Warmish and damp. That’s about guaranteed for Houston anyway. Maybe damp turns to rain.
On Friday I headed out to my client’s house, did some things there and moved the project along. Some extra challenges on Friday… but got through them. I’m not done out there, but I see the path to being done. NOTHING is every as simple as it seems, especially when it’s new, and the person telling you how simple it is won’t be doing the work. and hasn’t done a bunch of work to make sure it’s simple for you. Thankfully the second tech support guy recognized the issue and figured out how to fix it.
Today, more house cleaning, and more decorating. I’ll be cutting my hair, and doing more domestic stuff besides.
Finished listening to the audio book of Orson Scott Card’s “Speaker for the Dead”, second book in the Ender Wiggins saga. It was well produced, although the audio was low, with three voice actors and occasional music. 12 CDs. I really don’t understand the voice casting, nor do I get the voice direction that gives voice to the piggies as vaguely Brooklyn accented cartoon kids. The female actor’s voice was so passive, dropping at the end of every sentence, that I thought she’d been drinking cough syrup on the rocks. Still better than the Jack Reacher POS. It kept me awake for the 40 minute drive each way to my client’s house so it did the job I wanted it to do.
Find the tools that work for you, for whatever job you’re doing.
And stack a few extra…
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No. Sadly.
And that was an important 80s flick. Sigh. I'll turn in my Class of '86 credentials.
It is strange how a lot of Kathleen Turner flicks are forgotten. She was so huge that John Huston paid his own daughter scale in order to get Turner to sign for "Prizzi's Honor".
Of course, the irony is who won the Oscar.
On charity:
MrsAtoz usually gives back on gigs to the community by gift cards, food baskets, hiring the locals to do things, etc. She hired a down and out cook to fix some Christmas meals. After food expenses, the lady gets a nice Christmas "bonus". Literally thousands of dollars go back to the failed city of San Bernardino for the last three years to the down and out. None of it is deductible. This year, like last, the only tax deductions will be Good Will donations.
Sadness:
Appeals Court Reinstates Biden Covid-19 Vaccine Rules for Large Employers
At least it will go to SCOTUS. SCOTUS could end this and put a stake through plugs' sponge brain.
Geez:
Pfizer to Test Third Dose of COVID Vaccine on Infants and Young Kids After Ineffective 2-Dose Trial
Why not go for *eight* doses out of the gate? You know, just to be sure.
The cr*p currently in Austin is headed your way … slowly. Your client may get to test the lightning protection.
Merry Christmas!
‘Omicron Is Here’ — Joe Biden Warns ‘Winter of Severe Illness and Death’ for Unvaccinated Americans
The Grinch has nothing on plugs! What's after Omicron? The Zombie Apocalypse? I bet Soros et al are snickering at us dirt people.
I am beginning to wonder how much stock Mr. Fake Fauci has purchased in the vaccine companies. Along with many other public officials pushing multiple injections. Or have they quietly invested in syringe manufacturers? Someone is getting rich and congress critters and other government officials are my first suspects with insider trading.
Unfortunately, Biden is the Foolish Political Choice (TM) that the Roberts Court does not believe we should be prevented from living under once made.
A loss for Biden would end his Presidency. Roberts and Kavanaugh vote with the liberals.
Sixth District means Kavanaugh got the phone call and has the temporary injunction power.
Everybody wants to leave town today.
No mystery. Fauci is involved with Moderna. He wasn't the first CEO as is frequently claimed, but a paper trail of his involvement with the company is readily available. Gates too.
Fauci also has a vested interest in the mRNA vaccines succeeding because he botched AIDS early on and would like to be vindicated on his belief in vaccination being the key to stopping AIDS, not therapeutics as is currently the prevailing approach.
One upside of the pandemic is that a lot of legends have been wiped out, starting with the Legend of BillG as Geek God.
If anything pops up as bad with the vaccines, one of the first who will be dragged out of his house by his hair and set on fire by the mob is Bill Gates.
Who doesn't know where Bill Gates lives. I could take you to his front door without a map.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10321389/Nancy-Pelosi-DEFENDS-members-Congress-trading-stocks.html
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Oh, joy, another Log4j vulnerability.
