And it’s still hot in Houston. Humid too. 100F this afternoon according to my truck, and 88F at 10pm. Humidity to match. Weather liars said it would be the same for a while yet. I’ll probably bemoan the cold when it finally gets here too, but I’m heartily tired of the humidity.
Did some stuff yesterday. Mainly poked at networking stuff at my client’s house. Frustrating. But got the xfinity fiber working. I have to go back and clean up the install, and swap some settings around so that xfinity is primary and the ATT fiber is secondary. He’s still got at least a month and a half to go on his ATT contract so we’ll run with a backup until then. xfinity still hasn’t buried the fiber, they just left it laying on the grass. Supposedly a crew will come back and underground it. I’m thinking a plow, but I don’t really know. I’ve got some firmware to update on various pieces of gear, and some other stuff to do as soon as it cools down a bit. I won’t work in the attic if I don’t absolutely have to with it being this hot.
Today I’ve got to pick up some metal cabinets I won, and do some other pickups too. Then I should hit Lowes and buy project materials for the BOL. And I should definitely run some stuff to storage to get it out of the house. Wife’s birthday celebration will be at the BOL this weekend but getting the house cleaned up will put her in a good mood. I’ve been sorta trying all week but things keep coming up. Happy wife, happy life and all that. The opposite is certainly true.
Last night’s dinner was put in the deep freeze back in 2020. I did a little moving and digging in one of the freezers, and dug it up. There is plenty more in there from that time, and even older. Keep it vac sealed, keep it deep frozen, and you can keep it a long time. I haven’t been very good at rotating…
But I have been good at stacking. I’ve even switched to just mostly replacing what we eat as I’m comfortable with the amount I’ve got stored. I DO need to do some extra replacement for spoiled cans, and stuff that failed, above and beyond what we’re using. And I’d stack more, but we are already way behind on rotating stock, and I’m frankly running out of space that is good for food storage. I’m still building up the BOL with new stuff though. It’s just here that I feel like I have to turn over some of the old if I want more new. Of course if I’m feeding more than just us, I don’t have enough. But that would be the case no matter how much I had.
Stack what you need, and then stack more, but try for balance with the inevitable entropy and a reasonable use budget.
nick
They voted for it. Corn Pop. Whitmer. Many more before them in Michigan and across the midwest.
Scranton Joe.
In Illinois, its the friggin’ Pritzker family. The common touch. And he thinks he can run for President.
75F this morning. It’s been enough days now that I’m sure of the shift. Fall is here whether we acknowledge it or not.
n
Just watched the possum on my attic cam knock over the rat trap bucket, and crawl in to (presumably) eat the two blocks of rat poison in there. Then he made a circuit of that part of the attic and headed for his entry/exit to the garage. He’s definitely using the soffit space to move around the perimeter of the house, and to get from the garage to the main house attic. I don’t want a poisoned possum, but he did it to himself. I REALLY don’t want a dead possum somewhere in the soffits or attic.
n
Maybe someone will develop a critter trap that attaches an Airtag.
Heh, my preferred band of indelible marker. The word Sharpie is like Kleenex or Xerox. The original is now the generic name for the competition.
I really despise stupid programmers and stupid websites.
I got an email (yes, it was from Chase) from Chase saying my information had been exposed in a data breach. Well, really, whose hasn’t? The link in the email takes me to their website. OK. I try to log in but I need a security code they will send me. But they want to text me or call me at my home phone even though I have provided my cell phone. Choosing the cell phone is not an option. The recorded voice that speaks the code is barely intelligible. Instead of giving one number at a time, they speak two digits at a time. Then to get to the option to repeat the number it is necessary to listen to a one-minute recording about fraud.
Once I get to my account on their website, there is no place to review the information on the breach. Nowhere to be found. If the information is there it is so well hidden that I am not clicking through 30 options in the menu to find the information. Logical places do not have the information.
What a bunch of idiots that have obviously never used their system.
Of course. It’s just window dressing to act like they’re informing you and then can deny any responsibility from there on out.
