Cool and damp warming to warm and damp. Yesterday was very nice, once the sun came out. This is a great time of year in Houston. Sometimes the humidity is still a bit high, but the days are certainly nice when it’s not actually raining.
I did a pickup yesterday, mostly stuff for the BOL, and spent several hours on paperwork. I didn’t get to my storage unit, as the clips I needed to build more shelves were delayed until later in the afternoon. Not an exciting day.
I did get a call that my client’s AT&T fiber was finally installed, so that is what I’m doing today. I’ll be configuring the networking, and ubiquiti gear to work with the new fiber. Assuming they just need to hit ‘enter’ somewhere to make it go live. The AT&T documentation doesn’t actually list a time between requesting the new service be made live, and getting it live. I’m not looking forward to blundering my way around the gear either. Before I head out, I’ll be watching a couple of youtube vids about the configuration process. I’m sure it will be very easy in the video. I’m also fairly sure I’ll be talking with someone in India before the day is done. I just hope we can finally get it all set up.
And by the way, did no one here think to mention the total lunar eclipse? I saw some talk about ‘blood moons’ but nothing about it being caused by an eclipse; especially one I could have seen by getting up an hour earlier… Oh well, there will be another in a few years.
Speaking of astronomy, I’m bidding on another 8″ dobs telescope. This one gets good reviews, and retails for about $450. I will bid a bit more than I normally would as my wife made some pointed remarks about her lack of a birthday ‘scope when we were talking about the eclipse. She reminds me she wanted a ‘scope, I sit down to a new auction and there is an appropriate ‘scope. Hopefully I win it and she’s happy and all is right with the multiverse.
But if it isn’t, I’ve got stacks and skills. You should too.
nick
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms as…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
@Lynn
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Hoover.
All of them were absolute geniuses, but the reason that WJL were able to overcome the timebomb written into the US Constitution, was that technology had not set the mofo off, yet.
Who is WJL ? Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
What is the timebomb in the USA Constitution ? The First Amendment, set off by tv and the internet controlled by trillion-dollar corporations.
Disney just bought the rights to Perry Rhodan. Character will be written as a non-pink 12-sexed sino-commie-Frencho-limp-wristed-tea-drinker. CGI AWESOME!!! from the Avatar II team.
“The intertubes does not know of this so I count it as a fable.”
My fable. Sorry, should have labelled it.
64F and damp. Same as yesterday, I hope, since it was nice.
Baking cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
n
Roe-v-Wade was always on unstable legal ground, with a clear roadmap to being overturned provided by the dissenting opinion.
The Dems had opportunities to codify the shaky precedent, specifically in 2009, between Inauguration Day and the moment Ted Kennedy assumed room temperature that Summer, when they had a Fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate, Pelosi in the Speaker’s Chair, and a Jesus President.
Long term, history will highlight the Dem failures to act more than what happened after Trump used Amy Comey-Barrett to fill the Payola seat instead of keeping her in reserve for symbolism filling the chair that wrote the Roe opinion.
The big problem for liberals with The Court right now isn’t the conservative (well, kinda) majority but the three remaining Liberal Justices being intellectual lightweights and writing dissenting opinions which will be mostly useless to getting unfavorable decisions overturned. Hence, the constant clucking over the last year or so about “packing” the Court in a questionably legal move.
Rafael Edward needs to keep an eye on this new Dem star, whose emergence was lost in the shuffle of the last few days’ celebrations about Texas Republicans holding their tenuous grip on power.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2022-11-11/local-candidates-find-victory-in-statewide-races/
Other Austin news which probably got missed elsewhere was the ISD passing a $2.5 billion bond issue for schools including … wait for it … football stadiums!
I’m shocked. Shocked!
I missed the Atlas launch out of Vandenberg this morning – for some reason I thought it was 8 am rather than 2am.
Pity, as it’s the last one.
Lots of good Disney stuff in the last 20 years. Of course, taste is subjective, but a partial list for me:
Frozen
Up!
Monster’s Inc.
Iron Man
Captain America movies (all 3)
Guardians’ 1 and 2
Original Avengers
Infinity War and Endgame (my favorites of all Marvel movies)
Rogue One
I tried to watch Captain Marvel twice. The second time I made it through ⅓ of the movie. It just didn’t click with me.
I’ve never seen Avatar – I likely won’t see the sequels.
Star Wars under the mouse was almost ruined by Kathleen Kennedy. Filoni has saved it with some excellent TV – live action and animated.
