09:04 – It was 64.5F (18C) when I took Colin out at 0645, drizzling and foggy. We’ve had about 1.7 inches (4.5 cm) of rain over the last couple of days. The little dog showed up briefly yesterday morning, but we haven’t seen her since then.
Barbara picked out a refrigerator yesterday at Blevins, on her way home from the gym. It’s a black Whirlpool model. The new one is smaller than the old one, about 19 cubic feet versus I think 23, but that’s not a problem. The old one was larger than we really needed. The new one isn’t as deep as the old one, which keeps it from sticking out as far into the room. The new one arrived hinged on the right, which is the way the old one was set up. To me, it’d make more sense to have it hinged on the left so that the door would open away from the counters and work area, which the delivery guys offered to do, but Barbara likes it the way it is.
Barbara never liked our current stainless steel model since it was first delivered and she learned that magnets don’t stick to stainless steel. The new one is already covered with refrigerator magnets, notepads, and so on. The ice-maker was optional on this model, so we didn’t get it. I’m perfectly happy with using ice-cube trays.
When we powered up the new one, we left the temperature settings at the default “recommended” levels. I stuck lab thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer compartments. The refrigerator soon stabilized at about 3.9C (39F) and the freezer at -18C (0F), which is what everyone recommends.
The delivery guys hauled the old one down to the unfinished area of the basement, where we’d already made room for it. We let it sit overnight unplugged and with the doors open to get it completely defrosted and dried out. Today, we’ll plug it back in and set the temperature controls for both the refrigerator and freezer as low as they’ll go. We did have both of them set on 3/5, but I’ll crank those both up to 5/5. The refrigerator compartment may actually freeze, but that’s fine with me.
This afternoon while Barbara is out volunteering, I’ll clear a bunch of stuff out of the freezer in the garage and move it down to the new-old refrigerator. That’s mostly two categories: frozen agricultural antibiotics and other drugs, and relatively high-value #10 canned foods like Augason Farms powdered eggs. I plan to pack the downstairs refrigerator/freezer as full as I can get it, which means adding stuff like canned meats, jars of Alfredo sauce, cans of evaporated milk, and so on. Before I do that, I’ll intentionally freeze sample containers of each to make sure they don’t burst when frozen. Until I know that freezing won’t damage the containers, I’ll keep the refrigerator set at 3/5 to prevent freezing. And there’s always more stuff that I’d like to refrigerate or freeze: less stable chemicals, heirloom seeds, etc. etc. I won’t ever be short of stuff if we have unused space.
Barbara is delighted at the prospect of getting so much space freed up in the upstairs vertical freezer. As it stands, at least a third and probably half of the freezer space is taken up with #10 cans, retort pouches of antibiotics, and so on. She’ll have lots more space available for actual frozen foods. I don’t mind changing a lot of the stuff from the upstairs freezer to the downstairs refrigerator compartment. Freezing stuff extends shelf life more than refrigerating it, but the latter is fine.
And I already have some tentative plans for that extra space. I talked to Lori a week or two ago and told her that if she ever decided to sell bulk beef she could count on us for a quarter of a beef. When Frances and Al were up last weekend I mentioned it to them and they said they might be willing to go in for a quarter themselves.
I see no possible way this can go wrong. And of course the US has vital national interests in the area.
My attitude regarding the Philippines can be summed up as “They made their bed. Let them lie in it.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/398901-faa-drones-regulations-police-tracking
Let the good times roll. 🙁
All it takes is a few douchenozzles to ruin it for the rest of us droners. I fly in a giant partially develope lot by our Walmart. I’m sure the cops will show up and empty a mag in me ’cause they feared for their lives. It looked like I was going to Kamikaze into them.
Bring a dog with you, MrAtoz. Stupid pigs who fear for their lives love shooting dogs, and maybe that will keep them busy long enough for you to kamikaze your drone into them.
I’m perfectly happy with using ice-cube trays
We use ice trays at the office but they’re the ‘vintage’ plastic kind that inevitably crack. I was looking at Amazon’s offerings a couple of days ago and, as usual, there was an overabundance of choices. RBT’s post prompted me to ask, anyone have any specific recommendations you use and like?
And, while I’m seeking recommendations… as I get in older computers to refurbish, the lots often include other computer-y items. I have a handful of working and repairable Kindles, nooks, and other cheap Android tablets. I’ve been using a nook for reading – I really like it but it’s not backlit, so I can’t read in the dark. Any preferences to recommend on that front?
I remember metal ice trays with the big ratcheting lever–that’s vintage.
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I remember those metal ice trays with the lever from when I was a kid. We have the plastic ones. We’ve been using them for at least a decade with no cracking problems. There’s no indication on the trays which brand they are. Sorry.
