One year ago today: February 6, 2024, 62’s young these days.
Five years ago today: February 6, 2020, a single squawk.
Nine years ago today: February 6, 2016, my old sander.
Random years ago today: February 6, 1982, the first sign.
The DOGE inquiry has revealed the millions paid to send celebrities to Ukraine. It does not surprise me, but for a different reason. I’ve known for decades today’s “stars” cannot put on a decent show without massive support staff. I have no doubt that Jolie spent 2/3rds of her $20 million just paying for staff. It’s still not fair to the taxpayer, I’m just pointing out something no commonly recognized. The Deep State is in full panic. They had planned a repeat of their 2016 foot-dragging campaign, but Trump has learned their methods.
I’m planning a quiet day, so the window is a “mood” picture, like the 1960s. What happened was I just missed a photo of the silhouette of a bird on the dusty pane. I don’t do windows. But this photo does not show how bad this window is. The bird perched on the railing and it’s outline formed a classic shadow on the lower pane. Okay, I will get the bucket and do the back window. The rest, I’ve lived here going on nine years and don’t look out them enough to bother, and we all knew it would come to that. But, let’s make sure we have some fun at it all.
First, here’s a Brit article thatLegos are homophobic. The complaint is that the pieces have symbolic male and female shapes that can be “mated” together, thus reinforcing the falsity that heterosexuality is the norm. I have a Gab account so I can block comments, and I was lambasted today by three imbeciles who think if they rent a place eventually become the owner and can’t be kicked out. It was over a comment I posted on land claims. Amusing.
I ran the camera over the leaves to document that what little you see here today is now a half-hour’s work for me. The kudzu launched a sneak attack on the northeast corner, but I’m on it. I’m waiting for confirmation but there is a post claiming someone has proof Obama ordered the FBI not to arrest the Hildebeest. This would be explosive.
Here’s a number for you. The hourly cost of flying a F-22, the Air Force stealth fighter. It’s $60,000 per hour. Rubio, a guy I can’t figure out who’s side he’s on, has determined the USAID staff can be reduced from 14,000 to 294. The Justice Department has returned all the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago to Trump. No word on Melania’s panties. I should record that I did not know about the existence of USAID until recently. I don’t study political science and fine even reading on the top very dry. However, this blog proves that twenty and thirty years ago, I was very familiar with how government money was being stolen via layer after layer of fake corporations and non-profits.
I had become highly suspicious in my second year of management accounting, but was scoffed for asking questions. That’s just the way it was, they said. Some students in the classroom were there specifically to learn how to rip off the taxpayers, the courses were called Grant Writing. I never took any, I specialized in tracking investments. I also know that USAID is a tiny part of the grift, maybe 1%.
Global Affairs Canada has deleted and wiped its entire database of foreign aid spending, or at least the part available to the public. Next up for audit is Social Security, who is issuing old age checks to 6-1/2 million people over the age of 112. And see that “indigent fund” on your power bill. It’s a fund which is administered by power company lawyers who bill it $1,100 per hour.
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Inside with more tea, the news, once the distractions are ignored, is all about the Democrats going ballistic over Trump’s freeze on USAID. They are not helping with their screaming and hollering and calls for violence. Even if they have valid arguments, nobody is going to vote for frothing lunatics. I subscribe to the theory that Trump intentionally walked away in 2020 to let them hang themselves. While I don’t care for some of his emerging stances, as long as we got deportations and he boils liberal blood, he’s okay by me, but there’s a limit.
At home, we got more boxes and yard work. Actually, there is a secondary explanation for so many boxes. `When I began, there was no system and each box was built solo. After a bit, the cuts don’t get mixed up and you can have several boxes on the cutting table at once. Same with the glue up and the stain. This week that is some six boxes at the finishing stage. And today I used my biscuit joiner for the first time in years. I’m building a box for my electric lantern that will have a compartment for the charging plug, you know, the thing that gets lost first and you find out it is unique to the appliance and the replacement costs as much as a new unit. That’s the one.
Binary arithmetic. I don’t know it. That’s one of the topics I learned enough to pass the exam and otherwise memorized the hard parts without understanding. Now, I’m tacking at least the addition part. I worked past dark, now I’m determined to learn the exact way twos complement works. Before that, allow me to step through something that’s confusing to me. It’s binary coded decimals. You’ve heard me lambaste these before due to their bad behavior when sorting. If you are a real power user as opposed to an addicted gamer, you’ll have seen those rotten sorts that put 11, 111, and so on ahead of a 2. I called it “alphabetizing the numbers”. Today I discovered the problem may not be using the character 1 instead of the numeral one. See your ASCII table.
Much of this is melting for me as I understand how registers work. Stay with me here because you do NOT have to do any math, just follow along. Eight bits for each alphanumerical makes a byte. Thus, to count to ten, you need two bytes, since otherwise you can only count 0 to 7. But after 10, you have those extra bits that, if used, lets you count to 15. These are normally written in hex, a kind of shorthand that uses the letters A to F for the two digit numerals. You can’t get around this because it is a property of digital counting.
But somebody, probably over at IBM, decided to just use enough bits to count to 9 and ignore the bits that don’t get used. Because everybody know that IBM only hires geniuses that never make mistakes. The result is A through F are gone, but the bits are still there. Binary coded decimal. Such a simple system—until you want to do math with those numbers. This is where I leave that topic, since I have never used BDC or EBCDIC for anything. Here is a link to the video I watched on the twos complement. It makes sense now, but don’t ask me to remember this tomorrow.
What’s this? They won’t let Taylor into the luxbox at the sports game? I posted she can come watch the action at my place and stay the weekend. But I’ll need a couple day’s notice to go buy a televistion. I mean, do they still make those things? Some trivia. The planet Jupiter emits three types of radio signals. Decimeter from the magnetic field, thermal from the heat of the planet, and the curious bursts that vary depending on the orientation of its Moon, Io.
ADDENDUM
Closer examination of the books, which is my responsibility, shows that part of the surprise utility bill is due to the town. They contract out some of the electric and don’t have the crews to read the meters every month. Without admitting it, they read the meters as little as every third or fourth month, and bill estimated usages in between. If they hit months when I was away, they may have estimated my minimum bill of $71. Then they show up in December, read the meter and hit me with an extra $86. Since they are not worth talking to, I will up the buffer to $400.
I’m not exaggerating. They are oafish people, all grossly overweight and have the easily offended act down perfect. And rumor is nothing offends them like facts or people who know what they are talking about.
According to yet another survey, these are the worst things to say to a woman:
1) Calm down.
2) Stop being emotional.
3) You’re acting like your mother.
4) Must be that time of the month.
5) You’d be prettier if you smiled.
6) You’re pretty smart for a girl.
7) Stand aside, let a man handle this.
8) Have you gained weight?
9) Your sister was better.
10) Are you done?
