It was 30 degrees and calm with light snow when I took Colin out at 7:40.
Dr. Lee called yesterday afternoon to let me know Bob was responding to commands but is very weak. This morning he is moving the breathing tube from his mouth to his neck.
Last night I had a call from a nurse letting me know he was going for an MRI at some point during the night and wanted some background history, etc.
And, again, thanks to all of Bob’s readers for the wonderful support. Rick, thanks again, for getting the web site updated.
Please keep us updated. The world needs a new word for online friend, someone you’ve never met in person, yet you’ve got a long and enjoyable history with. Bob and OFD spring to mind…..
Hopefully these will be the darkest days, with nothing but improvement from here on out.
nick
And today in Houston TX, we woke to 32F and over an inch of accumulated snow. LOTS of globull warmening out on the yard and vehicles. I’m REALLY glad I ignored the weather liars and covered my citrus trees. I even put heat under the orange and grapefruit. I covered the tomatoes (which finally had blossoms and golf ball sized fruits) but I don’t really expect them to come thru. The herbs will turn to black slime in the next couple of days.
Had a snowball fight with the kids and that was awesome!
nick
Barbara, thanks for the Bob update.
The relocation of Bob’s breathing tube (a tracheostomy) is a good thing and is progress. Easier to maintain and clean and more comfortable for the patient. It also makes it easier for the patient to take nourishment by mouth.
(ref: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/tracheostomy/home/ovc-20233993)
Prayers for Peace, Health, Hope, and Love
Best thoughts for all here who are suffering or dealing with loved ones who are.. Hang in there.
In irony of irony…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/06/dont-call-us-snowflakes-damages-mental-health-say-young-people/
Adversity builds character, princess.
I agree with Nick. Although I think of a number of people here as online friends. Hoping and praying that Bob continues to improve.
Fun facts!
This site has —
2,380 Posts
92,397 Comments
That is a HUGE knowledgebase.
n
And that would be just since our host switched to WordPress?
I ask because I found OFD’s question about telescopes on the old forum, which was around for a long time as well.
Huger!
Yep, current wp only. I don’t have any access to the old stuff, other than whatever the general public has.
n
Yep, it’s nice to have a group like this.
My kids are even more into it – much of their social lives run over the internet. Friends in Canada, Finnland, all over the place. Some of these have led to meat-space visits, for example, older son is flying to Canada, to spend Christmas with a friend there. It’s a small world, after all…
“I agree with Nick. Although I think of a number of people here as online friends. Hoping and praying that Bob continues to improve.”
10-4!
We had 2 to 3 inches of snow on the ground and any flat area. The kids in my neighborhood built a four ft tall snowman in the park three houses down from our house (it took all the snow in the park). And when they went to school, the elementary behind my house just put all the kids outside until 10am to play in the snow.
I’ve turned on the heating lamp in the office well house for the hard freeze that we are going to have tonight. I am wondering when I will remember to turn it off.
What a wild year. To go from Harvey to a snowfall in the same year is unusual.
We had 2 to 3 inches of snow on the ground and any flat area. The kids in my neighborhood built a four ft tall snowman in the park three houses down from our house (it took all the snow in the park). And when they went to school, the elementary behind my house just put all the kids outside until 10am to play in the snow.
We saw hardly any snow at the office in Temple, but Bastrop (town on the other side of Austin-Bergstrom airport) got enough to close schools today. San Antonio officially saw 2″ at their airport.
I guess I better get a lamp for the meyer lemon and cover some more of the plants.
Apples should be ok, hopefully the peach too as they are very hard to cover. Blueberries should be fine, as they grow in Michigan…
Grape vines, will have to take chances. maybe I’ll get a lamp under the tomatoes, and I think the collards are probably done…
n
My Daughter has online “friends” all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. None of it using Faceplant, Instracram, or any of that millennial fake friend stuff. They use WordPress blogs dealing with areas of interest; language, literature, art, etc.
“Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future”
http://www.osnews.com/story/30115/Bitcoin_could_cost_us_our_clean-energy_future
“The total energy use of this web of hardware is huge – an estimated 31 terawatt-hours per year. More than 150 individual countries in the world consume less energy annually. And that power-hungry network is currently increasing its energy use every day by about 450 gigawatt-hours, roughly the same amount of electricity the entire country of Haiti uses in a year.”
I cannot decide if I find this hilarious or worrisome.
We need more nuclear power plants for bitcoin mining !
And that power-hungry network is currently increasing its energy use every day by about 450 gigawatt-hours, roughly the same amount of electricity the entire country of Haiti uses in a year.
Haiti? That’s not saying much. A palette of bulk pack D cells at Sam’s probably has more energy than the country uses in a year.
Okay, I’m exaggerating, but I think you get the point. HTTPS and 2-3 MB of Javascript frameworks per commercial web page probably wastes more energy than “mining” rigs globally.
The “Bitcoin is bad” meme has been bouncing around the Interwebs for a couple of weeks, and it seems to have accomplished little other than driving the price per coin (is that the individual share term?) higher.