I remember metal ice trays with the big ratcheting lever
As do I – and Amazon has them for sale!
We have the plastic ones. We’ve been using them for at least a decade with no cracking problems
I know that overfilling causes some of the cracking problems, so I’m careful with that. But I have no experience with newer silicone types
Shit.
Barbara was just out talking to the neighbor when a local farmer stopped by to tell them he was looking for the dog that had just killed a dozen of his chickens. He’s already called the sheriff and animal control, so her days are numbered. Like any rural area, people take it very seriously when a pet starts ripping up livestock.
I wish we could do something, but I don’t see anything we can do. She’s a sweet dog. It’s not fair to blame her for killing chickens since apparently the Mexican family who owns her wasn’t bothering to feed her.
Shit.
WRT drones; what MrAtoz said; the law-abiding and reasonable people will suffer because of the idiots and cretins, just like with much else, and the authorities love to use that stuff as an excuse to crack down on everybody.
WRT the Philippines; the place has been a mess for well over a century and NOW we have vital strategic interests there? Well hell, we may be exiting Syria and Afghanistan at some point so we gotta keep wars going somewhere else, obviously. And probably won’t GTFO of Afghanistan anyway, as they’re now floating the idea that we need to get the valuable minerals out of there before the Chicoms do.
This country has been involved in a war of some sort for all but a handful of years of its existence; most Murkan derps don’t know that but would probably be OK with it, I reckon. Better us than somebody else, amirite? And every generation a bunch of our kids are sacrificed to Moloch, now to include our daughters.
Just so we all know, as Jimmy Dore said yesterday; we’re not getting a PENNY from any of these capers around the world that secure banking and energy interests for our corporate and imperial overloads and masters. Not a penny.
And increasingly run the risk of some bad actor somewhere or other flinging nuke warheads around. Hell, we might do that ourselves, as we’re the only guys with the experience.
” She’s a sweet dog. It’s not fair to blame her for killing chickens since apparently the Mexican family who owns her wasn’t bothering to feed her.”
New intel, eh? Since earlier, we now know she has putative owners who don’t feed her, they’re Mexican (legal or illegal and where do they live?) and that she is the culprit.
‘I remember metal ice trays with the big ratcheting lever”
Never used those. I do remember metal ice cube trays that had a rubber “skeleton” that we used when I was a kid. Ice cubes NEVER separated easily from that, we always had to put it under running water until they started to come apart. But then, ice was rarely used, maybe to keep water cool when we put it in a picnic jug for long trips.
I was dating a girl up the road when I lived on the farm. She had dog named Sam that she dearly loved. We spotted the dog on our property one day. The dog had killed a small deer, older fawn. Dog had blood all over his face. So we caught the dog, well actually he came to us as he knew us.
I took the dog home to my girlfriend. Her father came out, tied the dog to a tree, went back in the house, came back with a gun and shot the dog dead inf front of me and his daughter. Not a bright move on his part. He could have waited until she was gone, then shot and disposed of the body and just claimed the dog left.
When a dog gets a taste of deer blood and killing you cannot stop them. Thus the elimination of the dog. All the farmers in the area felt the same, dog kills deer, dog dies. And it was perfectly legal to shoot someone else’s dog on your property.
She did not speak to me for a week because she blamed me for the death of her dog.
Instead of trapping and putting down the dog, they should trap and put down the bastards who didn’t feed her and let her run free.
GOOGLE is diverse & inclusive (of all views that match it’s progressive agenda, all others must not be tolerated)
“Mere days after a memo about the company’s diversity policies was leaked, Google has fired its author. If you missed the story, here it is in a nutshell: a Google engineer wrote a memo expressing his ideas about company policies, and because it didn’t parrot the accepted progressive dogma that saturates Google’s social engineering project, he was fired.”
UPDATE: GOOGLE collects enough data from it’s various products to know everything about you and to predict with uncanny accuracy where you will be at a specific date & time and what you will be doing. That an organization with this potential power has a corporate policy so agressively anti-liberty is frightening.
“I really like it but it’s not backlit, so I can’t read in the dark. Any preferences to recommend on that front?”
I put down my Kindle when I bought a Samsung 7″ tablet, Galaxy Tab A (2016), Model SM-T280; never used the Kindle again.
Amazon and local public library deliver ebooks OTA to tablet.
https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Covered-Cube/dp/B00004OCLA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1502209010&sr=8-2&keywords=oxo+ice+cube+tray
Nice tray. Got mine for 20% off at BBB, but I don’t remember the price.
