It’s been raining here off and on since about 7 tonight, but now it is steady with some lightning and thunder. Afternoon rain and what has fallen so far tonight amounts to 0.85 at a moderate rate so far and is likely to go on overnight. The plants outside should be happily slurping this up. Fascinating info coming from the… Read more »
Thunderstorm approaching, getting louder. I had 3 big cats napping on the breakfast room table, stretched out and comfy, when there was a simultaneous power blinkage and a crack of thunder. In an instant, the cats had vanished. It startled me too, but terrified the kitties. Now hearing what sounds like small hail clinking the windows behind me.
One of the counties in middle New Jersey got sick and tired of parents screaming and yelling at umpires in Little League games so some genius came up with the idea that any parent who did so had to sign up to be an umpire for three games or be banned from the games. They say it has worked like… Read more »
mharper42
April 28, 2023 7:17 pm
I have 2 raccoons that come out early, around 6 pm when I feed my indoor cats, and then feed Billy his supper on the grass back of the old gazebo. That’s to keep him down low so he’s less likely to get excited over birds and squirrels that might come to the patio. Well, increasingly, I also have one… Read more »
#32 – I remember last year tracking BFF’s flight from S. Africa to NYC on flight aware. They did admit that out over the ocean the line may not be exact due to absence of radar coverage. Pretty neat feature though. When you get your private jet, you can advise them not to follow your flight to an undisclosed location;… Read more »
33 Shannon Everything west of and including the Mississippi River basin is inundated with snow melt. The shame in drought ridden California is that without the proper dams and reservoirs now, over 90% of the melt runs out into the Pacific and they still have no water for civilization. Did y’all see how the state of Montana suspended all (10,000+… Read more »
When my wife is flying I check out Flight Aware every now and then. Check out how the SW pilot dodged the weather coming out of Hobby. I’ve only checked in a couple of times today but I happened to see the pilot make the turn off the planned route in real time.
29 Shannon Watch what you say. Justin “Little Fidel” Trudeau has declared anyone criticizing his government online can now be thrown in prison. Dudley DoRight and the Mounties will be knocking on your door in Bellville. I don’t know if he’ll bring Nell Fenwick with him, but you need to get in touch with Rocky and Bullwinkle and hire them… Read more »
[T]he old paradigm of the US-Mexico relationship is over. The Mexican state is no longer a partner, and may well be en route to becoming something much worse. Mexico’s president, the increasingly authoritarian and erratic leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, visited Veracruz this past Friday to commemorate the 1914 American occupation of that city. In his remarks was a startling… Read more »
Our daily tornado watch just came out. Looks to me like all the severe weather will, as usual, start gathering out here, go east and form up, and drop loads of rain on I-35. We won’t get any – my best guess. Winds are kicking up though.
RE: My earlier comments about AI. ChatGPT is like a bicycle. There are fancy versions of AI out there that are like a Porsche. I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family. Our columnist replaced herself with AI voice and video to see how humanlike the tech can be. The results were eerie. Check this out.… Read more »
TexMo When we were growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, we had sets of encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, globes, magazine subscriptions like National Geographic and Life, daily newspapers and many books of all kinds. We had library cards and two grandmothers who were old-fashioned schoolteachers. Everyone in our extended family was a big reader. Kids didn’t dare make a grammatical… Read more »
mharper42
April 28, 2023 11:56 am
Morning, gang. I’ve been up for a while, but noticed I should post right now, lest everyone think I sleep in until noon…
Her Highness decided to try the new artificial intelligence software ChatGPT because she received a bizarre, incoherent essay from one of her tutoring students. I told her it probably came from ChatGPT. Today, she went there and entered the title and author of a famous short story and asked for a summary of the story. It returned with several paragraphs… Read more »
RE: My comments #16 and #17 See how this works ? “Vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission,” according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Dr. Peter Marks in a newly released memo. The US FDA has now adopted Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm works as operating and public relations manuals. Marks was writing as… Read more »
Closely related to my #16 comment: Robert Califf, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hell bent on ridding the internet of misinformation. In a series of public appearances, Califf has claimed that “misinformation is now our leading cause of death.” When I asked the FDA for evidence to support his claim, the agency drew a blank, admitting… Read more »
