Cool to start, but warming later. And damp. Should be sunny though if the trend continues. I can’t be bothered to look, even though I know millions of dollars and thousands of man hours were spent to make a guess. I can guess for less, and be right about as often.
Spent the morning yesterday doing auction stuff. Even though I’m buying less, I’m still looking at them. Sometimes stuff like the image stabilized binos pops up. Some newer thermal or night vision gear would be great…
Spent the afternoon doing a pickup and thrifting. I need to find a new auction to sell for me, and to move a bunch of stuff. I’ve also got some craigslist stuff to list, and I’m thinking about FB Marketplace. I don’t want to set up a borg account, nor to I want to feed that beast, but it looks like that is where the buyers are. I just wonder if they are any less flaky than the CL buyers.
Today I’ve got some catching up to do on domestic bliss. One local pickup appointment and one closer to Lynn, in the early afternoon. I’ve got to do some more moving from the storage unit and the shop, but I’m waiting for my shelf parts to come in. Have to have someplace to put the stuff. I need to stay close to home for after school taxi duties, so I’ll probably cook dinner too.
The list is long. But the journey of 10000 starts with a single step.
Prepping is like that. Just get started, and then keep plugging away. It’s interesting watching Commander Zero start the BOL phase of his prepping. I’ve been reading him for years, and he’s about as squared away as anyone can be, but the BOL stuff is new to him and I’m sure he’s feeling a bunch of different things as he gets outside his routine and comfort zone. New stuff can be scary and nerve wracking, but it’s also exciting. And learning what you don’t know, and didn’t know you don’t know, is always an eye opener.
Stack. It gives you options and resilience.
nick
Thanks to Swalwell, California is facing the possibility of a Republican Governor for the first time since Pete Wilson.
The Dems may let him go to country club prison, but the big players will skate on any exposure.
But I’ll bet you didn’t have a crew of highly skilled, hard working H1-Bs handling the security. They’re doing the work that Americans not only won’t do but can’t do!
I haven’t checked Redmond’s implementation of srand()/rand() recently, but continued use of that algorithm due to internal politics is sufficient proof that the company isn’t serious about security.
Even Apple offers arc4random() built into the standard system libraries these days. Granted, their OS above the application layer is mostly cribbed from *BSD flavors but the function is available.
Real Republican, not the guy who said “Screw your freedoms”.
Watch “The Smartest Guys In The Room” and pay attention at the end.
Tuesday. Too late for good morning (starting to feel peckish for lunch…), so hello!
Every now and then, Nick’s similes make me chortle. This was last night:
I think the previous one was:
He really should write a blog, or something…
The Zukerdroid actively funds the Dems antics using money generated from the Facecrack grift.
Make no mistake that he is actively writing checks this year.
He’s probably involved in the bill covered by today’s Tyler Durden cowardice.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-lawmakers-introduce-stop-nick-shirley-act
Fresher females with non-thesis CS Masters degrees from mid-tier US state-universities who pay lip service to wanting to be “full stack” developers even though they have no idea what that means.
A long time friend sent an email last night stating that he’s glad his career is almost over given the latest industry trends, specifically AI.
Yeah, I know the feeling, but I subsidized the private practice of medicine at my house up until 2019, even unemployed, and I have a lot of lost time to make up before the Monkey Trick collapses.
71F and the sun hasn’t risen yet. Quite.
Lions are poked in their dens. And are they thankful? No, they are not.
Lunch bag is ready.
And as soon as the kids are out the door, I’m back in bed. Was up to 3am, and don’t have an appointment until this afternoon. Turns out, one appointment is for Thursday, so I only have the one in Sugar Land.
I better eat something though.
n
TurboTax does not have the 1041 tax form needed for the estate. At least it was not available about four years ago when the MIL died. The calculations had to be done by hand and entered by hand. I used the PDF and filled in some of the blocks. True to IRS form, some of the blocks would not allow manual entry. I don’t know about H&R Block.
