And still more of the same weather. We had a cell move through in the mid afternoon, and then we were back to sunny, but 10 degrees cooler. I’ll thinking more of that for today too.
I didn’t get stuff done. I took a pickup load to my new space (buddy’s old shop) but the power was out. All I could do was unload my truck, do some basic troubleshooting, and talk to the neighbor. I’ll have to do more poking around as no one has any idea why it might be out. It put a damper on my plan for the rest of the day.
Neighbor is an interesting guy. The company works as subcontractors for a couple of big internet infrastructure companies putting racks and power and connectivity in place, before the big bois fill their racks. You’d never know it in the little sh!tty commercial building we share, but their offices are very nice and their store room area is very well setup and organized. Very stealthy and much cheaper than the office/warehouse they were in before. Everyone needs to save a few bucks right now.
Today I’ve got some pickups I can’t put off any longer, taxi service for D2, and anything else that comes up. Some domestic bliss is sure to occur as well. Those clothes won’t fold themselves, ya know. A Costco run is in order too, if I can fit it in. Friday came very quickly this week.
I’ve got my non-prepping hobby meeting on Saturday which limits how much work I can do. I’ll be staying home and chipping at the list this weekend.
I’ll call it ‘working to improve my position’ and that’ll be the goal for the next couple of days.
There will be a bit of stacking too. Natch…
n
$178 Million??? Go look at what Space Center Houston did with regard to shelter for their Saturn V, preferably on a rainy day.
Then go visit Kennedy’s Saturn V exhibit building.
Texas invented “swimming naked”.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/its-a-heist-senator-calls-out-texas-for-trying-to-steal-shuttle-from-smithsonian/
When we first moved to Texas, the nicest exhibit at Space Center Houston was the restored Galileo from “Star Trek”, then brand new and unravaged by tourist hordes.
The fake spacecraft.
Of course, that didn’t last long.
Huntsville enclosed their Saturn V a while ago too (only cost the taxpayers around 5 million as it was funded with federal grants). Both Huntsville and Kennedy displays are impressive. Several orders of magnitude more impressive though is the Atlantis exhibit at Kennedy. We finally saw it a few years ago and my wife and I both let out a “wow” when you first see the orbiter.
I just finished grading a batch of exams. Two students – otherwise poor to mediocre – turned in nearly perfect answers, but the code did not actually compile. It was an online exam, so they saw the compile errors, and just failed to fix them. For example, both of them consistently wrote “System.out.printIn” (the next-to-last character is a capital i instead of a small L). I suspect they copied their solutions from an external person or service, and this was a kind of “watermark” put in by that person/service. I’d love to prove my suspicion, but haven’t managed to find anything useful yet…
When I visited JSC I was pretty shocked to see the condition of the “other” vehicles outside in the rocket garden.
Clearly rusting and disintegrating under the paint.
Houston has the 747 set up in an impressive exhibit, but that is it unless you count the Mission Control room renovation which the local governments covered when surplus set materials became available from the production design group at Sony handling “For All Mankind”, all paid for with Apple’s money.
The local governments paid for the rest of the renovation.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/07/11/dhs-has-a-question-for-newsom-after-who-was-found-working-at-california-marijuana-facility-n2660233
Hiring illegal aliens is a crime.
Hiring minors who are illegal aliens is a crime.
Cultivating and selling marijuana are crimes.
Apply RICO, levy a fine of $500 per marijuana plant, burn the fields, confiscate everything else, and make a horrible example of them.
Oh, yeah: Find the shooter and hang him on a cross in the middle of the field—before they burn it.
He writes sarcastically.
Wired reports Epstein video released by FBI is not RAW as claimed.
Patel and Bongino reportedly furious over Bondi’s mishandling. Bongino takes the day off after fractious meeting.
Meanwhile, Dershowitz claims the list exists—he has seen it but is under a gag order.
I think this was a Disney movie with Don Knotts and Tim Conway. Don’t remember if there was a talking dog or horse or maybe a jackass.
GE confirms defective Canadian wind turbine blade F***ed Nantucket
$10MM settlement
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/environmental-disaster.php
What’s the new tariff on wind turbine blades?
Bondi gave us “Trayvon”. This the bad sequel.
As a water supply for the two cows (ok, steers) I have a galvanized washtub. About a foot deep and maybe 26″ across. NEVER a problem before. Not with the two longhorns or the pita donkey or a few hundred emu.
