Mathematically, an imaginary fuck is opposed to a real fuck (and if you combined the two you get a complex fuck). The opposite of an actual fuck, at least in philosophical usage, is a potential fuck, and I think the existence of potential fucks is obvious; indeed sometimes it seems as if fanfic owes its existence as a hobby mainly to potential fucks.
What humans do has a real part and an imaginary part. What many nonhuman animals do has the real part, but not the imaginary part. To be complex you have to have both.
Depending on the degree of relativity, yes. Also, ick. Addendum: bad for the species! Pedantic errata: ‘cuz humans as a species are already inbred as heck (crazy low amount of genetic diversity. Fixed that in the space zombie story. Then, wars, apocalypse, and hopefully stability someday).
Weather. We are getting snow. Not much snow, maybe 1/4″ 6:40AM PST. It is more tiny ice pellets instead of fluffy snow flakes. But we are getting more than frost. Bad news, the dog has a 11:30 AM groomer appointment. Which if the groomer makes it in (lives 10 miles western edge of Willamette Valley, where there will be more snow), I can’t miss the appointment.
Snow? Snow you say?? I’ve got a blasted foot plus and now it is blowing like a hurricane and it is one below – tomorrow the high is going to be 13 below zero!
The little dog weighs about ten pounds – I had to shovel a spot out just off the porch for her to take care of “personal affairs” as the snow most every where else is over her head. I’ll give her this – she gets everything done in about a minute and runs back inside.
Just finished walking the definite-an-outside-dog through the house to the shop by the garage, because while the low last night was projected to be 3, and it was 2 when we woke up this morning, it dropped to zero rather quickly and is projected to keep dropping…. so, would like to avoid doggy frostbite. (Plus, she can actually move around in the shop. And maybe eat mice that also try to evade the cold!)
North side of the house has a spot by the drive were the wind blew all the snow away. That’s where the dog heads, running, not walking like normal. All the snow it blew away there, is now a large drift in the back and front. I shoveled three times so far. Normal January, maybe a tad cold but seen it before, so have you. I am wondering where all the global warming went? Had to put on my Carhart’s just to take the dog out. Climate change my frozen butt.
Listening to steely dan with a hot cup of tea and honey pretending to write waiting for the chili to cook and when its time to throw the cornbread into the oven. Corn bread, chili, with some shredded cheddar what could be better on a cold day? Well except for a bevy of young things to cuddle with. Have to settle with a blanket and the natural affects of chili… No smoking please…
Just got a text from groomers. They are closed. (I know. We are snow weaklings.)
Went to measure it. Looks like snow. It is ice.
PTB will have sanders out. They won’t sand the neighborhood streets at all. Just the main roads: I-5, Beltline, Hwy 126, W 11th, Hwy 99, River Road, etc., and finally the River Road to Hwy 99 connections, like Irving and Irvington. Getting to one of the sanded roads is such a joy driving (not!).
Oh. So much for El Nino year. Suppose to be warm and wet (which it has been until now) winter. They were forecasting a poor snow year which results in drought summers (no snow to hold summer water reserves). By all reports the snow accumulation is making up for lost time. Ski slopes are thrilled. They will open up if the snow fall keeps this up (not much later than “average”).
Dang, that’s cold for where you are. I’ve been told it’s snowing heavily in Salem today. Inland where I am, it got down to -16 last night and we’re sitting at a balmy 6 degrees right now. This was a pretty mild winter…until it wasn’t. The upside so far is that (where I am, at least) we’re not dealing with an unusual amount of snow, and there’s very little wind.
We seem to be on the southern edge of current storm. Salem is in the middle. Haven’t heard any reports out of Portland. Ashland was getting snow earlier this week, but Medford and Grants Pass by reports, weren’t. But then Ashland is only a few miles north of Siskiyou pass which was getting hammered. There was a wreak at Oregon MP 70-ish that shutdown the freeway, which is north of Grants Pass, I suspect the pass area just as coming into Merlin south bound (snow and ice). Or the canyon area south of Canyonville (ice).
“Snow Weaklings” implies that you’re set up to deal with snow on a regular basis but don’t. This is more along the lines of “have to employ contingency plans because this is only an occasional item in the budget.”
I ended up leading a capella singing for Christmas two years ago because of the ice that had formed that made it deeply unsafe for the choir leader and pianist to come in. Yes, I was visiting. Somehow I still ended up in charge because none of us could find the plans (which were in an obvious place, FWIW) and I figured out which carols we could sing.
Not setup, at all. We don’t even have chains for the cars. We’ll buy them, if we are traveling where chains might be required. Hubby is headed south on I-5 so he needs to get some in case Siskiyou pass requires them (PTB are just as likely to shutdown pass than require chaining up, that dangerous regardless of chains. Been a few times the pass has closed behind the guys on their winter trips.) Or we need them coming home. If not used, we take them back. We don’t ski. Had them for prior vehicles, especially truck, because of scouts and snow camping. Don’t have a snow shovel for driveway and sidewalks. (Why? We get sooooo much snow at the house. Snort.) Mom doesn’t have either, also. Last time this area had enough snow to require shoveling was 1969. Heck Eugene doesn’t even have snow plows (county does, but then they are responsible for up into the Cascades. Although if the Coast range gets hit too, they don’t have enough.) We don’t even believe the snow forecasts until it actually happens. Note hubby doesn’t leave for another 2 weeks. I don’t fly down until mid Feb to meet hubby. Who knows what the weather is going to be? Forecasters don’t.
We were 35 at 0800. We are now 10 F, with a wind chill of “is this trip necessary?” Someone ping Phantom and ask him if he knows who up in the Yukon left the [bad language adjective] gate open!
We might get back above freezing by Wednesday afternoon. Global warming my furry little tail!
The headline is not entirely wrong in the sense that the last few crashes of first-world planes have had relatively few casualties, in part because of great crew training and response.
In the general sense? Yeah, the headline should be nominated for “Dumbest Headline of the Year.” (Although the competition will get pretty heated by December of this year, I’m sure.)
My boss at work flat out just said “we’re working from home Tuesday and Wednesday” so that’s what I’m doing. Of course, I work desktop support so it limits what I can do but I do have some software issues I can look at remotely.
“Essential services” is another name for “suck it up buttercup, there ain’t no PTO today!” We’re not quite at “spit freezes before it hits the ground, so it goes ‘clink’ on the ice walk” point, but getting there.
Single digits on the plus side for a bit. Negative side after sundown in a day or two. Fuzzballs are clustering at the warminator. Even Othercat looks at me when I open the door like “dude, shut that ice portal NAO!”
I think I’ve still got ice in my joints. That’s probably a bad thing now.
