Bad guys break into home in Newport Beach, California. One goes to hospital; the other was found in the bushes with a self-inflicted fatal head wound.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
No, Two Items Lost in the Move
My Jaguar is old enough (10 years! How time flies) that the HomeLink buttons on the rear view mirror would not work with the old house's garage door motor. There is a unit that is effectively a translator from the antique codes to the new one. You plug it into any outlet line of sight to the motors and do a silly little dance with an intermediate box to synchronize the antique with the modern secure opener. At some point, I tried to reprogram the code on the garage door threshold and the Jaguar no longer could speak Klingon to the little translator.
Eventually, I learned that LED bulbs produce a signal that prevents reprogramming. (In the meantime, I had installed these amazing five panel but Edison bulb compatible fixtures. I should have turned them off and reprogrammed the Jaguar, but I kept forgetting to do so.)
When I moved, I had one of the moving hunks unplug the translator unit from the ceiling outlet. But where did I put it?
Fortunately, they are only about $40, so I ordered another one.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
I Only Lost One Item in the Move
The power cord for my Canon PRO-300 never appeared. I have no idea where it could have gone. Fortunately, a replacement cost about $6 on Amazon. Every maker has their own power plug preference. Most are three conductor, in a triangle layout. This is a two conductor plug on the printer in sort of a 8-shaped plug.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
How Stupid Do You Have to Be to Admit a Felony on the Stand?
4/14/24 National Pulse:
"New York police took custody of an unlicensed firearm belonging to anti-Trump activist E. Jean Carroll following a report from The National Pulse.
"In January 2024, we reported that Carroll disclosed holding a firearm at her home during her defamation trial against former President Donald Trump. This revelation, according to a police report, led Warwick, New York police to visit Carroll’s residence on February 15 to address the weapon."
I am unclear how this came up in a defamation trial, but talk about dumb. The TDS heroes are none too bright.
The Future of Demeaning Low-Skill Jobs
NBC News reports on the response to California's new $20/hour minimum wage.
I have been looking forward to this. There are lots of physically demanding often unskilled jobs that need automation. When I was recovering from my stroke, they would need to transfer me from my bed to a gurney for transport to X-ray, MRI, and a few machines I do not remember. Two nurses would come in and pick me up to move me. I had wasted away to 200 pounds (and I am now below that!) but it was still a unpleasant task.
Often this was being done by an RN and an LVN. Both are pretty well paid jobs and worth every penny they get for an often disgusting job. A robot with padded arms and hands to pick up the patient with knowledge of generally sensitive areas on people and particularly sensitive areas on each patient would make this a good job for a robot. Combine it with knowledge of where to take the gurney (MRI? X-ray? Cath Lab? Morgue?) and a heavy job that takes two people can be done as needed and perhaps faster. There is some capital investment required, but medical care workers are in short supply, just like fast food workers.
We have been automating American society since the 1790s, making Americans better off and happier in the process.
Do Any of You Have a Cadillac CT4, CT5, or CT6?
As much as I want a C8 Corvette, the lack of trunk space for the M1A and telescopes makes me wonder if the mild reduction in performance for one of these might make sense. They are substantially cheaper used than modern Corvettes. I am really more a sports sedan guy anyway.
The last CT6 I drove was startling. As I turned a corner onto the Interstate, I distinctly heard it say, "Faster, harder." For a Cadillac to demand to be treated as a sports sedan was astonishing to someone who grew up surrounded by the barge ancestors. The CT6 is also apparently AWD standard. Useful in a sometimes snowy place.
I am not keen on all-electric cars because I do not necessarily stay on the well-established routes where charging stations can be found.
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