Hot again. Humid again. Just standing and talking in the sun will soak your shirt. It’s that hot. Definitely in the 90s. There were some scattered dark clouds, but no rain where I was. And I was all over the place.
I had pickups in NW, NE, SE, and then drove home through SW Houston. I was in Kingwood, and Dickenson. Probably did about 150 miles? I’d have to look at the log. Lots of driving in a really big loop. Good stuff though for good prices.
I got home and started putting the garage back together. I’m going to have to rethink my plan though as some of what I want to do won’t fit. I’m thinking I might take one of the cabinets, and possibly the drawers, to the BOL for the workshop there.
Today I’ve got a couple of pickups I didn’t get to yesterday, including the honda genny. I’ll bring that stuff home, sort it, reload the truck and head to the BOL, maybe. Maybe it will all go to sh!t and I won’t be ready to head out until Wednesday.
Dog is at the boarder, and it’s very quiet in the house…
But it does let me do things like not worry about leaving the door open every time I go through it. Or tripping on a black dog with my hands full. There are tradeoffs to everything.
Restacking the stuff has been helpful. Found some stuff I was looking for, and some I’d forgotten about. It’s a bit like “shopping your closet” when you feel the need for new clothes. Look for the stuff you already bought.
Reassess, and rebalance, and stack.
nick
Thanks, Nick. That was not precisely the information I needed to start my day.
Also from yesterday,
A number of the “mature students” who went through law school with me have very successful practices these days. Go for it!
98% of everyone who works is a wage slave who would rather be doing something else. That’s why it is called “work” and not “leisure”.
Federal Courts Strike Down Biden’s Latest Student Loan Schemes
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/two-federal-courts-halt-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-end-run-around-scotus-ruling/
Thief and liar caught buying votes again.
It is sad the States have to sue POTATUS from dropping student debt on all of us. MrsAtoz and I saved and invested, and put five daughters through Uni without any debt. Why should I now have to pay for some dolt’s “barista” degree?
Court rules actual malice present, sends defamation suit against CNN to trial for damages
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2024/06/24/cnn-could-be-forced-pay-upwards-1-billion-defamation-suit
Trump attorneys take note.
The Linux Mint system I recently built on a ‘spare’ system to test out the experience vs Ubuntu was installed on an M.2 NVME disk.
My main system is a bit more powerful and capable, so I took the M.2 disk and installed it in the main system (with the historic Ubuntu system SSD disconnected). Got a ‘out of memory’ message trying to boot from the M.2 or a USB Linux Mint system. A bit a googling gave me a hint; so I reduced the BIOS graphics memory allocation …. problem sorted.
Now running on the ‘main’ system under Linux Mint booting from the M.2. (The data disk is a separate HDD, so simplifies that issue.)
I’ll take that all as a win.
Because you’re a white, heterosexual, male, who does not live on welfare. You must be held accountable as it is your fault these leaches have no sense of responsibility.
Further to my recent Melanoma diagnosis; I had a telephone call with the hospital this morning and am advised that the pathology results from the recent WLE (Wide local excision) are clear. I now go into monitoring phase for five years with the next step being ultrasound scan of my lymph nodes.
So far so good.
Outrage! Yet another score for Big Mike to settle with the White Devils once he’s dealt with their Orange King.
These Devils and their Courts will burn.
Seriously, the Dems already have the win on this issue.
Sunny and hot. Coffee is brewing.
Stuff to do…
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Because, as my co-worker at the tolling company who went to [The Most Expensive Engineering School in the US] put it, asking her dad to pay her $200k in Parent PLUS loans so she could afford to slum it doing testing for what the Austrians would pay her is “not fair”.
BTW, it is worth repeating: Chem E. Testing software for toll plazas.
No, that isn’t fair to have a parent honor their signature committment to snowflake. How were they supposed to know that Chem E wasn’t her calling?
She only spent four years and a mortgage size amount of money studying the subject.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-13563669/sports-good-chain-seven-states-bankruptcy-filing.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13564905/Migrant-accused-raping-killing-Jocelyn-Nungaray-appears-court.html
When does the “ethnic cleansing” start? When this happens to a white girl?
Employed. Rented an apartment. Cut off ankle monitors. FFS
n
Maybe not “quite” shot down…
n
“When does the “ethnic cleansing” start? “
Now. Find them guilty and expedite the executions.
A pretty white girl getting raped or kliked would be blamed on Republicans not cutting a deal with Corn Pop on the border.
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the
GodsDemocratic Party, they kill us for theirsportvirtue signaling.”@ EdH & JimB, my SIL was planing on bringing us up in my daughter’s car. However, he thinks that the AC unit in his car is much better, so we will be coming up in it.