We’re seeing much the same, though northern California is getting even more interesting weather. It’s not as cold a system today (we had some positive, but low single digit mornings earlier this week), but the weather-guessers are starting to talk about atmospheric weather.
Morning temp: 32F, slowly dropping. Winds are mild, so I don’t have to go finding/replacing everything that got blown around Thursday.
It’s kind of fun watching the weather people back east (mostly Denver/Weather Nation) whinging about how the storms the PNW gets go east, and get colder as they do. I think we’re the beta testers for Mother Nature.
[Looks at drought monitor] Hmm, “D0”. Not bad, and a lot better than previous years.
FWIW, our personal “best” for winter temps is -28F. OTOH, we haven’t gone below 0 so far this winter. [Looks to sky and says “That wasn’t a boast, Lord.”]
Northern California (Eureka and such) is getting much harder precipitation than SW Oregon, though the local weather office posted flood warnings for the coastal areas.
Just got back in. The just-barely snow is coming down at about an inch an hour, and to make Happy Fun Snow Shoveling Time more entertaining, the snow keeps sticking to the shovel. [Mutters in a few languages, including Perl and Redneck.]
The forecast here is slowly upping the ante but still nowhere near what you guys are getting. Supposed to be down to 2 on Tuesday night. Maybe 3-5 inches so far. But we’ll see.
The NOAA forecast said the “entire day snow accumulation” would be an inch or less. My walking stick said 5 away from the trees.
Granted, it’s a holiday weekend, so the C team is on board, but it would be nice if they made the afternoon forecast within eyesight of reality.
Heh. Flyover Falls is at 36 degrees. Go north 150 miles, and it’s -4. Nice cold front. We wouldn’t mind if you stayed put. (Portland is at 16F, while Eugene is a balmy 25. And we’re supposed to get the funky weather.)
Do not get me started about forecast vs. “Look outside, you dumbkopf!” When the FAA is calling NOAA and begging them to open the door so they can see what’s wrong with the forecast … (There were planes scattered all over the Dakotas and Minnesnowta because of the lousy forecast that NOAA couldn’t bring themselves to update.)
I’ve learned to fear and distrust weather reports every holiday weekend. On a standard Monday-off holiday, the Friday report seems to show that the A team left at quitting time Thursday, with the B team Friday or earlier.
Four day weekends are even more interesting. When it comes to situations like that, I hate “interesting”.
My son was supposed to go snow camping this weekend. They canceled with hopes to reschedule, but not because of the snow. It’s because the snow would turn to rain and wind and ice, and a slushy camping experience is about as miserable as you can get. (Plus the drivers would hate the drive back with icy roads, yeah, that’s not cool.)
I recall a President’s day camping trip to Yosemite Valley that I bailed on. Seems the only campsite that wasn’t occupied had a couple inches of water/slush/snow in it. Nope.
I’ve snow backpacked/camped before (a few miles up from Crane Flat on Yosemite’s Tioga Pass road, with cross country skis), and that was fun. We had a good bed of snow under the tent, though the downhill run back to the trailhead engendered a lot of face plants. Seems the top layer of snow had some ice crusting, and I couldn’t compensate. Add a 40 pound pack and it was a relief to get to the car.
We’ve had more than our fair share of teaching moments of where not to pitch tents while in scouts, and no water pooled, yet, in the dark (isn’t that when camp gets setup?). Interesting who didn’t listen (cough, inexperienced parents, also usually their last weekend camping).
Current weather. We just had to rescue a hummingbird. It was sunk into the ice about a foot in front of the window. Wondered what had Tj mesmerized. Let Pepper out, she stopped to sniff. I didn’t want her eating it so made her move off (she had business anyway). Went to try to move it with my hands, 1) too encased in ice, and 2) it blinked and move it’s head. Yelled for help. Son got the ice broken out in a circle around it, and mostly freed. Had to use hot/warm water to free one wing. He picked it up and moved it to a covered area near where the dryer vent was putting out warm air. If flew off. The one wing has damaged feathers, but it did fly off out of site.
I redid the snow panels for the front porch. They used to be all corrugated PVC (clear-ish), and we had little trouble with birds not being able to find their way out.
The new panels have sheet plexiglas windows on top, and a few feet of that PVC on the bottom. We also have a bunch of quail eating seeds below the bird feeder. Had a few incidents where birds (all but one instance quail) who got “trapped” (6′ by 10′ porch, with a 4′ archway). I would get up there and walk behind them to escort them to the door.
Except today. Kat and I were going out to do doggie and snow business (had to shovel in front of the barn overhead door to prevent flooding. Got that T-shirt, and I don’t trust the fixes I did from the last time. Heard a thump when we out out, but I didn’t see any birds. $SPOUSE did, a quail flew into a window hard enough to make it an ex-quail. I like the guys, but they are bird brains…
Window stickers on order from the ‘zon. Looks like translucent seagulls and such, so there might be some help. I’m also going to look for a plastic baby gate, since the quail are most likely to walk in the porch.
Didn’t hear the hummingbird hit the slider, usually do. No splotches on the window. No blood on the hummingbird. Don’t know how it got stuck there. That part of the porch is not covered.
Just realized that the reason for fewer problems was that there wasn’t a direct walking path to the porch with the old deck. The quail love to jump over small rises/rocks/railroad ties (the new patio is now a Spring Project), so there’s little blocking them walking into the porch.
I have an Ex-pen from when we had Italian Greyhounds, and I’ll set that to discourage the quails. I don’t think one would fly into the porch, but they have tried to fly out.
because the snow would turn to rain and wind and ice, and a slushy camping experience is about as miserable as you can get.
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Pretty much standard Oregon camping. Winter camping was one condition that was “dep729 does not drive scout outings where ice driving is remotely possible”. Which we had to enforce. (Unfortunately the answer to “seat belts” (older Dodge Durango) or “cargo” (Chevy xCab), was too often “4×4 – both”, so we’d both end up driving, taking both rigs. Not that 4×4 was required. But some forest roads are better with higher clearance, and 4×4 engaged, or heavy loaded van.) Not that I snow camped. Did that once as GSA at 12. Once and done. Forget what year but one of the first Klondike snow camp, that our troop went to, that Douglas District invites entire council to (snow is generally “closer” to I-5 up the N. Umpqua). It was relabeled in the troop as “mud camp”.
(Plus the drivers would hate the drive back with icy roads, yeah, that’s not cool.)
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Here it started yesterday with icky cold rain that turned into globs of wet snow. Now we have wind and the temperature is to drop to negative numbers overnight and cycle around zero through Tuesday.. We’ve decided to just stay in for the long weekend, since we don’t have anywhere we absolutely have to go.
