A bit cooler. And wetter. And still humid, but less so. Scattered showers yesterday with occasional localized thunderstorm cells… so some places in Houston and surrounds got hammered. Some didn’t. Some got it twice. Today should be similar.
I did my pickup. Missed two that I’ll have to get today, as well as two more. That should keep me busy this morning. I ran out of time because I was dealing with my truck issues. Did the stuff that had to be done, put off the stuff I could. Kinda the story of my life, actually.
So today I’ll do some pickups, then some shopping if I have time. I need some stuff from Lowe’s to finish a project or two at the BOL. Later in the day I am supposed to pickup my pickup, and then load up for the BOL. Wife and D2 hope to leave before traffic gets bad, and I would like to too. Dunno if I’ll manage it. I’ve got one pickup that is in the wrong direction, and will take longer than I’d like. I originally thought I’d be able to get it on the way out of town but the truck repairs changed that. I’ll be lucky to hit the road before dark if I’m being realistic.
It’s always something. Still, I spent a couple hours listening to music from South Africa last night while I was reading, and at least we aren’t there yet. ‘One Man, One Vote’ by Johnny Clegg struck a chord … as did ‘Sufferin’ in the Land’ by Jimmy Cliff…
I managed to catch part of Jimmy Cliff’s set at the summer street festival in San Diego back in 1993, good times.
Civilization was nice while it lasted.
Stack. Prep. Upskill.
nick
77F as the coffee drips into the cup.
Hoping for a nice day.
n
“Don’t be the only one working in the office…”
She wan’t.
No one noticed… for four days.
RUR?
Where I work, there have been 2 people found dead in their office since I’ve been there. Both were there for at least a couple hours. If you really think about it, it’s not at all improbable for someone to not see anyone for a day or more, depending on the environment.
I have done that on three machines, and the results were noticeable but underwhelming. Three other machines never had anything but Linux, so no test. Two others had two versions of Windows, so also no test.
I have said before that I don’t like benchmarking, because it takes a lot of detailed work. It also seems to disagree with everyday use.
My biggest problem with Linux was the unfinished nature of major apps, especially their unsuitability for business use, but also slow performance. Examples of slow performance are word processing and spreadsheets, especially with large files. These were not true benchmarks, because the apps were different, natives to the OSs. I tried the major Linux office apps alongside the MS equivalents on Windows using the same files, and Windows won handily. It wasn’t close.
I have compared performance of other apps such as photo editing, and the Windows versions of the same app won hands down. The Windows version also had some better features lacking in the Linux version, both of close release dates.
Finally, scanning and form filling work much better on Windows in my experience, using the same hardware in some cases. This one isn’t a fair test: the Windows tests were also done using older hardware that was unsupported on Linux.
I really wanted Linux to win. It didn’t. It was remarkably good at some things, but not those that mattered most to me. I still have a couple of working boxes, and use them occasionally, but less often.
Aside from the nonsensical title, there is some good info in this article. It’s written frankly by an industry insider for other industry insiders.
https://www.mhlnews.com/transportation-distribution/article/55125900/the-state-of-us-logistics-2024-shippers-learn-logistics-is-no-silver-bullet
It’s worth a read for an overview of the current economic environment.
n
I haven’t run races between Linux and Windows, but I find the Linux apos work just fine, with two exceptions: spreadsheet compatibility with Excel, and the fact that Adobe products are no longer ported to Linux (they used to be, likely a Microsoft bribe happened).
Clocked in Friday morning. Found on Tuesday, and Wells Fraudo offices generally are NOT major hubs of activity over the weekend. So, no surprise that she wasn’t observed. But she was 60 years old, and apparently didn’t have any family to notice that she hadn’t come home Friday night.
Brad, I have stated many times that I haven’t allowed any Adobe products on any of my production systems for at least 20 years, with only one exception. My Linux distro had Adobe’s PDF viewer for a time, then removed it. It worked pretty well for form filling, where the file is modified to include the filled data. The result was compatible with most destinations. The Linux equivalent kept the fill data in a separate file, and even transmitting both files to a remote system yielded forms with no filled data. My work-around was ugly, and incompatible in other ways. It’s as if Linux never adopted the paperless office.
