Cool but not cold, but probably pretty damp, and warming later. Yesterday was about as perfect a day as it gets, weather-wise.
And we now have seeds in the soil. Beans, radishes, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, and even some strawberries. Next step is irrigation but hopefully we’ve got some time before the heat of summer kicks in. One year I was wearing my cool vest at the rodeo, so it’s possible it could skip Spring and jump right to ” hot town, summer in the city, back of my neck feeling hot and gritty…”
Plan for the day is mower maintenance, weed mowing (with a bit of grass cutting too), clean up and put away, and then at some point head home. Oh, and pack up most of my pex fittings and tools. Because I feel like I’m gonna need them at home. Which would be unfortunate. Still, better to be prepared, no?
Moved a couple of things up here this trip. Stacking it deeper. Please consider following my example…
nick
Three Ss, my good fellow.
Though I wouldn’t shoot. Not safe, since the house was built in the “forever wild” section behind our house. (As I’ve mentioned before, I suspect that green paper under the table facilitated getting the permit and exemption paperwork through.) But it’s not a problem. I’m a high tech apex predator. I could mount a spotting scope to the 25W(?) laser in my garage and smoke its head while it was sitting.
Corporate American normalized promiscuity in the office decades ago. What’s a little pedophilia?
An alternative to the Googles already exists in the form of The Duck.
Even if DuckDuckGo.com has an agenda, they don’t have the revenue to be Google. Or the cell phone platform. Or the streaming service. Or …
In the latest shareholder letter, the Gecko bragged about BNSF being an asset to the country a century from now.
https://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2023ltr.pdf
I got a late start digesting the simple homespun wisdom. Buffett addressing his sister Bettie, a major holder of BRK-A, as this year’s theme. I’m sure there are interesting things to pick up reading between the lines, but this is a busy weekend for us.
A key explicit message is that The Gecko will not buy Oxy outright. Maybe he’s starting to feel his mortality since the letter opens with a page remembering Charlie Munger.
My original BRK-B holding, soda money (I don’t drink), one share of class ‘B’ stock, enough to get the letter and Omaha meeting credentials, has seen a 50-1 split and several doublings in value since Buffet bought the railroad and Berkshire became a component of many S&P 500 funds. Now I have a major investment which obligates paying attention and taking the report seriously.
Of course, the side effect of taking the report seriously is that I have a pretty good idea of the company’s sacred “intrinsic value”, and I can’t resist the occasional opportunity to play the game against the best by buying more shares, which makes analyzing the report more important and then …
I could mount a spotting scope to the 25W(?) laser in my garage and smoke its head while it was sitting.
Check out styropyro’s laser turret on how to fry stuff long range with a laser. A little long, but the hawk wouldn’t stand a chance. Excellent YT channel.
Why do I get the feeling that my work life is about to get much worse.
The AI monkey trick has meant two doublings of my primary hypertension med and the addition of two more pills.
The golf ball sized mass they pulled out of my large intestine was probably the tolling company’s fault.
Another Windows freeze.
Can’t get to Control Panel
Hard disk thrashing.
Send 50 volts to programmer.
That’s nothing. Make it 5k volts, if you’re serious…
How about if we just convert the electrons to anti-protons and initiate a rectal probe?
Serious as it glowing crater visible from space.
The deadly event causing the Windows freeze? A cut of an ACS paper citation from a website followed by a paste into email
You’ll have to put much more on the line if the impulse is going to Bangalore and you want to overcome the loss.
If I had to guess, anymore, Windows is either maintained overseas or with visa labor onshore.
Working on Office has been viewed as a career dead end in Redmond going back 20+ years. That’s definitely maintained overseas.
If ChatBot had to pay for it’s own electricity and hardware, it would be telling you to get off it’s lawn. Instead, we get a communist academian’s viewpoint, because it’s supported by the efforts of others, is provided living space at no cost and isn’t held accountable for any mistakes which agree with the narrative.
Sunny and clear today, with a crazy wind. It’s calm at the moment but a minute ago it was blowing so hard the flag was out straight and flat, and the pole was bowed. I didn’t secure my patio heater last night, and it’s 15ft from where I left it.
Starting to move albeit a bit slowly, after the hoeing and raking and bending yesterday, but it’s a gorgeous day to be outside.
n
Another Windows freeze…
Check system logs. If OK, run RAM diagnostics for at least 24 hours, especially if you don’t use ECC RAM. If OK, do a bare metal install from an OEM ISO, with no shortcuts.
