Cool and clear. It never did rain on my house yesterday, but it did rain on my wife on her way to work so BOTH forecasts were correct! Hers and mine. Peace in the house, hooray. Today should be clear, and warming later in the day.
I didn’t get everything done, or even started, and what I did do took longer than I hoped. Sometimes it be that way. I got some stuff pulled out for ebay, some for my local auction. I sorted some stuff that has been sitting since October. My back was hurting so I’ll claim that as my excuse for not doing heavier work. Well, hurting more than normal…
Then I had to get the kids from school, and do some cooking. I was going to make some frozen fish, but I started breaking down some bulk meat and vac sealing it, so after doing beef brisket, pork shoulder, and a spiral sliced ham, I decided that I could just throw the ham in the skillet and make that. I was browning chunks of the pork shoulder to make carnitas in the slow cooker. Freeze some, cook some… so the ham was a natural choice. The vintage cast iron performed beautifully. I’ve got a good seasoning on it and with some bacon fat, even the sticky sugar from the ham scraped away with a smooth utensil. A quick rinse, then dry and re-oil with clean peanut oil, and back into the drawer for next time. Cooking with good cast iron is a joy.
The pre-browned chunks of pork will go into the slowcooker today. Some of the ham I packed in 1 pound bags, and I’ll take that to the BOL for when I’m up there alone. It’s a quick and tasty dinner. The rest is in 2 pound bags. The pork is in 3 pound bags, and the brisket is in 4 pounders. That is one bag per meal, with some leftovers. I mentioned before that I have increased the weight of my “per meal” packages. Freaking kids eat like crazy. Buying in bulk, cutting to meal size or portion size, and vac sealing before freezing is economical and convenient. Takes a bit of time, but not much more than putting the groceries away. The savings make it worth it.
Late in yesterday’s comments I linked to a couple videos of shootouts involving cops, and civilians. One is a guy who’s just had enough, the other is a young thug. There are lessons to be learned from watching other people experience violence, and violent situations. Note too the police response and tactics. In the second one, the neighbor threatening to kill people, note when the cop reminds the neighbors that he’s recording and asks if it’s alright. Remember that they didn’t do that while interviewing people on the Rust set, when Alec Baldwin shot and killed his Cinematographer. No Miranda warning, and the video is admissible. Something to keep in mind if you are in a bad situation, or even witness to one. Like I said, lessons to be learned.
Today I’ll be doing the same, over and over again. It’ll be fun! Well, it’s never boring.
Learn something new today. Practice a skill, or start on a new one. Stack experiences like you’re stacking food.
nick
Indeed it do.
Banging my head today off a supplier who was instructed in November 2023 to stage some of my property at a location from which I would arrange to have it collected. Turns out he forgot, and I have made that arrangement for this week.
I refrained from putting the fear of God into him, but I gave him until this afternoon to have taken remedial measures. We’ll see later if that has concentrated his mind sufficiently.
Yesterday I replaced the faucet for the kitchen sink. This involved me contorting my way underneath with a Dremel knockoff to cut the ring which held it in place, as everything had rusted to the point that it wouldn’t move. I’ve been working on it off and on for about a month, when I think of it and have time and no one is around who might need to use the sink. (This mostly means the senile grandma, who would start washing dishes when I came out from under the sink to change the cutting disk or to rummage for a pair of pliers from the toolbox which was right there.)
So, yesterday everyone went to the ski slope and I put the last hour or so into it. Great! Glad to get this PITA project done. (Done-ish. We need to check for leaks at least daily for the next week. The usual.)
Not a work of acknowledgement from my wife. You might think that was just because she was tired from skiing all day, but she had the energy to nag me to replace the kitchen’s ceiling lights, which she ruined because a bulb died and she did a fine job of breaking things in the attempt to replace it.
I’m thinking that I’ll find time in my schedule for this task in, say, a year or so.
RIP Toby Keith, 62
Show Ya.
Just wait. The iGoggles will be everywhere that people have more money than sense.
I’ve seen a few Jesus Trucks rolling around here, but no goggles.
As Communications Director for the Clinton/Gore campaign, George Stephanopoulos was one of the key point men handling the “Bimbo Eruptions” in 1992.