It’s great for getting work done on the books for my Kickstarter, which is now about twenty bucks from funding and three weeks to go. I’m hoping to get to that point enough to add some cool stretch goals, but I also want to have these books ready to go as soon as possible. I set my delivery date as July, but that’s insurance against getting blindsided by unknown unknowns, since this is my first ever Kickstarter. I’d prefer to get them out quite a bit sooner, so everyone will be happily surprised.
OTOH, I had to turn on the electric baseboard in my office (a sunroom built by an amateur handyman, so it has about as much insulation as one would expect). The electric bill next month will be awful, but at least I can type.
Just got an email notice from NW Gas to “limit natural gas usage”. Would post a link, but they didn’t include a link in the email, just the notice.
The only natural gas appliance we have is the furnace. I suspect the amount next billing is going to be north of my budgeted $200/month (auto paid via credit card). I am not turning it down (except at night).
Power bill isn’t going to be cheap either. Room over the garage has one vent from the furnace, with wall unit electric backups, which are fully engaged. Plus the furnace fan has been about non-stop.
We are up to an inch of ice. Walking on it does not dent it. Went out to check the mail. Not getting into the mail box until things thaw. Tried to get the thinner gloves out of the car. Not getting into the cars until things thaw. Or will have to chisel in (kidding, there will be a safe way). Just needs to thaw before son needs to go to work at 5:30 AM Monday morning. No, he does not get MLK Day off. May need to thaw his car out tomorrow and put it in the garage. Means thawing out one of the others to move it out of the way.
My whole house genny won’t start – I was out there for 3 cycles of it trying, but seems like it just isn’t getting any fuel.
But two of our other neighbors have generators, and they’re running, so gas is coming in somewhere …
And that’s notable because we lost electricity about 8 pm; EPUD (electrical utility for my part of town) has pulled in their repair crews until daylight – trees keep falling on the repaired lines.
Just saw a neighbor drive up the hill (2343) – road is pretty icy, the turn at the top gave some tire-spinning.
Maybe tomorrow is dig out the camp stove and propane.
We had EPUD when we lived just further north of here (still Eugene address) ’85-’88. Suspect area is still EPUD. Been 35 years so don’t know if still less than EWEB.
Niece reported to grandma (mom) that they lost power. Nieces neighbor had a tree fall in the middle of their house. Portland. Do not know exactly where, older neighborhood, post WW2, small 2 bedroom builds. A mile from the Nike Portland campus.
Watched the neighbors teen daughter and a friend cautiously walk out the door across the sidewalk to the bark dust/grass and promptly plant her butt on the grass. Even the grass is a sheet of glass ice. Their rottweiler came out to play, he was a bit shocked as he slid around trying to walk. He adjusted. Started rolling on the grassy area and sliding down on his back and side. Got up and did it all over again.
Phone towers seem to be re-supplied and I have internet through my phone hotspot.
Turns out the gas fireplace has a battery backup, so we’ve had heat for a day now.
Charged phones at a neighbor who has a working portable generator; as you might imagine, generator repair/service folks are pretty busy. Since we now have heat, we’re down from critical to important.
Gas stove, so can cook – matches to light the burners; oven is too electronic.
EPUD says CG is still gonna be out (whole town is out, not just EPUD) until another supplier fixes a downed transmission line. And of course, we’re getting freezing rain again tonight.
Gotta go – illegetimi non carborundum est, or something like that in bad/pretend Latin!
Haven’t been able to find an update but last I heard (via mom*, yesterday) I-5 south of Cottage Grove is/was shutdown. Drain exit shutdown. I couldn’t find anything on the TripCheck road cams or alerts. Rice Hill has black ice today.
((*)) Mom has friend south of Roseburg who was trying to get south to parents. They were taking coast route to Reedsport, to Elton, then Sutherlin.
We are suppose to be getting ice rain now, in Eugene (oh, joy). Not happening yet. Problem, the warm front has to come in and it starts as ice rain before the cold air can be pushed out (per experts). Power. We’ve been lucky. Had some flickers, but no outage (yet). Bad news about down lines, it is so bad even the crews can’t safely get out to work on them. Not with what the area has to put on the roads.
Expect much more of this as the Green Leap Forward is implemented. The subsequent rolling blackouts and brownouts will be blamed on “privileged oppressors blocking green energy”, and rationing will be imposed based on identity group membership.
Problem is damage due to the storm to a storage facility and the inability to get to it (between icy roads, and down trees, apparently lots of them). Got a notice that except for the areas immediately surrounding the facility, the request is rescinded. Crews are on site accessing repair needs.
We only have the furnace. Mom has furnace and water heater. Across the street has: Furnace, water heater, stove, washer, and dryer. (Hey, how former owners got the gas main brought down the street, for free(no charge to us anyway), so we, and our east side neighbors, could each get it with just one appliance. Had to run about 200 feet from the west side cross street. I don’t know why wasn’t ran when development went in, other half of our street has had it. FYI, wouldn’t have gas operated washer or dryer. Not fond of the having a flame to near the producer of the best fine campfire starting fuel – lint.)
Sister reported snow earlier this week Hockins Heights Battle Ground WA (western foothills of Cascades). But none this morning.
Here in Eugene we have 1/2″ of what looks like snow, but is 1/2 of tiny ice beads. Pepper, the dog, is not happy. Cats haven’t tried to go out. Freeway and Buddy, both feral rescues, have claimed their heater vents (the others are feral rescues too, but were rescued young and never spent anytime surviving in cold wet or snowy weather).
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“Strong enough to crawl out of the spigot and go after people!”
Or, Monday morning Navy coffee. The coffee machines have been running all weekend. Nobody cleaned them, just kept adding coffee and hot water. The smell alone will wake people up after a midwatch and 2 hours sleep.
If zero is not a number, what is it? It’s one less than 1, and one greater than -1. It occupies a necessary place in both the set of integers, and the set of real numbers.
(I’ve gone through this with the kids. For the ones that had issues…. they can grasp negatives, but the idea of making a symbol that says “there is nothing here” makes their heads hurt.)
For those wondering, I did come up with a way that gets it through.
Via multiplication.
“Look. Here are five groups of three. Someone takes two groups of three. How many groups of three are left?”
“Three groups of three.”
“Alright, now I take three groups of three from there. How many groups of three are there?”
“None.”
“Correct. There are zero groups of three. See why we’d need that?”
In ancient Greek usage, zero was not a number, and one was also not a number. You couldn’t say “there were a number of sheep” unless there were at least two. Or so I have read.
Negative numbers are a natural outgrowth of algebra, where you can write things like 3 + x = 1. That may have led to their formal conceptualization as “numbers.” In the West that developed in the later Middle Ages. They were around earlier in Muslim countries (which gave us the concept of “arabic numerals”) and even earlier in India (which the Muslims took the idea from); note that “algebra” is etymologically “al-jabr.”
