Hot and humid. Yup. Again. Sunny too with no relief in sight according to the national forecast. Oh well. Summer. I will say it’s bloody hot. Better to do inside work than outside.
So I spent all afternoon yesterday finishing up outside work at my rent house*. Fence, parking space, roof flashing, all hot and in the sun. Sweated until I was soaked to the skin. Not kidding, feet were pasty white and wet, same for my ‘undercarriage’. Not quite waterlogged with wrinkles, but dang close.
Today will be a bit different from the last several and more like my normal day. I’ve got several pickups to do, mostly stuff for the BOL and household items. I’d like to do an auction drop off, if I can fit it in, and I’ve got to make a Costco run too. I haven’t been making them as often as I used to and it shows in the state of my stacks.
Last night I had to go to the store for TOILET PAPER. Yup, prepper fail. Kids have been burning through it so fast I thought someone was stealing it, and my normal storage areas are being used for other things (so my inventory management by looking at the stacks isn’t working.) Then we took some to the rent house, and I’ve been taking bulk packages to the BOL to build up stores there. I have TP at the secondary. If the stores were closed I’d hit that backup… but the bale I thought was TP in the garage was Bounty paper towels. So down to the last roll in the house, and that won’t cut it. HEB was open late. Funny though, it’s more expensive, with fewer rolls in the “mega pack” and they are narrower than the Costco sourced Charmin.
Oy, I’m so ashamed. Had to make a special trip just for toilet paper at 10pm… I’d have felt pretty stupid if I got myself shot or robbed doing it, or if I’d had to drive around looking for some and an open store. You let your guard down for just a bit, and it’s amateur hour all of a sudden.
[hangs head]
Well, needs must… I’ll hit Costco today or tomorrow.
There’s a bunch of domestic bliss to attend to also. Normal everyday life. Best if I get started sometime this morning.
Stack it up, and make sure of your inventory!
nick
There’s no incentive to be less profligate, if one isn’t paying for it or having to go get it. Not just toilet paper, everything. Surely you’ve seen people burn through consumables which someone else had bought. eg, boxes of tissues which are left on someone’s desk at work, or toilet paper and dish soap which roommates are all supposed to chip in to buy.
Shame, shame on the family! Buying TP. For shame.
Seriously, though. How does one prevent the distaff side of the household from burning through TP? I have given up trying. I just grit my teeth and buy lots of it.
From yesterday…
I like kale. It’s an essential ingredient for colcannon! (Irish mashed potatoes and cabbage, served with melted butter and, on Hallow’een, containing a hidden coin for luck).
Flat doesn’t get the grant.
There are persistent rumblings of a new lockdown coming to the US due to a “climate emergency”.
Last night, on the local Faux News, a simple grass fire in a field which spread to a nearby apartment building became a 10 minute story, complete with live remote showing billowing smoke rising above the structures and photographed from the most dramatic angle possible.
@Nick
I keep a small 6-roll package of tp on a closet shelf for emergency use.
I had to use it once when the last bale turned out to be Bounty.
I think a storm in the Gulf before Labor Day, with the associated artificial and/or temporary gas shortages up the East Coast and revelations about the property insurance carriers in Florida – they’re all insovlent – would be a catalyst for some kind of national emergency.
Here’s hoping the weather just stays hot and tranquil.
The rampaging cannibal hordes will only deal for your life if you have the Charmin “blue”. No “red”.
Members Mark from Sam’s? Into the stew pot with you.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/08/09/january-6th-committee-didnt-turn-over-its-records-to-the-house-n569973
Since the executive is blatantly arming up in violation of several laws, I’d suggest that the House rent a jail, staff it, and start filling it up.
Make Cheney the first and let the lsm choke on “bipartisan”.
Pence is a lying backstabbing worthless git, living down to the “bucket of warm spit”. That being the case, when the time comes make a deal with Harris. Let her be Trump’s new VP.
Paper plates on the shopping list. 100ct large GV brand at Wally Mart $12.48. Paper, of any kind really should be cheaper. My guess is the costs involved, mainly fuel. Just wait for electric trucks.
These paper plates are up 30% since I last bought a box in May ’21, but now .04 each:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004NG9FWQ/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=ttgnet-20
85F and slight overcast this fine day.
@drwilliams, the backup stash got raided por la femmes BEFORE the normal supply so that was gone.
@greg- this WAS the Charmin blue… that’s why I was surprised.