Where things become interesting with Git and potential for disaster is rebase.
I avoided rebase for a really long time while learning the tool, but I eventually joined the dark side.
Most distributions include gitk with the Git package. Users shy away from using the tool because the GUI is primitive and written in the unhip Tcl/Tk, but I’ve used it to great effect unmangling repositories, most of them being my own.
In a commercial environment, I believe Subversion still has a place, but that system isn’t what the cool kids use.
Exactly. And cool is more important than disaster-resistant.
He’ll never smoke weed with Willy again. Not a big fan of CM but some of his were fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fulz4ytZ54
chilly willy this am. But clear.
I could see my breath!
Wintertime, I guess.
n
American Soldier. I play this on the PA at our conferences. Just to weed out the PLTs.
Lots of great patriotic songs. He’ll be missed.
Watch the video at the bottom of the page for more info about the cartels and current situation with smugglers.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/texas-sheriff-jim-skinner-plays-video-dallas-area/
One sheriff, $200K in cash PER WEEK seized. Guns and ammo too, going south. Drugs coming north.
The shootout is in TRAFFIC with stray rounds going everywhere… which is why you need a blowout bag in your car.
n
Subversion needs an admin who knows the O’Reilly book (remember those) inside and out.
I believe Apple dropped svn recently. I install with Homebrew, but official support is going away.
Recent MacOS builds also mark Tcl/Tk as deprecated which is bad for Git moving forward since gitk is the GUI included in the repository.
Apple would love to turn MacOS into a walled garden similar to iOS, with all development taking place in Xcode.
Um…how do you break a lamp while replacing a bulb? If it’s some weird bulb you don’t know how to extract, most people will ask for help…
I read a review – obviously only one person’s opinion – but his view is that Apple’s VR goggles are a quantum leap in capability. Overpriced, sure, but apparently the resolution is finally such that you no longer perceive individual pixels – just a picture.
He was actually worried that the next generation or two of these will be good enough to be the next step beyond smartphone addition.
I’ve read opinion pieces where people say to use rebase instead of merging branches. Personally, I find the idea of rewriting history to be just wrong. Why do you use it?
Anyhow, I certainly don’t teach rebase to beginners.
You’re right!
Orders of magnitude. The US tech companies employ staff psychologists to maximize the dopamine hit of their products, even small players such as the Playful VR gaming company run by one of the Zynga co-founders in Dallas – I know one of the in-house shrinks personally.
Twitter is an excellent example which I’ve cited before. The appeal of the platform was not the service itself, which is a long afternoon CS grad student coding project. The dopamine came from the app, which was originally an open-source project called Tweetie that the company bought when Apple first approved compile binary submissions for the iPhone and released an API.
Twitter’s psychologists immediately went to work on adding to the addiction.
I will use rebase in my personal branch locally to avoid a bunch of intermediate merges and log messages going into the tree, but we have a formal hierarchy where changes get pulled from feature branches so the reference branch stays linear.
For those of us that think about Rome
all the timeoften, good news, the first Vesuvius 2023 Grand Prize has been awarded:https://scrollprize.org/grandprize
It is a philosophy scroll, not Roman STEM or history which would interest me more, personally, but indicates great things to come.
from AoSHQ:
“the “deal,” by the way, contained a Very Special Betrayal for conservatives: The bill would make the ultra-liberal DC Circuit Court the only court empowered to decide questions about immigration and border enforcement. We’ve seen some good rulings coming out of the Fifth Circuit on the border; this “deal” would take all cases away from any conservative-tilted court and give them all to the leftwing DC circuit”
I was reading some surveys about people’s opinions on illegal immigration. Basically all groups but one agree that illegal immigrants are damaging. The one group, which was split 50/50, were the Biden democrats. So half of them think that illegal immigration is good in some way. I really strain to see how they can think that way.
Related: I just recently read about Operation Wetback back in the 1950s. So it is possible. What has been done, can be done again.
The Cool Kids (TM) like git rebase. Presumably because it’s a less-used feature which comes with a bunch of cautionary notes. It’s a way of demonstrating Cook Kid Cred (TM)! And who cares about mangling history or potentially screwing up the code base?!