Accounting as we now know it was developed in Italy during the Renaissance, and is essentially an application of algebraic reasoning.
Here’s an idea — how about they start quartering illegal aliens in politicians’ and bureaucrats’ offices? When they run out of office space, they can make room in the houses they bought with bribes and OUR tax money.
Lots of room in the Capitol Rotunda. They could fit a whole bunch of tents in there. And the hallways are very wide. People could sleep along the walls, SF City Street style.
Cousin has been posting pictures of snow at their place, all week. 11″ last posting. They are in NW Baker, Oregon. She hasn’t posted pictures of her folks place (40 acres Pine Creek) west of Baker. Valley, but edge of mountains. Her folks place will have more snow than town.
If memory serves me correctly a few years back they did have a lizard warning in, where else but Florida, for Iguanas falling out of trees because of the cold.
Round them up while frozen. Wonder if the anaconda and python, and other reptilian invaders, were similarly affected? There are bounties on all that can be brought in.
I call False Advertising! The post is entitled THE CLOTHES DON’T MAKE THE MEME, yet there is not a single solitary entry featuring Senator John Fetterman. I DEMAND A FULL REFUND!
LOL. Weirdly, I find my meme box has no Fetterman.
But fine, I will refund twice what you paid for this post. Send me the receipt. It will be featured in a post. :D
Not so fast there, Memestress. Clearly this blog is operating on some sort of quasi-cash basis, and content consumed is not documented with any sort of receipt. However, since my hopes were callously dashed by the lack of any clothes-related meme, I request compensation for my lost browsing time. My best estimate, based on my Internet charges, is 2¢ per minute, and I estimate I spent at least a minute reading the post. Therefore, I seem to have put in my 2¢ worth, and demand compensation. Or the equivalent in memes, valued on the basis of a penny for your thoughts.
One morning I was called to pick up my son at the school nurse’s office.
When I walked through the main entrance, I noticed a woman, curlers in her hair, wearing pajamas. “Why are you dressed like that?” I asked her.
“I told my son,” she explained, “that if he ever did anything to embarrass me, I would embarrass him back. He was caught cutting school. So now I’ve come to spend the day with him!”
We threatened to do the embarrass at school. Son said “you both work!” Reply: “We’ll send grandma.” His face went white. ;-) Guess who never skipped classes. His friends did. He refused. His response to the taunts were “Have you met my parents?” Their parents asked to borrow grandma. Said “I’ll ask.” Answer: “Where, what time, who do I need to follow all day. Get me permission from the school.” The friends quit cutting classes.
OMG. I have just discovered the saga of the 10th Earl of Pembroke and his mistress, Kitty Hunter (eventually Lady Clarke).
Yes, he was in the cavalry. In fact, he wrote the cavalry equitation manual. Yes, he was already married. To a beautiful Spencer.
Yes, he ran off to the continent with a maid of honor. After a masquerade ball. After she got painted by Joshua Reynolds.
Yes, they took a packet to France and were pursued. And she dressed up AS A SAILOR.
Yes, he sent a letter to his wife apologizing and trying to get her to join him and Kitty.
Yes, they named their illegitimate kid Augustus Retnuh Reebkomp.
And yes, AFTER THEY BROKE UP, he had her over to visit at the mansion, and painted her into some military equitation example pictures for his riding academy, DRESSED AS A PAGE.
Holy crud, there is NO WAY I would believe all that if it were in a story.
The 11th Earl was pretty normal, despite all the serial killers and Spencers in the family. He did marry his Spencer aunt’s daughter, though.
According To Hoyt 
“Fill up the cat dishes or the guinea pig does!!!”
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“Not forcing you….”: The essence of plea bargains.
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My brother thinks the John Wick movies are the craziest movies ever. I immediately sent him the Alderaan/John Wick meme. :D
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Bwahaha
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Mathematically, an imaginary fuck is opposed to a real fuck (and if you combined the two you get a complex fuck). The opposite of an actual fuck, at least in philosophical usage, is a potential fuck, and I think the existence of potential fucks is obvious; indeed sometimes it seems as if fanfic owes its existence as a hobby mainly to potential fucks.
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I can say, with at least a TINY bit of Authority, say there are NO non-complex fucks.
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WTF ?
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At least of the human / human variety.
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I think that’s accurate.
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Are you saying that human/nonhuman would be less complex? :-P
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The Reader isn’t speculating on activities he has no experience of.
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Thereby avoiding the logic fallacy of appeal to authority.
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What humans do has a real part and an imaginary part. What many nonhuman animals do has the real part, but not the imaginary part. To be complex you have to have both.
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Also the opposite of absolute is relative.
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Relative fucks are against the law in many places. :-D
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Depending on the degree of relativity, yes. Also, ick. Addendum: bad for the species! Pedantic errata: ‘cuz humans as a species are already inbred as heck (crazy low amount of genetic diversity. Fixed that in the space zombie story. Then, wars, apocalypse, and hopefully stability someday).
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10 stars out of 5 stars :-)
Weather. We are getting snow. Not much snow, maybe 1/4″ 6:40AM PST. It is more tiny ice pellets instead of fluffy snow flakes. But we are getting more than frost. Bad news, the dog has a 11:30 AM groomer appointment. Which if the groomer makes it in (lives 10 miles western edge of Willamette Valley, where there will be more snow), I can’t miss the appointment.
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We got around 10″ now its a balmy 3 below with a wind chill that is horrid.
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Snow? Snow you say?? I’ve got a blasted foot plus and now it is blowing like a hurricane and it is one below – tomorrow the high is going to be 13 below zero!
The little dog weighs about ten pounds – I had to shovel a spot out just off the porch for her to take care of “personal affairs” as the snow most every where else is over her head. I’ll give her this – she gets everything done in about a minute and runs back inside.
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Just finished walking the definite-an-outside-dog through the house to the shop by the garage, because while the low last night was projected to be 3, and it was 2 when we woke up this morning, it dropped to zero rather quickly and is projected to keep dropping…. so, would like to avoid doggy frostbite. (Plus, she can actually move around in the shop. And maybe eat mice that also try to evade the cold!)
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North side of the house has a spot by the drive were the wind blew all the snow away. That’s where the dog heads, running, not walking like normal. All the snow it blew away there, is now a large drift in the back and front. I shoveled three times so far. Normal January, maybe a tad cold but seen it before, so have you. I am wondering where all the global warming went? Had to put on my Carhart’s just to take the dog out. Climate change my frozen butt.
