Hot but not Houston hot, and there is a lake right there… It was hot and sunny in Houston yesterday, but not as hot as I expected. The breeze helped. The BOL had nice weather that my wife enjoyed while working from ‘home’.
I got my truck issues resolved, getting through inspection and smog with the Ranger. Had the third brake light out, and didn’t know it. Had enough miles and start cycles that all but one buffer was good to go, and it passed with that one issue. The Tax office was comfortable in the waiting area, and dealt with my fairly unusual circumstance pretty well. In any case, I’ve got registrations and plates are on the way.
The drive up was uneventful until I was almost here, then the a/c stopped working. We’ll see if that was some sort of temporary issue, or if all the messing around under the hood did something bad to it. I’ll be back at the shop on Monday. Disturbing stuff that has been in place for 20 years often causes issues.
Today I’ve got a variety of work to choose from. Some indoors, some out, some on the main house, some on the dock house. I will get one more disinfection/anti-mold spray down in. The previous ones are working but I’d like one more before we start putting furniture back. I’ll leave the walls open to continue drying though.
There was a lot of dew on the grass, so it might be too wet to mow, we’ll see. I can wait for that until Sunday if need be.
The cell booster antenna needs to go back up, and there are tree limbs that need attention. Still. There is plenty to do…
And my buddy has a birthday on Sunday too. I got him an IFAK and a bag to put it in. I was surprised to learn that he doesn’t have a good first aid kit for gunshots or other trauma. He spends a lot of time hunting and fishing, so I figured I could close that gap. Heck, the life it saves might be my own at some point. You can’t have too many prepared friends.
Stack your network like you stack food.
nick
I realize a lot of y’all disagree, but I think masks are important in some circumstances.
Yesterday, in a pretty full commuter train, a woman was hacking her lungs out. She really shouldn’t be out in public if she’s seriously ill. But maybe she had no choice? Then she should have the decency to wear a mask, so she’s not broadcasting her little droplets of contagion to the whole world.
Apparently she got glared at, as she kept changing seats. So she pretty much managed to share her virus with the whole train car.
Setting aside Jerry playing CYA to protect his own butt after being a blatant shill for Blue Oval since the announcement of the F150 Lightning … cough … the automakers have yet to deal with the perception among the public that the warranty is going to keep these vehicles on the road beyond the 7-8 year mark when the batteries need replacement.
Most people I talk to who are in the market for an EV believe that a new battery will be provided free of charge out of either goodwill or the government forcing the issue.
Ask your employee how he thinks his Leaf will still be on the road in ten years.
Or even five.
Ford is going to nitpick those warranties to death.
Marginally effective, but only if the mask is the right type and does not originate in a box marked with a disclaimer that the product should not be used to prevent the spread of respiratory illness, as the bulk packs at Sam’s Club and Costco were labelled.
More likely FOMO or YOLO thinking was at work in the case of the train passenger.
People are selfish bastards so anything short of the kind of public health doctrine employed for TB was never going to be effective.
And TB is treatable in most cases.
Happy birthday, RBT. We are poorer without you.
Believe it or not, Ireland is a major producer of modern contact lenses and of the machinery for manufacturing them. A family friend is one of the leaders in the industry.
Ah, no. Religion is one of the most fertile grounds for ribbing. Of course, one quickly discovers if one’s counterpart has a sense of humour!
I agree in that situation. But, as Mr. Greg points out, it won’t stop a virus unless it is a properly fit, sealed system, rated to stop a virus. Yeah, stop the sputum spray is just a courtesy thing to do. FauXi is lying he never said masking would stop COVID. Cue the video.
@alan: (from yesterday)
I don’t, unortunately. There’s probably some reason that makes sense to the bureaucratic mind, but I don’t know what it is.
G.
@alan:
(ran out of time to search this, after posting)
See here. Apparently, it’s to allow another driver to tell whch end of a car (s)he is seeing. In that regard, it is not permitted to display a rearward-facing red light, for the same reason. I’m sure that last applies in the US.