WebSockets has been a Hot Skillz for a while along with Google Protocol Buffers as a means of communicating structured data between servers. The scary thing is that a lot of security tools use the combination as a means of communicating network events between sensors and central servers feeding the data to analysts and/or active mitigation rule sets.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-firm-blumira-discovers-major-new-log4j-attack-vector/
Pad that resume!
Folks at the now previous job are going to be busy this weekend. The DevOps guy architecting the new approach is not a coder.
The hard drive arrived for my daughter's PC, and I noticed it makes a really obnoxious hum when powered.
WD Black again. I thought the last one I bought which runs loud/hot was a fluke.
oh yeah, 74F and 94%RH with overcast skies.
Hash browns and bacon are on the table. People can eat it or not.
Best by on hash browns was in 2015. They are delicious as ever. (in the milk carton packaging) 'course I cook them in bacon fat until crunchy.
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Got this email from our local chapter..
–not a season of gratitude, season of GIVING. OH, RIGHT. That's coming later.
–Sure enough.
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Barbara has never asked for any help with the funding. The hosting costs for this place (and for hosting for her two other domains) are about $155/yr. Domain name charges are probably about $20/year (with privacy added) each for her three domains.
I spend maybe an hour a month on site maintenance, but am glad to provide that at no cost in return for the info from all here. Including recommendations for FLASHLIGHTS.
ARGGG. National forecast had us in a severe thunderstorm area today, and it rolled in. 0,34" so far.
Won't be using the pickup truck to move stuff to storage today.
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over at Ace:
December 18, 2021
Effective, and unwilling to back down
—K.T.
http://ace.mu.nu/
Highly recommended.
includes excerpts and a link to a talk that Abigail Shrier gave at Princeton:
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-students-of-princeton
WRT hash browns, there are also "home fries": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87C9ukQvIgs
>> The hard drive arrived for my daughter's PC, and I noticed it makes a really obnoxious hum when powered.
WD Black again. I thought the last one I bought which runs loud/hot was a fluke.
Still using 'spinning metal'?
The crazy thing is that there will be plenty of people that can and will pay the extra $5,000.
With pickup sales as big as they are it seems like Tony is missing an opportunity by not prioritizing the Cybertruck.
https://jalopnik.com/f-150-lightning-orders-havent-even-started-but-the-truc-1848232090
I still use spinning metal discs of rust for my external backup drives. They are cheap and I have three of them. When the price of 2 TB drops to $100.00 or less for SSD then I will retire all my spinning platters. I suspect that will happen within the next two years, maybe sooner.
My laptop has not any rotating storage for several years. My desktop that I replaced had one spinning disk for storage. My new system has two 2 TB M.2 WD Black SSDs, a couple of standard SSDs for some work discs.
It is strange how a lot of Kathleen Turner flicks are forgotten. She was so huge that John Huston paid his own daughter scale in order to get Turner to sign for "Prizzi's Honor".
Her "Undercover Blues" movie is one of my wife's favorites.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108442/
$5000. Please. The new Bronco (not the Bronco Sport) can easily get double the MSRP at a dealership right now. Anyone counting on a $40,000 Cybertruck or F150 EV actually being delivered at that price might as well request to get their $100 reservation back right now.
For this build, yes. I still have spinning metal in my primary desktop and server.
Effectiveness for the risk involved is lower than Moderna.
My daughter was watching a comic on Netflix who was introduced by the Rock. The comic related that he got the Pfizer double shot because it was created by the German Scientists. After all, he said, the Nazis make the best stuff.
Breaking Cat News: Light Bath
https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2021/12/18
Heh.
I forget where I read that Cadillac plans to be fully electric in a few years. 2025? Well, Bye.
I have a batch of Au Gratin Sorta potatoes in the oven. Auguson cheese powder, Auguson butter powder, and just enough left in the can of Auguson dried sliced potatoes. Add some salt and pepper and onion powder, wave the thyme and oregano over, add more salt and into the oven for 35 minutes or so.
Hey, if you're going to stock the stuff, eat it too.
