Cool to cold, damp for sure. Supposed to be sunny and clear. We’ll seeeeeee…..
Did small stuff all day without working too hard. Mom cleaned. And cleaned. And cleaned some more. Oh well, I couldn’t stop her, and she likes doing it. Of course it will all need to be re-done after the mess from the next project. Looks nice at the moment though.
No change in my propane situation, so I’ll try working that later today.
Main job is getting mom to the airport. And maybe back to the house if her flight doesn’t go.
Wife and kids will stay another day, then we all get home for dental appointments. End of year stuff. Because THE END IS NEAR!!! 111!!!111!!
Well, it is!
There are various and sundry things I need to do at home too, including plumbing, that an extra day alone will help. If I get to it. I’ll try.
Meanwhile, continue stacking all the things.
nick
What is it with Moms and cleaning? Probably an expression of love. My MiL and her best friend spent a week at our BOL, and seem to have spent most of it cleaning, including the windows, and they were happy as two Larrys. My friends there got a laugh out of that, the two little old ladies cleaning like dervishes…
Yeah, Florida. Ted Williams was fairly prominent around Tampa and, among other investments, co-owned a Best Western featuring his name located at the edge of the Disney Property on I-4 for decades, near various spring training facilities. IIRC, the hotel had a lot of memorabilia in the lobby and bar.
Williams was also an early investor and spokesperson for The Villages development, which you will hear about from time to time in the national press.
Tampa is a Yankees town at the center, but the Red Sox have been in Fort Myers for spring training for as long as I can rememer. I think their facility survived intact this summer.
Crap, I just tested positive for the Koof using a six month expired test. But this says that the Koof test expiration has been extended from six months to fifteen months.
I never got a fever during my Koof. The worst turns out to be the Post Koof Kough. Still got a slight Kough a week after all other symptoms. The cold, dry weather isn’t helping.
I got my Christmas present from all the kids yesterday. 1.75L “The Glenlivet 12”. They searched for a 15 high and low but couldn’t find a drop. Bunch of drunks in San Antone.
Speaking of flying Southwest:
Southwest Air Faces Gridlock With Over 80% of Flights Scrapped or Late
The Philly family members switched to American and got to Vegas after SWA crapped out on them.
Tyler Durden cowardice protecting coverage of the ongoing travel mess.
Staffing shortages? Say, didn’t Southwest mandate jabs and fire the non-compliant?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/full-blown-meltdown-southwest-cancels-nearly-3000-flights-holiday-travel-hits-perfect-storm
Yup, Southwest did mandate vaccination as a Federal contractor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vaccine-mandate-southwest-airlines-court-blocks-pilot-challenge/
I worked all day yesterday so I didn’t catch the “Death In Paradise” Boxing Day feature-length episode, but I have to use an alternative source anyway.
The theme music? Lyrics? National scandal!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/20867783/death-in-paradise-fans-christmas-special/
“When this happens, get bigger filters. Problem solved.”
In-line macerator.
This is absolutely retarded:
West Point military academy is starting to remove ALL Confederate statues and symbols from its campus – including a portrait and stone bust of Gen. Robert E. Lee
I guess cadets won’t study the Civil War anymore, either.
I started watching The Invaders a couple of days ago. Found the DVD. Awesome 60’s SciFi. Plus, how do you beat Suzanne Pleshette as an alien stripper? Yowser!
Jack Lord is an antagonist collaborator in one episode of “The Invaders”, pre-“Hawaii 5-0” by maybe a year. The same episode also has Diana Hyland as a guest star/female interest, who went on to posthumous fame as the dead mother on “Eight is Enough”.
I noticed this year that watching Darren McGavin in “A Christmas Story” is more interesting if you’ve been through the “Kolchak” reruns at least once as we have at our house.
Which reminds me — I’ll see your Suzanne Pleshette and raise you Julie Adams on “Kolchak”, still looking like she could get into that white swimsuit from “Creature from the Black Lagoon”.
You can’t say retarded anymore. Development challenged, special needs, alternative gifted are all the politically correct terms. The agents will showing up at your door for delivery to the reeducation camps.
When I was in high school there was a girl named Carol Pratt. She was
mentallyretardedmentally challenged. We were cruel had given her the nickname of CP=MR2. Now she would be CP=MC2.Black history will be mandatory. Starting with non-stop streaming of ROOTS for six months. With improper words bleeped.