G.
Say what? Stop lights are red, taillights are red. They all face the rear.
D’oh!!!!!!!!
Should have said “rearward-facing white light”.
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
G.
Edward Land was a huge influence on Steve Jobs.
Savage is wearing the Omega Speedmaster “Moon” watch, another iconic product of that era.
The “Moon” is still sold in the identical design to the version certified for NASA, but Omega produces its own counterfeits with the Swatch line which was EBay gold during the pandemic.
I remember that Fauci initially resisted mask mandates to be fair, but someone dropped a dime on him early on.
EBay gold. Plus, enforcing the masks let them know how far the wannabe Rolf Grubers would go supporting the Reich when the time came for the sheeple to line up for the jabs.
Not to worry. Half of white people want to be Rolf in my experience, and authoritarianism comes as natural as breathing to Subcontinent and Asians.
I am halfway through 85 but not quite needing depends yet.
Is Judge Doosh-Nozzle of tRump porn-trial infamy running scared of some post a day before the verdict saying “my cousin told me they are voting guilty?” After all the shenanigans, he’s worried about some random post? Maybe he is looking for a way to not be prosecuted.
Would a mistrial mean tRump is no longer a convict?
Depends. Are we working from written law or whatever-get-us-the-outcome-we-want law?
More importantly, will Trump lose votes if his convict status is revoked?!
Mistrial means Trump was never convicted, but it would leave the gag order in effect until the next trial.
If I had to guess, the Judge is looking for a mistrial. That would certainly stoke the … Outrage!
I never thought that the Dems really wanted a conviction which would stick in appeal.
William Shatner is 93, but he was moving and acting much younger than Corn Pop on stage yesterday.
The response to one question about meeting Ricardo Montalban elicited a very detailed response from Shatner, complete with thoughts on physical decline with aging and whether it is really possible for a person to “know” they are dying right before the end.
@ayjblog
Port Meirion. In the pre-pre-internet days of the 1960’s, the location was kept secret and only disclosed in the credits of the final episode, (17) nearly a year and a half later.
McGoohan filmed an episode of Danger Man there, and it became one of the essential elements of The Prisoner.
85F and sunny with a good breeze. Stayed up late reading the newest Murderbot, so I’m getting a late start.
My time on the dock last night meant a late start to my “going to bed” routine too.
Left on my own, I’ll stay up later and later, rising later and later, until I’m going to bed with the sunrise. Eventually I’ll reset to a normal schedule, but not for a while. It’s been a long time since I was free to live like that.
n
Early aerial expedition photos reveal 85 years of glacier growth and stability in East Antarctica
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48886-x
More inconvenient history.
The body of the papr is 6.5 pages, with about a third graphs. It’s a free download, so easy to access if you want to go beyond the abstract.
The doomsayers predicted the Arctic would be ice-free by now. It isn’t, and the polar bears are doing fine.
Glacial ice in the Antarctic has shown a general slight upward trend. The doomsayers wail and gnash their teeth when ice shelves break off, but when ice floes out over the ocean, it’s going to happen–ice, like concrete, has little tensile strength.
There are thousands of glaciers in the world. They have shrunk and grown since the last “snowball earth” phase. The inconvenient truth is when a glacier melts back and we find animals and human artifacts buried under the ice, deposited only a few thousand years ago, when it was warmer and glaciers were smaller.
Thermometers have only existed for less than 200 years, so our estimates of earlier temperatures are based on other physical evidence, some well-correlated with temperature and some not. Tree ring growth is influenced by temperature and rainfall, so they are not definitive.
We spend billions of dollars each year supporting dozens of climate models with millions of lines of computer code that together produce the famous “spaghetti graph” showing that they diverge wildly. A better simulation is produced by a much simpler model, and one has to wonder what the downside of adopting it and tossing the rest would be, except for an uptick in PHD unemployment.
