Another chapter of my memoirs

 

High School Reflections: From "Ragdoll" to Physics Whiz

My path through the public school system was, at least initially, quite uneventful. After spending time in Orangeville, my family returned to Toronto, where I attended senior public school for grades 7 and 8. At the time, I didn't consider myself particularly intellectual, and I suspect my teachers’ marks reflected that as I prepared for high school.

The Streaming System

Back then, the Canadian school system utilized "streaming," a practice of separating "bright" students into special sections while directing others toward shop and technical training. Although this was later abolished for being discriminatory, the system worked in my favor. I was originally slated for the "normal" course, but my brother pushed me to enroll in advanced grade 9.

Even so, my academic "engine" wasn't firing on all cylinders yet. I entered high school as a short, scrawny "nerd" during a time when several schools merged, bringing a flood of new faces. The social landscape was a bit lopsided: while the boys were small, the girls seemed to have hit their growth spurts all at once, appearing "huge" and tall by comparison.

Lessons in Falling

Seeking an extracurricular activity, I joined a mixed-gender judo class. I was remarkably unathletic—clumsy, with virtually no hand-eye coordination. Consequently, I became the class’s official "punching bag" or "ragdoll". I was frequently matched with larger girls who would effortlessly toss me across the mat.

While I never became a martial arts master, I did learn one invaluable skill: the complicated procedure of falling without getting hurt. By using my arms and shoulders to break the impact, I became an expert at hitting the ground safely—a skill that has saved me from many accidents well into my later years.

Socially, I was infatuated with these "big girls," but they only had eyes for the grade 12 football players. During a fundraiser "slave auction"—a practice that would be considered highly inappropriate today—I was "bought" by my grade 9 crush. I spent the day carrying her books, only to be totally ignored as she went about her business.

The Rise of the "Nerd Clubs"

By grade 10, my brain finally "kicked in". My academic skills flourished, and I rose to the top of my class. I remained completely unathletic, embracing my identity as a total nerd by joining several clubs.

In the Latin Club, we hosted toga parties where I put my technical mind to use, rigging an automatic lighting system for a bowl of alcohol. I also worked backstage for school productions and served as a lab assistant in the physics and chemistry departments.

The 1950s-era labs were a treasure trove of substances that are now strictly banned. I took full advantage of the "weird stuff" in the back, creating tiny amounts of stage pyrotechnics and explosives. Between the lab, the Library Club, and the Outing Club—where I spent time camping with like-minded individuals—I had found my niche.

A Late Bloomer

Despite the social atmosphere of high school, I was a "late bloomer". While I felt a social pressure to be interested in girls, I had very little actual desire to get involved with them beyond being fellow students or camping participants. By the time I reached grade 13—a standard in Ontario at the time—my focus had shifted entirely toward preparing for university, leaving the typical high school social preoccupations behind.

**you should see the dictated mess that this came from. wow!

Immigration is Obsolete

 

This thing got called out, but I bet there is a human for every robot.  I find it hilarious for the US racists.  They want to kill all non-whites, but inside every robot painted white, is a brown person.

All mundane office work has already been outsourced to the immigration countries.  That will be taken over by central Artie, which will have non-whites inside them.  Are they consulted 10% of the time?  Doesn't matter, they can run 10 of them, and have a nice house in India.  

Every trump-voter will soon be replaced.  They can't vote to 'keep them out' like the UK.  Doesn't matter!  

Ha!  Get rid of the paper work, and then rid of the doctors.  Lawyers, as well.  All those jobs that require memory and no thought.  However, we are talking 80%, always room for 'supers'.

Plumbers, painters, etc.  Will this destroy the world?  No, it will be as gradual as any productivity improvement.  There will always be Microsoft to screw everything up.  The productivity curve will always be a near-flat straight line.  No great touted 'miracle' has ever worked.  Stupidity will always rule.

Anyway, this is fun.  I'm looking forward to robots lowering me into the grave.

Ha, mushie already just uses humans in the machine to demo his great achievments.

