Cool and wet again, or maybe better described as ‘very damp’. Hopefully staying dry all day. I’ve got things to do. Which didn’t get done yesterday.
I mostly ended up cleaning house and doing some auction stuff. Which is really nothing to write home about. But I do anyway!
And more of that is on the agenda for today too. I’ll take down a few more decorations. I’ll move a few more things around in the stacks. And I’ll bait the danged possum trap again. SOMETHING knocked a bunch of stuff off my shelves again. I don’t know if it is the same possum, or if I’m on the Grand Tour somehow. At least they are greedy or dumb enough to keep going into the trap. Rats wouldn’t be fooled twice. Rats are too smart.
It is time to re-bait the poison boxes for the rats though. And to spray the outside of the house with bug spray. It’s always time for something.
I’ve got bait and extra bait boxes. Ordered them from amazon, and won some in an auction. That’s a prep, for sure. The collapse of the economy will be accompanied by a rise in vermin. 2, 4, 6 and 8 legged vermin. Get some stuff stacked to deal with them. Otherwise, when you need it, it might not be there.
That is the nature of prepping in a nutshell, to have what you need when you need it, no matter what is going on around you.
Stack it up, so you have it when you need it.
nick
(D1 and D2 have their school play tonight, so that will occupy my evening. I won’t forget my earplugs this time.)
I would be willing to bet that the laid off are part of the 90 percent of the population who could never be taught to write code at a meaningful level, even those with CS degrees from Stanford. There is an innate ability involved that those who bemoan “diversity” in the field just don’t comprehend.
Yes, Stanford. I’ve seen it first hand. Near the end of my time at the Death Star, we had a budding Wally whom we called Chuckles. Large companies hired Chuckles because had a piece of Stanford paper, MS in CS or EE, which was apparently legit. Chuckles spent his day walking the hall, sipping coffee and … chuckling to himself, probably at the irony.
Class of ‘99. They didn’t all become billionaires.
The last I heard, Chuckles now works for Malwarebytes. Of course, if you’re running that, you’ve got bigger problems.
The Twitter back end would be mostly “settled science” if I had to guess. Maintaining the app and keeping its dopamine hit high would require people with real programming and, sigh, psychological manipulation skills.
Ah, not as cool as I thought, 73F and saturated this fine day. Looks like it might stay overcast. And there are occasional drops of water falling from the sky…
Oh well.
stuff to do.
n
I tried smoking for a couple of weeks. I was boarded in a room with three others for my first six months at Langley AFB. All three smoked, two drank heavily. The room was always in a grey haze due to the smoke. I thought I might as well join in. Lasted a day less than two weeks. I basically hated the stuff. Shortly after I started my search for a new room where the people did not smoke. It took a while until I was finally able to find another room.
The first time I was drunk it was at an office function at the NCO club. Having not come from a drinking family except for the occasional wine, I was not familiar with the hard stuff. The people from the office thought it was funny to keep giving me stuff to drink and see me slide further down the conscious scale. I knew no better.
I have no idea how I got back to my dormitory room. I woke up late the next morning, a Sunday, half hanging off my bed with my head over a trashcan full of awful smelling puke. No more drinking for a while, I learned my lesson, so I thought.
The next, and last time was in the Philippines. Went into Angeles City with a guy with a last name of Reagan. When I arrived at Clark AFB on a temporary assignment to install new computer systems, I was briefed on what to avoid. One street in particular was mentioned. Bad place, especially at night.
Reagan and I headed into the city for the evening. Jeepnees (sp) abound so we caught one and headed into town. Saw some shows, not the family kind obviously. Drinking, and more drinking. We both got wasted.
I was hungry and bought a roadside item that I thought was chicken. Uh, nope. It was dog leg. Barfed it up on the street. Time to head home. Reagan said he knew a shortcut. OK, let’s go. The shortcut consisted of walking down the street that was to be avoided. Flashes of light were light reflecting off knives. Ahem, ladies for lack of a better term, were lifting their skirts and advertising their wares for 20 pesos, about $5.00. What looked like hair was probably flies. No thanks.
We made it to the base and got on through a hole in the fence. Great security. After that my next memory was of Mamason (sp) beating me with a mop because she needed to clean the toilets. Such toilet occupied by my head in the bowl. I could barely move and crawled to my room and spent the day in misery.
