One year ago today: January 27, 2022, frost damage global warming?
Five years ago today: January 27, 2018, 19 years campus experience.
Nine years ago today: January 27, 2014, original modern UFO siting.
Random years ago today: January 27, 2004, P81 & my free coffee.
Friday morning, I have no Internet and I’m driving to Winter Haven. I also did the books for Tennessee. Man, you’d think I was rich in that town. Yep, my phone service was cut off again, so I drove to town and paid it. While there, I got to thinking about those coin machines at Publix. You know, the ones that soak you something like 12.5% and only give you back a coupon? Well, I have an idea for a single location I think would pay handsomely because the management do not like to accept coins other than quarters. These aren’t cheap, at $600 for a used unit. What I want is one that accepts pennies, nickels, and dimes then dispenses quarters. If such a thing exists.
Now, I would agree to an extent and that is when it comes time to give out raises or promotions. I worked for a closed shop union, which made for great benefits and overall higher wages, but it was a mixed blessing. No matter how hard you worked, you were always outnumbered and soon realized the few were propping up the many. Now, if the many appreciated it, that would be a different matter.
I stopped at the library coffee shop, another $6.30 for coffee and a cookie thing. That’s the downtown Winter Haven library, where they had one book on navigation. Today I found out they lost it. The shelves have been moved around so the staff can now watch down every aisle, makes you wonder what caused that much work. Anticipating a trip this weekend, I bought two audiobooks on CD. A true murder mystery, that preacher who was killing all his neighbors in Kansas City. And I already forget the other. I must switch to CDs as it has become impossible to find good tape decks any more.
Some stats from Fender guitar jive with what I’ve said a long time—it’s a cult. Almost half their sales are to people who already own one. The other half sold to newcomers, 90% of them will not last a year. The 10% who do will spend an average of $10,000 each. That’s Fender, my calculation was for Guitar Center, who sells the guitars and the hype. Guitar Center gets each one of them for $16,000. Wish I’d kept the criteria I used, but it was just too long ago.
Sorting lemons.
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This is an magnified recording of a different sort of crystal display. This one is on a tiny Sandisk music player, one of the worst products they ever produced. But the display is crisp to the naked eye and has the shimmering pattern shown here. I don’t know if that is the design or caused by the overhead lighting. You can check it out yourself, it is only here to give this page a little color. I have no interest in this technology.
1. self-grazing herbivores by natureThe book states measles and whopping cough are also transmuted from animals to those who herd them. Civilizations like the Incas did not have any animals that fit the rules, for example the llama breeds too slowly. Hence, the book says, the population never had these forms of disease. This transmission of disease is a volatile topic with Pfizer now known to be engaging in gain-of-function, a fancy phrase for making the virus more deadly to humans. The Project Veritas video was ignored by the mainstream media, but has already been viewed 30 million times.
2. don’t panic easily
3. not ferocious
4. breed in captivity
5. short gestation period
6. fast-growing young
7. large
Is it still a world waiting for a breaking point? Soviet Russia showed the world how easy it is for 6% of the population to brutalize the other 94% for sixty years. But the fact of Americans being armed to the teeth, tens of millions of them with military experience, has not made a lick of difference to the bad guys. You’d think there would have been a backlash by now, like those Nigerian ape-men who cut that Italian girl into twenty pieces while she was still alive. Yet, hardly a peep.
Then there’s Haiti. The UN says 60% of the cities are controlled by gangs. Said gangs are gunning down policemen and have resorted to torture. And who are the Haitians screaming to for help? Cuba? Mexico? C’mon, take a guess. As for American lawlessness, take the mass lay-offs from high tech. Companies like MicroSoft thought the pandemic would keep people indoor forever. Here’s the faulty thinking. MicroSoft shoots for $500,000 in annual revenue for each employee. The eFAG group (eBay, Facebook, Amazon, Google) apparently thought by hiring more people the revenue would rise in direct proportion. Duh, but that is the type of graduate you get with MBA types nowadays.
But the biggest laugh has to be the Ukrainian refugee lady in England. She moved to Birmingham thinking it would be full of white people, then fled for her life to the countryside. In happy news, General Motors overtakes Toyota as the top-selling auto seller in America. Intel is pending a $10 billion loss in market value. Amazon will begin charging Prime members for some orders less than $150. IBM joins other software giants in announcing tens of thousands of layoffs. The good news there is they are coders.
Coding is being taken over by A.I., which raises a question. Since it isn’t really A.I. and was coded instead of programmed (big difference), how does this pan out. Good, because it got rid of the primary source of computer errors, or bad because this form of A.I. will standardize and propagate the errors than horridly infest the entire system.
The FDA has lifted its ban on vax, AIDs, and tainted blood donors. And Bill Gates has just announced Australians are about to get hit by some kind of new virus if he has to fly it there himself.
ADDENDUM
Massive towel bars. That’s my mini-project, probably Monday. The bathroom here was always too small. I had to move a wall just to get the sink out of the way. Well, it’s small enough that you can reach most anywhere and that means the towel racks jut out from the wall. If that’s the case, I want them to be strong enough to hold on to. For example, reaching above the sinks means standing on something. But if I replace the towel bars with those big handicap type grab bars, I’m solving an immediate problem plus thinking ahead.
Here’s one for you, our business address has become well-known enough that even mis-addressed mail gets delivered correctly. Remember Steve Martin with his phone book listing? There you go. What’s taking longer is everybody getting used to my rule and habit of calling bank accounts by three or four different names. For reasons.
And even the partial metal cap over the birdfeeder rail is causing the raccoons a fit. They don’t move in until after dark, so I can’t see them. But they make a heck of a commotion when they slip off. To add insult to injury, sometimes they hit the Chinese hat on the way down. That rail is six feet off the ground.
It was disappointing trying to learn more about NASA’s latest announcement of a rocket engine that controls the detonation in some circular fashion. Current engines produce a series of controlled explosions that blast out from the nozzle. You can see these shock waves in some photos of rocket and jet exhausts. I imagine the new system causes these waves to spiral out, very rapidly mind you. The stress on the parts is thus smoothed and they say some of the parts are 3D printed.
American churches, which are closing at a record rate, continue to insist it is not their lack of providing what is needed as the cause. No, it must be an increase in evil and sin among the population. Kind of neat how that works.
