Good man, Leon.  Plus you get this time with the little one.  I don’t know crap about anything, but I do know one thing, this time flies by.  In 18 years you’re going to say (and I promise you, you will). “ Where did the time go, she’s all grown up!” 

Pepe, we’ve sent probes, some of which sent back data as they burned up on the way down into the incendiary lower atmosphere, and we’ve got pretty good estimates of its mass based on the motion of things nearby. “ Guess” is underselling the accuracy of the estimate. 

So Namibia accused China of sending “corned beef” that was actually long pig.  This is an actual thing one nation is accusing another nation of doing.  This is actually happening and not an Onion article or the result of a hallucination from a bad batch of mead. 

Our old puppeh, Buddy, did the very same thing.  To this day, and he’s been gone 10 years now, out of sheer habit, I still say “TV” when a doorbell rings on the television so he’d stop barking. * shakes fist at Pavlov*

Pepe, we know the exact mass of any flyby probe we send, and we can observe the motion of that as it interacts with the gravity of Venus.  If you wanted to argue that the composition of planetary matter is an educated guess, I’m with you, but the mass is something we’ve done experiments to determine. 

And there are alternatives out there, but it’s social media: the limiting factor is always buy-in.  People who waste time on FB waste time on FB, why switch when everyone else like you is already where you are? 

Smart roads aren’t critical, but they’d make solving the autonomy problem easier.  Smart traffic signals are probably more necessary, otherwise you’re stuck solving the computer vision problem as well as the traffic inference for when the view of the light is obstructed. 

The traffic signals are already coming by NHTSA regulations, IIRC.  They’ll transmit their states over short-range RF. 

I’m sure it will be impossible to spoof them and cause accidents, though. 

BTW Bernie is a typical D-rat.  He has been L8 to every function today, and has had to cancel several interviews with local media, because of his tardiness.  I H8 that!!!  Jerry Brown is one of the worst with time management.  W was the best.  Also bad: Palin, TFG, Teddy, Clenis, and Shrill.  Palin blamed the McCain campaign.  Was an hour L8.  She and family were doing touristy stuff.  Didn’t realize NM and AZ weren’t the same time zone.  I wish we were on AZ time year round. 

Scott,
Yes, it is a different world. 
Here, our trees are Douglas Firs, green all year round. 
The Mountains are always snow covered. 
The Beach, Mountains, and Desert are each an hour away. 
Puget Sound and the San Juan islands are a short ferry ride. 
The rural areas on both sides of the Cascade Mountains are RED, while King county and Seattle are BLUE. 
It is an interesting and frustrating place. 
There is not now, nor will there ever be, a shortage of “Hipster Douchebags”…

Hey all, so did anyone else have their dick co-workers let them leave for lunch 2 minutes before a mandatory meeting.  Oh, after not telling me about the meeting to begin with?  I have been in a murderous rage since about 1:30

Been busy.  Work was nuts – I’m not the only one unhappy with management.  One person is retiring, and another is transferring to another group.  That was followed by two graduation ceremonies for Mini-me’s friends (one was a homeschool academy, and that was, um, interesting.)  In the middle of that was picking up Mr. RFH from the airport. 

Rocketboy’s girlfriend is visiting.  She’s nice though still visibly nervous about being here.  She brought a double batch of brownies with the explanation that she figured Rocketboy would eat half.  So far, so good. 

Party today with celebrating the end of construction, exercising 2nd Amendment rights and a meeting of the pumpkin chunkin team. 

I have a vest, but the competition has to be done with a backpack.  My two teammates are in their 50s, so I won’t be letting anyone but me down if I’m not especially fast today.  Got work to do tonight if I have anything left in me after I get home. 

So the other team I came down with is the guy who roped me into this thing in the first place.  He used to do the whole event solo but his doc told him not to hike for his knees’ sake. 

His relay partner is a “health and wellness coach” who teaches dance and yoga.  Just walked past her doing the Sun Salutations on her mat in the grass.  In yoga pants.  I managed not to ogle.  She seems nice, if a bit granola. 

I’m going to be lazy this morning.  No class at the park.  I’m going to lie in bed a little longer, and then make pancakes and watch Grimm.  You all have fun with you activities and social life and stuff. 

Mare’s Musings

February 18, 2018

I’ll tell you, I had to turn the Olympics off last night.  The gay overload with the gay flags and gayness and the gay skier and the all about gay was too much for me.  How does being gay have ANYTHING to do with skiing unless you’re purposefully landing on a pole?