It’s all a moot point now. Universities, especially the Ivy League, are dropping SAT and ACT requirements, law schools eliminating LSAT and medical schools dumping the MCAT so they can discriminate against white males and Asian students and take in low light minority applicants. If you design a bridge as an engineer and it collapses, it’s not a failure but… Read more »
#13 – My PhD friend from Rice days who is a nuclear physicist asked his professors why German was the required language course while English was not. Prof told him that was because all the best research was done by German scientists. Made sense to him, so his German is pretty good but his English is about what you would… Read more »
I once again reworked both of the bucket bins, this time in search of cocoons. One bin had a lot of them, the other bin had fewer. Overall I probably harvested about 100 cocoons to stock my nursery, as well as quite a few wisps and small newborns. I have not really gone through them with such detail since I… Read more »
TexMo
April 28, 2023 10:19 am
Texpat, What is it in engineering school that does that or do students come to college without the communication skills in the first place ? I needed 139 credit hours to earn my B.S. ChEng and only 15 of those hours were liberal arts. The remainder were math, science, and engineering. I had to take an American History class along… Read more »
Refresh page for image. These fish live thousands of feet below the surface. I’ve never even heard of one much less laid eyes on a photo. Talk about a Creature from Deep Lagoon – maybe they should name it Mitch. Hold your breath! A marine science professor recently came face to face with a mythical creature straight out of a… Read more »
MOIST FEET ☙ Friday, April 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! The roundup today focuses almost entirely on the overheated controversy over an initially-awful bill that has been amended into what reliable conservative media outlets in Florida call the strongest medical freedom bill in the country. Even still, some folks are trying to weaponize the… Read more »
Stella Paul, an older lady, is a contributor at American Thinker and a professional writer. Last night, I got caught up reading her column about working for Disney for many years as a scriptwriter. She walked away from it when she began to suspect the serious infiltration of the pro-pedophilia crowd. Paul offers this.. We do know that Disney has… Read more »
Preparing to pull out in an hour or so to refill my cuddle tank with giggles and hugs. Got my ever-so-sexy BGS strapped on and doing a few things before I pull out. Now that I’m off the daily pain pills – and feeling it – I notice my right knee hurts. Last nght, quite a bit. I used some… Read more »
I see in comments in articles posted regarding Fox, Carlson and all, many leftists claiming the internal texts by Fox hosts and personnel revealed show they were lying about the 2020 election fraud and the Arizona call. I just read through them all and I don’t see it. I see conversations that they felt Trump did not/was not handling the… Read more »
It was 54 degrees F at 0600 hrs in my driveway in Glorious Copperfield this am; When I got to the office at Buffalo Speedway and Westheimer it was 68 degrees F at 0632 hrs. 14 degrees in 32 minutes and about 23 miles.
/this concludes the random factoids for this morning.
Another brief story since I have time for a couple more swigs of coffee. My newest BFF, who I went to Rice with and who now lives in Philly, blacked out in the shower a month or so ago and broke her pelvis in 3 places – not her hip, but her pelvis. She spent a couple of weeks in… Read more »
Morning gang. Probably need to mow the yard again this morning. The rain we’ve had the past couple of weeks has been nice, and everything is green right now. My bluebonnets out front are beginning to brown, but I don’t think the seeds are completely mature yet. I would like to harvest some seeds for out back distribution, but not… Read more »
Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Video Beats Old Fox News Time Slot Within an Hour. A video posted by Tucker Carlson to his Twitter page beat his old Fox News Channel time slot within the first hour. On Monday, Fox News executives announced that they were parting ways with Carlson, who consistently scored the highest-rated show on the network and beat all… Read more »
Oh yes! I do know who and that must mean it’s Friday! Weekend in view. Yesterday was a rain-out but that is a good thing since we needed it. That front was supposed to roar through and leave a little hard rain but it started about 10 AM, raining slow and steady and it lasted until 5:30 PM, We had… Read more »
Is something amiss? I see no weekend comments and no comments about no weekend comments.
Amen, Adee.
It’s been raining here off and on since about 7 tonight, but now it is steady with some lightning and thunder. Afternoon rain and what has fallen so far tonight amounts to 0.85 at a moderate rate so far and is likely to go on overnight. The plants outside should be happily slurping this up. Fascinating info coming from the… Read more »
Never ate a duck.
Mom said duck wasn’t good.
For some reason I have always believed her.
#35 – that SAME gap passed over us – oft’ known as the ‘Katy effect’
downright uncanny!
Nite all.
