Hot and humid, really hot and sunny. But there is still work to do, so I’ll do it like I did yesterday, when it was hot and humid… It was 98F in the shade and may have crossed 100F when I wasn’t looking.
It was too hot to be out in the sun without a hat. So I kept to the shade and took breaks. Also didn’t really exert myself or move quickly. I did make progress later in the day when the sun finally moved behind the trees and left my work area mostly in part shade. Even running the Portacool wasn’t enough to make it tolerable. Once the sun was blocked, the breeze felt cool. It is a bit deceptive though, as I still ended up dripping sweat.
I decided to keep parts of the fridge and put them on ebay. It’s striking how heavy duty the damned thing is. The wire shelves are about twice as thick as most, and the whole thing is heavier than you would expect. Even the doors were heavy. I really never liked it though, and always had to be tweaking the temp settings as the weather changed. I’ll pull the fan unit, and the light switch today. I need the light switch at the BOL for the garage fridge there. The freezer shelf looks like it might fit too.
I’m going to do pickups this morning and afternoon, then work on the garage later in the day when it’s cooler. I got some solar panels, some lawn mower stuff, a portable A/C unit, and a bunch of other household stuff. Kids are at GS camp, wife is on a business trip… cue the wild women…
Or I could work on my stacks. Yeah, better do that. Everything is spread out everywhere at the moment and it isn’t pretty. I need to get it sorted and put up. Only then can there be more stacking, with a side helping of USING some of the stacked stuff, particularly the solar stuff.
Stack something of your own.
nick
The door handle?!? The mechanism seemed to be some kind of switch with feedback to simulate a mechanical device. I thought that BMW would still have some of the old school thinking in the design.
Feedback on the passenger door handle was nonexistent when that side was dead.
There goes the resale value!
At a minimum, that is six months on the waiting list for Tesla to do the repair unless you have Tony’s panopticon insurance which monitors your interaction with the car 24/7.
The Jesus Truck doesn’t appeal to Subcontinent as much as the other models. They’ll talk about it for their kids, but it doesn’t catch the eye of the adults as much.
I see a lot of the trucks around here, but, for now, Austin has a lot of Show Ya still coasting on what’s left of the tech bubble in AI.
I imagine there are a lot of Cybertrucks driving Uber Eats or lent out through Toro. The F&I rooms are supposedly passing along the brocures for the buyers to consider as part of the finance package.
At one Thai restaurant near Dell on a Saturday night, all of the delivery service vehicles pulling up to the reserved parking were high end, including a Ford F150 Lightning.
And from what I understand, the F&I room at Tesla is still the same as other dealers if not worse. Some things never change.
When I started at corporate training in 1993, one of the other students in the class had just purchased a Saturn and bragged about the “non traditional” experience.
His $400 payment was about twice what I paid financing $11k on my Ford Probe a couple of months earlier so I figure he either got hosed on the rate or the extended warranties in the F&I room.
I saw my first three cyber trucks last week, all on the same day. The first one was in the morning, and the other two later in the day. One may have been the same truck from earlier. I only saw them in passing, but my goodness, that front end stainless looked like is was really rippled on one and just rough on another one. I would like to see one up close to get a really good look.
Ssshh. The future of humanity is at stake.
Already getting hot, sunny and blue sky.
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@greg Ssshh. The future of humanity is at stake.
– not saying he’s beyond criticism, but building cars that don’t get ‘splody is HARD. The big 5 have trouble doing it and they’ve had a lot more practice. If you try to do a “clean slate” design, you break the human machine interface and get door handles that aren’t really handles.
Some early cars had a tiller and not a steering wheel.
And besides, wasn’t it you that pointed out Tesla doesn’t sell cars, they sell carbon credits? The cars are just the means…
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@lynn, don’t forget that china is getting frisky too, and as their economy collapses, they’ll need a distraction to keep the plebes in line.
EVERYONE seems to be getting ready. Germany is spending money on defense. New weapon systems are coming online, new ammo factories are being built. Ammo orders are sucking up all the capacity. Eastern Europe is starting to fracture and assert themselves…
And that doesn’t even consider the domestic situation here.
n
Just ordinary folks.
n
Saw a Cyber Truck in the wild last weekend on I-70. Doesn’t matter, it’s still butt ugly.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/06/24/theyre-making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice-n3790820
This efforts “alarms” the AP, which has no problem with a secret government committee led by Casey and Brennan finding that the main threats of domestic terrorism are Trump supporters, people who believe in God, and parents who insist their rights come before any PLT policies in public schools.