I’ve consulted (ie, “butts in seats staff augmentation”) in a number of government offices, mostly NY state agencies. Most or all of the state employees around my age, say born in the late 1950s to late 1960s, demonstrated indifference to or contempt for the members of the public who were unable to use the public-facing web applications for their intended purpose, whether getting a permit for an overweight truck or registering a firearm under Scumbag Cuomo’s SAFEACT. In one casesthis was because the app supported only one specific (old and insecure) version of Internet Explorer. In another, the application was not going to be available by the statutory deadline because of the incompetence of the (90% Indian) development team. When I pointed out that gun owners in NYS would not be able to register their firearms online and that the state police were not accepting paper forms and that the gun owners would therefore be in violation with no remedy, the project manager said “Fuck ‘em.” (I wish to point out that I did not intentionally go to work on the SAFEACT web application. I had signed a contract to work on a different app and then was put on this project. When I realized I couldn’t get out of it without crippling financial impact, I planned to sabotage the project. Turns out it wasn’t needed. Subcontinent incompetence and dishonesty did it for me.)
Older state employees might be scumbags who held the public in contempt but there was a decent chance that they meant well and worked hard to help people get things done and get on with their lives.
It’s to make life easier for the NSA and CIA and Mossad and Chinese spies to harvest your stuff. Because you might be having “thought crimes” and said something that hurt someone’s feelings.
I guess scanning GMail and whatever my phone saves to Google isn’t enough.
The legacy American Management Systems bank software still targeted IE 6 running the Sun Java NSPR plug in when I left CGI in 2018.
In theory, only bank employees running on a VPN used the interface, but that is “in theory”.
@Geoff:
That’s the one! Thanks!!
But they got the shuttle home? Hmmm. I must be conflating it with another book then, where it is stripped and left as a pole sitter.
Greag Bear … David Brin …. it’s on the tip of my cortex …
Luckily we now have Claude Code doing the work H1B’s won’t (or can’t) do…
A beautiful morning, calm & blue skies, should be a nice day.
The latest comet probably would’ve been visible this morning, but the clouds & winds when I went to bed meant I didn’t bother to try and get up and see it before dawn.
No residual pain from my crown redo. Fang cleaning on Wed.
The A/C guys are on the way. Lucky for them, the cold front hit. It is 51ºF so they get a comfortable install. It will probably hit the high 70s or low 80s this afternoon. They should be done well before noon.
I recall that there was a thesis going around a while back that government employees that were hired in the 30s were college grads (from back in the days when that meant something) and couldn’t get a good private sector job during the depression.
They were grateful to have the job, overqualified, and hard workers. By the late 40s in early 50s they were the supervisors in Public Works and government everywhere. So the various civil services obtained a reputation for efficiency and honesty that they had not had before.
The degenerate successors are now losing that, but oublic service unions arevprotecting them.
I haven’t had a job yet (including the military) that I used any of the stuff I learned at Uni. Today’s military requires a commissioned officer have a 4-year degree (warrant officers get by with a 2-year). You also need a degree to be a military pilot, 4 vs 2, for commissioned and warrant.
I think you may be conflating different concepts: Information, Knowledge, Skills, and Habits, and summarizing them as “stuff”.
Pre-Vietnam War, the Soviet financed takeover of colleges hadn’t gained enough ground to weaken the institutions. It was still mostly White, mostly Male, and mostly teaching the benefits of Western Civ.
To get any degree meant to be immersed in a system that was intrinsically pro-West. The tangible skills, like Math and Science and Engineering were obvious. The less tangible meant you’d study History and Literature from a pro-Western perspective.
The advantage of this education was useful skills, and even more useful broad perspectives.
Today it’s totally different. You can graduate college without ever hearing of Homer, Aristotle, Plato, Thales, Archimedes, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Volta, Galvani… The list goes on.
I got my BS in Computer Science in 1976 with an emphasis in Math. In my 45 year IT career, much of it very technical, I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I used advanced Math professionally.
But the skills and rewards gained solving problems and understanding concepts were invaluable.
I can agree with your current valuation of a college degree in the current anti-West universities. I disagree that it has to be as valueless as it has become.
I agree, you get out of it what you put in. Learning and learning how to learn is good.
When I entered the Army, the “High School to Flight School” program still existed. I met many fine warrant officer pilots who went through that. Then the Army told them “you need to get at least a two year degree”. Why, “because we say so MAGGOT!”
And today’s universities are for lifetime employment of liberals. I laugh every time I hear someone crying about their $200,000 college debt. Then serve up my latte.
Once again, lpdbw has beaten me to it and said it better than I would have. I would complain about how he’s keeping me down with the racist system of oppression, but I think that the real issue is that I hit the internet while waiting for a remote computer to do something while lpdbw is a retired man of leisure. Unfair, I say! Oppression! I need a safe space!
