Wind Power is the Shiz

 

I decided to join in on the rumpy dog pile for wind power.  It being attacked by lip-flappers, and defended by lip-flappers.  No physics.  You can read the article and it never comes to a point.  

We know that wind power kills everything, and generates a lot of infra-sound.  People and mammals can't stand that because the inner brain thinks a dinosaur is coming.

That said, when we were locating seismometers near Toronto, there was an incredible source of infra-sound, so that we had to move far away.  What was it?  Who knows, but everybody gets used to it, when it is continuous, or in a rock concert.  It's the randomness, and variation that drives people nuts with wind power.  Ten times worse with an array, because they all sync up.

I'm saying get rid of it, but without physics, we'll get something worse, like land-killing, grid destroying, solar cells.

Ding done, the Arctic Vortex is dead

 All winter, we have had a stationary vortex over the Arctic Basin.  Such a thing has to be a heat engine, in order to stay alive.  My brain kept trying to envision it, but I kept swatting it down because it hurt so much.  It's quite amazing as warmer air is on top, and as the air sinks it is pulled apart by the vortex.  The expansion feeds the spinning air, and the vortex poops very cold air out the bottom.  This just keeps accumulating until all of us get the poop spill, in the form of very dense cold air, which acts as syrup over ice cream.

This marvellous thing exploded the other day, with the remnants all over Europe.

This is a fun thing for the big warmie prediction that 2026 will be the hottest year ever.  Good thing they have the ability to change the meaning of the word 'hot'.

We are still getting pieces of the beast coming over us, but my beans are safe.

At least the air waves are filled with the coming of the 'Super El Nino'.  They have to do something.

We will have one of those years where the furnace is on one day, and the air conditioning the next.  The cold remnants will end suddenly, and we will be into stagnant air.  Hot like Heck!  This will be a fine time for the warmies to redefine 'El No-no'.  They'll raise their funds for the rest of the year.

So, on June 27, at 3 pm, it will be a stagnant, humid day at 100degF, all air conditioning at full blast, and all electric cars plugged in.  The entire NA grid will suddenly melt.  Wait!  Didn't his happen?  Oh well, those who learn from history are one in a million.

ps the title is a pun that just popped out of my brain.

ps this reminds me of a description of the breakup of the Moosonee River.  A violent thing that could be heard miles away.  It came down with a roar and broke up all the ice.  Everybody just stayed away and watched it.

Canadians on the '86 List'

 

Wow, now you know why I have only 3 readers in Canada, and I'm happy with it.  I will continue to use made-up names and make fun of people, who's names may or may not rhyme with 'rump'.  

Obviously, Canadians who obviously and strongly insult the 'rumper room', should not travel there or buy their stuff.  I've heard of electric razors rigged to blow up.  

In fact, I will go further and have nothing more to do with those people who are assumed to live more south than us.  Hope they enjoy our cold air.

World politics now follows Quantum Mechanics

 QM has done great things for the world.  Mostly with cheap, efficient lighting.  That is a force that raises the standard of living and saves lives.  No leftie argument has been raised against it.

qm rules the physics of the 'very small'.  It is now controlling the world of 'very small minds'.  The base of qm is the 'Uncertainty Principle'.  It is also called 'cat in the box' or 'whale on the bottom', in that you never know if the cat (or whale) is dead or alive.

However, in our wonderful 'Influencer World', you don't need to know the status of the cat, you just say it, and convince others.  

We go now to a deep dark place:  "Ok, prepare for the next cat announcement!  You have one second before to put in your 'investment' on the prediction markets.  3, 2, 1 - The Cat is Alive!  Cash out, that's one billion dollars in our pockets.  Next announcement in 12 hours"

The markets of the whole world go up and down a trillion dollars with each quantum cat announcement.  A billion dollars is nothing to skim out of that.

Brent crude just went down 8%

Whole world is cold

 A few little specks of warmth for our buddies to be happy.

The mimic stuff isn't available this morning.  Somebody has to pay those guys.  Are we eliminating all weather services?  Does anybody care?