During those times cigarettes and booze were much cheaper on the base as there were no state taxes. Being a federal installation, the state had no jurisdiction. That has since changed. Cigarettes and booze are now taxed on base same as off base. There is a slight price break but not much. The military had a real problem with smoking and alcoholics as the stuff was readily available. There was also the black-market issue where stuff was sold off base for a small profit but still cheaper than the stores.
Smoking was still allowed in the offices. I would come home with my clothes reeking of smoke residue. My wife would make me change clothes as soon as possible. Shirts and pants were washed every day. It was really awful.
I was told it was required to contribute to the coffee fund as everyone in the office drank coffee. I refused saying I was not paying for something I did not use. That was met with some hostility as the body I replaced was a coffee drinker and contributed. Their fund was now costing everyone else more because I refused to contribute.
My boss, a NCO, drank a lot of coffee, or so I thought. What he was really doing was filling his cup half full of coffee, then filling the rest of the cup with a bottle of booze he kept in his desk. I found out this was actually quite common among the staff. It was little wonder their coding sucked at it’s best.
My wife and I have talked about a trip to Alaska. It is on our bucket list. We don’t really know the best time to make the trip. I need more information on that. The mosquitos are advertised as really bad at times of the year. The cold does not interest us as we made a winter trip to Norway.
Only Nexstar outlets have that quote doing a quick check with Google.
I’ll assume “reporters” means KRON staff unless I see it somewhere else.
WRT me and a bankruptcy, just a joke.
Now, I just heard that Pelosi’s head basher is here illegally. Do you think Plugs will restart the wall construction? They said he is Canadian but came in legally from Tijuana; however, he greatly overstayed his return date.
I worked with a gentleman from Alaska once, and asked him that very question. His reply:
”There are two perfect weeks of weather in Alaska every year. They are never the same two weeks…”
Bearings in the old Hunter ceiling fans are going.
I wonder if I should replace the bearings or entire unit? I recall my father replacing bearings, years ago, wasn’t difficult.
Todays task is winterizing the swamp cooler and ductwork. Gah. I hate roof work.
Oof…long day. Eight hours of teaching takes it out of a geezer.
A head count of somewhere around 7500 – and look at how it has exploded in the past year. That’s almost got to be deliberate sabotage by the (ex-) executives.
What do you need to maintain an app, a website and a flock of servers? Guesstimate: a core technical team of under 100. If they have much more than that, they’re doing it wrong.
They need moderators. However, if Musk is going to reduce the censorship, that team is likely oversupplied. Anyway, how many is that? Another couple hundred, maybe…
Management, accounting and standard office functions? Another hundred or two – but a lot less, if they reduce their international offices (see below).
What do the rest of the 7500 do? My best guess is sales and marketing – i.e., selling ads. But really, why does Twitter need physical offices in 14 US cities and 20+ other countries? That smells of big egos, not business sense. I expect that list will be shrinking rapidly…
Good on Musk, cut the cruft.
Selling user information is also in the mix. Marketing that information to other companies.
At a guess, having some experience with northern climates in Europe, I would say very late summer or early fall is likely to be good. But I can’t specifically speak to Alaska.
Jenny?
24 degrees here in Omak, WA. Off to Bridgeport, WA this afternoon for a gig. Back to Vegas tomorrow.
The daughter had her fifth iron infusion this year yesterday. She immediately felt better this time. Her blood iron was down to 6.9. She will have another iron infusion next week.
The wife and her are looking into her getting a hysterectomy to stop the blood loss. Or an ablation. Desperate times require desperate measures.
Wow, rain: 0.01” yesterday, 0.01” today!
If I wanted to live in a swamp I’d move to Houston.
Ruh, Roh:
Pfizer announces two-in-one vaccine for Covid AND flu — which it hopes will boost sluggish uptake for both shots
If at first you don’t succeed…
Yeah Bakersfield didn’t do any better. Chilly however and Tehachapi got snow.
I’ve told The Child not to allow anyone to give her a shot unless I’m there and have inspected the vial. I’m sure this will piss off the family doc who wants to give her the next mumps inoculation, but tough. The medical
professionbusinesssocial engineers have destroyed their credibility with great energy and enthusiasm.“The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter”
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-turmoil-at-twitter
“Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?”
This is what happens at horribly mismanaged businesses that lost half a billion dollar last year.
