Cooler but still humid. [74F and 97%RH at 6am]
Spent yesterday picking stuff up, and dropping it off. I expect to do the same today. I’m sore, dehydrated, and mildly sunburned. No sir, I don’t like it.
Dorian is still making trouble, and for people who didn’t really expect it. Preps people, you never know when it will hook north…
Speaking of preps, I forgot to mention that Taco Tuesday consisted of canned chicken from Costco, with a 2015 date, a pouch of chicken taco mix (in date), and a variety of sides and fixins. The “Mexican Rice” was 2014, and tasted great. Cool and dry seems to be the key.
Tonight was leftovers and included chunks of my failed pork roast, served as an open face sandwich and smothered in “Pork” gravy from a mix. I didn’t look at a date on the mix, but it wasn’t yesterday…. I stock a large variety of gravy mixes, and large quantity too. They are cheap, versatile, and even if you wouldn’t normally eat gravy from an envelope mix, they add variety and options to otherwise plain meals. Add gravy to instant mashed potatoes, rice, or pasta for a better/different side. They keep well and are easy to prepare, and will extend your staple foods if needed. The kids loved the gravy and pork (which was very dry otherwise) getting seconds and thirds. Success.
Between the holiday and all the running around doing pickups and dropoffs, I’m not getting much else done. The garden prep work needs to be started, and some other home maintenance needs doing too. No rest for the wicked I guess.
And on that note, I’ll schedule this and head for bed.
n
Add “stiff and sore” to the litany of complaints this morning. I would like to dip myself in Tiger Balm, but the mild sunburn precludes that. My hands are like paddles they’re so stiff.
Getting older is not for the weak or faint of heart.
n
I’m sure OFD would have had some comments about this–
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7427987/Pope-critics-Its-honor-Americans-attack-me.html
“Wealthy Catholics are putting money behind initiatives to discredit his allies with the goal of electing a conservative, doctrine-minded churchman as the next pope.”
–it’s pedos from top to bottom.
n
Brad, from yesterday:
An antidote: Literate Programming in the Large
I had the good fortune to work at a shop that did design and documentation well. It employed only a literal handful of programmers with maybe double that in support staff, and its day-to-day practices reflected the personality of the guy who ran the place. Being really good at what he did, he of course eventually got the boot.
Added: At a subsequent job things were vastly different. The unofficial company motto: “There’s never time to do it right, but there’s always time to do it over.”
Watch this video, and ask yourself a couple of questions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7430597/Shocking-footage-shows-thug-punching-police-officer-taking-gun-firing.html
–you can clearly see him raise his hands, but then there are more shots.
–the arriving cops unload on him, you can see the one on the right firing.
–wtf was the woman in the dress who leaves when the shooting starts doing?
–wtf is the camera guy doing? Just watches cop getting pummeled.
–wonder how the Cali cops feel about this story today?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7430427/Californian-governor-scraps-law-requiring-able-bodied-citizens-help-police-officers.html
–what would you do in that situation?
n
WRT to coding. I only worked two languages, Fortran II and MS VBA. In the latter, I taught myself along the way with this:
https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Basic-Applications-Unleashed-McFedries/dp/0672310465?tag=ttgnet-20
Sir Paul McCartney has written a book. “Hey Grandude!”
https://www.amazon.com/Hey-Grandude-Paul-McCartney/dp/0525648674/?tag=ttgnet-20
Wild. Who wants to be the first to read it ?
“He walked into a Virginia Beach 7-Eleven for a Big Gulp. He ended up shooting 2 robbers, killing 1.”
https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-shooter-interview-20190829-ufii37kspbd63oymnqbdgpcqga-story.html
Wow. Wow. A tough decision went well.
Wow. Wow. A tough decision went well.
It didn’t go well for Gibbs when he worked on “The West Wing”.
“NCIS” messes with the audience every now and then by playing “Hallelujah”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxX-woxYZ84
Milo Y says the same. The Clinton/Prince Andrew/Epstein cover-up adds weight to the problem being more widespread among our glorious leaders.
“Global Warming or Bad Data?”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/climate-global-warming-data-locations/
“Garbage in…”
“And climate science has always suffered from the problem of shaky and missing data. Seventy percent of the globe is covered by ocean, where data is hard to collect. Reliable weather records only go back to about 1850 and, in many parts of the world, are far more recent. Modern recording weather stations date only to the early 20th century.”
“And many of those stations have a big problem. While they haven’t changed appreciably over the years, the land around them has changed, often profoundly, with the great growth in urban and suburban areas. The weather station that was put, say, in the middle of a Nassau County, Long Island, potato field in 1923 is still in the same spot. But the potatoes are long gone, and now it’s behind a strip mall, twenty feet from the kitchen exhaust fan of a Chinese take-out joint.”