The civil war was more about economy and excessive control by the north. About the same that is happening with large liberal voting blocks of New York, California and Florida. Controlling the rest of the states.
You need to burnish your faux-outrage creds. A true snowflake would say “You can’t say the r-word anymore.”
Funny thing is, “retard” was the socially acceptable replacement for “moron”, fifty or sixty years ago. We don’t want to use hurty words like moron to refer to those on the far-left of the bell curve (even though IQ is fake and intelligence is a social construct and we’re all intelligent in our own way and everyone is equal) so we’ll call them mentally retarded and not hurt anyone’s feelings.
see also: nigger → colored person → negro → black → person of color
Stereotypes come into being and persist, by and large, for a reason. They are mostly accurate more often than they are not. If people don’t like the stereotypes they fall into, they can work to make the stereotype false. But that involves work so instead get people to change the language so that they can no longer use the label identified with the stereotype.
see also: Newspeak
The Dem party in Florida is a sad joke and will be out of power for at least a decade.
Worry more about the patterns developing in Texas, in Williamson County among others.
Fixing it with CAPITAL B:
see also: nigger → colored person → negro → Black → person of color
Also, check this from Orange County (CA) Register, page 2, Birthdays {near bottom):
https://enewspaper.ocregister.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=ff30757a-cf74-4e19-a065-281244917d45
We no longer have “Actresses”, only “Actors”.
Well that avoids the problem sports has had with trans men taking over and winning all the awards.
>> We no longer have “Actresses”, only “Actors”.
Then can we go back to mailman now?
We had a good inch of snow yesterday afternoon/evening. Combined with the low temps, roads were a mess quickly – lots of ice. We live in an are where every road in from town is over a mountain, and all those roads were closed/blocked around rush hour. Lots of people abandoning cars and walking home. It would have been much worse if a ton of people weren’t off for the holiday. Reaffirms why I keep good cold weather gear in my trunk.
Yes, an inch of snow with ice. Remember, this is north AL.
Jeff Bezos lets the anti-semites off the leash at the Washington Post:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/12/wapo-uses-picture-of-nyc-orthodox-jews-for-story-about-ohio-measles-outbreak/
A couplbe of inches of snow and ice had people abandoning their cars in Portland in a winter storm during rush hour six years ago. This happened in a state where the Subaru dealers are among the highest volume outlets for the brand in the US.
https://www.kron4.com/news/abandoned-vehicles-abound-after-rare-snow-storm-in-portland/
I can’t find the story now, but I remember the Faux News there covering one commuter who never left his car, reading a Kindle and eating takeout from the Mexican restaurant just down the offramp from where he was stuck.
Crap, I just tested positive for the Koof using a six month expired test. But this says that the Koof test expiration has been extended from six months to fifteen months.
I never got a fever during my Koof. The worst turns out to be the Post Koof Kough. Still got a slight Kough a week after all other symptoms. The cold, dry weather isn’t helping.
This is my second time to get the Koof. So far, my symptoms are just the same as when I had it in Feb 2020. A slight fever, severe acheiness, severe headache, and even more crazy than normal.
Supremes extend Title 42 into Spring!
Even the Old School Marm couldn’t let the border problem become a lesson about “foolish” political choices this week. The situation would have spiraled out of control quickly.
Interesting that Gorsuch sided with the liberals.
“You can now make Windows 11 look like Windows 95. Here’s how.”
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/heres-how-to-bring-the-beauty-of-windows-95-to-windows-11
“Old school meets new school, thanks to a Windows Classic theme.”
And there you go.
I watching the two part Star Trek “The Menagerie” episode from the first year of Star Trek. Simply amazing story telling.
Kurtzaman Trek has dug deep into that material. The story arc revisits Talos IV in the second season of “Discovery”, complete with Vina and the Jeff Bezos clone Telosians, and the Pike in “Strange New Worlds” is haunted by advance knowledge of his fate in the training accident.
As I recall, Star Trek “The Menagerie” was a cost saving means to pump out a coupla episodes and recycle the first failed pilot. Pretty clever.
“A Terrible Fall of Angels (A Zaniel Havelock Novel)” by Laurell K. Hamilton
https://www.amazon.com/Terrible-Angels-Zaniel-Havelock-Novel/dp/1984804472?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a one book series of science fiction paranormal books. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Berkeley in 2022. I plan to purchase future books in the series when and if they become available.