Europe is deflecting the Final Burst, and it's all coming down on us.  My beans are never popping out.

The cold air is knocking at the door, but will it burst through?

No war to last more than 59 days

 In the 70's:  "I am pleased to announce that we have entered the Viet Nam War 12, nothing to do with those other wars."

We have passed Iran 1, and are now into Iran 2.  Totally different wars.

ps now, if somebody yells at them "How stupid do you think we are?", it will just zing over their heads.

Arctic continues to drain, Greenland pours down on us

 

The advance of the cold in Europe seems a bit slow.

Seems like we're still getting it.

The video shows a huge flow to Europe, but a big internal vortex for us.  It might be driven by a narrow stream from Greenland.

The Arctic breaking up is good news, and we might be warm by the end of May.

ps yeah, we have a new made-up doom!

ps 

Arctic bubble bursts - cold pours on Europe like a flood

 

I have to stay up late for an airport pickup.  Man, this flood is amazing!  Imagine if it was water.  I am hoping that the Arctic Basin Vortex is shattered for the season.  Europe is just calling it a 'cold snap'.  A shallow life without physics.

The Physics of the Frying Pan

 Physics is now becoming important with induction cooktops, and especially with temperature control.  This is a healthy paradise, but takes some work.

The best frying pan for induction has been cast iron.  Uniform heating, and non-stick, but crushes your arm and anything else in the drawer.  Hard and brittle, don't slip on the cooktop.  In general, a 'don't use' thing.  Now, we have something new, and I won't tell you what I got, or the price doubles.

The whole thing about cast iron, is that it is black, and has a knobby surface if you magnify a lot.  This allows a 'cure' which is non-stick.  You have to put the oiled pan in the oven at a horrendous heat, and wait half an hour.  Then you don't dare put any soap on it when you just rinse with hot water.  

I have found you can put the same cure on shiny stainless steel, but it's not as good, and looks so ugly, you grab for the scraper, and whap yourself on the hand to stop doing it.  Many cannot resist.

Now, for the super-pan which allows you to give the cast iron to the scrap man.  This is a medium-weight stainless steel pan with a carbon steel inter-layer for induction.  So far, like every other useless stainless steel pan.  But, they have laser etched the thing into a beautiful pattern, top and bottom.

This is etched, and it is black.  It has everything that cast iron has.

The classic 'Destroyer of Pans', puts the pancakes on a cold pan, decides they aren't sizzling, and turns the heat way up.  This person is anonymous.  For this pan, you spray in the oil, turn up the vent, put the induction heat on super-duper, and wait for 10 seconds.  The oil ripples all over the place in a neat pattern, and then starts to puff.  With super-quick reflexes you turn it off, and put on temp control at 5, medium.  I just did steaks yesterday, and they were great.

It was rain-snowing outside, so no bbq at the time.  

This is the first time that the temp control seems like heaven-scent!  (sic).

The pan just rinses off with the sink sprayer and hot water.  

ps yesterday's Chinese leftovers were better with this method, than the microwave.  Not more work.

Sea Level Continues to be Flat

 Poor US weather, they are getting later and later with the tide gauge data.

March is at the zero line.  This is the best chart of historic temperature cycles.  Everything is there.  We've had generally warm and cold cycles.  I especially like the day that Hitler decided to invade Russia.  Dropped like a stone.  Must have a connection to dictators.

As we know, the warmies decided to rename 'local sea level' to just 'sea level' for dramatic impact.  They can do anything.  So, all the places in the world that are just sinking, are 'proofs' of climate change.  They must have been laughed out of the park, because I don't see much of this any more.  Ah well, they have the power to rewrite history, and say they never said this.

I haven't noticed one speck of rationality in the media lately.  Really, you can't make fun of the silliness, because it is parody of a parody.

ps gas going up.  Don't forget to stockpile gasoline in leaky cans in your garage with lithium batteries.  

No Weather Today

 I looked, I saw, I gave up.  No weather today.  It's all just yucky.

The entire Arctic Basin Vortex is bursting, and everything is headed to Europe.

