Warm bordering on hot, and well into hot later, if forecasts and common sense are to be believed. It was sunny and hot Saturday with my driveway thermometer showing over 100F in the afternoon. Probably be the same today. Although, the wind picked up a lot in the late night, so something might be blowing in on the winds of change.
I didn’t get as much done as I’d hoped yesterday, but then I was pushing against the world and that never goes well for me. For some reason I couldn’t make the time math add up correctly, so I was late or missed most of my appointments. I did stop at the boat guy and finish the paperwork, so that was an important task off the list. Now to go to Fish and Game and complete the changes in ownership and get the registration in our name.
Today I’m sleeping in a bit, then putting away all the stuff that came home in the past week. I will also try to pull stuff for my local auctioneer. That is pretty much the extent of my goals for the day. Some yardwork can happen too, if it’s not too hot.
Not much stacking this week, more refinement and retrenchment, with a bit of stacking. I’m gonna have to work harder, and smarter. Joy.
We’ll see how I do. You- do as I say, not as I do! Stack.
nick
4 am and 46 F in Helena, MT. Going to airport for 545 am flight.
Am sunburned and tired. Had a beautiful 19 inch brown trout jump onto my fly line yesterday amongst others.
Hmm. Mexican Navy attempt to knock down the Brooklyn Bridge appears to have failed. I hope no-one was hurt.
You were doing it wrong.
Find you a lever and a fulcrum and show the world who’s boss.
So Red Hen is my boss!!!
Hurra, a SteveF sighting. Happy, happy.
The only brown trout I know of are also called sewer trout. 19″ is a candidate for a world record.
I’ve heard stories recently about older Asian women expressing dominance in crowds, particularly in Texas airports, with sly elbow jabs to complete strangers, pretending nothing happened afterwards.
Strictly annecdotal, but something is up.
Having been around immigrant Asians most of my adult life, I look at Khan and Minh on “King of the Hill” as the poster children for the general thought process until proven otherwise based on experience. Of course, I am “Hillbilly”.
Most of the in-laws except for my wife’s mother are simply banned from the house post-Vantucky. Evidently, there are cousins in WA State who take the same approach with the group of “ayees” and “achoos” (sp?) which include my wife’s mother.
This is America. Some decided to abandon the old ways which made the family poor in Taiwan but others cling to the traditions, particularly Number One Son “Big Achoos” and their own first born.
Number One Son can be stupid like box of rocks, but Number One Son still make Number One decisions for family.
Sad. The Brooklyn Bridge crash killed two and injured more.
Maneuvering a tall ship is not an easy matter.
Days Inn which is owned by Wyndham. I tried other chains and the prices were higher. I found this place on Hotels.com. The wife and I like two queen beds as we tend to sleep better in hotels. The beds being not as comfortable as home I tend to toss, turn, and squirm more than normal.
Up at 5:00 AM as I suspected. I really despise time changes in travel but it is a necessary evil.
The ship was not under sail from what I have read but was using engine power. The problem with that is the engines are that powerful as they are not the primary propulsion system. The news is saying there was a failure in the engine system.
No cellular service from Xfinity wireless and I cannot get into my account to see if the settings are correct. That may be a good thing. I should have service in Alaska but who knows.
Boarding the ship at noon, sailing at 5:00 PM. First stop in Alaska is not until sometime Tuesday.
And to add: The hotel is an old hotel that has been remodeled. It was obviously a different brand or name and Days Inn acquired the property which was subsequently acquired by Wyndham.
I took a shower this morning and that water was hot, hot, hot. I would guess 150 F or more, enough to burn if not careful. I darn near scalded my hand when I stuck it in the water stream after running the water for a couple of minutes to get rid of the cold water in the pipe. It was painful but no burns.
The only brown trout I know of are also called sewer trout. 19″ is a candidate for a world record.
Nah, they can get way bigger. My son caught a 24 inch.
Apparently the Missouri River had a massive Rainbow Trout dieoff last summer as the population was way down. We caught mostly whitefish.
Whitefish dont jump. I had a rainbow jump twice. I watched a lady catching a rainbow that jumped four times, once almost four feet in the air.
Back in the air from SLC to HOI.
Delta.
