Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. I’m a mean woman.
Let’s see who’s in the hunky folder for today.
Gone much too soon, young man.
Bones
Khan
Obligatory Chris Pine.
Joe Taslim, from the new movie.
Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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Electronic transmissions are bullshit, and they are going to destroy Jeep.
Me likey. Thanks, Roamy!
Wakey wakkey.
THe coke bear made me lol just now.
Of course, pretty soon every important system in cars will be devoid of any genuine mechanical linkage and will be actuated by electric motors in response to user controls. You’ll be able to make polite suggestions to the car and it will mostly accommodate you.
Or it will accommodate whatever malware has hijacked your CAN bus.
STAIN ARRIVES TODAY.
(that was quick) I ordered it Monday – late in the day.
Moose starts dog training school on Sunday. Pat wants to get him trained so he can do hospital visits (obsessed with your dog much? Yes he is). He was talking to someone who worked at a children’s hospital and they said dog visits were one of the greatest things for the kids.
Anyway – Moose is good, he’s just – these dogs have such weird (nice) dispositions.
He would be great at it , if I could get him trained, is what I”m saying. Right now he sucks on the leash (why should we go somewhere? Here is FINE) and his other skills aren’t up to snuff.
But he is absolutely great with people and they love him.
I’m speaking to my self, but I did have a thought about the walking thing. I’ve always tried to take him by himself.
If I take ZELDA. Maybe he’ll get the idea that walks are FUN.
Leon, I don’t know much about electronics, but If I were designing a smart car, the most critical pieces of logic in a car computer would be burned on a chip so it cannot be reprogrammed. Same goes for each sensor and actuator. The communication lines between these sensors/actuators and the CPU would be susceptible only to physical tampering. This way, a hacker does not have any realistic entry points into the system. If some logic needs to change, you go to the dealer and he swaps out the chip. If a hacker physically swaps the chip, there would be some tripwire that makes the car inoperable.
The only things that could be hacked would be external inputs (gps signal, signals coming from roadside beacons, other cars etc)
Am I being too simplistic here? Is it really impossible to build hacking proof electronic systems?
My ex wife did you the therapy dog training with one of our old dogs. He was a stocky red border collie we bought from a farmer in MO. Very calm and well behaved for a border collie. I used to take him on weekend rounds and the kids loved seeing him. When I tried that with my old red heeler he spent most of his time trying to stick his snout in the trash looking for food and even sniffing at dressings. Not cool!
Moose is very people focused but gentle. He just loves people and loves kids. I just need to get him to do all the sit/stay/ lie down/ leave it stuff to pass the tests.
He has zero anxiety. It’s like he’s stoned.
You can put all the logic into hardware, but it will still have to communicate internally, and each wire of the car is a potential attack surface. Yes, it may require physical tampering, but the vulnerability is real.
I’m not even talking about SDCs – which will likely be better protected, though lying to their sensors will always be possible – I’m talking about the fact that you won’t control your car directly at all. You’ll adjust controls in the cab, and software will interpret your intent. Checkov up there is dead because the software failed to do what he tried to tell it to do. A mechanically-linked transmission couldn’t have failed him in that way, and he would have had real, physical feedback informing his hand about the gear selection. That’s gone in an all-electronic gear selector.
Paula does the faceboob thing and it showed a picture from 3 years ago with our youngest on the dock holding up a fish. He has grown so much since then. After showing me the picture she woke him up and told him he had to catch another fish for a 3 years later photo.
We’ve lost track of the exact year his father committed suicide…5, maybe 6 years?, but it was around July 4th. Every so often I just shake my head about how much of this boy’s life he missed. At the same time I thank the Lord he didn’t have to witness his continued substance abuse or begin to realize what was going on with his dad. He was too young to have the insight.
As for SDCs: As an analogy, I don’t have to reprogram your brain to make you walk where I want you to walk, I only have to change the signals that go down your spine, and I can cripple you even more easily than that. Then charge you a fee for the code to uncripple you.
Facebook keeps track of these things for us so we don’t have to Jimbro. My dad died three years ago today.
I think today is going to be “buy a trailerload of mulch” day.
what say you guys?
I’m passing on crossfit because I’d really like to have another good day in the garden.
Addiction is cruel, Jimbro. It can damage people so deeply that they cannot feel hope or find joy in anything.