From my daily FEMA
Tropical Storm Nicole – Response
National Watch Center
Current Situation: Nicole made landfall alon the east coast of FL, just south of Vero Beach; expected
to move across central and northern FL into southern GA by Thursday night, and into the Carolinas on
Friday. FEMA continues to work with federal and state partners in response to Tropical Storm Nicole.
Lifeline Impacts: (TC Nicole SLB as of 6:30 p.m. Nov 9)
Safety and Security:
FL: Mandatory evacuations in effect for 4 counties; door to door checks complete@ Closures: 29 public schools; 13 colleges/universities@Food, Water, Shelter:@ 52 shelters open; with 1518 occupants (TS Nicole Mass Care Shelter Count as of 9:01 a.m. Nov 10)@Health and Medical:@ 10 medical facility evacuated@Energy: 270k (2.5%) customers without power (Eagle-I as of 7:00 a.m. ET )@Transportation:@ Road closures reported across multiple counties@ 4 airports and 7 ports closed
There are problems with the imaginary money (crypto currencies). Some big names took a massive haircut.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-11-10/after-ftxs-collapse-expect-crypto-armageddon-continue
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-are-all-funds-are-about-lose-billions-ftx
Imaginary money is imaginary.
n
added- tell me again how much better crypto is than gold…
Ok, may not be a late night of jiggery pokery but conspiracy to truth is now only a couple of days.
The cops DID record the attack, it DID happen after they arrived.
– and the bit about “David” and “a friend” makes a lot more sense.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11410561/Paul-Pelosis-hammer-attacker-indicted-kidnapping-assault.html
Now do fiat government currencies.
Doesn’t mind “knife” violence…
Anti-gun violence activist is shot dead by hero cop after holding large butcher’s knife to woman’s head in terrifying street attack
– pay thugs not to shoot people. Yeah, that’ll work. Spray paint graffiti where gangbangers got shot to keep others from getting shot. yeah, that’ll work.
n
Now do fiat government currencies.
– in theory, backed partially by the GDP and production capability of the issuing government, and their ability to tax. Or by the use or threat of force, to coerce others into ‘playing along’ with the valuation of the imaginary money, ie “petrodollar”.
But yeah, once someone points out that the emperor has no clothes, the “money” is worth exactly the same as the emperor’s wardrobe…
n
When crypto started I almost bought $100.00 worth of bitcoin when it was going for $0.02 a coin, 5,000 coins. Do I kick myself? No. $100.00 back then was needed to pay for utilities, fuel, food, medicine, etc. Not some frivolous venture. Had I kept the coins, I would have about $85 million today. Regrets? No. I would have sold the coins when they reached $1.00 in value and patted myself on the back to realize a 5,000% gain.
or
https://ifunny.co/picture/for-the-love-of-god-al-we-know-about-the-h5qmI7vu9
Baltimore is about to get more sporty. Maryland passed weed legalization.
Just had contractors from my ISP here, upgrading my fixed wireless Internet. Apparently they’ve gone to a mesh network instead of the spoke and hub architecture previously in use, which so far seems to make no difference whatsoever in speed and latency. The one difference I did notice is that the previous radio provided a public IP address, but the new integrated radio/router provides a private one (192.168.x.x), which means my home network is no longer under my control, as I can’t log into the router to manage it. Well, since they left the previous router, I dropped that between the new radio and my network, restoring my privacy.
The only thing I lost was a DDNS connection I haven’t used in years, as it doesn’t work in a multiple NAT environment. Anyone know of a simple work-around? While I haven’t used it for a while, it’s still a feature I liked to have available.
Pearls Before Swine: Losing Brain Cells
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/11/10
Why am I not losing weight ?
Gavin, maybe they can bridge the router? It may be like a Spectrum cable connection where the “modem” is actually a NAT router and you can bridge it and use your router for NAT.
“Cruel Changes at Twitter”
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cruel-changes-at-twitter
“Laid off people called back a day later, and remote work cancelled overnight.”
It looks to me that Twitter was headed to bankruptcy without Musk. Musk will save it but it will be different.
All I can do is ask. If not, I’ll see if any other ISPs now offer service which includes my house. I’m not in coverage for most of the local ISPs due to my physical location. Which is not ‘way out in the woods’ but is outside of the plan limits of the township.
In news you can’t make up:
MSNBC host floats Uncle Fester-man as President in 2024. Why not.