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Listening to steely dan with a hot cup of tea and honey pretending to write waiting for the chili to cook and when its time to throw the cornbread into the oven. Corn bread, chili, with some shredded cheddar what could be better on a cold day? Well except for a bevy of young things to cuddle with. Have to settle with a blanket and the natural affects of chili… No smoking please…
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You know there’s a lot of snow and wind when there’s a 12-foot tall snowdrift downwind of that pile of doggy poo.
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Currently 22 F, with 16 F wind chill.
Just got a text from groomers. They are closed. (I know. We are snow weaklings.)
Went to measure it. Looks like snow. It is ice.
PTB will have sanders out. They won’t sand the neighborhood streets at all. Just the main roads: I-5, Beltline, Hwy 126, W 11th, Hwy 99, River Road, etc., and finally the River Road to Hwy 99 connections, like Irving and Irvington. Getting to one of the sanded roads is such a joy driving (not!).
Oh. So much for El Nino year. Suppose to be warm and wet (which it has been until now) winter. They were forecasting a poor snow year which results in drought summers (no snow to hold summer water reserves). By all reports the snow accumulation is making up for lost time. Ski slopes are thrilled. They will open up if the snow fall keeps this up (not much later than “average”).
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It’s been blowing ice /frozen rain all day up here in W Clackamas. Tiny bit of snow from overnight, but it’s been 25 ish all day.
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Dang, that’s cold for where you are. I’ve been told it’s snowing heavily in Salem today. Inland where I am, it got down to -16 last night and we’re sitting at a balmy 6 degrees right now. This was a pretty mild winter…until it wasn’t. The upside so far is that (where I am, at least) we’re not dealing with an unusual amount of snow, and there’s very little wind.
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We seem to be on the southern edge of current storm. Salem is in the middle. Haven’t heard any reports out of Portland. Ashland was getting snow earlier this week, but Medford and Grants Pass by reports, weren’t. But then Ashland is only a few miles north of Siskiyou pass which was getting hammered. There was a wreak at Oregon MP 70-ish that shutdown the freeway, which is north of Grants Pass, I suspect the pass area just as coming into Merlin south bound (snow and ice). Or the canyon area south of Canyonville (ice).
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“Snow Weaklings” implies that you’re set up to deal with snow on a regular basis but don’t. This is more along the lines of “have to employ contingency plans because this is only an occasional item in the budget.”
I ended up leading a capella singing for Christmas two years ago because of the ice that had formed that made it deeply unsafe for the choir leader and pianist to come in. Yes, I was visiting. Somehow I still ended up in charge because none of us could find the plans (which were in an obvious place, FWIW) and I figured out which carols we could sing.
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Not setup, at all. We don’t even have chains for the cars. We’ll buy them, if we are traveling where chains might be required. Hubby is headed south on I-5 so he needs to get some in case Siskiyou pass requires them (PTB are just as likely to shutdown pass than require chaining up, that dangerous regardless of chains. Been a few times the pass has closed behind the guys on their winter trips.) Or we need them coming home. If not used, we take them back. We don’t ski. Had them for prior vehicles, especially truck, because of scouts and snow camping. Don’t have a snow shovel for driveway and sidewalks. (Why? We get sooooo much snow at the house. Snort.) Mom doesn’t have either, also. Last time this area had enough snow to require shoveling was 1969. Heck Eugene doesn’t even have snow plows (county does, but then they are responsible for up into the Cascades. Although if the Coast range gets hit too, they don’t have enough.) We don’t even believe the snow forecasts until it actually happens. Note hubby doesn’t leave for another 2 weeks. I don’t fly down until mid Feb to meet hubby. Who knows what the weather is going to be? Forecasters don’t.
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We were 35 at 0800. We are now 10 F, with a wind chill of “is this trip necessary?” Someone ping Phantom and ask him if he knows who up in the Yukon left the [bad language adjective] gate open!
We might get back above freezing by Wednesday afternoon. Global warming my furry little tail!
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Global warming can do anything. Best unfalsifiable hypothesis in years.
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You should be able to raise the temperature single-handed after reading this one.
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/01/13/did-pete-buttigieg-write-this-headline-about-safer-than-ever-plane-crashes-n2391719
8-)
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The headline is not entirely wrong in the sense that the last few crashes of first-world planes have had relatively few casualties, in part because of great crew training and response.
In the general sense? Yeah, the headline should be nominated for “Dumbest Headline of the Year.” (Although the competition will get pretty heated by December of this year, I’m sure.)
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My boss at work flat out just said “we’re working from home Tuesday and Wednesday” so that’s what I’m doing. Of course, I work desktop support so it limits what I can do but I do have some software issues I can look at remotely.
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“Essential services” is another name for “suck it up buttercup, there ain’t no PTO today!” We’re not quite at “spit freezes before it hits the ground, so it goes ‘clink’ on the ice walk” point, but getting there.
Single digits on the plus side for a bit. Negative side after sundown in a day or two. Fuzzballs are clustering at the warminator. Even Othercat looks at me when I open the door like “dude, shut that ice portal NAO!”
I think I’ve still got ice in my joints. That’s probably a bad thing now.
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We’re seeing much the same, though northern California is getting even more interesting weather. It’s not as cold a system today (we had some positive, but low single digit mornings earlier this week), but the weather-guessers are starting to talk about atmospheric weather.
Morning temp: 32F, slowly dropping. Winds are mild, so I don’t have to go finding/replacing everything that got blown around Thursday.
It’s kind of fun watching the weather people back east (mostly Denver/Weather Nation) whinging about how the storms the PNW gets go east, and get colder as they do. I think we’re the beta testers for Mother Nature.
[Looks at drought monitor] Hmm, “D0”. Not bad, and a lot better than previous years.
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FWIW, our personal “best” for winter temps is -28F. OTOH, we haven’t gone below 0 so far this winter. [Looks to sky and says “That wasn’t a boast, Lord.”]
Northern California (Eureka and such) is getting much harder precipitation than SW Oregon, though the local weather office posted flood warnings for the coastal areas.
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So… it was a complaint?
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More, “You haven’t frozen us this winter, Lord. We’d love it if you kept it that way.”
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Just got back in. The just-barely snow is coming down at about an inch an hour, and to make Happy Fun Snow Shoveling Time more entertaining, the snow keeps sticking to the shovel. [Mutters in a few languages, including Perl and Redneck.]
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The forecast here is slowly upping the ante but still nowhere near what you guys are getting. Supposed to be down to 2 on Tuesday night. Maybe 3-5 inches so far. But we’ll see.
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The NOAA forecast said the “entire day snow accumulation” would be an inch or less. My walking stick said 5 away from the trees.