This charge needs to be overturned:
Jennifer Crumbley found GUILTY of involuntary manslaughter: Faces 60 years in prison for son Ethan’s school shooting rampage
Just because she is a shitty mother, doesn’t mean SHE killed somebody. If I kill someone with a lost gun, say at the bottom of the Rio Grande, and the gun is traced back to Mr. XXXX, does that mean he is guilty of manslaughter.
The judges, courts, jurors, and legal system are out of control.
This is another step to hold gub manufacturers liable for any reason. Why not auto makers, too?
You would think that after working with chlorine in 500 gallon tanks to 20 lb buckets for over 40 years I would be careful. Nope, familiarity breeds contempt.
I serviced the house septic tank this morning. I took off the 20 lb bucket cover and leaned over the bucket to check the 3 inch tablet inventory. I promptly got a snootful of chlorine vapor which set off a coughing fit. I had to sit down for a minute. Of course, letting that bucket breathe first would have been nice.
More problems for Disney on the eve of the earnings call.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/gina-carano-sues-disney-mandalorian-firing-lawsuit-elon-musk-1235817466/
The scrolls about the alien overlords that lived here will suppressed by the government. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were “accidentally” destroyed. The government doesn’t want us to know the truth about Atlantis or who really built the pyramids!
The pyramids were build by the We Wuz Kangs! group. Just ask ’em.
RIP Toby Keith, 62
A class act. Toby Keith went out to my son’s Marine base in western Iraq in 2006 and played and sang for them, about 1,500 Marines and Navy men. My son got to meet him and shake his hand.
Not a work of acknowledgement from my wife. You might think that was just because she was tired from skiing all day, but she had the energy to nag me to replace the kitchen’s ceiling lights, which she ruined because a bulb died and she did a fine job of breaking things in the attempt to replace it.
I’m thinking that I’ll find time in my schedule for this task in, say, a year or so.
You gotta crow like a rooster to make sure they know you fixed something. My wife never knows that I just spend hours working on stuff. I will tell her that I can barely move my shoulder now after working on XXXXX and she kisses it and makes it better.
Of course, there is the other shoe. She washes all my clothes, except my dress shirts, fixes me food, washes dishes, feeds my dog, etc, etc, etc.
Where things become interesting with Git and potential for disaster is rebase.
I avoided rebase for a really long time while learning the tool, but I eventually joined the dark side.
Most distributions include gitk with the Git package. Users shy away from using the tool because the GUI is primitive and written in the unhip Tcl/Tk, but I’ve used it to great effect unmangling repositories, most of them being my own.
In a commercial environment, I believe Subversion still has a place, but that system isn’t what the cool kids use.
We still use CVSNT since 1993 ??? but I want to move to Git or Subversion some day for our 20,000+ files in versioning. I have CVSNT running on one of my Windows 10 file servers and every once in a while it barfs all over everything. Or drops a single bit and changes a character to something else. Very strange error.
Um…how do you break a lamp while replacing a bulb? If it’s some weird bulb you don’t know how to extract, most people will ask for help…
My personal favorite is the bulb base breaking off in the fixture. Then you have get a pair of channel locks to get the bulb base out. The new curly Q and LED bulbs don’t seem to have this problem like the old Incandescent Bulbs. Be sure to turn off the power first !
Or, the old ‘cut a potato in half and stick it on the protruding part’ technique. Also requires power off.
Turning off the power? How are you going to see what you are doing in a dark room?
With one of these LED headlamps (I got several, and have used it in this winter’s power outages, and working on refastening a dryer vent in the laundry room.) Also have two in the car for emergency use.
Recommended in addition to all other FLASHLIGHTS in your kit.
