08:58 – It was 40.7F (5C) when I took Colin out this morning, with a stiff wind. The little bit of snow we got is sticking around for now, but with today’s high to be in the mid-50’s (~13C) it’ll be gone by this afternoon.
Trump is the progs’ worst nightmare. Unlike just about every politician in living memory, Trump is actually doing what he said he’d do. Imagine that. Not that I agreed with many of the actions he promised to take, but it is refreshing to see an elected leader whose actions correspond with his words. And it is nice to see him striking terror in the hearts and minds, such as they are, of prog politicians and bureaucrats. Now I see that he’s going to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, and probably the 1992 agreement upon which it’s based, not to mention going full steam ahead on the new pipelines. The squeals from the progs are deafening, but they’re music to my ears. I’m hoping his next actions will be to withdraw us from NATO, bring home our overseas forces, and expel the UN from US territory.
People keep talking about progs’ heads exploding, which is a nice image but unfortunately only a figurative one. It’d be nice to see some actual prog heads exploding, literally. A million dead progs would be, as they say, a good start.
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09:44 – I just got email from a woman who questioned the shelf life of repackaged flour, coincidentally the day after Barbara and I just finished repackaging 50 pounds each of sugar and white flour. Some years ago, she’d opened a #10 can of white flour they’d bought at their local LDS Home Storage Center. It was a couple years past the best-by date on the can, which means it had been packed a dozen years before. She said the flour was tanning, caked, and had an “off” odor. She tried making some pancakes with it, and said it had an off taste as well. She ended up discarding all her LDS flour that was past its best-by date.
I’d heard the same thing from several other people over the years, but the solution is simple: just sift the aged flour and leave it in a container that’s open to the air for several hours. As it’s aerated, the off odor (and taste) disappears, and it’s perfectly usable.
Roger that! I would prefer no tax go to the UN. Allow them to stand in front of Mayor of New York City home and office with Salvation Army type buckets for donations.
“Starting Tuesday at 8 a.m., Walmart will offer free two-day shipping on more than two million items for all orders over $35.
All Walmart customers will qualify for the free two-day shipping. There are no fees or enrollment in membership programs required.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/walmart-just-undercut-amazon%E2%80%99s-most-valuable-perk/ar-AAmrfpI
Walmart really, really needs to hire away some top talent from Amazon to get their fulfillment/shipping. I’ve made several dozen Walmart $50 orders over the last couple of years to get the free shipping, and they almost always ship even such small orders in two, three, or more separate shipments. Shipping costs must be savaging their bottom line.
Walmart really, really needs to hire away some top talent from Amazon to get their fulfillment/shipping.
What with Bezo’s crowing about how he is meeting with lawmakers to take down President tRump, now’s the time for poaching. Money talks when you are a Dumbocrat. Surely there are some peeps wanting to bail out of Amazon and El Bozo’s Libturdian ways. I guess he is losing his warehouse slave labor in droves.
Yeah, I’m seriously considering dropping my Prime membership. Walmart doesn’t carry all the stuff Amazon does, but I can still get free shipping from Amazon with a $50 order. It’s not 2-day, but who cares?
10-4, I have never primed and I waited a while until my order of last week got over $50. None of those items were needed yesterday.
Got this alert just now:
I’m gonna guess that this is a radiological survey, given the agency.
n
Dilbert (Scott Adams) gets it right. His blog today is a required read. Too bad the empty-headed idiot left can’t think or read the truth.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156628357041/is-president-trump-doing-management-wrong
BTW, “fake it until you make it” and “decision constipation/analysis paralysis” are two of my favorite phrases.
Maybe that’s what “fake news” is all about. It is said that even a blind hog can find an acorn once in a while. Too bad “fake news” is more disabled than a blind hog 😉
“I’m gonna guess that this is a radiological survey, given the agency.”
Or other agencies are simply using DOE choppers so as to appear less threatening or scary and it’s not any sort of radiological or other type of survey. Ima gon guess they’re mapping out SWAT and EMS flight paths in case of an “event.” But perhaps that guy out in Lost Wages can chip in with his two cents’ worth.
WRT to Dilbert’s take on the subject, let’s hope that nothing bad happens to tRump in the meantime, and that he doesn’t inadvertently step in a giant pile of chit while he tests out beta projects.
Otherwise, let it rip, and let’s break out the chips and salsa, pretzels and Moxie, and watch libtard heads exploding left and right all over the world.
