Cool and damp. Later, warm and damp. Maybe warm and slightly drier. It’s been really nice actually. Windows down, wind in your hair nice. I’m hoping for more of the same today.
Tuesday went pretty much to plan. Went to the volunteer work session at D2’s school in the morning, and only stayed a couple of hours extra… during which time I cleaned and tuned up both followspots. One is the school’s, one is a very cheap rental, and both needed attention. Now they look and function like they should.
I left school and did my two pickups, then picked up D1 from school. Dropped her at home, grabbed some refreshment, and headed to rehearsal. That went pretty well. It sounds ok. At this point it’s down to riding levels during the performance, and maybe tuning the individual mic EQs. With only 4 performances, there isn’t much time to do that, so there are some small issues with the ‘quality’ of the vocal sound, but you can hear the lines, hear the lyrics, and it only sounds a bit “mic’d” or un-natural. That is a vast improvement as far as I’m concerned. If someone comments on the ‘quality’ of the sound, I’ll use it as a conversation starter to suck THEM into supporting the shows.
So far, I’ve donated my time, a pair of powered monitor speakers, some mic cables, and adapters. I’ve cleaned and fixed two followspots, installed two new wireless mic receivers, and repaired some mic cables. There is also a powered Mackie monitor ‘on loan’ from me for the Music Director, and an 8 Gig thumbdrive to backup the settings in the board. I’ll be following up with some of the firmware updates and settings after the show is over, and probably trying to improve some of their other “pain points” as the corporate weenies say…
I probably should have done it years ago, when D1 was at the school. I knew it would be a huge time sink though, and I was trying to avoid Imperial entanglements. My thinking about community and local meatspace involvement has “evolved” over time.
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Preps have suffered while I did other things. That’s ok, because we’re already prepped, and the other stuff is important to me, and the kid. I have managed to put a bit more food in the freezer, so that’s a plus. My fisherman buddy’s son harvested two deer and a hog this past week, so some of that might come my way too. Speaking of which, if you are the praying sort, he could use some for health and strength this week.
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Today I am hoping to take down my Halloween decor, if it’s dry. Then I’ve got lots of stuff on the list, before turning into a taxi service…
It would be nice to do a bit of work on the food storage cleanup and organizing. Oh, and I’ve got to remove the dead rats from the traps, clean them, and re-set them. The new tunnel traps have worked, with 3 rats meeting their demise so far. Bait was blonde Oreos…
Bait your traps, stack some poison, and get your house in order. Bad things are still headed our way.
nick
It has turned cold here. Just a dusting of snow, but the cold weather is here to stay. Winter has arrived.
Turning off the outside water today, draining hoses, etc.. Due to work, it’s my last chance until Monday. Only mild freezes for the moment, expected to change to hard freezes later next week. So I probably won’t drain the outside fountain until early next week. It’s new, so I also need to build a cover to keep water out over the winter.
Other Winter preps are mostly done. Firewood is stacked, last round of lawn mowing is done. We lost most of the veggies to deer last winter, so I put up a fence around that part of the garden. They could jump it – it’s only about 110cm – but I hope they won’t be quite that motivated.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/11/12/kill-woke-inc-by-ending-its-subsidies-n3796920
It almost requires historical knowledge now, but I’ve asked the same question for years: If NPR is unbiased, what conservative commentator did they feature to counterbalance the ultra far-left rantings of Daniel Schorr?
Grants and research funding – it depends. Lots of it is important, for example, a lot of medical research is funded that way. However, so is a lot of nonsense. Some of the nonsense is DEI, i.e., funded because the person is a minority. Another boatload is in the social sciences and liberal arts. Grants and research funding should be restricted to engineering and hard science, and be blind to the personal details of the researcher.
Secondly, any results stemming from government funding become public domain. None of the games where the government pays the basic research, then the university spins off a company to commercialize the results and rake in the profits.
Finally, there needs to be a lot more funding for researchers to reproduce results. Right now, there is a lot of scientific fraud, because you have to get that next round of funding. Lots of hungry grad students could work on reproducing results, to cut down on the fraud. The results should then feed into future decisions for the original researchers.
