One year ago today: August 8, 2024, 90% will know.
Five years ago today: August 8, 2020, 200 drawers.
Nine years ago today: August 8, 2016, train blog coincidence.
Random years ago today: August 8, 2014, Russian soda pop.
Listening to A.I. narration is a great way to realize the limitations in brainpower of today’s coders. It’s hilarious and pathetic, people who cannot pronounce words themselves coding the way the robot pronounces. One documentary kept telling me the ah-kah-jee was sunk, but there was no such ship. Then I figured it out, the Akagi, at Midway. This makes me suspect the A.I. software is spaghetti code rather that network of adjustable modules. But I’m more interested to see silver, despite the efforts of the big banks to pound it down, climbing back to the $39 mark, where it will then likely move to $40.
We awake to the great news that career bureaucrats can no longer sign off on government grants. It was one of the remaining USAID loopholes. The money can only be released by current government appointees which means Trump has veto power. This is what we voted for. I was up early enough to stay respectably quiet and determined I will need some amp power to operate the telegraph relay. Fortunately this is a simple circuit and I have all the parts.
Now to demo how far the so-so “new” people have strayed off the path, let’s go on-line and try to find a pattern for a laser cutter and a wooden telegraph key. Not those chintzy acrylic kits, an actual diagram at least. If I can find one, I’ll fine myself $20 and put it in the bank. I’m really looking for the chicken coop heater with the remote control, now rebranded by Rural King as a garage heater. This is for the kitchen and it needs that 240V cable that’s been stalling me. Time to get it over with. The one on sale for $70 off, but you have to drive out there to see if the “store pickup” people are lying or not.
Later in the AM, Trent called, turns out his son is and Elvis impersonator. Is this a trend? Actually, in the acting field it is big business but I could not pretend even with hair dye and costumes to be remotely close. We also have a new birdie, a juvenile female red cardinal right out of the nest. She’s less spooked by movement behind the window here and consequently is much better fed and seemingly more cheerful.
Social Security has moved the insolvency date closer, how in early 2034. Nine years from now. I likely won’t be around for it, but if I don’t have something going by then, maybe I belong in the poor house. How about Texas, where the payroll off cancelled direct deposit so any representative who want them will have to show up at the Capitol in person. Where they will be arrested. I’ll wait for confirmation but there is rumor Trump has authorized the military to go after the cartels. Face it, the cartels thought they would only have to content with ICE from their border sanctuaries. I’ve often wondered how a military would fare against drug lords that aren’t halfway around the world.
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I was in Rural King, but why do I bother? They never have half the stuff they advertise as in-store. It’s a new audiobook for me already, and after 30 minutes I don’t care for the style. But, it a murder mystery, so it stays. It’s written by a woman, so already we get clauses like her memories have a capital M, and details of how much she enjoys her “aftertime” five years after the marriage, a likely story. Disney is beginning to settle outstanding cases out of court, which seems right considering their losses since going woke five years back are now reaching $150 billion. The A.I. translations of what Hitler really said are pissing some people right off.
This is another Florida slow train. They can block five miles of traffic, plodding along. A favorite tactic is to stop the train on the cross with just a few cars left so the late commuters can see all this. I got to enjoy it here, so maybe you can as well. It’s tricky to see, but watch the blinking lights for the stall part.
I have a customer, but not the means. Last day one of the sample boxes was to a real estate lady. Here are the known details so you can decide what to do. She likes the box, but not the rough finish. Wilford does photography work and confirms she pays very well, and others say the same, so doing nothing is not an option. The wood for that Z-box does not come in the correct dimensions, but we have that surface planer still packed in the box. We also have 12 long pieces of 1x4” that could be sliced to size with a thin-kerf blade, something I have not done before.
She wants a darker tan-colored stain with a gloss finish and her company name burned onto the wood. I priced it out on paper at a retail cost of at least $32 each. According to Wilford, she will pay it to get what she wants. There is no rush, but I have a customer any time I want one.
ADDENDUM
This was neat, I just watched some video on the conditions inside Mexican prisons. The ones where there keep the cartel bosses. I take it we are supposed to feel sorry for these people, no TV, bad food, limited contact with others. In fact, you are supposed to forget what they do to others when there is contact. It’s pretty hypocritical listening to them complain that solitary isn’t much to their liking because there is mold on the walls. None of them express any remorse for their victims, instead just on about their own comfort levels. It is safe to say these prisons are not designed to rehabilitate. For that matter, neither are the relatively four-star US jails.
One aspect I have never agreed with is building these prisons so close to population centers. There is no shortage of empty land. Alaska, the Everglades, Los Alamos. This is where you put the lifers who do not want to be reformed. Let them establish their own systems inside, as long as they stay there. I was amused by the number of times the videos referred to people serving 900 year sentences as “former” hit men and “former” kidnappers.
Another similar whine comes from Democrats, who have repeatedly used the legal system to block or interfere with Trump policy. It’s practically the default way they do business. But how they shriek when the same happens to them, in this case Trump removing the security clearances of lawyers who fight deportation cases. TMOR, immigration law gives full authority to expel and deport. The way it works is a lawyer will argue that his client is being deported for some other reason, say a civil offense or the Enemy Aliens Act. This stalls, but does not prevent deportation. The Trump administration deems such law cases to be frivolous.
The curious case is that Jack Smith operation, a blatant attack on Trump that turned out to have no merit, it was a political hit. Such attacks are dependent on finding lawyers who will pursue these cases, and such lawyers were appointed by the thousands during periods of Democrat administration. And Trump is going after that bunch, which businesswise makes sense. The Washington post is rumored to be firing reporters who won’t or can’t comply with their new rules which want their version of news to be “more balanced”.