Thunderstorm approaching, getting louder. I had 3 big cats napping on the breakfast room table, stretched out and comfy, when there was a simultaneous power blinkage and a crack of thunder. In an instant, the cats had vanished. It startled me too, but terrified the kitties. Now hearing what sounds like small hail clinking the windows behind me.
The duck was (on my own scale) marginal. Guests loved it, so there’s that.
I think it could have stood to have its target temp at 165 instead of 160, but it was still yummy.
Tomorrow is steak & beef finger ribs because Yellow Hair won’t be back until Sunday.
One of the counties in middle New Jersey got sick and tired of parents screaming and yelling at umpires in Little League games so some genius came up with the idea that any parent who did so had to sign up to be an umpire for three games or be banned from the games. They say it has worked like… Read more »
I have 2 raccoons that come out early, around 6 pm when I feed my indoor cats, and then feed Billy his supper on the grass back of the old gazebo. That’s to keep him down low so he’s less likely to get excited over birds and squirrels that might come to the patio. Well, increasingly, I also have one… Read more »
#32 – I remember last year tracking BFF’s flight from S. Africa to NYC on flight aware. They did admit that out over the ocean the line may not be exact due to absence of radar coverage. Pretty neat feature though. When you get your private jet, you can advise them not to follow your flight to an undisclosed location;… Read more »
33 Shannon Everything west of and including the Mississippi River basin is inundated with snow melt. The shame in drought ridden California is that without the proper dams and reservoirs now, over 90% of the melt runs out into the Pacific and they still have no water for civilization. Did y’all see how the state of Montana suspended all (10,000+… Read more »
32 Super Dave
Nice move. The captain shot the gap.
Very cool, SD.
Not too long ago you couldn’t get a barge down parts of the Mississippi Rive for lack of water.
The water coming down from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and points south means more flooding on the way.
When my wife is flying I check out Flight Aware every now and then. Check out how the SW pilot dodged the weather coming out of Hobby. I’ve only checked in a couple of times today but I happened to see the pilot make the turn off the planned route in real time.
Why do we even need a State Department? They’re doing such a bang-up job for us. They’re just a bunch of China-loving, America-hating sleaze-bags.
29 Shannon Watch what you say. Justin “Little Fidel” Trudeau has declared anyone criticizing his government online can now be thrown in prison. Dudley DoRight and the Mounties will be knocking on your door in Bellville. I don’t know if he’ll bring Nell Fenwick with him, but you need to get in touch with Rocky and Bullwinkle and hire them… Read more »
So the only ally we have left in our hemisphere is Canada, and they’re not even a real country. 🙂
[T]he old paradigm of the US-Mexico relationship is over. The Mexican state is no longer a partner, and may well be en route to becoming something much worse. Mexico’s president, the increasingly authoritarian and erratic leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, visited Veracruz this past Friday to commemorate the 1914 American occupation of that city. In his remarks was a startling… Read more »
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Our daily tornado watch just came out. Looks to me like all the severe weather will, as usual, start gathering out here, go east and form up, and drop loads of rain on I-35. We won’t get any – my best guess. Winds are kicking up though.
RE: My earlier comments about AI. ChatGPT is like a bicycle. There are fancy versions of AI out there that are like a Porsche. I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family. Our columnist replaced herself with AI voice and video to see how humanlike the tech can be. The results were eerie. Check this out.… Read more »
It looks like my wife is passing over Mobile Alabama @ 36K’ 416 MPH GS. Ain’t modern technology neat?…Well sometimes. 😉
FYI – Tucker Carlson just joined Truth Social
TexMo When we were growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, we had sets of encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, globes, magazine subscriptions like National Geographic and Life, daily newspapers and many books of all kinds. We had library cards and two grandmothers who were old-fashioned schoolteachers. Everyone in our extended family was a big reader. Kids didn’t dare make a grammatical… Read more »
Morning, gang. I’ve been up for a while, but noticed I should post right now, lest everyone think I sleep in until noon…
Her Highness decided to try the new artificial intelligence software ChatGPT because she received a bizarre, incoherent essay from one of her tutoring students. I told her it probably came from ChatGPT. Today, she went there and entered the title and author of a famous short story and asked for a summary of the story. It returned with several paragraphs… Read more »
RE: My comments #16 and #17 See how this works ? “Vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission,” according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Dr. Peter Marks in a newly released memo. The US FDA has now adopted Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm works as operating and public relations manuals. Marks was writing as… Read more »
