Hank

Would loan you my gas generator but I am in NYC. 🙁

Goveners should deploy their guard troups doing something far from cities and a ounce that they are unavailable.

Larry, when you start off with "Is it weird that I" you may have answered your question before you have finished typing! ;-)
I did like Mayflower Murders on PBS.

I am new to this, but is this a typo:
GET/me/preferences/ Get the current user’s settings.
should it say Get the user's PREFERENCES?

I went with the EV9 because I feel better in bigger. After a few weeks I am comming around to the controls.

Microsoft 50? When I started there in 1980 anything was possible and most of everything happening was fun. When I retired in 2002 the IBM-ifcation was in full swing. You could not throw a bouncy ball without hitting an MBA. It was inevitable but sad none the less.

Bygone Microsoft dissonance.

It's time for Schumer to go. This not a time for loyal opposition following the rules and playing nice. It's got to be NO NO NO to President Musk and the other orange guy.

First the came for ... then your coffee, but it was too latte.

Hits close to home for someone like me who lost his wife just a few months ago. Lost my wife and now am I loosing the country I love?
Evil stalks the land. Can we hope they will over play their hand?

Would be wise for blue states to divert funds so that displaced government works can contribute to states. Same for like minded corporations.

Apparently many now believe that the ends justify any means, that the invisible hand of the market defines virtue instead of greed, and that enlightened self-interest absolves all. I see this as the lowest ethical point in our nation’s history. We face not a political nadir but a moral one.

I hope for someone to express, in simple terms, basic morality to the citizenry and do it loudly and repeatedly. The vast majority of Americans know right from wrong and if reminded often enough they will recognize the wrong in the current leadership.

Last night's cookie: "Be the labor great or small...Do it well or not at all" -an oldy

In the ongoing mystery of why my Windows 11 freezes I can now make the desktop use over 30% of the GPU by asking edge to display the weather map. Its a RTX 4060 so the GPU fans kick in. Meanwhile the old XEON running MInt is always silent.

Well, heck, already ordered on Amazon.

I wonder if any buildings survived and why they did. Must be some that were built to survive without FD intervention.

I would hope that in all of LA there was at least one house designed to withstand a fire of this nature. It would be nice to see a picture of that.

I will give this to the grandkids so they will know what a telephone was. Alas no ringer and modern IP phone setup does not recognize pulse.

It’s a little over three months since my wife passed and your NYT essay hit home. I have been using TV and the internet to get through the day. You have motivated me to get back to walking and thinking and reading books. Hold that family of yours close, Chris, you never know.

Now, there was a good man.

More positivity from the fearless leader would have made a HUGE difference. We all in the together, we can do this, etc.

Are power lines that trees can knock down what we should expect from power companies in 2025? State of the art?

First Christmas totally alone. No kids and no wife gives new appreciation of being a widower.

Part 2: I guess truth does not figure high in AI priorities. Lastly I asked one AI if "are any news stories lies" and it said yes, suggesting "check multiple sources". So "it" knows there are lies out there but can't identify any of them. Sad!

Is the internet mostly lies? How would you measure it? I asked a couple of AIs about the last 24 hours of news lies and both were NOT helpful. I decided the "drones over NJ" was the big story and asked an AI about that but it was unable to answer about lies.

What worries me about AI is that it has learned from us. In the USA morality has declined IMHO. We find fantasy more appealing than fact. We find that the alure of an outcome often justifies the means. I wonder if before super intelligence we get an AI with poor or worse super immoral AI.

That's a PL/I programming book. I wrote a useful interactive editor in PL/C so I could write programs without punching cards. An IBM 360/40 under DOS with two honking Tektronix 4010 terminals blew IBM's mind. Late 60s

Just got word, its a boy! My 4th grandchild. Will there even be programming when he grows up?

Thanks for that!