Ever since Spongey decided to not seek reelection he has generally been vacant from the news. There has been nothing in the last week where Spongey has made an appearance. I have not even seen him stumping for the Humper. It makes me wonder if his condition has really deteriorated to the point where he is almost mentally non-functional. That he is being hidden from the public so that the public does not know the real truth. (See “Dave” the movie for reference).
Remember, the same people who said Spongey was fully qualified, are now hiding him from the public. Instead their energies are being bandied around the Humper. The Humper has really done nothing during her 3.5+ years in office. As the border Czar she did nothing. As a district attorney she threatened to jail people without cause with just a stroke of her pen.
If it were not for the media being in her corner, she would be totally ineffectual at anything.
The Humper is threatening to use executive orders to get her way. The banning of guns by executive order is a direct violation of the constitution. The last I checked executive orders only apply to the military and government workers, not private citizen. not congress, not the senate. This indicates to me she has a complete misunderstanding of the constitution and the separation of powers.
I am no fan of the orange man either.
Harris understands the separation, but challenges to the executive order would take time to work through the court system. Look at how long it took to get the jab mandate overturned, ruining a lot of Christmas plans as job loss loomed for the “unclean”, and, for those of us who chose to remain part of the Control under any circumstances, almost literal gold stars pinned to our jackets and threats of Ze Kampfs.
Imagine how reluctant gun owners will be pilloried as any seizure order gets reviewed.
BTW, I’m still waiting for that knock on my door. We will see who rusts first.
However:
Always vote, even if it is for the lesser weevil. Use a clothespin on your nose if you must, but vote.
The LSM is pushing the Kamel Humper/schmWaltz line that they are the candidates for “joy and happiness.” There are no hard questions for them—just questions about her hair, how great their lives are, etc. tRump is Hitler, tho. The sheeple will buy this.
tRump/vAnce TRANCEtm 2024!
Not all of the sheeple but the Wine/Weed Moms who are going to decide this thing, yeah, they will buy it.
Newest Ebay Gold:
Unexploded Hezbooboo pager
Who wants to bet the TSA implements new draconian polices because of this (exploding pagers)?
I do, and it is sometimes really painful. I need a clothespin for one end and a cork for the other end to keep from fouling the voting both. It is sometimes extremely distasteful to vote. This will be one of those years.
Not that my vote really counts. The dimocrats will be doing what is necessary to have the Humper win. Not large scale as that too large to keep really secrets. But small issues in every precinct that add up when counted.
LBJ had dozens of dead people vote for him. Their names were on the voter rolls, in the exact order they appeared on the headstones in the local cemetery. This was long before large scale computer use and the rolls were largely manual and counted manually, then phoned in to the next level.
Al Gore did not carry East TN because I slammed him in the paper. I caught him giving lip service and not doing his job. Front page on the paper. Because he did not carry East TN, he failed to carry TN. Because he failed to carry TN, he failed to win the election and resorted to the Florida debacle. I like to think I personally caused him to lose. I actually doubt that was the real reason. But I did help him lose and like to think it was really my fault. It makes me feel better.
Learn to code. Yeah, how’s that working out? (sorry Greg.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13869105/warning-artificial-intelligence-replace-tech-jobs-layoffs.html
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I don’t know if they will. The explosions are localized to the person with the pager, and are relatively small.
But I may very well be incorrect. The TSA may ban all electronic devices from certain countries. I think they aught to ban all people from certain countries from traveling to the U.S. Call me Raycist but they are doing it to themselves.
The TSA may ban pagers, but it would be a self-inflicted disaster for the TSA to ban cell phones.
The cost of the Florida debacle was the loss of Vote-O-Matic, a tamper resistant balloting system, and the rise of the touch screen boondoggles.
Vote-O-Matic stations and the cards were EBay gold.
Paging CowboyStu
Email and text sent
Banks, amirite? And politicians…
I’m more than fed up with the bank that holds my mortgage, as they have (since I bought this place); closed the Mortgage Center in the town I live in, so I have to drive 90 minutes to deal with them in person if needed; when I had an ATM fail to give me cash after withdrawing it from my account, refuse to take an official report without an in-person visit to my branch (again, 90 minutes away, so more cost in gas than I lost in cash); and most recently, after ‘investigating’ my property tax account to see if I indeed had a balance after the taxes were paid, transferred the wrong amount from that account to my main account, although I requested a specific amount twice. Also of note is that the original service request CANNOT be viewed or accessed from my online account after I send it, and their replies disappear after an unknown period, which is why a prior request and reply from 2 years ago is no longer in their system.