Looks like a nice day out. I’m up, the bean is engaged with the water in the hope it will moderate my physical and emotional state…
Hope I can get some stuff done today.
n
After they get married, what will their kids look like? 😛
Part of the reason that my first pass at grad school went nowhere is that the department wanted to replace me in their “contingency” slot with a student from the psychology department who had an interest in CS but no real ability to handle the classwork.
She was a she, however, with some kind of “learning disability” to cover the academic inadequacies and a big pile of grants from the government, which attracted the department tenure track faculty like flies to you-know-what.
Eventually, a big CS program at a California school gave her a PhD in “Informatics”. I have no clue what that means.
The girl now lectures at another name program in the UC system and continues to stack grants like cordwood.
…if you are the praying sort, he could use some for health and strength this week.
Adding him to the list.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14074827/spirit-airlines-prepares-chapter-11-bankruptcy-filing.html
–Whatever else it’s woes may be, as predicted elsewhere, the biggest risk to ALL businesses is rolling over their debt.
–without looking, I’d bet it never made a profit overall.
n
I would bet the top executives have made a handsome profit.
Tasty. They will look drinkable & tasty.
This morning I opened a vacuum packed gift package of beans labeled Finca de Pasionaria this morning, from over a year ago. Hoping for the best.
Starting my cleaning for Thanksgiving, misplaced things are being found.
I read the epaper daily and agree that the editorial writers very far left. Read already today and happy to not see any of them.
This. And all collected data, and products, too.
Mosaic was created as a research project at my Alma Mater, and the grad students and prof took it private, and made a fortune. Epic is, at its base, a derivative of MUMPS software created for a university hospital system.
If it was government funded, it should be public domain. Exceptions for national security should be allowed, but rare.
And every release of new research should include disclaimers like “But this research has not yet been replicated.”
Head of NPR is as biased as you would expect, and even more,
Katherine Maher
Completely ruined even the few good parts that were there.
HFS!
Sen. Chuck Schumer Warns Republicans Not to Abandon Bipartisanship When They Take Control
He’s got to be kidding! The Redumblicans need to lockstep their votes and give Chuckie a big FU! Rickroll the Dumbo butts for four years. They did nothing but lie and gaslight us on everything to spend like a drunken sailor on woke shite. F’em.
Netscape was a clean sheet implementation of the browser created by many of the same team from Mosaic.
Microsoft licensed the Mosaic code and perverted it into IE.
There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into implementing ideas well, to the point where some inventors don’t even worry about enforcing their copyrights and patents.
I’ve been reading up on IRA withdrawals since my age is getting up there. The withdrawals are calculated to screw you out of as much as the goobermint can get. Since SWMBO and I are married, both get pensions, both get SS, I might as well make the minimum IRA withdrawal and just give it to the goobermint.
You can’t hate the Federal Goobermint enough.
The hags on The Spew are mocking all of tRump’s nominations. You can’t hate those hags enough. They are so full of hatred it is no wonder Whoopi Cushion can’t hold in her farts. A pox on all of those harpies.
“Thune to succeed McConnell as next Senate GOP leader”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3228120/thune-cornyn-mcconnell-senate-gop-leader-election/
And the effort to piss off Trump starts today.
I will bet that Trump’s nominees sit in Senate committees for up to a year.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
>>Oh, and I’ve got to remove the dead rats from the traps, clean them,
Yeah, always a good idea to clean them before you cook them.
“Interesting legal decision on busing “migrants” to New York”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/11/interesting-legal-decision-on-busing.html
“It seems New York City sued bus companies for busing thousands of “migrants” to the city from Texas, using an almost two-century-old statute as the foundation of its argument. It didn’t work.”
Sweet !
I don’t have much hope the spineless Redumblicans will come together to give us cohesive goobermint . A unique chance is just around the corner to get things done. I’m sure RINO Mittens Romney is already scheming behind the scenes to shiv tRump, ala McCain. Simple “partisan”, F the Dumbo’s, bills can get things done rapidly. tRump needs to have a stack of EO’s taller than plugs’ on Inauguration Day. Number One is for every Department to cut 10% of their budget. Reinstate the 3 for 1 rule. Give excessive land grabs back to the States. Pardon/commute every J6 conviction. Dismiss any not convicted yet. Nuke the EPA, Dept. of Education, and IRS from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
A New Beginning…
“Breaking news. Representative Matt Gaetz will be Donald Trump’s Attorney General.”
https://thelibertydaily.com/2-9/
I did not see that coming.