Closely related to my #16 comment: Robert Califf, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hell bent on ridding the internet of misinformation. In a series of public appearances, Califf has claimed that “misinformation is now our leading cause of death.” When I asked the FDA for evidence to support his claim, the agency drew a blank, admitting… Read more »
#16 –
Except for us oh-so-privileged Cracker racists eh? *no smiley*
It’s all a moot point now. Universities, especially the Ivy League, are dropping SAT and ACT requirements, law schools eliminating LSAT and medical schools dumping the MCAT so they can discriminate against white males and Asian students and take in low light minority applicants. If you design a bridge as an engineer and it collapses, it’s not a failure but… Read more »
#13 – My PhD friend from Rice days who is a nuclear physicist asked his professors why German was the required language course while English was not. Prof told him that was because all the best research was done by German scientists. Made sense to him, so his German is pretty good but his English is about what you would… Read more »
I once again reworked both of the bucket bins, this time in search of cocoons. One bin had a lot of them, the other bin had fewer. Overall I probably harvested about 100 cocoons to stock my nursery, as well as quite a few wisps and small newborns. I have not really gone through them with such detail since I… Read more »
Texpat, What is it in engineering school that does that or do students come to college without the communication skills in the first place ? I needed 139 credit hours to earn my B.S. ChEng and only 15 of those hours were liberal arts. The remainder were math, science, and engineering. I had to take an American History class along… Read more »
My freezer ain’t big enough. Dang!
Refresh page for image. These fish live thousands of feet below the surface. I’ve never even heard of one much less laid eyes on a photo. Talk about a Creature from Deep Lagoon – maybe they should name it Mitch. Hold your breath! A marine science professor recently came face to face with a mythical creature straight out of a… Read more »
MOIST FEET ☙ Friday, April 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! The roundup today focuses almost entirely on the overheated controversy over an initially-awful bill that has been amended into what reliable conservative media outlets in Florida call the strongest medical freedom bill in the country. Even still, some folks are trying to weaponize the… Read more »
Stella Paul, an older lady, is a contributor at American Thinker and a professional writer. Last night, I got caught up reading her column about working for Disney for many years as a scriptwriter. She walked away from it when she began to suspect the serious infiltration of the pro-pedophilia crowd. Paul offers this.. We do know that Disney has… Read more »
Preparing to pull out in an hour or so to refill my cuddle tank with giggles and hugs. Got my ever-so-sexy BGS strapped on and doing a few things before I pull out. Now that I’m off the daily pain pills – and feeling it – I notice my right knee hurts. Last nght, quite a bit. I used some… Read more »
Dateline TOK: No school today and rush hour traffic is virtually nil. A few workers drifting in for breakfast tacos. Should be a nice day overall.
I see in comments in articles posted regarding Fox, Carlson and all, many leftists claiming the internal texts by Fox hosts and personnel revealed show they were lying about the 2020 election fraud and the Arizona call. I just read through them all and I don’t see it. I see conversations that they felt Trump did not/was not handling the… Read more »
It was 54 degrees F at 0600 hrs in my driveway in Glorious Copperfield this am; When I got to the office at Buffalo Speedway and Westheimer it was 68 degrees F at 0632 hrs. 14 degrees in 32 minutes and about 23 miles.
/this concludes the random factoids for this morning.
Another brief story since I have time for a couple more swigs of coffee. My newest BFF, who I went to Rice with and who now lives in Philly, blacked out in the shower a month or so ago and broke her pelvis in 3 places – not her hip, but her pelvis. She spent a couple of weeks in… Read more »
Morning gang. Probably need to mow the yard again this morning. The rain we’ve had the past couple of weeks has been nice, and everything is green right now. My bluebonnets out front are beginning to brown, but I don’t think the seeds are completely mature yet. I would like to harvest some seeds for out back distribution, but not… Read more »
Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Video Beats Old Fox News Time Slot Within an Hour. A video posted by Tucker Carlson to his Twitter page beat his old Fox News Channel time slot within the first hour. On Monday, Fox News executives announced that they were parting ways with Carlson, who consistently scored the highest-rated show on the network and beat all… Read more »
Oh yes! I do know who and that must mean it’s Friday! Weekend in view. Yesterday was a rain-out but that is a good thing since we needed it. That front was supposed to roar through and leave a little hard rain but it started about 10 AM, raining slow and steady and it lasted until 5:30 PM, We had… Read more »