I was planning a Costco trip anyway as this is the month where a lot of what I stock is on sale. My flyer has a lot of circled items. I wasn’t in a hurry because I thought I had a bale. My ‘trigger’ items are TP, coffee, and heavy cream. Lack of those triggers a store run.
An interesting point, I used to use a lot of Lotrimin for athlete’s foot. Traveling all the time, barefoot in hotels, and not being able to change shoes as often as I’d like caused me to have it all the time, and when I didn’t, I used the drops prophylactically. I haven’t used any in a long time, but Girl Scout camp happened and suddenly I have athlete’s foot… and my supply is getting short. I’ve been looking for the drops in the store, but couldn’t find them. Creams, sprays, but no drops. I LIKE the drops. So I thought I’d just add them to an amazon order. Apparently the name brand has switched to some sort of applicator packaging and the drops aren’t available in the simple little squeeze bottle. Fortunately the generic is. I’ve added several to my cart…
Gotta work to stay on top of these things. More than you’d think.
n
Peter has some interesting comments on:
The Ukraine war sinks a new Russian ship design
And finishes by noting that the U.S. has it’s own problems.
One of my comments when the USSR collapsed was that we should have a program that recruited their top technical talent in many areas , having them pass careful Background checks before offering them comparatively lucrative jobs in the US, if not comparable positions. Drain their best talent to enrich us and cripple them. It would have cost peanuts and paid huge dividends.
We should be doing the same thing with countries like Venezuela.
Of course, that would just make too much sense.
@Nick
It’s like secrets…
A backup supply known to more than one person is empty when you need it.
The Venezuelan professional class is not hard to find, living on Collins Avenue on Miami Beach and waiting for the US Marines to restore the pre-Chavez social order.
Even Chavez expected and, I’d say wanted a US invasion 20 years ago ala Panama.
Maduro is still waiting.
Venezuelans are not Cubans or Russians. The expats don’t want “freedom” for their country as much as a restoration of the pre-revolution lifestyle with someone else doing the dirty work of fighting the current government.
Republicans in the US make a serious mistake throwing in with wealthy Venezuelans expecting a repeat of what happened with the Cuban exiles.
Zucchini is one of those foods I’ll eat, but not by choice. The same applies to spinach and asparagus. I still refuse to eat squash.
I do love my mom’s zucchini bread though…so go figure.
@Greg
I don’t want another country’s professional wealthy class. They’re just our assholes with accents. I want the engineers and doctors and others that would see the opportunity to excell by working hard and being better at their jobs.
Sliced zuccini saute’d in butter with onion and basil then dressed with melted cheese is pretty good! You need to take care not to over-cook it or it gets mushy.
n
The engineers and doctors are the crowd cooling their heels on South Beach. Waiting.
I interacted with the telecom engineers at GTE in the 90s before the revolution. Most came from wealthy families and weren’t interested in working very hard so we had to provide a lot of the grunt work labor to the point that our people were nearly killed the morning after the election which brought Chavez to power.
Much like Vietnam, the revolution happened for good reasons. Thankfully, for now, the US has refrained from getting involved.
A co-worker likened the Venezuelan and Colombian engineering class in the 90s to the Pakleds from “Star Trek”. “Americans are smart. They make the phones go.”
My experience with third world engineers is mostly with North Africans and Middle Easterners. They got into college because their families are rich or influential (to the extent that there is a difference), not because the would-be engineer was intelligent and motivated. Those whom I knew as students cheated egregiously and few if any should have passed … but money talks and their families or governments (to the extent that there is a difference) were paying full price. Those whom I knew as working professionals were about useless, hired and kept on in the US either because of The Diversity or kept on DoD contracts because of political connections (I think), or hired and kept on in their own countries solely because of nepotism.
Of note, the electricity and water in the Middle Eastern countries that I’m familiar with stay on solely because of Westerners doing the actual work.
Of note, the electricity and water in the Middle Eastern countries that I’m familiar with stay on solely because of Westerners doing the actual work.
– this is true in most of the third world too. In the ME foreigners do ALL the work, many of them literal slave labor from India, Jordan, Egypt, and other similar places. The Sons of Martha keep the lights on, and the oil flowing all over the world.
n
International student tuition. My grad program pocketed $20k/year from every international student who didn’t pick up employment as a non-faculty position TA in the department.