All this pains me, because I am a guy who wants to embrace standards. Unfortunately, Adobe, Microsoft, and many others want their own proprietary incompatible versions of the standards. In some cases, they innovated before the standards were written, and in others they have better or worse implementations, depending on who is viewing them.
I doubt Microsoft bribed anyone over PDF compatibility, because they don’t even have a PDF product. I remember the original PDF standards contest. The Adobe submission came in something like third out of five, yet was selected. This seems like a situation where bribes could have been involved. I am not accusing.
I started using PCs by using Macs, and continued to use them after Windows became dominant. I saw how Adobe dominated that platform with expensive Postscript typefaces, but failed to use Postscript as a display manager like some UNIX workstations did. I think that gave Truetype the edge in business, and relegated MacOs to publishing. History might have been different.
I was in an environment that used UNIX workstations for electronic design and transition to production. Our software cost more than the hardware, which wasn’t cheap. I saw Windows displace workststions in a year or so, because it gained enough performance on higher end hardware, had compatibility, and was ubiquitous for other office tasks. Some of us were surprised at its seemingly overnight ascendancy. There is a lesson there.
They Live (RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper):
Meet the Americans STILL isolating 4 years into Covid pandemic… including NJ woman who’s been in lockdown for 1,620 days
They eagerly await President Kamel Humper’s nationwide lockdown.
These people are brain-dead.
Monty: The Dunking Booth
https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2024/08/29
LMAO. Ah yes, the power of the US Dollar.
78 F here at 1 pm. I love it ! So not August weather in South Texas.
“Meet the Taliban’s new Sugar Daddy: the American taxpayer”
https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/meet-the-talibans-new-sugar-daddy-the-american-taxpayer-151349/
“It’s impossible to forget those iconic images from the late summer of 2021— helicopters over the US embassy in Afghanistan. Locals dangling from the landing gear of US Air Force cargo planes desperately trying to escape. The US military frantically packing up their gear to leave the country.”
“It had only been a few weeks prior when the guy with five decades of experience insisted that the Taliban would never take over Afghanistan. But then it happened within a matter of days.”
“The intelligence community, military analysts, and State Department all cautioned against such a cavalier approach.”
“But Joe Biden persisted: despite all the risks, he wanted troops out of Afghanistan before September 11th.”
“And the results were disastrous.”
“America left behind thousands of local Afghans who served the US military as interpreters, administrators, etc..”
Trump had a plan to leave Afghanistan. It was thrown out the window as too much work.
Don’t be the only one working in the office…
https://www.theblaze.com/news/bank-worker-dead-desk-tempe?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202024-08-29&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement&tpcc=email,
Many doctors are now claiming that the deaths from the Koof vaccine have now exceeded the deaths from the Koof itself. If so, the Koof vaccine is killing people in their working years whereas the Koof killed people in their retirement. Not good.
“Texas PUC selects 17 gas-fired projects totaling almost 10 GW for possible loans”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-regulators-select-17-gas-fired-projects-10-gw-TEF-loans/725740/
“The Public Utility Commission of Texas also finalized a reliability standard and took other steps to strengthen the state’s electric system at Thursday’s open meeting.”
I do not see a Warren Buffet related company in the mix.
“ERCOT is expecting about 152 GW of new load by 2030.”
That just boggles the mind. I do not understand how electric demand can triple in six years in Texas.
Texas has added 20 GW (SWAG) of new electric power sources in the last 12 months. Many of those were actually 3 to 5 year projects and over half of it was solar power which only makes power at 20% capacity factor.
Easy for someone like me to believe, but it would be nice to have actual statistics.
Part of the reason it’s easy for me to believe is the great effort the government-medical complex has gone to to suppress alternative treatments and bury statistics. Up to and including pressuring social media moguls to censor and ban and blacklist and shadowban any critics of the government narrative, including, you know, pointing out the truth.
Whenever I hear anyone say “But there’s no evidence!”, I ask myself why no one has looked for evidence.
Also, I’d like to see statistics on miscarriages and fertility.
Sitting in the truck listening to some blues while I’m waiting for my stuff at one of my Auctioneers. It’s 86° here. I drove through a number of light rain and heavy rain cells. And some sun. But right this moment I’m sitting in heavy overcast waiting for the rain to start.