And speaking of salsa….
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/quote-of-the-week-135/
Si, it’s about the pesos, not the love.
And speaking of salsa….
When $25 billion is going home to Mexico, it means there are more than a few crimmigrants in the US.
We’ve been lied to for decades concerning the numbers and legality. Few people would callously disregard the travail and suffering of individual crimmigrants and their families, but the plain fact remains that they crossed a national border illegally so as to send money back to the failed state from which they came. That situation is not our fault and not our responsibility.
Whereas, a partial case could be made that it just might be our responsibility to end up with hundreds of thousands of Sandbox refugees fleeing war and tumult and sharia in their home countries, where we lit off war after war, thanks to the libtards and neocons running the regime here since Reagan left office. Not a war that they haven’t pushed and championed, but those refugees should have been taken in by the oil kingdoms, not us or Europe. In other words, the oil kingdom wasabi fanatics took advantage of the opportunity to further disrupt and sandbag the West, once those countries fell apart. They must have been beside themselves at their amazing new fortune.
This is all known as “blowback,” and we’re seeing it manifest itself in Europe and this country.
But Mexico is another story, and we needed to properly secure our southern border yesterday and crack down on employers up here. And I don’t even wanna hear the puling excuse that Murkans won’t do that kinda work; who the hell was doing it before? I guarantee you that up here it was done by farm families, from the parents on down through the kids and cousins. Not a few hundred Latin American workers living in quonset huts out by the fields, or Jamaicans in the apple orchards. I’m also guessing that there are plenty of people who’d be glad of the work these days.
“Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016”
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-2016/
More hard drive stats than I have ever seen. The 4th quarter 2016 table covers 79,939 drives.
The lesson is, don’t buy hard drives as they are only going to fail ?
No, the lesson is buy multiple drives which are widely used and have a low failure rate. Then set them up in a configuration suitable for dealing with drive failures and be prepared to replace failed drives.
I just had one of my employees tell me at lunch that the USA is the Alabama of the World. I am so proud. He did not mean this in a good way.
Sweet Home Alabama
Trump simply took a page out of Obama’s playbook. Obama turned EO’s into a fine art and got away with it because he wasn’t challenged.
Someone once said, never ask for powers you wouldn’t want your opponent to have.
Because someday your opponent will be the one in charge.
Every president has been expanding the use of EOs. The problem with obbammma’s is that many of them were blatantly illegal or unconstitutional on their face. So far, despite the uneducated wailing from the left, Trump hasn’t exceeded his authority.
n
The difference being that Obola’s EOs were designed to screw us over, while tRump’s so far appear to be in order to set things right. And more positive chit done in one lousy week than the other asswipes did in their eight year terms, all together.
I just wonder if he can keep it up or if all the enemies will somehow combine to shut him down or even worse. Again, I sure hope his private and SS security is up to the task.
WRT to FUSA being the Alabama of the world; I still say we’d be much better off to break up the empire into the Nine Nations of North America, but short of major events, I don’t expect to see that in our lifetime.
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/number-of-executive-orders-per-president/
WRT to FUSA being the Alabama of the world; I still say we’d be much better off to break up the empire into the Nine Nations of North America, but short of major events, I don’t expect to see that in our lifetime.
I am reading a SF book right now about a Von Neumann probe that covers the next 150 years. In fact, someone here told me about it if I remember correctly. Anyway, by 2050, the Earth has aligned into six countries: The North American Christian Union named F.A.I.T.H., The United States of Europe, Australia, The Brazilian Union, the African Union, and China.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/1680680323/
This is the second author that I have read who is predicting that the USA will soon devolve into a Christian Theocracy. As Christian, I hope not, the church does not handle power well. The first author is Robert Heinlein. I am sure that there have been others over the years that I am not remembering.
Heard on the radio this AM that a 1000 response poll about Trump EO about non-citizen entry: 57% approve, 30% disapprove.
N0, it was not CNN nor MSNBC.
The Bob book was pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d love to see more from this author.
I’d be interested in seeing our host as such a ship, for that matter.
The Bob book was pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d love to see more from this author.
His second book in the Bobiverse, “For We Are Many”, is due out in March.
http://dennisetaylor.org/2016/10/12/update-on-book-2/
I’d be interested in seeing our host as such a ship, for that matter.