WRT Google; just more ammo for me getting off it totally ASAP, but by Labor Day at the latest. Enough is enough. They apparently believe, and probably accurately, that they’re too big to worry about a few thousand users dumping them; most folks won’t care about any of this, of course.
It’s instructive that all the media and IT giants over the past couple of decades have gone the lefty/prog/SJW route.
It will also be instructive if and when the Grid shuts down. The Horror—no more pixels. Well, maybe the LED displays on radios. We’ll be back to the early 1980s, with BBS’s and the occasional dumb terminals, all running on solar and batteries and variously fueled generators.
I ran my DEC Rainbow as a dumb terminal to connect to the Boston Computer Society’s BBS’s and also to the machines at DEC where I worked then after leaving Cop World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Computer_Society
Those were the years also of reading Jerry Pournelle’s stuff in Byte Magazine and Terry Shannon’s in the publications concerning DEC and VAX/VMS. It was a fun time for me.
I think that the local Commodore User Group has disbanded.
Wife has given me the project of downloading all our many hundreds of Kindle books to local storage – just in case SHTF or Amazon decides to disappear some of them for idelogical reasons.
“…just in case SHTF or Amazon decides to disappear some of them for ideological reasons.”
Probably the latter, and that would be preferable, of course, though not ideal. Good suggestion; I think I’ll do the same.
“Mere days after a memo about the company’s diversity policies was leaked, Google has fired its author. …”
Diversity is a jealous god.
I have a handful of working and repairable Kindles, nooks, and other cheap Android tablets. I’ve been using a nook for reading – I really like it but it’s not backlit, so I can’t read in the dark. Any preferences to recommend on that front?
If one of your Android tables is a 2013 Nexus 7, install LineageOS, the FDroid APK (from their website), and, if you insist, the minimum Google junk to access Play via Open GApps “pico”. The end result is a very solid tablet with minimal bloatware and access to anything that will run on the latest version of Android.
I have a Nexus 7 2012 so I have to live with the last CyanogenMod build instead of LineageOS for now.
Wife has given me the project of downloading all our many hundreds of Kindle books to local storage – just in case SHTF or Amazon decides to disappear some of them for idelogical reasons.
Calibre is your friend. If you have a “virtual” book you can’t offload from your Kindle, download to your PC, Calibre can then import it and deDRM it. I keep my Calibre library on the external Big Drobo.
I have a handful of working and repairable Kindles, nooks, and other cheap Android tablets. I’ve been using a nook for reading – I really like it but it’s not backlit, so I can’t read in the dark. Any preferences to recommend on that front?
I read on the 9″ iPad Pro with the Kindle app. I set the app for white letters on a black background. You can invert colors on the iPad itself, but the app turns the pixels off so it is really black. I use the iPad because I’m always looking up references and the iPad is a lot faster than the Kindle plus the evil Chrome browser rocks.
Nicely put. Consider that stolen.
re the dog and the Mexican owners, the appropriate thing to do is tie them up and put a bullet in their heads, raping the women either before or after shooting them. But of course white Americans can’t do that because it would be cultural appropriation.
“But of course white Americans can’t do that because it would be cultural appropriation.”
But, but…
I self-identify as a LGBTXYZ-American of color. Doesn’t that mean I can do whatever I want to?
I choose not to self-identify as human. Most people are stupid. And, much to my dismay, I’ve had to come to accept that I can’t kill them all. The only thing left is for me to distance myself as much as possible from them.
“…the appropriate thing to do is tie them up and put a bullet in their heads, raping the women either before or after shooting them.”
Man, that sounds like typical namby-pamby Murkan white-bread stuff. More likely is raping the women and children and then chopping them all up into various pieces and hanging them from bridges and billboards. Prior to all that, some intense work with blowtorches, pliers, electricity and acid.
Geez, get a ticket on the clue train, willya?
Is this Global Warming ???
81f @ Noon in Memphis TN, August 8
Humidity low and with a nice breeze it’s downright plesant outside.
Our normal Aug temps are about 15 degrees higher … no complaints from me. I’m one of those “elderly” who HATE heat. Spent too long in Oklahoma and Hong Kong.
I got my first dog because he developed a taste for my Grandmother’s chickens. Normally he would have had a one-way trip to the timber with my Grandfather. But my Aunt (my Mom’s youngest Sister) said he needed to be spared, he was a registered purebred beagle from a well known and proven rabbit hunting line. She offered him to me, I was 10 at the time, and I was glad to spare him his fate. I had him for 17 years. Many happy hours of hunting and field trials; rabbits and blue ribbons. He would even flush birds: quail and pheasant.
