Game consoles priced out of the market

 

This is interesting to me in that I saw the big price increase last December and bought a forgotten Minisforum computer that was stacked up with the fast memory that you can't buy now.

I was using that computer to bring to life old family videos.  Then the liquid-metal cooler broke.  Took months for the warranty because there weren't any of these machines around.  I took out all the high-speed stuff, and they eventually found a UM773 lite barebones.  It works fine now.

Suddenly I had the notion to bring back all the PS3 games stacked in the closet.  I used the AI to install an emulator for Linux, and was off.  It worked great.  Now, I just have the problem that I am worth poop on games.  For the driving game, I finally worked up to driving a mini at 40 on a track.  And it flared up my sciatica that hasn't been around for 30 years!  I just think about the games now, and I feel it.

All being put away again.  My conjecture is that console games are finished for those big social games.  People live to cheat on those things, or boost up their PC's to fire-zone levels, or pay big money.  The human condition.

Second lump of cold coming down

 This one might get the attention of the natgas crazies, since it will hit while they are awake.

It might hit the tomatoes this time.

This is rather confusing, but the Arctic vortex is bravely coming back to life.  The only threat to its dominance was the typhoon off Japan, but that is about to be smashed with cold air.

As usual, El Nino is in a stagnant zombie state.

ps note that the Gulf has been wiped out as a source of heat.  All the charts continue to show cold, and the Arctic ice is hooking up again.  Everything lines up for the ice age.

ps today, the heat blob is completely gone.  It will bob up again.  The curves for this have a 6 day slop, and this is happening by the minute.

Nevertheless, this is somewhat significant.

ps frost on the roofs today, but not down to the tomatoes

Time to set up the micro-greens

 It's going to be a long, cold winter.  Last year, it was made worse by a huge failure of my microgreens.  That's what happens when you never wash it, builds up soil, and the nasty fungus comes in.

For this year, I washed and disinfected everything.  I use circulating water, with nutrients, and I have a clay bead base.  They are already an inch high.  I've written about it before, and today I made sure the heater was working.

A magnificent dry clipper

 

This is a full Arctic sweep of M8.  That tiny bit of moist air comes from a very weak Pacific plume.  In fact, there are no northern pacplumes at all right now.  The little bit of heat from an old warm water blob has left the building.

Just a little pimple of water that is close enough to emit, but it is under rain.  Everything else is dead.

No snow for us, because we are dry.  We have to lose another 10 degrees to suck up snow from the lakes.  The Arctic Vortex has shot its load, and will need to recharge.  The natgas people are going to be quite 'shocked, shocked' by this weather.

Since there is nothing dramatic expected, I shall hibernate again.  

The mechanics of a real heating event

 By questioning the AI, I found there is a non-linear relationship with heat transfer in the ocean to the atmosphere.  Mainly, at 28C, it may start a little, and rises exponentially to over 32C.  This limits the maximum temperature of the ocean surface.  

Right now, the phoney El Nino has not reached that temperature, and is not heating the world.  Of course, anything can happen in the future, even with no heat energy, as according to the fantasy-sellers.

But now I add another condition.  The water must be moving.  I am not counting typhoons and hurricanes as they are great injectors of heat energy into the atmosphere, but I don't think they are the main mechanism.

This is a picture, of warm, moist air.  The myth-makers call the plumes 'atmospheric rivers, but they only dump water when encountering cold air.  A big miss for these guys.

We combine this with the rain maps.  That big spur on the lower half is our main heater right now.  It shows only in the S Hemi map.

Nothing for we the north.

Smooth as Trump's lies.  The big topography at the beginning of the year was all those heat blobs passing through.  They have now accumulated down south, and form our heater.

You must now combine water temp and rain.  It is my testable contention that heavy rain is a perfect heat shield.  Water vapour goes up, and then rains down.  No loss of heat energy.  However, if the water is moving, you can get heat transfer and powerful plumes.  That one is going right away from the heating zone on the MIMIC map.  

In the old days, a really powerful heating zone seemed to have many micro-vortexes, seen on the mimic.  We won't see any of those for 300 years.

Trump fiddles with the Starlink switch

 Yeah, Trump has decided not to be called a 'blood-thirsty dictator' and will not live-stream shooting a guy in a wheelchair.  He is, however, blinking the starlink off and on for Ukraine, thus killing a lot of them.

He thinks he'll get a few more votes by trading lives for diesel.

I do hope his supporters can afford driving their monster-trucks to the polling stations.