All robots should be white.

ps I can't imagine any automated future world where you wouldn't design an Ottawa LRT at half the required load.

Arctic stagnation

 

Nothing is going on.  We are in our 'default weather' time, when everything depends on latitude.  Except for that little bit over by Toronto.  A spill may be starting way up north, but it seems slow.  I don't really know.

This is amazing cold.  You can see a sag in the upper western air, but I don't know the speed.  We'll have to wait.

Europe has a good flow coming down.  Might hit the end of the Olympics.

ps  no comment

ps stupidity of the day goes to the people complaining about fossil fuel ads for the olympics.  Ha, winter sports are totally dependent on fossil fuels.  Can a solar cell power a ski lift?  Refrigerate an ice rink?  I find this amazing.  Of course, these people threw out all nuclear in Europe.

Olympics weather looks good

 No 40 below stuff for them.  Looks average.

Our heating event is turning, but there still is some residual hitting us, and Europe.

Since we have no more Gulf heat, our weather depends on the Pacific plumes.  I think we have a last one hitting us.  

It is fighting an Arctic spill, so we have to see what happens.

For the first time in a while, the Arctic is going back to 'colder than the old normal'.  That baseline is 'pre warming'.  

There is the last Atlantic plume fighting a big flow from the Arctic.  Lots of snow.

The Arctic now has that 'double barrel shotgun' clockwise spin.  One outlet goes to Europe, and one to Canada.  Both are pouring down on plumes.  

In summary, we had our chance for warmth redemption, and it has been cruelly snatched away.  Look to heavy winter weather.

ps OMG, the dog walk!  Strong wind -30 wind chill.

ps Huntsville at -30C.  This year or next, we'll have 70's weather at -30 for Toronto, and -40 up north.  This is just for a standard 20 year cycle, we have no history for a major ice cycle.  And to be smug, this was all predicted.

A perfect clipper for Toronto

 

The fun of having Pacific air coming in, is that there is lots of snow.

The Arctic mechanism is listless.

THE BIG NEWS!

Remember yesterday when someone said there was a heating event, and no more cold fun?  Ha!  Fooled you once!  

Somebody snipped off the bud of the heating event.  Going down, total false labour pains.  It was a damp squib.

It was such a perfect reversal yesterday, and the chart confirmed it.  Now the reversal is shattered.  I expect the temperature chart to continue going down.  No fun for the warmies.  They won't burn fire barrels on the street.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.  I don't expect the ocean current to go back to warmness now, it never does.  I'm very sorry if you cashed in your natgas tickets.  I now expect the Pacific plumes to stop careening over the mountains, and leave things open for the Arctic spills.

The leftover plumes from the 'flash' heating event are still piling in.  Expect lots of snow.  Then we'll have fun with natgas, and the chance of the US running out.

The draw is huge, and straight down.

ps and natgas people are sipping pina coladas on the beach

ps I never expected such a weenie heat event.  I was expecting it to be smaller than the last one.  The big reversals used to be our El Nino events, then that stopped.  Then we had a transverse event (N-S in the W. Pacific)  I suspect no more heating events for 300 years.  

ps Yeah, Canada in the Olympics - We Are Ice!

ps Come against us, you rotten Trump-Titanic 

Create your memoir

 It has never been easier to create your memoir.  Mine, can't be published while I'm alive.  Perhaps, I'll get it done when I am dead.  

On your Pixel 8 or higher, dictate the story to Google drive, with voice typing.  It's really good now, and must download a bit of Artieness.  I find very few errors.

Then go to Gemini 3, and just prompt 'proof and edit for publication'  It's amazing in that it does all the tedious stuff like paragraphs and quotes, etc.  The result is fantastic, and asks if you want it more or less humorous.  I'm humorous enough for 10 people.

You can just close your eyes and dictate 'in the zone'.  It's as good as typing for me.  I remember 20 years ago trying to use voice typing, and you had to enunciate every word, and worry about punctuation.  I may even use it for the blog.  I started this a few days ago when my back went out.  Ouch!

A hundred years from now, physics might be back in style, and it will be a big seller.