It all boils down to accepting responsibility. A dog (or cat) will do what a dog will do. It is up to the animal’s caretaker to properly contain and control the animal. Destroying the animal is never a solution as you have not eliminated the problem.
Man (and that includes women) was given free will and dominion. That is a lot of responsibility and sadly too many do not know what to do with it. Wisdom, seek it.
” I’m one of those “elderly” who HATE heat. Spent too long in Oklahoma and Hong Kong.”
Excellent! Another member for our admittedly tiny club. I spent way too much time in east Texas and SEA. Anything over low 70s and I begin to be uncomfortable. 40s and 50s are nice. (I’d also spent a bit of time in central Maine during the dead of a ferocious winter, but that was doable, having grown up in MA anyway, when we seemed to have lots of cold and snowy winters then.)
Yahoo for Linux! Mom and Dad’s Windows 10 laptop went dark this weekend. I was able to boot up with Ubuntu on a USB stick, mount the hard drive (could only do it “read only”), and pull off all important files. Makes me look like a genius. I had set up Dropbox on the computer but they weren’t using it for everything. I need to find out why they are not putting everything there. I have a feeling they think of it only for “special” files.
I don’t know what exactly happened but it was update related. Either the update corrupted something or one of my parents turned the computer off during the update.
BTW, booting from the USB required me to turn off “secure boot” in the BIOS. With that enabled it ignored the boot order and always went to the hard drive first. Had me scratching my head for a while until I found that setting.
booting from the USB required me to turn off “secure boot” in the BIOS. With that enabled it ignored the boot order and always went to the hard drive first.M
Nice little tidbit of information to store away in the brain.
Another little nugget I found out the hard way. When joining a machine to an existing domain turn IPV6 off before attempting to the do the join. Apparently domain controllers will not respond to IPV6 requests if you are running an older version of Windows Server. So regardless of the server version I just turn off IPV6 in the workstation, join the domain, then turn IPV6 back on.
When joining a machine to an existing domain turn IPV6 before attempting to the do the join.
On or Off. I gotsta know!
Not long ago, couple-six months, there was a report about Mexican police having executed a family, with a side order of rape. I don’t remember the reason other than it wasn’t membership in a drug gang; political rivalry, maybe? Anyway, I don’t recall torture having been mentioned, which is why I didn’t suggest it above.
If one of your Android tables is a 2013 Nexus 7, install LineageOS…
Alas, when I said ‘cheap Android tablets’ there was no exaggeration – Polaroid, Coby and the like. But that sounds like a good option – I’ve located an inexpensive 2013 Nexus 7 and am talking to the guy about getting it. I could probably sell the Fires, nooks, etc. and almost cover the cost.
Are you available for any initial guidance through the ‘upgrade’? 🙂
“…turn off “secure boot” in the BIOS.”
Yeah, I had/have to do that with any machines I get that already have Windows 8 or later installed if I wanna put Linux or BSD on them.
“Either the update corrupted something…”
I’ve run into that several times with Windows and also Linux Mint. I suspect updates conflicting with codecs. And different hw seems to often yield different results, too.
“…Mexican police having executed a family, with a side order of rape.”
Mexico, the failed state to our south. Where cops and narcotrafficante enforcers are interchangeable. And ditto armed forces spec ops people, many of them trained by us originally. If there was any justice in the world, Eric Holder’s plane would go down somewhere in that country and he’d be pulled out alive and well for special attention from some of those animals.
One wonders also when Fred Reed will declare it a day and move back to civilization. Yes, Fred, we know this country is fucked up; still….c’mon.
On or Off. I gotsta know!
Fixed. Asshole! 🙂
Re: Mexico
More of the progs redefining things to suit them.
When I was in school, there was North America, South America, and Central America. North America was the US and Canada, period. Mexico was part of Central America, which makes sense culturally, linguistically, and geographically (it’s part of the peninsular land mass linking the two continents).
I would have no problem with the NAFTA if it encompassed, as it should, ONLY the US and Canada. We should have completely free trade and open borders between our countries. Throwing a third-world hellhole like Mexico into the mix makes it all unworkable.
What RBT just said, plus a million.
Plus we should annex Canada. Just kidding. KIDDING!!!
But we all know that the stuff we were taught back in school was rayciss, bigoted, homophobic, nativist, and xenophobic. Thankfully we’ve moved beyond all that and the nayshun is in real good shape and all is unicorns and rainbows now.
No one can read or do basic arithmetic or anything concerning genuine American history and geography and literature, but who cares? Just make it up as we go along. And punish dissenters and naysayers.
Not to worry, RBT. The US is growing its own third-world hellholes to fit more comfortably with Mexico (which has always been part of North America! The Ministry of Truth says so!).