DHS has done nothing to screen bad actors invading our southern border. Pink slip them all. FBI Stasi as well. Ditto DOJ. They are all festering infections.
Park Service needs cleaning. Bunch of them can be reassigned to the new grizzly bear tracking project. 3-day course to qualify them as tracking collar placers.
Anymore, TSLA serves to advance the agenda of taking cars away from most of the population.
The carbon trading isn’t as big a deal as it used to be now that the other manufacturers are catching up with EV designs of their own.
If Toyota or Honda vehicles went splody at the rate of Tesla’s, there would have been hell to pay after just a handful of incidents.
I only know of one situation where Honda refused to cover a blown transmission in a minivan, regardless of warranty status, probably their most chronic problem over the last 20 years.
Ford is already nitpicking the EV F150 warranty claims for battery. Just wait a few more years and see what happens.
Before we rescue her, is she a conservative Republican?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13514857/solo-travel-influencer-reveals-miserable-aspects-travel-life.html
@greg Ssshh. The future of humanity is at stake.
– not saying he’s beyond criticism, but building cars that don’t get ‘splody is HARD. The big 5 have trouble doing it and they’ve had a lot more practice. If you try to do a “clean slate” design, you break the human machine interface and get door handles that aren’t really handles.
Some early cars had a tiller and not a steering wheel.
My personal favorite is the old Stanley Steamer. An hour before you go anywhere, go outside and build a fire in it after putting 20+ gallons of water and a 100 lbs of coal in it. You were good for a 100 miles or so. Unless you got stuck in the muddy “roads” due to the extreme weight of the vehicle. Adding more water to the steam boiler was a little dicey as you had to blowdown the steam pressure in it first.
Jay Leno owns one and was lighting it with a propane torch a couple of years ago. It exploded in his face, literally, during the lighting the fire process. He has pieces of his butt skin transplanted on his face and hands now. He makes jokes about it but it was incredibly painful.
My great grandfather delivered the rural mail in Pottsboro, Texas in a Ford Model A for over 20 years after he was the town schoolteacher. The job paid cash during the Great Depression. He liked the accelerator on the steering wheel column and the transmission shifter pedal on the floor.
Ford is already nitpicking the EV F150 warranty claims for battery. Just wait a few more years and see what happens.
Class Action Lawsuits are coming. BTW, the labor on replacing the EV batteries is $2,000 to $4,000 since you have to dissemble the vehicle frame too. I hope that they do not leave any bolts out.
The Bird Flu is coming !
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Hat tip to:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/06/memes-that-made-me-laugh-215.html
“Florida family sues NASA over space junk that crashed through home”
https://www.chron.com/news/space/article/nasa-lawsuit-space-junk-19530754.php
“The 1.6-pound metallic stanchion put a hole through the roof.”
I smell Sovereign Immunity.
“Bipartisan nuclear bill heads to Biden’s desk as some analysts question potential safety impacts”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/advance-act-nuclear-bill/719629/
“A Union of Concerned Scientists official said a required update to the NRC’s mission statement would “erase 50 years of independent nuclear safety oversight.””
Ten+ years to review a nuclear power plant design is just obstruction.
I’m just link dumping because I DON’T CARE. WW3 is around the bend, and someone doesn’t read the manual for their “spaceship” car?
“Why it’s too late to stop World War 3”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-too-stop-world-war-120000865.html
“Imagine, for a moment, that the Iranian government announces it has developed a nuclear bomb and threatens to use it on Israel. The United States reacts with the threat of military intervention, as it did in 1991 and 2003 in Iraq. Iran signals that it will not tolerate a third Gulf war and looks for allies. American forces mass to enter Iran, which orders national mobilisation. Russia, China and North Korea express their support for Iran, and Washington expands its intervention force, bringing in a British contingent. Russia enters the game, raising the stakes in the expectation that the West will back down. A nuclear standoff follows, but with tense and itchy fingers on both sides, as leaders gamble on the risk of not striking first, it all ends in disaster. The Third World War begins with an exchange of nuclear fire, and the rest, as they say, is history.”
I would build a bomb shelter if I could but the ground water table is too high around here. Plus I am only 30 miles away from an interceptor base and a quarter of the operating refineries in the USA.