I’ve directly used only a fraction of the facts I learned in my EE degree – since graduation, I’ve never had to calculate the doping of a silicon wafer to make an NPN transistor – but the general EE knowledge was useful on several jobs and contracts. More importantly, the mindset of becoming an engineer has been used on every job and in many aspects of personal life as well, planning and structuring and examining trade-offs and cost-benefit ratios and looking for failure points.
My MS has been more directly useful on the job, but that was a Software Engineering program intended for working developers and project managers who already had several years of experience. Monmouth College (now University), around 1990. Tom Wheeler and others did a good job of setting it up. I have no idea if their MS-SE program is still any good; I imagine that the people who were running it have died long since.
Yer gonna give me a big head. Cut that out.
Yep. That liberal arts degree in Ancient Egyptian Studies has really paid off. Not for the student, but for the college and the professor who both managed to scam the student. Then brag about the scam.
I have not used much of what I learned in high school. The most useful course was typing. I have used some of the math when dealing with banking software. I can calculate interest to a close approximation in my head, where others struggle with giving me change for a dollar.
I did learn how to think to solve problems. Taught to me by my physics teacher and calculus math teacher. I don’t remember any of the technical stuff that actually dealt with physics or calculus. I do remember the basics.
I did not attend any university as Vietnam and the draft got in the way. I was probably too immature anyway to survive in any college or university. The Air Force did me well. Taught me a career, how to take orders, instruct others, and some discipline to get the job done.
My only regret about the military tenure was spending 2.5 years too long. I did learn that rank out truths anything, even testimony from 12 others. That did not sit well with me, with some other significant rank trumps everything incidents, and drove my decision to leave the military.
The best thing that happened to me was my severe injury, which is now giving me a significant boost to my retirement plans and financing.
I have since found out another massive loophole/scam initiated by congress for VA benefits. If a person is rated 100% disability then any federal student loans are forgiven, written off, kapoof. Only a one time write off is allowed. No tax implications on the forgiven amount.
It gets worse. A 100% rated veteran can get new student loans, for a four year degree, over $100K. When they are done with schooling, they can get the loans forgiven even though the loans were acquired after they reached 100%. Yep, rules set by congress with no restriction on when the loans can be forgiven. Another law that was not carefully considered or thought out by those fools in congress.
The VA will also provide a computer at no charge, basically the vet’s choice, within a fairly high dollar limit, to use during the school. Books are paid for and any lab fees.
Which end?
Whew, I dislike when I get my daily rhythm messed up by staying up too late. But I’m up, fed, and about to head to a pickup appointment. Well, soonish.
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I have a [degree] I’ve worked most of my life in the entertainment industry or adjacent industries. My last career with the Canadian BigCorp was the most tenuous connection, involving [mostly], construction, project management, as well as technical skills. [snip] Entertainment today is a VERY technical field. Movie/tv production (look up “LED production volume”, in addition to trad CGI), live entertainment (Cirque du Soleil, the Vegas sphere, theme parks, concerts, etc) and even churches, use massive amounts of gear and cutting edge engineering and design. Training for .mil draws on this too, which helped me in that last career doing all sorts of simulation [snip].
I used parts of my degree and especially the hands on training I received while getting it, every day of my working life. At the end, I was even using the math I got in high school, doing trig and circle geometry to design systems and lay out large scale projects. Lotta geometry in keeping things aligned and in the right spot.
Construction trades use a lot of math too, but it’s formulaic and look up based. Still have to understand the process it takes to get there though.
My wife uses aspects of her very similar degree daily, and has evolved into an even more technical girl than she was. Her main tools are autoCAD, bluebeam, and her brain… FWIW, there were two licensed autoCAD labs on campus when I started my Masters degree, where I met my wife – the one in the Engineering department, and the one in [snip] (mine).
My dad and mom really didn’t understand how I made my living until they visited me in Vegas while I was working for [a well known person]. Then they just knew I was doing something for famous people in entertainment, but I was doing an actual job that paid real money.
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I’ll probably heavily redact this comment in a few minutes.
n
Gotcha covered, dude.
It’s a fig leaf, to be sure, but why put chunks in one place?
n
FWIW, I don’t want to end up like Steven Den Beste, or a couple of other guys who’ve just disappeared, to be found later by a welfare check. Enough of you already know where I live…
n
One nice MOAB would take you out no problemo. Bonus: no fallout!
