Hot and sunny today. Or not, but probably hot. Was plenty hot yesterday. Started mild, but then someone dumped on the hot and we were 102F in the shade before I left Houston. Humidity was high too.
Did my pickups. Loaded the truck. Didn’t get to my client’s place. Hit the road and got up here just before full dark.
Today should be doing smaller tasks in between organizing and moving stuff. There is still a lot to put away. And I’m going to get some fishing in. My fishing buddy had a birthday, so I might not see him today as he has plans. I got him some worms… (he’s the king of bass fishing with fake worms, won his virtual tournament!) don’t know if he’ll like them, but they are sparkly.
I brought 6 buckets up here with me. Some were a bit crunchy from UV exposure. One gamma seal lid cracked. Cool dark place. COOL. DARK. If you want it to last.
Of course spoilage is the reason to stack extra. You are stacking extra, right?
nick
First post.
I flew all the way to Austria to be able to consistently be the first.
Nothing to say, it was all in the post yesterday for you, today for me. Time change is so confusing.
The ketchup widow’s himbo. Another pol with Daddy issues.
Ok, I’ve seen this meme several places in the last few days in fringe sources, but Googling around doesn’t turn up any proof.
Nikki Haley is an heir to Waffle House money?
Former waitress, maybe. I see mainstream commenters alluding to that.
@RickH posted last night:
At face value that’s $10,000, but it could be much more. Approximately 5,000-6,600 lbs, depending.
Depends on the age of the pennies. Pre-1982 pennies were 95% copper, so their melt value (it’s illegal to melt them in the U.S.) is currently about 2.5X based on the price of copper.
I would sample 1000 and see if the date distribution made sorting them worthwhile. The newer pennies are primarily zinc and about 20% lighter, so machine sorting is easy.
Depending on the age of the hoard, it might be worthwhile to screen them further. In addition to real rarities (remember the blue Whitman folder with the 1909-S-VDB punch out?), San Francisco mint marks, wheat pennies, steel pennies (I’m older enough to have seen these “in the wild’ on occasion) and the WWII shell casing pennies and many others are worth filtering out.
The real surprise might be in the post-1982 pennies. There is a collector class called “FIDO” (freaks irregulars, defects and oddities) that has greatly expanded with the high production rates and lower inspection of modern coins. 1999 pennies were a good example. Double-struck coins can be obvious or subtle, but both are discernible to the naked eye. The difference between small and large mint marks, whether a number is normal or high/low is a learning process.
Sorting by weight and screening for possible steel cents is easy. I have no doubt that there are operations investing in melt value of copper coins that use machine vision to sort for the more valuable pennies.
https://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/valuable-pennies/?expand_article=1
In case you missed it this week , the NYT published an article about “masks” and wildfire smoke protection that inadvertently but completely gutted the kungflu masking advice:
NYT: those masks that supposedly worked against COVID…they fail against even smoke particles
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/08/nyt-those-masks-that-supposedly-worked-against-covid-they-fail-against-even-smoke-particles-n556464
The extent, duration, and smoke volume of the Canadian wildfires is due in large part to the stupidity of “environmentalists”.
I thought about setting a new meme loose on the internet this week:
“50 years of advances in reducing automobile pollution undone by 2 weeks of Canadian wildfires.”
I’m here!
Spent an hour and a half drinking coffee and sitting in the shade with the wife looking at the lake. It’s windy as Oklahoma here and swirling. Skies are blue for now but we’re in an “enhanced” storm warning area. 87F in the breeze and the humidity is the same or higher- haven’t looked but I was sweating sitting in a chair.
Lots of folks up for the weekend. My immediate neighbor has people up and is out on his boat. Lots of boats just messing around, or fishing. Wind is blowing them all over….
I should get busy with something…….
n
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/06/09/toronto-blue-jays-designate-pitcher-anthony-bass-listed-for-assignment-after-groveling-apology-n556872
“There are two kinds of mistakes: Those you can fix, and those you can’t.”