I guess people got rich during the tulip mania too, but I can’t help thinking that there are gonna be a lot of really pissed of people when it all goes pear shaped.
And since there’s no there there, it will.
N
fnetiends (f-net’-e-unds, n) – friends only known through on-line access.
Bitcoin – get in early – get out with your winnings and don’t get greedy.
I have a colleague who got in at around $500, cashed out half his investment when it hit $1000, and half the remainder when it hit $10,000. He has made thousands not millions but he stands to loose NOTHING as his original investment was recouped long ago.
I guess people got rich during the tulip mania too, but I can’t help thinking that there are gonna be a lot of really pissed of people when it all goes pear shaped.
There will be benefits from pushing the state-of-the-art in GPU hardware, but, yeah, the strippers turned Bitcoin miners won’t be happy.
And the fact that strippers are buying Bitcoin rigs should serve as a warning.
No, not at all. Everyone always said the Hollywood pedophiles would be brought down when Hell froze over.
Bitcoin is a really strange phenomenon. Something good and useful will come out of this experiment, but Bitcoin is not the final result. Too much overhead, too much energy, too much speculation.
Bitcoin has demonstrated that there is a need for a medium of exchange outside the control of governments. A need worth, presently, more than $200 billion. That genie is not going back in the bottle, no matter how much governments wish it would. The more repressive the government, the greater the need for something like this.
Some clever person will come up with a Bitcoin successor that won’t waste so much power, that won’t require every participant to download ridiculous quantities of data (or trust insecure online services), and the we’ll have the next generation. We’re definitely not there yet: Ethereum, Monero, LiteCoin and all the rest still share most of Bitcoin’s fundamental problems. But I have no doubt we will see the successor within the next few years…
The world needs a new word for online friend, someone you’ve never met in person, yet you’ve got a long and enjoyable history with.
In my letter to Mrs. OFD I’ll be describing myself as an “Internet acquaintance” of OFD’s. Awkward but accurate.
@OFD: Dave, if you’re reading this, it’s time to chime in, buddy. Don’t make me write that letter! 😀
“We need more nuclear power plants for bitcoin mining !”
Which reminds me, the AlGurgloids want more hydrogen fuel cells in cars and more hydrogen dispensing stations. Their misbelief is that such will preclude global overwarming. Well, I’ll let it be as I don’t think that they are capable of learning about steam reforming.
In my letter to Mrs. OFD I’ll be describing myself as an “Internet acquaintance” of OFD’s. Awkward but accurate.
On one list we call it the “Internet Ax Murderer’s Dating Club”. No actual dating involved… but how else to explain it? We’ve had a few get together events over the years, since oh, 1998 if not before. My first Ax Murderer meeting? I finished at SMU with a shiny new MCSE in 1998 and got on an airplane to Tampa.
It was pretty cool.
Which reminds me, the AlGurgloids want more hydrogen fuel cells in cars and more hydrogen dispensing stations. Their misbelief is that such will preclude global overwarming. Well, I’ll let it be as I don’t think that they are capable of learning about steam reforming.
Shhh! Don’t tell them about hydrogen production using methane gas and steam, it will make their heads spin around many times.
On second thought, go for it !
I looked up the amount of hydrogen produced by steam reforming once. I cannot remember if it was 98% or 99.8%. Most AlGurgloids that I have talked to think that hydrogen is produced by the electrolysis of water, which, is a very expensive process.
Where are you OFD !
“Bombshell: Roy Moore Accuser Beverly Nelson Admits She Forged Yearbook”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/08/bombshell-roy-moore-accuser-admits-forged-yearbook/
and
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/kfile-mo-brooks-roy-moore/index.html
“”So, now you’re down to one witness who said that Roy Moore engaged in nonconsensual sexual contact, okay?” he said. “Well, that one witness’ testimony is in direct and stark contrast with that of the other seven ladies, who said that he acted like an officer and a gentleman. And you look at the preponderance of the evidence and then you add Roy Moore’s denial and you add his long deeply held Christian beliefs and I just don’t think there’s any way in the world that a jury would agree with the assertions of The Washington Post and others that are trying to make us believe in the state of Alabama that we would be electing a pedophile.””
Not much difference between lie a little and lie a lot.
Welp, I’ve been “gifted” a Kuerig. I think it’s a 350. Not sure, gotta turn it upside down over the sink or measure how much water the tank holds. B&W touch screen though. And no clock (thank you!!!)
It would be nice to be able to make a 12 oz cup… but doing 6 oz twice works.
It worked fine this morning. I went for cup #3 and nothing. So I used the old k-cup machine. Did a bit of Google and what the heck. Work a paper clip up into the needle that punctures the top of the k-cup, run a “make hot water” cycle and flush out a mess of coffee grounds.
The just replaced machine does the same. But it cost $20 at Wal-Mart.
The deceased Bunn never had a problem…. it just had the water pump fail after three years.
Well, a new toy to play with. Er, it has a phone jack on the bottom. Googling that is just a road to stupidity….. 🙂
“”So, now you’re down to one witness who said that Roy Moore engaged in nonconsensual sexual contact, okay?”