Sounds like a plan, Carin. Wood chips?
Thoughts on Laura’s straw mulching?
I’m hoping the renewed focus on opiate abuse leads to protocols for decreased prescribing of narcotics and effective alternatives to them for pain management.
I began practice right around the time OxyContin was being aggressively marketed. “Pain is the 6th vital sign” was the cry. I’d never heard of it but some of the post op pain protocols included it as a great thing. After having a couple of teens experience excessive somnolence after using it feels for a few days after surgery I gave up on it as an option.
I’ve done the straw mulching in spots.
fiber optics, leon, instead of electromagnetic energy. Then you couldn’t tap in a with a magnet.
The updated addiction studies in mice (with the great environment rather than the Skinner box) suggested that most mice addicted in the stressful environment weaned themselves off the drugs completely once they were out of it. That tells me that pain scrips probably need to go along with stress assessments and management. If you’re already set up to be an addict and you have surgery, you’re probably at much greater risk for abuse thereafter than a happy person who just needs to manage recovery pain.
You could instead tap in with an LED.
Wait a minute, leon. You are saying Yelchin died because of a software failure? I think it was because he didn’t put his car in park correctly, and that is a linkage. Mechanical, not software.
I tapped in to your mom
Screw it, I may as well ensure a happy retirement.
*starts writing car ransomware*
umm, I don’t think you can pirate a fiber optic cable with an LED and a switch.
Jay, his model Jeep has an electronic gear selector that’s under recall because there have been numerous reports of it not going into park when you tell it to be.
Interesting, I did not know that.
There’s a youtube video showing how easy it is to get wrong, I’ll see if I can find it.
A demonstration of the shifter:
http://jalopnik.com/heres-the-problem-with-jeeps-recalled-gear-shifter-1782364420
Beat ya!
However, that is still a mechanical issue, not software. Closer than the old style linkage, but it still depends on positioning and movement.
In other news, Chrysler files for bankruptcy after Hollywood files it’s lawsuit.
Can we get back to talking about gardening?
*runs over Car in’s garden with a Jeep
I want to see pictures of Lauraw’s garden.
I got sidelined into a real-world conversation. Controls design, maybe? It’s the loss of a direct, this-position-is-this-gear feedback at fault, so I’m wrong to blame software, but I still think the loss of physical and visual feedback that a direct linkage would provide is at fault.
Garden https://is.gd/ezQBy0
I’m doing straw mulch around my potatoes, but that’s all. I need to trellis my tomatoes this weekend. I’m thinking of using stakes and remnant baling twine from my hay to do something like this:
http://www.gardenbetty.com/2011/08/trellising-tomatoes-with-the-florida-weave/
Yes, I agree, leon. The standard of “where is the shifter” was taken away, and thus an inattentive driver might not notice that bell going off when they exit the car.
Hell, I have to go through a checklist to figure out why my car is yelling at me.
All Morning H2ers need their asses kicked.
Garden
Mine’s bigger.
YEA!!! what’s under the plastic (?) tarps?
I did the weave thing a few years back leon.
It’s not the size of the garden, Leon. It’s the output.
I mean, my garden is pretty big, but blight has knocked it all out some years.
Need to space your blight-susceptible plants and ensure sufficient airflow over them. That way it won’t spread and is less likely to start.
looks like mare is trying to catch up with the latest software pirating discussion.
*waves from above mare’s head
Better https://is.gd/m9mVo9
It’s garden fabric, keeps the bugs out.
3 blueberry bushes in the front.
It’s also covering the cucumber tower and a big row of potatoes.
Leon, I’ve tried everything. The blight I have is very, very hard to deal with. This year I have special resistent toms and I’m using that mulch/plastic sheeting. I’ve tried … EVERYTHING.
Jay gets me.
Have you tried a blood sacrifice?
I think TT is on to something. You can either have kids, or tomatoes. Choose.
Carin, where you are, nothing really ever parches, or not for long enough to kill baddies. So much shade around you, so much water in the ground. Fungi can remain viable there for very long stretches.
I’m going to take close ups in the garden. The overhead view doesn’t do my little leafy lovelies justice.
Gonna start some brussels sprouts today down the center of an empty row. Catch crop the sides with quick stuff until the brussels sprouts get too big.
https://imgur.com/gallery/JuY2USH
mare, can you post trigger warnings for us, so we can go to our safe space before posting violence? That was worse than a Tushar link to the alt net.