One of the current two genius cattle has figured how to pull the water float valve mechanism out of / off of the tub. Said valve then lays on the ground and for some reason never turns off the water.
Big mud puddle after a couple of days is a understatement. They seem to like the mud puddle but it is in the shade. Seventeen million mosquitoes agreed this afternoon.
I have a plan. The water line is next to the fence. So is the tub. I’m going to find a scrap of sheet metal, the corrugated stuff folks use on barn and shed roofs. I’ll attach the sheet metal to the fence, with wire, to cover all of the water supply system. My plan is to notch the sheet with a couple of slits to fit over the parts and into the tub.
And, if this fails, I’ll turn the water off. They can use the water supply in the bird pen behind the house.
Yes, we saw the Space Shuttle Atlantis back in 2014 and it was pretty awesome. It’s a very well done exhibit with a fantastic presentation/reveal.
We saw the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2015 and it was ho-hum by comparison.
They have the list. Somewhere. The Madam is in prison but didn’t pimp anyone?
Release the list. So the vermin on the list can be killed.
Oh Noos!!! Gonna “crash the world economy”? So what? Crash it. Put the little girl and boy rapists in jail, minimum, if not crucified.
“Oh, we have to scour and filter the list to protect innocent people”. NOPE. They are on the list, they have stepped in the dog shit. They stink and they are not ignorant.
Hey, if Trump was on the list it would have been released already.
I called the flooring folks to see about getting the hallway done. Could of had it done with the living room but I didn’t know I would actually like the new flooring.
There’s also “carpet in the hall soaks up AC noise”. Absorb or adsorb?
Anyway. I had a time scheduled. They changed it. My phone, well, I never heard it make a sound. The woman sent a text a bit after noon saying she was at the gate. I guess she didn’t know to push the doorbell button on the post? I looked at my phone about 4pm.
Well, the gate is working. The buttons on each side work, the remote works. Shrug.
So they are going to show up about noon on Monday.
Just the hallway. Not this room. The dogs like this room with carpet. So do I. “We will move your furniture for free.” Uh, nope. You are not taking my computer apart. And the desk to get it out of the room. Never mind the file cabinets.
I’ll know more Monday. They’ll do the job if they need the work.
Small, family, shops are the way to go.
Back when we were trying to get bits to redo the floors in my dad’s house after he passed we tried Lowe’s and Home Depot. Basically the acted as they were doing us a favor taking our money, if they bothered to pick up the phone at all. They weren’t going to pull up the old carpet and take it away, and so on, and so on.
We found a little mom and pop place that didn’t have any problems answering their phone and were willing to do the whole job including disposal for about ¾’s of the big boys – and work around our schedule.
re: Epstein, here’s what I posted over at Peter Grant’s place:
Scroll up a day or so ago when I posted about DMSO.
I needed an eyedropper. I found an almost empty bottle of Great Value knock off of Visene. Score! So, mix to 33%. Two teaspoons of RO water to one of 99% DMSO. Too much for the bottle. Let’s try again.
One teaspoon of water to one half teaspoon of DMSO. It was interesting to see the solution made heat. Not melt anything, just warm.
I did my usual shower after feeding the dogs. Then we went for Walk. I dribbled a bunch of the solution into my right ear before going to bed.
A lot ran out. Cotton balls? None here. So I dribbled in more and stuck a finger in my ear and sat sideways for about 10 minutes. Then went to bed. I slept like a log!
I have a Garmin watch. I’m not sure if it’s all bull droppings. How does it know my stage of sleep? Some mornings it says Bad Recovery and I feel like I slept good. Other days my score is great and I feel like I was awake all night.
So. I’ve had two nights of ear drops. First night I slept like a log. Last night I woke up every time I moved or a dog made a noise. However the mold from the rains or something hit me yesterday. I think my left eyeball is going to stay in my head.
But by the watch my hrv is good. Even up a couple of points. shrug.
My hearing? I’m only dosing my right ear. It has the most noise. I mean, if this is all whatever crazy and gonna make me deaf, let’s dose the ear with most of the noise.
As for the noise? First night I woke up about 11 to turn over. No noise in my head.. Zero. Just tree fogs and bugs making noise outside.
But the noise is much less. It’s still there. I suppose it takes a while for things to heal? On the volume knob, it’s down from 10 to 3. After two days.