GOOGLE is diverse & inclusive (of all views that match it’s progressive agenda, all others must not be tolerated)
“Mere days after a memo about the company’s diversity policies was leaked, Google has fired its author. If you missed the story, here it is in a nutshell: a Google engineer wrote a memo expressing his ideas about company policies, and because it didn’t parrot the accepted progressive dogma that saturates Google’s social engineering project, he was fired.”
“In July 2017, a Google employee wrote an internal memo titled Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber that quickly circulated throughout the company. On August 5, journalists got ahold of the contents of the document, and controversy broke out. ”
http://diversitymemo.com/
Ah, the diversity company fired the critic.
Did I share my plan for annexing Mexico? The US should occupy it, because of the obvious threat it poses to US interests. Then declare practically the entire (former) nation to be an ecological disaster area and send in the EnviroCorps. This elite unit shall be composed of caring citizens from all walks of life, whether Sierra Club members or graduates in Studies. They shall be drafted into the corps and sent to take care of the worst ecological problems … and then Mexico will be un-annexed and the wall will be built double quick and the tards won’t be let back in.
Fixed. Asshole!
Mr. OFD taught me everything I know about being an uber-literate asshole.
My plan for Mexico is to wait for everyone of the fuckers to migrate here, then move in to Cancun. It will be WHITEY!s paradise.
That seems like a pretty good plan, Mr. SteveF:
I APPROVE!!!
Bull Shit
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article166100592.html
“Plutonium detected in air near Highway 240 at Hanford
By Annette Cary
August 08, 2017 1:17 PM
Radioactive plutonium and americium have been found in air samples collected at the Rattlesnake Barricade just off public Highway 240, where workers enter the secure area of the Hanford nuclear reservation, according to the Washington State Department of Health.
Air samples were collected by the Department of Health on June 8, the day that workers at the Plutonium Finishing Plant were ordered to take cover indoors because of an airborne release of radioactive particles during demolition of the highly contaminated facility.
Analysis results for air samples were received Monday, said Department of Health officials at a Hanford Advisory Board committee meeting in Richland Tuesday.
The levels of contamination were “very, very low,” said John Martell, manager of the Radioactive Air Emissions Section of the Department of Health.
“The level is interesting from a regulatory point of view, but is not a health risk” to the public, said Mike Priddy, manager of the Environmental Sciences Section of the Department of Health.
Hanford employees were told in a memo early Tuesday afternoon that the Department of Health considers “that the amount detected is below levels that would be of concern for human health.”
The Department of Energy and Department of Health are beginning an investigation and have not conclusively linked the airborne contamination to the Plutonium Finishing Plant incident, officials at the meeting said.
The Rattlesnake Barricade is about at least three miles from the Plutonium Finishing Plant and the wind was not blowing in that direction, Martell said.
However, there may have been eddies and swirls of air currents, health officials said.
Air samples collected downwind of the Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Columbia River, where the public has access, found no contamination.”
Bull Shit
Mr. OFD taught me everything I know about being an uber-literate asshole.
You should be proud and Mr. OFD honored. I find myself humbled to be in the presence of such well schooled people of the lower exterior discharge orifice. And I see Mr. OFD approves. The day is good. Pucker UP!
And I see where Mr. Glen Campbell has passed away. Enjoyed his music. Dimentia is a tough way to go. RIP.
Are you available for any initial guidance through the ‘upgrade’?
I’m usually around here.
I converted my wife’s 2013 Nexus 7 without any issues. Posting about the process here would probably help out someone else.
A new Nexus 7 has been in the works for a year. That would be more desirable *if* it ever happens.
Gee whiz, Mr. DadCooks seems to think we’re being lied to by gummint functionaries and minions and PR drones.
I APPROVE!
Of course they’d lie to us all. They don’t know how to do anything else. And the people at the top, at the political end, are what Ann Barnhardt calls diabolical narcissists.
narcissism diabolicum
And for them we need the Malleus Malificarum. Hammer of Evil.
Off now to the Planning Commission meeting where we’ll discuss the housing chapter in the Town Plan, etc., etc. Usually good for a few laffs, and ogling the secretary. Also beaucoups intel for this town and AO.
Glen Campbell was one of my favorites. Great singer and guitar player. Watch him play the solo on Wichita Lineman on a baritone guitar (it is easy to find on Youtube posted by “2old2rock”). It is a very simple solo but masterfully done. He knows how to play at the front of the beat.
He was one of the famous sessions players on the “Wrecking Crew” in the 60’s. Then he started singing…
I had forgotten that John Wayne picked him to play the sidekick on “True Grit”.
Thanks @OFD.
