Hopefully, we’re still in the little clear bubble surrounded by the “t-storms and rain” band across most of the US. Because I need to cut some grass. Yesterday was nice. Sunny. Hot. Clear. That would be nice today too.
I did my pickups, auctioneer visit, and hit the chiropractor and doc in the box. Busy afternoon. Cough changed after the z pack, and I’m not feeling better so I thought I should be proactive. Doc listened to my chest and called for an xray. Yikes. Nothing wrong though, and the other tests were negative so it’s just ‘Ima put ‘asthma’ on the chart’… then I watched youtube for hours. Eventually kid came home and I could go to bed. Can’t even sit out with a tiny little fire ‘cuz I don’t want smoke in my lungs.
Today I’ve got two auction pickups and they are in completely different directions. Honestly, I should blow off the one that has me starting out with an hour round trip south. The other one I can grab in passing on my way to the BOL without any trouble. And yeah, I’m headed to the BOL unless it’s raining. That grass isn’t gonna cut itself.
But first, I’m not getting up super early, and if I feel really bad, I might rethink today and just do a speed run tomorrow.
There’s always something that needs doing, and always alternatives too.
Stack. It’s easy.
nick
Saturday. Good morning!
The stable summer weather has broken, or come to a cumulus thunderhead. Thunderstorms and torrential rain. Cooler too.
It was really oppressive in the night until the storm broke. I was awake until the first claps of thunder, then slept like a log through the rest of the night. 10am now, and it’s still flashing and rumbling.
Time to get up, I suppose. Stuff to do. Aldi had heavy-duty shelving units on offer yesterday. I bought two for the BOL garage. I might get them assembled, and even some stuff off the floor and onto them. That’s a plan…
Nick, glad your X-ray was clear. Sounds like you need a bit more rest and patience…
Have a lovely day!
Next time you’re at the BOL, set up speakers outside and start playing Nirvana’s entire discography on loop. Maybe the grass will get depressed and cut itself.
#FollowSteveFformoregardeningtips!
Insert here witty shotgun comment.
I’ve always believed they had Joe stashed at the Georgian Terrace that week with constant IVs running. Waffle House would have been on the way back to the hotel from Techwood.
It was either Waffle House or The Varsity, and that entire campaign was “walkin’ round” money for the black political establishment in Georgia, starting with the early primary in South Carolina.
All of Midtown was a carefully controlled/staged environment around the debate, intended to minimize confusion for Corn Pop. If the medical staff pumping Joe full of drugs that night thought he was having a stroke, he would have been whisked to the hospital as soon as the cameras were off.
And that’s *Doctor* Jill Biden to you, civilian.
In my experience, Microsoft will do anything for you as long as the money flows in their direction.
Failing that, the number that always worked for us at the Death Star was 32D.
Black knee boots and a diploma from a Fancy Lad school came along with that number on the trips to Redmond.
Plus the currency distortion necessary to provide the money for the capex to provide the “free” service.
But I guess that goes back to the immortal soul category.
“Economy of scale” is such a powerful force. It’s a shame, because otherwise smaller companies would eat these inefficient behemoths for lunch.
I have had one pseudo-management position. I was in charge of a development team of roughly five people (but specifically said that I was not handling personnel issues, only technical). One super-competent guy who was also a good mentor to younger devs. One super-competent guy who was terrible with other people. One average, one up-and-coming with a lot of promise, and…
…one guy with literally negative productivity. Negative, in that others spent more time fixing his messes than if they had done the work themselves. I was not allowed to even think about firing the guy, because he had been with the company for so long.
I think I did pretty well in the role, anyway, the company was sad to see me leave. But I really do not enjoy being a manager, not even just a technical one.
They vaporized a lot of programs. Not only Amazon’s satellite, but NASA moon missions and lots of other programs that were counting on them. I really hope that SpaceX is willing and able to pick up the slack. It would earn them good money, but I’m not sure they have, or can make, enough rockets. They are already pretty fully booked.
As far as launch pads go, there need to be a lot more of them. Apparently, it is incredibly difficult to get permission to build one, not only because of NIMBY, but also because of things like air traffic control issues. Issues that should be soluble, but it would require kicking agencies out of their comfortable ruts.
The pad will be rebuilt. I remember LC36 receiving damage from at least one hurricane in the last 20 years.