I am fairly sure that I would frag myself as an AI. Just too much alone time.
I can see where some regions of FUSA could become Protestant Christian enclaves, but not anywhere in the Clinton Archipelago.
And that radio poll that Mr. CowboySlim mentions shows nearly a two-to-one plurality for tRumps immigration EO, a good sign. If it was within Slim’s AM range, then I presume that’s southern Kalifornia, amirite?
Blue skies again here today with temps in the 20s; we expect some very minor snow flurries in the next couple of days. I’ll be playing musical cars again with wife and Princess on the other side of the Quebec border tomorrow, so I heard. Another chance for border AO recon; last time I only saw one Border Patrol vehicle idling by the road on the Murkan side. They have sensors all along the border and every once in a while they pick somebody up smuggling people or dope. But I happen to know that at several remote areas on the Vermont-Quebec border, peeps routinely cross back and forth out of the purview of the Border Patrol, but it’s regular working peeps and farm laborers.
Mrs. OFD was supposed to be having a conversation this afternoon with the messenger boy concerning the current situation with her employer organization and she wanted to put herself forward to do more instructor training for LE and EMS people. She should be back from MIL’s shortly and maybe I’ll find out then.
Meanwhile ol’ OFD is still hanging, twisting slowly in the frigid breeze, waiting on the Fed job decision and the one from the VA disability filing. Once I know what the scoop is on either or both, I can get going on whatever it is I need to do, really quickly. We need more $ here ASAP.
Every time I hear Sweet Home Alabama I think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKD7g56DNN0
That’s actually not the worst cover I’ve ever heard.
Boy, that was kinda weird, but funny and enjoyable. I gather they’re all Finns. Wacky sense of humor.
Then there’s Weird Al’s cover, which is actually pretty good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kXwCecyLqV0
Subbed today. Not a good day. Subbing for the gym teacher, everyone in the gym. A group of three teenage girls sitting together. One was using her cell phone which is against the rules so I immediately confiscated the phone as per school policy. I was going to give it back to her at the end of the class but she mouthed off. Turned the phone into the office so now her parents have to pick up the phone from school. Another such offense and the child goes to alternative school.
Which got me to thinking. If that snob ass bitch and her friends were to get together and attempt to get even it would be trouble. They could make up any kind of story they wanted about inappropriate touching, swearing or other charges in a misguided attempt to get even. Would make for some interesting times.
I suspect they are not that intelligent and would bungle any such attempt as eventually the truth would come out. Just makes me raise my caution level up a couple of notches and be extra careful in my dealings with the students.
Our crooks in power had approved the pardoning decrees. In an evening meeting (!), the government had approved the 2017 buget AND without prior notice, discussed and approved also the pardoning decrees.
So, people went out to the streets. There are right now, at 00:30 AM, 12,000 protesters in Bucharest. High tension:
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-21570961-proteste-spontan-piata-victoriei-bucurestenii-iesit-strada-dupa-adoptarea-ascuns-ordonantelor-pentru-amnistie-mascata-lumea-din-piata-naspustit-printr-poarta.htm
@eugen, this would be a good time to NOT be in the crowd.
n
Yeah.. I’m home. I didn’t follow the news until now, so I didn’t knew. Here in Sibiu, there about 1500 protesters.
No violence, so far..
The Bob book was pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d love to see more from this author
I second (third?) that.
I am fairly sure that I would frag myself as an AI. Just too much alone time.
In the Bobiverse, you’re only as alone as you want to be.
The SF book I’m currently reading: Brass and Steel: Inferno (Volume 1). The blurb:
“It’s 1895. Business is good. Out in the wild part of the country; where the wave of post-war prosperity washes up on the dust of the Old West; a million dollars worth of silver has gone missing. It’s a routine case for Marshal Dante Blackmore. But there’s nothing routine about Perdition, nor the mine, nor especially about Inferno, a mystical club that rises like a shining idol into the bloody sky. Blackmore will have to risk all the humanity he has left to unravel the case, find out the truth behind the Doppelgänger war, and his own dark secrets.”
Be careful there, Mr. Ray. I do not have your composure and level-headedness and would not last very long in that gig with those kinds of people.
Ever see “Heathers?”
Mr. Ray, you need to wear a body cam at all times when you sub.
You can make a body cam with a Raspberry Pi – could even upload to cloud via wi-fi. One of many articles on this subject: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/wearable-pi-zero-camera/
Or, you could just hang your own phone on a lanyard and take video/time-lapse.