If that doesn’t work, have you considered a new computer?
Re: Winows Freezes:
I had an issue where Windows Services something-or-other continually hammered my Win7 system drive, about a decade ago. A lot of reports of this online at that same time with various reports of ‘fixes’. It was 90% or more, every minute of the day.
I finally had to bare metal reinstall Windows, no fix by killing processes or system settings change lasted more than a few hours.
The reinstall fixed it for a few months, then it started up again. So I blew it away and installed linux Mint.
Some people feel that a regular Windows reinstall is good practice anyway, at the least it keeps you aware of exactly what is on your system & cleans out cruft. But “good” drivers might be replaces by more recent “bad” ones.
I think that’s generally true. I nstall and try out a lot if stuff, and I’m not disciplined enough to always do it in a VM. So cruft accumulates.
I reinstall my Linux whenever a new LTS version comes out, do every 2 years. I keep the old install around “just in case”, and overwrite it the next time.
Re Windows freezes, I forgot to mention a Google search of the problem. I really haven’t had enough Windows problems to remember this. When I ran Linux exclusively, this seldom was useful. That was the last time I did much searching for fixes.
Also, I usually have a test system to try things, and keep my production system pristine. Never had to do a periodic reinstall of Windows. I have an old W2k box that still runs fine, off the web, of course.
Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge
Tips and tricks for making Microsoft leave you alone while you use your PC.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/
I’d pay $100 a year for weekly updates on phone and email addresses for Gates, Ballmer, and the top 100 current MS execs, and the entire f**king Windows Development Team.
Daily Tech News 25 February 2024
Top Story
It turns out that AI is a cure for this problem. (Stanford)
When querying Google Gemini for medical information, half of the papers referenced do not even exist, and 90% do not actually make the claims Gemini reports.
Cure? Well sure. If a paper doesn’t exist, it can’t be wrong.
https://ace.mu.nu/
Woke medical schools, students with an average IQ of 105, and the internet full of false information.
Note that the last is due to the Lords of the Internet–you know, the ones that worked with the Bidenistas to keep accurate information from the voters–polluting the data stream like a two-year-old with a leaky diaper.
Why Climate Scientists were Duped into Believing Rising CO2 will Harm Coral and Mollusks
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/24/why-climate-scientists-were-duped-into-believing-rising-co2-will-harm-coral-and-mollusks/
Takeaway:
Climate scientists assumed, and made asses of themselves again.
Organisms use bicarbonate ions to make calcium carbonate, not carbonate ions.
Every paper, every article, every headline about “ocean acidification” meaning “doom” for sealife with calcium carbonate exoskeletons, is incorrect, garbage, trash, misinformation, crap that needs to be tagged as such to prevent any further citation. That will not, of course, prevent AI from spreading it further like a cowpie in the foyer, but it would be a start.
My W11 Pro system hammers my external drive that I use for backup. Every Saturday starting about 9:00 AM the drive starts doing a lot of rattling. I have no backups running, no applications running, just W11. I am unable to find out what is doing the disk activity with my current tools and knowledge of W11 tools. I figure it is some time of indexing process. I suspect the SSDs are being hammered also but they don’t make any noise. If the SSDs did make noise I would be seriously concerned. The activity does not seem to affect performance so whatever is happening is some low level, low priority task.
Just wondering whether Fani Willis’ crack staff was able to totally bork the dates of her last firing, or whether they had some AI help.
Anyone here read classic Superman comics from the late 50’s/60’s might remember the first appearances of the Bizarro Superman, when he was portrayed as a not-evil idiot. We’re seeing the end of the not-evil stage of AI as the LotI realize that they can make more money using AI to be actively evil.
Meanwhile:
Politico Reporter Suggests You’re a ‘Christian Nationalist’ if You Believe Your Rights as an American Come From God
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/based-on-twisted-diversity-principles/
Total ignorance of the founding of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers, yet bone-in qualified as a solid 90-IQ skinny-white-girl grad of a formerly respected university to cover The District and assassinate political enemies.
Windows 11 has scheduled actions, including file indexing, which normally happens as needed. Here’s what AI says :
Note: I could have found the same information via a search engine. But it would have taken longer. I often use AI for simple questions and code hints. The answers are generally ‘good enough’. But it may take a few more questions to dig down for more complex questions.