Judge Lurch-berg takes it in the shorts:
Judge Boasberg SPANKED, Forced to End His Own Personal Trump Witch Hunt… and There Is Great Rejoicing
How many f*ckups does a judge get before impeachment? This guy is ridiculous and IS on a “Get tRump” vendetta.
Did the guy issue any edicts against Oblola (who appointed him) or plugs The LastTM? Remember when Obola droned a US Citizen?
‘We’re Not Walking Away From This Fight.’ Two of Swalwell Accusers Speak Out, and Here’s What They Said
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/04/14/swalwell-accusers-we-will-not-back-down-n2674422
If What This Law Professor Says Comes True, Eric Swalwell Is Totally Screwed
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/14/eric-swalwell-is-a-lawyer-right-hell-should-be-fine-after-he-leaves-dc-actually-n2674398
Is Gallego Next? UPDATE: Swalwell Accused Of Drugging, Raping ‘Friend’
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/14/is-gallego-next-n3813881
As more of Swalwell’s victims discover that they are not alone and come forward, it is likely only a matter of time before one of them implicates Gallego as having direct knowledge. If that happens there is no way the Democrat lie/spin machine will keep control.
“Shuttle Down” by Lee Correy (G. Harry Stine), wherein a shuttle, on a southward launch from Vandenberg, suffers premature MECO, and the only contingency landing site is Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
NASA 905 has insufficient endurance to fly from Rapa Nui to anywhere we would consider civilised, while carrying a shuttle orbiter, and cannot be refuelled in flight. Not by modern active boom refuelling, at least.
Until someone realises that relatively old-fashioned probe-and-drogue refelling can be done. And is.
But not before a Soviet agent plants a bomb on a USAF C5 Galaxy.
I read it in the original serialisation, in Analog magazine, in the early 80s.
Two stories, a book and a short. Cool.
It’s worth noting that Swalwell followed immediately after the “revelations” about Cesar Chavez, whose long history of sexual assaults was also kept quiet by Democrats and their media lackeys.
Makes you wonder what else is out there and whose victim’s are starting to think “Maybe now is the time…”
It appears that the CA PTB cabal are acting quickly and decisively to predict their empire of crime.
Along with the Swalwell hit there is already a bill in the state legislature that would criminalize reporting on the hospice fraud and other grifting.
I assume that it’s the Newsom’s and the Pelosi’s and the Browns (and others).
And, Mamfukstiki announces his first city owned grocery store will open in 2029 (election year) for $30 million. It doesn’t take that long to build a basic grocery store so I assume the $30 million doesn’t exist, or is already in grifter’s pockets.
I can’t wait for the Amish to empty the store as soon as the Sun goes down.
I’m sure there are closed grocery stores all over NYFC. Why not buy one of those for pennies on the dollar? Probably because they are in the “wrong” neighborhoods.
The Swalwell Scandal Just Got Worse — Way, Way Worse
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/14/the-swalwell-scandal-just-got-worse-way-way-worse-n4951773
With the bleachers completely empty in Swalwell’s section, and DA Bragg having a track record that is pretty much non-existent, what are the chances that he does an honest investigation?
Exactly nil.
Meaning that he will go after Swalwell hard, but it’s likely that the contributions of his enablers will be covered up.
BUT if the videographer was underage things may get spicy.
Swalwell is going to end up being Danny Masterson’s cell mate.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/14/he-was-a-fattish-man-with-the-paralyzing-stupidity-of-a-potato-n3813892
Does it look like CNN is applying the “duskization” filter to Brian “White As the Inside of a Russet” Stelter?
Buying (through eminent domain) a city block and leveling it and building a brand-new, large grocery store provides much more opportunity for favors to friends, disfavors to the unfavored, and lovely, lovely graft than simply refurbishing an existing grocery store.
Tukka has gone full Stelter:
Tucker Carlson Network: The People in Charge Don’t Want You to Know That Muslims Love Jesus
Mooslims use Jesus as a tool for pedoboy Mohammad. Christianity dies under the Religion of Pieces by the hand of, checks notes, Jesus. According to the RoP.
Did I say “spicy”?
Will the Swalwell Scandal Take Down a Democrat U.S. Senator, Too?
