One year ago today: November 12, 2024, a drone carrier.
Five years ago today: November 12, 2020, Sparkie is ailing.
Nine years ago today: November 12, 2016, it didn’t freeze.
Random years ago today: November 12, 1982, she was over 20.
It’s game on for SNAP fraud again. The shutdown ends at midnight. The new rules require proof of job search, so watch for the upsurge of job search mills. Give me $100 and I’ll hand you a realistic-looking application form. But the atmosphere has changed. So has the weather, it was down to 50°F in the bathroom overnight, and we were the last in town to get indoor plumbing. And for some unknown link, I sleep like a log when under the toasty blankets and it’s cold out there. Now I’m totally rested, it is 5:50AM, let’s see if there is any adventure today. First, I wrote six e-mails.
Why Dremel? Because if you search of a small saw on-line, all you get is $4,000 medical bone saws. I have an excellent corded model but it’s much too unwieldy for small cuts. If there are other solutions, I’ve grown weary of looking for them. The results are always to heavy duty for tiny hinges, plus I’m aware this challenge is a good thing for discouraging copycats. Later, nope, I saw the Dremel price tag and the heat drove me back. We’ll find another way.
Trouble in Belize, that is why I rejected that place in 2003. The shoreline is foreigners, mostly Canadian, who are safe as long as they keep bringing in the much-needed hard currency. But they are dying Boomers and the latest generation can’t afford houses in the snowbank, much less retirement homes. Go ten miles inland and Belize is another third world shithouse.
What’s in the news? Google claims they have achieved quantum speeds 13,000x faster than a super-computer. Reading more, I don’t see how they measured this. It is executing code designed for that architecture that cannot be run on a CPU. The real-world data was a calculation of atomic magnetic resonance, shucks, practically a household word. The reports all included reference to OTOC, which is a “logic” I have never understood. It works on a theory that electronic pulses moving in one direction have an effect on nearby molecules in the other direction. We already know running machine code on any computer was hugely faster that other codes. Not that people don’t trust Google at their word, but I’ll wait on this one.
I ran out of semaphore practice material, the phrases that came with the web page. At first glance is seems like more than enough but it turns out not near enough for my long-term memory. After a few passes, I was simply able to recall every sentence. I tried pasting in text files from this blog, same result and actually worse because to past it, you have to look at it and that triggered memory. How did I solve this situation? Where did I find tons of text that even if I see it, there is no pattern or sense to it next day? Use the Lorem ipsum Latin text generator. It cures ‘bubble-brain’ where your mind tries to complete familiar words and phrases, a hang-up that must be kicked to be a good receiver.
An arrest has taken place in California that strikes me as different from the rest. Some Democrat lady charged with stealing campaign funds for herself. This is known common practice with those people, so why is this one peculiar? Two reasons. One, the prosecution is not backing off, this is the most severe charge against a political insider over there yet. Two, I think she is going to sing to save her own neck. This is based on a few short clips of her on-line, enough to peg her as a weakling. As always the party will try to get her in front of an Obama-appointed judge just itching to dismiss the case on a technicality. But it seems the prosecution is ready this time. Just a hunch on my part.
UN peacekeeping bunker.
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By the time I got downtown, it warned to a pleasant day. I missed the work time, since I also dropped 40lbs of dog food at the pound and found some 8/3 cable on sale, just not by much. I listened to the audiobook, “Paris Echo” enough to give it a chance. The setting must be just prior to WWII, so that might hold my interest. What’s more, the plot is more like this blog, it is a collection of the writer’s strongest memories. But that’s it, this blog does not pass itself off as total non-fiction reading material. There are two main characters who have not met yet, the Algerian runaway and the American lady with enough money to gad about in France.
The Reb has called, she’s not feeling well, so be ready for anything. I guess I missed the day for any real work, but I did peel ten pounds of spuds and they are boiling in the pot of chicken broth from an hour ago. Chicken that was $3.85 a package when I retired, how $11.85 as the Demtards try to claim inflation under Biden was only 8%. They are not truly detested and will never rule again unless by force. The problem there is that thanks to Trump, the majority of Americans are alerted and know that the conspiracy theorists were mostly right.
Instead, I got the cable at a discount so I purchased two wiring components that look like good ideas. One is the connectors similar to the push-in clips I switched to a couple years back. These have a release clip which instantly offsets their 90ȼ price. Turns out they have this excellent instruction videl. They like to call the clips re-usable, which they are, but the real value is it lets you fix screw-ups. Soon, I discover these are not a new product, but they are new to me.
Let’s take a break. Wow, did this batch of spuds turn out great. These are not boiled in water and I add spices to the boil. This varies by what I have on hand, one difference this time was a tablespoon of “Ranch Seasoning”, from Dollar Tree. By late afternoon it was ideal weather but too late for me to commence anything before dark. We are at the desk so what else can we pretent to be busy at? I know, here’ a package of “grounding clips”. Much of my better wiring still used metal junction boxes that take a grounding screw.
Those who know can tell you how easy it is to lose that grounding screw. They have a green tint, so any dropped on grass are as good as gone. These thread a bare ground wire through through and the clip is then pushed onto the metal wall of the box.
There are several methods of making lids for boxes, I prefer the hinges because the whole unit stays one piece. Otherwise you get what I call the Tupperware problem. On-line I found nothing that I haven’t seen before but I am now more keen on laser cut boxes. I don’t have great equipment for cutting thin wood. The laser has changed my view on that, especially after seeing these 3-story dollhouses. In a way, I wish there was some easy way to blog the value of this research compared to just surfing away. Anybody that tells you finding deep material on-line isn’t getting deep enough—but just you try to point that out.
My latest investigations involve laser cutting of boxes. The available tutorials favor the box-joint style which I know I am not the only one who finds them unattractive. I learned that for a price, most laser suppliers have wood that has a layer of tape. (It is called ‘proof’ or ‘proof grade’.)This absorbs the scorching and you peel it off afterward—but only on the flat surfaces. The edges retain the marks and the for reasons I don’t know yet, you cannot use carpenter’s glue on these boxes.
ADDENDUM
My last duo fell short of my benchmark for success, largely meaning a band still together with a majority of the original founders still gigging a year later. This sometimes overlooks the mechanics of band personalities. If you want a wide spectrum of beliefs and disbeliefs, get to know some musicians. But the Prez & I would represent the most successful new duo based on how we were out gigging right up until the last local club quit hiring. Then, he moves to Pennsylvania. What I’m point out here is the connection with good people endures.
He was in the army, but until this week I did not know he’d kept a journal. Well, kind of, he wrote out dozens of his experiences. I find them very marketable, tales of military life are great and his storied are often hilarious to the outsider. I don’t know if I’d care for tear gas before breakfast, or drinking too much tequila, but he avoids the tall tales of much that’s out there.
No, folks, I won’t be the first band in Polk to play the first A.I. tune to top the country charts. That’s “Walk My Walk” by a fictitious singer called Breaking Rust. The lyrics are schlock but it is the lack of a bass line I first notice. It has other hallmarks of GenX new country, a slow dragging tempo, depressing message, and monotone delivery. Hey, at least I gave it a listen. There was something I did not like. Using my usual apps to get myself a copy, there were several unexplained oddities. It somehow does not like my favorite pirateware, Audacity. The recording still works fine, but this is some kind of warning.