I approve. Trump needs an attack dog there.
Sweet !
LOL! Now the crimmigrant bums are needy, indigent, public charges. We have been told since day 1 by the Dumbocrats crimmigrants are undocumented citizens who pick our vegetable and shuck our chickens. All gainfully employed. I guess not, NYFC doosh-nozzle mayor.
“BREAKING: Trump appoints Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-appoints-tulsi-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence
U. S. Army vet. Why not ?
“Amazon Kills Freevee, Migrates Content to Prime Video”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-kills-freevee-migrates-content-to-prime-video
“Amazon is consolidating its video content and putting it in one place to keep things simple, according to the company.”
Interesting. The consolidation is getting real.
The survivors will be Netflix, Amazon Prime, and …
Trump’s response to the RINOs in the Senate.
Who runs for Governor of Florida? The Witch?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/trump-taps-rep-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general.html
Tubi. Rupert has nothing to lose.
Plus Apple, but they want to move hardware so they can p*ss away money on things like “For All Mankind”.
” Biden administration sets plan to triple US nuclear energy capacity by 2050″
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-administration-plan-to-triple-us-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050/732807/
“The road map aims for 200 GW of net new capacity from newly built reactors, restarts of plants retired for economic reasons and power uprates of existing reactors, the White House said Tuesday.”
Very interesting.
“Where Are Biden’s 81 Million Votes? Jordan Crushes CNN ‘Gotcha’ Question…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/where-are-bidens-81-million-votes-jordan-crushes-cnn-gotcha-question
Biden got 10 million more votes in 2020 than Kamala in 2024 ? I ain’t buying that.
The Elders pulled the plug on Mittens in the Senate.
I’ve long believed that Romney’s best shot at putting his Daddy issues to rest is as an interim VP if Biden assumes room temperature before January 20.
OTOH, any interim Dem or RINO VP and tiebreaker vote in the Senate would be political suicide by the Republicans who now hold all of the cards.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ap-rep-john-curtis-wins-us-senate-race-to-replace-mitt-romney/ar-AA1tA5L1
“EPA to Charge Oil and Gas Industry for Methane Emissions”
https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/environmental-protection/air-environment/news/55242381/epa-to-charge-oil-and-gas-industry-for-methane-emissions
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Nov. 12 that it began issuing a fee to oil and gas facilities whose methane emissions exceed 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually.”
“The requirement will apply to methane emissions reported in 2024.”
“The waste emissions charge starts at $900 per metric ton of wasteful emissions in 2024, increasing to $1,200 for 2025 and $1,500 for 2026 and beyond.”
“The fee is part of Congress’s directive in the Inflation Reduction Act to help ensure natural gas reaches the market rather than polluting the air.”
And so begins the death of the fossil fuel industry in the USA.
When the peasants needed baseline nuclear for their homes, it was satan’s industry.
When corporations need power to reduce the middle class to peasants it is suddenly full steam ahead…
No one wants to throttle their AI servers.
No one wants to throttle their AI servers.
I am having real trouble with imagining over a million 15,000 watt AI servers in the USA alone.
That is a HUGE electric bill.
We are going to see these AI data centers put in a few 50 MW gas turbines at the AI data centers so they do not have to pay the 5 cent/kwh transmission and distribution charges.
Every refinery and chemical plant in Texas (over 100 plants !) already operates this way and sells their excess to the grid.
BTW, one of the Bitcoin miners bought a gas turbine power plant last year in central Texas and is using that power for their Bitcoin mining machines, onsite. They are adding a few more gas turbines posthaste.
The hardware would represent over $500 Billion dollars in capital alone.
This won’t end well.
So, in summary:
The expected number of AI servers in the USA alone is presently a million (SWAG). The current cost for a single AI server is $500,000 US.
1,000,000 x $500,000 = $500 billion US of capital.
Each AI server idles at 5,000 watts and uses 15,000 watts at full compute level.
15,000 watts x 1,000,000 = 15,000,000,000 watts = 15,000 MW = 15 GW
Current peak usage in Texas is 85,000 MW = 85 GW.
Where is all of this electric power going to come from, especially since we are shutting down 100+ coal power plants per year in the USA ?
