Coolish, then warming. Who knows about precip, it came crashing down briefly depending on where you were. Same could happen again. I’d like to get a couple days to recover.
Spent most of yesterday running errands. Didn’t have to head to the BOL to power up the freezers, as power came on just before I left the house. Procrastination for the win!
I ended up getting propane bottles exchanged, gas tank filled, mechanic consulted and appointment made, and an auction pickup from the guys I haven’t seen in over a month. I had 4 auctions of stuff waiting. There were some other things in there too, and kid support stuff.
Today will be similar, after I head to my client’s house. He’s got a bunch of issues I hope I can sort out. Kids have early dismissal and it’s the last day of school, so they’ll be up to no good. I really need to be home in the afternoon……
Plus I’ve got at least one nearby auction pickup, and more likely two that I can do today.
That’s on top of all the stuff I haven’t been doing because I’ve been out of town. I need to start working harder on catching up.
This stuff isn’t going to stack itself…
Do what you can.
nick
In the US, DEI consulting became a soup bowl thanks to the big three institutional investor firms who seem to own ~ 20% of everything and the “Too Big To Fail Banks” having to toe the government’s line following the bailout in 2009.
I had a friend go through a divorce recently, and one of the marital assets they fought over was the wife’s DEI consulting money. For a couple of years, she didn’t even file taxes.
Go back a couple of decades, and the same woman worked for Andersen Accounting in Marketing. She helped put together a campaign which was about to roll out Enron Accounting to the Fortune 500 when Andersen got the “death penalty”.
EQ (Emotional Quotient)
Ka-Ching!
SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
Ka-Ching!
DEI (Diversity, Equity = Idiocy)
Ka-Ching!
Let the goobermint sweet, sweet cash fill my coffers. If you can’t beat ‘em, take all their cash.
What’s up with Senator Uncle Festerman? Did his stroke rewire his brain to common sense? Maybe he is a clone or body double. I haven’t looked at his voting record, but I assume he votes lockstep with the Dumbo’s in return to spout whatever he wants.
Last day of school for the kinder…
Sunny, humid, and a touch of sweaty just standing still.
N
Here are some of the things college students are majoring in right now.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1795234696655159318
Incitatus can run around the pasture and make all the noise he wants as long as he remembers it is once for yes and twice for no.
Once wrong vote and the rendering plant awaits.
Anything involving people of non-white people is considered racist. Keeping racism alive keeps the cash flow for many people who have made a living off racism. Playing the race card gets people stuff and considerations they would not get otherwise.
I have this theory, no way to prove it, based on my sometimes bizarre view of things. I think some black families pick one of the most worthless members of the family and put them up for a police sacrifice. Have the person do something to get police involved, such that the person gets shot and killed. Then scream racism and police brutality. Find some lawyer to sue the city and the police and extort a settlement. Most large cities will settle for a few hundred thousand rather than litigate. Those that don’t settle the family will find a sympathetic jury that will award millions.
The family now has money that they never had before and did not have to work for the money. Welfare by sacrificing a useless member of the family. Even with a multi-million-dollar settlement within five years the family is broke and back living on the government dole where they started. The money all pissed away on useless junk, gold teeth, expensive braids, expensive finger nails, an expensive car that looked like it participated in a demolition derby, lots of expensive booze, gold chains, expensive shoes that are now worth nothing.
None of those studies are employable anywhere. Rack tens of thousands of student debt and expect the taxpayers to pay for that load of bull discharge.
@Ray: I doubt it’s widespread, but I can believe that some families would do that. Of course, a big windfall will be blown in no time.
The thing that affects people outside the ‘hood the most, is the property crime. For example, there was a group that blew up ATMs (which also caused a lot of collateral damage). After blowing up something like 50 ATMs, they were finally caught (or, at least, one group was). Since is was “just” property crime, they will get a slap on the wrist, a brief prison sentence, and be back on the streets. For professional criminals like that, well, I’d like to see them unable to return to a life of crime. Implement “unable” however you like.
I noticed use of the term “soup bowl” here recently. How does this differ from “rice bowl” that was once commonly used? What have I missed?
Same thing.
I think “soup bowl” comes from a book on finance/politics.
A lot more people in the US are content to have the various levels of government fill their soup bowls than do anything for which a real market exists.
That is if they actually “work” for that check.
Salesforce.com. 56 points and still dropping.