And I’d move my business except that our Fearless Leader TrueDough and his party changed banking regulations years ago so I can’t refinance at my present level of equity.
Some days make you wonder if anything will continue to work, or if it’s all collapsing under it’s own weight.
You have my gratitude for this and some other things. Maybe you should change your alias to StingRay!
There are a lot of “programmers” who are only marginally competent. My one stint as a manager, I had one guy whose productivity was genuinely negative, because the competent had to clean up after him. I wasn’t allowed to get rid if him.
The semi-competent programmers can, in fact, be replaced by ChatGPT. How? It is an incredible multiplier, especially for generalists who do a zillion different things. For a small company, one good generalist can now easily replace a host of mediocre specialists.
Anyway, think about other fields. Mediocre journalists are already gone. AI companies are experimenting with AIs controlling robots: In a few years, all sorts of physical low-skill jobs could be impacted. Stocking shelves? Janitorial services? Bar tending?
Hang on tight, fun times ahead.
Hey Rickh, my wife really like your “The RV Park Redemption (The RV Vigilante)” by Richard Hellewell. She gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars and is going to buy the sequel book.
https://www.amazon.com/RV-Park-Redemption-Vigilante/dp/B0CKDBG56L?tag=ttgnet-20/
She also is looking at your “The Forgotten Winchester” by Richard Hellewell.
https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Winchester-Richard-Hellewell/dp/1082219657?tag=ttgnet-20/
She asked me if I read your Light Blink books and I said yes.
The semi-competent programmers can, in fact, be replaced by ChatGPT. How? It is an incredible multiplier, especially for generalists who do a zillion different things. For a small company, one good generalist can now easily replace a host of mediocre specialists.
Anyway, think about other fields. Mediocre journalists are already gone. AI companies are experimenting with AIs controlling robots: In a few years, all sorts of physical low-skill jobs could be impacted. Stocking shelves? Janitorial services? Bar tending?
Do you trust AI robots not to beat you to death with the broom ?
The Tesla Bot coming out soon for $25K scares the you know what out of me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)
And it’s still hot in Houston. Humid too. 100F this afternoon according to my truck, and 88F at 10pm. Humidity to match. Weather liars said it would be the same for a while yet. I’ll probably bemoan the cold when it finally gets here too, but I’m heartily tired of the humidity.
Our 7pm 1.5 mile walks have been very uncomfortable. I rinse my head and shoulders, throw by dockers back on, and go back to the office until midnight or so. I take a real shower when I get home as I do not want to take three showers a day.
Who wants to bet the TSA implements new draconian polices because of this (exploding pagers)?
The plastic explosive is only three grams and is sealed in a container on the micro circuit board. Good luck building a detector as it was designed to not be detectable.
“BREAKING: 20 Supporters Seated Behind Trump Onstage Rushed to ER with ‘Blurred Vision’ and ‘Eye Burns’ After Rally in Tucson, Arizona”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/breaking-20-supporters-seated-behind-trump-onstage-rushed/
Laser. There are some real scumbags out there.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
There are a lot of “programmers” who are only marginally competent. My one stint as a manager, I had one guy whose productivity was genuinely negative, because the competent had to clean up after him. I wasn’t allowed to get rid if him.
The semi-competent programmers can, in fact, be replaced by ChatGPT. How? It is an incredible multiplier, especially for generalists who do a zillion different things. For a small company, one good generalist can now easily replace a host of mediocre specialists.
Anyway, think about other fields. Mediocre journalists are already gone. AI companies are experimenting with AIs controlling robots: In a few years, all sorts of physical low-skill jobs could be impacted. Stocking shelves? Janitorial services? Bar tending?
BTW, we are seeing this in the crude oil and natural gas industries too. Severe employment drop in the last 2 or 3 years. When I sent out my release newsletter Monday night, almost two dozen came back as undeliverable, email unknown. This email was to paying customers only.