Burlington Earthquakes

 

Whenever I want to take a break, something happens.  This is exciting for today, but it has happened a lot.  There was a big cluster of tiny earthquakes in the good old days.  That's why I really wanted to put seismometers around there, and I was able to fund it through the old company.  

These things probably produced 1 mm/s pgv.  Your 2-buck accelerometer should tell you that.  This is just a sign that water continues to percolate into the giant Hamilton fault, and it should go in 1000 years, more or less.  It was funny that before I put in the seismometers, there used to be a lot of earthquakes out in the lake, some reaching M4.  

Your kids should have had the shake-out drill yesterday, or not.  This is a reminder to use museum wax on your knick-knacks, and don't have heavy shelves over your head, in bed.

To save paper, I'll just throw in the weather.

Looks like a little Pacific air has snuck in, to give us a classic clipper.

ps Dear Burlington, since you are at Ground Zero for the Great Toronto Earthquake, don't read any of my scenarios.

Another fine break

 We are getting cold, which is depressing.  We will now endure endless excuses on why the groupthink was so wrong.

I am working on AI and game emulators.  As such, I will leave the hopeless fight against the popular opinion.

Some great stupidity will bring me back.

Cheap seismic monitors now available

 

We have the Raspberry shake, which was popular for the Venn earthquake.

And Wayne sent me this one.  

I always went on about my 'great invention' 'The two-buck accelerometer'.  I had wired a very good accelerometer with a rasp pi.  However, I could never really figure out what to do with the data.

To be useful, it needs a huge effort, well beyond a sleepy old guy, the last one who believes in physics.  This is necessary to establish how exactly buildings react to earthquakes.  Unfortunately, it goes against the religion of earthquake engineers, and I have no energy for it.  

Even my campaign against climate change has me slowly freezing to death.  But they can ignore the cold with all their money.

Anyway I am happy talking physics to my grandchildren to put them to sleep, as I did to my kids.

Cold air pouring down

 

The remains of the hurricane are going to give Europe a little warmth.

This is somewhat boring for me.

We'll be a hairs-breadth away from that snowstorm this week.

ps the weather people are ready to switch over any minute now.

Bye bye warmth

 Will we get a tree-buster Halloween snow storm?  It's still 50-50.  

As usual, no plumes from the nino zone.  

The Arctic ignores the fantasy.  We continue to set up for a winter worse than last year.

ps as usual, they blame every type of weather thing on ninnie, and here is the first time we get 'Extreme cold caused by el nino'

Hurricane leftovers are still strong

 Today's story is about the hurricane who wouldn't die.

You can see that there is still a vortex and it is pumping warm air up to Toronto.  Soon to die against the implacable Arctic forces.

I am glad my readership has gone back to near zero, because now we look at something complex.

The world air temperatures have a hook.  This has always indicated a warming event for me.  But it's only for the S Hemi.

It is universally acknowledged, by me, that an intense rainy zone cannot transmit heat energy to the world.  That is a closed loop, heat energy goes up, and it goes down.  The only time you get heat energy, is if there is a spur of hot water, and no rain.  Then you get the nice plumes.  This is happening right now for that left-over garbage zooming down south, and mucking with the Pacific cold feed.  For for intense heat transfer, you can see little vortexes pumping out the heat.  This spur barely qualifies.

The world sea surface temps and the nino zone continue their bitscoin fall.

Nino zone starts the collapse

 Big money on this.

Let's see - The Lefty Loonies, or the Crazy Guy.

For a month now, I have been tortured by a heat blob lingering on the edge of the Nino zone.  It keeps rotating like a dead pig in the river, and it should have gone south.

That's the zone, and the blob is teetering on the edge.

I'm calling it now that the party is over.  Or not.  Anyway, I'm getting in some practice for when it really happens.  

Those blobs are going down SE.  That big red smear south of the equator is the leftovers of 2023-24, in a big warm garbage pit.  It is now running into the main feed from the south.  That has warmed things up.  Their big splotch anomaly is caused by having a severe cold upwelling in the base map.  However, it meshed perfectly with the change of feed, and it was all the same, until this warm water came in.

Anyway, although we get weird charts out of this, we are not hitting the 'magic point' of 30 plus degrees, to initiate massive heat transfer to the atmosphere.  Nothing is happening.