As for that external drive scheduled task, look at the Task Scheduler to see what is running in the background.
“The activity does not seem to affect performance so whatever is happening is some low level, low priority task.”
It’s just using the hard disks 10x-100x as much as it should. No effect on performance, until they fail.
If Joe Biden and the Democrats think the U.S. needs to support Ukraine with $60 billion more, then they–80+ million of them–should be willing to step up and make personal contributions.
On the other hand, I would be willing to make a personal contribution to support immediate deportation of any illegal alien found violating the laws of the U.S., including but not limited to entering the country illegally.
It’s a backup disk. It only gets used rarely. On Saturday when the indexing starts and one backup runs. Then early Sunday morning when two different backups run from a different program. That disk drive gets used less than any spinning rust I have ever used.
Why settle for a mere 5k?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXYFiAXwO8&ab_channel=jpo
Hard disk thrashing.
Wait, you still have rotating platters of glass ?
I only use rotating platters of glass for my multitudinous backups.
“Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s”
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s
“A study finds that people who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years prior are still fatter.”
“Kuk believes the proliferation of artificial sweeteners could also be playing a role.”
Me too. And corn syrup is in everything.
People are fatter now because of the USDA’s “Food Pyramid” which emphasized carbs and starches such as grains, and deprecated fats and protein such as meat and cheese. That, and HFCS (high fructose corn syrups) at EVERY step of food processing.
They’re still doing that; only the self-styled “elite” should be eating meat, they think. That’s going to be one of the major drivers of CW2.
Ze Bugs will suddenly appear in everything just like corn syrup did in the 80s and 90s.
Yet Another Harvardian Plagiarist
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/yet-another-dei-official-at-harvard-accused-of-plagiarism/
It’s almost as if a certain area of study is illegitimate b.s.
So much for FedEx.
“Delivery exception Customer not available or business closed”
Liars.
From Sherri Charleston’s Harvard web page.
“I fundamentally believe that many of the challenges that we face in higher education relative to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging have answers rooted in applied research. We must work together in the field to find them.”
Did she actually do any research?
Embalmers finding thick, rubbery clots in veins and arteries
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/embalmers_finding_thick_rubbery_clots_in_veins_and_arteries.html
300,000/340,000,000 scaled to 4 billion would be 3,500,000 or 3.5 million
Per year.
I can see why the cannibalism advocates are getting press.
Soylent linguini, anyone?
Don’t forget the long pork! Why waste all those delicious corpses?
Actually I think mine are aluminum, not glass. Maybe, I don’t know. Several of them. They are backup disks. The small ones sit in a drawer, the big one (well for me not for you) is 8 GB and used for the weekly backups. The actual operating disk units are all SSDs.
Would it be politically incorrect to ask for dark meat or white meat?
re: the replication problem
Some people have a problem, so they think “I will use AI to solve it”.
Now they have two problems.
(with my apologies to JZ)
Pearls Before Swine: Billy Joel Is Screaming In Florida
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/25
Hopefully, Stephan Pastis does not have a friend named Captain Jack.
Because they got the clot shots and are dangerous to eat.
You may recall that I’ve been asking, for a friend, about whether it’s safe to compost them and then eat the plants which are grown from them. There seems to be disappointingly little research on this topic.
The 2000W laser is cool, but at US$15k it’s a bit pricey for a toy.
The chickens seem to be over yesterday’s scare and were pestering me to go out today, aaaaawwwwwkkkking at me whenever I passed them while doing other things. Sorry, guys, you were out a couple hours this morning while I did some computer stuff, all the time that I could spare to sit with you. A squirrel got into the run while the birds were out, ate some of the pellets, stuffed its cheeks with more pellets, couldn’t find its way out, and freaked out when the birds came back. The birds weren’t happy about going home. They wanted to go into the forest. No, retards! Do you not remember what happened yesterday? No, of course they don’t. They’re chickens.
However, the chickens are not confused by the chicken wire walls of the run. Is this because they’re used to it? Because they’re much bigger than the holes, unlike yesterday’s little bird and today’s squirrel? Or is it possible, is even conceivable, that there’s something dumber than a chicken?
The red hen is acting fine. I’ll change the bandage tomorrow, probably, but I’m not going to mess with anything unless she shows signs of distress.
