Muggy, maybe rainy, and warmer today, although yesterday had those things too. Just enough rain to wet stuff, and not enough to matter to the plants. And humid too.
So I went in to volunteer some more time… and instead of getting out in two hours and doing the stuff I really needed to do, I was there 6 hours, and then kid taxi service, and all the rest of the day killed my todo list.
So TODAY I’m trying to salvage some of that.
But first I’ve got pickups to do.
And the usual list of domestic bliss, with the addition of cleanup from Halloween.
Busy, that is me. Just a busy bee…
Anyone here ever keep bees? I bought a starter kit, and I’ve bought some other bee keeping stuff as it came up cheap in auctions, and I’ve got a bee hive in a hollow tree at the BOL. The tree needs to be cut down, and I thought this might be the perfect time to use some of the stuff I picked up… but other than a vague idea, I got no clue about bees… I’m pretty sure this is the starter kit I have…
It’ll bee at least a week or two before I get up to the BOL again, so I have time to get a clue.
And I’m thinking that a beehive is a pretty good stack, if it doesn’t just turn out to be food or home for wasps.
Gotta stack something…
nick
Bonus points to anyone who names the inspiration for today’s post title.
J Lo wants that Oscar. The problem is that she’s running out of time to emulate Cher’s “40-something comeback” career at 55.
Geesh, “Moonstruck” was 36 years ago.
Kamala’s bestie at ABC could be elevated to Disney CEO if Kamala wins. That is, for as long as Disney survives in its present form, which won’t be long into 2025.
Plans for today are to go to the Witte Museum in SÁ and view the spider exhibit.
@Nick: There is probably a beekeeper in the area of your BOL that will be happy to help you get started. Some offer classes for a reasonable fee, while others are just happy to spread the hobby. Meat space.
I would be very surprised if there is not something near you in H-town, as well. We have several apiaries and meaderies within a 20-minute drive. When I see them at local festivals, part of their spiel is that they would love to help newbies keep bees.
Yeah, I think a hive or two would be a good stack if your neighbors are not too close or at least are not allergic to bee venom.
TURMOIL: Kamala Harris Tells Joe Biden to Take a Hike, Cancels His Campaign Events
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/11/02/turmoil-kamala-harris-tells-joe-biden-to-take-a-hike-cancels-his-campaign-events-n2181417
The post-mortem on the Harris campaign had best start with an extra-large tarp on the floor.
Clever is he master Jedi.
Snicker Alert: Fl Tells DoJ Their ‘Election Monitors’ Not Permitted in Our Polling Places
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/11/02/snicker-alert-fl-tells-doj-their-election-monitors-not-permitted-in-our-polling-places-n3796589
The corrup Biden/Garland DOJ wants to send people to Florida to watch the election.
Meanwhile, in Buck’s County PA, the Democrats are illegally suppressing the vote, but the DOJ is … crickets.
There has to be a poor country in equatorial Africa that would rent a few thousand acres for a compound to hold the Biden regime apparatchiks awaiting trail? Something 500 miles down a dirt road from the nearest airport?
79F and humid, grey sky this morning.
Breakfast is in ma belly, and I need to get moving…
n
Rick Scott RINO-FL will probably have another close race. Other than that, the Dems are done in Florida on a state-wide basis for at least a generation.
DeSantis turned Dade in 2022. The last Dem strongholds are Broward and sections of the I-4 corridor.
DeSantis knows What Is Best In Life. The Weatherman hasn’t been dragged before him … yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos
Africa? Gitmo would work just fine.
Corn Pop should have closed it when he had the chance.
OTOH, the military command has been in the tank for the Dems since 2009. The enlisted and officers have been bought off with the off base housing allowance expansion which was included in the last budget.
Voted yesterday. Libertarian for president, since I can’t stomach voting for either the young fool or the old fool. YMMV.
As long as you aren’t in close state where shenanigans are inevitable.
GA Libertarians “voting their conscience” four years ago is how we ended up with the Dems holding the majority in the Senate, Biden Bux giveaways, and the “Inflation Reduction Act”.