Be careful there, Mr. Ray. I do not have your composure and level-headedness and would not last very long in that gig with those kinds of people.
Ever see “Heathers?”
Or “Mean Girls” with the burn book with the lie about the teacher being a drug dealer ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls
I’d insist on another teacher or adult with me all the time, especially when dealing with opposite sex.
Interesting project there @RickH. Only downside, as mentioned in the comments, is the 2-hour battery life. I have filed it away in my “potential future projects”.
To celebrate President tRump’s election victory and EO deluge, I decided to go full tactical murse and say fuck it. The more snowflakes I can piss off the better. It has plenty of room for my around town tech and a side zipper for, er, accessories.
” If it was within Slim’s AM range, then I presume that’s southern Kalifornia, amirite?”
Roger that, LA local KFI, 640AM; or KNX, 1070AM.
“Tesla’s Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/tesla-s-battery-revolution-just-reached-critical-mass
Wow, I had no idea. That is a lot of man tall battery cabinets. 20 MW peak power with 80 MWh of energy storage. Very impressive but probably still a cost of $500/kilowatt.hour storage. That 20 MW cost $40 million dollars which is a lot lower than I expected.
If they get the cost down to $250/kilowatt.hour then you will see these battery storage units everywhere. Maybe even in your garage where you buy power from 12 am to 5 am at 4 cents/kwh. My monthly rate is 8.0 cents/kwh at the house and 9.0 cents/kwh at the office (there is an extra 1.0 cents/kwh for the demand meter).
I note that they did not talk about the efficiency of the system. I have no idea what it is nor what kind of cooling it needs. It could be 65% but I expect more like 80% to 85%.
“August says: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/number-of-executive-orders-per-president/ ”
That was interesting.
I don’t go by my first name… Dad grew up being called Augie, Gus, and whatever. And didn’t like it.
About the water softener… My well water is good and clear. It just has a lot of dissolved limestone in it. Which clogs the aerators on faucets, trashes water valves on dishwashers and such, and yeah! leaves a rim of rock at the water line in toilet bowls.
The water softener takes care of most on it. Kitchen faucet aerator needs cleaning once in a while as opposed to every other week.
@DadCooks: for extra batteries, just carry around some of those USB battery packs.
Lots of interesting projects for a Pi. Haven’t found one that ‘speaks’ to me yet as a must-have, though. I did a media server on one, but haven’t used it much since then (+1 year old).
@lynn,
“Maybe even in your garage where you buy power from 12 am to 5 am at 4 cents/kwh. ”
If that becomes widespread, they won’t discount those hours.
Add in that all the pole transformers were sized for daytime loads, and must operate at lower load to cool at night, and you’ve got a non-starter for widespread adoption.
n
DH, I thought at least one of your cars was banned from Canukistan…
Recomendations for SATA and USB connected drives? Brands and specific models?
Is Seagate still in the doghouse?
“Maybe even in your garage where you buy power from 12 am to 5 am at 4 cents/kwh. ”
If that becomes widespread, they won’t discount those hours.
The wind turbines generate most of their power at nighttime and typically have an excess amount.
Add in that all the pole transformers were sized for daytime loads, and must operate at lower load to cool at night, and you’ve got a non-starter for widespread adoption.
News to me. Those pole transformers are built to operate at high temperatures for quite a while. My house shares a transformer in the ground with four other houses. There is no cooling whatsoever for it as its little concrete vault is fairly closed up.
WRT Tesla: there is something there that I just don’t trust that company. The something is mainly all the gooberment grants and subsidies that they take. The other something is that I get the feeling that Tesla’s claims of storage capacity and output would not stand up to a truly independent verification. I am seeing snake oil here.
Is Seagate still in the doghouse?
Yes, mine. But I was disturbed by some of those WD dead drives also. And I just had my first DOA in well over a decade, maybe two decades. Which, was a WD external drive in 6 TB.
And I note that the HGST drives are starting to fail also. That is the old IBM DeskStar hard drive division that I and many others called the DeathStars due to their tendency to die suddenly. The common reason given at the time was their magic pixie dust failed on their new glass platters and the whole drive died.
WRT Tesla: there is something there that I just don’t trust that company. The something is mainly all the gooberment grants and subsidies that they take. The other something is that I get the feeling that Tesla’s claims of storage capacity and output would not stand up to a truly independent verification. I am seeing snake oil here.
