One year ago today: July 4, 2020, it wasn’t raining.
Five years ago today: July 4, 2016, on finishing last.
Nine years ago today: July 4, 2012, a budgeting worksheet.
Random years ago today: July 4, 2008, I stole the show.
Zonk right through until past noon. That’s what I call a good rest. Trump slam-dunked the whole area, nothing quite like it and my guess is it’s past the point of no return. Something has to give, there is no way on their best day the other side can draw such support and for ordinary folk to get this fired up, look out. It’s back to being too hot, so we work indoors today. As for things getting uglier toward liberalism, Canada is not doing much better. The Indians are burning down Catholic churches now that facts are emerging about deaths a century ago. Here are some pics from the French dictionary, you explain the second diagram.
Some time later, I was able to decipher the instructions and get some mileage on the course. These expensive add-ons speed things up enough to justify their price tags, but they should still be mentioned in the sales pitch. Top selling non-fiction books at this time are “If You Tell” (#3 , selling 6,970 copies per day), “There’s A Hole In My Bucket” (#10, selling 4,028 per day), and “Sprinting Through No Man’s Land” (#39, selling 1,926) per day. Running the calculator backwards to find the ranking to sell 2 books per day, I would have to rank 93,856. Put another say, can I write a better book than over 90,000 people who are making money on topics like self-help and vegan recipes?
I’m better at catching on what to listen to on the lessons. They cover ground rapidly, presuming you remember every detail. One missed point and you get into weeds down the line when they refer to it—and there is no index to go back and find anything. The lesson videos are not rehearsed, just a series of poorly made PowerPoint slides and two guys winging it. I’ve also learned to watch the lessons using FireFox and only the searches using Google.
It quickly became plain the people who write these calculators are not that great at basic arithmetic and have probably never heard of weighted categories. The results reinforce the theory that a majority of Amazon users have as their greatest influence, what other people are doing. Makes sense to me and explains why so many search results try to channelize you. All this review and study is at the cost of falling far behind the schedule for the lessons they describe. I’ve been a month getting together and setting up all the extras involved with “Week 2”. That’s the most I’ve spent on software in ten years. Take that two ways.
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I read a chapter of the worst book I have on navigation. Yep, knowing what you are doing makes even the badly worded make sense. There are a number of terms that refer to the same thing and plenty of poor descriptions, like “entering” the tables. Declination is the latitude of the Sun. And hour angles are anything you want to call them. This is my incentive to get a shelf up on the computer wall. So I can more handily access my navigational books which, for now, have to be tucked into a very high shelf in the hallway. There was no spare room in this cabin after the initial six months.
This will be a utilitarian office, not a pretty one. It also has to hold a majority of my other office gear and some recording equipment. At least it will have a first class sound system. No chance of a nap today with the fireworks, pretty constant since dawn. If some people think fireworks look great in the daytime, let them waste their money. And money was the focus of this afternoon. Several times I had to lean back from the training videos and stare. They simply cannot expect the average person to do this much work for a vague return in the future. Their drop-out rate must be at least half.
After a third pass on the “Choosing Topics” lesson, I’ve decided to go back and memorize everything. Possibly a scatterbrain would find the material easier and I can see how somebody in a hurry could get results by just skimming through. It’s that I’ve published before and you mess up later, you’ll wish you’d messed up now. I turned the software back on the seller and see he’s grossed nearly a million dollars selling just 36,000 copies. But remember, this area of publishing was chosen because it is not, like the rest of Amazon, oversaturated.
Some publication called “New Scientist” reports a compression scheme “jpeg xl” supposed to cut transmission requirements by 30%. I’ll watch for it, I never did use bmp, there is something not right with that format, and I refuse to use png until somebody explains what all the extra code is all about. Another item I saw was a claim that RAM and ROM could be intermingled using a molybdenum scandium layering. The description does not make sense, but I’m convinced there is a “mechanical” solution that the labs are overlooking. Something they’ve all been educated to know doesn’t work.
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Things that caught my attention. Most from Jimmyr, the others don’t update often enough. Iceland is the first country to trialize the four-day work week. The reluctance of workers to return to a controlled office workplace has enacted another round of robotics (although there are few robots involved). The freedom-loving Canadian government has ruled the state does not require parental consent to give children injections. I don’t know if Trump’s biggest accomplishment was exposing the media because he legitimized triggering the leftoids. I gleefully love watching a leftist stewing in their own juice. The liberals want to take Jefferson of Mt. Rushmore and replace him with Al Sharpton. That should increase flagging dynamite sales.
Tommy’s Garage reports a school in Texas where 9 students got a 5.0 GPA. Shows you what can happen when lockdown kids write the exams at home in front of an open textbook. If you don’t watch Tommy’s Garage, at least catch Senorita Fuego. Says Tommy, what’s funny is countries who call Americans fat and stupid while we wax them in the Olympics on our way to Mars. They did a spoof on the show that features kids answering geography questions. Have you seen this show? Geography Bee. Every one of those kids has read a list that included the answers, all they had to do was remember the list. No wonder an Indian (dot) won, that’s how Asians rate intelligence—and why their books have no index.
TMOR, Indian dot is the term for Indians from Asia so as not to be confused with American Indians. These aboriginals got the name because Columbus thought he had reached Asia.
