Screwball

Does it matter when the last 3 people either country elected was the ****-for-brains like Trudeau, Trump, and Biden?

Presidents and golf; Dwight D. Eisenhower's influence on Augusta National remembered - The Augusta Chronicle March 2019. A damn tree...

Cheese is one of those thing where it matters what you want to do with it. I'm only a few hours from the Amish country in Ohio and they have some kick ass baby Swiss. I like that sliced thin to put on sandwiches, but it comes in a wedge. I have a hand slicer that does a slice about 3/32 (guessing, would be interesting to put a caliper on it) thick and 1 3/4 wide that works great. Grating is another story. Cheese likes to gum up, and temperature matters. But we all know that. I would go with horsepower. I've still got one of these and it works like a charm. This is manual, and I'm sure there are electric as well. Can be found on Amazon.

I almost bought one. Decided against it. Why buy one? Maybe make a little money? Maybe, maybe not. But it's fun stuff, and if it trips your trigger, why not? I made some stuff and had a local guy print it. He has access to a print farm best I can tell, then violates copyright laws and sells trinkets for cash out of a local video game type shop. I don't care. I got my stuff. I find it interesting they now sell these machines, which is what they are, for the prices they can sell them for. Another example would be drones. Technology brought to the retail world at an affordable price. That's a good thing.

Good as place as any I guess. Anyone into 3D printing or 2D laser etching/cutting? Once can buy some neat stuff to do some neat things for not a lot of money.

It's probably a myth - drivers... Guys spend thousands of dollars on new clubs all the time. Drivers especially. Does it matter????? I don't think so. For the golfers out there; how many times did you buy a new driver and it was spectacular - until it wasn't. It all of a sudden was just as bad as the driver you just replaced. Imagine that. It ain't the arrow - it's the Indian. Bobby Jones, according to today's technology, shows he had a clubhead speed of 130+ - with hickory shafts. Drink beer and forget it. And don't play the guy with the best tan for money.

Adding; let's not play War Games.

I worked in a test lab/eng/R&D from 1987 to 1999. We started this stuff way back then. All this didn't happen overnight. It has taken this long for the technology to advance far enough to do so. We had a 6 speed manual transmission that drove like an automatic but was too clunky to mass produce because the technology wasn't there yet. Speed mattered, limited by size many times. But we were collecting data via telemetry systems fed to computers at the engine and transmission telling when to shift when we didn't use the handle in the cab. That was 25 years ago. Today? Wow! I think it is nuts, and to be honest, it all scares me. This is different stuff. Self driving cars are one thing - machines (robots) and/or software are being programmed on how to think - and react. This is nothing new - but there is a dangerous threshold to be aware of IMO.

That's part of the problem. I also teach. I don't like what I see. Many things have been lost over the years. I don't know where it will end up, but I don't have much time left so it don't matter... Having lived through this technology and what it has done to and for the world is wild. I still think of the article in Wired Magazine back in 2000 by Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems on Why the future doesn't need us - 18 page .pdf file. Even starring crazy Teddie the Unibo*ber. <- keeping NSA away

No argument. I was coming from the technology angle. Computers could do math so much faster (even back then), which helped with things like CAD (computer aided design). Next thing you know, they are making things on the computer that simulated real life parts. Even people parts. It exploded time to market and the race was on. My first kick ass system was a Sun Microsystem Sparx station running UNIX. Cost 20k circa 1990. Then came DOS (not saying that was better for what we were doing), Windows, and personal home computers. Incredible stuff when you think about it. From the eng/mfg world, the impact was huge. AutoCad went Windows in 1992. Once that happened, every business, large or small, could (eventually) reduce head counts by getting rid of engineers/mechanical draftsmen. Same thing happened in the offices. Excel, Word, you name it. All more efficient due to computers so less people. The next steps we are seeing now. Both mechanical, and digital. Robots and AI. It all starts with math. Mechanical side is x,y,z and the digital side is binary numbers. Zero's and ones. It's almost Orwellian, no?