Granted, it’s a holiday weekend, so the C team is on board, but it would be nice if they made the afternoon forecast within eyesight of reality.
Heh. Flyover Falls is at 36 degrees. Go north 150 miles, and it’s -4. Nice cold front. We wouldn’t mind if you stayed put. (Portland is at 16F, while Eugene is a balmy 25. And we’re supposed to get the funky weather.)
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Do not get me started about forecast vs. “Look outside, you dumbkopf!” When the FAA is calling NOAA and begging them to open the door so they can see what’s wrong with the forecast … (There were planes scattered all over the Dakotas and Minnesnowta because of the lousy forecast that NOAA couldn’t bring themselves to update.)
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I’ve learned to fear and distrust weather reports every holiday weekend. On a standard Monday-off holiday, the Friday report seems to show that the A team left at quitting time Thursday, with the B team Friday or earlier.
Four day weekends are even more interesting. When it comes to situations like that, I hate “interesting”.
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My son was supposed to go snow camping this weekend. They canceled with hopes to reschedule, but not because of the snow. It’s because the snow would turn to rain and wind and ice, and a slushy camping experience is about as miserable as you can get. (Plus the drivers would hate the drive back with icy roads, yeah, that’s not cool.)
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I recall a President’s day camping trip to Yosemite Valley that I bailed on. Seems the only campsite that wasn’t occupied had a couple inches of water/slush/snow in it. Nope.
I’ve snow backpacked/camped before (a few miles up from Crane Flat on Yosemite’s Tioga Pass road, with cross country skis), and that was fun. We had a good bed of snow under the tent, though the downhill run back to the trailhead engendered a lot of face plants. Seems the top layer of snow had some ice crusting, and I couldn’t compensate. Add a 40 pound pack and it was a relief to get to the car.
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We’ve had more than our fair share of teaching moments of where not to pitch tents while in scouts, and no water pooled, yet, in the dark (isn’t that when camp gets setup?). Interesting who didn’t listen (cough, inexperienced parents, also usually their last weekend camping).
Current weather. We just had to rescue a hummingbird. It was sunk into the ice about a foot in front of the window. Wondered what had Tj mesmerized. Let Pepper out, she stopped to sniff. I didn’t want her eating it so made her move off (she had business anyway). Went to try to move it with my hands, 1) too encased in ice, and 2) it blinked and move it’s head. Yelled for help. Son got the ice broken out in a circle around it, and mostly freed. Had to use hot/warm water to free one wing. He picked it up and moved it to a covered area near where the dryer vent was putting out warm air. If flew off. The one wing has damaged feathers, but it did fly off out of site.
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I redid the snow panels for the front porch. They used to be all corrugated PVC (clear-ish), and we had little trouble with birds not being able to find their way out.
The new panels have sheet plexiglas windows on top, and a few feet of that PVC on the bottom. We also have a bunch of quail eating seeds below the bird feeder. Had a few incidents where birds (all but one instance quail) who got “trapped” (6′ by 10′ porch, with a 4′ archway). I would get up there and walk behind them to escort them to the door.
Except today. Kat and I were going out to do doggie and snow business (had to shovel in front of the barn overhead door to prevent flooding. Got that T-shirt, and I don’t trust the fixes I did from the last time. Heard a thump when we out out, but I didn’t see any birds. $SPOUSE did, a quail flew into a window hard enough to make it an ex-quail. I like the guys, but they are bird brains…
Window stickers on order from the ‘zon. Looks like translucent seagulls and such, so there might be some help. I’m also going to look for a plastic baby gate, since the quail are most likely to walk in the porch.
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Didn’t hear the hummingbird hit the slider, usually do. No splotches on the window. No blood on the hummingbird. Don’t know how it got stuck there. That part of the porch is not covered.
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Just realized that the reason for fewer problems was that there wasn’t a direct walking path to the porch with the old deck. The quail love to jump over small rises/rocks/railroad ties (the new patio is now a Spring Project), so there’s little blocking them walking into the porch.
I have an Ex-pen from when we had Italian Greyhounds, and I’ll set that to discourage the quails. I don’t think one would fly into the porch, but they have tried to fly out.
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Pretty much standard Oregon camping. Winter camping was one condition that was “dep729 does not drive scout outings where ice driving is remotely possible”. Which we had to enforce. (Unfortunately the answer to “seat belts” (older Dodge Durango) or “cargo” (Chevy xCab), was too often “4×4 – both”, so we’d both end up driving, taking both rigs. Not that 4×4 was required. But some forest roads are better with higher clearance, and 4×4 engaged, or heavy loaded van.) Not that I snow camped. Did that once as GSA at 12. Once and done. Forget what year but one of the first Klondike snow camp, that our troop went to, that Douglas District invites entire council to (snow is generally “closer” to I-5 up the N. Umpqua). It was relabeled in the troop as “mud camp”.
No kidding.
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NEW YORK: FOOTBALL GAME POSTPONED DUE TO BLIZZARD; GLOBAL WARMING TO BLAME
— City begs sports fans to help shovel out the stadium
Disappointed fan: “Don’t know how much more of this Global Warming I can take.”
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Here it started yesterday with icky cold rain that turned into globs of wet snow. Now we have wind and the temperature is to drop to negative numbers overnight and cycle around zero through Tuesday.. We’ve decided to just stay in for the long weekend, since we don’t have anywhere we absolutely have to go.
It’s great for getting work done on the books for my Kickstarter, which is now about twenty bucks from funding and three weeks to go. I’m hoping to get to that point enough to add some cool stretch goals, but I also want to have these books ready to go as soon as possible. I set my delivery date as July, but that’s insurance against getting blindsided by unknown unknowns, since this is my first ever Kickstarter. I’d prefer to get them out quite a bit sooner, so everyone will be happily surprised.
OTOH, I had to turn on the electric baseboard in my office (a sunroom built by an amateur handyman, so it has about as much insulation as one would expect). The electric bill next month will be awful, but at least I can type.
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Just got an email notice from NW Gas to “limit natural gas usage”. Would post a link, but they didn’t include a link in the email, just the notice.
The only natural gas appliance we have is the furnace. I suspect the amount next billing is going to be north of my budgeted $200/month (auto paid via credit card). I am not turning it down (except at night).
Power bill isn’t going to be cheap either. Room over the garage has one vent from the furnace, with wall unit electric backups, which are fully engaged. Plus the furnace fan has been about non-stop.
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We had some snow speckling on Friday, but it was mostly rain. Today was mostly dry. It snowed tonight a little.
