Jack Welch

Shut him down hard (but does she get a catchy animé music meme? Unfortunately not, kak zhal')

Distrubing thought: what if "HR" stands for human resources. And it doesn't mean personnel.

Trump says the Iran war will take 4 weeks. Considering that things to be done on "day one" and that would take "about two weeks" are not resolved, don't hold your breath. I believe the translations are: one day: I don't care, two weeks: I don't know, four weeks: sometime after I'm dead.

Sound track: Philadelphia Dreaming

Would make a good book cover, just needs a title.

I'm afraid that I ate the experiment. Before I can benchmark vowels versus all letters, I'll have to do some frequency analysis. It would make sense to follow letter use frequency (like scrabble), on the other hand, it's probably cheaper to just produce the same amount of all letters.

I like pasta stars in chicken broth. Recently, the store was out of stars but had letters, like alphabet soup. Today stars were back in stock, so I mixed the pastas. It now takes much longer to eat the soup because of the regular expression overhead.

A lichen-covered cherry tree in the foreground with several new growth branches with pink flowes.

Flowers in Feb? I'm back in France now and cherry trees and daffodils are getting an early start. After more than a month of almost constant rain, the ground is saturated, but we're now getting a few sunny days.

Plaque commemorating the contributions of British sled dog teams.

Some good boys at the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Very nice!

Roughing out the design - pieces of mostly scrap glass over a template. Colors are deep red, red, textured yellow and marmalade (yellow with streaks of orange. The design is rectalinear, sort of Mondrian.

Template with most of the glass cut

The finished product, soldered together, standing on a desk.

Hanging out in Cambridge UK this week and attended a stained glass workshop over the weekend. I made a panel to put in a sunny window. I paid particular attention to pronouncing the "L" in solder to not offend anyone.

They call it a dog pile for a reason.

None, wisdom can only be gained. Not bought.

Mystic Dog, a bronze schnauzer with crystal ball.

Seeker of knowledge, approach.

More romantic the first day without electricity. Tonight we did soup, sausage and peppers, and potatoes on the fire. All good, but I need to plug in my computers 😀

The dining room after dinner, with candles and lit fireplace in the background

Winter storm Nils rolled in from the Atlantic yesterday with winds above 160 kph in SW France. After weeks of rain, also a lot of flooding. Lost power at 04:30 this morning and it is still out. Good news, though: excellent excuse for duck-based Cassolet cooked in our fireplace by candle light.

I mean, you knew that was a possibility even before seeing it.

Died of a terminal condition.

Used cash today. It still worked. Received coins. Not sure what to do with them. Have stacked them on table for now.

Doh

The line showing free (Vichy) versus nazi-occupied France.

A map showing the boundary between free and occupied France runs right through Le-Pian-Sur-Garonne.

Just learned that the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied and Vichy France ran through the town where I live. Good thing fascists were defeated, huh?

We chuck our scribes notes into notebook LLM so we can pull out random facts as needed

Three days below 0C - that counts as an unusual cold snap. Don't often see the vines covered in frost (but okay this time of year as they are dormant).

New Year's day games with the Fam. Two trains and some dogs. Dog Park is not an overwhelming cognitive load as resource management games go, but it was my limit for the day after New Year's Eve.

With modern proton pump inhibitors, you can have your RTTs pretty much any time with only minimal GE reflux.

That makes you a redaction reactionary.

The fam in a télécabine, with a bowl of potatoes, some charcuterie and a wedge of raclette under the heater.

A guinguette in Bègles is serving raclette in télécabines. Just like being at a ski lodge, but no mountain. Was yum. 12h later now and still not hungry.

What a disgraceful tool.

When selecting web cookie preferences, when I read "legitimate interest", it's the same legitimate as in "my client is a legitimate businessman."

Brilliant new plan for the administration. Elegant in its simplicity: Jobs for Kids Act: Lower factory job age to 8.