IIRC, either late in 2020 or early in 2021, the poltroon women running the airline from their Buckhead condos during the Pandemic Kabuki floated the idea of goosing employee health insurance premiums for those individuals who refused the pending “safe and effective” jabs. This was even before Corn Pop’s large employer mandate since no one knew the exact details of the shots other than that they were coming and would be “safe and effective”.
I’m sure that idea went over big in the maintenance hangars at Hartsfield and elsewhere.
OTOH, goosing healthcare premiums for jab refusal was a popular idea four years ago, even among regulars in this space.
OTW to El Paso and New Mexico for gigs. Then to SA. My Southwest app scolded you must use power banks in plain view. no charging in your carryo.
The carry on bins have been full and/or improperly loaded on every flight I’ve been on in the last year or so. A Hecho en China power bank getting warm and going En Fuego under load wouldn’t be noticed right away.
Of course, they are all Hecho en China.
Maybe someone has already done this so I don’t have to.
Simple thing, if the data is available–and it should be.
We’ve spent years adopting technologies that are supposed to save energy, with a good number shoved down our throats by green zealots who have no compunction about collateral damage (see: CFL bulbs).
A partial list:
—CFL bulbs
—LED bulbs
—mandated efficiency standards for appliances
—mandated efficiency standards for furnaces
—mandated efficiency standards for automobiles
I want the data to create a graph, year-by-year, of the amount of energy that has been saved by each of these and all the other mostly EPA-imposed “energy saving” mandates.
Then I want to add to the graph to show the rise of energy usage by the AI “monkey tricks” and projecting into the future.
And then I want a new graph showing cumulative energy savings. I strongly suspect that this graph will peak and turn downward, then plummet like a stone as it plunges to zero and below, showing the rise of AI wiping out all the energy savings from other areas.
You assume that the AI monkey trick won’t run out of gas.
What? Because CRWV jumps 14 points on Friday you think it really will be different this time?
Go look at the major holders of Coreweave.
All the energy saving nonsense that started in the 70s and morphed into “green” and “carbon neutral” is because the greenies didn’t want more power plants. The regulated power companies didn’t want more power plants either. The pols controlling the power companies didn’t want more power plants.
So they decided to push energy conservation to slow the rate of usage growth, and NOT build the plants that simple math told them they would need. They absolutely didn’t see computer data centers and EVs coming.
EVERYTHING is an outgrowth of that desire to NOT build plants. At some point, probably after the majority were deregulated, they figured out that to grow they would need new plants, and the power companies changed their tune on the subject, but by then it was too late and the “conserve at all costs” meme was firmly embedded in the social fabric.
This is my thesis, I directly experienced it, but I don’t have research I can cite. If anyone does, that would be cool. And if you have an alternative view, share it… Mine fits the observable facts, afaik.
Their goals are not YOUR goals.
n
95F and part sun today. I haven’t stuck my head out but I expect the humidity is pretty high too.
n
From the Hot Skillz news desk:
“Rust is so good you can get paid $20k to make it as fast as C”
https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1922814549033447800
Energy conservation is related to Conquest’s law, if you assume “cabal of its enemies” refers to people who hate the human species.
While I am, myself, a misanthrope, I nonetheless actually am fond of humanity and the accomplishments of Man. It’s just people I hate. So I’m in favor of anything that advances the status of humanity.
Directly following from that, I detest anyone who denigrates the accomplishments of Men, which can actually be reduced to the accomplishments of Western Christian White Males with no significant loss.
This puts me at odds with all Communists, Socialists, Totalitarians, Environmentalists, and Gaia worshippers (some overlap).
The only exception is that the original Environmentalists were correct; we were allowing, with the complicity of the government, major corporations to pollute and poison the earth. But it’s a far cry from stopping chemical dumping and rivers catching on fire, to depriving people of irrigation and drinking water because of a worthless niche fish species.
Humans (and Western Civ) first.
AI contributing to the further enshitification of everything. Several someones thought this was an appropriate and USEFUL application.
One of my auctioneers, the shadiest one, bought and run now by subcontinent, is using AI to write item descriptions.
They aren’t the only ones, and the failings are pretty easy to spot “This [item] is useful and elegant. You won’t want to miss the chance to get [item] to enhance your life. [Item] will make you sexy, rich, and popular. Don’t miss out on [item]. They dance around the item without ever giving any real useful information. You can recognize the outgrowth from the scraped and scanned useless search results.