N
I ended with five frozen blocks of spaghetti sauce. About one and two thirds cups each. Vac sealed, labeled with a Sharpie, and into the depths of the deep freezer.
Something to keep in mind for next time is to pull the plastic wrap up after the container is filled to get the wrinkles out. Then again, forget the plastic wrap. The stupid 1 liter tubs cost all of $22 or so for 50. Including lids. So they get stained. I still had to run water on a couple of sauce ice cubes to get the plastic off. Just use the tubs like an ice cube tray.
I found a few 4 cup Ziploc box molded bags of turkey stock. I cook that stuff down a lot. I make sure it has a layer of turkey fat, too. Pretty stout. How stout? Tastes like liquid turkey. Canned chicken broth tastes like water with a pinch of salt.
I also found a couple of 4 cup Ziploc molded bags of my chili. There’s a good chance there are a couple more. That will be nice in a few months.
There’s more in the freezer. Hot and Sour soup. The rest is a mystery. I get tired of rummaging while holding the lid up with my head.
I’m saving up to be eccentric.
I don’t see any familiar names, but the wholly owned Gecko companies are a maze.
AI.
@paul
Can you put a screw-eye in the wall about six-inches above the height of the freezer door when it’s open?
Tie off a length of cord with a magnetic cup holder, and use that to hold the door. Saves your head.
That’s up 50% under Biden/Harris
Paul, we once had a chest freezer with a lid that wouldn’t stay up. I rigged a small chain from the ceiling, with a hook to the handle, to hold it open. Saved my head. Sometimes it’s the little things that make a big difference.
CNN under fire for allegedly airing only 18 minutes of 41-minute Harris-Walz interview
https://mxmnews.com/article/c301bb2c-0d88-4e20-9d02-d163ed005e74
Here’s an offer for all of you TDS/Never Trumpers/Yellow Dog Democrats:
I have a pile of hard-metal cash. I will bet each one of you one U.S. pre-1980 Nickle that if Kamala Harris gets elected in 2024, by fall 2026 at least one-third of the votes will be unfindable, as people in droves deny having voted for her.
Kind of an inverse-Woodstock effect.
And another nickle says that with each passing month the percentage will decrease, until, finally, the last Yellow Dog of Yellow Dogs, Tim “Throw Granny in Jail for Serving Tea but Keep My Strip Club Open”* LAST-Waltz, will be on the bach in LA to greet his ChiCom masters as they land unimpeded by the woke-dead US Unarmed (but properly pronouned) Forces.
*sorry, “Tampon” was taken by a Brit and retired some years ago
Or, what drwilliams said. I hate it when I don’t refresh before posting.
We also keep gloves stashed near the freezer so our hands don’t freeze while we’re digging.
I suppose you could hang them on the chain/hook.
We intend to make an inventory of what’s in there, and my girlfriend just read a handy tip: Line the lid with white contact paper, and use a dry erase marker to list the contents. Then you can wipe away what you remove, and update your additions on the fly.
AI.
So we are all going to have $100,000 household AI machines with 3X the electric bills that we have now ? No freaking way.
Part of the reason it’s easy for me to believe is the great effort the government-medical complex has gone to to suppress alternative treatments and bury statistics. Up to and including pressuring social media moguls to censor and ban and blacklist and shadowban any critics of the government narrative, including, you know, pointing out the truth.
Whenever I hear anyone say “But there’s no evidence!”, I ask myself why no one has looked for evidence.
I cannot find any of the articles that I read a couple of weeks ago.
Dad and I went to see the new Reagan movie today. Totally awesome for Reagan fans like us. Highly recommended.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/reagan_2024
And cryptocurrency mining.
I put a small dry erase board on the wall above the chest freezer and made a map of where stuff was in the freezer, very generally. Worked for a long time.
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WRT power usage, remember all appliances will need to be electric, as will all cars.
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If those were the best minutes of the interview, imagine what the rest looked like.
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Got to the BOL. Drove thru some light rain in places. None here though. It’s dropped from 77F to 74F in the last 4 hours. It’s pretty chilly sitting on the dock, with all the humidity. Radio was noisy, but still heard NZ and AUS on 20M.
Sky was hazy but visible overhead, but the horizon up 60 degrees was covered with light clouds.
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Time for a shower and bed.
n
Finished the 4th Junkyard cats novella. I enjoyed them.