“Government Employees Are Overpaid”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/06/government-employees-are-overpaid.php
“Our CTUP economist, EJ Antoni, notes that taxpayers are paying a 40% premium to state and local government employees over comparable private employees. The data show that taxpayers pay public sector employees 23% higher salaries and a whopping 79% higher benefits than private employers. This doesn’t even include the value of lifetime tenure (i.e. you can’t get fired from a government job no matter how poor your performance).”
Why yes, they are overpaid.
I wonder how many federal employees still work from home. The Mommy squad.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Comrade Lizzie is coming for your money again”
https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/comrade-lizzie-is-coming-for-your-money-again-151101/
“And when she howls about “accountable capitalism” on her website, Comrade Warren trolls the the top 10% for having too much wealth.”
Don’t worry, the billionaires will not pay the wealth tax. They will be given special exemptions written in lawyerese. The wealth tax will be paid by the middle class. And if you think that the federal annual tax return is long, just wait for the annual wealth tax return.
“Dramatic court scenes as Jocelyn Nungaray’s family hear how she fought with her dying breath as migrants raped her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13568467/Dramatic-court-scenes-Jocelyn-Nungarays-family-hear-fought-dying-breath-migrants-raped-her.html
That is ILLEGAL immigrants ! They are all over Houston.
Reunited and It Feels So Good
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/06/25/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good-obama-works-to-save-biden-from-a-loss-to-trump-n3790883
Where is Barry’s right hand?
Don’t worry, the billionaires will not pay the wealth tax. They will be given special exemptions written in lawyerese. The wealth tax will be paid by the middle class. And if you think that the federal annual tax return is long, just wait for the annual wealth tax return.
Oh yeah, I forgot, I have another federal annual return to fill out on the “Small Equity Compliance Guide” from the “Federal Crimes Enforcement Network”. I, or my CPA for $5,000, have to fill out a 40 page return of the addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, etc for all shareholders of the main business along with how much money was given to them by the business by time period.
“After Protests, Apple May Replace iPhone Assembly Workers With Automation”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/after-protests-apple-may-replace-iphone-assembly-workers-with-automation
“Apple tells managers to ‘reduce the number of workers on iPhone final assembly lines by as much as 50% over the next few years,’ according to The Information.”
I wonder if Apple is in line to buy some of the new Tesla worker robots ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYztsHgU9Y
“UPDATE: Four Other States to Launch Massive Lawsuits Against Pfizer, Accusing the Pharma Giant of Deceiving the Public About COVID Vaccine Safety and Efficacy”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/update-four-other-states-launch-massive-lawsuits-against/
Looks like Texas is joining the fray against Pfizer.
Roger that. I will meet you at The Joint in Randsburg, Saturday, June 29, at 1100. I will watch this site for any changes. I will also watch my email and SMS for any last minute changes. It takes me about a half hour to drive to Randsburg.
“Microsoft wants you to ditch Mail & Calendar on Windows 11 for better security”
https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/06/24/microsoft-wants-you-to-ditch-mail-calendar-on-windows-11-for-better-security/
Nope, Thunderbird and Gmail work just fine.
“Arm64EC – Build and port apps for native performance on Arm”
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/arm64ec
“Arm64EC (“Emulation Compatible”) enables you to build new native apps or incrementally transition existing x64 apps to take advantage of the native speed and performance possible with Arm-powered devices, including better power consumption, battery life, and accelerated AI & ML workloads.”
“Arm64EC is a new application binary interface (ABI) for apps running on Arm devices with Windows 11. It is a Windows 11 feature that requires the use of the Windows 11 SDK and is not available on Windows 10 on Arm.”
Looks like I better get moving faster on our Win32 to Win64 ports for all of our software apps. Zero down, five to go.
“Microsoft waves goodbye to underwater data centers”
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-waves-goodbye-to-underwater-data-centers
Looks like the great-great-great-great grandfather of the Cylons. Way before the toaster model with the dual machine guns.
I just got a notice about a recall on my 2014 F-150. It has to do with the transmission suddenly shifting into 1st gear, from any gear. It could be a disaster at highway speeds. Ford is supposed to provide a firmware update to resolve the issue. The transmission is entirely controlled by the computer. That console shift lever is nothing but a joystick that sends commands to the computer. The computer can choose to obey, or not.
My mechanic tapped into the CAN buss with his diagnostic tool to show me what is happening, There were several hundred values that could be read from the system and several hundred messages per second rambling around the wires. The amount of information was astounding. Everything is controlled by the CAN buss, windows, door locks, A/C, seats, engine, lights, transmission, radio. Amazing technology.
Amazing software written by young people with hot skillz, who never heard of fail-safe design.
