Cool, sure. Wet, oh my. After yesterday’s rainstorm? Oh my. Bayous be flooded yo! Dunno about getting down as low as they have been talking about. With this much moisture in the air, land and sea? Seems unlikely to me, but hey, you can be wrong most of the time and still make a living as a financial pundit or a weatherman…
Started the day early, 730AM, when I heard the rumble of diesel engines and truck doors slamming. The tree guy must have decided not to wait, and instead of showing up “later this week”, he showed up Tuesday. I had done most of the prep for him, moving lighting strings, marking trees with paint, etc. but I hadn’t moved my truck. He wanted a clear path to hand carry out all the debris. So I did that in my PJs then started some coffee.
They were done and gone by noon. Meanwhile I got all my “leaving the BOL” stuff done, and I left shortly after they finished.
Did a couple of pickups on my way home. Stopped to dump my trash and some debris in a dumpster. Don’t fret. It’s one I have use of.
Got home in time to get the kid from after-school activities. And the sky opened and dumped buckets on us. It kept raining and thundering for a couple of hours, and it was still lightly raining when I went to bed. Since it was coming down buckets, the gutters, ditches, creeks, and bayous all filled. Should be gone by today though.
Today I’ve got another pickup, and some other messing around to do. I lost my secondary key ring. That’s my ring with a few dozen keys I don’t need every day, but are still important. Like for all my various padlocks… I’m pretty sure it’s in one of my storage units, but of course there is a lock on the unit. I went through a few dozen master lock keys in my collection without finding a match for the lock on the unit… so I need to look at a few more, or get my bump key set out. I don’t want to cut the lock, as I have several “keyed alike” on my storage places, and can’t afford to lose one… and cutting the lock is kinda suspicious looking… I’m pretty sure I can bump key it open without arousing suspicion. I don’t want to pay the storage company to cut the lock either.
I’m usually very careful to handle and move my lock and keys in a specific order to avoid this exact issue, but I had the wrong truck, and so couldn’t use my normal habit… and unlocking that storage unit was the last place I’m sure I had the ring. Dumb, and a waste of my time, all because I was in a hurry. Hopefully the keys are hanging on the shelf when I open the door.
Thrilling stuff, I know…
No access to those stacks without the keys though… and I’m pretty sure my wife had the dupes at some point, but not any more. Prepper fail.
So don’t be like me, make sure you have access to your stored preps. And stack some extras…
nick
The new Air Force One planes were going to be the last of the airframe to roll off of the line in Everett.
Everett is a seriously cool building/tour, BTW.
No other current Boeing model meets the spec for four engines, and the President of the United States is not going to fly Airbus.
Currently 34F so I’ll be eating crow for breakfast…
Windy and looks like surfaces dried overnight…
If I was a TV weatherman, I’d wave my arms, point to colored symbols on a map, and explain why I wasn’t wrong, but right after all…
Coffee is brewing. Waiting for the bus will be teh sux this am.
n
You’re sure that the conversion from string to int is clean here?
Adams crawled into a bottle sometimes in the mid 90s and the work suffered.
“Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” was his last solid book, but that was an adaptation of his “lost” “Doctor Who” episode, “Shada”.
The three episode BBC – *not* BBC America’s weaker, less faithful effort – adaptation of “Dirk Gently’s” is worth the time if you are a fan of the book.
You will know you are watching the earlier BBC adaptation if you think to yourself, “Isn’t this a ripoff of ‘Sherlock’ with another weird actor substituting for Benedict Cumberbatch?”
I don’t know what kind of performance penalty you pay in Visual C++ for using a std::stringstream instead of atoi() to do the conversion, but the stringstream has error checking beyond atoi(), which simply returns 0 IIRC.
Of course, if we want to pick that nit, we’d also have to discuss using a vector iterator instead of for(int i …).
My C++ has suffered since leaving the tolling company.
My current employer would like me to rapidly learn Go well enough to fix the code of a developer who is 20 years younger than me and earning at least $20k more annually. She’s on an insanely tight schedule with an important product and hasn’t put a Git commit into the repo in weeks.
I’m getting right on that.
Female. TAMU during the Stroustrup as CS chair era.
In other words, way more important to the company than the 56 year-old with a Masters from San Marcos and a recent Texas Workforce case number, regardless of whether I was cleared or not.
From what I understand from other TAMU CS alumni of that era, Stroustrup was horrible as chair and a “teacher”, but they would never cop to that publicly.
Well, ugh. Yeah, I can see his point. Too bad though.
They are towing the SS United States out today.
Live feed:
https://6abc.com/post/ss-united-states-moving-historic-ocean-liner-begin-journey-philadelphia-floridas-gulf-coast-how-track-ship/15930907/
There is a live YT feed … not much is happening tho.
