Sparky saw a Snoop Dogg video on Youtube, and wanted to make a video. This is as close as we could get.
I probably shouldn’t leave Youtube on when I leave the house.
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Sparky shunned Mr. Moose, and decided to play with an acorn.
Google says that dogs shouldn’t eat acorns, but dogs aren’t supposed to eat grapes either. As previously mentioned, Sparky eats rotten garbage he finds in the woods without issue. Sparky’s an adult, so I leave it to his discretion. That’s how resilience is encouraged.
Sparky is not a clumsy dog, so watching him move is interesting to me. I also like his facial expressions and whimsical ears. Most of it is slowed down to one-fifth speed, with a Bela Fleck soundtrack.
WSJ: Boeing workers reject contract.
WSJ: Boeing workers reject contract.
New teachers coming in face a bunch of HR paperwork and a visit from a teachers union official. At Normandy and North Royalton, I declined to join the union. In both cases, the union official was curious, courteous and reasonable. I had a collegial relationship with both through out my career.
Public sector unions are a sham. The union backs a school board member, the member get elected, the union and board negotiate a contract, and everyone goes to the district residents to ask for more money.
Private sector unions don’t have that issue. As an engineer at Caterpillar, I spent quite a bit of time in Caterpillar and Chrysler manufacturing plants. Those unions have different problems, but it isn’t an ethical issue. Industrial unions are prone to being unreasonable.
I shouldn’t have fed Sparky after midnight.
Secret Service Report: Averting School Violence
After the school shooting at Appalachee High School in Georgia, the discussion proceeds as it does after every school shooting. Both sides make their predictable political arguments, and it isn’t clear that anyone really cares. The corporate media encourages a therapeutic response, without providing much actual information. The Secret Service studies these things, but their reports aren’t mentioned much.
Youtube: Humanoid robots belong in the trash
I didn’t think there would be any reason for a second post about Youtube physicist, Angela Collier, but the universe is insisting upon it. Since I watched several of her videos yesterday, the algorithm suggested another one today.
This video is different because it’s more of a pop culture physics rant, then a physics video. Angela mentions that’s it’s not a typical video, but she wanted to get her thoughts out about the impracticality of humanoid robots in movies and TV shows. I’ve thought the same thing, so watched it and found it more engaging.
That isn’t why the universe is encouraging me to post.
WE: Immigration in Springfield Ohio
This article is like the rest of the news reports that are presented if “Haitian immigrants Springfield Ohio” is Googled. All the articles emphasize that Haitians are not eating cats and dogs, or killing geese and ducks. The residents are being pressured into making enthusiastic statements about the Haitian immigrants or get accused of being a racist.
Nobody asks about life in Springfield.
Youtube presented me with this video explaining that physicists have only 5 jokes. Angela Collier’s Youtube page says that she is a physicist and I could see that she is cute, so right up my alley.
SpaceNews: China interested in lava tubes.
China, and anyone interested in a Moon base, should be interested in lava tubes. If NASA does wake up, it’s likely to roll over and go back to sleep. Fortunately, Elon Musk needs a Moon base to get to Mars.
The movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, got a lot right. The surface of the Moon is an obnoxious place to live. The surface temperature goes from about -200o F to 200o F. Gamma rays bombard the surface, but cosmic rays are a bigger problem. Cosmic rays hitting the Earth produce the Northern Lights as their energy dissipates in the atmosphere and are deflected by our magnetic field. Those subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light, are not easily screened
Sparky was being very patient as I worked on the bridge wall. Well, that’s what I thought.
When we built the stacked-bag wall yesterday, we hosed it down, but not so much that the paper bags fell apart. Every morning and evening, I will hose down the wall, with the hope that more of the concrete will get wet enough to cure. At some point, it will rain, and we will see what happens.
I like to bring Sparky along for outdoor projects. He keeps the rabbits and coyotes away so I don’t have to worry. I do have to watch that he doesn’t wander too far, but this time, for the 45 minutes it took for me to water the rocks, he sat patiently.
I hopped on the quad and started up the hill, but Sparky didn’t follow along. He’s pretty good about following the quad if he isn’t working on his own project.
I went back to check on him. See the problem?
It’s a mystery how he can get his leash stuck so easily.
Sparky was perturbed after being stuck for so long. There is disappointment in those eyes. I think Sparky bears some responsibility for not giving some indication that he was stuck, and I told him so. He remembered that he doesn’t speak English, so was unpersuaded.