And never said a word for almost FORTY YEARS makes it all true all of a sudden.
I had an apt in McAllen. Nice place, maybe 20 units. The old man that ran the place was nice. But, at the same time is was 1978 and shorts were short enough that w/o underwear yer junk would fall out when you sat down… to get a suntan. Still, pretty weird to have old mr wots-his-name patting ya on the butt while yer loading the washing machine.
Not a big deal. Tell him stop and go on with the day.
gettin weird in here….
n
“Real Genius”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
‘Ick’ Ikagami: Do you think it’s getting weird around here?
Chris Knight: Absolutely.
Jordan: I didn’t notice.
Mitch: I like it.
I am debugging an 7,814 line Fortran subroutine for the last three days. There is not anything weirder than that. And my bug is in the 63rd call to it …
“Netflix Grabs Hold Of John Scalzi’s Sci-Fi Novel ‘Old Man’s War’ For Jon Shestack, Madhouse”
https://deadline.com/2017/12/netflix-old-mans-war-john-scalzi-sci-fi-novel-jon-shestack-madhouse-entertainment-1202221957/
Please, please, please !
I am debugging an 7,814 line Fortran subroutine for the last three days. There is not anything weirder than that. And my bug is in the 63rd call to it …
Sounds like the stack is getting clobbered somewhere. If you can compile on Linux, Valgrind is your friend.
I am debugging an 7,814 line Fortran subroutine for the last three days. There is not anything weirder than that. And my bug is in the 63rd call to it …
Sounds like the stack is getting clobbered somewhere. If you can compile on Linux, Valgrind is your friend.
It is a math error in one of the myriad of the umpteen pathways through it as it decides what is vapor, hydrocarbon liquid, aqueous liquid, and solid. There is so much fixup (special case) code that it dominates the overall subroutine.
32F and dropping. Added covers for the herb garden, and did a better cover on the meyer lemon.
Hope it doesn’t get too cold or for too long.
n
@Lynn: Universal sign for “NO”, “L” as in “EL”, thus you get “NOEL”.
Crime in New Orleans: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
“According to NOPD, 20-year-old Lavar Marquise Butler shot and killed Adnan Alasar on the night of Dec. 6. Butler is wanted for first-degree murder.
“Butler may have fled to Houston, Texas according to NOPD. He may be armed.”
Heads up, Houstonians! And you’re welcome! 🙁
@Lynn: I cut my teeth on Fortran, but…a 7814 line subroutine? I think I see the problem… Seriously, that kind of size is just nuts. Anything over a couple hundred lines becomes impossible to really keep in your head and understand. Seriously: take the time, extract the requirements, and rewrite it. Oh, and send me a copy to show in my software engineering classes – I don’t have any examples quite that extreme 🙂
Amen Brad.
@Lynn: I cut my teeth on Fortran, but…a 7814 line subroutine? I think I see the problem… Seriously, that kind of size is just nuts. Anything over a couple hundred lines becomes impossible to really keep in your head and understand. Seriously: take the time, extract the requirements, and rewrite it. Oh, and send me a copy to show in my software engineering classes – I don’t have any examples quite that extreme
This is the main entry point to our thermodynamic flash of 400,000+ lines of mostly F77 code. There are many entry points but this is the catchall. It has several loops integrated into it with many exit points. Over 2,000 lines of comments. Maybe 3,000 lines of comments. And, most of the comments are correct ! We have around 60 different methods that this function has the ability to change on the fly and convert to a better method. In essence, this is the heart of our software.
We might could reduce it by half but extreme care would be required. Joel Spolsky wrote an excellent article about rewriting code carelessly.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
The human colon is able to distinguish between solid, liquid and gas and treat them appropriately. Sounds like this routine is the asshole of the program.
Yep, called it.
FF 57.02 has quirks. Facebook is loading weird, maybe 10 items. After a few ctrl-F5 it usually works. Just now, on this site, it went to a screen with something about content encoding is wrong. F5 and the page loaded.
FF 57.0 and 57.01 were fine.
E-mail works. Other than FB and this error on this site, other sites seem normal and load at the usual speed … so, I don’t think my router is going tits up while imitating an armadillo sleeping on the side of the road.
As for the Kuerig, it’s a 300 2.0 series. I don’t know the exact model… that seems to vary with how many pods of coffee they put in the box.
Uh, why are there two spikes in the top? One has holes to clean with a paperclip. The front spike seems to be just a spike. Reading about this on the web is taking a lot of “filtering for stupid” effort.
I’m really wanting to go back to a percolator or even a Mr. Coffee. Just for the simplicity.
FF 57.02 has quirks. Facebook is loading weird, maybe 10 items. After a few ctrl-F5 it usually works. Just now, on this site, it went to a screen with something about content encoding is wrong. F5 and the page loaded.
I am not seeing this problem on my home Windows 7×64 pc. Try turning off hardware acceleration.
I see the occasional FB ‘minimal load’ issue; a F5 reload takes care of it. Have seen that on several prior versions. Win10x64 HP laptop.
If anything, shouldn’t people complain that Facebook pages are loading?