”Biden administration sets plan to triple US nuclear energy capacity by 2050″
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-administration-plan-to-triple-us-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050/732807/
“The road map aims for 200 GW of net new capacity from newly built reactors, restarts of plants retired for economic reasons and power uprates of existing reactors, the White House said Tuesday.”
BTW, one of the Bitcoin miners bought a gas turbine power plant last year in central Texas and is using that power for their Bitcoin mining machines, onsite. They are adding a few more gas turbines posthaste. They are saving five cents/kwh in transmission and distribution fees by colocating the power generation gas turbines and the mining machines.
I do not have good numbers for the electric vehicle changes to the electric grids in the USA yet. That number may be 10X this number if the 18 wheelers and locomotives are converted to electricity.
Crusoe Energy, Coreweave, or someone else?
Coreweave picked their IPO bank partners for next year’s event.
That is going to be a huge payday for the backing VCs.
Crusoe Energy, Coreweave, or someone else?
“Crusoe confirms plans for 200MW AI data center in Texas, Company planning 1.2GW build-out at site”
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoe-confirms-plans-for-200mw-ai-data-center-in-texas/
– my first thought was a snarky, “OH, glad we don’t have to worry about inflation worsening…” Then I saw the battlespace prep…
– My prediction was that the Fed would participate in crashing the economy by raising rates. The cut was half of what was being rumored, and T isn’t even in office yet.
– note the built in assumption that he WOULDN”T try implementing them, normally.
Want to stop monetary inflation? Stop spending money you don’ t have and running the printing presses.
Cutting consumer spending by raising rates hasn’t worked yet.
n
— battlespace prep
So the headline writer for DM thinks an armed pervert getting shot by police is a “horrific fate”. Time to look into that person’s online habits…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14080149/Florida-mom-confront-predator-sexting-daughter-police-shooting-Jacksonville.html
n
Warner Brothers is broke.
SyFy Channel parent Universal is slightly less broke but needs ratings.
“Lethal Weapon” marathon on SyFy tonight.
– well that escalated quickly. Hey, I know, let’s bring in a massive number of haitians and put them in small towns in the midwest. That will be a win win for everyone!
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14027789/Rudy-Giuliani-racist-comments-Haitian-migrants-podcast.html?ico=authors_pagination_desktop
n
“Third US airliner was struck by bullets in Haiti before FAA banned flights into country”
Airdrop the returns.
Give them a discount on parachutes.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-ratioed-twice-in-two-days-on-x-for-attacks-on-pete-hegseth-trump/
Fake Indian.
Academic career based on a lie.
Not qualified to lead anything.
Not qualified to be a U.S. Senator.
President-elect Trump Can Close the U.S. Department of Education in Five Easy Steps
https://townhall.com/columnists/sherifew/2024/11/13/president-elect-trump-can-close-the-us-department-of-education-in-five-easy-steps-n2647711
Decades of failure. Close it up.
Unconstitutional from the beginning–there is no federal power vested in the constitution to oversee education.
Harris paid Sharpton $500,000.
Some thought Stormy was an expensive hooker.
And then there’s Opra, who got* $1 million…
*but the money was laundered through her company, so it’s not supposed to count?
The Elon and Vivek Show
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/the-elon-and-vivek-show.php
No pipes for these guys: shaped charges and det cord, with chainsaws for detail work.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/13/to-president-elect-trump-recommendations-for-noaa-and-the-national-weather-service/
Directing money to propaganda grants while neglecting gathering of weather data is malfeasance. Off with their heads.
Propaganda grants need to go across the board. Low-hanging fruit for DOGE.
“We’re Heading for a Recount in PA…and the Dems Want Illegal Ballots Counted.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/11/14/sore-loser-dems-want-a-recount-in-pas-senate-race-heres-what-theyre-arguing-for-n2647774
“Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has no path to victory. He’s going to lose to Republican Dave McCormick. Everyone, including Democrats, knows Casey lost. Yet, Casey refuses to concede because attorney Marc Elias is trying to steal the election. Those aren’t my words—The Wall Street Journal editorial board said as much about this fiasco occurring in the Keystone State.”
You know, there has been a lot of late night ballot dumps in this election.
We have got to stop this crap.