Moochelle Obola is whining about how menopause is tough on her. She can’t even maintain her “toned arms” anymore. Just like every other woman in the World, mooch. How much she’s getting for this, I don’t know.
History of US Election fraud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7lqlnHia3o
Skip the first 21:30 minutes.
Everyone is a made man in the Work From Home Mommy (And More Than A Few Daddies) Mafia now.
Once again, life imitates “Star Trek” art – the episode “A Piece Of The Action”.
Corporate America is now living on Sigma Iotia II.
So Arizona found 625,000 more votes this morning. Surprise, surprise, surprise !
And something weird happened in Georgia this morning.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-drop-roll-occurred-georgia-senate-race-may-prevented-herschel-walker-winning-race-outright/
“Crypto kingpin bet a fortune on Democrats. Now he’s lost it all.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/10/crypto-megadonor-sam-bankman-fried-00066062
“Crypto megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried helped bankroll Democrats’ overperformance in the midterms. But any friends he may have had in Washington won’t be there for him as his crumbling business empire threatens to torpedo the entire digital currency market.”
“Bankman-Fried’s Washington influence — as well as billions of dollars of his personal wealth — nearly vanished in the span of 48 hours, after it emerged that the giant crypto exchange he founded was insolvent and unable to meet customer withdrawals.”
Looks like a Ponzi scheme to me. The bankruptcy judge will calling back those political checks he wrote from the dumbrocrats.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Have you checked with T-Mobile to see if the service is available? $50.00 a month including the gateway. The worst case is it does not work and you can get your money back within 30 (I think) days. I used a mobile hotspot on T-Mobile for a month and the speeds were really good. I was on the fringe area of 5G and still got good service. Their home network box should be just as capable.
Is Festerman less cognitive impaired than the current occupant of the White House?
I doubt it.
More changes are coming in Georgia now that the Shadow Governor has been sent packing and Trump is out of the picture.
Again, though, the 60,000 Georgia Libertarians who “vote their conscience” have to get a grip, and the 300,000 Republicans AWOL at the last runoff need to stop waiting for The Revolution.
Is Festerman less cognitive impaired than the current occupant of the White House?
Sounds like a race to the bottom to me.
More changes are coming in Georgia now that the Shadow Governor has been sent packing and Trump is out of the picture.
Again, though, the 60,000 Georgia Libertarians who “vote their conscience” have to get a grip, and the 300,000 Republicans AWOL at the last runoff need to stop waiting for The Revolution.
Again, though, the 60,000 Georgia Libertarians who “vote their conscience” have to get a grip, and the 300,000 Republicans AWOL at the last runoff need to stop waiting for The Revolution or The Rapture.
Fixed that for ya.
>> Baking cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
@nick, have you tried these? Closest I’ve found to the real thing, served hot from the oven at the Cottonwood Mall.
“$318,576,000,000: Federal Tax Collections Set Record in October”
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/318576000000-federal-tax-collections-set-record-october
“At the same time the federal government was collecting this $318,576,000,000 in record taxes for the month of October, the federal government was spending $406,374,000,000—thus, running up a deficit of $87,798,000,000 for the month.”
With this kind of federal income, deficit spending of 28% makes no sense whatsoever.
>> Baking cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
@nick, have you tried these? Closest I’ve found to the real thing, served hot from the oven at the Cottonwood Mall.
Grands biscuits are awesome. They even taste great the next day with 15 seconds in the microwave. 30 seconds if you have bacon in them.
https://www.pillsbury.com/products/biscuits/grands-refrigerated-biscuits/homestyle-orginal
@nick, have you tried these?
– other than the cinnabon branding, that is exactly what I made today… and I made them in a new wilton cake pan I picked up at goodwill for a dollar. For some reason, I didn’t have a 9×9 pan. Now I do.
Back from my client’s house. As expected, no joy from ATT. He called to have them flip the switch and got run around that there was no record of the work being completed. SO electrical connection good, logical connection no good. And no info on config pages, or box log ins. I did get the Ubiquiti Security Gateway to FINALLY be recognized by the Cloud Key management console, so I can configure it when we do get signal from ATT. Still didn’t get the 24 port switch to show up in the management console. The googles tell me I’m not alone, but the stuff I could see on my phone didn’t solve the issue. I may have a netmask issue, because I’ve looked at everything else. Some stuff you can’t actually see, because it’s supposed to be magic, but when the magic doesn’t work, you’re stuffed.