“They” don’t know their up-wind from their down-wind, but when you have your head up your ass what difference does it make.
WRT tRump’s Fire and Fury
If he doesn’t follow through we are done for. If he does follow through he better be ready for a second and third strike. After all it took the Japanese 2 nuclear hits before they reluctantly gave in.
There is talk about a Neutron Bomb, of which we supposedly have none anymore. Supposedly.
On a lighter note, WA State is still hot and full of smoke. Not a good mix with the Plutonium and Americium. No relief in sight.
RIP Glenn Campbell.
Yes, RIP Glenn Campbell. A great guitarist and singer.
I ran a new type of down-hole log in the oil fields back in the 1980’s that used a 20 curie neutron source. It was a mix of Americium and Beryllium (IIRC). We kept it in a “pig” about the size of a 30 gallon trash can mounted in the center of a small one axle trailer. Paint was yellow and purple with the correct hazardous triangles on display. Radiation was OK at the edges of the trailer (and we wore dosimeters when we had it out of the storage area).
We had special tools to connect it to our electronics – these kept you about 4 feet from the source and you typically only spent a few minutes within 4 feet of it when it was not either in the pig or going down the well. I do remember one time when it hung up as I unscrewed the Allen screws to drop it back in the pig. I was tired and pulled it out of the logging tool, making sure it went in the pig (without the tools). Interesting that the dosimeter did not show anything (perhaps because it was designed to detect gamma and alpha and not neutron). I am sure it was psychosomatic but I could feel my hands tingling. Perhaps this is why my hands hurt 30 years later…The pig was full of paraffin that thermalizes (SP?) neutrons – taming them to a large extent. Or, at least letting them be captured much easier.
I also went on a job interview at the Hanford site back when Westinghouse was running it – it was one of the most interesting places I have ever been – and not a place I ever want to go visit again.
In the oil field, we regularly worked with both high explosives and radiation. The roughnecks were always hanging around when we had explosives out and asking questions/wanting to blow stuff up. When the radioactive sources came out, they were nowhere to be seen. Typically, they would say something like: “I want to have kids some day”, and high tail it away. I sometimes said: “if you get a large enough dose of this to not have kids, that will be the least of your worries”. It takes a lot of radiation to get sterile. I don’t recall the REM levels but I am pretty sure you are puking up your stomach (very literally) long before your family jewels notice any issues…
A college buddy did his postdoc (Physics) work at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab, actually on Duke’s campus. I was up there visiting him, and he have me the $0.10 tour. At one point, he dropped his dosimeter while hanging it back on the rack. I suggested that he have it x-rayed to make sure nothing was broken.
We heard about a couple of guys that worked at a Mexico facility we had that tossed their dosimeters by some hot Iodine (gamma source that we injected in working wells to do tracer logs). They had to endure some nasty medical treatment and then were fired… I don’t know if they were trying to get some days off – but it backfired.
OFD wrote:
” …and ogling the secretary.”
Isn’t that a mortal sin?
When I was in grad school, I was focused on Mechanical Engineer thermal side but I spent a lot of time in the physics and math buildings; both taking classes and talking with people. One day, a couple of physics profs I liked were moving a purple container carefully down the hall. I mentioned that it looked like a neutron source and they very quickly exclaimed: “yes it is a 0.5 curie source!”. I said something like: “Awesome~!”
Something for SteveF to dream about…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-04/cuteness-overload/8771028
I’m sure he’d like to wake to this view every morning… 🙂
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-21/room-with-a-view/8728336
“Most people are stupid.”
Well, to be statistically correct, 1/2 the people have less than an IQ of 100, is one is to believe that such is subject to the characteristics of a Normal Distribution.
Personally, my IQ is well over 100; consequently, a large majority of the population is well below me.
I think George Carlin said it best: something like: ” think about how stupid the average person is – then realize that half of them are stupider than that”. By the way, George worked for my dad back in the 50’s Air Force. He was not the best airman (but an awesome commentator on life).
Stupidity and intelligence are not opposites. There are a lot of people who score well on IQ tests and do well in an academic environment but who are stupid stupid stupid. I’m not sure what to do about them, even if I could. Kill them all because they are of no benefit to the species? Let them breed but not raise their own children because high IQ is mainly in the genes but stupid is mainly in the upbringing? Just kill the entire species and hope that cockroaches evolve intelligence?
At ORD waiting for my final leg. It will be good to get home. AAR when I get settled.
Heard we got 6 inches of rain last night in my neighborhood. Guess the garden got watered….
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Wasn’t Carlin in the Air Police back then? Or am I mixing him up with Leon Russell or somebody else?