I am also only 30 miles away from two of the largest nuclear power plants ever built and at least a dozen chemical plants. Plus four ? five ? LNG liquefaction plants.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-too-stop-world-war-120000865.html
@lynn, don’t forget that china is getting frisky too, and as their economy collapses, they’ll need a distraction to keep the plebes in line.
EVERYONE seems to be getting ready. Germany is spending money on defense. New weapon systems are coming online, new ammo factories are being built. Ammo orders are sucking up all the capacity. Eastern Europe is starting to fracture and assert themselves…
And that doesn’t even consider the domestic situation here.
Yup, China – Taiwan is number two scenario on that page of bad things coming. I had forgotten that Taiwan used to be a Japanese island before WWII. I have a new friend who is a Taiwanese legal immigrant with a Japanese wife.
And our definite financial implosion of the USA in 2029 has just breached the horizon.
“Elon Musk won his Tesla pay battle. Now he has to win his legal war.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-won-his-tesla-pay-battle-now-he-has-to-win-his-legal-war-080001638.html
“Tesla filed court documents last week before the same Delaware Chancery Court judge who previously voided Musk’s compensation, arguing the June 13 shareholder vote offered a “principled resolution” to end the dispute in Musk’s favor.”
“Tesla has said 72% of votes cast by shareholders, excluding Musk and his brother Kimbal, were in favor of the compensation package.”
“One is a request from the shareholders’ lawyer for $6 billion in legal fees, which Tesla disputes.”
I wish that I could bill people for thousands of hours at thousands of dollars per hour.
Water pump replacement on the 2016 Exploder was $3000 labor to replace a $150 part since the engine has to be partially disassembled and the seal bead applied by hand instead of using a gasket.
I’m noticing that all of the Exploders and Edge (also affected) of that generation are starting to disappear from the roads where they were everywhere just a few years ago. Ours was paid off when the pump leak was caught, but it was within a 84 month loan period, which wasn’t common but still available back then.
Vehicles cannot be financed beyond 96 months, but, pre-pandemic, the big Chevy dealer in town did 90 to move the four cylinder Silverado pickups with the teeny engine driving the 10 speed transmission developed with Ford which GM was never able to make work right.
The Chevy dealer did not survive the economic fallout of the pandemic. The Geico Gecko owns the franchise now.
Vanguard and Blackrock were initially in the “no” column, but someone must have dropped a dime.
$56 Billion is 10% of the market cap. So where does the earnings growth come from moving forward?
Go to law school. The only time it is too late is when you stop breathing.
Formosa was a Japanese colony for 50 years.
The Chinese relations are actually Taiwanese, not Mainland.
After spending four years on the West Coast around them, I have no idea why Beijing wants the heartache of trying to occupy that place beyond Number One Son teaching Number Two Son who is boss.
Ethnic Chinese Number One Sons live to teach that lesson about being boss.
Yeah, they’re not keen on Skippy the Inlaw either. Rather than deal with it, Number One Cousin is banned from the house since we moved to Austin.
Go to law school. The only time it is too late is when you stop breathing.
98% of lawyers are slaves to other lawyers reviewing paperwork at $50K per year.
“James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life” by James Patterson
https://www.amazon.com/James-Patterson-Stories-My-Life/dp/0316397539/ ?tag=ttgnet-20;
A standalone autobiography of a prolific murder mystery, fantasy, comedy, teen, children, romance, science fiction, memoir, and non-fiction author. I read the well printed and well bound hardback published by Little, Brown in 2022 that I gave to my mother that she passed back to me after reading. I hope that there will be a sequel some day. After all, there are now thirty-three of his Alex Cross books alone of out of his around two hundred novels and novellas published to date.
If you are interested in one of the most prolific authors ever, you need to read this book. He not only talks about his life and accomplishments but talks in detail about his writing style and methods and about his co-authors that he uses extensively. He has sold over 425 million books as of 2022 which puts him right behind J. K. Rowling. He notes that he works on 30 to 35 books simultaneously in separate notebooks, all written in longhand using a #2 pencil. The only thing that his autobiography is missing is his life pictures.
You can see the author’s entire bibliography at:
https://www.jamespatterson.com/landing-page/james-patterson-home/james-patterson-checklist/
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Patterson_bibliography
I plan to reread one of the author’s science fiction books next, “When The Wind Blows”, about extreme DNA modification.
