Hot and humid. Possibly crazy hot, although it would be nice to get a break, I don’ t think we will.
I did some of my chores yesterday. The whole “stop what you’re doing and get a child at 3pm” and then stay home to make sure they aren’t burning the house down thing really shortens my day in a way I’m not used to.
It’s life though.
Today, if I get out of the house early enough, I’ll head to one of my more distant pickups. And one that isn’t distant but is the opposite of the direction I head most of the time.
I should hit the grocery store for veg and milk. Anyone else having milk go bad long before it should? I have thrown out 3 gallons in the last month, vs NONE in the last two years. I’ve had the last inch in the jug go bad, especially because it gets warm quickly if it sits out, but I expect that. I don’t expect unopened gallons to get chunky in the fridge.
I’m bidding on a few more of the small chest freezers. I really only want to win one more, but I’d take two more if it happened that way. It’s possible we’ll see chicken or beef, especially beef, have a serious price drop if producers cull their herds. That would be temporary, obviously, but it would be a shame to not be able to take advantage if it does. An extra freezer would help.
Look for opportunities to stack something particularly high. There are always opportunities in times of change.
nick
Mandatory masking enforced by law is Kabuki and extremely political in the US.
There might be some measure of protection offered by masking just like there are with the vaccines, but using law enforcement to enforce what should be a personal choice is walking Western governments down the path of totalitarianism.
Here in Austin, we had a record murder rate within the city limits in 2021, but come the first week of January this year, what were the cops doing with their time? Practicing mask enforcement drills at the Sam’s Club we use just within the city limits, intimidating everyone walking through the door to mask up … or else.
Upset the developmentally disabled greeter the store has at the door handing out masks and the penalty will be booking and cavity search. Big Smile!
2022 will probably be another record year for murders in the city limits.
My next dog:
An early look at the future of war.
Good boy. Patrol the backyard.
Check your fridge and make sure the fan spins when it should.
I’ve dialed down the rice I’m keeping in storage because I’ve had bugs develop earlier than I’m used to seeing from “good” brands I buy at H-Mart. The insect problem is like I’m buying Costco Jasmine again so I have to wonder about the dates on the bags.
My kids have been careless about accessing the storage at times, but I think that issue has been adequately addressed.
That robo dog sure makes a lot of noise, and doesn’t police its brass. Maybe MKII will be modeled after a cat instead.
How does the robodog reload?
n
84F and 90%RH at the moment. Steamy outside. My glasses fogged over when I put the kid in the car…
n
Whatever fits the desired narrative.
Their timing is usually horrible too. I saw a presentation several years back where they demonstrated that the peak use of the word "recession" by the MSM typically occurred 1 or 2 quarters AFTER the recession had peaked and growth had resumed.
Oops. That's probably my fault. I usually have that affect on the ladies, but sometimes the men too. Unfortunately, it’s not something I can just turn off.
I use “Rock Ridge Ultra Pasturized” and it lasts, even open, forever.
I rarely drink milk, but use it as an ingredient, and it was always going bad on me until someone told me about RR six months ago. I haven’t thrown out spoiled milk since.
Add “As has been repeatedly shown in actual data collected” to that. And then the short form becomes “masks don’t work”
Yes, I want sick people to wear masks and, even better, stay home. Yes, I want my surgeon and OR nurses masked.
After all this time, I think it’s safe to assume that a person wearing a mask voluntarily is in one or more of the following classes: PLT, sheep, Democrat, scared of his shadow, IFLS (but I don’t understand Math, I just trust the guy in the white coat). In any event, it’s a signal that this is not someone to trust or rely on.
Paging R. Heinlein, R. Heinlein to the white courtesy phone…
That is very true. Except I keep seeing people take their masks off in order to sneeze or cough!!!! Then they put them back on. Then they use the hand they just sneezed or coughed into, to touch everything in the store. Ugh!!!
That’s why I wear gloves, and I think they protect me better than a mask if I have to choose. The price of nitrile gloves has come back down at Harbor Freight to nearly what they were pre-COVID ($9 something – they’d gotten up to $17 at peak, were $7ish before the plague), but I use those flimsy food service gloves, because they are easier to remove to get into my purse, and cheap enough I can use new pairs with abandon – $2 for a hundred.