Speaking of unfinished book series, there was supposed to be another novel set in Pamela Dean’s The Secret Country/Dubious Hills light fantasy world. It was rejected by the publisher, twice (for being too long!), and the manuscript supposedly lost.
The Dubious Hills was … odd. I think read it, then read it again immediately, because I wasn’t sure exactly what happened, or why.
The SS United States is moving now, under tow.
Still cold, still dreary. And I forgot to drain the sprinkler vacuum breaker things, so I’ll probably have to replace that- again.
n
The car doors on my Solara wouldn’t open this morning until I poured a pitcher of hot water on the seals.
At 11 AM, the temperature is still 27.
At least the doors opened with the water. We had a BMW X5 in Wisconsin which refused to respond to the outside door handle one morning. I was able to open the door from the inside, but I would have been out of luck if the other handles had been unresponsive as well.
Well I’m sure it’s the inner nerd in me but I’ve watched several minutes of the SS United States being moved. Kinda cool.
Fire boat with 3 monitors going and about 6 tugs,
Fire boat with 3 monitors going and about 6 tugs,
After the FSK bridge incident no-one is taking a chance.
A nice salute. Beautiful ship.
The Marines could use a 4,000 troop carrier capable of 33kts.
A lot of abandoned waterfront in Philly.
Maybe they could pickup good Ole Joe on the way and take him out to sea.
Dadgumit, Santa left the door to the North Pole open again. It is 31 F at my house with the wind blowing 24 mph out of the north. The weather prognosticators blew the forecast again, they must have used the wrong chicken bones.
ERCOT is doing well at the moment with over 12,000 MW spinning reserve at 77,000 MW demand. Looks like they got evrrything on line. But night is coming and that 12,000 MW of solar is going to drop to zero.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Warm and filtered sun here in the High Desert, it isn’t looking good for us drought-wise.
I don’t know what kind of performance penalty you pay in Visual C++ for using a std::stringstream instead of atoi() to do the conversion, but the stringstream has error checking beyond atoi(), which simply returns 0 IIRC.
Yeah. Atoi is good here as long as you do not pass it a null pointer. Stringstream is slow.
My problem is that the new validation rule did not fire. Sigh. All revved up and no place to go.
Boost has lexical_cast, but that comes at the cost of exception handling unless you are sure about the input.
@Lynn: I see the mistake. You wrote “GERG” when I am sure you meant “George”.
Ha !
BTW, GERG is The European Gas Research Group.
https://www.gerg.eu/
You can read the 555 page Technical Monograph if you want to:
https://www.gerg.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/TM15.pdf
“Delta CEO Won’t Reveal Identity of Pilots Involved in Toronto Crash, Insists Crew “Experienced” Amid Rumors Doomed Plane Had All-Female Flight Crew (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/delta-ceo-wont-reveal-identity-pilot-involved-toronto/
Oh my.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Boost has lexical_cast, but that comes at the cost of exception handling unless you are sure about the input.
Nope, no exception handling here. My experience with exception handling in Microsoft C++ compilers is not good at all.
more research on post-vaccination syndrome is needed
–0– um, ya think?
n
Brain Fog. Didn’t Tom Hanks do a
documentarymovie about that?The condition also appears to reawaken a dormant virus in the body called Epstein-Barr which can cause flu-like symptoms, swollen lymph nodes and nerve issues.
Epstein-Barr is a horrible disease ! My daughter was diagnosed with that before they changed their minds and diagnosed her with Lyme Disease.
I ain’t taking any more mRNA crap in my body. I have enough problems with my congenital heart condition.
“Good”
https://areaocho.com/good-2/
“Colorado has proposed SB25-003, a law which would ban the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of any semiautomatic firearm that has a detachable magazine, with the exception of .22 rimfire. First offense would be a misdemeanor, second offense a felony.”
Yeah, Colorado has gone full wacko.
Yale scientists link Covid vaccines to alarming new syndrome causing ‘distinct biological changes’ to body
Fauci, Birx, the entire boards of the MRNA jab companies, and a lot of vax Nazis need to be put on forced weekly jabs for “the science”.
The DEA should inform CO that marijuana is a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance and the state has 30 days to shut down the industry before federal enforcement begins.
And, oh my! Look at all the court records showing Colorado citizens state court guilty pleadings to possession of a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. Shame the federal penalties are different.
And BTW, here’s your “guidance” on trying to usurp the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws protecting gun manufacturers: Smells like your legislature is trying to build a RICO case against itself.
“Federal judge in Texas officially strikes down Biden administration’s Title IX expansion”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-judge-texas-officially-strikes-down-biden-admins-title-ix-expansion
“U.S. District Court in northern Texas granted summary judgment on Wednesday, stating the rule “undermines the purpose of Title IX, endangers students, and has ‘[n]o basis in reality.'””