The Supreme Court appointment may have gone that way regardless. Justice Jackson’s *surgeon* husband’s family can trace their heritage back to a signatory on the Declaration of Independence.
11,000 Libertarian votes out of roughly 30,000. Shenanigans were not the difference in either Senate race.
“Analyst firm raises alarm about EUV chipmaking tools — each consumes as much power as a small city, fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030”
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/each-euv-chipmaking-tool-consumes-as-much-power-as-a-small-city-euv-fabs-to-consume-54-000-gigawatts-by-2030-more-than-singapore
“Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is vital for modern process technologies and semiconductor manufacturing for years to come. However, at 1,400 kilowatts per EUV tool — enough to power a small city — EUV lithography systems have become a substantial consumer of power that impacts the environment. TechInsights believes that the power consumption of all fabs equipped with EUV tools will exceed 54,000 gigawatts (GW) of power per year by 2030, which is more than what many countries, like Singapore or Greece, consume per year.”
Looks like our power requirements as a civilization across Earth are going triple in the next 10 years. I wonder if there will be any power for my house ?
And the new AI data centers take 2 GW each. At the projected 100 new data centers across the USA, that is 200 GW. That is double the PEAK usage of electric power in Texas.
I do not see where the new electric power is going to come from. Plus the electric power for all these electric vehicles and replacing natural gas furnaces and water heaters with electric.
Unicorn farts.
It’s simple, really. The eco-freaks want to kill half the population, the garbage/nazi/deplorable ones. Everyone else can live without heat or AC, and eat bugs. Think of the energy savings of that!
This:
There has to be a poor country in equatorial Africa that would rent a few thousand acres for a compound to hold the Biden regime apparatchiks awaiting trail? Something 500 miles down a dirt road from the nearest airport?
Should have been this:
There has to be a poor country in equatorial Africa that would rent a few thousand hectares for a compound to hold the Biden regime apparatchiks awaiting trail? Something 1000 kilometers down a dirt road from the nearest airport?
I apologize for the cultural insensitivity.
Democrat Death Squad Executes Squirrel:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/11/02/hot-takes-for-peanut-the-squirrel-n2181425
Might need more than a few thousand hectares.
Just to be clear, prime real estates is not necessary. No need for running water and the temporary residents can coexist with natural inhabitants like ebola and mpox*.
*Anticipate another name change to DemoPox.
Complaint from a neighbor.
It isn’t just Dems. Half of the white population in North America and Europe wants to be Rolf Gruber, the little sh*t with the whistle in “The Sound of Music”.
2,000 kMW nightly per 100,000 Jesus Trucks or ~ 150,000 Tonymobiles.
I thought the SHTF moment in Texas would come this summer, but the Jesus Truck hit the street at the price point my wife’s Toyota contact predicted and not the $40k Tony promised.
The sign went up on the new Switch.com datacenter built on land which my employer sold off during the pandemic. Crews have been working on the site since before I started work there almost three years ago. The datacenter is literally a fortress.
From SRW in the Fort Bend Journal:
Did you know “Taco Cat” spelled backward is “Taco Cat” ?
Might need more than a few thousand hectares.
In fact, Let’s Make a Deal. We pick a poor country with honest, hard-working people, and offer to bring them all to America. We run the planes loaded both ways: Pick a house full of Democrat traitors, put them on a bus for the airport, and move in a deserving family from Africa. At the other end we save on busses by dropping the traitors outside the airport with a map to their new home.
Can you imagine the wonder of the new family in the Pelosi home upon seeing four $10,000 Sub-Zero freezers full of gelato?
Upon reflection, there’s no reason to limit the deal to Africa. What’s the name of the Ukrainian province that has been bombed to shiite by the Russians? The Dems and Cheneyhawks are big on that operation, so maybe some of them would actually be stirred to defend their new homes.
