Hot and humid again, or still, or of course. Sunny and bright too. Yesterday was crazy hot and humid.
I drove in a big loop across most of Houston to do 4 pickups and then come home to get the kid. Saw three fires. I never see fires after that one year when I saw a half dozen. These all had responders on scene so I didn’t need to use my fire extinguishers. I’ve got a bunch in the truck… if needed.
Went out to my client’s house to help get xfinity fiber to the home installed. The installer wouldn’t get in an attic without a floor. And he really didn’t know much about networking, and barely could explain the features and limits of the service he was installing. For example, he didn’t know if it came with a fixed IP address or not. We’ll see later today if he managed to get it configured and provisioned, or not.
And that’s what I’ll be doing late morning, early afternoon- transitioning from the ATT fiber to the xfinity fiber. I’ve got some changes to make to the ubiquiti security gateway and router. Hope xfinity gets their part done, so I can flail away at mine. Then we’ll run the two concurrently either in load balance or in failover mode until the ATT contract expires. I can’t believe it’s been almost two years since we put the fiber in.
Time flies. Life. It’s what happens when you are planning for something else.
Don’t miss it.
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With this second assassination attempt on T, things are getting even sportier. Get your stuff in a row.
Stack like time is short. It might be.
nick
It has a wide, but adjustable front axle spacing. It’s a little grey Fergie. The tractor that revolutionised agriculture, with Mr Ferguson’s genius idea of the three-point linkage, copied by everyone then and since.
It takes up no more room to park/store than an average car, so it will fit both on my driveway at home and in a parking space at work. At the BOL, I have an equipment shed with a double door, into which it would also fit.
Texas sold its soul for fiber. The installer was probably running a register at Best Buy until a few months ago.
75F and dark this morning. Sky is lightening as I sit here though.
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Plan for the day is still good, with the addition of kid stuff at the end. 300pm- 9pm is not my own.
n
Florida authorities had received 54 phony tips of an impending school shooting in a single night following the tragedy, costing the department about $20,000 in taxpayer money, Chitwood said.
– so apparently the noise level is very high.
n
The crisis at work, which started last week and continued into yesterday, involved someone much younger learning Hot Skillz who needed to interface to my code to establish a connection to a piece of hardware involved in the Monkey Trick.
It looks like I will also have to make some changes on my side using old school Posix IPC C APIs to make sure that the connection does not terminate before the other code finishes its task. The APIs are missing in that Skillz language.
Someone will have a nice resume entry … if their code works.
Someone on X pointed out that the “assasnation attempt” happened on the same day that the affidavit revealing the bias in running the debate was revealed. Has anyone seen any news coverage of the affidavit? Nope, the new cycle is dominated by coverage of the weirdo.
Meanwhile, how did the assassin manage to lie in wait for 12 hours, when the decision to go to that location was short-term?
Something stinks…
Palm Beach County in September at the end of a wet Summer. No one sane sits in the hedge around a golf curse -er- course for 12 hours.
If the bugs or snakes dont get you, the questionably legal pesticides the groundskeepers use to control the bugs will do bad things to your body.
Some of the “culture war” and Disney hater outlets have coverage of the affidavit, but nothing mainstream so far.
Too many “look, squirrel” events are happening that mask other important events. The tin hat portion of my brain says it is a conspiracy. The reality side of my brain says that politicians are not intelligent enough to accomplish such a diversion.
The logical portion of my brain says that the news media avoids topics that make them look bad and divert attention from their biased, opinionated, somewhat untruthful, certainly not complete, tabloid journalism.
I grew up with Chet Huntley and Walter Cronkite. Both reported the facts, the news, the way it happened, not the way they wanted the news to happen.
This.