All I know is that the Tesla cars have very good battery range, comparable to their range claims. One wonders how long those batteries will continue to work in a situation where they are being charged and discharged daily. I suspect that they do not allow the batteries to discharge lower than 50% ??? or to charge higher than 90% ???.
WRT Tesla: there is something there that I just don’t trust that company.
The widely-held belief in Silicon Valley is that Apple will buy Tesla for Elon Musk’s “vision”. That belief is built into the current stock price of TSLA.
Apple’s killer holiday quarter silenced the pundits for now, but the next mediocre quarerly report will have them back out in force talking about how Tim Cook can’t get the company’s mojo back without Musk’s help. Chris Lattner’s defection last week didn’t help.
Re: pole transformers. Read an article that they are being replaced as quickly as possible in areas with high nighttime demand, either through load shifting or electric car charging.
Your new transformer, being in the ground in a vault, is not on a pole…
n
“All I know is that the Tesla cars ……”
Is that they have a lie in the rear bumper:
“Zero Emissions”
No, it is just that emissions are at the plant that generates electricity by burning coal or CH4 (methane).
Yes, I saw one of those today.
Lots of links:
https://www.google.com/search?q=neighborhood+transformers+not+cooling+down+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=neighborhood+transformers+++cooling+down+vs+electric+cars
“The study explains that “While the transformer typically can accept the power demand increase from one [plug-in electric vehicle], multiple [vehicles] charging simultaneously may cause damage to the transformer, resulting in a service outage and the need to replace the transformer.”
According to the document, “Damage caused by overloading the transformer may occur in the short term for significant overloads or in the longer term by depriving the transformer of its normal cool-down period, typically occurring in the early morning hours.””
just one of many…..
n
I am a science dunce, but I can fucking read English and make sense of a few things:
1,) Generating electricity requires some form of earth-energy, whether fossil fuel, nuklular or wotta power. We’ll leave aside the fanciful claptrap of harnessing solar and wind for the masses, i.e, 330 million here in FUSA.
2.) It seems obvious that various private and quasi-governmental entities routinely lie to us about these things and such natural phenomena as “climate change,” which they first referred to as “global warming.” Now the chat continues about “deniers,” and “denial,” and how such people should be at the very least shut up, if not imprisoned or executed.
3.) OFD remains a stone skeptic concerning all of the above, and will work with bicycles and horses once the vast fleet of motor vehicles goes dead, assuming I live that long, which is seriously doubtful.
That is all.
I’d insist on another teacher or adult with me all the time
Can’t do that with the current environment. That is why I am subbing. Other teachers face the same issue. So be it. I am never alone with any student at any time for any reason. In fact there is generally more than 4 or 5. Discipline problems are always sent to the office. I don’t take any crap and am quick to send the student to the office. The students know that by now.
I am not worried about any accusations as they would quickly get squashed and proven false. At such time I would sue the parents of the child for defamation and make their life a living hell.
The cell phone attachment of these kids is just absurd. As soon as they leave the class the phone comes out and stays out until the next class and bell. Once the bell rings if I see a phone I confiscate if I can. A few of the classes actually use the cell phones to look up things on Google and and website for Spanish language. Tough to catch them texting.
Wife has subbed when the kids were given a test, as in major test, 25% of their grade. She has caught them with cell phones and taken them away. The student offers to take a zero on the test if they can keep their cell phone. In other words, fail the class rather than have their parent pick up the cell phone from the school. She caught one student texting answers to another student. Both had their cell phone taken and they got a zero for the test. We got a scathing phone call from one parent, let them rant, then told the parent the call had been recorded and we would be having a chat with the police. That quickly calms them down.
The urge to remove the cell phone and check messages, send a message, whatever, is just overwhelming for some of them. The students will lie and say the teacher lets them use their cell phones. I just say today is my class, my rules, so deal with it.
Recomendations for SATA and USB connected drives?
Samsung or Intel SSD. Forget the spinning metal. I have two SSD’s in external cases that are USB connected. Basically a 0.5TB thumb drive. Fast, quiet and reliable. I am in the process of converting my 5TB of spinning metal to SSD.