But people are asking other questions about the video. It doesn’t just show Swalwell, you see: Another man appears in the frame, sitting on the bed. His face isn’t visible, but social media erupted almost immediately, with users pointing to his profile and saying it bears a striking resemblance to Sen. Ruben Gallego.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/14/will-the-swalwell-scandal-take-down-senator-gallego-too-n4951782
https://www.sgtreport.com/2026/04/jack-posobiec-drops-additional-video-of-eric-swalwell-in-bed-with-alleged-sex-worker/
Full video on X if you want to log in.
Mrs. Swalwell wed and stayed married to a piece of garbage and I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. Their three kids, however, are all under ten and blameless. Don’t know what Polymarket is saying, but I would give even odds that she files for divorce by the end of the month and freezes marital assets before he pledges them to attorneys.
Which in turn brings up the defense of Poor Eric. With no assets and no friends he’s going to have a difficult time finding and paying for a good legal team. Being a lying thieving r*pist and a Democrat he will have no inhibitions sifting through his store of incriminating knowledge for cards to play to “persuade” his fellow
criminalsDemocrats to help. That will probably result in a white shoe law firm stepping up and speechifying on the enshrinement of the right to counsel in our sacred (since they last shredded them) justice system. Po’ Eric will get his defense to no avail, and at some point realize that he is going down like a rock in a cold ocean unless he can make a deal. Unless, of course, he is given the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial suite in New York’s finest hotel and succumbs to a previously unknown medical condition.If I were Trump’s DOJ I’d be looking for federal charges to bring–perhaps Mann Act–and maybe even lay it out directly to the defendant that what he knows is dangerous stuff indeed and perhaps it would be wise to roll over early.
They’re cutting losses and throwing sandbags overboard, so who are they going to backfill the empty positions with?
n
“Houston Loses State Funding In Response to Sanctuary City Revival”
https://texasscorecard.com/local/houston-loses-state-funding-in-response-to-sanctuary-city-revival/
“Mayor Whitmire calls it a “crisis situation.””
“In a statement issued late Monday afternoon, Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced that the city was facing a “crisis situation” with the loss of $110 million in state funding. Last week, the city council voted to revive sanctuary city policies for illegal aliens.”
“The new city policy, redefining the boundaries of its police department’s interactions with federal immigration authorities, puts Houston at odds with state law.”
“Whitmire said on Monday that the city was notified that Gov. Greg Abbott would be “withdrawing $110 million in public safety grants” because of the new ordinance.”
The Houston city council are a bunch of idiots. And Mayor John Whitmire voted for the sanctuary city policy also.
“Nonprofit’s Alarm: Bureaucrats’ Extra-High-Voltage Permian Basin Lines Ignore Abbott, Threaten Landowners”
https://texasscorecard.com/investigations/nonprofits-alarm-bureaucrats-extra-high-voltage-permian-basin-lines-ignore-abbott-threaten-landowners/
“State bureaucrats are racing to build 765‑kV transmission lines into the energy‑rich Permian Basin instead of adding new, reliable power plants, according to a landowner‑backed nonprofit.”
“Critics contend that Public Utility Commission of Texas, grid operator ERCOT, and electricity delivery company Oncor have turned a targeted Permian Basin fix into a more than $30 billion extra‑high‑voltage buildout with limited public input and without PUCT or Oncor having any experience operating 765‑kV lines in Texas.”
“Critics have estimated that this massive transmission build-out will cost more than $30 billion, which amounts to $200 per year for the typical Texas household at current cost allocations. PUCT chairman Gleeson testified in April that PUCT will change “the methodology by which we allocate transmission [cost].””
They are going to spend a boatload of money for a transmission line that will not move any power during periods of extreme weather conditions less than 25 F or greater than 105 F. This will rob resources from other more needful projects.
@lynn – wondering why a 700kv line would not work during subfreezing weather. I asked DDG, and got this:
What do you see as potential problems? I assume that the design engineers for the project are smart enough to know how to design electrical transmission lines and towers for sub-freezing weather.
I think it’s because when it’s sub-freezing weather, the windmills ice up and are shut down. And, maybe, it’s also cloudy so forget the solar. I don’t know about the 105f. Maybe solar panel get too hot?
“landowner‑backed nonprofit” says it all. NIMBY.
I mean, you have a big ranch, who cares what the voltage is on the poert lines?
PEC upgraded a few months ago again. First from 5200 volts to 7500 volts. By memory. The latest upgrade was from the 7500 volts to (I think, I forget the exact number) 24,000 volts.
