One year ago today: May 8, 2025, see the heat waves.
Five years ago today: May 8, 2021, early squirrelies.
Nine years ago today: May 8, 2017, here’s the glue.
Random years ago today: May 8, 2008, loving the comb.
Will I accomplish my goal today of accomplishing nothing? A good start is the news. England’s Reform Party, a non-contender a month ago, has just won 300 seats. That’s Nigel Farage’s group, and he’s come from out of nowhere before. Toast and raspberry jam as I watch the redistricting trend. TMOR, see addendum. The “bible-changing” secret UFO files released show the same old fuzzy crap and captions we’ve seen before.. It’s me and the cardinals at dawn, my treat to a favorite, squeezed lime rinds floating in the birdbath.
Well, the NASA videos are really stepped photography, like gifs. Display it on any gif generator and skip any Save image instructions. It seems the software won’t work without hard images—but it will if you export the soft images directly, lowering the interval times to what you see here. FYI, this is now the 13th year the rover has been operating. Wish my van could claim the same. Most photos you see from Curiosity, the rover, are enhanced. Here’s a picture of what Mars looks like in true color. How do they know when the colors are accurate? Easy, there are small color palates on the rover, you rarely see them, but they can match up color wavelengths.
Cost accounting differs from basic accounting in that if focuses on inputs, not results. One of the earliest lessons, and one you must grasp to pursue this topic, is that supply and demand are entities that do not meet at a precise point on a chart or in time. And the latest New York Dork has frozen rents. This does not work and, in the long run, cannot work. Buildings require maintenance. Freeze the rent, the building eventually becomes a slum—and which American city has the worst slums? A typical unregulated NY apartment rents for $5,000 these days. The regulated ones are collapsing in filth because nobody will live there.
Mostly successful, I did very little all day long, though that was punctuated by two short naps and a stint in the back yard making sure my critters are happy. When they are fed, they are happy, kind of like girlfriends on your anniversary. I got a call, there is a slot next Thursday, though I’m hoping somebody will cancel before then. This is now the fifth day my leg has behaved and I celebrated with pork chops for lunch. That’s my food mention and yes, I did stock up y’day with 48 K-cups of assorted coffee.
And you do not, much longer, have a supply of printer ink I warned about this 30 years ago but thought it would happen sooner. You will only be able to buy ink from the printer company who will require your ID and you must have a subscription. It seems the subscription is $7 per month and must be attached to a "certified" bank account in your personal or company name. Otherise, the factory reaches out and disables the printer and ink that you only thought you bought and paid for. Those who get stung by this probably deserve it for their complacency. GenXYZ cannot invent or innovate, only get sneakier at carving themselves an ever bigger slice of your pie.
One end of the Great Wall.
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Boxes by mistake. That’s these two units from today. I had jotted down the inside dimensions of the recipe box, intending to find some suitably thin wood for the lining. At the same time I was repairing the power chord on my fancy new stove light. I always wanted one of those neat night lights on the kitchen stove. Like the Reb has so the cats can see any leftover doggie bits in the dark I supposed. That was not easy with those old ceramic parts. Intending to build the smaller box you see here, I read my own directions wrong and built the bigger box. No big deal, there is a use for every box you’ll find on my turf.
Undecided what to do with these boxes, I put them under the lase and etched the Fake symbox. The casing has an orange protective cover. So I positioned the old time lapse camera inside and found the laser is not at all the bright yellow visible through the protective lenses. It is a blue laser. And that concludes my nothing day. I thought it was quiet, nothing more than boxes, laundry, air tanks, Mars, birds, lasers, video edits, cameras, bass lines, navigation, and a transistor circuit or two.
We also talked about neuralgia and I’ve got it, mostly in my lower limbs. He’s the medic on the crew and says it is all the healing process. It’s gone in the morning but back by suppertime, which impacts an important part of my day. So ends a nothing day aroune here.
ADDENDUM
The kerfuffle over the voting districts is easy to understand. In America, voting districts are supposed to be areas of roughly equal population deemed to have a balance of interest in their local affairs. By chance, this means a district would normally encompass a large spectrum of political views. Seats are allocated by population, so over years, the Democrat party has continually grouped district by numbers of ethnic voters. Thus you get States that are 40% or more Republicans who have not a single seat in the legislatures.
The recent SCOTUS ruling put a stop to that. The districts cannot be along racial lines and the Democrats are livid. Many of them gained their seats by the narrowest of margins. That was the problem, they kept redistricting year after year to gain those tiny edges. Those have now been wiped out.
They will now have to go get real jobs, which I imagine is what scares them most. I do not know what happens to the rest of their terms if what they represent no longer exists. But it would explain why they never want to release voting records.