@Ray
You left out David Brinkley
You are not alone. The LSM can’t even say “assassination.” They use incident, something happened, unproven, etc. Even after a kid took a shot at tRump. There is a deep, evil, connection between these events. These aren’t rando’s acting on their own. After the first attempt, hearing pols say “oh, he’s not a sitting President” for lack of protection, is a joke.
tRump/vAnce 2024! (TRANCETM, LOL)
This post includes an image of what appears to be the affidavit in question.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/411495.php
Something stinks…
Someone in Trumps entourage “spontaneously” suggested that it was such a beautiful day, why not knock off work and play a few rounds of golf?
What the actual Hell:
THIS –> Elon Musk Has Just ONE Word for Hillary Clinton Openly Calling to Jail Americans for Wrong-Speak
Kankles can’t assume room temperature too soon. Remember the Department of Misinformation plugs actually tried to form until outrage cashiered it? This is happening in Euro countries and it is frightening. Throw Canada and Australia in the mix and you have the NWO on our doorstep demanding we join the party.
Is this the final nail in the coffin of Western Civ?
Mocking Ensues After Scientific American Endorses Kamala Harris
BREAKING: Over 1,000 Wounded, Including Hezbollah Terrorists, as Pagers They Use to Communicate Explode Across the Country
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/breaking-1000-wounded-including-hezbollah-terrorists-as-pagers/
There is video at the bottom of the article from security cams showing actual explosions…
n
SciAm has been biased agitprop for a couple of decades at least. Let my sub lapse long ago.
n
We only got one channel, black and white. I really only remember Walter Cronkite.
I want to know how you make a pager explode like that. That’s not just overheating the battery, there is force involved…
n
A couple grams of Semtex molded into the case at the factory disguised as adhesive or whatever
I want to know how you make a pager explode like that. That’s not just overheating the battery, there is force involved…
As Instapundit has likely already said: It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
Custom chip in place of standard, with output activated to detonate explosive when command is received.
Probably a countdown timer to coordinate.
I wonder who makes the special encrypted phones used by US intelligence officials. You know, the ones the Gang if 51 used to plot their subversive activities against Trump.
Or just a control message, specially crafted to activate the explosive that was placed in the phone during manufacturing.
Be a shame if John Brennan’s last thought was regret at carrying his scramble phone in the front pocket of his robe.
placed in the phone during manufacturing.
– that right there is the hard part, and the modified firmware. Are they dumb enough to buy them from the israelis?
n
Is that a rhetorical question?
Apple. Google.
The key tech would be the app.
Apple allows some customers to bypass the App Store screening process. My guess that the Feds have their own application distribution arrangement.
A special app really isn’t necessary, however, with Meta onboard with the agenda as well.
All cops, but especially Feds, are taught very carefully to lie at every opportunity. If the suspect knows what you’re after, they can redirect or stonewall. So you pretend to be “just asking questions”, or “doing an investigation”. This is not new; I listen to Dragnet on old-time radio, and you can hear it in the dialog if you listen carefully. Those scripts were carefully reviewed by the LA police department.
In this instance, of course, they have two goals. Pure intimidation of free expression, and potential opportunity to gen up charges like “lying to a federal agent”. You know, the Martha Stewart offense.
Correction. It was apparently pagers that were exploding. Which begs the question. Who still uses pagers?
I have said this before. Never say anything to a federal agent beyond your name. Or “I want an attorney”. Any other questions should be responded to with complete silence. Some will threaten a person a person with obstruction or failure to cooperate. Both bogus charges. A middle finger is one possible response to questions because that has been ruled by the courts as freedom of expression.
Even local LEO’s deserve the same treatment. The feds in particular are not your friend by any stretch of the imagination. The right to remain silent is cast in stone.
re: Walter Cronkite and others of his ilk
Walter was a Democrat, a liar, a global warming idiot, and there’s a good argument to be made that he single-handedly lost the Vietnam war.
What he had was verisimilitude . He seemed to be all honest and believable, and people trusted him.
Trusting newsreaders has never been a good thing. At least for a time, they were pro-American, even though they were true believer socialists.
Situations where extreme reliability of the message reaching the recipient is required and bandwidth is not necessary.