I served with WWII and Korea vets as well as ‘Nam/Thailand/Laos/Cambodia. So there were Air Police (became Security Police, and now Security Forces) who’d been around through the 1950s and 1960s.
Back from Planning Commission; housing and sidewalks. I didn’t have much to say, just nod my head and laugh at their jokes. I’m learning a shitload about how all this stuff works in a town or city. Could come in handy at some point and anyway, making friends and influencing people, amirite?
Wife left a vm and said she didn’t sleep good last night and is crashing early down there on the hoss farm near Egg Harbor Township, NJ. She’ll be back Thursday and gone again Sunday.
I’m back talking with the cats and dawg and doing the usual dumbo scut work and grunge chores as best I can. May have to get a cane to tide me over until something more concrete can be done; I’m having trouble getting up stairs now and my right leg goes numb from the knee down, not a good combination. Also, if I kneel down or squat to get something, I can’t get back up, unless I have something to hang onto or someone is there to pull me up. Big track star and football end and sub QB. High jumper.
How the mighty have fallen!
I guess this scheming, manipulative and chiseling thief, pervert and war criminal shitbag pig is never gonna STFU:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/08/report-hillary-clinton-considering-becoming-methodist-preacher/amp/
Figures. But I doubt she’ll settle for “deaconess” or “lay preacher.” She’ll demand a bishop’s mitre and hat or whatever Methodist bishops wear. I would have figured Unitarian or Wiccan but I seem to recall she was raised Methodist by her utterly dysfunctional parents.
Perhaps Mr. DadCooks could shed some more light on it; demonic entities hate light.
_The Survivalist (Freedom Lost)_ by Dr. Arthur T Bradley
https://www.amazon.com/Survivalist-Freedom-Lost-Arthur-Bradley/dp/1540326667/
Book number 9 of a 10 book apocalyptic pandemic series. I read the POD (print on demand) trade paperback version. I will purchase the 10th book in the series as soon as it is available.
As the few survivors of the engineered pandemic make their way throughout the new world, the uninfected and the infected come further and further into conflict. In fact, there are many conflicts going on. And the infected are transforming.
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (I could be persuaded to go 5 stars)
Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (175 reviews)
Is this Global Warming ???
81f @ Noon in Memphis TN, August 8
Yes, it is. 89 F at 4 pm in the Land of Sugar.
Google sucks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGBM47Bg3Nc
I would have no problem with the NAFTA if it encompassed, as it should, ONLY the US and Canada. We should have completely free trade and open borders between our countries. Throwing a third-world hellhole like Mexico into the mix makes it all unworkable.
We need to steal XXXX annex the northern middle of Mexico. Half of the Eagle Ford Shale Project is in Mexico. Probably can produce another 4 million barrels PER DAY of crude oil and a couple of TCF PER DAY of natural gas for the next 100 years or so. Mexico will never produce it, they do not have the technology, directional drilling and fracking.
Agreed. Let’s get it done. Notify Fred Reed we’re coming.
Some delightfully interesting and enlightening reading for your late-night boozing at the Combat Zone slop chutes or early morning Starbucks fancypants coffee:
http://woodpilereport.com/html/index-490.htm
“Speaking of surgical strikes—doesn’t everyone?—it’s Tuesday again, time to Release The Kraken, yer ol’ Woodpile Report, with a ballistic coefficient calculated to slip neatly through SJW Level 4 Psychic Armor and create the hugest mental wound cavity ev-ver. Watch ’em stagger and drop like empty laundry bags. It’s nasty work but someone’s gotta do it.”
When I was in grad school, I was focused on Mechanical Engineer thermal side
I never made it to grad school at TAMU but I was admitted. I got married and we liked to eat so I got a paying job.
I am writing my own generalized solid / vapor / hydrocarbon liquid / aqueous liquid isothermal (constant temperature and pressure) flash for our simulation software right now. The new part is the solid predictor. I wonder if I could submit the work for a Masters in Chemical Engineering ? My thermo guy (PhD from Clemson) could not get it to work using a fugacity method so I stole the project from him and am going back to the melting point prediction method for each individual component.
Many of our customers are working with LNG now at -265 F. A little bit too much water or heptane and oops, your production piping just plugged. That is a bad day in your natural gas BCF/day liquefaction facility.
Home safe.
n
I am writing my own generalized solid / vapor / hydrocarbon liquid / aqueous liquid isothermal
Couple lines of VB code aught to get ‘er done.
@OFD said”
“Perhaps Mr. DadCooks could shed some more light on it; demonic entities hate light.”
In her high school and college days she always wore dark tinted “John Lennon” glasses, like these: https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Acme-Lennon-Steampunk-Sunglasses/dp/B06Y26HSRG
She then switched to fashion shades.
