Warm and moist. Bit of chill to the wind but still warm overall. Mainly because that was yesterday. It got even a bit warmer than strictly comfortable by late afternoon, but cooled at night. Spring is sprung. The redbud trees are blooming, as is my lime.
I didn’t get much done yesterday. My freaking back was killing me. Stretching out as I squatted over the mower deck, and lifting heavy things really did a number on me. Every so often, I exceed what I can effectively manage by myself and need to get some chiropractic help. And sometimes some chemical help besides. Which is one reason I didn’t get much done, I called it quits after just a few tentative hours moving around.
I did get one pickup- some security window film, and did my auctioneer drop off of several bins of sale items. That was it though.
Today, I’m hoping I feel better. I’ll hit the chiropractor again, then see about collecting some of the stuff for the hamfest. Two pickups to do too. If I am feeling better, I don’t want to overdo it and move backward. Too much to do in the next couple of days, and too much of it is physical.
There is always more to do than there is time lately. I might have to make some better choices with my time, or figure out how to make better use of the time I currently spend waiting for kids…
It’s a work in progress.
Keep working to improve your situation. And stack.
nick
Nick
When I had to lift my late mom in and out of a wheelchair I started wearing Perry style suspenders with my belt. I still wear them and have had zero back issues. I like the Dickies version. Hope you feel better. https://a.co/d/aF52c6B
Stanford is the Mainland Chinese school of choice for Number One Son. The kids attend the school and then they keep their Palo Alto ‘ghost house’ until retirement afterwards.
At the tolling company, we hired one “Junior Engineer” – he accepted that humiliation from management and still carries that title on the job – a Taiwanese Number One Son who made management’s nipples hard because he went to MIT and studied Biology then worked for NASA for a decade through KBR as a contractor. Somewhere along the way, he picked up a non-thesis CS Master’s from UH Clear Lake.
My half Taiwanese wife heard about the background when I was crunching the results of our coding test for him and said, “Don’t hire him.”
“Why?”
“Number One Son was supposed to go to Harvard Med and didn’t make the cut. That was the point of MIT Biology. Can he do the job?”
“Not really, but [manager] is horny for his resume and his willingness to be called ‘Junior’.”
“{Manager] is a moron.”
“This we know.”
Republican men want to have sex with Nimarata, but a former Boeing board member from a small-ish state on the ticket is not the way for Trump to tell the base that he is serious about ending the mess in Ukraine.
Boeing just moved HQ across the freeway from the Pentagon.
Tulsi Gabbard has started to make the rounds again, a fresh blue streak in her hair. The Vets get espeically horny for her despite the WEF background.
It is indeed warm and moist today. Slightly overcast too.
Getting everyone up for their stuff.
I feel better, not whole, but better. We’ll see how the day progresses.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/how-economy-changed-theres-no-bargains-left-anywhere
– the author has some points about financialization and the root of the problem but is clearly not aware of the whole secondary market of returns, thrift stores, bins, and outlet stores. Yes it’s mostly the “ crapified replacement product of the global economy” but there are “bargains.”
And there are repair places. At least here, there are still shoe repair places, I occasionally see TV and computer repair, and there is a whole industry devoted to phone screen repair.
n
Republican men want to have sex with Nimarata
– I know this is the accepted wisdom when it’s women and someone like Bill Clinton, JFK, or the other more photogenic candidates, but that’s always been a bit dismissive at its root. Can we really say the same about men? And even if they DO find someone sexy or at least “do-able” can we say that people will vote against their interests because of it?
n
Men? Yes. Guys are dogs.
The Orange Man knows this, hence the resurfacing of Gabbard at CPAC recently with a fresh blue streak in her hair and renewed talk of a spot on the ticket.
@greg,
Huh, I’m more likely to do the opposite. Isn’t that the stereotype? The better looking, the less perception of intelligence? and the assumption that looks were more important to success than competence?
or do these women thread the needle of “attractive enough to trigger sexual interest” but not so attractive that they suffer from the Barbie effect…
And what about all that stereotypical belief in voting for a man instead of a woman because of intrinsic misogyny?
Wouldn’t the elected offices be full of hotties if that was the determining factor?
“Well, I’d F her, so I’ll vote for her.” is a lot less believable to me than “Ok, she’s do-able but I still don’t think women can do the job as well as men.”
Women themselves complain that they don’t get votes because they are women.
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anyway, I think you might be giving it too much weight… and that something else is really going on.