Plus, criminal activity. SMS does not require a warrant, but pager company customer records are protected by 70s era laws:
The League of Women Voters is at the office today, down in the cafeteria, registering people to vote.
Citizens only, I‘m sure.
He was also NIMBY on wind power.
Well, insurance people ate my day. I’ll be heading to my customer tomorrow. No way to get there, do anything, and get back to kid duties in time.
So I’ll do some cleaning up and putting away here. That needs doing in any case.
n
Or intercept the shipment(s) and replace with the ‘special’ pagers. I’d guess this is not a short-term operation, and Israeli intelligence infiltrated the supply chain a long time ago. “Then we wait” for the best or most needful moment.
LMFAO!
BREAKING NEWSBillie Eilish reveals who she is voting for in 2024 after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris
Gee, I wonder who? And, really DM, “breaking news?” I won’t even insert the link.
I’m not even a little surprised. They probably figured a threat was enough to get school canceled the next day. We had a similar thing happen here where there was a gun incident at a school. The next day there were also sorts of threats and reports. They dismiss school for an actual event or threat and it doesn’t take the kids long to figure out they can false report their way out of classes.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw this headline. Mostly because they “had it coming,” Also, because there’s just something amusing about having a pager in 2024.
I’m not a fan of home schooling. It is really difficult to get it right. Your wife home schooled your son for his last three years of high school? Is she a chemistry teacher, and a physics teacher, and a calculus teacher, and a…
You get the idea. Unless the home-schooling parents are part of a serious co-op, with a solid collection of experts, I cannot see how the parents can provide the quality of education a kid ought to have. At least, not above elementary school.
Then you get the religious fruitcakes who teach creationism instead of evolution, and even the flat-earthers. And don’t get me started on “unschooling”, otherwise known as “how to raise a feral child”.
Good for him! Then your wife and son did an exceptional job. Exceptions make the rule.
We, along with other parents, hired teachers for his chemistry and calculus classes. It was actually quite cheap and the teachers used standardized tests and common textbooks. There is a HUGE collective of home school parents here in Fort Bend County with thousands of kids being home schooled. In fact, it was cheaper to home school our son than the Christian high school that we sent our daughter to (and I think better). Texas has incredibly strong support for home schooling since Texas did not have public schools until 1910 or so.
BTW, my wife and I are creationists. But the universe is 13 ??? billion years old and Earth is 4 ??? billion years old (those numbers are not precise to even one digit). A day to us is not a day to God. One of my friends at church, a PhD Chemist for Shell, has a great presentation about the non-linearity of God.
I continuously tell people, the Bible is not a history book, the Bible is a user manual. Half of the Old Testament was written down by illiterate sheep herders, it is amazing that they did as good a job as they did.
I want to know how you make a pager explode like that. That’s not just overheating the battery, there is force involved…
Lithium batteries in enclosed spaces will explode if the battery overcharges. Incredible amount of energy. The only thing with more energy is gasoline and diesel.
All current lithium batteries are liquids. Vaporize those liquids with a 2000 to 1 expansion factor and you better run for safety. Stuff will be flying at very high velocities.
Phones are two-way communications; they can be tracked. Pagers are receive-only, and cannot be tracked. Terrorists REALLY DO NOT want to be tracked and located, because the IDF can, and has, send precision-guided munitions to home in on them.
It isn’t that difficult; you can buy textbooks and study guides for history, civics, English. RBT wrote a guide for chemistry labs. Most moderately-educated adults can teach arithmetic, and there are free online MIT guides to every level of mathematics from “1+1 =2” to applied partial differential equations. And that’s BEFORE you look at the KhanAcademy.org – or YouTube.
Somehow I have it in my head that High Fructose Corn Syrup is mostly “filler”. Reading labels does not change my mind. There is no reason any kind of sugar should be the first ingredient in ketchup or BB sauce or tartar sauce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup I consider the source biased.