Why do trolls use the names of things rather than a personal name ?
“Twittoons”
https://twittoons.com/
“Cartoons about life at Twitter”
Somebody fancied himself a new Scott Adams.
Dilbert: Elbonia The Heckhole
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-11-03
Speaking of Scott Adams, he is right again.
Pfizer’s state goal for the mRNA tech was to develop a super flu shot.
The control group must be eliminated.
“The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry”
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/why-is-there-a-drought-in-the-talent-pool-for-c-developers
Huh, maybe I can get one of those vaunted C++ $500,000/year developer jobs even at my age of 62.
Hat tip to:
https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=16845
Yep, very pretty from on top of my roof, where I was covering the swamp cooler.
The hills above Mojave seemed to still be getting a bit.
The control group must be eliminated.
When you say eliminated do you mean eliminated ?
The Chinese in-law who has a knack for landing in upper management at failing tech companies or unerperforming divisions at successful companies just signed on to be “chief product officer” at a big realtor franchiser.
In theory, the guy should be able to code with a UIUC CS diploma, but I doubt he’s ever done that in his career. Right place at the right time consistently even if the companies go under.
By whatever means necessary.
But bear in mind, I can shoot back.
HFT. That requires a certain “moral flexibility” as they say in “Grosse Point Blank”.
Do a search on Indeed for “Hudson River Traders” and see if they have one of their Regis/WeWork temp space offices out near you.
Eliminated as in getting a jab in everyone’s arm by whatever means necessary.
A statistically significant population still exists in the US who have not accepted jabbing, and the likelihood of getting them to accept one now is nil. That creates a problem for Pfizer and Moderna who had plans for the tech beyond Covid.
The guiding principle of the Roberts Court cuts both ways. The drug companies and large employers toeing the Biden line made a foolish political choice of their own and will have to accept the consequences without cover from the Judicial Branch.
I got mine, the fourth one, because of the VA. I have this unfounded fear that the VA would cut my benefits or refuse health care because I was not vaccinated. Would they really do that? They are an arm of the government, and I would expect they would be told to enforce the rule. The government, well actually Sponge Brain with an executive order, made all government workers and companies having contracts with the government get injection. I have no reason to not believe this would trickle down to the VA.
I do know the tech companies making the vaccine made billions of dollars. Also the suppliers to the tech companies. Money just thrown at them by the government.
I have no way to find out the information. I would really like to know how much stock the big political numb nuts, (Pelosi, Schummer, Fauci) had in the biotech companies. Was the stock purchased before the mandates? How much value has the stock gained? I would not be surprised to find those cretins provided insider information to their friends.
I had a twitter account. Never saw any use in having the account. I don’t want to follow anyone, and I don’t want anyone following me. I have better things to do, such as scratch my ass, than get a tweet from some dweeb telling me they managed to finally tie their own shoes. Why twitter became such a thing is beyond my understanding.
When done properly C++ becomes a write only language. People six months later cannot figure out what someone else was trying to accomplish. Many times easier to toss the code and rewrite from scratch. Don’t forget a few buffer overruns and underruns and the ability to self-destroy chunks of itself. Then it becomes C–.
Our goobermint also must stop the “emergency” use of the mecho-gene-splicing faux vaccine. If it really works and saves lives, why does it need to be “emergency” use. It is now time to hold the drug companies responsible, ie opiate payout, for vax harm.
>> Forfend anything terrible should happen to your health to initiate such a trip. However – if you visit Alaska it would be lovely to meet. Rabbit dinner and barking dogs, fresh eggs for breakfast.
Watch out if she wants to show you her new walk-in freezer :O
>> I have no way to find out the information. I would really like to know how much stock the big political numb nuts, (Pelosi, Schummer, Fauci) had in the biotech companies. Was the stock purchased before the mandates? How much value has the stock gained? I would not be surprised to find those cretins provided insider information to their friends.
I’d be surprised if they weren’t sharing that info.
Incorrect; you do. Financial disclosures are publicly available. Here is Fauci’s.
Wife went out this morning, said she had a few errands to run. She just called to say she’s adopted a ten week old Jack Russell Terrier puppy from the county shelter. They are well over capacity and for the first time in quite a while are hinting at some dogs being put down, though that has kicked up adoptions a bit today, so ‘stays’ are likely in order for the moment.