Lithium-ion battery fires are a growing public safety concern − here’s how to reduce the risk
“a 20% increase in a lithium-ion battery’s temperature”
https://news.clemson.edu/lithium-ion-battery-fires-are-a-growing-public-safety-concern-%E2%88%92-heres-how-to-reduce-the-risk/
And who would take advice from engineers that make such a high school error?
Note that all the temps in the article are F and C–they can’t even find the “°”.
I have to admit I missed it at first.
Then I tried to find a way to give the benefit of the doubt. You know, 20% higher of some temperature rise or some such.
But ultimately, it’s probably DEI engineering, or Climate Science engineering, or an article written by AI.
Serious but esoteric question time.
Suppose a man makes a discovery about the universe. Suppose that discovery is documented, but the documents are not readily available, sometimes for centuries. Perhaps only privately available, or unpublished. I’m talking about genius level discoveries here.
Now suppose someone else, completely independtly, makes the same genius level discovery. Either at the same time, or hundreds of years later. But that person is credited by history with the discovery, and the earlier person is overlooked. Schoolchildren are taught about the discovery under the later discoverer’s name.
I have recently become aware that certain educators are committing what, to me, appears to be revisionism, under the guise of correcting some great, historical error, often presented as racial, justice.
I find this unsettling, for a variety of reasons, and I’m trying to figure out what’s right, and what’s my bias here.
Specifically, as a holder of an engineering degree, I value the tradition of assigning credit to the people who discovered, improved, and promulgated the discovery.
I’m not talking about someone stealing an idea and presenting it as their own. Although the Newton/Leibnitz kerfuffle is close to that, I’m comfortable with summarizing it like this: Both invented calculus independently, and Leibnitz had the better notation. Newton, however, invented it as a stepping stone to solve a real-world problem. Both are amazing.
Pythagoras, OTOH, has gotten credit my whole life for his famous theorem. Now, Presh Talwaker keeps referring to it as the Gougu theorem, because of a possibly older special case of Pythagoran triples, not triangles. In spite of which, there is a Babylonian document from 2700 BC showing they knew the whole triangular theorem.
Does Pythagoras deserve to have credit stripped? Is he less of a genius because he didn’t know about the previous work? Do the older discoverers even matter, since their disoveries weren’t put into use by Western Civilization, but Pythagoras’s were?
And that may be the heart of my possibly racial bias. Prior discoveries that were unused and unknown to Western Civilization don’t matter. They don’t count. Either they didn’t get used, or they didn’t get taught, and they may as well not exist. When we eventually can name an ancient discoverer, we should assuredly recognize the genius required, but then lament that they were unable, or their culture was unable, to promulgate that information. Utility is important.
All of this was prompted by a claim I found that someone else discovered Ohm’s law before he did, but never published his work. A little digging makes me skeptical, but that puts me in disagreement with James Maxwell, and that’s not a position that makes me comfortable.
If a discovery is not published and has no effect on the advancement of knowledge, then it has no historical importance excepting possibly a footnote that it matters just slightly more than a damn. It has no precedence or place in the advancement of knowledge; as a metaphor, it does not add a brick to the structure upon which further advances are built, but is a non-structural surface deposit acting as a foundation for nothing.
I’d be interested in citations.
Stigler’s Law states that no discovery is named after its original discoverer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
I personally just put it down to “that’s the way the world works” and move on. Fame is fleeting, Ozymandias is everyman.
Didn’t Chekov in TOS often claim the Russian’s invented this-or-that?
I still have tRump/vAnce at 50/50 with the Kamel Humper. It is hard to take polls seriously when some say tRump is up 1 and then 3 days later, the K-H is up 7 (when the K-H had 10 times as many gaffes). That’s crazy.
I might give tRump a slight bump after the Dumbos rolled out Han Solo (all backlite, etc) to endorse the K-H. The Dumbos must be scared if they are rolling out 80-year-old PLTs.
I think tRump/vAnce still hold the Electoral College at this point.
Look up Henry Cavendish on Wikipedia.
He was a polymath who “weighed the Earth” in 1798 and is credited with discovering Hydrogen.