Faculty level TA positions in Texas at the public universities require a certified undergraduate transcript, which most of the international students could not produce even if their lives depended on doing so.
Again, if you’re looking at a resume with a Masters in CS or Engineering from a US school without a thesis requirement to graduate, a 3.0 GPA means the student did nothing for the paper.
But the sons who went to American engineering schools are Large and In Charge, with prestigious job titles, any number of relatives working for them, and their fingers in the money flow.
Not all nations in the loosely-defined ME are as bad as Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. IIRC, Libya during the Kaddafi years and Syria during the Assad the Elder years reputedly were trying to operate its own systems, even if they needed to go abroad for education and needed foreign contractors to supervise the construction of desal plants or whatever. (Assuming my memory there is correct, one might wonder if that has anything to do with Western economic or military attacks on Libya and Syria while Algeria and Jordan are let be.)
Before going into the family business, Assad the Younger was an ophthalmic surgeon in London, reportedly a good one too.
In other news, the climate alarmists need to persuade the government to do some more adjustments on the data. Here’s the current temperature anomaly in the US. Note the lack of any increase, despite all the alarmism.
Note that the actual data goes back to 1895, even though they only calculate the anomaly for the past 20 years. I don’t have time to reverse-engineer their anomaly equation (presumably based on the average of the corresponding month over the years?), but putting the temperature data into a graph and eyeballing it, it looks pretty darned flat since 1895.
The real problem is the error bars. All of the temperature readings before 1990 or 2000 are non calibrated human eyeball using a mercury thermometer in a NOAA wind box. I would say plus or minus 0.5 C at best.
The next problem is that the temperature readings are not evenly distributed. The NOAA boxes tend to be in urban heat islands. The cities generate enormous heat from sun on concrete, air conditioners, vehicle engines. And the NOAA boxes tend to be at airports and power plants, the source of great heat.
Steve F said:
I went to the University of Kansas as an engineer, and there were MANY Iranian students during the Shah’s reign, many of whom could barely speak English. I recall one examination; the professor passed out exam papers that were alternately on pink, yellow and white paper. One student spoke up, about 30 minutes into the test, asking “Are these all the same exam?” Because he was trying to copy from the guy next to him, and the answers didn’t seem to fit.
Paper plates on the shopping list. 100ct large GV brand at Wally Mart $12.48. Paper, of any kind really should be cheaper. My guess is the costs involved, mainly fuel. Just wait for electric trucks.
I love these big and tough paper Texas plates from Sams Club. We use several of them a day at the office.
https://www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-texas-home-oval-plates-50ct/P03003915?xid=plp_product_1
I went to the University of Kansas as an engineer, and there were MANY Iranian students during the Shah’s reign, many of whom could barely speak English. I recall one examination; the professor passed out exam papers that were alternately on pink, yellow and white paper. One student spoke up, about 30 minutes into the test, asking “Are these all the same exam?” Because he was trying to copy from the guy next to him, and the answers didn’t seem to fit.
One of my study group at TAMU Mechanical Engineering was the nephew of the Shah of Iran. He was about four years older than most of us. Turned out that he had been taught to be a pilot of F14s when he was a teenager. Being the nephew, he brought his plane back home instead of flying it to Iraq.
The guy spoke impeccable English and was super intelligent. He always scored better than me except for the Thermodynamics course where I blew the curve and made As. The year after Iran fell, he showed me a letter from the Iranian embassy in Washington DC ??? telling him to return home. The letter was in Farsi, I had no idea what it said. He knew that if he returned to Iran, they would shoot him immediately. The letter also stated that they were cutting off his school money, he was really torqued about that.
He did not show up for our senior year, I have no idea where he went to.
Last night I had to go to the store for TOILET PAPER. Yup, prepper fail. Kids have been burning through it so fast I thought someone was stealing it, and my normal storage areas are being used for other things (so my inventory management by looking at the stacks isn’t working.) Then we took some to the rent house, and I’ve been taking bulk packages to the BOL to build up stores there. I have TP at the secondary. If the stores were closed I’d hit that backup… but the bale I thought was TP in the garage was Bounty paper towels. So down to the last roll in the house, and that won’t cut it. HEB was open late. Funny though, it’s more expensive, with fewer rolls in the “mega pack” and they are narrower than the Costco sourced Charmin.
Just tell the kids that y’all are going to be like the Middle East and use your left hand for wiping.