In the words of Shrub, “This sucker is going down.”
So entertaining.
Not in the last two decades but in rhe three prior, I spent a lot of vacation time in Southern Utah, camping, touring and 4 wheeling. Consequently, I am going to read Rick H’s “The Red Rock Redemption”.
A number of years ago I started reading ebooks from Amazon. Then several year ago I switched over to reading ebooks from my local public library “Huntington Beach Public Library”. I just searched there and found none of his books listed.
Well, back to Amazon for a while.
Headed out. Time to earn my pay.
n
Prepping the roof swamp cooler this a.m., my least favorite chore.
At 5 trips up and down the ladder, two or three to go…
When John Fetterman was elected, he had forehead ridges worthy of a Ferengi, and then went back into the hospital for “complications with his stroke recovery”. The man who returned to the Senate had a passing resemblance to Fetterman, but with MUCH less pronounced forehead rides. Shortly after that, his wife left him.
I think Fetterman died in the hospital, and the replacement – let’s call him “Festerman” – has permanently taken his place. Festerman seems like a moderate Democrat, which would put him over on the right wing of his party. He’s talking much better, dressing much better, and spouts quite reasonable positions. Still votes in lockstep with Schemer, but a body-double replacement would HAVE to to that, or be eliminated.
Unfortunately CRM is still widely held. VTSMX has 3% of the company alone.
An “index” fund doesnt actually own all of the stocks listed as contributing to the calculation of numbers. Outliers are tossed out and replaced with many things, including REITs and Treasuries.
Always read the prospectus
“Supreme Court rules for NRA in First Amendment dispute”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/05/supreme-court-rules-for-nra-in-first-amendment-dispute/
“The Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association, alleging that a New York official violated the group’s First Amendment rights when she urged banks and insurance companies not to do business with it in the wake of the 2018 shooting at a Florida high school. In a unanimous decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the justices agreed that the NRA had made out a case that Maria Vullo, then the head of New York’s Department of Financial Services, had gone too far in her efforts to get companies and banks to cut ties with the NRA, crossing over the line from efforts to persuade the companies and banks – which would be permitted – to attempts to coerce them, which are not.”
“The Supreme Court also indicated, however, that when the case returned to the court of appeals, the lower court could consider whether Vullo is entitled to qualified immunity – which could prove to be a high bar for the NRA to surmount.”
Picking winners by the government is National Socialism. We really do not want to go down that road.
Note that that this was a UNANIMOUS ruling from SCOTUS. Those are somewhat rare.
I hope that the NRA gets some bucks from the State Of New York but I doubt it.
Hat tips to:
https://notthebee.com/article/supreme-court-rules-new-york-violated-free-speech-by-pressuring-banks-to-cut-ties-with-nra/
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Department of Labor refers to women as ‘menstruators’”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3022069/department-labor-refers-women-menstruators/
“Generations from now, people will look back at the infantilization of American society in the 21st century and laugh. If they’re lucky enough, one of the things people in the future will hopefully get to read is a blog by the Department of Labor about “Menstrual Hygiene Day.” And if the silliness of the existence of something called “Menstrual Hygiene Day” wasn’t bad enough, the authors referred to those who menstruate, otherwise known as “women” to every other part of the normal and civilized universe, as “menstruators.””
It is time to reboot the entire federal government. All employees need to be fired and at least half of the so-called departments need to shut down permanently.
“Is Computing a Discipline in Crisis?”
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/is-computing-a-discipline-in-crisis/
“Human extinction often dominates discussions about AI risks, but there are deep concerns about the spread of false information, large-scale manipulation of public opinion, authoritarian control of populations, worsening economic inequality, and more.”
I am continuously fascinated by anyone who thinks that anyone can control software development and hardware development. The repercussions of even trying to control computers will be a nightmare.
That said, anyone who trusts computers implicitly is just asking for it. Computers are fallible, just like mankind. Computers make mistakes, just like mankind.
“Tomorrow War: Serpent Road: A Novel (2) (The Chronicles of Max)” by J. L. Bourne
https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-War-Serpent-Novel-Chronicles/dp/1501116703?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number two of a two book dark fantasy dystopian series. I read the well printed and and well bound trade paperback published by Gallery Books in 2017 that I bought new from Amazon. I have no idea if there will be more books in the series but I doubt it.