–Wesley Cole, Lethal Weapon, Season 3
You can choose to express your opinions or not. But if you express your opinions and try to recant them later, it not only does nothing to fix the situation, it compromises you. You know it, and so does everyone else.
The proper response would have been: “No, I’m not going to apologize. I expressed a personal opinion. Whether that is in line with opinions held by a majority of people, a large plurality, or a minority is not relevant. I did not give up my rights to personal opinions when I went to work for an organization. If that organization chooses to embrace viewpoints they do not speak for me and I will not be inhibited in disagreeing. We have a contract that covers my services as a baseball pitcher. I suggest that we follow the contract as it was written and understood by both parties. If you attempt to get creative in interpreting that contract to include controlling my opinions or the expression thereof, that is a problem because I did not understand that to be included as part of pitching or the requirement of good behavior*. If that is the case then my position is that the contract was not reached after a meeting of the minds and is therefore null and void. ”
*There’s usually such.
Yeah, I’d run it by my attorney, and have him present at any meeting/re-education session.
It took six years to get one deranged dirtbag off the streets of San Francisco
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/06/09/it-took-six-years-to-get-one-deranged-dirtbag-off-the-streets-of-san-francisco-n556974
“Hobbs made the news when a woman he grabbed on the street in Dec. 2020 turned out to be a 15-year-old girl.”
…who called 911 after fatally shooting him in self-defense.
or
…an angry mob gathered and Hobbs was stomped into the sidewalk. He’s now 5’4 and weight 115 pounds after seven reconstructive surgeries.
The sports press is really left wing, and the Toronto Blue Jays are owned by Rogers, one of the big Canadian media companies.
Plus, the previous ownership, Labatt’s, is now part of the InBev consortium, and I don’t doubt there is still a sponsorship arragnement at a minimum.
Baseball in Canada has always struggled financially.
BTW, on the Trump federal indictment. Scott Adams says that none of the things that they have been charged Trump with can be disclosed to the public. Convenient, very convenient.
Trump can still run from prison but it would make fundraising tough.
Impeachment would be the only way to keep him from running, but, the minute a vote gets scheduled, McCarthy would face an immediate motion to vacate the chair from Gaetz, who wants to be Florida Governor after DeSantis.
Biden stands a better chance of the House voting to impeach him than the Orange Man does right now.
Heck, Trump running from prison would play extremely well in The Villages, and that’s the power center in Florida politics for at least the next decade.
follow-up on penny sorting:
I looked at some machines that sort pennies and found one
Ryedale Apprentice Coin Sorter (300 coins per minute.)
that will sort other coins as well, but also uses a different approach. It requires that a sample “ok” coin be placed in a slot where it is read by detecting coils. The coins that match fall through, and the non-matching coins are diverted. At $700 it is spendy and off-hand I didn’t see any tests for how sensitive it is, but it could be used for other coins, one example of which would be the long-anticipated switch to steel for nickels.
I looked at one video (no link, it was poor and the machine was used) that found 20% pre-1982 pennies in a box of 2500. If the 1,000,000 penny hoard had the same ratio it would be expected to have 200,000 pre-1982 pennies and those $2,000 face-value pennies would have a melt value of about $5,000, bringing the overall value from $10,000 to $13,000.
At 300 coins per minute, 1,000,000 coins would take 3333 minutes or 55.6 hours. Purchasing a machine for $700 off the top, that $3,000 as a copper melt value premium would be worth $41.82 per hour to process.
My guess is that this particular hoard was at minimum started when the ratio was higher than 20% and may in fact be the result of sorting to get all pre-1982 pennies.
I came across this story about a 1.3 million penny hoard:
https://money.cnn.com/2005/06/23/news/funny/pennies/
Noodling with the math, the million pennies sounds like a lot, but it’s 3.5 tons and fits in three 55-gallon drums. If you processed $10.00 (1000 pennies) per evening six days a week it would take you a bit over three years. I’d try a two-step process: sort by date, then review each year for valuable coins.