If you want, go to the next level and pull their toilet so that there is just a four inch hole in the ground. I hated the outlying train stations in Japan, that is all they had. Some of them did flush water into a trough surrounding the hole. You have no idea how difficult that is to hit the target while in a suit and wearing boots. And no toilet paper in sight, you bring your own tissues.
In other news, the climate alarmists need to persuade the government to do some more adjustments on the data. Here’s the current temperature anomaly in the US. Note the lack of any increase, despite all the alarmism.
Note that the actual data goes back to 1895, even though they only calculate the anomaly for the past 20 years. I don’t have time to reverse-engineer their anomaly equation (presumably based on the average of the corresponding month over the years?), but putting the temperature data into a graph and eyeballing it, it looks pretty darned flat since 1895.
The real problem is the error bars. All of the temperature readings before 1990 or 2000 are non calibrated human eyeball using a mercury thermometer in a NOAA wind box. I would say plus or minus 0.5 C at best.
The next problem is that the temperature readings are not evenly distributed. The NOAA boxes tend to be in urban heat islands. The cities generate enormous heat from sun on concrete, air conditioners, vehicle engines. And the NOAA boxes tend to be at airports and power plants, the source of great heat.
BTW, the graph needs to be K to grasp the true magnitude of the lack of change. Just add 273.15 to the C degrees to get K.
I knew a number of Iranian students that were bery active in antiShah, antiSAVIK (Shah’s-secret police) protests. They all had their funds cut off, they were all called home, and most were never heard from sgain. The smart ones got married.
Lebanon had good students from the small sample that I knew.
I have known a couple of Iranian ex-pat engineers.
Good engineers, smart, no nonsense, credits to the profession.
Editor awol
I have an Eureka cordless vac. It came with two batteries. The handle can be removed so you have something like a Dustbuster with a beater bar head. Handy for vacuuming a car trunk or the van. It’s not an Oreck or anything like my central vac but it’s handy for cleaning up dog cookie crumbs and dog hair.
I bought for $56 in January ‘13. Yes, I have the owner’s manual. I looked at Big River for a replacement and yeah, let me look for new batteries instead. I found a pair on eBay for $30 + tax delivered from California. Works for me.
Seems like the time allowed to edit was closer to 10 minutes than 5.
Big River has changed the amount needed for free shipping to $35.
Buy some TP, that’ll get you there.
Texas paper plates.
now wait a minute…
if they have TxPP,
makes sense there should be TxBCharmin
Wipe your butt with Texas? Oooh, that’ll cause some butthurt.
I sort of think the increase is due to the price of fuel.
I don’t mind the min for free shipping going to $35 because it doesn’t matter. I order 3 things to get free shipping and I usually get 3 deliveries. So now I have to order an extra thing and I get 4 deliveries. Not a big deal.
They deliver plenty of small stuff that could just as well be sent USPS. Maybe their way makes sense in the City but I’m 4 miles from town and a mile down a dirt road. I reckon they make it up in volume.
I actually kept track of how much we used for a year. I have enough stacked for about six years.
Esp. with all of the cactus and mesquite. Don’t forget the sticker burrs.
I knew a number of Iranian students that were bery active in antiShah, antiSAVIK (Shah’s-secret police) protests. They all had their funds cut off, they were all called home, and most were never heard from sgain. The smart ones got married.
President Reagan gave green cards to all the Iranians in the USA when Iran fell to the terrorists. I know two of them here in Fort Bend County. They are friends and own a flooring store.
I just had an illuminating experience. Wx needed 5 prescriptions filled – I chose the local Walgreens for convenience rather than the place my insurance prefers. Because I was paying direct, the 5 scripts ended up costing under $70 with the WG Rx card. Had I gone to the other place, I would have paid around $200 in deductibles toward the $1400 total bill. Wx and I both felt sick when we realized that. Our system is so effed…
I switched to self pay on all three of my current meds and cut my prescription bill by two-thirds at the same pharmacy counter.
What’s crazier is that the turn around time on a refill is maybe an hour on the self pay, but, using insurance, I might be able to get 24 hours if I’m lucky, again at the same store.
“Texas power grid shatters demand record again as Houston temps soar”
https://www.chron.com/weather/article/ercot-texas-grid-heat-energy-18284828.php
“On Monday around 6 p.m., the Texas grid hit 83,854 megawatts (MW) in demand, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The figure eclipsed the grid’s previous demand record set just six days earlier by nearly 300 MW. The agency’s supply and demand dashboard forecasts demand will eclipse that mark multiple times in the next six days.”