“Keep a very careful eye on China’s economy”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/02/keep-very-careful-eye-on-chinas-economy.html
“Things are looking very precarious in China right now. I’m sure most readers know that Evergrande, one of the country’s biggest property speculators, was ordered into bankruptcy by a Hong Kong judge last week. The company’s debt and other obligations amount to a staggering $300 billion – yes, that’s “billion” with a B. Its assets (whose valuation may be debatable) are said to amount to $245 billion; but most of those assets are buildings it’s erected, with apartments that it can’t sell – or, if they’re sold, the buyers may stop paying their mortgages if Evergrande doesn’t deliver all it’s supposed to. To make matters worse, the Hong Kong ruling may be stayed or overturned by a mainland China court, because if Evergrande were to collapse, it might well take a very large chunk of the real estate business in China – a very large part of that country’s economy – with it. That could lead to massive social unrest, something the Chinese Communist Party wants to avoid at all costs.”
Sounds like China be going down soon. I suspect that they will drag the rest of the First World down with them.
Does CVSNT have a proprietary client?
I suspect a compression/decompression implementation issue between the client and the server.
Is the developer still around?
Easy-peasy. Cut a potato in half, and force the cut side of the potato onto the broken bulb. The broken bulb will dig into the potato, and you can then unscrew the potato, taking the broken bulb base with it. Throw the whole mess away.
I’ve been reading about a LOT of high-profile people ill with, or dying from, cancer. Toby Keith. Jimmy Buffett. Now King Charles III, who has cancer that ISN’T prostate cancer discovered while treating an enlarged prostate. My wife the nurse says “Bladder cancer, and that’s a nasty one.” I’ve also been reading about doctors claiming that the Covid vaccine is causing “turbo cancers” that are discovered at stage III or IV. I’m REALLY glad that I was too lazy to get any of the covid vaccines.
I wouldn’t assume that King Chuckles got a jab.
“Of course, there is the other shoe. She washes all my clothes, except my dress shirts, fixes me food, washes dishes, feeds my dog, etc, etc, etc.”
etc…tells you what to do
etc…spends your money so you don’t have too
etc…extends your life (married men live longer)
Look into those studies, not just the one-line summary intended for public consumption. For a given man, there’s nothing showing that getting married will help him to live longer.
LOL! The spineless Redumblicans failed to impeach Mayorkas.
In the shite you can’t make up department:
Zero Students Pass Math Proficiency Test at 53 Illinois Public Schools
This IS the Dumbocrat plan. Keep ‘em dumb and on the reservation.
aibotch
The screwed-up sentence on the website that confirms your growing suspicion that the content was generated by an AI.
online shopping for solvent:
“For a given man, there’s nothing showing that getting married will help him to live longer.”
Sumbuddy fell off the lower rung of the error bars.
50% of any group is below average, donchaknow
Well, 75 years ago my grammar school was in the city of Chicago. Then I went to a city of Chicago high school. Then I applied to and as was accepted into Northwestern University from which I graduated with a BSChemEng, Guess city schools were destroyed later.
A dog does this.
“Of course, there is the other shoe. She washes all my clothes, except my dress shirts, fixes me food, washes dishes, feeds my dog, etc, etc, etc.”
etc…tells you what to do
etc…spends your money so you don’t have too
etc…extends your life (married men live longer)
She did not use to tell me what to do. Now she tells me to put up my book and turn out the bedside lamp at 5 am.
She rarely spends money. Except on the sick kid. I bought her a new Highlander in 2019 and you would have thought we were spending our last dime.
On extending your life, “Sinbad – A woman who understands the signs of stroke”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJCZVcCQR3E
…unless you live in Lake Wobegon …
Why remove him now?
As Shrub would put it, he’s doing a “heck of a job”.
And Sinbad had a major stroke in 2020 and his wife got him to the hospital:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sinbad-stroke-dead-limbs-are-coming-alive-as-he-learns-to-walk-again/
>> My personal favorite is the bulb base breaking off in the fixture. Then you have get a pair of channel locks to get the bulb base out. The new curly Q and LED bulbs don’t seem to have this problem like the old Incandescent Bulbs. Be sure to turn off the power first !
Try some dielectric grease on the threads of the bulb.
It is possible for all the kids at Lake Woebegone to be “above average” if they are being compared to some other group… like the average of the whole US. Just sayin’…
Everyone in Mensa has ‘above average’ IQ…
n
{stirs the pot, then walks away…}
That’s easily fixed. All you have to do is redefine “proficiency”. Wait for it…