Now she is often spotted wearing large polarized over sunglasses, like these: https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Fitovers-Polarized-Sunglasses-Polarvue/dp/B00K56RFAC
VB6 or VB.net?
VB6 or VB.net?
VB6 Professional. Standard VB6 or VB.net compile to bytecode for VMs, either a P-code engine (VB6) or .Net (VB.net).
If you can find the compiler, Microsoft has pledged VB6 runtime support until EOF for Windows 10. OTOH, C/C++ DLLs are simple if you are careful with your MSVCRT versions.
As a former Methodist I’m appalled.
What are you now, pray tell?
I’ve been a Baptist since 1972, although I was a member of and attended a Presbyterian church from 1985 to circa 2008.
I dated a devout Catholic for three months in 1985, but realised I could never become one.
As I could never become a Protestant again.
My next-younger brother went through the whole RCIA thing to become a Catholic several years ago and was received into the Church like I was, on Easter of that year, but lately has been making Protestant noises and apparently attempting to straddle both belief systems while attending neither.
As I’ve mentioned before, I was baptized into, and grew up in, what was formerly known as the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, but which later became simply ECUSA. When I was a kid we had over 3 million members; now it’s probably more like 300. By 2026 they’ll be all done, just via demographics.
Over 70 million Roman Catholics in CONUS, and over a billion worldwide. How many in Oz? Let’s see….ah….5.4 million, or 25% of the pop, roughly one in every four Aussies.
For all those suffering religious confusion, let me give you the answer: Put your faith in Steve.
For that matter, for all those suffering gender confusion, put your faith in Steve. I’m not sure what good it’ll do, but it won’t hurt anything.
I am writing my own generalized solid / vapor / hydrocarbon liquid / aqueous liquid isothermal
Couple lines of VB code aught to get ‘er done.
Our current three phase flash is over 300,000 lines of F77, C, and C++ code. At least 98% F77 code.
The new code will not be that much, less than 10,000 lines of new F77 and C code. Plus new data for each component that supports the solids calculation. We have almost 1,300 pure components in our database.
VB6 Professional. Standard VB6 or VB.net compile to bytecode for VMs, either a P-code engine (VB6) or .Net (VB.net).
If you can find the compiler, Microsoft has pledged VB6 runtime support until EOF for Windows 10. OTOH, C/C++ DLLs are simple if you are careful with your MSVCRT versions.
VB6 will be alive for a hundred years from now. There are thousands of private and corporate apps written in it. Our software is the biggest VB6 callable DLL, 10.2 MB, that I know of.
I went to a Lutheran kindergarten in Hawaii. I don’t know why. Perhaps mom trying to get one pest out of the house for a few hours a day. It was ok, I don’t really recall much beyond having to take a nap at 10AM and eating crayons.
After we moved to Mobile, we (meaning us kids) went to Dauphin Way Baptist Church on many Sundays. Hey, it was something to do to get away from dad, ya got some cookies and milk, and they ran a bus to pick kids up. Pretty boring though. I’m pretty sure going was encouraged by the ‘rents ’cause it gave them free time for wookie-wookie without children around.
When I had my motorcycle wreck… the one with the cracked helmet and thigh broken a couple of inches from the socket, we were living on a sandy road a mile from a paved road. Betty decided I’m staying in her spare bedroom. Great folks. Didn’t appreciate my yelling “oh, shit” when I hit a puddle of piss from their dog on a tile floor. But it really hurt to put weight on the leg when the crutch slid out…. heck, the scar was still leaking plasma. We went to an Episcopal church in McAllen. I liked it. Ok, the up and down, not so much, but, overall it was cool. The rituals were very interesting.
And hey, a sip ‘o wine/Everclear and a wafer was … interesting. They all seemed to like me. That was a boost. Even tho I felt like a fraud.
I’ve read the book a couple of times. I grok the stories and history. I don’t need Church to talk to God. Or whatever it is. I see it when the trees bloom in the spring, when leaves drop in fall, when Wilma had puppies, emu hatching, chickens hatching, all of it. “God” is everywhere. And I have it all without a collection plate passing by telling me to believe…
Your parents invited Michelle Obama over for sex? Eww…
Money is the root of all evil! Give us 10% of yours!
DESIRE for money is the root, iirc. The church never despised the money itself.
I’d vote for lack of money being the root, or at least the lower trunk…
n
I dated a devout Catholic for three months in 1985, but realised I could never become one.
Ditto. But then again I’m just married to one.
To quote someone famous. “Who am I to judge?”
Well, yah. But an accurate quote would have gotten in the way of the snark.