It will be a very interesting brave new world for the kidz, and all too many adults, when for whatever reason, their pixel devices don’t work anymore. It’s truly pathetic. I’ve told how it was when I was down in Boston a year ago from this past summer; downtown near the waterfront, and everyone but me was clutching a cell phone and staring into it or thumbing it as they walked, across streets, and in fairly steady vehicle traffic. I stuck out like a sore thumb anyway, might as well have been Sasquatch, but no one would have noticed.
WRT disk drives; I have SSDs in two of the desktops and so fah, so good. Really fast boot of Linux Mint, whereas Windows 8.1 took ten times as long. Actually maybe twenty times as long, now that I think of it, because rebooting Mint now takes about ten seconds.
Mrs. OFD staying down at MIL’s place again tonight; the messenger boy claimed he was super busy with meetings and she had to hang until 5 PM instead of 3 for his call. When I talked to her a few minutes after the call ended she was fuming. Plus she had to demand yet again that those dizzy cretins in Mordor Fed-Ex Overnight her check to her today/tomorrow. (so she can afford to get to the next damn assignment (in Denver, not to mention pay our mortgage and the Fed tax bite). Otherwise it would sit down there until Saint Valentine’s Day or later.
And then tomorrow she has to drive Princess back to Moh-ree-all, so she’ll be in a swell mood whenever she gets back here tomorrow afternoon or night. I got almost all the kitchen stuff done but I still gotta clean out the fridge and freezer, and make a dent in the back porch disaster, and then we gotta do the bedrooms and bathroom. One room at a time, major cleanup, renovation, etc. And probably this coming month, dump the current washer-dryer setup and get new stuff.
Med appointment with my primary care VA doc early next month, and I’ll be asking what the next step is for doing something about my back and sciatica; the two shots improved things, but I’m still in pain after a few minutes on my feet. I can mostly function but it ain’t fun, and I don’t wanna or intend to be in this condition for my remaining years on the planet.
Hats off to you, Ray, though I can’t decide whether it’s in tribute or to smack you with them for putting yourself through such a pile of crap.
I can’t imagine myself in a public school classroom. Not unless there was some understanding with the parents and administrators that they wouldn’t be getting all of the kids back. Hmm. I wonder if any of the “problem child” special schools that most cities have would pay bonuses to teachers who guarantee to reduce class size by 10% every day. I might just have a career change on the horizon.
Hats off to you, Ray, though I can’t decide whether it’s in tribute or to smack you with them for putting yourself through such a pile of crap.
Small school, have been involved for 28 years, kid went to school there for 12 years, band for 6 years, exchange students went there, take most of the sports pictures, something to do now that I am retired, close enough to ride my bike to and from. Not too bad actually.
I would never do the subbing in a large school, especially inner city. I restrict myself to only this one high school. Most of the kids in this school are southern rednecks and pretty good kids. There are a few bone heads but they can be handled.
Recomendations for SATA and USB connected drives?
I have three Crucial M300 SSDs in various laptops around our house. So far, so good. I’m not sure if they sell those in external configurations, but $20 at Newegg buys a pretty capable USB 3.0 enclosure these days.
I also have a “Firecuda” hybrid SSHD in one laptop as an experiment. Not quite as fast as the SSD, but 1/3 the cost for equivalent storage with a 5 year warranty.
My rule is to dump a mechanical hard drive as soon as the warranty period is up.
From the Rules for Radicals Department:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/01/saul_alinsky_in_the_white_housestill.html
Yup. That’s essentially what he and his crew have been doing to the Left Leviathan so far. Turning their own shit against them. Outstanding.
@Ray: I can see it. When I retire – still a few years off – I will certainly get involved with kids again. More likely in something extracurricular – maybe a math or programming for kids who find the school offerings boring. That assumed I can get “in” with the right schools, which remains to be seen.
“That’s actually not the worst cover I’ve ever heard.”
That’s a cover? I thought it was the original! It should be. 🙂
That assumed I can get “in” with the right schools, which remains to be seen.
You can. Most schools welcome outside help. In my case I get paid for the subbing, but not the pictures or the assistance I provide to the yearbook staff (students). Keeping busy, staying involved, helping someone along the way are the important points.
The school yearbook for 2015-2016 was dedicated to my wife and I. Full page spread with a few pictures and some words of thanks. Unexpected but much appreciated surprise.