Home from my pickups. Waited a long time for the big one. So hot. I’m going to cool down a bit before going back out. I don’t think I”m headed to the BOL today.
n
I just got a notice about a recall on my 2014 F-150. It has to do with the transmission suddenly shifting into 1st gear, from any gear. It could be a disaster at highway speeds. Ford is supposed to provide a firmware update to resolve the issue. The transmission is entirely controlled by the computer. That console shift lever is nothing but a joystick that sends commands to the computer. The computer can choose to obey, or not.
My mechanic tapped into the CAN buss with his diagnostic tool to show me what is happening, There were several hundred values that could be read from the system and several hundred messages per second rambling around the wires. The amount of information was astounding. Everything is controlled by the CAN buss, windows, door locks, A/C, seats, engine, lights, transmission, radio. Amazing technology.
The accelerator pedal on my 2005 Expedition had three sensors on it: variable position, full down, and full up. The full down position sensor had failed at 100K miles or so and was signaling full down all the time. Luckily, the persons who wrote the EMS (engine management system) understood logic and checked the other positions before going wide on the throttle. It alarmed to me and I took it in, they replaced the pedal for a cool $200 or so.
I just got a notice about a recall on my 2014 F-150. It has to do with the transmission suddenly shifting into 1st gear, from any gear. It could be a disaster at highway speeds.
I wonder how many vehicles that has happened to ? It could be quite exciting to shift into 1st gear at 60 mph.
Almost as exciting as shifting to first from 70 mph.
Almost as exciting as shifting to first from 70 mph.
The results would be the same. An increasing shrieking noise then a big bang.
Amazing software written by young people with hot skillz, who never heard of fail-safe design.
Nope, there are fail-safes. Especially on the throttle controls.
BTW, all of the EMS systems are written in C code for speed and many threads. Toyota and Ford are reputedly at thirty million lines of code. That just gives me the heebie jeebies.
Looks like Ford is putting more fail-safes on the transmission though.
I called USAA to drop someone from the auto insurance. They canceled his CC at that time. Today’s mail had a statement. The card is canceled but now it has a 99¢ credit from the Cash Back. I don’t know what they are going to do. Apply it to the auto insurance? Mail a check? Postage is how much now a days? Time will tell.
Then there’s a bill from Optum. His new drug company. For drugs that arrived on Wednesday after he died on Sunday. Overdue bill for all of $23 and change. I sent a payment on May 31 when I mailed the DVD to Ken.
I expect to get a scolding bill from his dental insurance. Yeah….. you can’t cancel over the phone, you have to send a letter. Didn’t have to send a letter to sign up. So I called his CC and blocked the charges.
I’m just going to see what happens. It just feels like everything is like wading in a knee deep mud puddle.
For which, thank you very much.
I hope the DVD is as good as you remember the movie. That’s all.
Respectfully, I realize that many people use terms that are popular, but not strictly correct. One of those that bugs me is the term illegal immigrant, which is a contradiction in terms. An immigrant is a person who has begun the process of becoming a citizen, which is described here:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-1-submit-a-petition.html
The first step is to file a petition, and is limited to “lawful permanent residents,” which is the same as legal residents.
A foreign national or migrant, illegally in the US, is correctly called an illegal alien, not an illegal immigrant.
How do you feel about “alien invader”?
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2024/06/25/one-big-sharp-reason-to-hope-and-pray-the-supreme-court-curtails-chevron-n4930029
Finished dinner, and a shower. Based on my weight I’m still a quart to a half gallon low on water, so I’ll be drinking before bed.
Took too long to get stuff done today and I’m not ready for the drive. Still have some stuff to do here too, hoping to get the house is better shape before my wife gets home from her trip. It’d be worth spending another day on just that, if I get it done. Lot’s of distractions here…
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@JimB
“A foreign national or migrant, illegally in the US, is correctly called an illegal alien, not an illegal immigrant.”
The PLT’s like to talk about “immigrants” and ignore the distinction between those who have obeyed the laws of the United States and followed the proper legal procedure as immigrants or visitors, and those who have violated our laws by entering illegally. Modifying “immigrant” with “illegal” makes it clear exactly what which type we are talking about.
I like ‘illegal alien’ and I like it even more because the people working against me and civilization don’t want people to use the phrase.
they like to control the language, bully and coerce.
They are losing. On the radio today I heard both “Dude Looks Like a Lady” and “Money for Nothing” which uses the word for a bundle of sticks, and it was edited the same way the filth in rap songs gets edited – one micro snip that leaves no doubt about the word used.
I don’t use that particular word because some of my friends don’t like it. I don’t use some other words because they bring attention I don’t want or need.
I CHOOSE the words I use, most of the time very carefully, and I don’t like to be TOLD which ones are allowed.
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I found the information about the actual distinction between immigrant and alien to be an interesting comment.
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Time for bed though.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Operation-Wetback
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Operation Wetback
Now you’ve done it!
I do agree with you about being forced to use some words and not others. We are being bullied, and should fight back.