He is awfully cute. Long time since we’ve had a puppy…fun times ahead.
Was up north the past few days visiting my son/family and his brother/family who flew in from NYFC. First time I’ve met my youngest grandson in person (due to travel being cr@p these days – my wife flew last month and picked up RSV).
Great times with four kiddies crawling/running around. My son has a caged-in trampoline in the backyard that he got from a neighbor that had moved and didn’t want to be bothered taking it apart to move it. Highly recommended for anyone with young kids – they routinely exhaust themselves jumping and tumbling.
Made a slight detour on our way out of town yesterday and took a ride in a Waymo driverless taxi. Vehicle was a Chrysler Pacifica minivan. Front seats are cordoned off with a plexiglass divider. Exterior decked out with all the very obvious lidar/radar/camera sensors. App works well, directs you to where the actual pickup will be and allows for walking time as needed. Ride itself was very good, what I think Tony wants to get to “some day” with his FSD. Car kept up well with traffic, made tight turns and easily recognized pedestrians on the sidewalk that at the last minute decided to cross in front of us. Even deftly avoided a trash bin that had been left in the street and certainly not on their maps (although knowledge of them in that neighborhood likely in their AI database). All in all, a bit weird to see the empty driver’s seat with the spinning steering wheel but overall the service/technology was impressive.
Hunter offshored the manufacturing of the Classic almost 20 years ago. The new mechanisms are not the same so parts might be unobtainium outside of EBay or a specialty retailer with a stock in a back room somewhere.
If you aren’t dealing with a Classic and the fan is newer than 20 years old, chances are you will have to simply replace the entire thing.
C++ can be maintained.
However, eventually, most people who work with the language get concerned about how they would measure up in an interview and can’t resist the temptation to get cute with abstraction and templates just for the experience, which end up making the end result write only source code trying to achieve simplification.
I find it ironic that the Trump successors have taken credit for the vaccines’ “success,” so now they can’t blame the vaccines’ failures on him.
Politicians have no issue of saying whatever they want, no matter the actual truth. They will always take all credit for successes and cast blame for all failures.
“If you aren’t dealing with a Classic and the fan is newer than 20 years old, chances are you will have to simply replace the entire thing.”
It probably dates to the late 80’s, when this place was assembled. I will have to check for a plate with info.
And I just put the ladder back into the garage. Gah. Done with winterizing the swamp cooler for this year 🙂
It is remarkable how much quieter it is inside without a 2SF duct leading directly from the the roof….
Ah, the public ledgers versus the private ledgers held in someone else’s name. Pelosi did not acquire a 120-million-dollar net worth on a senator’s salary. According to public information much of her wealth was acquired by “Investments, Real Estate and Politics”. Note the investment portion. She had done significantly better than the average investor. Smarter investor? I highly doubt it. She is using her position to gain insider information.
How much of that stock is held in the name of their significant other? Probably most of it as that avoids disclosure rules. I would really like to see the tax returns of those politicians. If they want the president’s return, theirs, and their significant other, should be made public.
I believe that every congress critter and senate creature should be required by law to disclose their tax returns. I also think that they should be required to dissolve all their investments, without penalty, and be required to put their money in T-Bills.
Last years numbers:
Since last year, she and her husband Paul Pelosi traded over $50 million in assets, with annualized returns at 69 percent as of October, according to an estimate from the Nancy Pelosi Portfolio Tracker. That’s higher than Buffett, George Soros, Cathie Wood, and other star investors of the past.
https://jacobin.com/2021/12/house-speaker-paul-stocks-insider-trading-wealth
@JimB
They weren’t responsible for the production of the vaccines, but they are certainly responsible for covering up the shortcoming, colluding with social media to do so, and using the full weight of the state to crush any opposition.
My suggestion would be to complete the fence with Mexico and string a 5-strand barbed wire fence 50-yards inside using 3″ Sched 80 pipe set in concrete as fence posts. Then we round up the liars and colluders, have a short trial, pith them like frogs (humanely) and wire them to the fence.
We get rid of the traitorous scum and provide any inbound alien invaders with proof that we are just not in the effing mood for any more bullshiite.
@ITGuy1998
Hence Brandon claiming credit for the Social Security check COLA.
@Ray Thompson
After the office is established in January 2025 I will be running for the executive position of the new Water Board of Inquiry. Token salary and a pittance in supplies to get started, but the live cable show will be mandatory.