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We are up to an inch of ice. Walking on it does not dent it. Went out to check the mail. Not getting into the mail box until things thaw. Tried to get the thinner gloves out of the car. Not getting into the cars until things thaw. Or will have to chisel in (kidding, there will be a safe way). Just needs to thaw before son needs to go to work at 5:30 AM Monday morning. No, he does not get MLK Day off. May need to thaw his car out tomorrow and put it in the garage. Means thawing out one of the others to move it out of the way.
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Try applying a thin coating of Vaseline around the outer lip of the box and the inner lip of the cover. This worked for me last year very nicely.
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Limit? I don’t seem to have it at all.
My whole house genny won’t start – I was out there for 3 cycles of it trying, but seems like it just isn’t getting any fuel.
But two of our other neighbors have generators, and they’re running, so gas is coming in somewhere …
And that’s notable because we lost electricity about 8 pm; EPUD (electrical utility for my part of town) has pulled in their repair crews until daylight – trees keep falling on the repaired lines.
Just saw a neighbor drive up the hill (2343) – road is pretty icy, the turn at the top gave some tire-spinning.
Maybe tomorrow is dig out the camp stove and propane.
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We had EPUD when we lived just further north of here (still Eugene address) ’85-’88. Suspect area is still EPUD. Been 35 years so don’t know if still less than EWEB.
Niece reported to grandma (mom) that they lost power. Nieces neighbor had a tree fall in the middle of their house. Portland. Do not know exactly where, older neighborhood, post WW2, small 2 bedroom builds. A mile from the Nike Portland campus.
Watched the neighbors teen daughter and a friend cautiously walk out the door across the sidewalk to the bark dust/grass and promptly plant her butt on the grass. Even the grass is a sheet of glass ice. Their rottweiler came out to play, he was a bit shocked as he slid around trying to walk. He adjusted. Started rolling on the grassy area and sliding down on his back and side. Got up and did it all over again.
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Moisture in the gas line can freeze.
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Hello, world!
Phone towers seem to be re-supplied and I have internet through my phone hotspot.
Turns out the gas fireplace has a battery backup, so we’ve had heat for a day now.
Charged phones at a neighbor who has a working portable generator; as you might imagine, generator repair/service folks are pretty busy. Since we now have heat, we’re down from critical to important.
Gas stove, so can cook – matches to light the burners; oven is too electronic.
EPUD says CG is still gonna be out (whole town is out, not just EPUD) until another supplier fixes a downed transmission line. And of course, we’re getting freezing rain again tonight.
Gotta go – illegetimi non carborundum est, or something like that in bad/pretend Latin!
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Haven’t been able to find an update but last I heard (via mom*, yesterday) I-5 south of Cottage Grove is/was shutdown. Drain exit shutdown. I couldn’t find anything on the TripCheck road cams or alerts. Rice Hill has black ice today.
((*)) Mom has friend south of Roseburg who was trying to get south to parents. They were taking coast route to Reedsport, to Elton, then Sutherlin.
We are suppose to be getting ice rain now, in Eugene (oh, joy). Not happening yet. Problem, the warm front has to come in and it starts as ice rain before the cold air can be pushed out (per experts). Power. We’ve been lucky. Had some flickers, but no outage (yet). Bad news about down lines, it is so bad even the crews can’t safely get out to work on them. Not with what the area has to put on the roads.
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Man, the northwest is not having the best time with gas the last few months.
My landlord forwarded me a similar message on Friday, which I didn’t get until today because I’m out of town and mostly out of cell service.
On the plus side, that means I’m not contributing to the house’s use of natgas for water heating. On the minus side, I can’t turn down my thermostat.
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Expect much more of this as the Green Leap Forward is implemented. The subsequent rolling blackouts and brownouts will be blamed on “privileged oppressors blocking green energy”, and rationing will be imposed based on identity group membership.
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Problem is damage due to the storm to a storage facility and the inability to get to it (between icy roads, and down trees, apparently lots of them). Got a notice that except for the areas immediately surrounding the facility, the request is rescinded. Crews are on site accessing repair needs.
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We only have the furnace. Mom has furnace and water heater. Across the street has: Furnace, water heater, stove, washer, and dryer. (Hey, how former owners got the gas main brought down the street, for free(no charge to us anyway), so we, and our east side neighbors, could each get it with just one appliance. Had to run about 200 feet from the west side cross street. I don’t know why wasn’t ran when development went in, other half of our street has had it. FYI, wouldn’t have gas operated washer or dryer. Not fond of the having a flame to near the producer of the best fine campfire starting fuel – lint.)
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I fully agree with the vampire complaint. Mouth closed when you chew, please.
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From your descriptions of nosferitau in the Familiars books, I’m not sure they have a Miss Manners….. 8-)
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^^^^^
This.
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This Friday’s ACOUP photo is priceless.
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The preview picture doesn’t do justice. See the article for the full effect.
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Yeah, it’s so cold this morning! It’s only 52 degrees!
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Low of 42F high of 55F today with occasional light rain under solid high overcast, heavier rain tonight.
The last time it snowed and stuck on the valley floor was in 1976.
And people wonder why the Pacific vets after WWII stopped here and looked for work instead of getting back on the train heading back east.
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Sister reported snow earlier this week Hockins Heights Battle Ground WA (western foothills of Cascades). But none this morning.
Here in Eugene we have 1/2″ of what looks like snow, but is 1/2 of tiny ice beads. Pepper, the dog, is not happy. Cats haven’t tried to go out. Freeway and Buddy, both feral rescues, have claimed their heater vents (the others are feral rescues too, but were rescued young and never spent anytime surviving in cold wet or snowy weather).
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“Strong enough to crawl out of the spigot and go after people!”
Or, Monday morning Navy coffee. The coffee machines have been running all weekend. Nobody cleaned them, just kept adding coffee and hot water. The smell alone will wake people up after a midwatch and 2 hours sleep.
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Petty Officer smith stood the watch with a coffee stained shirt.
Petty officer Jones relieved him in a coffee stained body.
12:34 of the 5th day of the 6th month of the 78th year all numbers were present, except for 9, she was out to sea.
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Could have been 12:34:09 to have all the numbers present and accounted for. :-D
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On the other hand, 0 wasn’t even a number.
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If zero is not a number, what is it? It’s one less than 1, and one greater than -1. It occupies a necessary place in both the set of integers, and the set of real numbers.
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It’s nothing.
(I’ve gone through this with the kids. For the ones that had issues…. they can grasp negatives, but the idea of making a symbol that says “there is nothing here” makes their heads hurt.)
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For those wondering, I did come up with a way that gets it through.
Via multiplication.
“Look. Here are five groups of three. Someone takes two groups of three. How many groups of three are left?”
“Three groups of three.”
“Alright, now I take three groups of three from there. How many groups of three are there?”
“None.”
“Correct. There are zero groups of three. See why we’d need that?”