I’ll do some research and more poking at it next week.
n
Round figures:
With a $30 Trillion in debt and an interest rate of 3.3%, it cost a Trillion dollars a year to carry the debt.
The Fed has kept interest rates depressed and we hadn’t seen 3.3% for 15 years–until we blew by it in Aug..:
https://www.macrotrends.net/2492/1-year-treasury-rate-yield-chart
End of October was 4.76%. It hasn’t been significantly over 5% since 2000, and we are going to blow by that level, too.
With a $30 Trillion in debt and an interest rate of 6.6%, it will cost 2 Trillion dollars a year to carry the debt.
Might be time to think about clawbacks.
With a $30 Trillion in debt and an interest rate of 6.6%, it will cost 2 Trillion dollars a year to carry the debt.
Might be time to think about clawbacks.
This is how the USA could split up into seven to nine countries when the wolves come howling for their piece of the pie. Alex Jones would like it.
https://theweek.com/articles/805689/should-chop-america-into-7-different-countries-seriously
I am not sure what a clawback is.
Lynn; A “clawback” is when a government or business spends money, and then takes it back after it has already been spent. Affected entities get really hostile when that happens. Think of trying to take food back from a bear; claws WILL be involved.
Lynn; A “clawback” is when a government or business spends money, and then takes it back after it has already been spent. Affected entities get really hostile when that happens. Think of trying to take food back from a bear; claws WILL be involved.
Ah, just as I suspected. That would be … difficult.
Given that I expect a financial apocalypse in the near future for the USA, the entire situation will be … difficult.
I guess this is where I out myself as Canadian? I don’t think T-Mobile operates in Canada.
Elections. F Me.
Guy in the polls ahead of me had to vote a questioned ballot. Volunteer poll worker told him he’d already voted then stared at him. Several back and forth, she conceded he could vote a questioned ballot. Most of the back and forth was her disavowing responsibility and declaring herself a powerless volunteer. I chimed in because she was so horrible I couldn’t not. No effect, no comprehension that she had some level of responsibility. Then she had the gall to be irritated when I carefully checked the voting log that I was signing the correct place since she’d just told Mr. Disenfranchised that ensuring the log was accurately signed wasn’t her f’in” business.
Alaska is stupid. But where would we go that’s better? Yeah.
Rabhits are well, ive achieved my goal of having enough to eat a rabbit a couple times a week. That feels good.
Husband got the kid, with my input, an iPod touch. I locked it down to music and camera only, with texting limited to a handful of trusted adults. If she wants to communicate with friends it’ll be in person or using the rotary dial phone.
She’s a good kid and has done a 180° regarding schoolwork in the last few weeks. Very proud of how hard she’s working. School wants her to learn keyboarding to improve her spelling test scores (on Chromebooks). Nope. She can get Cs in spelling and save her wrists a little longer, thank you. She knows the spelling of the words. The technology trips her up. Cs are fine. The school is otherwise a good fit.
We’ve been trying to help a family friend with their more or less DV situation by taking their twin girls a few nights a week. Husband is an alcoholic, mom works 6 pm to 6 am several nights a week. Kids are caught in the train wreck the parents have created and are failing half their classes for missing work. We can’t fix their problem. We can provide a tiny stability and a lot of love and comfort. It sucks, and all of the solutions require broken people to do hard things. In the mean time the girls are suffering and paying the parents sin.
Winter is here. I’ve already bunged up an ankle on the ice. Getting too worn out for this nonsense. Still. It’s very pretty, and the pace I set in the Fall has necessarily slowed. I’m grateful for rest.
@Gavin
I kinda figured you were Canadian. You have that ‘vibe’ even in text. Not a bad thing, and I cannot articulate the specifics of the vibe.
@gavin, T mobile has a deal that is essentially fixed wireless, over 5G and 4G LTE. You get a box with a SIM card for the mobile side, and an ethernet port to connect to your hard wired network side. T Mobile is or was, the US branch of Deutche Telecom, iirc. They may operate in Canada under a different name. Or Rogers might have something similar.
I am considering if that arrangement would work for me at the BOL, using a “jetpack” attached to a Peplink router, and Verizon (wife’s provider). I think it would be fast enough for most things. It’s like using your phone as a hotspot, with an additional way to connect to your hard wired network.
n
@jenny, everything is harder out there at the @ss end of nowhere… but you are isolated from some stuff too. You get more done at your ‘reduced’ pace than most people 🙂
n