What set me off? Oh, just a bottle of HEB ketchup prominently saying “No High Fructose Corn Syrup”. That seems like an odd thing to say. But the ingredients are just tomato sauce, a bit of sugar, vinegar, and some spices.
From the Wiki, “Soft drink makers such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi continue to use sugar in other nations but transitioned to HFCS for U.S. markets in 1980 before completely switching over in 1984.”
Ah! The flavor of sodas changed about 1975. I liked Dr Pepper and suddenly it was “ick”. I don’t know if it was the change from sugar to corn syrup or to HFCS. I’ve had Dr Pepper from the Dublin plant, that used just sugar, and it tasted fine.
How about the whole New Coke thing? They “returned” to the original formula but Coca-Cola is not the same. Mexican Coke tastes like Coke always tasted.
Well anyway. When I was in high school the only fat girls were Mexican chicks that had had a baby. This was long before it was decided a male can have a baby. <eye roll>
Then there is stuff like soy and canola oil. Even corn oil. I think you to have to eat a bushel of corn on the cob to get a couple of tablespoons of corn oil in you.
So we have HFCS and soy and canola oil with lots of different preservatives in almost everything now and there sure are a lot of really really fat people at the grocery store.
Go back about 30 years and all of the Sunday morning talking head shows were sponsored by Archer Daniels Midland, the big corn processor who pushed HFCS into everything during the 80s and 90s.
ADM reigned until the Bush cabal decided to make the push for the White House with “W” in 2000 and Enron became the big sponsor.
Kenny Boy!
I want to know how you make a pager explode like that. That’s not just overheating the battery, there is force involved…
Lithium batteries in enclosed spaces will explode if the battery overcharges. Incredible amount of energy. The only thing with more energy is gasoline and diesel.
All current lithium batteries are liquids. Vaporize those liquids with a 2000 to 1 expansion factor and you better run for safety. Stuff will be flying at very high velocities.
Dadgum it, I could not remember the correct term before but sweltering in my old Highlander in the 98 F heat around here an hour ago, I now remember the correct term:
BLEVE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion
Boiling liquids expanding into vapor are incredibly bad news. LNG is the absolute worst with a 3,600 to 1 volume expansion factor. I am SWAGging that lithium salt is 2,000 to 1. It could be only 1,000 to 1. No matter what, bad, very bad. An AAA sized battery might take your hand off.
BTW, lithium batteries are not only subject to overcharging, they are also subject to overusage. Create a short in your load and that lithium battery will get direct electrical shorts in it trying to serve the load demand. Hence the boiling.
My hypothesis is that somebody in Mossad figured out how to create a short in that pager lithium battery.
People keep on farting around with the Israelis and finding out that they have long memories and are very vindictive.
It isn’t that difficult; you can buy textbooks and study guides for history, civics, English. RBT wrote a guide for chemistry labs. Most moderately-educated adults can teach arithmetic, and there are free online MIT guides to every level of mathematics from “1+1 =2” to applied partial differential equations. And that’s BEFORE you look at the KhanAcademy.org – or YouTube.
The Sugar Creek Baptist Church Home Schooling organization had over a thousand members back in the late 1990s. They had a weekend long convention in the church gym every August. Vendors would beat on the church doors trying to get in to sell their wares to the thousands of parents showing up to get the latest advice. Lots of lectures on how to get stuff done.
https://www.homeschool-life.com/tx/scche/
There were also football teams, soccer teams, cheerleading, etc. Just like a regular junior / high school without all of the nonsense.
Or got creative with the firmware in the battery earlier in the supply chain.
“He’s probably right…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/09/hes-probably-right.html
“Former FBI agent Tim Clemente said last weekend:”
I agree, there will be a third attempt on Trump’s life.
I’ve seen reports that an overheating battery wouldn’t explode, but would probably just overheat a noticeable point, and possibly catch fire or throw off sparks. That was the opinion of a guy that has often seen that type of battery overheat.