Just got back from helping a neighbor start his car. Rather, the son of the elderly neighbor, who is house-sitting while she’s gone for the Winter. He’d left the dome light on all night and was surprised that the battery seemed to be flat dead, but the starter wasn’t even clicking. But after twenty minutes on jumper cables and it still wasn’t doing anything, we decided to go to the auto parts store to get a new battery so he went to lock up the house … and discovered that he didn’t have his keys in his pocket. In particular, he didn’t have the car’s fob in his pocket. Once he got it, the car started right up.
siiiiiiigh
Before going out to help the neighbor, I was wondering if there was something dumber than a chicken. The universe gave me the answer.
Modern problems require modern
solutionsproblem enhancers.JZ, for those who don’t know, is James Zawinski, not Jay Z. That would be 99 problems.
After TSHTF, my new enterprise will be The Analog Distillery and Laundry.
What is the house sitter’s day job?
The fob starters make me nuts. We only have one working fob for the Jetta because my wife’s nephew didn’t follow up on the dead battery in the other fob before I drove up to get the car last summer.
Apparently, the battery is something special which has to come from a VW dealer. However, the nephew did take the car to the dealer to get the airbag light turned off shortly before I showed up with the check.
En Fuego!
https://mousetrapnews.com/breaking-cinderella-castle-burns-to-the-ground/
Sadly, the article is a joke.
Jamie Zawinski of Netscape fame would be jwz.
My original BRK-B holding, soda money (I don’t drink), one share of class ‘B’ stock, enough to get the letter and Omaha meeting credentials, has seen a 50-1 split and several doublings in value since Buffet bought the railroad and Berkshire became a component of many S&P 500 funds. Now I have a major investment which obligates paying attention and taking the report seriously.
I used to have $60K ??? of BRK-B stock in my IRA but I sold it in 2011 (along with other stocks) to buy five acres of unimproved property in Fort Bend County for $251K. That five acres is probably worth $500K now. I waiting for the first person to come along and offer me $999K. My wait will be long but I don’t care, this is my retirement money.
So I sold my stock for roughly $78 per share and and it is worth $417 per share now. Oh well.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BRK-B?.tsrc=fin-srch
You just might get it thanks to FJB but it will probably be worth less than today.
I sold $20k worth, three shares, in 2008 to pay for part of our lot in Florida, which we ended up selling for a loss in 2014 because the builder swine could never make the numbers work like he swore would be possible … whenever he talked to my wife.
No one could make the numbers work and convert a mortgage at a price which would have let us break even selling the property. The house which was eventually built there is … interesting.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/zFTT9FQaZ3DhD68b9
>> Did she actually do any research?
Why bother when she can just use ChatGPT?
So long as you don’t care if the information is completely made up, that’s fine, if you also don’t care about using 100X the compute power and 10X the storage of a conventional search engine.
If you know enough about a subject to review the generative “AI”’s output, it can produce useful results. The same can be said for search engine results, and you don’t need to spend as much time or mental effort in the review: If a history article comes from brittanica.com or a tech tip comes from stackexchange, it’s probably trustworthy. If you get an article or a list of steps from an “AI”, you need to read every word critically.
Getting the result may be quicker, but being able to trust what you get is slower.
It should be practicable to run the generative “AI”’s output through another system, to at least pull out the references and make sure that they exist. The lawyers who’ve submitted chatgpt-generated legal briefs to court could have been spared embarrassment and sanctions if this system were in place. It’s common for briefs to selectively excerpt earlier opinions or to pick and choose laws but fictitious cites are pretty much an automatic fail. Of course, the idiot lawyers could simply have read the generated briefs, but I guess that would have been too much like earning their pay.
SteveF wins the Internet today!
“The growing popularity of degrowth”
https://grist.org/looking-forward/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth/
This is the problem with the lefties. They have no vision of the future other than an apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.
And the sad thing is that they want to force their vision of the future upon the rest of us. These fascist brownshirts are bound and determined that all of us will live in their horrible vision of the future with no kids, no electricity, no vehicles, no machinery for power multipliers, etc, etc, etc.
I have no idea how to fix this other than isolating the cities from the rural areas.
Remember when it was discussed how to figure out who had the most comments, and when was the last comment for each person? I came up with a page that did all of that – and it took less and 30 minutes.