I have no comment on what this means.  This is the death scene I had envisioned.  Hopefully, it now stays dead for the summer.  Sucks for Europe.

ps the video looks like a human cell bursting out with covid virus.

86 the plan

 

86 is 1930 rhyming slang for 'nix', and you don't see that word often.  This is what I said would happen.  Iran won the war, and the loser wants the winners to grovel before him.  Amazing.

Once upon a time from the West

 

The Arctic is in recharge, and we are getting a weak Pacific plume coming over us.  All I want now is for the warmies to be happy.  "This is climate change in action" for all of us.  Anyway, no big freezes for the next week, I can uncover the peas.

Yes, Virginia, the winter is over, if you just stay above this line.  Do not read on.

This is total Artie, a fantasy.  It does not show the most perfect Arctic Ice Machine Vortex yet.  It will just pop like a bubble.

**Rationality Insert**  OMG!

ps My birthday today, send money.

ps Yeah!  Never give up, never surrender.

Linux - when KDE screws up

 KDE can go along for some time, and then it doesn't.  I use the Wayland version, which is worse.  I used to reinstall everything, but now I don't.  The difficulty is that it is impossible to just clear the configuration, since it is spread all over the place.

So simply make a new user with Wayland, and eventually add all the things you lost.  Sucks a bit, but better than reinstalling the whole system.

The End of Jets

 

Trump is ending Nato.  Who cares?  Does Canada need a new fighter jet?  Nope.  Submarines?  Tanks?

ps I think the jets are like trying to swat a fly, with my reflexes.

Just when you thought it was safe to get into the water

 

New Arctic spills coming down on NA and Europe.

I'd make fun of Texas, but they are in a movement to turn over their politics.  

This just shows the unbelievably perfect Arctic Ice Machine.  Too bad nobody knows physics, or they'd influence the crap out of this.

Trump leaves the Sane Plane

 

This is no news whatsoever.  I just find it amazing that trumpy can go totally ga-ga and everybody listens to him like he is God.  Now, Iran is filling wheelbarrows with money to buy a hotdog, and the world cuts down the price of oil, in happy expectation.

Now, trumpy knows that he has no power to impose tariffs, and is fighting paying them back, so he imposes new tariffs.  Amazing.  But the big thing is that Iran presents the peace plan, and we know he will say:  "Crawl on your knees and worship me as  your God, send women."  They all decide to to dump every mine they have in the strait.  

With this an absolute certainty, why is the price of oil dipping on happiness?  Who knows.

Anyway, this is fun.  We can only hope that this is the 70's again with doubled gasoline, and extreme cold.  The worst is no gas and extreme cold.  California is processing all oil into jet fuel, and no gas.  Will all the refineries do the same?

Ha, ha, they'll get their wish, no oil for nobody.

False El Nino Officially Declared

 They are saying El Nino is here, and Super El No-no by the summer.  

I knew that with all this cold, they had an itchy trigger finger.

The declaration is coming from the old Nino zone, and the fact it is zooming up.

Wow, you can't argue about that!

The Great Heating Event of 2024 was totally missed by the weather people, and only declared after the fact, hiding in passing references.  That's because it slashed down from the Heart of Warmness, and missed the old Nino zone entirely.

You can see the hot lump of that event heading for the South Pole.  One of the micro heating events that followed, created a lump you can barely see, is entering the old Nino zone.  The Nino zone was expanded to include nearly all the tropics, so they wouldn't miss it again.

Now, here's the kicker, the tropics have no great temperature (air).

That's compared to 2024, which had the effect of a Super Ellie.  The fun of all this, is that ocean currents have shifted and there is no Ellie, and Lala events any more.  However, they keep trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.  Nobody cares!  And all their money is going to heating fuel.

ps I think they now have it set up so that the tremendous heat of the stagnant summer can be attributed to Ellie, which somehow proves clange.

May Day - Cold!

 I soooo wanted to declare "The Cold is Dead" - Ding dong!  But no.