In the first book, Max [Redacted] is a new highly trained USA operative who is a member of a secret group that performs “jobs” for the USA President. He and another more experienced operative fly stealth ultralights into Syria with electronic machinery to plant a worm into their national phone wifi system. They get in, get out, and the worm spreads around the world in just days, wrecking financial computer systems across the globe, including the USA. Then things really get bad.
The second book continues the nightmare as the electronic worm strikes anything with a computer running it. All communications are down and all just in time inventory systems are crashed. The USA is being invaded by other countries and the administration in charge of the USA seeks to turn the USA into a dictatorship with the USA Constitution being fully suspended for the duration of the emergency.
I liked it ! A financial apocalypse in the USA is on my short list of near term apocalypses. For those who are interested in the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA, I recommend reading “The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047” by Lionel Shriver:
https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X?tag=ttgnet-20/
For those who do not like Lionel Shriver, I recommend “Distraction” by Bruce Sterling:
https://www.amazon.com/Distraction-Bruce-Sterling/dp/1857989287?tag=ttgnet-20/
For those who just want a short term financial apocalypse of the USA, I recommend “Buck Out” by Ken Benton:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1514666979?tag=ttgnet-20/
The author has a website at:
http://www.JLBourne.com
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (739 reviews)
Lynn
Do you have a Goodreads account, Lynn?
Count my current employer among those who believe that they will be able to fire most of their software developers in the long term thanks to AI.
They really do believe that, one day, they will submit a requirements description to the system and finished code will be the output.
I have no idea as to whether I‘m still on the naughty list for not letting the AI watch me code. My immediate supervisor understands what would happen if I suddenly wasn‘t around, and I don’t negotiate severance.
Do you have a Goodreads account, Lynn?
Nope. Please note that Goodreads is owned by Amazon.
@Ken
I can send you the movie just as easily as dropping it off at the Library Thrift Shop. Drop a line with your mailing address to pt at remsset dot com.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/05/29/convention-what-convention-dems-plan-ohio-workaround-to-put-biden-on-ballot-n3789233
Ohio Dems refuse to give up foreign money, force DNC to choose by Aug 7 with a phone call vote
Any change after that means no Democrat candidate on the Ohio ballot. In theory. In practice we all know that there are Democrat-appointed judges that will ignore the law rule any way the party tells them.
They really do believe that, one day, they will submit a requirements description to the system and finished code will be the output.
The requirements description is just the beginning of the process. There are many educated decisions to be made along the way.
I am owned by Amazon. They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.
I have no idea as to whether I‘m still on the naughty list for not letting the AI watch me code. My immediate supervisor understands what would happen if I suddenly wasn‘t around, and I don’t negotiate severance.
Dude, you live on the naughty list.
All get it done people live on the naughty list.
I am owned by Amazon. They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.
If I had been smart, I would have bought thousands of shares when Amazon was $6 about 25 years ago. I did buy some several years ago but not that quantity and price.
Back in the 1990’s, there was a series of papers demonstrating that it was possible to draft formal requirements for software, such that the requirements language could automatically generate provably correct error-free code. That wasn’t the first time I felt threatened with extinction, but as we all know, that one didn’t work out any better than the “Ada will solve all our problems” approach did. Or even the Rational Rose object-oriented approach, with back-end code generation.
AI might get us closer to that goal. But then you will run into the secondary issue, that people are still needed to create the requirements, and that is an art in itself. As is debugging the requirements, and debugging the AI, which is demonstrably error-prone.
Anyone who has worked for a large corporation knows the pain of realizing that your superiors don’t actually understand the business they run, don’t know what the actual problems are, and don’t understand the software solutions to those problems. AI can’t fix that particular stupid. In fact, it’s likely to be trained to be just as stupid as the PHB’s themselves.
I’ve got tv on as test material, and they just announced that the trump[ed up] trial jury has reached a verdict.
no actual announcement yet.
n
The reactions of the press should be revealing, if we can see them.
n
I hate programmers that build “automagical” tools without any way to force an issue. I have a device, shows up on the network, the “adoption” tool doesn’t see it. No indication why, no failure notice, it’s just not there. No way to adopt control of a device that the software doesn’t see.
No way to tell it to look at the IP address.
bastards.
n
guilty on all counts.
n
Of course tRump was found guilty. There wasn’t much doubt with Judge Doosh-Nozzle.