Well that, and for the reasons Nick and someone else mentioned. I don’t intend to ever touch a gas pump handle with bare hands again.
Local Amazon warehouse that was supposed to open in Q2 this year and employ 1,000 has announced it is delaying opening until 2024. The place is already built (inside and out). They cited supply chain problems. Personally, I think it probably has more to do with staffing. When Amazon was making headlines a few years ago for being one of the first big nationwide employers to have a $15/hour minimum wage (I believe that's now crept up to $18/hour) they had no problem staffing their warehouses. However, now that supply and demand pressures on the job market have driven wages up everywhere Amazon no longer stands out (their negative press on employee treatment hasn't helped much either) and now I don't think they have any confidence in their ability to enter a new labor market and recruit 1,000 people when similarly paying businesses are cutting back hours and services due to staffing shortages.
Other people who wear masks now:
It uses the Hollyweird issue “movie magazine”. Infinite ammo.
I would just use a drum mag. Who is going to stay around with that thing stomping around firing 3-round bursts? You could even go with a .22LR with a hundred round drum.
I haven’t used a mask or gloves for over a year now. Except on flights up until that mandate crumbled. I do take a couple of different immune builders with my supplements. Maybe I have some type of natural immunity to the ‘Rona. I go out several times a week to grocery shop or eat out, get gas, etc. Family coming and goings, too. Some of them had and recovered from the ’Rona. I have the Pfizer double-clot shot. I’m sure plugs is gonna push for quarterly boosters to consider you “fully vaccinated.”
I’ll text updates next week from the hospital as I die from COVID. Jinx’d myself.
At the start of the pandemic, I added a small bottle of hand sanitizer to the car, and use it immediately after pumping gas. I’ve continued, and will continue, that habit. I also do it after pushing a shopping cart. I think I’ve also become more aware about touching my face with my hands. All good habits to have.
I wonder what would happen if you stuck a chunk of dry ice in with your rice and sealed it up real good for a day or two?
I tried some "ultra pasteurized" milk a couple of times in Japan years ago and thought it tasted funny. It’s probably good for cooking or for cold cereal, but if you want a glass of cold white milk to drink… It just ain’t right. 🙂 Perhaps ultra pasteurization has improved since then.
Well, if everyone stays home and only ventures out when necessary and wears PPE, then, yes, you’re going to see a reduction in communicable disease (just like if everyone stopped fornicating you’d see a huge reduction in STDs/STIs). Though, isn’t there science behind the fact that the human immune system needs exercised? Prior to COVID-19 there were already discussions being had about the negative affects of our overly sterile world. So, masking up for the rest of forever to prevent a very survivable
pandemicendemic (where each new variant seems to make it more and more survivable) seems silly.Don’t get me started on the people (customers AND employees) who lick their fingers to open plastic bags and then proceed to touch food. You can witness it in the produce section of any grocery store any time you want. Grab produce bag; attempt to open it and fail; lick fingers; open bag; pick up, examine, and set down produce with the previously licked fingers. I’ve raged about it before on here. It’s a disgusting habit.
Here’s my deal with gloves:
So, for MOST people. I would say gloves are futile.
a person wearing a mask voluntarily
—as mentioned, I wear a surgical mask at the goodwill outlet. The bins are full of clothes, and the people shopping there are, well, sometimes nasty. You are also close together, and I’d rather not smell them.
I wore one during my first week back after the ‘rona incident, just to keep my spit to myself.
n
As is resistance.
Oh and I use alcohol based spray hand sanitizer when I get back in my truck and thoroughly blow my nose to clear out whatever my mucus membranes caught when I was in a building or around other people.
That worked great for the last year, but I got the ‘rona anyway in the new “it’s really just a cold” version.
n
There can only be Bad News
https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2022/04/ukraine-invasion-covid-spread-in-china.html#.Yl_M5NrMKbg
If CO2 is rising, we’re all going to die. If CO2 is falling, the economy is crashing. I’m pretty sure that if CO2 levels are steady, it means both at once.