Yeah, I know. “It’s all in my head.”
Report: Both Bongino and Patel May Resign If Pam Bondi Stays As Attorney General
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/11/report-both-bongino-and-patel-may-resign-if-pam-bondi-stays-as-attorney-general-n4941674
Bondi seriously misread the room. Bye.
“One teaspoon of water to one half teaspoon of DMSO. It was interesting to see the solution made heat. Not melt anything, just warm. ”
Give Lynn the initial temperatures of the RO water and DMSO and he can tell you the final temperature of the mixture, which will promptly cool as it heats the container, which will promptly cool as it loses heat to the environment, all of which can be calculated if we know the properties of the container, the room temperature and humidity…
Warm is probably good enough.
Seriously, exothermic reactions can do unexpected things. There is a demo that shows how dilution of sulfuric acid can create enough heat to boil the mixture and melt a plastic bucket. Secondary containment is a thing.
Please to relabel the eye drops bottle.
More than 40 years ago I worked in a vintage building that updated the HVAC. The result was air blowing on my left side, and come late spring it was cold air. A few weeks later I had some small complaints, including my tennis game being slightly off, and I went to my GP (also a tennis player). His first response was “Let’s have a look at your ears.” Right one ok; left one “hmmm”. “What means hmmmm?” “Can’t see anything–full of wax.”
Nice nurse walks in with basin of warm water and syringe big enough to hold cure for Tijuana’s Worst Souvenir. Puts a towel on my shoulder and gives me a special catchment container to hold and starts squirting. Warms the wax up, gets it peeling from one side, then the water gets behind and pushed the wax out while hitting my infected eardrum. Doc knew it was infected from the way I jumped, but looked anyway. Had to take antibiotics for ten days. NBD but couldn’t have beer, which was medium deal.
Flew 25k mpy for years and was careful about cleaning ear canal and taking Sudafed day of flight to keep ears clear. Had some symptoms and went to urgent care once the day before a flight to have them check–wax but no infection.
I haven’t flown regularly for a long time but this week I took stock and had a suspicion. Knew the left ear had wax, but could not get it clear by myself. Went to urgent care. Nurse comes in with a spray bottle with pink-tinted contents and asks me if i have a problem with artificial cherry. Seems she was going to squirt some dilute stool softener in my ear. Did quick check of date–not 4-1–and decided to pass on the obvious jokes. Bunch of squirts later she has me tilt over to keep a bit of stronger solution w/ peroxide working for ten minutes, then some more squirts, then has the PA come in and look. He reaches in and hauls out about half a “Congrats on 50” birthday candle that looked about that old.
Good news: No infection and I can haz a beer.
Guess I posted on Thursday’s post…
oh my.
Did a bunch of driving around but ran out of time. D2 had a hard deadline for pickup so I had to stop my errands. I’ll have to spend tomorrow afternoon running around, and I am not sure it’s even possible given the times and drive times.
There were a bunch of storm cells that moved across Houston. One caught me and it was brutal but short. Now sunny again. It didn’t do much for the heat or humidity, unfortunately.
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@ paul, I somehow missed your original comment about putting dmso in your ear.. this if for tinnitus, ie ringing? I can’t image there is an easy fix, since so many people suffer from it, but let us know. I’m a bit wary of DMSO as it can do some nasty solvent things and pretty much instantly disperses thru your body from contact, or so I’ve been told. It was the “secret” cure to joint pain and arthritic hands in the 80s…
IIRC some people tasted garlic when they touched it.
n
Anti-immigrant demonstration in Mexico City:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/dhsmexicoriot.jpg
IDK if I posted this before, but I got a couple in auctions and they are a miracle of miniature tech, and they work. Great for inspecting inside things, and magnifying things… and the image stays upright no matter how you orient the camera/probe.
https://www.amazon.com/Ear-Wax-Removal-Remover-Android%EF%BC%88Black%EF%BC%89/dp/B0D3XVJK81?tag=ttgnet-20
or search on wifi ontoscope. They are cheaper on alibaba.
There are wired ones as well.
n
This one is $6
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Otoscope-Endoscope-Inspection-Silicone/dp/B0D178ZT93
Athletes were using topical DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) for stiff joints. Taste of garlic was widely reported. Research showed that for general treatment DMSO2 (dimethyl sulfone) worked better. Find it in the supplements aisle as methylsulfonylmethane aka MSM, often with glucosamine and chondroitin.