 

Spine of cold broken

 We had a glorious winter of no heat energy.  So much fun with the US natgas.  The warmies would predict warmer weather, and it would always get colder.  Good thing nobody ever writes things down.

All this 20 below stuff has broken the spirits of top warmies, and they are now saying we'll be cold for months because of Aspect 5 of the Polar Vortex.  Ha, they will be wrong again.

I'm totally certain we have a heating event that will break the winter.  It's a question of whether it has enough energy to last the year, like 2023-4.  That heating event was totally missed by the warmie weather people, and they will miss this one, because it doesn't fit into their pattern.  All their patterns are dead.

This heat thing will waft tropical Pacific breezes over us.  Snow will melt in March, planting peas in April.  Will I get to the cottage early?  Who knows.

We did not have a disaster sufficient to bust the warmie groupthink, and go back to the Scientific Method.  I am sad for that, but I didn't really want a disaster.  Perhaps, it will become a fashion statement to fire all the leftie intellectuals.

If this heating event is smaller than the last one, then we are following 'reverberation' pattern like the decline of the El Ninos.  These are 'transverse' flow events.  A declining series would mean we will go back to our major ice cycle soon.

Mini heat event interferes with plans of cold domination

 I thought those Pacific plumes were getting a bit too frisky.  They are responding to a mini heating event.  This explains my tremendous confusion.

Lots of heat-discharge vortexes that are spinning out plumes, going right over Vancouver.  

A heat event is a discharge of stored heat energy.  The mechanics is complex, but it usually involves a reverse of current, and a concentration of heat in the upper surface.  You can see the action here, but a major heat event usually has a planar-laminar flow.  We don't know the final effect.

The last heating event was huge and this one wants to match it.  

Just like the last one, this reversal is dumping heat down south, where it will be a hot water bottle for the world.  If it has sufficient energy, it should break our cold spell, and we'll never see the excitement of the US running out of natgas.  As well, the warmies should be able to bring back the washpost in some form or another.

Curses, foiled again!

ps a heating event will give us a nice Spring, perhaps a warm May.  It's better than a groundhog.

ps warm air wanting to push out the cold means lots of snow.  My new books is "Fifty Shades of the Polar Vortex".

Pacific air takes over

 Nothing exciting for natgas.  The cold air crapped out, and lots of Pacific air is coming over the mountains.

The east is still going to be cold, but the real fun is in freezing Texans.  Not happening.

We are just having a weak Arctic seepage.  I have no idea what is happening.

Complex 3d wind pattern

 This wind pattern is killing me.  We have a full Arctic flow coming down on us, with a Pacific air storm on top, and then the cold wind comes out the bottom.  

Tomorrow, I'll see the minimum temperature.  Texas should be freezing.  If not, then very weird.  Yep, I am out of physics here.

Left's Last Linger

Really?  A 75M bribe for the movie wasn't enough?  All those warmies out on a very cold street.

ps and that ends the voice of the intellectual weenies.  Who do we have 'left' that can tell us stories?

and we can't take them all here.

Big freeze shifted slightly

 Strong Pacific air has whacked into it.  Some uncertainty in the exact path.

The two images conflict.  I'll go with a Big Blob of Blackness hitting the US.

The video doesn't tell us much.  If there is a big mix of the Pacific air, then another huge snowstorm.  

It is ironic that these Pacific plumes are being scooped up by extreme cold pouring out of the Bering Str.

ps this will hit just in time for the Eglinton LRT opening.

ps the real complication is that the Arctic air is slipping under the Pacific air.  That gives Texas more cold.

ps now they are calling it a 'Dislocated Polar Vortex'  Somebody get the doctor!

Musk to bring out Coalie Robot

 

They look like this guy.

I can imagine him bouncing around schoolrooms - "Getting coal for Christmas is great!".  Just smell the fumes - Smells like Victory!

Freezing the Heart of Texas

 I am officially calling an A8 Arctic spill coming down on us.  This has an 80% chance of freezing the heart of Texas.  I'm thinking of all sorts of new words for the old campfire song.