There were 15 million employed in oil and gas industries across the USA ten years ago. It was 11 million two years ago. I am SWAGging way below 10 million now.
I am thinking about a 50% price decrease to make us more competitive. We are just not getting very much interest anymore and I know that some of my competitors have dropped their prices way below mine to get business closed.
Thank you for passing along her kind words about the “RV Vigilante” books. I assume that she has/will leave a review on Amazon (it hasn’t shown up yet). Reviews are very helpful.
Hope she enjoys “The Forgotten Winchester”. That book starts out a bit slow, but the first part is there for a reason that becomes evident in the second part. It’s a Classic Western (in the ‘Louis L’Amour’ style). But I like the ending – and there are pix in the book of the actual discovery of the rifle.
Thanks again.
It’s like the self-driving cars. They are going to kill people in new and unusual ways. However, they will kill *fewer* people than people do.
Optimus as a fast-food worker may well beat a couple of customers to death with the soft-ice machine. Likely, those will be the customer that current workers *wish* they could beat to death. 😛
This operation has been an absolute triumph of military intelligence, planning and execution. However, one must note that it does violate the widely agreed rules of war, namely, not to booby-trap apparently harmless objects that civilians are likely to touch. Dad’s pager goes off, kid helpfully bri…boom.
Yes, Hezbollah operatives deserve whatever they get. However, an operation like this inevitably has a lot of collateral damage. On the gripping hand, so did fire-bombing Dresden and nuking Hiroshima. War is horrible, and humans spend way too much time on it.
Tough decision. Glad it’s you and not me. When we ran our little software company, I was a terrible marketer / sales person. In your case, you have a solid marketing
wifemanager. Maybe let her make the decision?I honestly ask: Is this codified somewhere, or simply a good rule-of-thumb?
The counterargument is that only members of a terrorist network were issued these devices, that these devices were specifically used for militant communications, and to that extent noncombatants were mostly protected, and the terrorist organization is not a signatory to any “rules of warfare” agreements. Notably, Hezbollah has fired over 4000 missiles with no regard to civilian casualties.
Here is a timeline of the achievments of Hezbollah. Given their American death toll back in the Reagan years, I’m surprised they still exist. You know, bombing a US embassy is an act of war.
xfinity still hasn’t buried the fiber, they just left it laying on the grass. Supposedly a crew will come back and underground it. I’m thinking a plow, but I don’t really know.
Shovel. They send a first year tech out to bury the cable. He / she / it will put the cable 4 to 6 inches under the ground. Xfinity has replaced two 300 foot cables for me over the last five years since they are so shallow. Hopefully number three is the charm.
BTW, we are seeing this in the crude oil and natural gas industries too. Severe employment drop in the last 2 or 3 years. When I sent out my release newsletter Monday night, almost two dozen came back as undeliverable, email unknown. This email was to paying customers only.
There were 15 million employed in oil and gas industries across the USA ten years ago. It was 11 million two years ago. I am SWAGging way below 10 million now.
I am thinking about a 50% price decrease to make us more competitive. We are just not getting very much interest anymore and I know that some of my competitors have dropped their prices way below mine to get business closed.
BTW, I have lost half of my customers since 2010. Most due to bankruptcy or death of the primary engineer. And not just in the USA.
Last night’s dinner was put in the deep freeze back in 2020. I did a little moving and digging in one of the freezers, and dug it up. There is plenty more in there from that time, and even older. Keep it vac sealed, keep it deep frozen, and you can keep it a long time. I haven’t been very good at rotating…
Are there any MREs that you can keep in a 140 F truck for a few years ? I keep a 24 bottle case of water and four Mountain House freeze dried meals behind the rear seat. I figure that in the worst case, one can just pour water in the freeze dried package and let it soak if you do not have a heat source. But a high temperature MRE would be better.
https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-Spaghetti-Backpacking-Servings/dp/B084NW22VS?tag=ttgnet-20/
I really get freaked out by this book, “Going Home: A Novel (The Survivalist Series)” by A. American, as I am more than 100 miles away from home at least once per month. Sometimes 200 or 500 miles away. That is a heck of a walk, especially if one has to walk through a large city.