Three RNA Viruses, One Big Problem: Cytokine Storm Explained
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/29/three-rna-viruses-one-big-problem-cytokine-storm-explained-n2202837
This article is based on:
The Three Bogey Viruses
by Dr. Andrew Bamji 28 May 2026
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/05/28/the-three-bogey-viruses/
Police Sacked Hate Crime Adviser Who Warned Force Favoured Muslims Over Jews
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/05/29/police-sacked-hate-crime-adviser-who-warned-force-favoured-muslims-over-jews/
We Have the Results of Trump’s Cognitive Score
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/05/30/we-have-the-results-of-trumps-cognitive-score-n2676949
Not Joe’s tack–they got a new one.
Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”*
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/29/pressure-causes-temperature-its-time-to-climb-down-from-mount-stupid/
It’s a trivial experiment:
*Tony Hawk would see an opportunity here.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/IMG_11728.JPG
22 and counting…
FBI Arrests Man Accused of Threatening to Kill ICE Agents and Their Families in Newark
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/05/29/fbi-arrests-man-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-ice-agents-and-their-families-in-newark-n2676948
Six months involuntary commit to psych hospital for evaluation. Daily treatment with thorazine, followed by the fentanyl treatment that the State of Minnesota claims is 100% harmless (see G. Floyd field study).
89F in the shade and sunny.
I’ve been up for an hour and still no closer to starting my day for real. Well, coffee of course… but no brekky yet.
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Things to do, I got ’em.
n
Sure, but best estimates are well over a year. It is apparently pretty well destroyed. Then testing can begin again. So they’ve loss at least a year-and-a-half, maybe more.
It is time for the muslims to police their own community. The “nice” and “peaceful” muslims need to do something about the radicals. Otherwise, at this point, they are supporting terrorism.
We just had a muslim guy run through a train station, randomly stabbing people until his knife broke. The “we are the victim” cries from the muslim community are sickening. Yes, people are going to look at unknown muslim guys with suspicion. WTF else do they think is going to happen? Why do they think that is unreasonable?
Ten for one.
The ratio increases with every incident.
We need the next generation.
From ShotSpotter to ShoutStopper.
An AI-driven .30-06 that can be mounted in public places and capable of aiming and firing in the interval between “allahu” and “akbar”.
The inverse of poptart method: pop ‘em and cool’em.
Historical ‘Truth,’ Philadelphia Style
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/historical-truth-philadelphia-style/
The activists had a voice for 16 years due to the corrupt agreement made by the Obama administration, and it’s long past time to throw that in the trash where it belongs.
It is time for the muslims to police their own community. The “nice” and “peaceful” muslims need to do something about the radicals. Otherwise, at this point, they are supporting terrorism.
– you are making a category error. There are no “nice” and “peaceful” muslims. There are muslims and there are apostates. They haven’t had, nor can they have, their version of the Protestant Reformation. Any muslim who is not fully on board with ALL of it is by definition an apostate and subject to death.
The people in your neighborhood might seem like nice and peaceful people, but if they profess the faith, observe it in dress or actions, then they support the whole thing.
I extend that to everyone, and liken it to people donating money to “the cause” in irish bars in the US before the US declared war on terrorism and ended the various irish terrorist organizations. If you give money or support to someone who throws hand grenades at schoolkids waiting in line, you are a terrorist. If you tithe a church that has ‘sanctuary’ policies or supports them, you are complicit in every crime that results. If you profess the same faith as people blowing up crowds and that faith has absolute doctrinal hygiene (ie. this is the one and true faith and it is entire, and any variation is not the faith) then you are complicit. You don’t get to disavow the actions of others acting in the name of your faith, while professing that faith. Hence, no innocent adult muslims.
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Home from one pickup. Time to load up and head to the BOL.
n
Uh, now you’re noticing? F you and the horse you rode in on.
Lyin’ Jill Biden’s vile secret is finally exposed. Utterly inauthentic, fame-hungry and always alone… now we know who hates her the most: MAUREEN CALLAHAN
Paywalled so noclick
n
Found in review of Chinesium replacement for Dewalt 18v battery:
US Space Force is the owner of the pad, not NASA.
NASA is still recovering from Bill Nelson as Administrator.
Nelson was the contractor cabal’s best friend and, arguably, further down the dementia trail than Corn Pop by the time both of them left their respective jobs last year.
Voters in Florida had kicked Nelson out of office four years before as his decline began.
And that’s *Doctor* Jill Biden to you, civilian.
I have employed a half dozen PhDs over the last 30+ years. Real PhDs, all Chemical Engineers.
Educational PhDs like Jill Biden are a joke.