The only thing I would add to Mr. Chad’s excellent advice is an automatic hand soap dispenser. I keep on in the kitchen and use it any time I come back from somewhere and before/after I prepare food.
Yes, I wash hands upon returning home, and insist the kids do to.
n
Forgot to mention, in the WTF? column, one of the things I grabbed at the goodwill outlet was a Glock magazine loading ‘helper’. Someone dumped dad’s gun stuff on the goodwill?
n
added– ok it is just a little piece of black plastic, but it has the word “GLOCK” on the side…
I’ve thought about modifying mags so you could use a spring compresser, drop a pin to keep it compressed, then load without having to fight ever round. Have to put a big handle on the pin…
Peanuts: Returning a Manuscript
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2022/07/20
Now that is a good case of adding insult to injury !
“Hard Drive Life Expectancy” by Andy Klein
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-life-expectancy/
“For the last several years, we have written about drive failure, or more specifically, the annualized failure rates for the hard drives and SSDs we use for our cloud storage platform. In this post, we’ll look at drive failure from a different angle: life expectancy.”
“By looking at life expectancy, we can answer the question, “How long is the drive I am buying today expected to last?” This line of thinking matches the way we buy many things. For example, knowing that a washing machine has an annualized failure rate of 4% is academically interesting, but what we really want to know is, “How long can I expect the washing machine to last before I need to replace it?””
It is never long enough.
In the You Can’t Make This Shiite Up department:
‘Look, the border is secure’: Alejandro Mayorkas makes stunning claim with more than 200,000 migrants passing every month for three months, the most crossings in a year in history and as DC and New York say they are feeling the strain’
Liberalism. It is a disease.
“Mothers Against Greg Abbott releases ‘ready to fight’ ad denouncing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott”
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Mothers-Against-Greg-Abbott-ad-viral-PAC-17314385.php
Another shill group for Bozo O’Rourke.
I’m bidding on a few more of the small chest freezers. I really only want to win one more, but I’d take two more if it happened that way. It’s possible we’ll see chicken or beef, especially beef, have a serious price drop if producers cull their herds. That would be temporary, obviously, but it would be a shame to not be able to take advantage if it does. An extra freezer would help.
Just learn to like baked crickets !
>> I wonder what would happen if you stuck a chunk of dry ice in with your rice and sealed it up real good for a day or two?…<<
Come to think of it, you should probably leave a vent on top open for a while so the CO2 can sink to the bottom.
EDIT:
Hee hee hee, I’m a genius! 🙂
https://www.practical-sailor.com/belowdecks-amenities/galley/combatting-weevils
“Intense heat pushing Texas grid to the brink highlights need for long-duration storage, experts say”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/intense-heat-pushing-texas-grid-to-the-brink-highlights-need-for-long-durat/627617/
The only technology for long term storage is coal and a steam boiler or diesel and a gas turbine. Storing hydrogen long term is dangerous and cannot be done with today’s technology. Of course, if the powers that be legislate it, the storage technology will magically happen, right ?
“Netflix’s Cheaper Ad-Supported Tier Won’t Include All Content”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/netflixs-cheaper-ad-supported-tier-wont-include-all-content
“Paying less and watching ads won’t allow access to every TV show and movie on the service.”
This makes no sense to me. If Netflix was $50/month then it would make sense for a cheaper tier, but not $12/month.
How does the robodog reload?
n
Robodog needs a 200 round drum.
Local Amazon warehouse that was supposed to open in Q2 this year and employ 1,000 has announced it is delaying opening until 2024. The place is already built (inside and out). They cited supply chain problems. Personally, I think it probably has more to do with staffing. When Amazon was making headlines a few years ago for being one of the first big nationwide employers to have a $15/hour minimum wage (I believe that’s now crept up to $18/hour) they had no problem staffing their warehouses. However, now that supply and demand pressures on the job market have driven wages up everywhere Amazon no longer stands out (their negative press on employee treatment hasn’t helped much either) and now I don’t think they have any confidence in their ability to enter a new labor market and recruit 1,000 people when similarly paying businesses are cutting back hours and services due to staffing shortages.