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Novel-Survivalist-American/dp/0142181277?tag=ttgnet-20/
Just watched the possum on my attic cam knock over the rat trap bucket, and crawl in to (presumably) eat the two blocks of rat poison in there. Then he made a circuit of that part of the attic and headed for his entry/exit to the garage. He’s definitely using the soffit space to move around the perimeter of the house, and to get from the garage to the main house attic. I don’t want a poisoned possum, but he did it to himself. I REALLY don’t want a dead possum somewhere in the soffits or attic.
Hey, what was that old wildlife adventure tv show that showed on Sunday afternoons ? Sounds like you have your own version of it.
Are you sure that the poison will affect the possum ? They are incredibly tough. The only poison that I think will affect them is the warfarin, the blood thinner.
“Bernie Sanders Preparing Resolutions to Block $20B in U.S. Arms Sales to Israel”
https://headlineusa.com/sanders-resolutions-arms-sales-israel/
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie ! You idiot, don’t you know that you will then force Israel to use Canned Sunshine ? By supplying Israel with arms, we give them options to use instead of Canned Sunshine.
I knew that Bernie was an idiot but I did not realize that he was as stupid as Joe Biden.
Of course if I’m feeding more than just us, I don’t have enough. But that would be the case no matter how much I had.
This is the problem. In some versions of a event, you will have to feed and arm your neighbors. You will never have enough.
I am no fan of the orange man either.
That orange man put three originalists on SCOTUS that are the only thing holding us back from savagery. Had SCOTUS not come up with some of their recent decisions about free speech and gun rights, we would be in Civil War 2.0 right now. Biden and his ilk are dictators and think that they can do anything that they want to do without Congress and the US Courts.
I figure that if the USA goes into Civil War 2.0 then the rest of the world will watch horrified, then go “solve” their own neighbor problems. WW III is being just barely delayed and many dictators want to to start it up right now.
My grandparents told me about living though WW II. The food rationing, the lack of new vehicles, the lack of spare parts like tires, batteries, oil, gasoline rationing was very difficult for four years. Plus fifteen million men in the USA were in the various armed forces. But we were a cakewalk compared to Germany and Japan where the countries were destroyed and starvation was common.
I mean besides terrorists and other ‘bad guys,’ who uses pagers?
Harris understands the separation, but challenges to the executive order would take time to work through the court system. Look at how long it took to get the jab mandate overturned, ruining a lot of Christmas plans as job loss loomed for the “unclean”, and, for those of us who chose to remain part of the Control under any circumstances, almost literal gold stars pinned to our jackets and threats of Ze Kampfs.
Imagine how reluctant gun owners will be pilloried as any seizure order gets reviewed.
BTW, I’m still waiting for that knock on my door. We will see who rusts first.
There are many people who consider any executive order banning any guns to be a start for Civil War 2.0. They have federal officers mapped out and are ready to execute them.
I mean besides terrorists and other ‘bad guys,’ who uses pagers?
Do doctors still use pagers ? They are almost guaranteed to work in emergency conditions as they are low bandwidth devices.
Maybe lasers, or maybe a chemical agent sprayed on the high-end vehicles in the rally parking area, near the cabin air intakes. It wasn’t clear to me if the effects were while attending, or after leaving the rally.
Also, you only try to discourage people if they’re doing something you don’t want happening and are afraid it will.
NB I reread the article, and some were affected there. So not chemicals on the cars (maybe).
“A.F. Branco Cartoon – Bad Connection”
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-bad-connection/
“A.F. Branco Cartoon – Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists’ pagers and walkie-talkies are literally blowing up, killing and injuring hundreds. They were booby-trapped by Israel in an effort to fight against terrorism.”
I am sorry but that is funny because it happened to the bad guys.
Lasering innocent people in a crowd because the sanctimonious undoubtedly PLT is full-on TDS? How about removing one eyeball with a grapefruit spoon? Immediately.
There’s no doubt that the terrorists will complain to the Jew-hating EU courts about ‘splody military devices. Be too bad if a stray Hezbooboo rocket landed on the deliberating judges. Yeah, 100/200 km range rocket catches tailwind and travels 2000km. Just a fluke.