The DEA should inform CO that marijuana is a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance and the state has 30 days to shut down the industry before federal enforcement begins.
And, oh my! Look at all the court records showing Colorado citizens state court guilty pleadings to possession of a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. Shame the federal penalties are different.
And BTW, here’s your “guidance” on trying to usurp the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws protecting gun manufacturers: Smells like your legislature is trying to build a RICO case against itself.
There is a steady stream of vehicles running from Texas to Colorado buying pot and gummies.
7PM in Far West San Antonio. Outside temperature currently 33F, predicted low 23F. When we moved here from Cacafornia, I HAD NOT EXPECTED to find actual WINTER conditions in SOUTH TEXAS. Of course, 7 months after we arrived, we got 5 INCHES of SNOW, which we had also not expected.
Fortunately my propane tank was filled last week and is currently at 78%, so a few days of Fimbulwinter aren’t going to be fatal.
I thought New Mexico legalized. That would be a lot more convenient for large parts of Texas.
That smell is everywhere in San Marcos lately.
Walking through Lowe’s down there the other night, I was behind a guy who reeked so strongly that my eyes were practically watering. I wondered if he had a joint going in the store, hiding it like the geezers used to sneak cigarettes into Service Merchandise in the 80s.
The moment I started looking for the joint, Weed Head noticed, got paranoid – of course — and headed for the exit.
Florida dodged a bullet with regard to legalization. I don’t think that it is a coincidence that the effort is backed by one of the state’s most successful Personal Injury attorneys.
One guy with a medical card chased a whole building worth of tenants out of the place my mom used to live. He’d smoke up the hall and grounds, and you could smell it everywhere.
n
They grabbed a couple of kids today plotting an attack on one of the schools in our district. Not one my kids attend, or could attend. “Planning stages” revealed on social media. Probably no real threat beyond talk, but we’ll see.
n
My friend’s ex- got her gummies through a co-op effort organized at the temple they attended.
Once monthly trips to Vegas to buy and indulge.
L’chaim!
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/montgomery-county-crime-2-students-arrested-plotting-mass-casualty-attack-against-memorial-high-school
“They grabbed a couple of kids today plotting an attack on one of the schools in our district. Not one my kids attend, or could attend. “Planning stages” revealed on social media. Probably no real threat beyond talk, but we’ll see.”
Shame how students on the honor roll can …
Oh. Never mind.
Trump isn’t gutting medical research. He’s cleaning up a corrupt system
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/02/19/trump-nih-funding-medical-research-dei/79069320007/
Everywhere you look the U.S. taxpayer is being used to fill the slush funds of leftists.
The difference between 15% and “nearly 30%” is “nearly” $4.5 billion going right into the pockets of institutions with 95+% PLT faculty.
And how much of that $35 billion is pure unadulterated crap? “Survey of lesbian frogs in Central American cenotes?”, “Cognitive development in 4-year-olds and the case of pre-kindergarten voting?”, “Should there be length and girth labeling of organic phallic fruits?”
Lot of whining about national parks being affected by the hiring freeze, etc. Nothing from the Park Service, but from Dem congressmen…
My RV camping guests were moping about it, and I pointed out the finding a half a billion in fraud would likely free up some more money for real needs, like staffing the parks.
Gonna be some pain involved.
n
Currently 29F.
n
We are 28 F.
Re recent discussion of SSNs…
https://primepay.com/learn/payroll/how-to-determine-a-valid-social-security-number/#fr-toc-content__heading-1
Not to be used, of course, for any nefarious purposes
Our student F ups have made the national news…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/fbi-houston-arrests-students-planning-mass-casualty-event/
If they were adults, the FBI probably would have sold them the guns and bang stuff they wanted.
n
I’m calling it a night.
Warm bed is calling me.
n
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Big Brother is always watching…
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The Endeavor Air crash: I understand why they won’t release the pilots’ names. The families would be immediately doxxed on social media, and imagine the hate they would get. I don’t understand the concern about it being an “all woman” crew. Women make perfectly fine pilots.
Lots of theories on the internet about frozen flaps and other possible causes. We’ll see what the accident reports bring…
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Y’all remember the CEO of United Healthcare getting shot? Apparently, the message was not understood.
There’s an American here in Switzerland, who broke his neck while skiing. Swiss health care has patched him back together and he is ready to be transported back to the US for what will be a long and expensive rehab. United Healthcare refused to pay for the transport, because it is “not medically necessary”. After all, the guy is in good medical hands. Oh, purely incidentally, they only pay for rehab within the US, not abroad.
How can they get away with idiocy like this? Seems like an open-and-shut lawsuit.