I saw an article recently that eight million men in the USA between the ages of 20 and 50 are sitting at home and have never worked or gone to college. They live with Mom and Dad or in their extra house that Mom and Dad inherited from their parents. Mom and Dad give them an average allowance of $500/month to buy food and amenities with. They do not have cars, they walk or have bicycles. They do not have girlfriends.
Scary. Very scary. Some people would call that an army in waiting.
“Place Where Biden Face-Planted Off Bike Is Named ‘Brandon Falls’ On Google Maps”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/place-where-biden-face-planted-bike-named-brandon-falls-google-maps
“At time of writing, ‘Brandon Falls’ is still listed as a ‘historical landmark’ on Google Maps:”
Ah, the new technical age with crowd editing.
Local Faux News has been giving the shill groups air time. Last night was a group of Uvalde parents griping about Governor Abbott not visiting the town in a month before footage of B*to kicking of a 70 event, 49 day tour.
The Robert Francis campaign should not be taken lightly like the last two Dem opponents. Lose and the numbers will still be valuable for data mining, building towards a strategy to win state-wide, with Cruz in the crosshairs next. Win and “The Mexican Bobby Kennedy” goes into the calculus for VP in 2024.
My wife and I are the only people we know our age (early-mid X-ers) who made first house down payments without any help from family, mostly scrimped and saved from my income alone.
I’ll never forget the response from my sister-in-law when we griped about our PMI number, and she said “You have PMI?!?!?”
“You don’t?”
(Crickets chirping, even from my mother-in-law’s chair)
One step closer to CLIMATE HITLER:
Biden moves to bypass Congress to enact climate agenda that only 1% of Americans care about
It’s his money, you see.
Gravatars!
Gravatars!
Gravatars!
Eating insects? Insects can be delicious, but they need to be processed properly.
Through a chicken.
When I was a young adult, it took me a long time to discover how many of our friends had help from their parents. I also didn’t realize how many of them were up to their eyeballs in debt. Fortunately, my kids internalized the lessons we taught them.
We bought our first house when I was 19. Paid off a 15 year mortgage at 8 ¾ per cent. Two of my sons each bought their first house in Austin by age 21 – also with no help from family. When one of them traded up in Austin ~10 years ago, his realtor told him “it can’t be done” on his firm budget. He knew better, looked for himself, and found exactly what they wanted, where they wanted: for his price.
It can still be done today but people must think in terms of a place they can afford to live and maintain – not an “investment”. There’s nothing wrong with a small frame house in an odd neighborhood, and good neighbors can be found anywhere a good neighbor wants to live.
OMG! plugs has cancer:
Biden remembers struggle to ‘get the oil slick off’ the windshield (which is ‘why I and so many other people have cancer’)
Or is another gaffe? The Kamel is cackling in the bullpen.
“Joe Biden says he ‘has’ cancer thanks to oil industry — but WH points to skin cancer years ago”
https://nypost.com/2022/07/20/joe-biden-says-he-has-cancer-in-possible-gaffe/
“President Biden said Wednesday that he has cancer, forcing the White House press office to quickly clarify that he was referring to skin cancer treatment that he had before taking office last year.”
“The remark initially appeared to be a stunningly casual health announcement during a speech about global warming in which he described emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del.”
Crazy old man.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
I never found out what caused my sudden drop in mileage in both vehicles at the same time. I asked and nobody ever knew anything. It’s back to normal now. I think it was a test of some fuel mix being tried out locally or in the region.
I’m happy with our usual 20 to 21 MPG. Think it is very good for a 20 year old pick up truck and Jeep, with our hills and need for A/C all the time. My stepmother’s tiny hybrid only averages 30… can’t remember what brand it is.
Texas used to have tough appraisal laws which put a lid on house prices during the crazy times . The old rules were still in effect when we bought eight years ago outside Austin, but something has changed in the interim.