A kangaroo court from indictment to verdict.
The USA is now a banana nation.
The “legal analysts” that I read have said that there are MANY reversible errors, so that verdict may not stand. Not that “convicted felon Donald Trump” is going to lose any votes with that title.
Formal Methods. 90s soup bowl.
We had those guys (and a few gals) through GTE to deliver lectures to us dumb hicks in Florida.
One openly griped about lack of Starbucks in Tampa being a sign of a backwater town.
The checks always cleared, didn’t they?
Lynn said
It has been for some years now.
“Democrats want gun control but no gun crime prosecutions”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3021397/democrats-want-gun-control-but-no-gun-crime-prosecutions/
“One of the many problems with the Democratic Party’s stance on gun control is that Democrats are already loathe to enforce existing gun laws when dealing with criminals.”
“Last week, an off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer in Washington, D.C., was shot, sending him to the hospital. The suspects had been driving erratically, cutting the officer off multiple times before one of them exited the car and shot at the officer through his windshield.”
“The suspected shooter is Rasheed Thorne, a 21-year-old who had two previous arrests for illegal possession of a firearm. Thorne was arrested in November 2021 and 2022, but U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves declined to prosecute him. Just over a year after his second arrest, he then nearly murdered an MPD officer.”
tRump should now have the Amish vote wrapped up.
”Hello, my fellow criminals.”
I have a project for tomorrow. A trip to the post office to mail a bill and a DVD. The HEB is next door. That’s where the beer is sold. Maybe I’ll see something I want on sale. I might remember to buy bread.
They have a Sushi Department now. It’s near the Deli but doesn’t seem to be part of the Deli. Complete with a couple of Japanese looking guys doing their thing and speaking not English to each other. I haven’t looked at the prices. The stuff looks pretty but what the hell is it? Some looks like tamales but with rice instead of masa. I should ask.
The whatever drug that held up his prescriptions being filled because it has a co-pay? They sent a bill. I wrote a check. I tried to pay on-line but jebus. No way. I can find his statement. I can’t find where you pay. Nice looking site though.
I took trash over to Clyde’s today. Checked his house. It had a smell, like scented candles? I might go back tomorrow and finish clearing out his fridge. Or maybe in a month when my kitchen trash has more than a couple of dozen used k-cups. It’s just about 18 beers and a bottle of hot sauce and a jar of jelly and Parmesan cheese left in his fridge. I tossed the rest a month or so ago. Everything was “Best by xx/xx/2017”. Then I’ll unplug the fridge and prop the doors open. That will leave a few nightlights, a couple of ceiling fans and his porch light. Should drop his electric bill by quite a bit.
Oh! And I got to use my Dymo label printer today! 🙂
Supper time for the dogs. I’m getting nudged.
They have a Sushi Department now. It’s near the Deli but doesn’t seem to be part of the Deli. Complete with a couple of Japanese looking guys doing their thing and speaking not English to each other. I haven’t looked at the prices. The stuff looks pretty but what the hell is it? Some looks like tamales but with rice instead of masa. I should ask.
The spicy California Rolls are pretty good. I always get an extra package of ginger because, ginger is awesome. I throw away the wasabi.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-sushiya-spicy-california-sushi-roll-value-pack-15-pc/2194990
The sushiya shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce are good too. So are the summer rolls.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-sushiya-shrimp-spring-roll-3-ct/1496130
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-sushiya-summer-sushi-roll-6-ct/1495956
Sushi is raw fish with wasabi, which is best described as “nuclear horseradish”. I like rice, and I don’t mind the raw fish, but the wasabi is WAY to spicy for my tender tongue. And wrapped in seaweed. I’ll try to have a look at the spring rolls the next time I visit an HEB.
Real wasabi is scarce outside of high-end Japanese restaurants, even in Japan.
Most of it is just colored horseradish with some mouseturd…
https://scitechdaily.com/real-vs-fake-wasabi-the-surprising-truth-on-your-sushi-plate/
Not surprising; many Japanese “delicacies” that are imported into the USA are fake. Like Kobe beef, which is NEVER exported. I tasted it 40 years ago, when my patrol squadron was deployed to Misawa, Japan and we went to one of the nicer restaurants in town. I’ve never dared to taste it again. I LIKE my tongue, and don’t want it to be burned off.