His unpublished papers, discovered by James Clerk Maxwell long after Cavendish’s death, showed electrical experiments outlining capacitance, dialectric constant, Coulomb’s law, and Ohm’s law.
My skepticism is not about his obvious genius, but rather about the quantitative methods in his resistance experiments.
Ohm invented measuring tools and units in constant current DC circuits. Cavendish used static discharges and judged quantities by how the shock felt through his skin.
Amazing work, but not quite the same as what Ohm proved.
The second season of “1923” isn’t a lock even though a lot of filming was done around here over the last couple of months.
Did you know “Taco Cat” spelled backward is “Taco Cat” ?
– if you live in texas and frequent Chuy’s you do, because you probably have the T shirt…
And you know about Juan Solo…
n
Ok. the lefties yelling about how everything is racist and white men are EVIL is infecting your conversation.
The Greeks had some kind of steam engine that they did nothing with. James Watts improved Newcomen’s steam engine. And somewhere along the way Rudolph Diesel improved on the steam engine to burn fuel instead of steam.
Sure, some unknown dude in India or China may have been first. But his stuff went nowhere. So he doesn’t count.
And before the printing press spreading the news was very slow….
In a couple of cases I have seen recently, they are getting dedicated power plants. MSFT has a deal in place to have 3 Mile Island put back into commission for one of their data centers. 835 MW of power.
It’d be funny if the AI monkey trick moved nuclear power into the modern age, and made it widespread.
Micro nukes for all!
n
Rain has been hammering down for a while now, since I got home. Wife says it was raining off and on all day. About 2 inches in the buckets, maybe three, before dusk and all this new storm.
We needed it but… I hope we don’t get caught up in one day.
n
Everyone has heard of Grandpa predicting the weather by the way his joints feel.
I’m not that way. I have four pins in my left thigh bone. When they fixed my leg it was 50/50 to keep my leg. Yes, they gave me a choice. I’m scattered brained from the crash at the time and “fix it” was what they wanted to hear.
Pretty much aches all of the time. And is suppressed, They did awesome, I don’t limp unless I’m very very tired.
The dentist is like “that tooth doesn’t hurt?”.
But when the weather is going to do something, ouch. What the weather is going to do, I have never figured out. Still hurts. Up my leg almost to my rib cage with an extra bonus of making my left side dangling part ache. (not both, just the left one) Yep, there’s some nerves short circuiting.
I have never noticed any kind of temperature effect. Summer or Winter, whatever.
Anyway. I’m not quite to wanting a pair of crutches today.
Looking at the weather forecast, maybe that low of 45 Tuesday night is the event my leg is predicting.
Pitch black outside at 7:30. Time for bedtime walking the dogs.
Boring day.
“It’s fried rice, you plick”
@lpdbw
“Amazing work, but not quite the same as what Ohm proved.”
Yes.
I am familiar with Cavendish and Maxwell’s role in entering his era and evaluating his work through his papers. I thought there might be a recent pub on the topic. There have been a number of superficial claims that Maxwell thought Cavendish was “first”, but the history does not support such a statement. It’s unlikely that Maxwell himself would consider Cavendish work as a prior discovery of Ohm’s Law.
James Clerk Maxwell was a genius of the first water. His untimely death was an immeasurable loss. Henry Cavendish was an equal. One can only imagine that as Maxwell immersed himself in Cavendish work, he recognized an obligation to history in putting that work in it’s proper place.
More than a decade later, argon was discovered when Cavendish’s work was replicated by Ramsay and Rayleigh. Note that they are credited with the discovery. Would their work have taken place without Cavendish?
https://ia600908.us.archive.org/24/items/scientificpapers01maxw/scientificpapers01maxw.pdf
I would commend your attention to Preface XVIII and XiX and the statement:
“Cavendish was the first to form the conception of and to measure
Electrostatic Capacity and Specific Inductive Capacity; he also anticipated Ohm’s law”
“anticipated” captures a more nuanced opinion.