But hey, if it has predictive value, that is all that really matters.
n
Ah baby duck, I’d be amused if it wasn’t so wearying…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13132171/recyclable-plastic-lie-EXPOSED-neither-economically-practically-possible.html
– most of what ends up in household recycle bins ends up going straight into landfills. This should surprise no one.
– that industry leaders 40 plus years ago acted to protect their industry should surprise no one.
– that technology might change over 40 plus years and make something possible that wasn’t possible shouldn’t surprise anyone.
That it does, depresses me. Blame the schools, or chemicals in the food, but people sure seem to be dumber than they used to be, despite the widespread cynicism present in society.
n
An essay on some of the stuff married men have to put up with and why it’s bad for society. Same essay at each link.
https://www.dailypundit.com/dailypundit.wordpress/2024/02/28/of-toddlers-and-termagants/
https://coldfury.com/2024/02/28/of-toddlers-and-termagants/
Maybe you’re better inoculated because you worked in the entertainment field for years and had exposure to the vacuous skulls.
I’ve experienced that in the workaday world, where getting a job because of looks was almost as common as getting a job because of the ability to spin a good line of BS.
Dysgenic social policies which have the effect of encouraging stupid people to have many children while increasing the difficulty of the self-sufficient – ie, the intelligent and capable – to do so.
The decline in average intelligence began before the 1960s, but it has accelerated considerably since The Great Society and similar programs in other nations.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-think-she-short-circuited.html
Ok made up and acted out. But is it far from reality?
Hilarious!
Birds were out while I worked on my laptop. (I was sitting in my van to get out of the wind. Warm out there but not pleasant.)
Rain started. Once the birds noticed, they huddled together under a bush.
The bush had no leaves, this being February in the North.
-sigh-
I had great difficulty getting them out from under their soi-disant shelter and they kept running back under it when I turned my attention to one of the others.
-deep sigh-
Once I got them all moving, they rapidly waddled into the run with no more distraction, seeming glad to be home where the food is. And look! No rain!
The expression “bird brained” seems well founded…
n
I’ve read Mr. Smith’s columns for years. He’s usually informative or at least logical enough. OTOH, I believe he lives in an exurb of the Bay Area and sometimes sounds like an aged Hippie. 😛
The “secondary”, ahem, underground economy has old time services that once upon a time had their own storefronts. More recently, I’ve found seamstresses available through a dry cleaner or leather jacket shop, cobblers are a sideline for a boot shop, off site watchmaker wristwatch repair from a mall watch kiosk, etc. My last gubsmith had his machine tools in his residential basement. I have also heard about a driveway paver who gave a nice discount for cash payment. Similar story for a lawn irrigation company.
I have an ancient but mint condition nickel element, instead of the modern aluminum, toaster that I need to attach a new cord.
In my recent cross country move, I supplemented the moving company lumpers with a few Craigslist Gig guys. Cash and a nice tip. Breakage and, ahem, “shrinkage” was trivial in the Grand Scheme. I moved the whole list of prohibited items for a moving company by using 2 “UPackIt” 27 foot trailers. OPSEC was lost at this end for the stacks that can’t / couldn’t be hidden but this is a large complex of multiple identical buildings and memories fade. I hope.
There is also probably an essay in the replacement of full time service positions with part time. No housekeeper, but a cleaning company. No grounds keeper, but a lawn service. Daycare not nanny. School not tutor. Mechanic and Uber, not drivers…. Thereare other things an affluent household now gets on a time share basis…
N
Homemaker was a full-time job before the invention of and widespread availability of clothes washers, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators, and when most food was made in the home rather than purchased almost ready to eat, and when families typically had three or more children.
Boeing just moved HQ across the freeway from the Pentagon.
Boeing has a great customer at the Pentagon and they make great planes and helicopters for that customer. The F-15, F-18, B-52, Chinook, Apache, Osprey, etc. None of their other major customers are concentrated so well. And the other suppliers can not supply planes and helicopters in such quantities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Defense,_Space_%26_Security
Tulsi Gabbard has started to make the rounds again, a fresh blue streak in her hair. The Vets get espeically horny for her despite the WEF background.
Men want to have sex with anything until they reach the age of 120. Or die first.
People keep on thinking that Trump is a real repuglican. Trump is not, but he is a real conservative. Trump is also quite smart and realizes that there are tens of millions of legal Indian immigrants and children of Indian immigrants in the USA. While Tulsi Gabbard is of American Samoan heritage, she is also a practicing Hindu. As VP candidate, she will draw many votes across the line from the dumbrocrats to the repuglicans. And the RRF Jr. third party. And the primary job of every VP candidate is to draw votes for their Presidential candidate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
I put Tulsi Gabbard at the top of Trump’s VP list. And she knows that.