I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned this here before, so skip if you’ve seen it:
About 20 years ago I got a contract to do some programming work at the NYS Dept of Education. I mentioned it to my dad. He’d worked with a large number of teachers and school administrators over the years. He warned me that the people at the DeptEd were the worst idiots I’d ever encounter and that Ed.Ds were the biggest idiots of them all, and not only idiots but arrogant idiots. I took that under advisement but didn’t necessarily believe it fully, especially as I’d be working with the IT people, not so much with the “educator”s.
Well. Turns out that reality was worse than the worst of my dad’s warnings. Even the IT people were the worst of the state “work”ers that I’ve dealt with, and that’s saying something. As for the Ed.Ds, they certainly were arrogant and completely unaware of their idiocy and incompetence. (I’m often accused of arrogance but by my lights I’m not. As they say, it ain’t arrogance if you can do it. What I am is prideful. Justifiably so. I’m awesome!)
I did what they needed, finished that contract, walked away, and never looked back.
Jeb!’s failure to step up and kick Bill Nelson out of office at the end of Nelson’s first term in the Senate was when the people of Florida started to catch on to the possibility that the family’s schtick was just that – schtick.
Even with the “blue wave” of that midterm, Jeb! could have won. Of course, winning would have meant looking at Columba, P. Diddly’s mother, for at least six years if not the rest of his life.
They vaporized a lot of programs. Not only Amazon’s satellite, but NASA moon missions and lots of other programs that were counting on them. I really hope that SpaceX is willing and able to pick up the slack. It would earn them good money, but I’m not sure they have, or can make, enough rockets. They are already pretty fully booked.
As far as launch pads go, there need to be a lot more of them. Apparently, it is incredibly difficult to get permission to build one, not only because of NIMBY, but also because of things like air traffic control issues. Issues that should be soluble, but it would require kicking agencies out of their comfortable ruts.
Blue Origin is the backup team. SpaceX is the lead team. NASA is in total turmoil since the cancellation of Gateway, the space station around the Moon.
We, the USA, have spent an immense amount of money with SpaceX, mostly black projects with DOW and CIA. SpaceX is very in tune with their needs.
Amazon is building their own Satellite Internet to compete with Starlink. They are now going to lean on SpaceX to launch around 240 satellites before the end of the year. I wonder if SpaceX has the capacity and the willpower.
“Educational PhDs like Jill Biden are a joke.”
Many PhD’s are a joke. Perhaps most.
The “PhD” can be interpreted as the field of study and the topic hand, or as the individual.
Jill Biden is a joke on both counts.
Some were always jokes, others aged into joke status very quickly.
Everyone knows examples of people with PhD’s who are jokes.
Known joke topics are things like Ebonics, anti-racism, ADA, and green energy. Known joke fields of study are political science*, African and women’s studies.
There are many topics ripening toward joke status. Fusion, dark energy, and dark matter are on the way.
Some topics just suffer extinction as they are overtaken by new knowledge.
Education as a field of study is far beyond a joke, more of a pestilence and disease on the body politic and effectively dead as regards to having a purpose in education.
*Anything that calls itself a science or engineering that is not is a joke and a fraud as well. A first-pass filter is a math requirement that is foundational for further study.
“it ain’t arrogance if you can do it”
if it’s worth doing
Eh, fair enough. But even a person who is very good at something objectively worthless, like playing basketball, can be justifiably prideful of his innate ability and the time and self discipline it took to get very good.
How the Crime Rate Dropped in Baltimore
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/29/how-the-crime-rate-dropped-in-baltimore-n3815427
Sounds like time to put bounties on 2500-3000.
“Eh, fair enough. But even a person who is very good at something objectively worthless, like playing basketball, can be justifiably prideful of his innate ability and the time and self discipline it took to get very good.”
LeBron can’t dribble. Palming is universally ignored and seldom called, making basketball a fraud. The AI-driven 30-06 could analyze video and deliver immediate judgement while greatly elevating the entertainment value of the game.
And ghetto culottes are ugly.
SpaceX is rumored to have about 25 Falcon 9’s currently, so the already purchased 10x launches of 24 satellites each by Amazon this year should proceeed w/o any issues, there isn’t any dependence on the delayed Starship.
Similarly the scheduled Ariane 6 launches are (probably) OK.
ULA now, if it was an engine problem, losing those 40 satellites at a pop VC launches could hurt.
Now, spaceX can probably build more falcon nines fairly easily, but if they start launching a bunch of falcon heavies for Artemis because of Starship & BO issues, then that’s gonna cut into the number available since they usually throw a center core away on those missions.
Fun times.