I have always wondered why there is no MLB team in Mexico City, or Brazil?
Seems like it would be a slam dunk audience and fan-wise, given how many players are from south of the border.
When I worked at the bank I saw their quarter processing operation. The bank had the contract to process the coins from the Bellsouth pay phone system in a large chunk of the Southwest. I was told, if memory serves me correctly, the bank processed over a million quarters a week. The bulk of the coins were quarters. Several machines to count and wrap.
And a few electric fork lifts to move the stuff around. All the coins neatly boxed and packed on a pallet. I have no idea how much was on the pallet or how much the pallet weighed.
The money was credited to the Bellsouth account and the coins shipped off to some federal reserve bank. Armored cars full of coins, mostly quarters.
Tomorrow we off early in the morning for us, really late at night for you chaps. Stu would be watching the end of the late show. A 4.5 hour train ride from Vienna to Prague.
They wouldn’t be allowed to sell drugs in the stadium.
Bell Labs designed the current clad composition US quarter to meet specific elecromagnetic specifications for payphones when the opportunity came up in the 60s.
I’ve read good things about Bravecto Chewables. It’s for fleas and ticks. There are two variants. One is good for a month and the other is good for three months. How /that/ works is not explained. Priced accordingly, too.
The monthly version generally costs a few bucks less. Pricing is all over the place. Given how Penny was with taking Trifexis, I’m going with the $23 per dog monthly dose versus the $78 per dog three month dose.
I just need to break the cycle of fleas.
So I made an account at the Vet’s website and added to my cart and WTH, I can’t enter by typing or pasting my CC number. I turned off AdBlock Plus and same thing. I did leave a complaint but it’s Saturday and they close at 1PM. Lovely site, your password has to be 15 characters. To order critter meds. pennypenny11111 works. ←- that’s not my password. Whatever.
I went to Walmart Pet Rx. They also offer the monthly dose. No crazy stuff with passwords or the CC card. $46 for a dose for each dog. With auto renew. You have to fill out your dog;s name and weight and breed and age and who’s the vet. Pretty easy. The order processed but they have to contact the vet before it goes through.
Now I wait.
I went to Hoover’s for a canister of Sevin dust. It’s not carboyl or whatever any more. Smells different. I’ve dusted the dogs down with their poisoned talcum powder and it is so far working nicely.
Tomorrow I vacuum the house for surviving fleas. Plus more Sevin on the dogs.
I might wash the truck. It’s sort of yellow with pollen instead of Jap Car White. Might not, too.
“Bell Labs designed the current clad composition US quarter to meet specific elecromagnetic specifications for payphones when the opportunity came up in the 60s.”
The Metals Division of Texas Instruments produced the clad feedstock for the mint. Had some bonding failures that made it through and out the doors, resulting in some of the most spectacular FIDO’s that collectors have ever seen.
There was a cover story in Coinage Magazine 1966 or so.
>> My immediate neighbor has people up and is out on his boat. Lots of boats just messing around, or fishing. Wind is blowing them all over….
I should get busy with something…….
Uhh, yeah, like boat shopping?
>> I did not give up my rights to personal opinions when I went to work for an organization.
I suspect the contract he signed has a well-crafted morals clause that can be enforced based upon the impact of his personal opinion on his employer.
“…a well-crafted morals clause that can be enforced based upon the impact of his personal opinion on his employer”
Which can be interpreted to be anything.
No meeting of the minds.
G’bye.
Or, as we used to say: Shovito.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLJAIQZv_Y
If you allow them to make you something you are not, you are less.
Oh no.
No, no, no, no no….
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/6%2010%2023%20br0ught.jpg
Are the Canadian fires an act of eco-terrorism?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/are_the_canadian_fires_an_act_of_ecoterrorism.html
“Column: Looming European Energy Crisis: A Lesson in Averages that Won’t Soon be Forgotten”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/10/column-looming-european-energy-crisis-a-lesson-in-averages-that-wont-soon-be-forgotten-2/
“Before getting back to death and/or politics again (redundancy, I know), let’s think about the use of averages. A car may be designed for the average – one doesn’t find the tallest person on earth and design an interior to accommodate them. The exceptions get to either bang their shins or dangle their feet, but that’s the way it has to be.”