Although I could have searched the WordPress StackOverflow, or some sites, or asked the googles/bings/ducks, I decided to ask the AI’s. The prompt was something like ‘create a WordPress template to display a table of people commenting, their number of comments, and the date of the last comment”.
The answer was correct, and a few tweaks later I was able to give you guys the link to the page that had the info. Then I decided to add sorted columns, so changed the prompt to include that.
The result was proper code that worked. I got the answer much faster than going though tens of search results trying to find the proper answer. So, the AIs saved me some time.
I use AI a lot more than googles/bings/ducks. I use it in my fiction writing for research (my latest thriller has guns in it [of course], but I’m not that knowledgeable, so asking for the appropriate gun for the situation was helpful to the story; I verified the info, though), coming up with plot variations, or asking for quick code snippets in my website programming.
AI has been helpful. Not always right the first time, but that is probably more a problem with the ‘prompt’; you have think of the proper ‘prompt’ and provide details. I don’t use the results directly in the fiction writing, or in my code, but the results give me the direction to go. So in my fiction writing, it’s more of an ‘idea generator’ that is helpful. In website programming, it also helpful to point me to a possible solution – although not the ultimate solution; I always end up tweaking the code.
I could get the same results with standard searches, but those require more time to come up with the proper answer. Not every AI answer is good and complete, but they are helpful to point me in the correct direction.
I have two different AI tabs that are always open in my browser. I find them to be a useful tool.
If the weather was nice last night, this would have been a cool show to see at the Yucs stadium.
They will be in San Antonio in October, but tickets are insane.
https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/music/music-reviews/2024/02/25/billy-joel-sting-tampa-setlist-concert-piano-man-raymond-james/
So much for FedEx.
“Delivery exception Customer not available or business closed”
Liars.
A lot of people in your situation break down and rent a mailbox at the local post office. My parents have had a mailbox for decades since USPS cannot repeatedly find their house. They live at the edge of town on a “private road” but with a public road address. No gates, just 100 feet off the main road and people cannot find their house. And the single lane private road was paved just 60 years ago.
No one really wants to work anymore post-pandemic. Even many in the 20% who actually do something meaningful with their time no longer see the point but don’t quite know what’s next.
Seize the 401(k) plans and it will be Game Over in the US.
I’m not opening my work laptop tonight, but I can see my email in-box from my phone. In another hour, the overseas developers are going to start sending messages looking for me to fix their problems ahead of the ship date scheduled for 2/29.
I know I certainly no longer see the point beyond a paycheck.
Actually I think mine are aluminum, not glass. Maybe, I don’t know. Several of them. They are backup disks. The small ones sit in a drawer, the big one (well for me not for you) is 8 GB and used for the weekly backups. The actual operating disk units are all SSDs.
I read an article recently that all of the platters on the 12 TB and bigger drives are glass again. I was surprised that even with the Ultrastor problems back in the 2000s. Maybe they figured out how to keep the magic fairy pixie dust on the glass platters for five years this time.
The prompts for the Google Gemini image search were displayable, and it was interesting to see. The first was the users input. The next three returns had the extra keywords like “black male” or “asian woman” added.
If you were paying for results you would probably be pretty annoyed by this stuff.
Meta gave the game away by being so heavy handed, a forearm on the scales rather than a thumb as it were, but it does illustrate the fact that bogus search results will have an actual quantifiable cost, 75% in this case
If only 10% of the results are tainted, then for every 10 of these super expensive GPU setups that you buy, one is wasted.
Ooh! Ooh! Can we play?
We’d help you out for free. And we’d be at least as accurate as AI. Instead of Artificial Intelligence, I have Natural Stupidity…
Actually, of course, I have a fair amount of knowledge and experience, and I’ve done’ some of the research already. You’ll get answers quicker from the AI, but I’m not talking about utility to you, I’m talkiing about fun to us.
And it all boils down to Clint Smith’s observation:
There is room for nuance, like makes and models and calibers and loads, but the basic rule is sound.
Language in Clint’s quote has been cleaned up.
Yeah, it would be easy to say that the rats are turning on each other, but Cramer works for the “competition”.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/25/jim-cramer-says-he-will-vote-to-put-nelson-peltz-on-disneys-board.html
Cramer is shameless.
Home safe.
Took about 3 hours to rebuild my mower deck. New spindles, blades, pulleys. Grease. Bend some parts straight that weren’t. The hardest part was getting the one spindle apart. Never did get the blade off of the shaft.