Mel Gibson returns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z64XvPERZ50
palate cleansers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1LhC1zGouc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ4CqjdJ46c
PGE?
purge gas enemas?
“I smell projection.”
Change your pants. Suck on a Tide pod.
Trolls gotta troll, I gotta hammer.
Where’s the hammer?
Hah, and I just logged in too.
n
Well, that was a parenting fail. Thought the show started at 730. Nope, started at 630… guess I’ll be going to the show tomorrow night too.
What we did see looked better and sounded better than the last one. Didn’t need to put my earpro in.
n
Libs of TikTok compiles the butcher’s bill:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/11/03/libs-of-tiktok-no-fing-way-we-give-covid-amnesty-n507964
@Lynn
Hammers are permitted but we must insist on proper attire.
Libs of TikTok compiles the butcher’s bill:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/11/03/libs-of-tiktok-no-fing-way-we-give-covid-amnesty-n507964
I don’t know if not being able to visit my father-in-law in the nursing home from March of 2020 to September of 2020 hastened his passing but, it sure did not help. He lost the ability to answer his phone at the beginning of that period so we could not talk to him, all my wife, her sister, and his girlfriend could do was wave through the window. We had no idea what he was saying and what he thought since he was essentially blind due to macular degeneration. I doubt he knew who was beating on his window.
My wife figured out how to beat the system though. He was having severe digestive issues and my wife had him moved to the hospital. She and her sister could visit him then since the hospital allowed one visitor with one caretaker so my sister-in-law rode in on a wheelchair. The hospital kept him for a week and sent him back. The nursing home put him in their covid ward then and my sister-in-law could visit which was good as he passed away that night.
This was not right, not right at all that his daughters had to rely on subterfuge to say goodbye to him one last time.
Where’s the hammer?
Moderators get a special menu with Edit, Spam, Trash, and Delete buttons. Act like a jerk and you are spam.
You could see it coming all day. Wait until next Tuesday.
I’ve been listening to the Astros and Phillies games while working. I do have game day going on MLB but it only echos the radio announcer.
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/astros-vs-phillies/2022/11/03/715720#game_state=live,game_tab=,game=715720
I am amazed at the number of fast balls 98 mph and above. I think that they are half of the pitches. And spinning like crazy, usually over 1,000 rpm. The batters have got to be thinking of, if that thing hits me, it may break something.
You could see it coming all day. Wait until next Tuesday.
It got on my last nerve.
One of the weird moments tonight was looking at one of the other parents and seeing the “your terms are acceptable” meme guy standing RIGHT THERE. Guy had the same hair exactly, down to the part and he even had the beard and ‘stashe. His soup strainer wasn’t quite as pointy but DANG, he was even wearing a black shirt. If it was Halloween I would have thought it was a really clever costume.
n
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says/
Elon is floating $8 a month for a Blue Check.
I’ve never had an account, but it might be worth the show of support, if Trump’s account is re-instated, and if the Democrat lie machine is mercilessly and transparently fact-checked.
flashback to previous policies supported by The Atlantic:
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-10-29-atlantic-endorses-mass-sterilization-limited-eugenics-program.html
Hmm, commander zero’s blog is down. wonder how long it’s been? He was up this morning.
n
Big Oil, Small Oil
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/02/big-oil-small-oil/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-building-a-raptor-engine-a-day-nasa-says/
“I was just reading about Raptor 2 engine development yesterday. Seems like the ethos of “the best part is no part” is helping with the manufacturing cadence. Visually stunning how much was stripped down between Raptor 1 and 2.”
https://everydayastronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Side-By-Side-1536×864.png
WOW !
drwilliams:
It won’t be. Musk is, for now, keeping all the left-wing “Trust and Safety” people who drove Twitter down.
At Chateau Nick…
https://www.facebook.com/100044368121962/posts/pfbid0to5vSFqNngw5KnHCHPWt6Ag3hAV3sdYARWLGe8yUvys62kTaiTvkAmCYqsA5DEpTl/
Ah, I will try to post a pic of my big night. I need to make sure there aren’t any other pics online from someone posting their own shots, in a way that is identifiable.
I’m sorta hoping there are a bunch of “look at the cool thing my neighbor did” posts on the socials, but then again, I’m kinda hoping not…
n
The commander is back up. Glad it was temporary.
n