I’ve never thought hot foods or beer hops were contact sports.
Made some progress at my client’s. Many of his current issues were related to the network giving out IP addresses outside the range of the network. No idea how that happened, but updating firmware and rebooting solved it. Once everything was back on line, stuff worked.
I HATE dynamic IPs for control and network (infrastructure) gear. I really hate that ubiquiti wants that when you use their “magical” setup. Stuff that doesn’t move should have fixed IPs.
A loose connection was the root of another issue.
And I finally closed an issue that has been open for a year and a half by tearing out that POS automagic BS box. I found another way to get the control ports I needed for the gear that box was talking to. And it worked. I might poke at it in the future, but working is good.
Updated the system docs and headed home.
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got a call from my buddy at the BOL, and they had another windstorm and power is currently out. Hope they get it back so I don’t have to go up.
This is getting ridiculous.
n
My aunt and uncle grew and made their own horseradish, and I enjoyed it for years. I have never had real Wasabi, but use the fake stuff liberally with sushi. Its flavor is a little different from horseradish, but both are tasty, and produce a slightly euphoric sensation that is far different from chilis, which have a variety of stronger flavors. Both are nature’s decongestant.
While we are at it, various mustards are yet other taste sensations.
Funny, I can enjoy mustards and horseradish, but get the hiccups eating anything more than medium chilis. Once they get past my mouth, however, they don’t bother the rest of my digestive system.
All probably promote good health.
A bit more than 20 years ago there was a year where the east coast of FL has wave after wave of storms.
One of my friends had a friend who had rental property in several towns along the coast. He went through three cycles of board ’em up, go to the next town, repeat, repeat, repeat. I think it lasted 7-8 weeks. The guys who shipped in truckloads of osb made a tidy profit.
Not surprising; many Japanese “delicacies” that are imported into the USA are fake. Like Kobe beef, which is NEVER exported. I tasted it 40 years ago, when my patrol squadron was deployed to Misawa, Japan and we went to one of the nicer restaurants in town. I’ve never dared to taste it again. I LIKE my tongue, and don’t want it to be burned off.
I had to have a tumor cut off the side of my tongue over a decade ago and I never want that to happen again. I told my skin doctor that I had a weird growth on my tongue and he said stick it out. He took one look at the ¾ inch diameter growth and said that is coming off today. I am already sitting on his exam table and he says stick your tongue out again. I did so and he grabs it with a pair of pliers !
He then numbed it with a needle injection (that hurt), and then cut the tumor off with a scalpel, being careful to get clear margins by going in at least a ½ inch deep. All while holding my tongue out with the pliers. Then we had a bleeding issue since I was on blood thinners after the second heart attack. He used some silver nitrate ??? to clot ? / cauterize ? the wound, still holding it out with pliers. When my tongue stopped bleeding, he finally let got of it. The silver nitrate ??? tasted nasty. He sent the tumor off and the lab pronounced it to be benign.
Now every six months, my dentist says “what did you do to your tongue ?”.
I grew up near the horseradish capital of the US.
There were certain roads you avoided during harvest. The mechanical pickers/diggers damaged some of the roots, and put the equivalent of tear gas into the air.
@paul, the kids like the HEB sushi rolls. They say on the package what is in them. Most of them seem to be sweet and spicy.
n
You may have heard stories about processing homemade horseradish wearing a WWII surplus gas mask. Believe it. I saw those in my aunt and uncle’s barn.
One from Column A, one from Column B…
Details of the “predicate crime.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/21/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/no-unanimity-needed-for-predicate-crimes-00159225
No unanimity required sez da judge.
https://youtu.be/wn6vl5ymFIM?si=-oQWmzZVJ2CBkfgz
Absolutely. DHCP works great, right up until it doesn’t. And when it fails, you can’t contact anything until it’s fixed.
I keep thinking I really ought to move our network to IPv6. Then I read up on some of the problems – plus the fact that lots of IoT stuff is *still* IPv4-only – and…no. Not worth the pain.
Wasabi, yum. I know a lot of stuff is fake, but I wonder: if an ingredient is listed as Wasabi, wouldn’t it have to be the actual, real stuff? Otherwise, surely they would have to write “wasabi substitute (horseradish, mustard, …)”.
It’s interesting that mustard, horseradish and wasabi are a completely different kind of “hot” from chilis. Which are also yummy.