Cut the grass/clover. That took longer than expected too. Even on the highest setting, I could only do half width passes. And then I re-mowed the front yard on my normal height setting. Trimming and blowing the debris took time too.
And it left me filth, so it took a while to shower, and lock everything up.
Brought home most of my pex supplies.
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wrt AI vs search engine… Remember back in the day when choosing your search terms was very important? I switched almost entirely to searching for a natural language sentence describing what I want to know. I get better results than guessing at relevant keywords. AI will probably evolve to that, and the prompt language will be less important. And really, always consider that if you asked the same question of a person, your results would vary as well.
Also, There are some things that are almost impossible to get good search results, due to all the web scraping content generator click farming sites polluting the results. and indian IT “professionals” in the answer sections of “help me do something” sites.
Not being able to specify a time range for results sucks too.
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I’ve got spinning rust. Lots of it actually. It was cheap, and SSDs were not.
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People don’t want to work. Huh. More strange is that there are people who DO want to work. The rise of ‘easy money’ ways to make cash (like becoming an “influencer,” putting out a porn video, or the “flipper” culture) decoupled success and money from hard work. It’s especially irksome because to become successful in one of those fields takes /// wait for it /// hard work and dedication. But it doesn’t LOOK like work from the outside. Pro athlete doesn’t look like much for the money, because you don’t see the 18hr days leading up to success.
Add the poisonous idea that you should “follow your passion” (see also Mike Rowe on the subject), and “live your best life”, add the false and curated culture of envy and jealousy fostered by social media, and you have the current version of ‘weapons of cultural mass destruction.’
Carefully remove any history that shows previous greatness resulting from hard work, dedication, education, and being part of a couple of complementary cultures (protestant work ethic coupled with American exceptionalism and rugged individualism) and you remove the basis for comparison with the current situation.
Value “effort” over “results” and eliminate personal exceptionalism and personal responsibility. Emphasize the group.
We didn’t get where we are by accident, and we won’t get back to somewhere good without a sea change.
n
Tab clearing.
https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2024/0215.html
Bruce has a couple of comments and links to lying AIs and poisoning AIs.
n
Document, document. Can you make them put their requests into a ticketing system?
Add the poisonous idea that you should “follow your passion” (see also Mike Rowe on the subject), and “live your best life”, add the false and curated culture of envy and jealousy fostered by social media, and you have the current version of ‘weapons of cultural mass destruction.’
I love what I do. Except the interactions with customers. And employees.
I’ve ridden my main business up and and now down. This week I get to layoff another employee. Or, I can give up having paychecks for rest of my life.
I am 63 years old. Starting over now would be a disaster.
“Don’t Follow Your Passion” by Mike Rowe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVEuPmVAb8o
>> I’ve ridden my main business up and and now down. This week I get to layoff another employee. Or, I can give up having paychecks for rest of my life.
Ahh, ridden hard and put away wet.
>> This week I get to layoff another employee. Or, I can give up having paychecks for rest of my life.
Could he afford it to work less hours? Would that work for you?
“The West Wing” starring Hakeem Jeffries as POTUS?!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/25/if_electoral_college_ties_biden_victory_is_nearly_impossible_150555.html
For @Greg (NB: behind a firewall)…
https://www.wsj.com/finance/i-read-all-59-of-warren-buffetts-annual-letters-these-are-the-best-parts-068f834a?mod=trending_now_news_3
“Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass” by J. L. Bourne
https://www.amazon.com/Day-Armageddon-Shattered-Hourglass/dp/1451628811?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a four book zombie dark fantasy series. I read the well printed and and well bound trade paperback published by Gallery Books in 2012 that I bought new from Amazon. I will read the fourth and last book in the series soon.
We know that the zombie infection came from China. Now more of the story is coming out. The Chinese found a space ship in a glacier that was 20,000 years old. But, there was a infected pilot in the space ship. Zombie virus infected that spread across the entire world in a month.
So, the COG (Continuing Operating Government) sends Kilroy and some special operatives to China to see what they can find out in the hope of creating a vaccine. And what they find in China is a bunch of zombies.
I liked it ! Almost as good as John Ringo’s “Under A Graveyard Sky”.
The author has a website at:
http://www.JLBourne.com
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,269 reviews)
Lynn