We put a bid in on our current house and the appraisal came in $10k light. We weren’t about to give the bank PMI and I didn’t have any more cash to push the loan amount below 80%. Fortunately, the sellers caved and agreed to sell the house for the amount of the appraisal.
I doubt that would happen today in this neighborhood. For starters, we are 10 minutes from Apple’s new campus.
I think the previous owners have sellers remorse.
Greg’s protein enhanced rice could simply be “that time of the year”. Feed from the local feed store is more weevily this time of the year.
The dry ice trick sounds like fun. Though where to buy the stuff is a challenge. Toss in a few oxygen absorbers and it seems like a good plan.
I’m going to stick with putting stuff in the freezer for a few days or until I remember. Minus 10 or 15f seems to kill the vermin. Toss a few bay leaves in the bucket and I should be good.
I went looking for something and I have a 10# bag of Riceland rice in each freezer. Totally forgot about them. And now two more in the five gallon buckets I bought a couple of weeks ago. I need to get on that project and make room in the freezer for my new supply of pasta.
I like rice, what can I say? With the rice cooker it’s super easy to make. Might be better for me than pasta, I don’t know.
It’s a toasty 104f today. Globull Cooling! It was 108f yesterday….
I had to look up what PMI means. Dunno, maybe buy a smaller house?
This place was a total assumption. We coughed up several months of past due house and land payments and a couple of year’s of property taxes. They left closing and I remember her saying “we have this month’s truck payment!”. Like, $280. Not exactly a smooth divorce….
They tried. They had the place on the market for a year and not a nibble. We were looking, they relisted and we bit two days later.
@paul, iirc RBT didn’t believe the freezer trick did anything. I tried it, and the bid downside in Texas is the humidity. When you take that cold rice out of the freezer, moisture will condense on it right away. You don’t want to put that in a bucket. I let my bag stabilize in the house for a couple days before putting it in the bucket.
I have been lucky with bugs I guess, because I haven’t had trouble with rice. Flour had something in it, and it was really old and a bit sour tasting. But the rice from 2012 is fine.
n
We had an upper limit when we bought this house to avoid PMI. Did it too. Moved from a 20 or 30 to a 15, then to nothing.
n
>> Anyone else having milk go bad long before it should? I have thrown out 3 gallons in the last month, vs NONE in the last two years. I’ve had the last inch in the jug go bad, especially because it gets warm quickly if it sits out, but I expect that. I don’t expect unopened gallons to get chunky in the fridge.
We use Fairlife milk, mainly for hot and cold cereal and occasionally for cooking (mashed potatoes, etc.).
No problems getting the full 14 days open shelf life.
IIRC, Roger Standard 22 mags have a follower button that can be held while dumping rounds in. Pretty quick. I have some at the bottom of the lake.
Hey Rick, is there another way to present the page as “normal” or “mobile”? Maybe some sort of browser detection?
I like to have Thunderbird open while using Firefox. Side by side windows.
So, what works for me is to have FF at
Window outer width (px) 1068
To have the sidebar stuff on the side and not at the bottom of the page, I have to widen FF to
Window outer width (px) 1220
Give or take a few pixels.
And yeah, I could make the T-bird window narrower so I can scroll sideways there.
But for me the outer window at 1068 works for almost everywhere just for making lines of text short enough to be easy to read. Kind of sort of like Reader’s Digest using two columns a page.
Anyway. Just thinking out loud.
>> My kids have been careless about accessing the storage at times, but I think that issue has been adequately addressed.
Hopefully all still have ten fingers… 😉
>> After all this time, I think it’s safe to assume that a person wearing a mask voluntarily is in one or more of the following classes: PLT, sheep, Democrat, scared of his shadow, IFLS (but I don’t understand Math, I just trust the guy in the white coat). In any event, it’s a signal that this is not someone to trust or rely on.
Indonesian Family Life Survey??
Agree about the condensation. Seems like a few hours to overnight on the counter wouldn’t be long enough to be re-infected with bugs.
