Friday, October 16, 2026

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.


Thursday, October 15, 2026

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.