We are still in a good drift of cold.  A snowstorm can only come if there is Gulf air to fight, but that air has run away.

Still coming down on Europe.

Alaska has a black cat walking over it.

And the US is as cold as trumpy's stare on the new passport.  

Stagnant air is in the West.  They can whoop for joy that they have warmth, but the 300 year drought is just stagnant, clear air.  

ps talking to the neighbour, I realize that nobody cares about the biggest quackery of the new century.  Trumpy has turned everybody from Angry Old Man, to Suicidal Man.  The next attempt on him will be a drop from 10 storeys. 

ps the big slogan of the US mid-terms will be 86 THE BUM, which is the original useage.

Bondi wouldn't do it

  We now find out that Bondi had limits for the Trump DOJ Dogs.  

Fired because she wouldn't do it.  He was wanting to do this for a long time.  Neat.

Bet against warmth

 

Just joking.  There is insufficient resolution to bet on a temperature change.  At that fine level, it is pure chaos.  But if there is a broad bet, then go for it.  Problem is, that there are no hard definitions in the whole clange thing.  Everything is fluid.  Freezing cold?  - clange.  Wet? - clange, etc.

Too late to bet on a snowstorm in May.  The weather forecasts are all going that way, and it's clange.  And you can't bet on the summer.  Last year, a super hot June, freezing July, and warm August and September.

You could bet on El Nino, but they'll change the definition again.  You are better off with hairdryers at the airport.

ps find a seismometer in California and bet that the emergency alert gets triggered.

Doddering old men in charge

 I'm a doddering old man, but I'm not in charge.  I just noted that yesterday the US marines were buying huge WWII amphibious landing ships, and today they might buy this.

Have they actually bought one?  Nope.  And the air force was buying 64 Tomahawks a year, while buying fancier and fancier jets that can be knocked down by a 2-buck Stinger.  The army is just the army.

Canada is just the same.  Big things are sexy, with lots of schmoozing parties.  Neat.

ps the nice thing about the modern world is that it is now heavily weighted against invasion, or taking territory.  Military balances always swing from offence to defense, big to little.  We are safe from having anxiety about China, but we can't buy from them any more because of the jet fuel doubling.

Musk shows the current state of his brain

 

I'm not saying anything because he would sue me.  Anyway a 2-year-old would do better here.  At least trumpy knows to never go on the stand.  I am glad that mushies Supreme Confidence still holds.

Although he is selling spacey, he is keeping total control.  I would think all this would tank the stock.

Call Uberhole!

 

This is union busting, worse than Uber.  Use the Uberhole app!  

A King for All Nations

 

How's he getting out of there alive?  I like this guy, now.  At one time we were thinking of never using any money with his head on it.  Now trumpy has to go to war with the entire world that is laughing at him.  How's the soccer coming along?

Overnight, all my China purchases have gone up 30%.  And no tariffs.  Ammie is next.  All the regular stores have gone under, so everything is Costco again, like the 80's.

The States must be worse off.  Maybe the kids will come back.  We live in interesting times.

86 47

Funny that only mob bosses knew what that meant.

ps Canada can get rich by using all our oil for jet fuel for China.  Our confined natgas gets turned in methanol, and we make our own methanol cars.  Even a vacuum company in China is making cars, we can do the same.  Or, get all the methanol cars from China, and put up the drug-growing greenhouses.  We can't stay with the old order because the US is gone, and it will take a generation to come back.  No need in the US for Ice, the illegal immigrants are all jumping ship.

ps and another mad king takes the stage

No wonder everybody wants a Canadian passport.

ps Aliexpress is all jet fuel, Ammie is all gasoline, and Costco is the slow boat from China running on bunker crude.

ps ok, I now figured out why tumpy wasn't suing the King for 10 billion.

Undecipherable

 Today is one of those days when I can't figure out what is going on.

The Europe channel is closing up.  Toronto is still getting hit big time, but nothing behind it.

Just don't look at these two charts.  

At the 30% confidence level, the Arctic is going back into recharge.  The west is being taken over by stagnant heat.  50% chance of a couple winter things in May.