His esteem for Ohm’s work is evidenced in
On Ohm’s law. Scientific Papers. Vol II, pp. 533-537 5 pages.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/scientific-papers-of-james-clerk-maxwell/on-ohms-law/EFEEA74A43808F599C3268723E9E70C5
@ech
Good to “see” you.
If there’s one thing which motivates Corporate America, it is the prospect of having technology which allows them to fire more people.
I don’t think the mania will last long enough to really do much in terms of reviving the nuclear inddustry.
Gavin says:
2 November 2024 at 20:56
“It’s fried rice, you plick”
– gavin for the win! Help yourself to any of the parting gifts on the table to your right…
Lethal Weapon, a classic.
n
Chuy’s was originally going to be spelled “Chewies”, complete with Wookie mascot.
Lucas thought that this would be going too far with his characters.
Then he sold out to Disney and The Weatherman, who handed the characters to Leslye Headland.
Headland, Harvey Weinstein’s former assistant, treated the franchise with the same amount of respect that she used to show the girls she escorted to the boss’s office.
The restaurant chain would have showed more reverence. At least until the founders sold out and Darden took over.
RIP “Star Wars”.
#4. That film killed the franchise.
And RIP Chuy’s.
The Darden touch is already at work in the local restaurant, with a simplified menu and removal of the salvaged Cadillac trunk full of tortilla chips in the bar.
I wonder how long before Elvis is gone.
They simplified the menu for wuflu and never added back the stuff they cut. I don’t see the attraction, but wife and kids love the place.
Funny shirts though, including the darth vader one…
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FWIW, every place I’ve been to eat in the last year has simplified and cut back their menu.
Food service is brutal.
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another data point, my chip bags have about half the length of heat seal that they used to. The company redesigned their packing line to save a ¼ or less of bag. Also note the boxes everywhere, starting with amazon, that use shorter flaps that don’t meet in the middle any more… amazons say that they reduce weight and material used… some cheap bottled water has almost no cap left, it’s been reduced so much, maybe they’ll go back to a churchkey to pierce a seal instead of a screw off cap…
manufacturers are scrimping to save pennies.
n
Amazon is infamous for using oversized boxes and skimping on the packing material, so items inside tumble and get pre-used before they are delivered. Has that changed?
My experience is that there is no pattern. Some things arrive like that, some arrive with just a sticker on the vendor box, and others are packaged, if not great, then at least decently.
Chain Mexican restaurants in particular have never worked on a national scale.
Has that changed?
– I don’t think I’ve gotten anything in a box in months. I get padded envelopes, or lately, kraft paper envelopes with no padding.
n
AoSHQ Bonus Saturday Night Joke:
The Presidential election of 2024 was too close to call. Neither Donald Trump nor Harris had enough votes to win. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner. A week-long ice fishing competition seemed to be a sportsmanlike way to settle things, and the candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.
After much back-and-forth discussion, it was decided that the contest would take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Wisconsin. There were to be no observers present, and both politicians were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for the day to be counted and verified by a team of neutral parties.
At the end of the first day, Trump returned to the starting line, and he had 10 fish. Soon, Harris returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed she was just having a bad day or something and hopefully, she would catch up the next day.
At the end of the 2nd day Trump came in with 20 fish and Harris came in again with none.
That evening, the Democrats got together secretly and said to Harris, we think Trump is a low-life, cheatin’ son-of-a-gun. Tomorrow, don’t even bother fishing. Just spy on him and see just how he is cheating.
The next night (after Trump returns with 50 fish), the Democrats got together for the report of how the Republicans were cheating.
Harris shook her head and said, “You are not going to believe this, he’s cutting holes in the ice.” (H/T Diogenes)
recommended:
WTF Happened to The Fifth Element?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uqo1UccGtg
I “discovered” hydrogen on Friday night. I had been out for a meal with family in Durlach-Aue, a suburb of Karlsruhe in south-western Germany.
We stopped for petrol (that’s”gasoline” to you left-sideians…). The filling station had an H2 pump. I was intrigued, but didn’t see anybody using it, nor did I have a chance to examine it. I will have to go back for a closer look sometime…