I would remove the Osprey.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/grounded-v-22-osprey-1980s-technology-still-critical-capability-says-afsoc-commander
Boeing has a great legacy, but at this point they are struggling to make a door plug, or a refueling boom that works, last I heard, let alone the swiss watch Osprey.
I recall once laughing out loud at reading the Navy’s claim that the Osprey had fewer maintenance hour requirements than the C-2.
Meh. I’ll take a DC-3, UH-1, or a DHC-2. 🙂
“First M1 Abrams Tank Destroyed In Ukraine Shortly After Appearance On Battlefield”
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/first-m1-abrams-tank-destroyed-ukraine-shortly-after-appearance-battlefield
To be followed by many more.
I would remove the Osprey.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/grounded-v-22-osprey-1980s-technology-still-critical-capability-says-afsoc-commander
The value of the Osprey is that it can take off vertically from a ship, move a platoon of men over 1,000 miles, and vertically land on the side of a mountain. Show me a helicopter that can do that.
The USA has bought over 400 of them so far. I wonder what the safety rating of the Osprey is to military helicopters in general.
She has three strikes against her. She’s not white (hey, I can play racist too), she’s not Christian and therefore not American (I can play that game, too), and she’s Female with all the female hormones happening (I have sisters, I know the “crazy female” game).
After skimming her wikipedia page, I see no reason why I’d want her to be vice president. I didn’t see where she has actually done anything substantial.
Just another grifter supported by MSM which is a big red flag.
Ok. Call me a hater. Don’t care.
Per capita, the Osprey is less safe (focused on the takeoff/landing envelope). But you must dig into the accident reports and weed out pilot errors. The Osprey is undoubtedly more complex to operate than a helo, leading to more pilot error, but that doesn’t address aircraft failures leading to accidents. I know the Osprey has had some serious mechanical problems engineered out making it safer than ever.
Hater.
Tulsi Gabbard is not a Republican or even remotely conservative. She has no business being on the party ticket.
I didn’t know the part about being a practicing Hindu. This probably isn’t the week to tell me something like that.
Which reminds me – Early voting started at the community center. I have to go register my protest votes in the primary.
The Abrams has a lot of infrastructure involved in order to be effective which the Ukrainians do not possess.
This National Cyber Director, the second person to hold the office, is about as useless as the first one.
Static analysis. Formal methods. Better languages … when they happen.
We triaged the output of yet another new static analysis tool this afternoon at work. All of the problems were false alarms, and one piece of code flagged for a non-existent buffer overflow was libcurl boilerplate from their documentatation.
I pushed back on making any changes to satisfy the tool.
“Among Others” by Jo Walton
https://www.amazon.com/Among-Others-Jo-Walton/dp/1250237769?tag=ttgnet-20/
Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Standalone fantasy book about a fifteen year old girl survivor of a tremendous tragedy coming to age in 1979-1980 in Wales. I reread the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Tor Books in 2011 that I bought in 2012. Note that this book is somewhat autobiographical for the author. It is up to the reader to decide how much is autobiographical and how much is fantasy.
The book is written in a diary format. Note that this book is a serious intermixing of fantasy and real life. In fact, I get confused as to what was fantasy and what was real life for the girl. The girl’s mother is a half-mad Welsh witch who separated from her husband at the twin’s birth. The girl’s twin sister has been dead for a year at the beginning of the book and she is still mourning her loss deeply. She meets her father for the first time at the beginning of the book and he sends her to boarding school. And the girl still uses magic to make things happen in her life. And she sees and talks regularly with fairies.
There are more science fiction and fantasy books reviewed in this book that any other review that I have ever read. And, I agree with most of the reviews in the book (I still have yet to read Triton).
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars (I am thinking about elevating this book to my six star list)
Amazon rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (2,044 reviews)
Lynn
The Abrams has a lot of infrastructure involved in order to be effective which the Ukrainians do not possess.
The Abrams also has a soft top. I pity the people inside of it.
Wow, a lot of buzzwords.
But Rust won’t save us:
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/02/rust-wont-save-us-an-analysis-of-2023s-known-exploited-vulnerabilities/
I actually thought myself, from all the talk about, it that memory safety was 90% of the cybersecurity (such a 1990’s term) problem … so how about 20%?
I guess it is a bit like the drunkards search joke, compiler designers know how to do the one thing so they concentrate on it … the other 80% is harder.