What is definitive is that that “climate science” is not only not settled, it is not even science, merely a bunch of propaganda based on pointy-hairs spending huge amounts of tax dollars doing sciency-looking things.
The success of the global warming zealots in spending huge amounts of tax money with no return except a successful sale of Malthusian propaganda is strong evidence that it is not independent, but exists as part of a larger effort of dishonest people up to no good.
re: The Prisoner
The date is September, 1968.
I’m sitting next to a good friend, at our first day in high school, in the gym/auditorium, where we’re getting briefed on how things work.
We’re told, in no uncertain terms, that the student ID we will get later that day is important to us, and that everything will be based on our randomly assigned student number. They emphasized how important that number would be.
My friend stood up and said “I am not a number! I am a free man!”.
I really wish I hadn’t lost track of him over the years.
@Greg Norton
“The response to one question about meeting Ricardo Montalban elicited a very detailed response from Shatner, complete with thoughts on physical decline with aging and whether it is really possible for a person to “know” they are dying right before the end.”
What was the event name? I’d like to look for a transcript.
“A tree falls in the woods. The eagle sees it, the deer hears it, and the bear smells it.”
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/06/08/california-women-killed-by-black-bear-in-states-first-documented-fatal-attack-n2175194
Autopsy months after the fact finds California woman was killed by bear.
She had trouble with one bear in particular, put bars on some windows. The bear reportedly broke into her house several times after she was killed, and was finally trapped and killed.
Her mistake was evidently in leaving cat food out on her porch
AND not keeping a loaded .44 Magnum carbine close at hand.
I met a guy once who lived in a hand-dug underground house. I even toured his homestead. I still own a copy of his book.
He shot 2 different bears tryng to force their way in. He used a bolt-action rifle. I think it was surplus but I don’t remember.
What was the event name? I’d like to look for a transcript.
This may be what you’re thinking of.
Pity about the sound quality. 🙁
There’s a good chance that the post is a fake and was made by someone in the Hochul administration, the NYC mayor’s office, the NYC prosecutor’s office, or a Dem activist group of some kind. The less deranged Democrats know that a Trump conviction will be bad news for them and they’ve been looking for a way to get him a pardon or get the conviction overturned before November. Hochul, or her handlers, is savvy enough to know that if she pardons, she’s toast with the deranged Dem base. A fake leak like this gives an excuse to throw out the trial and the conviction, while leaving the charges open and ready to be retried after the election.
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/06/08/a-world-historical-transformation-is-taking-place-in-britain-yet-few-have-noticed-n4929722
Parasites on the public dole should not be allowed to vote or hold office, regardless of color or creed.
“On the Edge: The Edge, Book 1” by Ilona Andrews
https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Ilona-Andrews/dp/0441017800?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a four book paranormal romance dark fantasy series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 2009 that I bought new on Amazon recently. Note that “Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team. I have purchased the successor books and will read them soon.
“The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…”
It’s a Cinderella story ! Rose is a powerful witch raising her two brothers in the Edge. Life is hard, food is scarce, and the forest creatures are dangerous. Her mom passed away and her dad went away on his own crazy adventure. And a strange man with very powerful magic is nosing around the Edge looking for something.
The authors have a website at:
https://www.ilona-andrews.com
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (5,176 reviews)
Lynn
@mediumwave
Thanks. Your link is the back story, the “prequel”.
A panel of judges on the 9th Circuit has ordered the LAUSD lawsuit (which I am funding) may proceed.
Part of the technical issue is that, since the drug does not, in fact, stop the spread of the disease, it is not a vaccine in the medical sense of the word. It is a medical treatment but not a vaccine, so all the prior case law about vaccine mandates (like Jacobsen) does not apply. Prior case law about forced or coerced medical treatments does apply, however.
It’s not over, but there is a ray of hope for this, and all the other cases we’re funding.
Long ago, I pointed out that Merriam-Webster and the CDC changed the definition of vaccine while planning for the Covid pandemic. But the prior case law depended on the old definitions, not the new ones.