The cheese powder is like a rock. Just a hint of "off" and I opened the can a few years ago. The butter powder is the same age and still as fluffy as when new. Tastes fine. I need to repackage both into smaller containers. The dried potatoes, well, they seem to keep forever.
We'll have some vac-packed spiral cut ham with the potato mix.
One of the neighbors leases her car. Fancy stuff like BMW SUVs. No one gives a rat's ass but whatever. Her latest is a Land Rover or Land Ranger. It's about the size of a Jeep Cherokee. Bright shiny white and if she gets behind you on the road to the paved road you would think she's "that far" from ramming and pushing you to go faster.
I suppose if you don't actually own it, running almost 30 MPH is a fine thing. Me? At /most/ 20.
A friend just bought a used Land Thing and it looks just like the one she is leasing.
The question arises of what she's going to get now that the common folk have Land Things. Grin.
Y'all think Green Acres is just a corny TV show. ….
"The Best Dishwashers" By Liam McCabe and Sarah Bogdan
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-dishwasher/
"Any dishwasher—even a cheap one—can clean your breakfast bowls and dinner plates, as long as you use a decent detergent. But the best dishwashers can handle the tough jobs and are also quiet, reliable, and easy to load. After digging through thousands of customer reviews and stress-testing 17 models with seriously crusty dishes, we’ve concluded that the Bosch 300 Series is the first one you should consider."
I agree. I put a Bosch 300 series in my last house and really liked it. The third rack in the top is very nice, I thought it to be very useful. The wife does not agree as much about the third rack.
Merry Christmas!
‘Omicron Is Here’ — Joe Biden Warns ‘Winter of Severe Illness and Death’ for Unvaccinated Americans
The Grinch has nothing on plugs! What's after Omicron? The Zombie Apocalypse? I bet Soros et al are snickering at us dirt people.
The number one job of the President Of The United States is to be the principle cheerleader of the USA. Biden sucks at his day job and he sucks horribly at being a cheerleader for the USA. I really miss Trump, he loves the USA.
The Nazis pioneered Chloroquine prior to WWII but considered it to be too dangerous for a general antimalarial. Bayer developed Hydroxychloroquine after the war.
MaaS, Mobility as a Service. Most people will not own cars.
That's the real point of the EV only sales mandates in places like Washington State.
The hard drive arrived for my daughter's PC, and I noticed it makes a really obnoxious hum when powered.
WD Black again. I thought the last one I bought which runs loud/hot was a fluke.
What, no WD Black SSD for her pc ? 1 TB M.2 for $100 if it works for her pc.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-SN750-NVMe-Internal-Gaming/dp/B095HB3L6G//p?tag=ttgnet-20
Got this email from our local chapter..
–not a season of gratitude, season of GIVING. OH, RIGHT. That's coming later.
–Sure enough.
I thought that the Girl Scouts merged with the Boy Scouts ?
Three years ago Girl Scouts sued Boy Scouts because the latter was going to change their name to Scouts to reflect that they were accepting older girls into their groups. GS was afraid that BS's name change would cause people to think the groups had merged.
Judging by your question, I'd say GS's fears were well grounded.
I thought that the Girl Scouts merged with the Boy Scouts ?
—not just no but HELL no. BSA did change their name to scouts and began recruiting girls. GS has sued because there were places where girls joined the former BSA thinking they were joining the GS.
Girls want to join the former BSA because they still do things. GS really doesn't do much except very soft and for lack of a better term, girlie things. You have to try really hard to do stuff like sailing and backpacking.
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No M.2 slot on the motherboard. Plus, by replacing the drives around the end of the warranty period, I've never had a catastrophic failure with spinning metal.
I have lost two SSHDs since putting those in a couple of laptops.
Sun went down and so did the temps. It's 53F and breezy.
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"Jack Dorsey and the Unlikely Revolutionaries Who Want to Reboot the Internet"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack-dorsey-and-the-unlikely-revolutionaries-who-want-to-reboot-the-internet-11639803654
"Members of the tech elite are banding together to bring the Web back to its idealist origins. They call their vision ‘Web3.’"
You know, the last person that I want to see "reboot the internet" is Jack Dorsey. He will only allow those of us whom he approves of on the intertubes.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/