One year ago today: May 19, 2024, final offer, $25,000.
Five years ago today: May 19, 2020, the lessons learned.
Nine years ago today: May 19, 2016, WIP
andom years ago today: May 19, 2007, an institute somewhere.
The media is flooding the air with the announcement of Joe having cancer. Nobody is buying it, we know the election fraud dragnet is closing in. It’s a ploy for pity because the guy is neck-deep in it. There were over 60 cases of election fraud dismissed by judges on “standing” which means they simply refused to hear the cases. This is where the “no evidence” bunk comes from—there was plenty. Now, as the results are being released, Joe, who mandated vaccines, is now trying the compassion ruse. But too many have died.
This morning also contained a robot club meeting. Disbanded or not, we have a working protocol that proved superior. Thus, a purchase of over $100 remains an event that goes through a process that includes a cooling-off period. The soonest we will see anything on this is next week. Don’t underestimate the value here, as the decision involves wider considerations than meet the eye. Who will make the designs or operate the machine if I cannot? This never gets overlooked even for a $20 machine, a lesson we learned long ago. Oddly, we do not have an Etsy account, probably the second thing one should think about concerning this gadget.
TMOR, if you hear a lot about the rock star Springsteen these days, it is a political scandal due to an unexpected backfire on the Democrats. They regularly passed laws they thought could never be used against them, so they made it illegal for candidates to pay for endorsements. They got around this for themselves by funneling millions through their NGO apparatus. Oops, Trump’s cancellation of the USAID racket brought the payments to the surface.
We saw this last summer when Kamela staged high-priced concerts in a frantic attempt to build up flagging attendance at her rallies—only to watch the crowds melt away soon as the show was over. Totally embarrassing. It turns out many of these celebrities who “donated” their time were, in fact, on the payroll. It’s a long shot, but technically, Springsteen could be arrested if he returns to America. Meh, he’s a freak now anyway.
There’s another freak over at Dove soap company. Having learned nothing from the Bud Light fiasco, that company has aired a transgender ad. This time, there was no public indecision, their sales dropped off the chart, including my business. All boycotts here are permanent, simply ceasing the offensive behavior does not unscramble the egg. And the German government has released warnings about “non-COVID” deaths to those who have received vaccines. Myself, after what the pro-vax people tried to force on us, I could care less is they all croak.
The situation in China will soon be so bad they cannot recover. Canada wisely decides to drop their retaliatory tariffs. Less than 24 hours after announcing Biden has cancer, the Democrat party has demanded that Trump stop all investigations, including election fraud, autopen pardons, but especially of Joe and his family. Possibly they think America has forgotten Joe threw cancer patients into DC jail cells.
I read another chapter on Assembler programming, but it seems all the available material has been infected by low-standard MicroSoft-think. Nor can I find a free compiler, much less an IDE and these used to be everywhere. An example of bad MicroSoft code is the example of checking a bank balance, something every programmer sooner or later runs into. The MicroSoft examples check if the balance is greater or less than zero. It never checks if it is actually zero. It checks only conditions instead of all three. When two fail, it “falls” to the next line of code on the presumption it was zero.
That is wrong in so many ways, the two most glaring is that there are expressions which evaluate to zero but are not equivalent to it. The other is when some rookie comes along and inserts a new subroutine as the next line of code. Folks, at machine language level, check for all possible conditions and hard branch out of every loop with a jmp (jump) command.
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Our forumula is accurate again, over three hours per outlet or junction. Once again, a lot got done but not so much visible progress. At least the wiring mess is not cleared up. You can see some of the old wiring in this photo, the last of the it. From here on it is new wire, but I must say archaic as the original was, the workmanship was excellent. Part of the confusion for me was the pattern. It seems to me if you had two outlets on one wall, you’d run one cable over and then connect the two together. This place ran a solitary wire to most outlets, the only series were the lights and switches. This may make sense the way the electric company once charged different rates for lighting.
The siding on two walls has been removed, and now they’ve taken down the entire north east exterior wall. You can see into the building from the street. Like many houses on that side of the road, it was a smaller place that had a wing added later. This is the north side of the older building. Interesting, as the city inspector shows up several times a day, but the renovators are not slowing down one bit. I can hear the crews speaking Spanish so there is no telling how many people have an interest in that project.
A step back to last August when the KIA failed in Valdosta. The rear of the van is large enough to live in and it was partially camperized. In the intervening months, I raided that for things as needed on the Hyundai. That caused me a half day reinstalling and readying the van for it’s proper primary role—comfortable long distance travel. Checking again for comparable vans with low mileage and the replacement cost soars to $13,000. I’ve got less than half that into it and it rides as smooth as my ’85 Cadillac ever did. I have no problem sinking $1,000 into new tires on it, as a month from now it should be again my primary vehicle.
There is a “utility counter” against one side in the van, still leaving plenty of space for hauling lumber or supplies if need be. I moved it to the driver’s side for easier access and had my tool box handy. What a nice surprise to find out how the Z-boxes (my nickname for the recent model) fit perfectly inside the bottom shelf. There are two shelves, for all the conveniences such as the Yeti, fans, a propane canister stove, and general light camping gear. The need to keep it removable means it is not fancy. There is also space for any small tools I care to take along, like battery drills. Everything else I need, I buy along the way.
This place has around a 35 minute hot water supply at full blast, and that is about to increase to infinite. The platform for the ambient tank is ready, once that is installed, the first 50° of heat is free on Florida. Actually 36 minutes, 20 of which I just relaxed in the shower talking off a few layers of local dust and grime. Blog rule says record all longer activities, that’s random log I keep of what topics have produced consistent clicks in the past. So now I am watching one of the few movies recommended by RofR, what, forty years ago?
“Fun With Dick and Jane”, which I like as one of the few that have Carry actually playing some character other than himself. This is the first release in 1977, RofR told me about the robbery scene with the parties quickly changing sides. It would be at least another twenty years before I saw the movie. That’s how long and hard it took to get out of the poor pit.
Interesting, my medical office has now doubled a portion of their income by splitting each appointment into two separate billing events. The doc sees you, then leaves the exam room for ten minutes, then reappears. Smooth. Another topic that emerged from this morning’s robot conference was as old as the club. It’s the near absolute impossibility of learning electronics from any school or textbook. I still could not answer a newcomer’s question about where to start and stay on track.
There is a small on-line school that tries to address this, named Ohmify but it isn’t cheap. Membership is close to $40 per month but at least the courses, if you find learning this way easy, are worth it. But only because you are likely to waste thousands trying any other way. What’s needed is a school with a lab and experienced teachers who can use real-life examples and projects, but that is just a dream. The only option is on-line with all it’s practical shortcomings. But Ohmify is a start.
ADDENDUM
Ha-ha, I told last day how I invented a way to make my posts stand out in the lists. Dozens of copy-catters appear, and you know how I love copy-cats. But between them not one has figured out the trick. I won’t detail, but my method works only if the formatting is applied “backwards”, that is, right to left on the menu options. Even then, the effect does not display properly in the editing window. If any of them got that far, I can imagine them clicking to no avail, the effect will not “take” in the finished post unless the last option overwrites the first, and you post the reply, and press F5. Double ha-ha.