Once again, I thank President Trump for placing some better judges on the 9th circuit.
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/06/08/a-world-historical-transformation-is-taking-place-in-britain-yet-few-have-noticed-n4929722
Parasites on the public dole should not be allowed to vote or hold office, regardless of color or creed.
Yup. And being on Social Security and / or Medicare is not being on the dole.
That’s how we got Obama. Don’t want to be an evil backwards racist, ya know? Give our dusky brethern a chance. Equal opportunity and all that.
I had cable TV in Austin from way back. It was 12 channels, 2 through 13, and if your TV was fancy you could flip a switch and have another 20 channels.
The fine old days of cable boxes with a box with a 20 foot cord to change the channel. 🙂
I dropped HBO and Cinemax around 1988. It was just the same over and over. Then I moved out here where they no cable. Rabbit ears until 1999 when I bought a Sony DirecTV set up off of eBay. First thing I bought on eBay.
The last movie I saw in a theater was Amadeus. When it was a new movie.
So I’m a bit behind on “stuff”.
I’m working on a four disc set of movies. Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Jerk, Car Wash.
I have Carwash on LaserDisc.
Animal House and Blues Brothers, I’ve seen snips. Never the whole movie until now. I might have watched The Jerk on HBO, I forget.
Steve Martin is like ok, to be graphic, get a sheet of 300 grit sandpaper, smear it with vaseline and wrap it around your manhood. Squeeze tight. It’s fine for perhaps a minute.
In other words, I know he’s good, I just can’t stand him. But my Mom HATED Lucille Ball for some reason. I like Lucy. So, whatever. R’s Mom hated Red Skelton. She’d go sit in the kitchen and play solitaire (with real playing cards!) to not watch. Shrug.
Tomorrow’s movie is The Jerk. I’ll make myself watch it all the way through.
The set of discs will go on the Keep stack.
The down vote is why? I voted for Obama. What, Romney is sleaze and McCain was worse.
As horrible as the Normans aka Vikings from France may have been to the native English tribes way back in 1066, back in the days of Chaucer when they wrote funny, they were all Christian.
It’s different today. Enoch Powell was right.
I know I typed “where there is no cable”.
“I know I typed “where there is no cable”. ”
Bunch a furriners have code in Windoze, muck around with things.
@lpdbw
“It’s not over, but there is a ray of hope for this, and all the other cases we’re funding.”
More than a ray, I think.
The two big wins I see are:
– removing Jacobson from the defense, effectively denying the redefinition of vaccine
– slapping down the cynical efforts to manipulate the federal court system with on-again/off-again policies
So back to the district court. If either party then appeals the next step is to try to get the ruling reversed in the 9th Circuit by en banc review, and failing that, to SCOTUS.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/06/08/huge-9th-circuit-rules-against-la-unifieds-covid-vaccine-mandate-n2175204
Fauci is still weaseling:
WATCH: Chaos As Pro-Hamas Protesters Surround the White House, Demand ‘Jihad’ and Fight the Police
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/06/08/watch-chaos-at-the-white-house-as-pro-hamas-protesters-demand-jihad-and-fight-the-police-n2175223
what a great time to have FJB and his pro-Hamas string-pullers in the White House.
Move over, Nero.
“and causes their gonads to be ripped from their bodies”
Malady spotted in Champaigne, Illinois and apparently headed for Chicago.
That’s too bad.
“Inside Israel’s dramatic hostage rescue: IDF helicopter snatch squads came under heavy fire as they freed Noa Argamani and three other Hamas captives in raid that was months in the planning but left one soldier dead after deadly firefight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13508779/Israeli-hostages-freed-IDF-snatch-squad.html
“Israel conducted a fearless raid of two Hamas buildings in Gaza to rescue four hostages kidnapped by terrorists on October 7 – extracting them via helicopter whilst taking fire from militants.”