Flour? I FoodSaver the 5# bags and then they go into the freezer for a week or so. Ditto for Aunt Jemima corn bread mix in 5# bags. Yeah, I know, folks say a day or so is long enough in the freezer. If that’s so, a couple of weeks is even better. The stuff is like new after four years sitting on the shelf. Your mileage etc….
I Fu****g Love Science.
Took me a while….
>> I don’t intend to ever touch a gas pump handle with bare hands again.
Same here…ohh, wait, we drive EVs…never mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjYoNL4g5Vg
You could try the mobile emulator on most browsers (Firefox and Chrome have it). Ctrl+Shift+M. You can select pre-build devices and their viewport dimensions, or create your own.
The site should re-flow if you resize the browser window, but that affects all open tabs. The Ctrl+Shirt+M works on just the current tab.
The ‘reflow’ happens at certain points of viewport (display) width. The right column/sidebar gets put underneath the post/comment area when the viewport is under a certain level. There is also a ‘sideways’ button at the top of the Ctrl+Shirt+M mobile emulator to turn the display sideways.
And that is two things I didn’t know before now…
n
Yes, I know about the re-flow. I grok that. Thing is, I have to make my browser window wider. The site didn’t use to care and I’m out of my league trying to read the source code. ctrl-shift-m is cute. Why on earth I’d want to look at any site on my 24″ monitor sized to about the size of my phone screen is a mystery. Just use the stupid phone….
Sucky day. Lost the keys to the RV. RV places do not have keys. Bummer. Called a locksmith and went back to the RV. While waiting the person next to us asked if he could try his keys. One worked. Wife’s set of keys were in the RV so we are back in business. Trip to the hardware store to get two duplicate sets of keys, one set will be permanently placed in the truck. Keys from the hardware store for the locks on the hitch don’t work. Not going back to get it resolved as it will cost more in gas than it is worth. I will buy a new set of receiver locks and hitch locks.
All this managed to consume four hours of our day. Called and cancelled the locksmith when we found we could get it the RV. Locksmith is still charging even though he never showed up. I sort of understand but there should be a reduced rate.
So, suck it up buttercup, you (i) lost the keys, suffer so you never do that again.
And so much for RV security. There are probably only half a dozen sets of keys for all the RVs. Seems to be the same lock mechanism. Thefts are generally a problem in RV parks with the biggest item stolen is the $285.00 dollar power adapter. Senses voltage, ground, polarity, suppresses spikes, disconnects on dips, keeps the power safe in the RV. A needed item that sometime walks away.
@ray, something like this?
https://hibid.com/lot/126898000/surge-guard-rv-power-model-34830
auction is still going on, and they ship, or I can pick it up for you…
n
Perhaps a cheapskate warning is needed.
I use to buy Kraft Parmesan Cheese at Sam’s Club. Five pound or so container, fill the little container and keep the big container in the freezer.
Nice containers. The Container Store on 183 in Austin (are they still around?) sold the same container for almost $6 but with different colored lids. $6? I’m good with a bit of time and some Ronsonol to clean off the glue from the label.
Never tossed out a Parmesan container… and today, I see the expiration on the container I have rice in says March 1998. I have a few older.
Sheesh. 24 years…..
FB Friend of mine locked his RV keys in his trailer. Had to do the locksmith thing.
When he got home, he ordered and installed a digital door lock on the RV.
I read somewhere that the RV ‘basement’ door locks are pretty standardized. Someone said to replace all of those when you get an RV. Same thing with door locks when you buy a house (even a new one) – replace with better quality locks.
Dunno how to prevent power cable thefts. But I bet there’s a product out there that does that. Like this one, only $20.
All sorts of RV security products with a Amazon search of “RV Security”
Five pound or so container, fill the little container and keep the big container in the freezer.
—I do the same thing. Protip, keep the lids to all your normal condiments, even if you don’t keep the containers. Dropping your ketchup and shattering the lid isn’t a big deal if you just bust out the replacement lid…..
n
There is a cabinet key that almost everyone uses. It’s code is famous in physical hacker circles.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=most+common+keys&_sacat=0
Or go the bump key route
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1311&_nkw=bump+key+set&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=most+common+keys&_osacat=0&LH_PrefLoc=2
n
>>And so much for RV security. There are probably only half a dozen sets of keys for all the RVs. <<
That reminds me of an interview I saw with the owner and inventor of the Rolodex. He tried to increase his profits and market share by introducing a locking Rolodex. Great idea, huh? But he admitted (almost gleefully, I might add) that all of the locking Rolodexs had the same key.