I’m going to start helping with a science lab for fourth and fifth graders sometime this semester. I’ve got a couple of years to practice before my kids get there. It’s part of the normal curriculum, but is a special once a month deal that involves volunteers (dads) to help with hands on stuff. Or anyway, that’s what I was told.
n
I figured Ray would find some activity to keep him busy in retirement. I would have thought he’d create the biggest and best FLASHLIGHT channel on YouTube.
Wouldn’t Ray create the biggest and best FLASHLIGHT? One powerful enough to illuminate objects in the Oort cloud?
Wouldn’t Ray create the biggest and best FLASHLIGHT?
I would be giving away secrets on my project, very hush hush. Let’s just say that the Delta 747 at 36K is going to be seeing daylight in the cabin windows. And Norris dam better have generator number two at full RPM on the day of the test.
Re: pole transformers. Read an article that they are being replaced as quickly as possible in areas with high nighttime demand, either through load shifting or electric car charging.
Your new transformer, being in the ground in a vault, is not on a pole…
Here is the real secret of global warming. The daytime temperatures are not increasing. The nighttime temperatures are increasing, significantly. In some places, the nighttime temperatures have increased by as much as ten degrees F. But most of the surface temperature measurement points are in airports that have had the cities grow around them. More concrete roads equals radiating concrete at night. I do not think that surface temperature measurements are accurate now.
Hence the satellite measurements … which are discounted or “adjusted” because they don’t show warming. (Or only a tiny amount.)
Recomendations for SATA and USB connected drives?
Samsung or Intel SSD. Forget the spinning metal. I have two SSD’s in external cases that are USB connected. Basically a 0.5TB thumb drive. Fast, quiet and reliable. I am in the process of converting my 5TB of spinning metal to SSD.
Depends on the size. One TB or less = SSD. You can get an Intel 1 TB SSD for $340 now. Wow ! BTW, I am a Intel SSD fan, I and my business own about a dozen of them.
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Hard-1-0TB-2-5in-SSDSC2KW010X6X1/dp/B01C786KH4/
More than 1 TB, you are still looking at a spinning hard drive. I still like WD but am getting a little wary after my DOA in 2016. I am getting ready to replace one of my spinning LAN backup drives, a WD 4 TB green, with a 8 TB WD something as soon the price comes down a little ($300 now for a WD 8 TB purple). Our LAN backup is 3.3 TB and growing at 100 GB a month.
https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Surveillance-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B01C2PWLZW/
Your new transformer, being in the ground in a vault, is not on a pole…
Yes, I am wondering a little bit about vault transformers. Heat transfer to stabilized, non moving ground material, is very slow. And I did not see any fans or even any radiators on the 2,000+ lb vault transformer when they replaced it last year. I would not be surprised if all five of our houses peak at 500+ amps. Maybe 750 amps. My house breaker box is rated at 150 amps but my house originally only had one A/C unit. The other four houses are all two story homes in the range of 3,500 ft2 to 4,500 ft2.
BTW, I can fix a pole transformer. Just retrofit it with a temperature driven fan or four wrapped around it. When I worked at the power plants, all of our large transformers, 1+ MVA (megavolt-amps), had oil radiators with temperature sensitive fans. Some of those transformers looked like they had wings with over 100 fans on them. If they still got hot then we put water sprays on the radiators.
Here is the real secret of global warming. The daytime temperatures are not increasing. The nighttime temperatures are increasing, significantly. In some places, the nighttime temperatures have increased by as much as ten degrees F. But most of the surface temperature measurement points are in airports that have had the cities grow around them. More concrete roads equals radiating concrete at night. I do not think that surface temperature measurements are accurate now.
Hence the satellite measurements … which are discounted or “adjusted” because they don’t show warming. (Or only a tiny amount.)
Yes, that conflict needs a WAY better explanation other than “the satellite temperature measurements are not very good”.
My rule is to dump a mechanical hard drive as soon as the warranty period is up.
Aren’t most of the spinning hard drive warranties just three years now ?
No conflict, Lynn.
Unadjusted terrestrial measurements don’t show the warming you need? No problem. Use the satellites currently in orbit.
Satellite data not showing the warming you need? No problem. Those are old satellites with old technology and they’re probably worn out. Wait until the new sats tell us the truth about warming.
New satellite data not showing the warming you need? No problem. Use the old fallback: Adjust the readings. Ignore the readings. Act like you don’t hear when someone asks you about the new, improved satellite constellation. Insult and threaten the questioner. Lie like a career politician.