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I’m always fond of the “empty basket” metaphor.
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Zero is a symbol that represents nothing. Not quite the same as being nothing.
I’m not a mathematician but I’ve taken some of the classes. And passed.
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Send them to computer class and force them to learn the difference between zero and null. They’ll love that.
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Zero represents nothing. NULL is a reference to nothing; to an object that does not exist. I didn’t have much trouble with that.
Then again, I enjoyed programming down to bare metal in assembly. With interrupts.
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In ancient Greek usage, zero was not a number, and one was also not a number. You couldn’t say “there were a number of sheep” unless there were at least two. Or so I have read.
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What did they say about negative numbers?
In the immortal words of one math teacher: “You can’t drink negative beer. Well, I suppose you could throw up.”
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That the concept was absurd.
They came into use in financial systems to represent debts. Later.
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Negative numbers are a natural outgrowth of algebra, where you can write things like 3 + x = 1. That may have led to their formal conceptualization as “numbers.” In the West that developed in the later Middle Ages. They were around earlier in Muslim countries (which gave us the concept of “arabic numerals”) and even earlier in India (which the Muslims took the idea from); note that “algebra” is etymologically “al-jabr.”
Accounting as we now know it was developed in Italy during the Renaissance, and is essentially an application of algebraic reasoning.
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“Subtraction soup”
(Grin)
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Reminds me at the Christmas gathering, cousin said her brother-in-law was getting married in Tennessee on 12/31/23.
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Here’s an idea — how about they start quartering illegal aliens in politicians’ and bureaucrats’ offices? When they run out of office space, they can make room in the houses they bought with bribes and OUR tax money.
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Lots of room in the Capitol Rotunda. They could fit a whole bunch of tents in there. And the hallways are very wide. People could sleep along the walls, SF City Street style.
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Actually let’s eject the Federal workers from their offices and quarter “refugees” there. The Feds can work from home!
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Let’s not. Some of the statues and art are priceless. Federal office buildings? Sure. The Capitol? No.
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The basement storage room to which they banished the Winston Churchill bust probably has a lot of room.
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For the art, not the “refugees”.
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The cold front hasn’t hit here yet. I need to make a run to the liquor store for more whiskey, errrr antifreeze….
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Cousin has been posting pictures of snow at their place, all week. 11″ last posting. They are in NW Baker, Oregon. She hasn’t posted pictures of her folks place (40 acres Pine Creek) west of Baker. Valley, but edge of mountains. Her folks place will have more snow than town.
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I think printing diplomas has caused an unfathomable amount of stupidity.
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Could be a “lizzard warning” rather than a blizzard warning :)
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Welp, Powerline won’t allow the link-it came from the Week in Pictures.
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If memory serves me correctly a few years back they did have a lizard warning in, where else but Florida, for Iguanas falling out of trees because of the cold.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/national-weather-service-frozen-iguanas-florida-trees-winter-storm-2022-1
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Round them up while frozen. Wonder if the anaconda and python, and other reptilian invaders, were similarly affected? There are bounties on all that can be brought in.
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In regards to finders keepers, my army brother suggested writing ‘John Wick’s car’ on it, he’s amusing in his own way.
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I call False Advertising! The post is entitled THE CLOTHES DON’T MAKE THE MEME, yet there is not a single solitary entry featuring Senator John Fetterman. I DEMAND A FULL REFUND!
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Careful. I am reminded of the slogan of a trash hauling company:
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR DOUBLE YOUR GARBAGE BACK
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LOL. Weirdly, I find my meme box has no Fetterman.
But fine, I will refund twice what you paid for this post. Send me the receipt. It will be featured in a post. :D
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Not so fast there, Memestress. Clearly this blog is operating on some sort of quasi-cash basis, and content consumed is not documented with any sort of receipt. However, since my hopes were callously dashed by the lack of any clothes-related meme, I request compensation for my lost browsing time. My best estimate, based on my Internet charges, is 2¢ per minute, and I estimate I spent at least a minute reading the post. Therefore, I seem to have put in my 2¢ worth, and demand compensation. Or the equivalent in memes, valued on the basis of a penny for your thoughts.
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If we meet at a con, I’ll buy you a coffee. How about that?
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While I’m not big on attending cons, I could readily be conned into a cuppa. Deal.
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This just might be that rare case when getting twice as much back would be a good thing.
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Your compost heap would love it.
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BTW:
Behavior Modification
One morning I was called to pick up my son at the school nurse’s office.
When I walked through the main entrance, I noticed a woman, curlers in her hair, wearing pajamas. “Why are you dressed like that?” I asked her.
“I told my son,” she explained, “that if he ever did anything to embarrass me, I would embarrass him back. He was caught cutting school. So now I’ve come to spend the day with him!”
(from https://www.cybersalt.org/clean-jokes/behavior-modification)
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We threatened to do the embarrass at school. Son said “you both work!” Reply: “We’ll send grandma.” His face went white. ;-) Guess who never skipped classes. His friends did. He refused. His response to the taunts were “Have you met my parents?” Their parents asked to borrow grandma. Said “I’ll ask.” Answer: “Where, what time, who do I need to follow all day. Get me permission from the school.” The friends quit cutting classes.
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OMG. I have just discovered the saga of the 10th Earl of Pembroke and his mistress, Kitty Hunter (eventually Lady Clarke).
Yes, he was in the cavalry. In fact, he wrote the cavalry equitation manual. Yes, he was already married. To a beautiful Spencer.
Yes, he ran off to the continent with a maid of honor. After a masquerade ball. After she got painted by Joshua Reynolds.
Yes, they took a packet to France and were pursued. And she dressed up AS A SAILOR.
Yes, he sent a letter to his wife apologizing and trying to get her to join him and Kitty.
Yes, they named their illegitimate kid Augustus Retnuh Reebkomp.
And yes, AFTER THEY BROKE UP, he had her over to visit at the mansion, and painted her into some military equitation example pictures for his riding academy, DRESSED AS A PAGE.
Holy crud, there is NO WAY I would believe all that if it were in a story.
The 11th Earl was pretty normal, despite all the serial killers and Spencers in the family. He did marry his Spencer aunt’s daughter, though.
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Not his spinster Aunt’s daughter?
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LOL. I’d never believe that in a novel.
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While still reeling from the Retnuh Reebkomp saga, I have now discovered a Chinese xuanxia webnovel set in an alternate sf America.
Named “Chaplain!”
Sample dialogue by the daughter dying of leukemia:
“My mummy isn’t trash! She is the Goddess of Colorado!
“My daddy isn’t trash! He is the hero who fought in the front line in Indiana!”
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Apparently, I am an apocaloptimist. :) Thank you for the memes.
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