Zaniel Havelock is a police detective working in the Metaphysical Coordination Unit. Zaniel is an Angel Talker, one the rare few individuals who can see Angels and talk with them without going insane. Zaniel was recruited into the College of the Angels at the age of seven and abruptly left at the age of nineteen and joined the Army. After the Army he joined the local police force.
Zaniel has been called to murder scene with a very strange effect. There are angel feathers scattered about the murder scene. And an angel appeared to him in incorporeal state, calling him by name.
The author has a website at:
https://www.laurellkhamilton.com/
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,940 reviews)
Even the Old School Marm couldn’t let the border problem become a lesson about “foolish” political choices this week. The situation would have spiraled out of control quickly.
Interesting that Gorsuch sided with the liberals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-keeps-place-trump-era-immigration-policy-allowing-asylum-rcna62560
“The Best Mad Scientist Science Fiction Books” by Dan Livingston
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/the-best-mad-scientist-science-fiction-books/
I have read several of the 14: “Deadline”, “Recursion”, “Firestarter”, “Oryx and Crake”, “Jurassic Park”, and “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea”.
As I recall, Star Trek “The Menagerie” was a cost saving means to pump out a coupla episodes and recycle the first failed pilot. Pretty clever.
Yes. I regard “The Menagerie” as the best episodes of the original StarTrek tv series.
The wife just reminded me that I carved the turkey on Christmas Day. I also whispered “sisters !” in my mother’s ear when my wife and her sister were having a spirited conversation. So, I may have shared The Koof with everyone. Nice.
Mom made it to Florida. Hobby airport was a ghost town. I was ready to try for a companion gate pass, to sit with her and stand in lines as needed, but no real line for check in, no real line for security… and the flight left only an hour late.
The most dangerous part of her journey is still ahead, the drive home, but it’s relatively short.
I’m home too, and shut off the water to t he sprinkler system. Neighbor called before I left the BOL this morning to say she’d turned it off as much as she could, but water was still coming out…
I had to stand on the valve handle to get it all the way closed. And some sprinkler plumbing is in my future.
the joys of home ownership.
n
Californians falling from their Pelotons like iguanas from a florida hotel room ceiling…
https://babylonbee.com/news/californians-brace-for-deadly-50-degree-cold-front
Prepping:
Since I had the old Whitfield Advantage ii pellet stove insert out of the fireplace alcove for maintenance I decided to hook it to the Anker battery pack as a test.
It worked fine, but pulled a surprising 135-175W. The quarter kilowatt hour battery pack would sustain that for only a bit over 2hr.
I do have a dual fuel generator, but it would be wasteful to run that for such a small load. Better, I think, to have a kilowatt hour, or 2 kWh battery, and simply recharge as necessary.
“73-year-old pays $370/month to live in a plane he bought for $100,000 from a salvage yard: ‘I have no regrets’”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/26/73-year-old-pays-370-bucks-a-month-to-live-in-a-1066-square-foot-plane.html
Why not ?
“Stop complaining, says billionaire investor Charlie Munger: ‘Everybody’s five times better off than they used to be’”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/27/charlie-munger-stop-complaining-about-wealth-inequality-life-quality.html
I’ve got nothing. I sure don’t want to say that I envy him.
It worked fine, but pulled a surprising 135-175W. The quarter kilowatt hour battery pack would sustain that for only a bit over 2hr.
Blower motor ?
https://pellet-stove-parts-4less.com/collections/whitfield-pellet-stove-parts-advantage-2-t
Combustion exhaust blower motor, convection blower motor, and pellet auger motor. Looks like three electric motors.
IIRC, a lot of the driving force behind the recasting of the first Star Trek pilot,”The Cage” as the two-part episode “The Menagerie” were the film special effects.
First, they were horrendously expensive.
see this link for some contemporaneous discussion of the techniques
https://theasc.com/articles/star-trek-50-part-i-original-series-effects
Second they took a lot of time to produce.
So by reusing the pilot, they not only benefited from the special effects, they had two episodes that didn’t require the extensive post-production.
And we got to see not only interesting top-heavy* aliens, but the first appearance of the yummy green Orion slave girls.
