelines. Another with the heating oil distribution system. Finish it off with heating oil prices in major cities in each state (PA, NH NY CT DE RI MA VT NH ME–bluest of the blue). Overlay a graph of prices since Good Ole’ Joe took office.
Probably have room for any ports in the region with LNG facilities shipping to Europe in a futile attempt to keep their sorry sophisticated backsides from freezing and getting piles. Big arrows with BTU’s per day leaving.
We could have simplified maps make up and the schoolchildren (in their hats and gloves) could color (with appropriate choices of hue, of course) them in to better understand why mommy and daddy started blue and were turning more blue.
Save the Orange for the Donald, dearies.
ADDED: It occurs to me that a good investigative reporter with a large amount of world-weary cynicism and streak of fatalism is probably even now preparing a story on the heating oil and natural gas futures trading that is making fair coin for certain pols and offspring. Hope he has an escape hatch for when Garland’s Stasi come calling.
Could you add a module to for distilling whisky?
Already got it !
@lynn, there’s an auction you might be interested in,
https://hibid.com/lot/135962493/vintage-perry-rhodan-peacelord-of-the-universe?ref=catalog
the link to the page with all the books, starting around lot 175
https://hibid.com/catalog/406387/october-warehouse-online-auction—tools–collectibles-and?apage=2
I could pick them up for you if you won them…
n
Thanks ! But, I already have all those. I own all the way through number 106. And, I now have the DOCX files through 1200.
All of the good investigative reporters retired, and the young ones aren’t interested.
Maybe as Tyler Durden cowardice at Zero Hedge.
When we stopped in Baytown today, I noticed that cranes were up at one of the refineries adding something large. Or maybe something was being rebuilt. We haven’t been through in a couple of years.
LNG can’t come from a US port into New England without an Executive Branch waiver for the Jones Act.
Besides, the market is global and highest bidder wins even if the waiver was granted. Of course, they will need increasingly devalued dollars to pay.
Some interesting things may end up on the auction block to pay for the LNG. In Florida, the UK is (was?) the country with the largest share of foreign owned properties in the state.
@Lynn
You must be a reader.
The collectors I know would be trying to put together a complete set of all the cover variants, and trading bits and pieces of new information as they found it.
With a lot of cover art online, including PR in the Ace Image Library, it’s just not the challenge it once was.
@Greg
Well surely Jill can sign Good Ole’ Joe’s name to a waiver. Who’s going to object and how are they going to convince the courts that they have standing? Then all those loyal blue states have to do is outbid the Germans. Talk about controlling your own destiny? Butterfly wings flapping over ballot boxes in 2020, NE US freezes solid in 2023, precipitating a new ice age…
No, cold is only weather. Heat and hurricanes are global warming.
Or, as I have said, the interested parties could buy a d*mmed LNG tanker, flag it US, crew it US, and problem solved.
If they don’t want to – admittedly it is easier to ask for a waiver – freeze.
Or move to California. No cheap LNG here shortly, but the body heat of the other homeless should keep them warm.
>> Or move to California. No cheap LNG here shortly, but the body heat of the other homeless should keep them warm.
How many BTUs each if you use them as logs instead? And would a higher level alcohol intake give some extra heat?
Latest rabbit project. I spent three hours assembling outlets, boxes, and romex this evening. In the kitchen as the rabbitry is very chilly now. I’ll install sometime later this week.
This project will put an electricity at each rabbit cage, plus a duplex at each end of the rabbitry. I’ll be able to run a camera and small warming pad at each cage, plus lights, water pump, and stock tank de-icer with no mess of power cords running all over. Much better.
I used the fancy electric specific screwdriver. Wow! What a huge time saver. Thanks for the recommendation.