First they came through and did something to the transformer on the pole… there’s a new insulator thing up there. Same transformers on both meters. AND they re-did the guy-wires…. about a quarter of the way down there is now a porcelain insulator.
Uh. Higher voltage means less amperage on the same wires, so they can supply electricity to more people. I think that’s how it work.
Kroeger 60 large cage free eggs at Smith’s were $9.89. I got one, but should have two since we go through a lot of eggs.
I assume that the design engineers for the project are smart enough to know how to design electrical transmission lines and towers for sub-freezing weather.
– assumes facts which are not in evidence. Windmills and solar both shut down during temperature extremes, and engineers designed and built them. The NG wells froze over when the PEG recirc pumps were shut off to lower load during the extreme cold event here. Not a great design.
Remember that their goals are not necessarily your goals.
NG pipeline compressors used to run on NG, so they were completely independent of the power grid. EPA mandated the compressors be replaced with electric ones, and now when the electric grid goes down, the NG system will follow it.
HE washers “save water” but don’t do the job of cleaning your clothes as well as old machines. Refrigerators “save energy” but don’t have any excess capacity and have expensive control components with high failure rates.
Dorm sized fridges don’t use the “horrible” R12 or even R134a, instead they use cyclopentane which now comes with a warning label that it will explode in a fire. Did you want to “save the environment” or not get blown up?
Their goals are not our goals.
n
I read @Lynn’s post as questioning whether the power transmission lines would work in sub-freezing temps. Not the power generation (solar/wind/etc), which I understand can have problems during sub-freezing temps.
But I’ll bet you didn’t have a crew of highly skilled, hard working H1-Bs handling the security. They’re doing the work that Americans not only won’t do but can’t do!
And the H1-Bs can’t do security either.
@lynn – wondering why a 700kv line would not work during subfreezing weather. I asked DDG, and got this:
What do you see as potential problems? I assume that the design engineers for the project are smart enough to know how to design electrical transmission lines and towers for sub-freezing weather.
True, the power transmission lines work just fine in most conditions. They subject to high winds, especially tornadoes. We used to move them 45 to 90 degrees every ten miles in case a tornado was walking the transmission line, I saw it happen several times in our system.
The problem is the power generation is not reliable in severe weather conditions. Below 25 F, there is generally ice on the solar panels or the wind turbines. Above 105 F, the wind generally stops blowing.
And the real problem is the cost. $30 billion for the new transmission lines to be spread over every power user in Texas. Since Oncor is a For Profit company, add another 8 to 10% to the annual cost for their capital investment.
At The Heartland Climate Conference: “What Is The Proof?”, Earth’s Energy Imbalance Edition
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/13/at-the-heartland-climate-conference-what-is-the-proof-earths-energy-imbalance-edition/
Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That drove a big stake in the Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) fiction when he proved that the network of temperature measuring stations was not capable of producing high-quality data. The other big stake was the corruption of the data by “adjustments” and flat-out fabrication of data. Lot’s of little stakes, too.
So Big Climate moved their circus to the satellites, claiming that they could show that heat was building up on Earth. Only they couldn’t, really , because not enough satellites making good enough measurements.
The big stake in this one is provided by Dr. James Hansen, late of NASA GISS and premiere global warming zealot:
So applying “fudge factors” knocks 6.5 down about 86%, giving the number that the fraudsters agreed upon before all the messy measuring.
Thanks again to JEP for his comments 25 years or so ago that caused me to examine the global warming claims. Unfortunately, the rot in climate science has pretty much expanded to all of science now, and AI is busy consuming the last bits.
AND JEP, who often commented on the evidence revealed by melting ice in Greenland, would have enjoyed this one:
An Inconvenient Tree: Uncovered In Alps… Europe Much Warmer Than Today 6000 Years Ago
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/06/an-inconvenient-tree-uncovered-in-alps-europe-much-warmer-than-today-6000-years-ago/
The “political-medial” construct is largely a fabrication of the enemies of the USA–primarily the Chinese communists and EU leftists
“The problem is the power generation is not reliable in severe weather conditions. Below 25 F, there is generally ice on the solar panels or the wind turbines. Above 105 F, the wind generally stops blowing.”