Tell me that Israel should walk away from Gaza now. Who knows how many other hostages are still alive ?
And people in Gaza are still shooting at IDF. Tell me that Hamas and the Gazans will not continue to be a thorn in the side of Israel.
It is their business, we need to stay out of it.
BTW, the USA gave the IDF the intel on where the hostages were. How did we know this ?
My Alma Mater!
I love how the article refers to Champaign as “southern” Illinois. It’s about ⅓ of the way downstate from Chicago to Cairo.
To be fair, all the Chicago students called it “downstate”, even though I had to travel almost 3 hours NORTH on interstate highways to get to campus from my hometown.
Israel walking away now would be like a surgeon removing most of a cancer.
I doubt it was HUMINT, although I could be wrong.
But there’s still all the others:
SIGINT
IMINT
COMINT
CYBINT/DNINT
FININT
MARKINT
GEOINT
MASINT
OSINT
SIGINT
TECHINT
Good imagery data, good collection of signals (whether you can decode them or not, the presence and absence of signals is significant), the ability to monitor foot traffic (and the lack of traffic), and excellent interpretation are wonderful tools.
What surprises me is 1) that we actually have competent intelligence people in service and 2) the fact that we have people cooperating with Israel instead of Hamas. And encourages me*.
I read a military sci-fi novel once and someone was curious about enemy troop deployments. He was told to count the privys. Such a simple approach, but indicative of deductions you can make from simple observations.
* Not that I think we need to support Israel overmuch. Sell them weapons, sure. Humanitarian stuff like locating hostages, yes, that’s a good thing. Cheer them on while they eliminate a Muslim threat to their very existence? I’m good with that. Boots on the ground (other than ACTUAL advisors)? No thank you.
>>There’s a good chance that the post is a fake and was made by someone in the Hochul administration, the NYC mayor’s office, the NYC prosecutor’s office, or a Dem activist group of some kind.
Surely the Zuck will fold like a cheap suit and fess up with all the details of the post.
Agree completely. Israel requires no more help than STAYING OUT OF THE WAY. Biden needs to STFU about Israel. They build most of their own weapons, and I expect that within a year, they’ll be able to make their own 155mm shells that Biden has embargoed.
>>See here. Apparently, it’s to allow another driver to tell whch end of a car (s)he is seeing.
Ahh, so it’s to warn the locals of a tourist driving on the wrong side of the road.
>>William Shatner is 93, but he was moving and acting much younger than Corn Pop on stage yesterday.
Some of the age 100+ WW2 veterans at Pointe Du Lac were moving better than FJB.
Temp is down to 80F, so I think I ‘ll have another night on the dock.
It was clear earlier, and the moon isn’t in the sky, so maybe I’ll see something interesting.
Finished playing a card game with the kids, and they are out taking the dog for his late night w-a-l-k.
I did get some work done today.
But it was hot and I was moving slow to avoid running out of indoor jobs. Not that that is likely.
n
The crying over Palestinian casualties during the hostage rescue is pathetic. You should never ever pay off blackmailers or kidnappers, because it just emboldens them for the next time. Israel did exactly right. Anytime Hamas/Palestine has had enough, they can surrender.
Yes.
I’ve long been convinced, even without the studies supporting the calorie restriction theories, that privation early in life increases lifespan, IF you get the chance to recover fully from it. Soldiers and civilians from the world wars and various ‘police actions’ seem to live long, and often healthy lives.
Wow, good radio tonight.
I listened to VK2GJC in australia and his buddy do a long DX session on 14.195.
Lots of DX and I could usually hear both sides. Crazy to hear a mobile station in the netherlands having a QSO with them. And two stations in the UK. I was listening on my new Eton portable shortwave, with a wire to my 20 ft tall flagpole as an antenna.
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Temp is down to 77F and there was a nice breeze.
But now it’s bed time…
n
I really need to get a ham station set up here…
n
As a Chicago student, I traveled upstate to Evanston to attend Northwestern University.