It isn’t just Ford.
Battery Replacement Of Family’s EV Ford Focus Would Cost More Than Car Itself
“If you’re buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars,”
n
Even 22 years ago in Florida, the only way I could have avoided any PMI was to buy a condo. We ate it for a couple of years and refinanced.
One thing I learned at CGI is that the Kensington laptop locks can be opened with a rolled up piece of cardboard. The lock/cable is just a deterrent to keep passersby from grabbing the machine with one smooth motion.
AutoNation Ford in St. Petersburg is the former Bill Grant Ford, a class act dealership, or, at least, it used to be. I doubt things have changed much under the new ownership. The number quoted was probably accurate, but I would have called Currie Ford across the bridge for a second opinion.
If the family had bought the vehicle at the dealership or purchased new, something would have been worked out, but Ford isn’t going to do anything for a second hand buyer.
WTSP is TENGA. I gotta wonder if the story was part of a series impugning someone — the dealer, Ford, or, most likely, Carvana. Nice to know that there are some constants in the universe, like the editorial slant at Ch. 10.
The prevailing thought among the faithful is that some magic battery tech will come along before most of the EVs need the cells replaced.
And monkeys might fly out my butt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOKociU8t_Q
BTW, the girl’s family has bucks based on what little the editing allowed to be shown of the house. I’m guessing Old Northeast neighborhood. They’ll get the battery replaced.
Remember the Bic pen hack for the “high security” Kryptonite bike lock?
Yes, that is close. I don’t need another power conditioner. I have two, a cheaper model that I use at the house, the expensive one at the RV sites. I lock my power conditioner to the power pedestal with a bicycle lock. I currently have this:
https://www.campingworld.com/southwire-surge-guard-portable-30-amp-120-volt-bluetooth-capable-surge-protector-118086.html?cgid=power-protection
I paid about $285.00 so the price has gone up some. Expensive devices. From other’s experience well worth. The power in an RV park is sometimes fraught with problems due to stupidity of some. I have had one occasion where the polarity was reversed, and it was necessary to have park maintenance fix the problem. Another case in a state park there was an open ground which the park did not correct but assigned me to a different spot.
In one park the 30 ampere service did not work at all so I had to use the 50 ampere service. I have an adapter for my power cord.
Well, I was wrong. It isn’t Old Northeast. It is Historic Old Northeast – bigger bucks.
That reminds me of an interview I saw with the owner and inventor of the Rolodex. He tried to increase his profits and market share by introducing a locking Rolodex. Great idea, huh? But he admitted (almost gleefully, I might add) that all of the locking Rolodexs had the same key.
My paternal grandfather had the biggest Rolodex that I ever saw on his desk at TAMU when he was an Engineering Professor and then Assistant Dean. He must of had 2,000 or 3,000 cards in his Rolodex. He got the reputation as being able to help the guys out who needed money. They would come by his office and he would find them a place to work as an Engineering Intern for a semester. He would interview the student for a couple of minutes and then flip to a former student, call them and say that he had an Aggie looking for a semester of work, usually the former student would say yes as they had been in the same situation, and then give the young Aggie the details of where he was working at the end of the semester for a few months. Very informal.
When my grandfather retired in 1976, it took three engineering profs to replace him as they did not have all those former students in their minds. He just needed the Rolodex to prompt his memory. He started teaching drafting in 1938 at TAMU, I am glad that I did not have him as he was a perfectionist.
It isn’t just Ford.
Battery Replacement Of Family’s EV Ford Focus Would Cost More Than Car Itself
“If you’re buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars,”
n
Here is the real problem. All EVs have cooling for the battery. Most of them just push air though the battery when it gets hot (and the batteries get very hot when charging from 50% to 85%). The premier EV maker, Tesla, actually runs refrigerant through the battery. There have been many reports of people going to the garage and hearing the A/C system running in their Tesla while it was charging. Or not charging, those batteries get hot.