Example (link):
Alex Pournelle wrote this on his FB timeline earlier today:
“Vaccine-injured Americans fight to hold Biden-Harris admin accountable over censorship campaign”
https://www.theblaze.com/return/vaccine-injured-americans-are-fighting-to-hold-biden-harris-admin-over-censorship-campaign
“Novel COVID-19 vaccines advertised as “safe and effective” left multitudes of Americans injured or worse during the pandemic. Some of those individuals still physically capable went online to express their concerns, share their life-changing experiences, and engage with others medically compromised by government mandates and experimental science. However, in many cases, they found themselves unable to do so.”
“Their posts were suppressed. Their accounts were deleted or quarantined. Their speech was altogether stifled.”
“Several vaccine-injured Americans are seeking to hold the Biden-Harris administration and its apparent coconspirators to account for this insult to injury.”
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“BREAKING REPORT: Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah pagers ordered from Taiwan”
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-report-israel-planted-explosives-in-hezbollah-pagers-ordered-from-taiwan/
“There’s a new report out tonight that suggests the exploding pagers weren’t because of the lithium battery being overheated by some Israeli hack to the network.”
“Rather, the report says Israel intercepted a shipment of pagers headed for Lebanon and embedded explosives near the battery and a switch which could active the explosive material.”
Yeah, the pagers all blew up at 3:30pm. That is a explosive.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
And yes, The White House tipped off The New York Times. So much for “Loose Lips Sink Ships”.
All right. All right. All right.
The registration deadline to run for Governor in Texas is just a little over a year away.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13859871/What-happened-matthew-mcconaughey-face-apperance-speculation-doctors-explain.html
Lost in the shuffle of this story is that “Rah” Morris is not doing any better at the head coach job than he did in Tampa.
And just like in Tampa a dozen years ago, Lovie is tanned, rested, and ready to replace “Rah”.
https://www.si.com/nfl/bill-belichick-throws-shade-at-falcons-owner-arthur-blank-manningcast
Rich McKay needs to retire in Atlanta. He made his point.
“Microsoft leverages robotics and AI to disassemble and recycle defective hard disks to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025”
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-leverages-robotics-and-ai-to-disassemble-and-recycle-defective-hard-disks-to-reach-a-90-reuse-and-recycle-rate-by-2025
“Microsoft aims to use a “NoShred” approach to hit a 90% reuse and recycle rate of hard drives by 2025.”
No used hard drives for me !
My favorite Beeper Bomb memo so far is the one that shows the screen: FAFO.
As the article notes at the end, for now, Redmond is sticking with the Oct. 2025 date to end support for Windows 10, which will, ironically, result in a lot of computers heading to landfills.
My employer’s stock was up marginally today on the news that Microsoft and Blackrock are starting a fund to build AI infrastructure with a $30 billion initial stake.
Last night’s movie was The Goonies. Silly movie and fun to watch. A few swear words but not bad. Seems fine for a 10 year old kid.
Tonight’s movie was Gremlins. Pretty good special effects. But overall, a stupid movie. Not for 10 year old kids.
It’s Furbys get wet to reproduce and if they are fed after midnight they do the thing caterpillars do to become butterflies. What hatches is not a nice creature. But…. sunlight light kills them . I think I saw a vampire movie or several with that plot twist when I was a little kid. I’d like to have some of the drugs they used to make the movie.
@Lynn
“People keep on farting around with the Israelis and finding out that they have long memories and are very vindictive.“
Have you read “The crimes if I.G. Farben” yet?
They used slave labor from the camps in the IGF chemical plants. The plants had grid lines painted on the floors, and an ID system that visually identified a slaves asdignment on the grid.
When the guards got bored they would tell a slave to make a delivery in another area if the plant. The slave could get shot fir disobeying, or get shot for being out if his grid.
Realpolitik is the only reason Germany exists today. .
Why so?
I ran Win98Se and then WinXP for a few years after they “expired”. No problems. Same for Win7. They were replaced with new machines as the hard drives became flaky.