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (4,407 reviews)
Lynn
Yeah, they’re not keen on Skippy the Inlaw either. Rather than deal with it, Number One Cousin is banned from the house since we moved to Austin.
I take it that Skippy is you.
WRT novels, after finishing Rick H’s “The Red Rock Redemption”, I started on James Patterson’s “Lion & Lab” as it had just become available from my town’s public library. I am now halfway through that and when I finish that, back to one of Rick’s other Redemption novels.
Yup.
Smartness and sarcasm are not appreciated.
I have a Will Ferrell 3 movie collection. And yeah, not expecting a lot…. but, I bought it, gotta watch it or waste my money.
“The Other Guys” was a decently good movie.
“Step Brothers” is just moronic. Good for a laugh or two and that’s all. I kept watching and hoping it would get better but no. I think I had brain cells die while watching it .
Tonight is “Talledega Nights”. Shrug. I’m not expecting much.
An interesting thing is the packaging. Usually a three disc set has the “flap” with a disc on each side. Not this set. One post for all three discs. Huh.
Au contraire.
Smartass sarcasm is always appreciated. It is, to me, a sign of a fart smeller. Er, a smart fellow.
Kansas AG Kris Kobach accuses Pfizer of misleading vaccine marketing in lawsuit
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/06/17/kansas-ag-kobach-accuses-pfizer-of-misleading-vaccine-marketing-in-lawsuit/
‘Cuz some peoples might decide to identify as wyminz, or more specifically, pregnant wyminz, which is perfectly within the rules of the Biden PLT’s and would cause them to tie themselves in knots with their own intestines.
BIGCorp HR Admin in Yoga Pants: “You have to get The Jab”
Loyal Employee: “Gee, I’d love too, but I identify as female and happen to be pregnant, and Pfizer says jab is not a good idea. Would BIGCorp be willing to assume the liability?”
BIGCorp HR Admin in Yoga Pants: sputtering… Well, you’ll have to submit a lab test result.
Loyal Employee: Oh My! I think my veracity has been questioned and my civil rights violated! Could I have that demand in writing in case the recording isn’t enough for my attorney?
Regarding big bright explody things targets: Within a 25-mile radius from my house:
Another 10 miles to Seattle. Then the Tacoma Narrows bridge
“Oh, look at the bright light !”
We had a friend years ago that liked to use Big Words.
Like, “canine excrement” and we’d say “You mean dog shit?” And we would toss “big words” back at him.
It became a game. Good times. Toss in a bit of smartass sarcasm and life was good.
How far is Joint Base Lewis-McChord?
That place used to do strange things to my GPS whenever we drove by the base exits. Lots of creepy things go on at that facility.
Plus “Cops” films frequently in that area. 🙂
Sweet. Just won a honda EU3000i like the one I have. It looks pretty faded, but I should be able to fix anything wrong with it short of the motor being blown up. And it’s a Honda, so that is unlikely.
Once it’s running I can get the sync cable and run them both to get 30A of 220v. I’ll probably buy the propane conversion for it too, since the tank looks a bit rusty.
Should be about $560 to bring it home. They are about $2K new, and you are lucky to find one for $1K used.
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my plan for the garage is coming up short, literally. I don’t have enough room for what I wanted to do with the cabinets. I’m going to just get the stuff back in the garage with the chest freezer sideways where it will fit for now.
Dunno how I missed it by 2 feet, but I did.
n
Today’s Tyler Durden cowardice reporting on Julian Assange’s release.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/assange-be-freed-doj-agrees-time-served-plea-deal-wikileaks-founder
Maybe 60-70 ‘crow’ miles. Great ‘bright light’ potential. Along with the Tacoma and Seattle shipyards nearby.
my plan for the garage is coming up short, literally. I don’t have enough room for what I wanted to do with the cabinets. I’m going to just get the stuff back in the garage with the chest freezer sideways where it will fit for now.
Dunno how I missed it by 2 feet, but I did.
Welcome to getting old.
Measure twice, cut once.
“A Minnesota Dam Is In “Imminent Failure Condition” “
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/minnesota-dam-imminent-failure-condition
“A century-old concrete gravity dam on the Blue Earth River in Rapidan Township, near Rapidan, Minnesota, is in “imminent failure condition.” This has sparked concern about America’s aging infrastructure.”
“This is yet more evidence of America’s crumbling infrastructure and the inability of the government to allocate taxpayers’ monies efficiently while political elites in Washington bankrupt the nation with endless foreign wars.”
