One year ago today: September 24, 2019, bring back the Camino.
Five years ago today: September 25, 2015, chicken soup, robots, nervy Japs.
Nine years ago today: September 25, 2011, remember Sunday feasts?
Random years ago today: September 25, 2016, I’ve fixed the Fishman.
Things heat up no matter how you try to ignore it. This upcoming election is too big not hear both barrels all day long. I’m getting unsolicited phone calls begging me to vote Democrat. I like to tell them no because they held up my incentive check. The left doesn’t seem to react well to the changed situation where it has become okay to call them out. They were sure they had everybody too intimidated to resist and that damn Trump did it anyway and then became a role model. The Democrats have been caught lying too many times, they don’t understand they can no longer to it unchallenged.
I found these stained glass doodads there today. I thought they’d look nice outside the bird window. The squirrel screen has effectively kept them away from both feeders and I have a community of those finch-like titmouses, I think. Once more I hear the northern cardinals, but rarely see them. It just means food is plentiful. The indigo snake has been seen in the shrubbery along my property line. And Matilda keeps the grounds free of roaches. She seems to consider them like popcorn. I’ll ask the Reb what these things are called. I chose these four, a pear, and apple, a treble clef, and a turtle.
The Crater of Diamonds in Arkansas is an eroded volcanic field where the public can search for diamonds. Over 33,000 have been found and some lucky stiff found a 9-carat stone this week. MSN reports it as the second biggest ever, but that’s more fake news. The Uncle Sam, the Amarillo Starlight, the Star of Arkansas, and the Esperanza are all bigger. Remind me do some research on palm oil. It’s a rising commodity. I was shocked by the amount of jungle being cleared to grow this crop that I know practically nothing about. Does it even come from palms, or is it like a Panama Hat?
I’d visit that diamond place, but the tickets can only be purchased on line. So you are really buying the thing with your identity. Then I bought $40 in groceries so I could live large this weekend. I plan to do a lot of reading and tinkering. Got home to discover I had no animal cookies and no Carnation. I had to use regular evap in my coffee. They say we artists suffer, ha-ha. I happen to like animal cookies, the ones with the pink and white icing. The Dollar Tree brand is fine, just no corn syrup at all, including the high fructose stuff.
TMOR, let me explain something. The stories you hear about America being a melting pot and that everybody is welcome here are only partially true. Like every country in history, when you get here, we expect you to obey our laws and customs, and eventually assimilate into our society. Eventually means ten years, maximum. Anything else you hear is leftist communist propaganda, and these people control American big media. The reality is that most Americans are not leftist or communists. Most Americans are against all immigration from third world countries. All you are likely to hear is the official version. It is wise to keep this in mind.
Be careful how you interpret American “human rights”. It’s the angle the media loves to broadcast. Every American already has the same rights but those rights do not include acceptance, success, respect, or a job. This blog already discussed this issue. You wear the turban, but you can’t make people like you. If you don’t want to become American, don’t come here. Regardless of what the left-wing media tells you, the average American does not march in the streets. And learn English. Other people have to deal with you.
Last Supper.
(Olive Garden minus the fat people.)
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Exhausted after therapy, I sat and listened to election news. I’m indifferent about most of the issues, but the election itself is a great study in how situations can change more rapidly than politician’s mindsets. Rumor has it Sleepy Joe is not campaigning because the Democrats believe the same polls that got it exactly wrong last time. They are expecting a landslide because they know historically presidents during bad times never get re-elected. So they create bad times. They don’t know when they’ve been torpedoed. Instead they are running a series of pre-recorded Biden speeches in every state to make it appear as if he is campaigning there.
Them Democrats are placing a lot faith in tactics that worked in the past. They don’t grasp those dirty tricks don’t phase Trump and certainly not his supporters. People are taking glee in their infuriations. It’s hard to miss the massive crowds at his rallies. Throngs of people that according to the “approval ratings” should not even exist. I say the left is living in a dream world of statistics, like the ones that told DC we were winning the Viet Nam war. And Trump is getting more to the point with every speech, more daring and direct in his language. The more it incenses the left, the more we love it.