Win11 is pretty solid. I haven’t had a crash yet. Then again, I never had NT5 Beta crash.. That was before XP. There’s still stuff in W11 from Win3.11 if not from Win2.
The constant updates are very annoying.. Crap just keeps moving around…. and why the hate for Control Panel? Settings is all stupid web page mushy stuff.
I have heard Ubuntu is good.
The Allies preserved IG Farben for the eventual war with the Russians.
Now the consortium includes Monsanto and their US facilities.
Uh, that might not be a bad thing. Sure, it could be broken up into pieces and this part goes to France and this goes to Austria or Czechoslovakia or Poland or whatever.
Stuffing all of those little Germanic city states/ countries into one nation smooths out the crazy. Otherwise you have Prussia without the rest of Germany mellowing it and well, look at a map. Prussia from Denmark to the edge of Russia. Yikes.
Pitch black outside. I know, whine whine whine. 8:15PM. Time for potty walk. I doubt I’ll be up at 9:30.
“Gremlins”. Keye Luke. Number One Son.
I keep a couple of Ubuntu partitions around, but I run Linux Mint as my “Ubuntu” partition on my primary desktop.
Another good “flavor” of Ubuntu for Linux newbies is Pop! OS.
“As the article notes at the end, for now, Redmond is sticking with the Oct. 2025 date to end support for Windows 10, which will, ironically, result in a lot of computers heading to landfills.”
About as not-green as you can get.
Price gouging in spades.
Corporate greed at it’s lowest.
January 2025
Trump White House release draft of Executive Order barring Fedgov from purchasing from Microsoft if support for Win10 is ended.
“We’ve done the analysis and their global warming index will jump to like a million and one. Can’t justify buying from them.”
“Time for potty walk.”
Traditional ritual for a full moon in the almost-fall.
Knock back a couple Octoberfests and contribute some urea to the lawn.
A lot of PLT’s are numnum nutters who don’t know their email addys, OR a lot of PLT sites can’t read. Take your pick.
Fact is, I get political emails for folks named Jeff, and Eric, and a couple more.
If volume is indicative and the increasingly shrill tone is also, Sherrod Brown is watching the rear view closing in.
Lunar eclipse time!
You might be able to see that the upper-left quadrant of the Moon is dimmer than you’d expect for a perigee full moon, and right now, you can see a fingernail-width darkness in the upper left edge.
Alas, no moon for me. It’s all low clouds.
Wife saw it earlier though.
n
“Scotland’s only oil refinery to close next year, 400 jobs to go”
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/scotlands-grangemouth-oil-refinery-close-2025-400-jobs-go-2024-09-12/
“The Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland will shut down during next year’s second quarter, says Petroineos, operator of the century-old refinery. The site will become a terminal for finished fuels, resulting in the elimination of 400 jobs, says the company, which attributes the closure to more than $775 million in losses since 2011.”
And another oil refinery with an oil fired crude oil heater goes down. Pretty soon, all refineries will just be fancy tank farms and nobody will make refined distillates.
The USA is down from 250+ refineries in 1980 to 90 refineries today, I am not sure about the EU. Only large (350,000 barrels of oil per day) refineries with natural gas fired crude oil heaters are surviving. I suspect that all gasoline and diesel is being moved over a thousand miles via pipeline, ship , or truck on average now. That does not go well in the long run.
Just a sliver gone, looked a lot like a clipped coin.
Last night’s movie was The Goonies. Silly movie and fun to watch. A few swear words but not bad. Seems fine for a 10 year old kid.
Tonight’s movie was Gremlins. Pretty good special effects. But overall, a stupid movie. Not for 10 year old kids.
It’s Furbys get wet to reproduce and if they are fed after midnight they do the thing caterpillars do to become butterflies. What hatches is not a nice creature. But…. sunlight light kills them . I think I saw a vampire movie or several with that plot twist when I was a little kid. I’d like to have some of the drugs they used to make the movie.