Here is an actual description of an auction item…
Anyone care to guess what the item ACTUALLY IS?
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it’s an audio CD. Someone’s new album titled “Now”. Either the girl scanning the item didn’t recognize what it is, or their software couldn’t find the UPC code and pull a description from online, so they used the AI plug in to insert that completely useless “description”.
Sound and fury signifying nothing.
n
There is far more to this story.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14724885/palm-springs-ivf-clinic-bombing-terror-attack-suspect.html
Someone groomed this guy and fed him what he needed. No way he just sprang up out of nothing on his own.
n
Only “shocking” if you’ve been sleepwalking thru life or only watch MSM.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14724387/donald-trump-shocking-theory-links-bill-hilary-clinton-numerous-deaths.html
Everyone else? Ho hum. Old news.
n
Remember, like Christmas lights, Epstein didn’t hang himself…
Meh, I’ve seen smaller bikinis and bigger @sses. It’s historically rare to see someone with so little reason to be famous though. Modern culture, how awesome when just being related to someone with a leaked sex tape makes you famous. /sarc
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14723815/Kylie-Jenner-thong-bikini-Turks-Caicos-Timothee-Chalamet.html
n
More poor programming that’s gonna cost me time…
Against my better judgement I used the online service to renew my license plates. To start, you enter your plate number and last 4 digits of your VIN.
Then you answer questions about yourself, confirm the information, select a payment options, and then “ADD THIS TO YOUR SHOPPING CART AND RENEW ANOTHER VEHICLE” which gave me hope….
But, no. I continued, did the plate/vin thing again, confirmed the info, went to payment, and the total for “license plate HAM123 is $77.” IE the cost for one plate, one vehicle. Some smartass programmer did a data validation, decided that CONTRARY TO STATE LAW, only one vehicle can be tied to each license plate, and did the transaction for ONE registration.
Now I’m going to have to call, figure out who to talk to, probably go somewhere, and get this straightened out this week. FFS people. STATE LAW. State website.
BTW, ham radio plates have been an extra PITA during every single interaction with officialdom. They saved me money, but only thru a quirk. Not recommended.
n
The late Kardashian patriarch was part of OJ’s attorney “Dream Team”.
Depending on which theory you want to believe, Robert Kardashian took the murder weapon out of the house in the golf bag prior to the cops conducting the search.
Kardashian is clearly shown holding the golf bag in multiple videos/photos of the press conference held by the lawyers prior to letting the cops into the house to conduct the search.
An identical golf bag found inside the house was tested for blood and DNA by LAPD, but the forensics report came back clean.
Later, when Paris Hilton was the “it” girl of reality programming, TMZ started the ball rolling on the Kardashians when they started investigating a previously unidentified Paris bestie who turned out to be Kim.
Thank/blame Harvey Levin … and OJ … for the Kardashians
As bikinis go, that’s a pretty modest one; I’ve seen them a lot skimpier, and on better bodies. But rhinestones? On a bikini? I can think of less comfortable things to have pressed against my crotch, but not many. And I guarantee that she’ll never wear it to swim.
I will hand it to Kim Bigassian, she leveraged the HELL out of the exposure and built a legitimate business worth an incredible amount of money and influence. All the rest of them are just along for the ride.
n
(and greg is right, the only reason anyone gave a damm was who her daddy was, and that leaked sex tapes were still a novelty.)
ham radio plates … Not recommended.
– I should specify, “not recommended for one of the primary ”benefits” which is multiple vehicles sharing the same plate and renewal date.”
Single vehicle seems to be fine.
n
Since I am avoiding work outside, I just looked at the google analytics for this site, this week.
It shows 9 users from South Africa? I’m assuming those are VPN connections, but if not, welcome! Feel free to contribute and join a conversation.
n
AI-written descriptions are the latest Self-Inflicted Pox on eBay (SIPoe).
I was looking at listing a Star Trek game as part of my drive to just list shiite and get rid of it. IIRC it has a couple pieces missing. So I look at eBay to see if it’s worth listing, and didn’t find one of the 5-6 “used” examples that actually stated something fundamental: “complete” or otherwise.
