One year ago today: September 16, 2021, framing & flowers.
Five years ago today: September 16, 2017, the toilet paper aisle.
Nine years ago today: September 16, 2013, Ft Lauderdale by sidecar.
Random years ago today: September 16, 2016, I decide to insulate.
Seventeen. The number of birdies in the back yard just before dawn. They won’t all feed at once even if the space is available, so this includes those just perching. I don’t think it is possible for birds to overeat as a rule. I’ve seen the videos of gulls getting to gorged to fly off, but not seed-eating birds. So I wonder about Mrs. Downey, the woodpecker. She sure likes the gourmet suet and feeds for hours every day. Could it be two females? Oh, and the juvenile red cardinal may finally have a girlfriend. If the grandparents don’t show up soon, it may be sad news. This is the easiest food they will ever find.
Ha, the 48 immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard lasted less than a day. The community rounded them up and sent them off the island by bus. This is a huge blow to the Democrat party, who campaign on how accepting they are of diversity, non-whites, and sanctuaries. Florida is suggesting the families could stay in Obama’s house, with 15 inside and the rest in tents on the 29 acre yard. Other cities with gun buy-back programs are funding people to turn in their old junk for enough money to buy an AR-15.
The big trees have to be cut by bucket truck. The guy quoted me $800, which is probably low, and that is just for the cutting. I said I’d haul away the wood. I said yes but needed time to think, and I think I’ll ask if he can take down a bunch of other branches such as the overhang by the utility wires. Again, he can just leave the scraps on the ground. It’s around five hours work, and he will need a helper that’s a lot younger than I am. I have to budget in that extra money and compare it to other options. My instinct says just get it over with. I’m so far ahead on this place I should have done this long ago.
As for the exterior, only the front of the house matters for now and the next semi-scheduled repair is new shingles. That’s not until next March at the earliest. Don’t wait up, the hot weather traditionally lasts until early November, and by then I may be out of town. This picture shows the linden tree, two years old and some 30 feet hight, this is the best angle I can get on it.
Rent-a-TukTuk.
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The Gulf of Mexico comes to my assistance this afternoon. I need all the downtime I can while as much exercise, so what if I cannot decide? Rain. And lots of it, a very un-Florida like sheets of water sometimes seen in hurricanes. Except now without the wind and we’ve have four hours of it so far. Sigh, that’s why I’m glad one of my hobbies is reading. Which makes what I read the high points of the day. So, here’s your list.
Metal roofing. They say once you get use to the noise, and it doesn’t hail in Florida. The highest airplane duel was at 9-1/2 miles up there during WWII.
Youtube is now placing up to ten unskippable ads on videos.
Blacks kill 51 Whites per week in South Africa.
Democrats worry that 36 states have “election deniers” on the ballot.
Some roses will not grow in Florida.
Craigslist just turned 25 years old.
I read some articles on contemporary A.I. and it reinforces my contention that it is not the real thing. Usually you can tell when something isn’t done right in the computer field by watching what the rank and file use it for. This is an inherited feature from 1980s product engineering and sales as it was taught at the time. One major example is why crummy VHS “won out” over Beta. It was because Sony would not license it to the pornography industry. Same with the Internet, it was off to a slow start in 1991 until they started broadcasting porno on demand. When you see a picture of a room full of millennials with their Kramer haircuts, you can guess what is really going on.
In the rush to find something that sells fast, the code is being applied to anything that looks like it might become TNBT. So I was intrigued by reports of growing concerns with malfunctions. I’ll say it again, object-oriented coding can never be made to work properly for A.I. That is why we need a new word for what is going on. The hallmark of real A.I. is that it can handle exceptions and novelty. TechXplore reports constantly finding the software they test begins to “take shortcuts” the more often it repeats a task. Some say that is because it is learning, but in fact a major thrust of computer design is that they won’t overlook details the way humans do in that situation.