“Sick: Media Claims Laken Riley Died Because She ‘Fought Back’ Against Illegal Immigrant Attacker”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/sick-media-claims-laken-riley-died-because-she-fought-back-against-illegal-immigrant-attacker/
“The report states, “The Venezuelan migrant charged with murdering Laken Riley likely panicked and bashed in her skull when the brave nursing student tried to fight back, according to an analysis by a former criminal profiler.””
“Commenters on X slammed the journalist behind the article for essentially telling future victims to just give in to their attackers instead of fighting back:”
These so-called journalists continuously amaze me at the depths of crazy that they are willing to drop into.
Venezuelans are not Cubans.
The Republicans in particular need to get hip to this.
>> When I had to lift my late mom in and out of a wheelchair I started wearing Perry style suspenders with my belt. I still wear them and have had zero back issues. I like the Dickies version. Hope you feel better. https://a.co/d/aF52c6B
I prefer this type: https://www.amazon.com/Futuro-Stabilizing-Support-Moderate-X-Large/dp/B0057D7Z9Y?tag=ttgnet-20/
>> Tulsi Gabbard has started to make the rounds again, a fresh blue streak in her hair. The Vets get espeically horny for her despite the WEF background.
Men want to have sex with anything until they reach the age of 120. Or die first.
Stamina, it’s all about the stamina…
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140617-how-often-do-men-think-about-sex
>> “Sick: Media Claims Laken Riley Died Because She ‘Fought Back’ Against Illegal Immigrant Attacker”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/sick-media-claims-laken-riley-died-because-she-fought-back-against-illegal-immigrant-attacker/
“The report states, “The Venezuelan migrant charged with murdering Laken Riley likely panicked and bashed in her skull when the brave nursing student tried to fight back, according to an analysis by a former criminal profiler.””
The article didn’t mention how she fought back, other than trying to call 911. Unfortunately, most of us here know that when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Save the 911 call for after you’ve emptied your magazine. 15 rounds preferably.
RIP
You might be poor, but are you ‘drag a magnet down a dirt road to pick up scrap metal’ poor?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E0lfhOWBRKo?feature=share
n
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/28/report-fbi-plans-to-arrest-blaze-media-reporter-without-telling-him-what-charges-hes-facing/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/a_california_federal_court_bars_feds_from_prosecuting_white_supremacists_while_ignoring_antifa.html
The application of justice based on whether viewpoints align or conflict with the government is tyranny.
Slip sliding a-way…
n
I think I’ll take some tylenol and go to bed. That should be enough today. Lot’s to do in the next two days. Better get some rest.
n
Instead I watched youtube shorts.
There is this guy, who has shown a flipper zero and several exploits talking about his vacuum calling home to a chinese server…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zwYwjbNLotg?feature=share
“anything with wifi”
n
Now off to bed.
n
>> “First M1 Abrams Tank Destroyed In Ukraine Shortly After Appearance On Battlefield”
What’s $24M between friends?
>> The value of the Osprey is that it can take off vertically from a ship, move a platoon of men over 1,000 miles, and vertically land on the side of a mountain when it doesn’t crash.
FIFY
>> Tulsi Gabbard is not a Republican or even remotely conservative. She has no business being on the party ticket.
Does she even qualify as a RINO? When she was a Dumbo she was pals with Bernie Sanders.
Osprey…and pilot error. The thing us: you can have a machine that enables pilot error.
I can’t speak to the Osprey, but I have a cousin who flew Harriers for the marines. One day, he walked into his CO’s office, and told him he wasn’t ever getting in the cockpit again. Just too flipping dangerous. I use the word “flipping” deliberately…
Osprey…and pilot error. The thing us: you can have a machine that enables pilot error.
I can’t speak to the Osprey, but I have a cousin who flew Harriers for the marines. One day, he walked into his CO’s office, and told him he wasn’t ever getting in the cockpit again. Just too flipping dangerous. I use the word “flipping” deliberately…
Being in the military is dangerous. Accidents happen every day. And people do stupid things with large overpowered machines in order to do their jobs. And then people shoot at them with rifles, SAMs, and other dangerous things to make things even worse.
The USA Navy and Marines have bought 400 Ospreys. They fly them every day. They and the Army also have thousands of helicopters that they fly every day. The Air Force, Navy, and Marines also have thousands of airplanes. Shoot, maybe tens of thousands of airplanes. I hear about crashes in any one of these monthly involving one or twenty of our one million plus service members. Monthly, not daily. Monthly, not hourly.
Just wait until we start sending service members into orbit monthly, then weekly, then daily. The number of accidents will blow you away at first. Then there will be fewer and fewer. And then we will starting sending people to the Moon. And then to Mars. Super highly dangerous but somebody will be willing to do the job.