I had some good teachers in school. I can think of 2nd and 3rd grade. Mr/ Malone for math in 6th grade. Mrs Lynn, so fat, enough to have flaps on the back of her knees for history in 7th grade. She sat on her chair and pulled the desk to her. Trippy.
Then sneaky Mrs. Watson for 9th grade algebra. Had us doing trig and calculus by the end of the year, she just made it an extension of algebra. I actually made an A+ in Math, a first. She made it interesting.
I’ve had way too many “not smart” teachers. Hey, I have a question? Don’t tell me “it doesn’t matter, sit down!” Just say “I don’t know.” A valid answer. I got sent to the Office for that because I said “so, why are you teaching this class?”. Never found a good answer to my question.
Plenty of lazy teachers, too. “Read Chapter 6”. By time teacher was asking questions 45 minutes later, I was up to chapter 15. Then I’d get scolded for “not following directions”. Sorry, but not at all sorry. After that, I’d read just Chapter 6 and then pull out a book to read. That went over not well. Flunk me, I don’t want to be here anyway.
Got an A in that class. Somehow.
SpaceX has a cash flow problem due to AI spending.
At this point, the IPO is essential to the company remaining in business.
I ordered a new UPS on Wednesday. FedEx dropped it off at the gate today. I bought it from Provantage. Big River had the same thing, exact same price to the penny. So, let Provantage keep what Big River would have skimmed.
CP900AVR CyberPower 900VA/560W LINE INTERACTIVE UPS 10 x NEMA 5-
15R OUTLETS NEMA 5 3yr
The price has gone up since I bought one last year. Anyway, for me, they last almost five years before the batteries fail. Which I suppose is “not bad”.
I did remember to write the date on it.
That message I sent to the list last night? At 7:25pm? It arrived this morning at 10:15am.
Yeah, delivery lags sometimes. But hey DreamHost, don’t turn the list server off yet!
By the forecast it’s not suppose to rain. But it sure looks like rain clouds. And I heard about a minute of fat sprinkles on the metal porch roof.
Time for the bedtime walk. A certain beagle is staring at me.
I just watched “Zero Hour!” on YouTube a few minutes ago.
It’s the 1957 drama staring Dana Andrews and Sterling Hayden, based on an Arthur Hailey story, that the movie “Airplane” was based on.
I laughed at many inappropriate points in the movie where the significant overlap with “Airplane!” brought joke lines into my head.
“I picked a bad week to quit smoking”. “That’s not important right now” The fact that a pro athlete, photogenic but not really an actor, played the pilot. “Ever been in a cockpit, Joey?”
Robert Hays shows up in the captain’s seat again in the opening of “Sharknado 2”.
I lost track of how many cameos happen in the first few minutes of that movie.
You even see alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die.
Got my pickups done. The one even had my invoice from 10 days ago and got the items off the shelf. I thought those were just gone as part of being sick.
Got up here, no breeze, mid 80sF and sunny. Humid, oh yes. I was sweating on the dock fishing. But that was after running the mower and cutting all the grass. Didn’t get to edge or blow, that’s tomorrow. And I might cut the park if I’m feeling sporty.
I think I’ll go down to the dock after my Hungry Man ™ dinner and listen to some radio while I read a bit.
I’m here. Might as well enjoy it.
n
@nick: It sounds like you may have an interesting day tomorrow. Enjoy!
#13YOBoyThoughts
#You’reOnlyYoungOnceButCanBeImmatureForever
Nice night. very few human noises except the occasional boat. LOTS of critters vocalizing.
Caught some cool punk on the SW radio, then it faded.
78F and still, but full moon and light clouds. Very bright night.
n
“From 85% White to Minority in Our Own Country by 2050”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/from-85-white-to-minority-in-our-own-country-by-2050/
“In 1965, about 85% of Americans were white. Today, that share is closer to 59%, according to census data. Latino and Asian American populations have driven much of the nation’s growth, reshaping political maps in Texas, Georgia, and Arizona.”
“Non-whites are set to become the majority for the first time in the US by 2050, a situation mirrored in up to 16 states—including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut—according to new census data.”
“Between the falling birth rates, chain migration, anchor babies, and the planned demographic changes by our social engineers, non-whites will be the majority by 2050 or sooner if Democrats get back into office. They would open the borders again. There is no reason to think otherwise.”
>>Sure, but best estimates are well over a year. It is apparently pretty well destroyed. Then testing can begin again. So they’ve loss at least a year-and-a-half, maybe more.
Jeff on the phone to Andy (Jassy)…”Hey, I’m still paying off that damn wedding…mark up all book prices by a buck a copy, our average customers will never notice!”