I remember the days when we had no computers. I started in the engineering world making drawings with a pencil, a mechanical arm, and a hand held calculator. Just missed the slide rule days. Then computers came along and it all changed. IPS changed everything. Math became easy with a computer and some language. The result gave us all the nice things we have today that were not practical back in those days. The downside - computers and passwords. Passwords and the management of them, are a pain in the ass. A necessary evil, but a pain in the ass.

US Treasury says it was hacked by China in 'major incident' - BBC FTA: Steal funds? Hey dumbasses, we are $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt as of yesterday. LOL!

Once the plastic runs out... U.S. homelessness rises 18% amid affordable housing shortage - NBC

To manage/update passwords I have a page and a half Word document named passwords.doc. The hackers shouldn't miss that one. I would like to rename it, but if I do, I will forget the name. Giggle

I enjoyed that interview. Great job and great deal. Loved the Detroit baseball hat, but I would expect nothing less from you. 🙂

Observation on the Fed rate cuts. I'm looking at the 10 year yield, which some say follow housing interest rates. Not sure how true that is, but nevertheless, an indication of how well the Fed is doing. Depending on what, exactly, they are trying to do, which might be different than what they say they are trying to do. I like to call it Fedspeak. A 9 month chart. Looks like the 50 bps cut was priced in, the second did its job for a while (going with the assumption they were trying to lower interest rates - what part of the curve I don't know), but then went back up, so they cut again in Dec. Still going the wrong way as we speak, and almost back to where it started 9 months ago. Funny that...

How about we not get some girl maimed or killed because some idiot isn't happy with the size of his ****.

For fun; 2025 is 7E9 in Hexadecimal 11111101001 in Binary

It is rare; 40 1600 41 1681 42 1764 43 1849 44 1936 45 2025 46 2116 47 2209 48 2304 49 2401 50 2500 I've lived through one of them, guessing I won't make the next. If you were born in 1936 and are still alive (89) you would have lived through two. If you are born on Jan 1, 2025 you will need to live to 91 for the next (2116). That's probably more than anyone wants to know about the date and squared.

Just to clarify, it has nothing to do with presidents. Simply 45x45=2025 or 45^2=2025

I though it was clever (also math, and I like math). When we see someone next week with that on a tee shirt, you heard it here first. 😉 I wish I had one TBH.

I'll get in a week early for this;

No argument - and they should. It amazes me how some take the security risk as no risk at all. You can't be too careful, but I assume many just don't know the risks. The cloud is one example. I want no part of a cloud storage. I can do the very same thing with an external drive or even a thumb drive if it is big enough. I think I paid less than 10 bucks for a 64 gig thumb drive. That stores everything I need to back up and it never leaves the house. 🙂 But I'm talking about a computer on my home network, which I have secured. The phone is another animal, and I don't think mine is as safe as it should be because I know next to nothing about these damn things. I hate them with a passion. While we are carrying around a mini-computer that does so many neat things, it is still a traveling security risk in various ways.

I think network security, like military intelligence, is an oxymoron. You can do everything possible to secure a network, but it can still be unsafe. Anytime data goes from point A to point B, it can be hacked. TCP/IP packets are hackable. Wall Street has been doing it for years. The "cloud" is not safe. Nothing is. The internet is the playground, and we are the victims. Mining our data and selling it is huge money, and big tech owns most of DC. It will only get worse over time. An example I happen to run across today; Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks - Forbes

Me too. He taught me. Honest as the day is long - he looked exactly like Ben Hogan. He even wore his hat. Might have hit more golf balls too. He was even on the front page of the local paper when they took a picture of him hitting balls at the local park - which he did every day before he went to the golf course. It was titled "Mr. Chips." That was off the charts cool. He not only taught me how to play golf, and he was a student, he taught me about life. I was a lucky guy. We only got to do one Father/Son tourney. We didn't win, but we were right there. I played in scrambles with my boys, and a league with one. But thanks the gramps, golf was passed down to through the generations. A truly great game. Very humbling, difficult, and cerebral.