This has all three of the only properties I can use.  Walks like a duck, etc.  

An A8 is my version of the Richter Magnitude, which is exponential in terms of energy released.  This level can scour Texas and clear the Caribbean.  I knock it down to 80% because there are new mechanisms, which add to the uncertainty.

Remember our big snowstorm?  This is it, and again.  Enjoy the peace and solitude of the US natgas traders, as they sip drinks by the pool.  

If I wanted to cover my rear, then I would say it can be 'more confirmed' in the morning, but what the heck?  I am happy to be a bit more assertive, because nobody reads me.  

ps the winds are already an express train to Texas.  I just have to check the temperatures in the morning.

No Trump Nowhere

 

After the first eppie release showed Trump all over the place, we get 3 million files without a single mention of him.  No redaction, if trump is mentioned, throw it out.

As with all tin-pot dictators, they should have allowed 10%.  Just like these guys always win elections by 90%.  It is bad optics to go to 100%.  So these poor schnooks who can't redact a girl's face, have a major quality and intelligence problem.  Should have at least put in a picture with him and the old men, no girls.  Then, he has an excuse why he was on the plane 8 times.  "Cheap transport", he could say.

If all the good stuff is thrown out, then nothing can be done.  Keep being like Australia, and try to blow a fuse.

Eppie shows no brains, so I suspect it was Trump who might have 'unintentionally' goaded him.  But, this is all behind us.

Nothing Happening

 We are now in the new phase of magic.  I am waiting for the weather people to conjure heat energy from nothing,  It will be quite a show.

You can see that US is warming from stagnant conditions.  

The Arctic is testing me with completely new mechanics.  Since there are no measurements, and I can't understand it, I'll go with magic.  

I sit here totally flummoxed.  Enjoy the new winter.

ps If I weren't totally star-struck with the magic, I would say the Arctic is in recharge, as is about to shoot a very cold cannon blast at us.

ps they have to go against the biggest law in physics - You can't make something from nothing.  This can be done by 'Slipping Semantics', like they do for Polar Vortex.  Every day, it's a different meaning.

ps natgas is as peaceful as the empty eppie files

ps so, at the very earliest stage, we have an A8 spill coming down.  However, with the new unknown mechanism, we tend to have the arc of an A8 with no kinetic energy.  I'm not calling it until I see it crushing the stagnant Pacific air.

Weather forecast says that Carbon Warming will now reassert itself

 I'm happy with that.  Takes a load off my shoulders.  Natgas is going down like a brick.

Forget all this physics crap, we can be warm without heat energy.  At the beginning they realized that water vapour was ten times more insulating than carbon dioxide, so they made up a 'magic' explanation that carbon tickled the water to be more active.  This was even called magic at the time.

This can now come back and get rid of the cold.  I'm sick of it.  If it takes throwing out physics, then I'm all for it.

My morning forecasts will now just concentrate on how the Polar Vortex is dying.  That is just defined as a mass of cold air, so it can die.  That clange guy said it is now over Canada, so we can get rid of it.

Darlington - Declare Victory and Go Home

 

I love this plant.  I worked on it a lot.  Now, all the guts have been replaced and it can go on.

Why did it wear out so fast?  Nobody is raising this question, and I'm happy for that.  They have replaced everything exactly as it was, and now can wear out things just as fast.

This raises the question of what they are going to build at Wesleyville.  But, I'm too old to worry about that.

ps fun on the waste side

Slow cold envelopes us

 

We are at the point of minimum heat energy.  Everything is slow.  The Arctic continues with the clockwise vortex.  I have no mechanism for this, it should be impossible.  

The happy note for today is anticipating the reaction of the natgas traders.  They only react to the temperature hitting their collective noses.  

ps my arch-nemesis is sounding reasonable.

It’s air that is thick and dense. It’s like molasses. It just oozes along the ground and fills all the nooks and crannies and doesn’t leave you.”

You can't say he doesn't read me.

ps regular weather forecast has all this cold swept away by Pacific air.  Natgas has dropped back to 3.5