*Big brains, you dirty old men.
“Lost in Space” was supposed to be the big tv science fiction hit. Led by well-established stars (Zorro, Timmy’s mommy, Danny’s daughter, and belatedly, The Robot), how could it miss?
Well, it missed because the writing sucked dead bunnies through a straw. To have Jonathan Harris ad-lib the Dr. Smith character–who should have been breathing vacuum at least by the second episode–into a co-star was pathetic.
It didn’t help that the special effects were cheesy and many of the props were recycled.
Somewhere there is a salary comparison between the two shows.
@EdH, or a small gennie like the honda eu2000i..
n
Camera angle reveals card trick:
https://twitter.com/NextSkillslevel/status/1585596593667190784
h/t to AoSHQ
What doesn’t make the stories about that guy’s living situation is that Hillsboro has a severe rat problem, to the point that the Intel facility out there has bait traps in the hallways.
“Lost in Space” also had Irwin Allen in charge. His “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” was quite good in its first season, when the stories were more about espionage than “freak of the week”, with David Hedison going on to play CIA agent Felix Leiter in the Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton Bond era films.
Danny’s daughter and member of the Von Trapp family. The dinner table scene in “The Sound of Music” always makes me laugh. Between the people on camera and behind the scenes, there’s a pretty good sci fi convention guest list circa early 2000s when all of them were still alive — Robert Wise (director), Christopher Plummer, Andrea Cartwright, Nicholas Hammond, and Heather Menzies.
The “Lost in Space” pilot had some money involved, but things went downhill fast. Some of the shots of Timmy’s mom in the bullet bra about midway through the first season were beyond shameless.
All replaced in the last couple of years. This usage may be normal, I was just a little surprised.
“10 weird things about SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites”
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-10-weird-things
“1. The name “Starlink” comes from the book “The Fault in Our Stars””
“2. Starlink runs on the open-source Linux operating system”
“3. Starlink 2.0 is even bigger – a lot bigger”
“4. Starlink satellites use lasers to communicate”
“5. The Starlink Mars independence statement”
“6. Starlink is available in Antarctica”
“7. Starlink is responsible for UFO sightings”
“8. The U.S. Air Force has used Starlink in live-fire exercises”
“9. Starlink signals can be ‘reverse engineered’ for use as a location service”
“10. China has simulated using nuclear blasts to take out Starlink”
Those are “weird”? Guess weird has been redefined too.
n
speaking of weird, Lost in Space should have appealed to me as a kid, but the twink Dr had the ‘Uncle Bad Touch’ vibe and that sent both kids and adults out of the room.
Those are “weird”? Guess weird has been redefined too.
Angela Cartwright.
And I played hooky from making change control request slides today. I have no excuse.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
OBTW, some of the search terms I used looking for pics… Well, I need to purge my history.
Linux has a real time kernel patch which reduces latencies and runs certain interrupts as threads. If it isn’t life-or-death, Linux can perform adequately as a “real time” system.
Linux also has a well understood interface into the routing table. If I had to guess, Starlink implements a custom Quagga client which makes routing table updates based on a mathematical model of positions of the entire satellite constellation in relation to each other and ground stations.
Quagga is GPL, but as long as Starlink shares any modifications to the core daemon, I’m sure they’re covered creating a proprietary client.
If you mean Microsoft Azure RTOS, you’re kidding, right?
And I played hooky from making change control request slides today. I have no excuse.
What in the world are change control request slides ?
Linux has a real time kernel patch which reduces latencies and runs certain interrupts as threads. If it isn’t life-or-death, Linux can perform adequately as a “real time” system.
Linux also has a well understood interface into the routing table. If I had to guess, Starlink implements a custom Quagga client which makes routing table updates based on a mathematical model of positions of the entire satellite constellation in relation to each other and ground stations.
Huh, that is going to require a way smarter programmer than me.
If you mean Microsoft Azure RTOS, you’re kidding, right?
I thought that Intel had a defunct real time operating system called RTOS. I see that they have RMX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operating_systems
I see that there is a FreeRTOS:
https://www.freertos.org/
I swear I remember Intel buying Wind River, but it looks like they sold it off after a decade.
Not long after we moved out west, I got a call to interview with Wind River. They didn’t want to pay anything and only called to see how hungry I was being 42 and unemployed.
Not that hungry.