The Goonies and Gremlins movies are awesome. The 2 ? 3 ? sequels for the Gremlins movie are not awesome at all.
Win11 is pretty solid. I haven’t had a crash yet. Then again, I never had NT5 Beta crash.. That was before XP. There’s still stuff in W11 from Win3.11 if not from Win2.
I have crashed every version of Windows since version 2. I could not crash version 1 since it was so slow on my Compaq luggable that I did not run it. Most of my problems on Windows related to flaky device drivers. No more AMD chips that sound like the revving up of a B-52.
I reboot my Windows 11 machine every week since it loses memory every time I run a daily or weekly backup using robocopy (mirror image). I have had Windows 11 lock up twice now, still with both screens running but the mouse and keyboard are dead. Just a zombie.
I was an alpha tester for Windows 92, 93, 94, and then the release 95. Never again. I was getting weekly 1.4 MB diskettes for a couple of years and then they jumped on weekly CDs. Getting that code stabilized was not easy using Microsoft Tiger teams, three groups with the same goals, first team to finish gets bonuses even if the code sucked.
I have never crashed a mainframe but I have crashed many Unix and Dec Vax boxen by running out of virtual memory.
Moon viewing has been great here. The best was this morning’s moonset. Watched from 5-6, still dark and the horizon is lower to the west so the moon gets very low, large, and yellow.
Tonight just as you described it.
Lunar eclipse time!
You might be able to see that the upper-left quadrant of the Moon is dimmer than you’d expect for a perigee full moon, and right now, you can see a fingernail-width darkness in the upper left edge.
Too many clouds to see the Moon now in the office parking lot. And I am worried about werecoyotes even though I had a .357 in my hand so I did not hang out there very long.
I saw it at 730pm when the wife and I were out walking, real low on the horizon and very orangey.
I have never crashed a mainframe but I have crashed many Unix and Dec Vax boxen by running out of virtual memory.
Wait, I remember looking at our CDC 6600 plant computer mainframe back in 1982 or 1983 and it crashed. I swear that I did not touch it. Sonny rebooted it from the cpu cabinet register switches and got it back up within five minutes. It was known a frequent crasher due to the 5,000+ input/output data points it scanned each minute.
I still occasionally see a sign or display in public showing a blue screen. The latest was only a month ago at D2’s orthodontist. The building management has displays showing a directory, and sometimes ads. Bluescreen that day.
I’m good at breaking software so at home I try to keep stuff stable, and then LEAVE IT ALONE. I no longer poke at stuff just to poke it.
Part of me decided that in the end, with the pace of change, it was just a waste of time.
n
Got this from FEMA this morning but didn’t read it ’til now.
n
Auroras were predicted as far south as Omaha. If that had happened, my brother there would have emailed me. It would probably take another Carrington Event-class storm to get auroras down to south Texas.
And I just released version 16.21 of our software. Version 17.00 (64 bit and new compiler) is still way down the road.
RickH, the website is running awesomely tonight. The thumbs up is almost instantaneous.
I’m gonna read a bit more Jane Yellowrock, and head to bed. I haven’t quite decided if I like her and the series. I’m 80% thru the second book…
But I know I like my bed.
n
I’m gonna read a bit more Jane Yellowrock, and head to bed. I haven’t quite decided if I like her and the series. I’m 80% thru the second book…
But I know I like my bed.
Jane Yellowrock gets darker as the series goes. Real good stuff. Kinda Christian Cherokee shapeshifter who walked the Trail Of Tears as a five year old. She finds employment as a Vampire Hunter in New Orleans.
Faith Hunter has two other series that are pretty good. One is about a “Church Woman” who is half wood sprite, half human who has escaped from the male dominated church compound. The other is about the battle between the rebelling angels and the loyal angels has spread from Heaven to Earth and just abut destroyed all of the humans on Earth.
Yeah, they’re coming for your natural gas…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/18/heat-pump-subsidies-never-enough/
and the result is going to be a lot of people freezing to death in the dark.