What the? Has this spellchecker been replacing speech with speach? I think so, but I just turned it off now. And so much for my proofreading skills. I zonked out for a couple hours, and Bradford has still not called. Good thing I continued with my solo practice. I got the data on palm oil, it’s from the West African palm, now grown by near-slave labor all around southeast Asia. It has fats, vitamin A, some vitamin E, and is refined, bleached, and deodorized. It is semi-solid at room temp. It’s a cheap replacement for hydrogenated vegetable oils so global demand is skyrocketing. The worst excesses are in Indonesia where foreign labor is exploited and the plantations destroy the last remaining habitats of the orangutang.
This product is not the same as palm kernel oil or coconut oil. I got an e-mail from that all-girl band from Orlando, Diamond Dixie. Did they see the light and invite me to be their bass player? Nope, they wanted to sell me some long sleeve t-shirts.
ADDENDUM
During the on-going search for a suitable COBOL compiler, I’ve discovered two versions that will export the code in a format compatible with mobile devices. They have names like “intermediate language generator” and “java virtual machine”, I’ve never used either. I’ll try to find free copies but in general, such software is usually part of the MicroSoft COBOL version. That costs money, I think it is called MicroFocus COBOL, don’t quote me.
Here’s my opinion on the much maligned “GO TO” command. This command can “break” the flow of logic by causing the computer to skip lines of code and resume at a different point. Since most computer code is linear, that is, one line after another, this created problem in the 1980s. Not the GO TO command itself, but the complete morons the universities were graduating by then. Giving a GO TO command to an idiot is definitely going to cause problems, but universities don’t like admitting blame, so they mean-mouthed the command. I’ll take a few paragraphs to illustrate the problem.
Computers regularly break the flow of logic by calling sub-routines. The program logic leaves a marker and goes to the sub-routine, normally located further “down” in the code. The sub-routine is executed, returns to the marker, and resumes. It is a type of GO TO command in that sense, but the automatic return to the marker takes care of any one-way traffic. Where the GO TO was intended to be used was to break out of loops. The computer is instructed to perform a loop until some condition is met, and then leave the loop via a GO TO command.
Now enter the idiot class, the people who jumped on the computer bandwagon after around 1980. The first generation of the “new math” posse. And morons they were, I’ve well-documented this throughout this blog for decades. There is a related term “spaghetti code” and that is a result, not a cause of the problem. When given a computer assignment, the idiots would immediately begin keyboarding, while the smart minority would begin sketching out a flowchart. You can guess which camp I’m in. I’ve always regarded keying the code into a computer as a final step after the logic chart is working right.
This flowchart was required to pass the course. What would happen is the morons enter their code first, so the logic was all over the place. They would then use GO TO statements to try to clean up the mess. Around this point, they remember the flowchart and attempt to sketch it to follow their muddle of code and the resultant GO TO lines cross all over the place. Hence, you got “spaghetti code”. Instead of properly educating these low-end coders, the schools embarked on a ban of the command and quietly dropped the obligation to hand in a flowchart. This move pleased the C+ people to no end.
A major advantage of the GO TO is that, used correctly, the command is explicit. The way schools began to work around the now-missing command was to “encapsulate”, that is, place every loop inside another loop, duh. Code an Arduino or some HTML to see this process. There is an outer “shell” that holds all the other lines of code. Except for the big wrapper, all other code is held within a larger “division”. Thus, the logic has to be planned so that when any module is executed, it returns control to its outer wrapper. The instant problem is this requires brains. The wrappers either get too deep to follow, or the more likely case where the coder limits the number of layers so he can follow his own efforts. Both cause restrictions that I feel have no place in real programming.
And there you have the kernel of today’s massive coding quagmire. This process of reverting to the outer container is not explicit. It is assumed to be there and to faithfully operate as intended. And the worldwide disasters will continue until the whole Object Oriented Program structure is either banned or restricted to those with IQs higher than mine. Both those options quickly get expensive. This may be hard for some to follow, but this blog doesn’t pretend otherwise. I hope it gives a perspective on why the GO TO command got a bad rap and how it will perform with precision--in the right hands.