If that graph continues to fall, then I'll gloat.  

ps I remember this was one of our scenarios for nuclear power plants.  Under extreme conditions, the outflow from the reactors (hot water) would curve around and get sucked into the cold water intake.  That's why we put diffusers on the Darlington outflow.  

Arctic winning over hurricane

 

Nothing to say here, still no sign of ninnism.

Perfect sweenies.  

Trump does not want to be associated with 'Blood Diesel'

 I knew that the Dictator's Astrologer reads me!  Or it could be other forces ten times greater.  

He was so intent inside his little world, that he forgot to inform anybody.  Perhaps, he thought he had the green light from Z, and he assumed that poots would go along with it.  This would be amazing, but poots has never let up on killing children, and I don't even think the original poots is around any more.  Can you tell the difference between his copies?

We'll know with the missile rain at night.  

ps as expected, Russia can't control anything.

No condo cracking expected in Panama City

Regional PGV Numbers Breakdown

Location / Zone	Peak Ground Velocity (PGV) Range	Modified Mercalli Intensity	Impact Description
Epicenter Zone (Herrera / Los Santos)	50.0 to 122.42 cm/s	Level VII to VIII (Very Strong / Severe)	Over 400 structures damaged or collapsed. Fault lines shifted ground rapidly up to 8.3 meters.
Mid-Distance Zone (Penonomé / Coclé)	10.0 to 20.0 cm/s	Level V to VI (Moderate / Strong)	Partial collapse of historical cathedral spires and structural cracking in hotels.
Panama City (The Capital)	2.0 to 5.0 cm/s	Level IV to V (Light / Moderate)	Violent swaying of skyscrapers for over 40 seconds. Triggered widespread panic but stayed beneath the velocity threshold for structural failure.

You need 40 cm/s for condo cracking.  Over 100 cm/s is massive damage.  This will be a forgotten earthquake.

ps I am also announcing that The Earthquakes have officially stepped out of their batting drought.  Might get me another coffee.

ps also you can mark this as a 'Busted Rock' earthquake because the attenuation (drop off of pgv) was very high.  'Hard Rock earthquakes' have much less die-off.

Voter suppression by loudmouths

 

Let's put in a lot more boring questions, like if dogcatchers should wear blue.  Nobody will notice it, and nobody with care.  Then mushie can put in ten times more money, and everybody buys tessies.  This is the standard hilter technique and it always works.

Arctic Blob Against Hurricane

 

A magnificent battle, resulting in a lot of rain.

No sign of El Nino.  It's almost like it didn't exist.

The sad thing about the hurricane is that it sucked all the heat energy out of the Gulf.  That's the only source of warmth for us this winter.

Red Diesel is Blood Diesel

 

For the sake of getting more votes, Trump lets his rednecks use red diesel.  This will remind them it is now 'Blood Diesel' for their pickup trucks.

Later in the year, we have more blood sports, as a guy in a wheelchair gets blasted by machine guns.  The US is amazing.

ps Texas bumper stickers:  "Make it gory for the kids!', and 'My truck runs on one dead child per day."  These guys are the best!

Hurricane comes to visit Toronto

 

This is just pretty.  Looks like the rain will hit before the snow.

That snow line is amazing.

Panama Earthquake exact model for Toronto scenario

 

Aftershocks are filling in, and the fault length is 200 km for an M7.7. 

As is usual for these things, a complex rupture, of two main events.

I'm going with a 'busted rock' earthquake, and not a 'hard rock' earthquake like Toronto would be.  80 to 100 cm/s at the epicentre and perhaps 40 cm/s in the city.  Not much building stock in the near-field, and it wouldn't tell us much.

All soft-story condos will be tilted and cracked in the city.  Almost no loss of life due to the remote location.  The Toronto scenario moves the contour lines out by a factor of 3.  Montreal is hit, as well as Toronto.

As usual, soft deposits amplify the pgv by a factor of 10, with no effect on pga.  This earthquake will again show that engineering is only related to pgv, and not pga.  Nobody will learn anything.

Rumours of records tell of a big velocity pulse.  All building damage will be due to 'fling' and not resonance.  All of this knowledge will be repressed to protect the religion of the usgs and earthquake engineering.  Had it happened in Taiwan, we would learn something.

This was a shallow thrust, and we'll have no information for the near-field.  

When AI does the books

 

Yeah, a hallucination that you have money!

Powerful Arctic Action

 

Big blob coming down, but the news is on all the other action, down Greenland and over to Europe.

That's our October snow showing up.

As expected, no sign of any activity from Fantasy Island.