Flat solar panels are usually mounted at the computed optimum angle for maximum power generation. The summer days being nearly twice as long as winter days means the optimum angle is much less than optimum for winter days. High school trigonometry and college freshman integral calculus can approximate the best-case cloudless result for a given latitude, but the bottom line is that solar sucks in the winter.
And on cold cloudy windless days, no solar and no wind means that the electricity flows backwards to power the oil heaters in the wind turbine gearboxes to keep them from freezing.
Well, I ended up not doing kid taxi stuff. Big sis took care of it.
I also didn’t cook as everyone ate earlier.
I did treat the yard for fire ants. Also finally ran the power cable for the IR emitter that’s been hanging on the front of the house for the last several years. It’s not in a great place now that I can see the light. I’ll be moving it.
Almost put the cam in place for the halfway house driveway but one of the guys was standing right there on the phone. I decided to get a lower profile cam, and a guy on ebay had what I wanted. The bonus is that the cam can identify and count people and vehicles, so I should be able to have it log all the movement. I can probably limit that to a specific time too. Mostly bad stuff happens at night. I ordered the cam, and I pulled the cable thru the attic.
Relocated one of my WAPs in the attic for better coverage in the bedrooms.
Put some stuff away.
Did my pickup too.
Busy afternoon.
n
Nick, let us know how th “lower profile cam” performs.
Transmission lines for improving reliability of Crusoe Energy facilities.
Its a big club, and you aren’t in it.
I’m headed to bed. Too much internet, not enough sleep.
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>>It gets worse. A 100% rated veteran can get new student loans, for a four year degree, over $100K. When they are done with schooling, they can get the loans forgiven even though the loans were acquired after they reached 100%. Yep, rules set by congress with no restriction on when the loans can be forgiven. Another law that was not carefully considered or thought out by those fools in congress.
Stop for a few seconds in front of a mirror and see who (by some means or another) put those fools into Congress.
Lets start with iron-clad term limits for all elected positions, then we can talk further.
>>NG pipeline compressors used to run on NG, so they were completely independent of the power grid. EPA mandated the compressors be replaced with electric ones, and now when the electric grid goes down, the NG system will follow it.
And then how well to those whole-house NG-powered gennies work?
“2026 PROMETHEUS AWARD FINALISTS CHOSEN FOR BEST NOVEL”
https://www.lfs.org/releases.shtml
“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 14, 2026
2026 PROMETHEUS AWARD FINALISTS CHOSEN FOR BEST NOVEL
Works by Dave Freer, Karl K. Gallagher, Sarah Hoyt, J. Kenton Pierce and Harry Turtledove selected as finalists”
“The Libertarian Futurist Society, a nonprofit all-volunteer international organization of liberty-loving science fiction/fantasy fans, has announced five finalists for the Best Novel category of the Prometheus Awards.”
“Here are the Best Novel finalists in brief, in alphabetical order by author: Storm-Dragon, by Dave Freer (Raconteur Press); War by Other Means, by Karl K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven Press); No Man’s Land, by Sarah Hoyt (Goldport Press); A Kiss for Damocles, by J. Kenton Pierce (Raconteur Press); and Powerless, by Harry Turtledove (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy.) Full-length reviews of each Best Novel finalist, explaining how each fits the distinctive focus of the Prometheus Awards, have been (or soon will be) posted on the Prometheus Blog. Meanwhile, here are capsule descriptions of all five finalists:”
Cool, I hope that Sarah Hoyt wins. Her trilogy is very edgy and I plan to finish it soon.
https://www.lfs.org/blog/no-mans-land-the-epic-novel-that-prometheus-winner-sarah-hoyt-was-born-to-write/
I’m headed to bed. Too much internet, not enough sleep.
Too much Windows 11 nightmares and even worse three tax returns to file.
Flat solar panels are usually mounted at the computed optimum angle for maximum power generation. The summer days being nearly twice as long as winter days means the optimum angle is much less than optimum for winter days. High school trigonometry and college freshman integral calculus can approximate the best-case cloudless result for a given latitude, but the bottom line is that solar sucks in the winter.
Most of the commercial solar power plants, 100 MW to 300 MW, in Texas are motorized and follow the sun. I doubt that any of the home solar installations follow the sun though.
Wednesday. Good morning! No Nick post yet. Did Tax Day get him? I hope not…
It is a nice sunny spring day here. Too nice for working, but needs must, mortgages and bills to pay, wife and gubs to feed, etc.