The joy of lithium batteries

 I am finally back on Aliexpress, now that I figured out how badly I mucked up the return system because of their bad English.

I've been testing these suckers.  Very high quality with loads of safety features.  The odds of one of these causing a fire is 1 in 10 million, the same as plummeting to your death in a big jet.  Still, you should not put them under your curtains, or get rid of curtains altogether.  These are the best quality you can get.  I tested them with Christmas candles and flashlights, and they have a faster discharge rate, and that gives a brighter light.

Time to get rid of the loser NiMh batteries.  They drop their voltage before you even use them.  Buy these, you'll be happy.  I am a Chinese spy, waiting for them to pay me.

Microsoft did not do anything with US air stoppage

 

Nothing, absolutely nothing.  They said it and that's that.

I recall a similar situation where their sloppy security had nothing to do with anything.  It was a time when a big computer worm was stopping all MS communication.  The software gave no indication of this, since it didn't do anything.

A single little tree fell on a power line somewhere.  Normally this is monitored, but the operations didn't see anything on their Windows terminals.  They had to be told by the next guys down the power cascade that something was happening and they denied it for a while.

On and on it went, nobody doing anything because Windows was clogged and nobody knew.  You can guess this became a huge power outage because all the main breakers were tripped, and transformers blew up all over the place.  We drove to the cottage because they had power from a non-MS line.  

With lots of money, the final report just blamed the tree.  

ps if a tree falls in the woods on a power line, and all the ears are filled with win-wax, is the tree to blame?

ps if I had one smidge of their schmooze money, I'd be set for coffees for life.

ps in case they complain

ps this is also relevant to the spy thing.  Win has no layers of security, just the eggshell on the outside.  She just needed to access his laptop while he was snoring.  You Can See Everything!  and download it.  These Big Orifices always measure their length by have total access.  No logs.

ps they are now blaming it on a tiny router in the middle of nowhere.  Perfect.

Clash of the Titans

 

Very dramatic.  Both are defined by their final effect.  It's like identifying the disease by the colour of the bandaid.  They are also mucking up the Vacuum Polar Vortex with the Arctic Basin Vortex.  

Back to real physics.

That was a really good linear storm that came down.  Maybe snow for Toronto.  No heat from the Pacific.  Signs of next cold linear storm.

You can see we still have a clockwise vortex.  I've decided that straddling the North Pole gives no preference to clockwise or counterclockwise motion for a Stirling Engine Vortex.  This one is now throwing off a blob towards us.  We will see if the spaghetti sticks tomorrow.

 

ps One snowflake on the dog walk today.