Day: January 29, 2025

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Happy Lunar New Years! ๐Ÿฒ

I hear itโ€™s a big holiday in China, where they set off fireworks and burn shit on up, kind of like Guy Faux Day but in the dead of winter. They close down the smoke-bletching factories that make all the USโ€™ junk that burns so black when you toss it on the bonfire, much to the disdain of the Google AI which apparently does a very good job synthetizing the lib tards at the Minnesota Pollution Control Board.

Okay, I should be nice to the lib tards of the world, it is my 42nd birthday ๐ŸŽ‚ and I mean theyโ€™re the alternative to the Trumpster. If you think the Status Quo is bad with inflation, ๐Ÿ’ต look at what the disaster we have running our country. The only good thing I can say about him, is maybe heโ€™ll push the market into the crapster and that will mean some good deals on the stock market, though it seems like the stock market found itโ€™s feet yesterday after the world realized what American Artificial Technology is clunky, slow and wastes a lot of electricity and the Chinese without all the latest high-tech crap are doing it better. ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Truth is Iโ€™ll be happy when I can use locally-generated AI data using open source running locally to lots of cool things without big corporate computers fired by massive coal plants running thousands of miles away. ๐Ÿญ

Did the world change completely now that Iโ€™m Mr. 2A, that is how my birthday โ€“ โ€“ 0x2A โ€“ โ€“ is written in hexadecimal as the first bit represents 32 plus 10 which is 42. ๐Ÿ”ข As I do more and more low-level programming in Assembler I notice shit like that much. Maybe itโ€™s actually more noteworthy that Iโ€™m now as far away from my 41st birthday as my 21st birthday was from birth. ๐Ÿผ Iโ€™ve been drinking beer legally for a long time now, ๐Ÿป though not smoking weed legally nearly as long. Plus I like the sound of 2A not just because of Andy Arthur but you know my views on Second Admendment โ€“ I donโ€™t own nearly enough guns and they are fun to shoot up in the wilder until you get a sore sholder from all that recoil. ๐Ÿ”ซ As you can see, Iโ€™m having a fun time on my birthday, itโ€™s probably those delicious carrot ๐Ÿฅ• pancakes ๐Ÿฅž I started out my day with.

I always like the Lunar New Years lantern ๐Ÿฎ globes they have hung up in the Empire Plaza Concourse this time of year and think ๐Ÿค” they would be fun to have at camp, ๐Ÿ•๏ธ especially during summer vacation. I just can imagine staring at them from the hammock as high as fuck. Of course such things are illegal in the National Forest but so is burning plastic ๐Ÿ”ฅ which is why you do it late at night not that Iโ€™ve rarely seen many government enforcers around. ๐Ÿ‘ฎ I also didnโ€™t put the empty plastic milk jug in the recycling โ™ป๏ธ bin this morning as it was full and itโ€™s my birthday ๐ŸŽ‚ and Iโ€™m sure it can be recycled into carbon dioxide just fine. While HDPE plastics on milk jugs are one of the more recyclable โ€“ they actually have a plant on Fuller Road that turns them into the plastic lumber the DEC likes to use on their construction projects, they also make excellent fire starters that donโ€™t stink that much unlike things with styrene. Or PVC the poison โ˜ ๏ธ plastic.

Warm enough this morning that after the few inches of snow ๐ŸŒจ๏ธ and lots of road salt the roads are just wet. Iโ€™m walking ๐Ÿšถ on the Plaza for a while but Iโ€™ll probably take the earlier shuttle ๐Ÿš€ over to the Enterprise as I got stuff to do. If it turns to rain โ˜” later maybe Iโ€™ll be able to bike in tomorrow. ๐Ÿšฒ Last night I did laps in the Plaza for about a half hour and planning to do similar this morning. Beats walking out in the cold โ„๏ธ. Plus I actually kind of like how the local bus is a bit slower with fewer hard stops because itโ€™s better for reading ๐Ÿ“– and Iโ€™m not chatting with other passengers as happens with the express. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ

South Fork Potomac River in Brake, WV

Rural farming area south of Moorefield, WV known for it's meat chicken production, surrounded by the high hills of Applachia. Brake is named for the family of early landowner Johann Jacob Brake ("Brechtel" in German) who emigrated from southern Germany in the early 18th century. The town once included a sawmill, gristmill, distillery, blacksmith shop, and post office. The original log house used as a post office in the early- to mid-19th century still stands. The Brake Cemetery harbors the remains of Brakes, Simons, Sees, and probably others whose stones have been lost. Brake Falls on Dumpling Run once provided power for the sawmill and gristmill. The Brake family is still around to this day. The family currently resides in Ohio.