It's almost comic what a prick you are being.

Every one is scared of you and won't engage but I won't engage and am not scared of you.

What the fuck are you going to do? Block me? Lol, Hubski is dead and you are being a prick.

I'll check out Merlin.

There are a few birds I see at work that I can't identify and I'd like to know what they are.

I often see Blue Herons at work but I naturalist say there are fewer of then around than there used to be. Crazy thing is that it's not men that are killing off the Herons, it's Bald Eagles. Bald Eagles kill Heron chicks in their nest.

I often see Bald Eagles at work, never as close up as Herons.

I got within about 5 ft of a sleeping Heron at work one night, I didn't notice him until he took off and I guess he didn't see me untill I was almost upon him as he slept.

We just replaced our old pickup at work with a new one.

They got a Ford F350 with the extended crew cab, extended bed, with a powered lift gate that adds a foot and a half to the vehicle. Goddamn is it enormous. It's probably the biggest vehicle I've driven and it needs to go into plenty of tight spaces.

Every time you start it up it shows a little add in the speedometer area of stylized truck photos and motto's like "Built Ford Tough." The fuck I'd buy a car that was going to show me a commercial every time I got in it. Ford just did whatever the opposite of advertising to me is.

I guess it's everything we need in one vehicle. It can handle big tow jobs so we don't have to use the even bigger dump truck, it's got a 50 gallon diesel tank for the dredge and generators, four guys fit comfortably and you can haul a lot of gear but I don't dig it.

Weird thing to put in Pubski but it's on my mind tonight.

Sending troops to Portland is so dumb. Any disturbance to federal property is taking place on one block, maybe spilling out two surrounding blocks on occasion. If they wanted to make the city better they would fund housing. Most leaders are pushing for people to just ignore federal troops until they wander away, I hope it works. Black block goes hard when they commit and they just might, hope they don't. It's kinda neat that the ICE building is near the Tesla dealership.

That's a shockingly good song for the tiny audience it's found on You Tube.

I've finished my nine month probation at my new job!

I'd have to do something incredibly negligent or just stop showing up to get fired now.

This is as good a job as I can imagine getting out of community college associates degree. The work isn't often hard, the pay is great as are the benefits. There are many diverse sources of risk (chemical, biological and mechanical) but none of them are very likely to get me if I cultivate good habits. There are also six distinct work areas so there is enough variety to cut through the drudgery.

The rest of my life has become a bit of a wreck but at least my money is in good shape.

Start killing all the bamboo and be ready to keep killing it for years.

It's a dangerous weed.

"I'm sure any point I make wouldn't be given fair scrutiny."

I guess open and shut was hyperbole.

Jimi Paige claimed that this had no influence on the Led Zepplin song of the same way.

"its a basically open and shut case that the president raped kids as part of an Israeli kompromat farm"

Tell me more?

Looked like a kill shot to me.

I'm not big on modern music but this song has been bouncing around my brain all week.

Cool track.

I've tried to get several different AI's to write Open Office calc code to roll initiative for a D&D game where you enter all players name, their bonus to init and put it in order. We are rolling every round.

This seems like it shouldn't be that tough but ChatGPT, Gemini and what ever Microsoft is calling their Bing AI have all fucked it up everytime and when asked to fix it just make the code 10% longer while breaking things in new ways.

All the AI's are cocksure of themselves going into it and by the end they all say something along the lines of "well...Open Office is just wierd"

Not that AI cant be cool and fun but come on...write a damn initiative program.

In the summer the flows at our water treatment plant are at their lowest, so we take a bunch of equipment off line for maintenance.

In addition to maintenance we also perform a few zero flow events, where we hold all incoming flows in the collections system or in isolated in plant systems to do work that can only happen when you have no flow.

We zero flowed today and everything went sideways every chance it had. Heavy mobile pumps were dropped in channels, hydralic units that worked yesterday wouldn't start today, same with mobile generators. We opened channels that hadn't seen daylight in 25 years which were packed with 6 feet of sediment.

I was happily just labor for most the day. Where there is no consequence for everything going wrong there is a certain freedom. Freedom came at the cost of having to move 100 feet of 6 inch pressurized lay flat hose until I wanted to vomit but I don't really mind that sort of thing.

Pretty smelly, gritty, dirty day.

Not a huge surprise he was signed to Gary Nuwman's label.

Been listening to a lot of Punk and 50's Jazz/Rock

Little Richard hits it so hard. Could he be the most arrogant man in rock? It's worth getting past the intro.