Tag: Metrology
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Two cities, six dwarfs
I was checking weather radar and noticed some rain around the Tri-Cities, possibly moving this way. As usual I tried to remember the Tri-Cities and as usual missed one. Kennewick, Pasco, and ….. Dopey! The Six Dwarfs would be a pretty good personality test. Which seventh dwarf is missing in your brain? I have Dopey, […]
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Can it happen?
Probably a stupid thought, but I feel like writing it down for my own thinking process. In previous item: = = = = = An outside thermometer tells us how cold it is BEFORE we go outside, so we can prepare. Online weather radar is an even better reporter. It tells us where the precipitation […]
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What is a reporter for?
Matt Taibbi is following all the bad rules of “journalism”, which are the same as the rules of Deepstate. Protect sources above all. Never reveal anything that your source doesn’t want to reveal. Well then, what the fuck is your PURPOSE? You’re not reporting, you’re just an unpaid (or maybe paid) part of Deepstate. You’re […]
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Reprint: Trying a question
Looking at Statcounter for the old blog, noticed several of my semi-regular readers are looking at this item about plant intelligence. I can’t tell if they’re mocking it or discussing it, but it’s definitely one of the better things I’ve written. I was highlighting and extending what Francis Darwin and Dorothea Pertz were saying in […]
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Is there a soul damage meter?
Continuing with good and bad assumptions… At the start of the “virus” hoaxocaust I assumed that the precise unison synchronization of NAZI TORTURE would continue. I assumed that Deepstate had blackmail power over ALL governors and mayors. This turned out to be partly false. Mayors were all NAZI, but sane governors in Dixie and Wheatland […]
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Worth reading
Crux publishes Benedict’s short summation of faith and grace. He wrote it in 2006, soon after he was appointed, at a “late hour in his life”, and then lasted 16 years longer. Wasn’t so late after all! Nevertheless, it’s a perfect short letter from a man of grace and gratitude and SCIENCE. The sciencey part: […]
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Waiting for Shannon
I’m following the latest “revelations” from Twitter. So far no Shannon, no actionable information. Deepstates know how to reveal without revealing, and spy agencies know how to test a defector who claims to be revealing. Is he telling us something we already know, either from experience or monitoring? Is he simply lying? Or is he […]
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The ice industry, part 5/5
Summing up: The ice trade journals from the ’20s show an industry starting to grasp its decline, and responding in predictable ways. We need better salesmanship, we need to work harder, we need to organize better. By 1933 the decline was heard in radio comedy. An episode of Mirth Parade (not online now) has an […]
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More pointless rambling
Reading bitcoin’s original code has helped me to think about the larger qualities of money and economics. As a former bookkeeper I already had a solid grasp on the vectors of creating and increasing value in an ordinary business, operating inside a functional economy. From this foundation, plus 40 years of real programming, I could […]
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Raking record
Time to start the roof-raking record for this winter. As always, this should be in my private daily worklog, but I started doing it here, so I’ll continue the tradition. Last winter was EASY. Only three rakings, and the first was 12/31/21. This winter is likely to be harder than average. We started with a […]
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Like Hank says….
In a topic with very little definite (unclassified) information available, a well-regulated imagination is more important than math. Well, actually that goes for all topics. Math is not the foundation of the universe or the foundation of anything. It’s an occasionally useful descriptive tool. Here’s what happens when academicians try to discuss life on other […]
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Fishbowls
Cultural circles are never measurable from the inside, because the baseline is invisible. Old Soviet joke: In the midst of the Cold War, the CIA sends its best spy into Russia. He has spent the last 10 years learning how to blend in with the locals. He speaks perfect Russian, he can dance the kalinka […]
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A clear view of exp vs linear
One basic fact about money is always understood by the plutocrats but never explained to the peasants. We hear inflation numbers or exchange rate numbers, and the influencers of “left” and “right” base their appeals on these fake numbers. Even the bitcoiners, who claim to be entirely outside government and banking, always treat official “inflation” […]
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What would Proverbial think?
If the proverbial Martian picked up scenes like this while monitoring Earth TV, what would he think? People are standing and sitting bent over. Many of them are using crutches and canes and wheelchairs. If he was a proverbial evolutionist as well as a proverbial Martian, he’d automatically assume we were dropping back to quadrupedal […]
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Aphid Day 2022 (tentative)
Oct 8, 2022, temp 78. We’re getting a fairly good swarm today so I’ll do the reprint. In the last few years the aphids have pulled a headfake before the serious swarm, so this is tentative. The weather.com forecast agrees with the aphids that it’s all downhill from today; the NWS forecast sees a few […]
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