Reputedly, Teslas routinely hit 150,000 miles on their batteries due to the excellent cooling. Reputedly.
That might well be possible in some parts of California.
The EV Focus was a California only vehicle. That car didn’t get bought new in St. Petersburg. The climate would have killed the battery faster.
>> Other people who wear masks now:
Necessary addition.
>> Don’t get me started on the people (customers AND employees) who lick their fingers to open plastic bags and then proceed to touch food. You can witness it in the produce section of any grocery store any time you want. Grab produce bag; attempt to open it and fail; lick fingers; open bag; pick up, examine, and set down produce with the previously licked fingers. I’ve raged about it before on here. It’s a disgusting habit.
Is there some trick to otherwise getting those produce bags to open?
Rub the edge that opens between the index finger and thumb. I never once needed to wet my fingers.
>> “By looking at life expectancy, we can answer the question, “How long is the drive I am buying today expected to last?” This line of thinking matches the way we buy many things. For example, knowing that a washing machine has an annualized failure rate of 4% is academically interesting, but what we really want to know is, “How long can I expect the washing machine to last before I need to replace it?””
How long? Very simple…one month longer than its warranty.
Is there some trick to otherwise getting those produce bags to open?
– in the produce aisle… wait for the mister to run, or touch some wet veg… that’s what I do.
open more than one bag if you are going to walk to another area without a mister.
n
But you said that you don’t like it when others touch the vegetables?
But you said that you don’t like it when others touch the vegetables?
– not me, and that comment was when people LICK their fingers THEN touch the veg…
If you want, just touch the wet shelf of the cooler…
n
“Former” “president“ Trump couldn‘t walk down a ramp. But please, continue to explain how the redumblican party is not a cult.
oh good ee
I had a splendid retort all typed up when I remembered that Nick doesn’t want the site to get bogged down in politics.
It looks like the Summer road trip is over.
I don’t want to feed the troll. But I’m also not just deleting comments willy nilly.
It is a trolling comment, as it is unrelated to anything today or yesterday, uses inflammatory language designed to provoke a response, and contains a tossed off ‘challenge’ as a straw man.
No history of commenting, throw away email.
Left it as an example.
when he attacks, because he’s incapable of not attacking, I’ll probably have to delete some stuff.
n
“The U.S. is sweltering. The heat wave of 1936 was far deadlier.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-u-s-is-sweltering-the-heat-wave-of-1936-was-far-deadlier/ar-AAZLSEb
“The killer U.S. heat wave of 1936 spread as far north as Canada, led to the heat-related deaths of an estimated 5,000 people, sent thermometers to a record 121 degrees Fahrenheit in Steele, N.D., and made that July the warmest month ever recorded in the United States. ”
ISTR reading about this. I also like Joe Bastardi, who used to make his weather forecasts and discussion available on the web. Now he works at WeatherBELL Analytics, and they are a paid site. He still occasionally appears on TV. The climate greenies hate him because he is a walking encyclopedia of weather history, and destroys many of their claims.
ISTR = I Seem To Recall ?
FEMA’s CBRN Office releases third edition of Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Office recently released the third edition of its Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation.
The Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation describes the considerations, planning factors, and available resources needed for emergency planners to construct their own nuclear detonation response plans. The Planning Guidance focuses on the first 24 to 72 hours after a detonation when critical early actions can save many lives.
Updates since the second edition of the Planning Guidance in 2010 include:
This guidance was developed by a federal interagency committee led by FEMA’s CBRN Office. The CBRN Office researches, develops, builds, manages and advises FEMA’s CBRN risk-based strategies, policies, plans, operations, tools, training, exercises, partnerships and outreach to mitigate the risks and consequences of CBRN events.
You can find the Third Edition of Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation within the CBRN Office’s collection of emergency management tools for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.
Yes, ISTR=I Seem To Remember; or Recall