BTW, one of the many earlier SIPoe’s was their “Item Specifics” which like as not wants a whole bunch of carp that is not applicable, but misses things like “complete”.
Joe Biden Has Prostate Cancer
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/18/biden-has-prostate-cancer-n2657252
Good. I hope it comes with waves of excruciating pain that cannot be managed by anything short of massive doses of opioids, and the feds assign a watchdog to make sure that he doesn’t get them, just as they have been denying large doses of opioids for thousands of seniors in similar pain.
The fact is that FJB is himself a cancer, and deservesto got out the hard, slow way crying for his mama.
Fauci next, but I bet that despicable little lying coward has a hot shot stashed to help himself out.
So when does Bruce Jenner get to reverse the boob job and return to presenting as male?
That kind of Gleason score tumor doesn’t just appear suddenly, even in someone Corn Pop’s age.
Given the cover up about the dementia, another cover up about aggressive prostate cancer wouldn’t surprise me.
My wife has patients Biden’s age with aggressive prostate cancers and they just live with the condition rather than risk the side effects of treatments.
The hormone treatment mentioned does bad things to men and not something to be considered lightly.
The nastiest woman on our HOA board in Florida was a lapsed rabbi biological male who underwent hormone therapy for aggressive prostate cancer.
Don’t forget the Amish Americans!
Since plugs‘ cancer is already in his bones, it is clear his doctor lied about giving him a clean bill of health. It wouldn’t surprise me his mental state is in part due to heavy duty cancer drugs. tRump will get to issue the flags at half mass order during this term.
Don’t ever forget the lying LSM covered all this up to help the Dumbos/Deep State maintain power.
Edit: Hi, Mr. Greg!
So Joe Biden has prostate cancer. Or does he? Could this be simply another diversion, a “plea for sympathy for an old man” as Jill tries to fend off all of their legal problems? Or is the traitor really about to croak?
Or is this a Covid-shot caused “turbo cancer”?
One can never know which set of lies are the closest to the “truth” with these people!
Hoo boy it’s hot out. Sun is beating down now too.
I’ve been doing some cleanup in the garden beds and the back yard. I’ve let stuff fester for too long. There are TREES in some places. As a bonus, the fence guys moved all my stuff away from the fence, but of course didn’t put it back.
And the fractal nature means I need to fix the mower before use. And the sprinklers.
And trim around the utility lines.
n
I just got a quote on retrenching one of the zones of our sprinkler system to route the supply lines away from the property line.
One of the neighbors has a group of illegals who do various projects for him and he pimps out their services to other households in the neighborhood.
My immediate neighbor on one side, “Jian Yang”, runs the house as a rental and uses the illegal labor to maintain the fence. Unfortunately, when the workers put big holes in my sprinkler supply line working on the fence, they revert to the third world approach and avoid letting me know about the problem so it can be addressed immediately.
I don’t know Jian Yang’s real name so I borrowed a name from “Silicon Valley” since there is a resemblence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsOA4Zl6Io
Another piece of observational humor brilliance from Mike Judge.
Round Rock literally sits on a big rock so running sprinkler line can involve a trencher.
That is somthing best left to professionals.
BC: Big Wind
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2025/05/16
Gross.
BTW, while fly fishing, we don’t say the W word when it comes up and destroys our casts. And drops the temperature by 20 F. Because you might get more of the W.
And it is the allergy season.
What is the world coming to when there is enough demand that the chinese can mass produce this item, and enough of them get sold that one ends up in my returns auction?
https://hibid.com/lot/247035652/-739-70w-dc-24v-diy-telescopic-reciprocating-linea?ref=catalog
I’ve gotten used to seeing this item.
https://hibid.com/lot/247035647/position-enhancer-chair-weightless-bouncing-mount?ref=catalog
but t he linear thruster is new. I guess I should be glad that the accessory pack isn’t included in the listing.
n
Well, I thought about a tiny little fire tonight but I think I’ll go to bed instead.
n
>>I should specify, “not recommended for one of the primary ”benefits” which is multiple vehicles sharing the same plate and renewal date.”
@nick, was there consideration of any “quasi-official” status being of value in a SHTF bug-out scenario?
“plea for sympathy for an old man”
Well.. um.. donning my aluminium, (correct spelling btw :P), beanie…
He will be gone in 6 months.. Dead men tell no tales.. etc..