DMSO has a variety of medical/veterinary uses. One such is as a component of transdermal drug delivery patches.
Make sure your skin is clean, it can pull stuff into your skin and that can be bad.
n
“a miracle of miniature tech, and they work.”
“It’s like a little nativity scene!”
–“Radar” O’Reilly
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/port-lavaca-tx/michael-mcguire-12446750
The initial report from the Air India crash is that the fuel flow levers for both engines was set to the off position, then turned to the on position shortly after. That effectively shut down the engines. The question becomes why and how. Those switches are guarded against accidentally being activated by metal shields. The switches cannot be just flipped, but must be pulled, then moved. That requires and intentional act, deliberate, planned. Not something any crew with any experience would activate. If the switch was activated by the co-pilot, or the pilot, that would indicate really poor training and a good reminder to not fly turd-world airlines.
@Mr. Lynn: Nice link. Thanks.
Make sure your skin is clean, it can pull stuff into your skin and that can be bad
Do NOT use anything like benzene to clean your hands. There used to be a benzene plant on Louisiana. The plant workers would use the benzene off the condenser to wash up with. The benzene would force the oil and other stuff through their skin into their blood. The plant manager was the last to die at age 60.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14894637/job-websites-glassdoor-replace-workers-ai.html
Rejecting resume’s doesn’t need a hoooman involved.
n
I know this sounds like an odd question, but who wrote the check for the funeral expenses?
Texas law grants that person certain rights which most people are not aware of even if they’re natives.
They’ve been droids in one way or another for 30 years.
David Rodham Gergen.
I’m on the fence about this one since he worked for the Clintons, but so did Dick Morris.
Okay. RIP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/politics/david-gergen-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.00KC.n-q5BvHzfrhM&smid=url-share
Those of you who think Glassdoor is anonymous are kidding yourselves.
If you signed a separation agreement with a “non-disparagement” clause, don’t even think about posting negative reviews of the employer on Indeed or Glassdoor.
Investigators find crashed Air India jet had fuel switches cut off moments before crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocM_JmqpUI
So, either extreme incompetence by one of the pilots, or pilot suicide.
Further research indicates that in the case of engine failure and unexpected shutdown, cutting off the fuel flow with the switches by switching to the CUTOFF position, then placing the switches back to the RUN setting is standard procedure. By doing that procedure the engines are supposed to go through the automated start procedure. Changing the switches may have been the proper thing to do, at altitude. But certainly not at 200 feet off the ground during takeoff, and certainly not both engines.
You certainly do not want an engine combustion chamber full of fuel before the igniters are activated. The engine must be cleared of fuel, the igniters activated, then fuel is introduced into the engines.
Aside from pilot/co-pilot stupidity, lack of proper training, something had to have caused the crew to think this was the proper procedure at the time.
No tiny little fire by the water feature tonight. I’m headed for bed. Early start tomorrow for my non-prepping hobby meeting…
n
I know this sounds like an odd question, but who wrote the check for the funeral expenses?
My mother will write the check at visitation on Tuesday out of their Fidelity IRA account.
I think that we have managed to frag my dads windows 10 pc. His ipv4 address is weird, I will change it tomorrow to a standard address. I uninstalled NordVPN off his pc and rebooted to still no ethernet.
The internet to the house is working via my phone wifi. So the problem is the pc. And he has stored most of his files on onedrive in the cloud. O begged him not to use the cloud but…
I am sitting in my dads recliner watching The Hunt For Red October. I had my dad for 65 years. I would not have minded a couple of more years.
BTW, my first name is Michael. Lynn is my middle name.
But, I still have my mother.
>>I think that we have managed to frag my dads windows 10 pc. His ipv4 address is weird, I will change it tomorrow to a standard address. I uninstalled NordVPN off his pc and rebooted to still no ethernet.
The internet to the house is working via my phone wifi. So the problem is the pc. And he has stored most of his files on onedrive in the cloud. O begged him not to use the cloud but…
@lynn, can you access his OneDrive files via booting up with a self-contained Linux install all pull all his data? I would guess once you had all the data you could wipe the PC and install a clean version of Windows and go from there?
Any chance data was backed up to your Mom’s PC/OneDrive?
Good luck!