“In other areas, it can’t work that way. Do you insulate your house for average conditions? No, of course not. Do you install an air conditioner for average conditions? Same. And on it goes. When the risk of harm goes up, we design for the extremes, not the averages. Or we should.”
“A whole world of trouble will come your way if your plans are built on averages but you cannot live with the extremes. Or even with substantial variations. Europe, and other progressive energy parts of the world, are finding this out the hard way.”
There is a lot of difference between the average and the extreme. Some 20 F (10 C) in both directions. A lot of tough problems happen with power generation equipment, water pumps, natural gas compressors, and a few other things very important to polite society. Impolite society also. Cold is cold, hot is hot. We like our interiors to be 65 F to 75 F. We like our fresh water to flow. And we like our sewage to flow in the proper direction also.
@Lynn – I’m heading to Dallas tomorrow to get autographs for my “Clerks II” poster.
I ran the movie tonight so I don’t look like an idiot in front of Rosario Dawson if she drops a reference.
I realized tonight that she’s the reason I have the term “cr*p shack” in my vocabulary.
I also forgot what an amazing soundtrack Smith assembled for that flick. You must have at least made it through the Talking Heads opening track.
David Byrne, Michael Jackson, and Bert Bacharach. Take that Mike Myers. 🙂
Ok, Myers wins with the 27 year gestation “Bohemian Rhapsody” joke.
We would also like to avoid beating our clothes on rocks to get them clean.
WELLLLLLLLL..
That was fun. Big storm did affect us after all. We got scattered showers throughout the day, but in the evening the storm finally got here. Really spectacular lightning. Lost power for almost three hours. Might have lost the dishwasher. It’s throwing error codes that don’t make sense and won’t clear. Temp dropped to 67F. I might get a fire tonight after all.
It was so humid I’m still damp.
Oh, and learned that I don’t have enough emergency lighting up here. We used CANDLES. (and an oil lamp, LED FLASHLIGHTS, and a propane Coleman lantern.) I would like some more LED lanterns though.
I brought three batteries up this trip, and they were on the charger being reconditioned when the lights went out. No inverter power for me. They did finish when power was restored. I’ll add another inverter to the stack…
n
Try cycling the power at the breaker for the dishwasher. I saved my landlord in WA State about $3000 with that procedure to reset his refrigerator after the appliance guy gave up and left for the day with the icemaker still not running after a swap out.
(I still got zinged $700 against the deposit for questionable charges when we checked out.)
Texas code requires a wall switch on the dishwashers. If you get a lot of storms, turn off the switch when you’re gone. It won’t help in a direct strike, but even the whole house surge protection is useless in that scenario.
Tried turning the switch off, and back on. Still the same errors. I’ll poke it it more later, but it got funky during an electrical storm with a power outage. I know we got surged at some point, the lights got brighter…
n
Well, crapola, that was a nasty surprise on the train. Turns out the German rail pass does not work on the train from Vienna to Prague. Salzburg to Prague, no problem. We even had one of the exchange students in Germany contact DB to see if the ticket was valid. DB said yes. So we got stuck with a $310.00 train ticket purchase. Grrrrr.
I also found out that many places will provide the option of US dollars or Euros when purchasing. What they don’t tell you is that using US dollars they will charge an exchange rate of 3.5%. Another nasty surprise. Now we will force all purchases to be in Euros as there is no exchange rate for the credit card.
Two lessons learned in one, both costing us money. Grrrrr.
Breaker or switch?
If you just hit the switch, that may not make a difference.
When my landlord’s appliance guy gave up, not wanting to wait another week for ice, I hit YouTube and found the solution. Turning the breaker off allowed one key capacitor to drain to ground.