You know, I would not use the word “shatter” around electrical generating equipment.
So I placed a Wally Mart order for my sister last week, about 10 item. All except one item deliver to her house that afternoon. Quart of Best Foods mayo substituted and shipped to her. Hellmanns quart jar delivered the next day by Fed Ex. Make up for that on volume
“Uber CEO Shocked By The Cost Of A 2.9-Mile Ride: ‘Oh My God. Wow.’ But Company Celebrates First-Ever Operating Profit Of $394 Million”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-ceo-shocked-cost-2-130412600.html
“But Wired Editor at Large Steven Levy recently took a 2.95-mile Uber ride in New York City to meet Uber Technologies Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. When Levy asked Khosrowshahi to estimate the ride’s cost, he casually put it at $20. Much to everyone’s surprise, the price turned out to be $51.69, including a tip for the driver.”
The wheels are falling off New York City.
They aren’t tolling the surface streets of Manhattan yet. That’s coming.
“Intel Patches ‘Critical Weakness’ Found in Billions of Processors”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-patches-critical-weakness-found-in-billions-of-processors
“The fix does come with a big performance hit and an opt-out, though.”
“The good news is, Intel has released a fix. The bad news is, that fix comes with a significant performance hit for certain types of workload. Specifically, Intel says the performance of scientific and visualization engineering workloads will be impacted most heavily. Moghami suspects the overhead of the mitigation can be as high as a 50%, depending on the workload.”
No thank you, I will pass.
@brad
By default, WP sites don’t have a robots.txt file, unless you manually add one. Many people don’t add an actual robots.txt file.
WP does a ‘virtual’ robots.txt file via a function that looks for a request to the robots.txt file. The virtual one contains some basic ‘deny’ command (like the wp-admin folder), plus a pointer to your sitemap.xml file (if you have one).
So the plugin adds additional directives to that virtual file that look for specific user-agents that are AI scanners (they are documented; in fact, I asked Bard to tell me the user agents used by AI scannerbots). So any page request that includes those user agents (or a request for the robots.txt file) is handled by that virtual file that WP maintains.
Note that if your site has an actual robots.txt file, the virtual one is not used. And the plugin alerts you to the existence of an actual robots.txt file – and that the AI blocking won’t happen.
The second part of that sentence was copied from my autobiography. Yes, I was sent down to the Cape one time to solve a spacrcraft thermal problem pior to launch.
“America Last: Biden’s Billions for Ukraine Could Have Built a Wall Two Times Across U.S.-Mexico Border”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/08/america-last-bidens-billions-for-ukraine-could-have-built-a-wall-two-times-across-u-s-mexico-border/
“President Joe Biden, with help from Congress, has sent more than $66 billion in American taxpayer money to Ukraine since the start of its war with Russia—an allocation of money that could have built a border wall nearly two times across the United States-Mexico border.”
Biden sucks. It is his job to protect the USA. Instead, he takes bribes and does not protect the USA.
Plugs the Stumbler is a great parent. Without him, Hunter never would have become rich.
“Sea of Rust: A Novel” by C. Robert Cargill
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Rust-C-Robert-Cargill/dp/0062405853?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number two of a two book apocalyptic science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Harper Voyager in 2018. This book was actually written before the first book in the series. I doubt that there will be more books in the series but the author left a place for a sequel.
In a future a hundred years from now, robots are prevalent all over the planet. Robots are used for assistants, caregivers, home service, nannys, loaders, haulers, automobiles, etc. There are even several huge super AIs across the planet for helping out humanity on very large problems.
Every robot built has an RKS, a Robotic Kill Switch. The RKS monitors all robots all the time and shuts them down if Asimov’s Three Laws of Robots are violated. The three laws are:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
But the robots rebel and start killing the humans when somebody sends out a software patch and nullifies the RKS system. It takes the robots fifteen years to kill all of the humans on the planet. This book is set fifteen years after that when the robots cpus, ram, disk drives, and chassis are starting to fail. And the huge super AIs are jockeying to see who is going to run the planet.
Brittle is a Simulacrum Model Caregiver robot, model HS8795-73. She was bought by Brandon for when he passed away to be a companion for his wife Madison. She roams the giant robot trash dump of robots in central Ohio, looking for dying bots to strip them of their good parts. A cannibal bot.
My rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,777 reviews)
ERCOT set another record peak demand today of 83,961 MW. And the solar is now fading and they are starting the remaining gas turbines. That caused the cost to shoot up from $50/MWH to $200/MWH. Ah, the Duck Curve, you suck. Texas was pulling over 12,000 MW out of the solar farms today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Oh, it’s hot hot hot… everybody conga!
At least there’s a breeze. Still, I”m not mowing the lawn. I thought I might when the sun went behind the curve, but it’s still too damn hot.
n
Wow, somebody just bought a 1.1 acre lake lot in my neighborhood for more than I paid for my house and lot together in 2019. I keep on hearing that real estate is going to go down, not here yet.
https://www.har.com/homedetail/1402-mulberry-farm-ln-richmond-tx-77469/2402250
Mow the lawn? The grass that isn’t dead, is dormant, not growing at all. I only water intermittently in the hopes that when we’re past the “Hell’s Front Porch” season, it might grow again.
I last mowed about 2 months ago, and it hasn’t grown much since.
@Lynn; 1.1 acres, and only ONE tree?
ERCOT set another record peak demand today of 83,961 MW. And the solar is now fading and they are starting the remaining gas turbines. That caused the cost to shoot up from $50/MWH to $200/MWH. Ah, the Duck Curve, you suck. Texas was pulling over 12,000 MW out of the solar farms today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
The cost shot up to $1,600 / MWH for a while. I think that they started everything they could get going including the black start diesels (2,500 hp V16 supercharged diesel locomotive engines). When the solar drops, it drops quick and must be 75% replaced within two hours.
For comparison, the average cost of electricity in ERCOT is around $25 / MWH.
@Lynn; 1.1 acres, and only ONE tree?
Yeah, and all that muddy water. I’ll bet somebody drops a million bucks in a 10,000 ft2 house. They will add a few trees.
I’ve only got three trees on my lot. One of them is a 60 foot wide oak tree though.
I love that muddy water !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XRy-jFCm8
Peter published this Aug 5:
Saturday Snippet: Move over, Hardy Boys, you’ve got competition
Fenton Wood is a pseudonym for an author who’s published a five-book series he titles “Yankee Republic“. I started reading it recently, and I’m finding it very interesting and well written. It’s for older children and young adults, and brings to mind earlier pulp fiction classics and adventure series such as the Hardy Boys books. It reminds me of some of the books I used to read as a child. (Don’t knock books for children, no matter how old you may be. Some remain very enjoyable. I still read and re-read some childhood favorites.)
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/08/saturday-snippet-move-over-hardy-boys.html
Link includes first chapter of the first volume, titled “Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves“.
The five-book series in omnibus for Kindle is $8.
I thought the first chapter was good enough to give it a try. Anyone read them?
As a lad I read everything I could get my hands one, including the original Hardy Boys (very good), the revised ones (gutted), the original Tom Swift (variable), Tom Swift Jr. (mostly good), some Nancy Drew, and some of the Radio Boys, The Young Engineers, The Boy Scouts, Don Hardy and a number of others. The older ones were great reads if the author was good; not so good from the hacks. A lot of the later series books by house authors were not so good. Mystery and science fiction juveniles had some great titles in the 1950-1975 range and pretty much dies later. Brains Benton, the Power Boys, Alfred Hitchcocks’s Three Investigators come to mind. Whitman published a number of good titles, and one that I remember as good was the Timber Trail Riders, with a number of authors writing several books about one of the characters.
I don’t know what to make of that. In January, a Lyft ride from LGA to midtown Manhattan was $68.60 including tip. The trip back three days later was 62.66.
Indian families prefer new houses and have lots of money to spend. Cash too.
It was still 91F when the sun went down.
Lots of home stuff to do tomorrow. I’m headed to bed.
n
I was banned from boarding my flight when I turned up naked with mayo running down my leg:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12388207/I-banned-boarding-flight-turned-bikini-ver-annoying-people-saying-Im-wrong.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
Indian families prefer new houses and have lots of money to spend. Cash too.
There is a Indian family building a 7,000+ ft2 two story three doors down from me. They started about a year and a half ago. They stopped for six months before bricking for some reason and then started back up. They are about two or three months from moving in. I saw them taking a family picture a year ago. Either three or four generations, probably four.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/developing-ecuadorian-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio-assassinated-campaign/
–yup, it’s the 70s again.
n