The engineer in me says all this Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Disruption is just nonsense. The temperature of the planet has been increasing since the end of the last ice age. Pray that it does not stop, or worse, reverse.
“Red Flag Laws Spur Debate Over Due Process ”
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/09/04/red-flag-laws-spur-debate-over-due-process
“In the year since Florida enacted its red flag law, Kendra Parris has defended nearly 20 clients against risk protection orders that could remove their firearms.”
“The Orlando-based lawyer has long represented people who might be subject to the state’s involuntary mental health treatment provision. But when this new law, meant to protect against people who might be a harm to themselves or others, passed in the aftermath of the February 2018 Parkland mass shooting, she saw yet another opportunity for the state to potentially deprive certain people of their civil liberties.”
““It’s almost like a shiny new toy for law enforcement,” Parris said, “filing them left and right.””
“Since the law’s adoption, Florida courts have approved around 2,500 risk protection orders, according to an August count by NPR.”
Welcome to the 2019 version of SWATting.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
I think people should start filing Red Flags against their elected officials and cops. Be factual, but you can make anyone sound like a ‘roid rage ticking time bomb…
which is part of why they are so dangerous to liberty. It’s a Star Chamber, you don’t have the right to face your accuser, you are subject to prior restraint, it attacks the 1, 2, 4, 5th amendments (off the top of my head), mental health accusations were a powerful tool for historical repressive regimes and current ones for that matter, and we know where that ends-gulags.
n
Everyone always leaves off the second half of the aphorism….
A couple of bad apples, spoil the whole bunch.
n
Or this one- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7433403/Officer-resigns-footage-shows-Taser-beat-disabled-man-sleeping-car.html
–like this came out of the blue? No one ever had any idea he’d have authority issues? Or that he would be so ignorant of the law that he’d keep demanding name and id when neither are required?
n
which is part of why they are so dangerous to liberty. It’s a Star Chamber, you don’t have the right to face your accuser, you are subject to prior restraint, it attacks the 1, 2, 4, 5th amendments (off the top of my head), mental health accusations were a powerful tool for historical repressive regimes and current ones for that matter, and we know where that ends-gulags.
I have already been threatened with arrest by a federal official. That was after we had been to see our congressman who called the federal office in question and got us a temporary bypass of the “rules”. The desk supervisor called security on us but I stood my ground and she dismissed them after I said the congressman’s name. That was very unsettling.
–like this came out of the blue? No one ever had any idea he’d have authority issues? Or that he would be so ignorant of the law that he’d keep demanding name and id when neither are required?
According to the CBS Evening Snooze, Carroll had been disciplined multiple times in the preceding five years for excessive use of force.
Make of that what you will.
Just don’t be there…
Speaking of ‘don’t be there’ this was in the news this week as it sickened staff at the hotel and first responders. So it went out as a warning in the first responder newsletters I get.
https://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/chemicalsuicide.htm
American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane.
Sure he was.
Oh sweet Jebus. Contract negotiations.
n
Oh sweet Jebus. Contract negotiations.
My wife had an AT&T manager come in a few weeks ago for an exemption from pole climbing classes, part of the contingency planning kabuki for strike situations. Someone’s contract is up next year.
She told the patient we know all about ‘CP’ at our house, but a total strike exemption wouldn’t be possible. She went on to describe my alternative assignment in a call center with mandatory sales quotas for TV services sans the union members’ commissions.
He still asked to get the paperwork started. At 300+ lbs, he felt he wouldn’t do well in “Poles and Holes” class (I’m not kidding about the name).
If the union gets sporty, things happen like the spiking of the fiber line into South San Jose (Cisco) in 2008.
at the very least, this is what happens when you have a low trust society. Everyone outside your family and clan is not a real person. Who cares if you kill or inconvenience hundreds if you get ahead?
You can also look at it thru the lens of modern selfishness and narcissism, and a social milieu founded in envy
n
Tribalism. MrsAtoz claims her *people* are tribal. Yikes.
at the very least, this is what happens when you have a low trust society. Everyone outside your family and clan is not a real person. Who cares if you kill or inconvenience hundreds if you get ahead?
You can also look at it thru the lens of modern selfishness and narcissism, and a social milieu founded in envy
The union was very tribal in 2009, and then one of the rank and file broke the trust when he/she couldn’t resist the opportunity to show of $80,000 worth of sex change surgery in an hour-long broadcast on national TV at a critical point during negotiations.
The union folded within 24 hours of the broadcast. That member of the tribe became an outcast, but, on an individual level, dramatically increased her income since she now works for a gender reassignment clinic.
“Right” and “wrong” in the 2009 negotiations had multiple levels, and the label couldn’t really be applied to either side, individually or as a group. Lots of gray areas … as is usually the case in real life.