One year ago today: January 15, 2025, a cold, generic day.
Five years ago today: January 15, 2021, moneyless days?
Nine years ago today: January 15, 2017, my first dowel set.
Random years ago today: January 15, 2001, one year in Miami.
What’s this, the Demtards are screaming for a return to full welfare benefits because cutting people off “undermines” society. Today we make another key lime pie and tend to logistics, for coffee is disappearing at near twice the historic rate. With mornings below 60°F, it’s to be expected. Strange, innit, that eastern Canada which has more fresh water than Africa, is hiking water bills a much as 18%. Moments later, here is the pie, see, we’re learning. With light almond topping just because.
Will my 10W laser etch aluminum? Nope. It just reflects off the surface, which I’m sure the Chinese military is aware of. How about if I put a dark piece of tape over it. Nope, but it will cause colored tape to melt a bit of the color onto the surface. Does the metal get hot? Nope. Did I waste another half-hour checking this out? Yep. Define ‘waste’. It wasn’t in the manual.
Silver is again trading at volume and, in my opinion, resisting some serious big-bank moves to pound down the price. I say that because the up-and-down swings of several dollars, which used to take months, is now showing the pattern every day. And always overnight while America shuts down until Singapore wakes up. We saw silver at $94 just now.
To get the oil up the pipes, there is technology to use carbon dioxide instead of water. It mixes with the oil and provides the back pressure. But I’ve never seen any reports because all the “scientists” studying this method work for the oil companies. Here’s a solar farm operation in the basin, used to power the carbon dioxide pumping stations. Meanwhile in Germany, the government had Lexus shut off the heaters in 100,000 Lexus [cars] during the current cold snap. (This means the pre-heater, which warms the car before use and operates off the small combustion engine.)
Once again, NASA plays the American public for suckers, telling us there is nothing serious wrong with the sick bastard, but grounds the entire space station crew. It will turn out to be something entirely preventable if NASA would quit launching DEIs into space and calling them “astronauts”. It is an insult to the profession.
Most former Spanish colonies.
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Years ago, I warned Elliott there is no such thing as private property in Canada. Turns out if you sell your house, the money is held by a lawyer who checks for all liens but does not verify them. People you have never met are paid before you are. There is a lawyer offering a service to pay direct, I wonder how long before they get him. That link is a web page you should read long before you even think of moving to a socialist country like Canada.
There is another reason I admire Johnston. I also realized during accounting school that these auditors, under law, had no power and in fact were breaking the law. However, I was not a lawyer and even in that classroom I was surrounded by clones who believed everyone should be forced to pay taxes and supported the regime that did so. Notice Johnston not only came from a rich family, he practiced law for decades before he had the resources and security to even speak up. It would have taken me, a pauper, even longer.
There must have been a terrific windstorm overnight. Everything loose in the back yard was strewn about or knocked over. If so, I slept right through it again. I must have grown immune to wind sounds living in Hollywood all those years. I don’t think since the early 00s that wind noise has ever bothered me.
Kudos to those who knew I could not let the day go without getting something done. And, I stopped because of the cold, not because I was tired. No kidding, tonight it will drop to almost freezing. And stay cold the rest of the week, which had me in the shed an hour to build this shell for the DIY feral cat house. After some on-line consultation with idiots who wanted to sell me plastic cartons for $60, I decided it should be more of a cat condo.
I did build a box many winters ago on the back fence, but it was not a location chosen by the cat, so it rarely got used. The frame of this unit is shown here, slapped together with scraps. Its lateral strength will derive from the siding material, thin plywood. Shown standing on end, there will be two sections. One a carpet lined box and the other a nice lanai, also with carpet.
You’ve likely never heard of Flock, but it has heard of you. That’s the outfit that began networking surveillance cameras that track license plates One of the first targets was trailer courts, selling them as crime prevention. Of course, the true purpose was to begin creating a massive tracking database on innocent people. This appeals to credit bureaus, police departments, and government lowlifes. I believe this is how they tracked and caught my old guitar player when he drove to Jersey.
But as always, they never use the evidence in court, so they don’t need any sort of permission. Instead, they use the information to set you up, and he actually went to jail. Not for cheating, but for lying to a government agent. So you know, the Flock cameras snap the whole rear of your car, so a cop in Rhode Island can track your driving in Oregon by things such as a ball cap on your rear deck or a bumper sticker. Once again the danger is not the technology, but the use it will be put to regarding innocent people. Ask the J6 prisoners about surveillance cameras.
ADDENDUM
I have a challenge for those who know spreadsheets. The Orlando tube buyer has a list of which tubes he is looking to purchase. You can download this list, but it is portable document format. Each page has five twin columns. Each pair is first the tube type, then the price. Here is what it looks like. There are six pages of this material.
The problem is that PDF files are not directly transformable into spreadsheets. That forces you to look up each tube by scanning the columns to see if it is on this list. Tedious and error-prone even if the list was not EBCDIC (alphabetized instead of sorted.) You cannot simply scan one column, the PDF will select each entire row until it sees a line feed. This is what importing it to a spreadsheet looks like:
In text talk, the list will import but it is left justified with no delimiters and the list cannot be sorted except by the first column. Useless. The first tube bid $25 is at the far right column of the first row. That sucks, what you want is all the tubes in one long single column that you can sort and lock-step a search through for matches. Your challenge is to convert file list to a single two-column list. Remember, the first column (the tube name) remains text, the second column (the price) must be numeric.
See if you can come up with a solution before I publish my results. Hint, it is far harder than you think. It is typical that Redmond has no formula for this task. In fact, far harder to almost impossible--and if you do succeed, I want to see your formula.