My ex-Minnesota employee and I have been watching this all day. His wife and kids are just up the hill visiting her parents.
Oh, how special ! My web server has a new C++ compiler that is C++17 compliant. I have a bunch of new warning messages. Bite me !
Code like:
cgistuff.cpp:61:21: warning: ‘char* strncat(char*, const char*, size_t)’ specified bound 100000 equals destination size [-Wstringop-overflow=]
61 | strncat (g_logfileBuffer, str, sizeof (g_logfileBuffer));
| ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sigh. I hate new compiler versions.
Within 7 miles from my house:
K25: Where uranium was enriched
X10: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, nuclear research and the fastest computer in the world
Y12: Where nuclear weapons were built and disassembled
Within 20 miles from my house:
Watts Bar Damn Nuclear Reactor
Several large dams on the TN river
The mayor of Knoxville who thinks she is a close cousin to God.
Yeah. The former McChord AFB is an airlift wing and that runway will probably accommodate a B52.
@Lynn
Serious flooding throughout the Midwest as the drought of the last three years has been erased and then some.
Now the corn is drowning.
Funny how we could afford the infrastructure with half as many people and them much poorer. Maybe deficit spending does have consequences, particularly spending unconstitutionally conjured out of thin air by the Executive Branch.
If strlen(str) is equal to sizeof(g_logfileBuffer), strncat will not terminate the buffer with ‘\0’ when the concatenate operation completes.
Very dangerous. The warning is meaningful in this case.
See if strlcat is available. That will gracefully handle the condition where sizeof(g_logfileBuffer) equals strlen(str) by writing a ‘\0’ to g_logfileBuffer[strlen(str) – 1].
The alternative is to do strncat(g_logfileBuffer, str, sizeof(g_logfileBuffer)-1) to silence the compiler’s complaint.
On second thought, forget that suggestion. It has been a while since I messed with strncpy/strncat since the static checkers at work won’t pass a commit using those functions.
I also favor macros defining buffer sizes rather than sizeof().
Or make g_logfileBuffer a C++ stringstream.
Or use COBOL.
Rains up north; my little brother, who lives in Omaha, has sent me a link to a livestream camera watching the Missouri River in Omaha. There’s apparently a LOT of flooding north of there, and the water is bringing down lots of trees, branches and other floating debris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhwHvxUmpI
There is a park across the river; you can see that some of it is already under water.
Time Magazine Declares War on Pets
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/06/24/time-magazine-declares-war-on-pets-n3790842
Fauci is married to a bioethicist, Christine Grady, who is head of the Department of Bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Her PhD is in philosophy.
I have waited in vain for bioethicists as a group to deliver a strong condemnation of Fauci’s illegal funding of gain of function research, or a broader stance against GOF research in general. My evaluation is that the ethicists are all whores to their salaries, mostly paid for by taxpayer funds.
Anyone that thinks that a dog or a cat has a longer lifespan in the wild is a complete idiot.
And what do bioethicists says about taxpayer-supported dog owners that keep dogs that bite people?
[crickets]
yea, verily
I also favor macros defining buffer sizes rather than sizeof().
I prefer sizeof since it is always the size of the buffer. People can and do mess with macros.
I can tell stories, many stories of great incompetence. My favorite is when three programmers changed the same macro and then tried to commit it. Oh the screams, oh the yelling, oh the ceiling tiles moving in unison with very loud voices in the next office with the door closed. The conversation went Chinese in a hurry.
Peter’s meme list is short but sweet and includes:
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spoiler: shirt in another meme says “No Vegan Food Here”
>> Class Action Lawsuits are coming. BTW, the labor on replacing the EV batteries is $2,000 to $4,000 since you have to dissemble the vehicle frame too. I hope that they do not leave any bolts out.
First are the lawsuits to break the questionable arbitration clauses.
And don’t worry about the bolts, Junior over there workin’ on your truck had one semester of auto shop before he dropped out of High School.
I think I caught up on my water intake. Output is looking normal… so I’m off to bed.
n
>> Tonight is “Talledega Nights”. Shrug. I’m not expecting much.
Has the famous DE (#3) quote: Dale Earnhardt Sr. is credited with saying, “Second place is just the first loser” in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006).
>> I wish that I could bill people for thousands of hours at thousands of dollars per hour.
Billing is the easy part…it’s the collecting that’s hard…