That reminds me of the guy who used to be here who sold cats, and he had a webcam on the kittens. They were a blast to watch.
Late blight can live in the soil for years and years. We’ll see how all my measures work this year.
One year, everybody got blight here. I think it was because most of the imported tomato seedlings were infected. It was a wet summer, too.
The only toms that escaped the blight were the topsy-turvy planted ones.
Should I do a Summer Shandy all grain next, or redo the American Amber as an all grain?
Decisions, decisions.
It really depends on what type of blight too.
let’s get leon to design a blight that only attacks blight.
It will take his mind off of cars for a while.
My Bermuda grass and St. Augustine are doing well. Even in the cracks of my driveway and in my rock garden where I don’t want them to do well. Grass burrs are semi-under control but I need to stay on top of it. 8 planter barrels of Vinca and all are rocking.
Thiis enderh my contributions to the garden blog for this season.
I’d just grow something blight can’t affect for a years until it starved out.
Yea, easily said. The main thing I want to grow is tomatoes. The rest is just filler. W/o toms I’ll just plant herbs and flowers in there.
Cicadas…
Anyway. Have you had the soil checked yet? Made sure it’s not nematodes or something like that?
ZERO line at airport security AND I had TSA precheck. Niiiiiiiiice.
DOH! Just remembered, next brew will be a Passion Fruit Shandy. Can’t believe I mixed that up!
Hard to kill vinca, it even grows here.
If you get a chance to listen to Trump’s speech, do it.
It’s a doozy.
I just finished listening to it, linked at drudge. I am officially on the Trump-wagon.
I watched it at lunch.
Hoo boy. That was a helluva speech.
So now we’re anti war.
A few garden pics here at the other H2 garden blerg.
I’m anti losing war. If we’re willing to win one some day, okay, but until then we’re just sending brave men to die and setting money on fire.
Oh, I think we won a couple. They keep trying to give it back, but we won.
We should just invade Iraq semi-annually until it learns its lesson. Easier than peacekeeping.
I’m anti war. But I recognize that sometimes its a neccesity. And when it is necessary, I want to prosecute the same in a manner that leaves my enemy thinking that they don’t ever want to war against me again.
I read part of Trump’s speech. Very good. Now he needs some commercials to go with it. Hammer Hillary over this on the airwaves.
Personally I’m out of patience with war for domestic political purposes. However, I’m warming to occasional raiding parties for training, punitive, and plunder purposes.
Comment by leoncaruthers on June 22, 2016 1:36 pm
We should just invade Iraq semi-annually until it learns its lesson
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Punitive campaigns. Wreak havoc, then leave. Eventually, they will learn.
Carin, how about cover-cropping half the garden for a few years? Alternate rye and field peas and just keep tilling them under and replanting…basically just starve the blight out of one part of the garden to clean it up?
Or solarize the soil with clear plastic sheeting?
Hmm, black plastic for a couple of weeks ought to bake it out of the soil, especially if it’s warm and sunny out.
Well, that was interesting.
I was out with the 3′ loppers trimming low branches on the giant Horse Chestnut in the front of the house..
Worked myself spitless and was resting in the garage, gasping like an out-of-shape old man(!) when I heard a H U G E roaring sound. It was getting louder, fast.
Stepped outside in time to see a C-130J, accelerating eastbound, cross over the house at 1200′, or less. It was hauling ass.
Pretty rare for here, as there are no C-130s at JBLM (McChord AFB)…
I’ve read out popularizing and it supposldly doesn’t b work for this blight. If my special seeds don’t work I’ll give up.
Trump’s Speech knocked it out of the park. Should read the entire transcript, I hope he delivered it well. That was just a whole can of speech whoop ass Trump unloaded.
Meh on the Trump speech. better than Hillary speeches, though.
Imma still googling Car in’s last comment. Keeps coming up no results found.
Mare, how is your day so far?
https://i.imgur.com/LXdXwDt.gifv
Loved lauraws garden blog!!!!!
I need to know what I should plant now in my empty beds – chickens got in them.
Sorry j’Ames. Kindle has a mind of its own. I shouldn’t even try on that thing. Is there a way to turn off the auto cucumber?
Going home tomorrow!
Yay TiFW!!!
Carin, I have a chart that shows Summer planting dates for various areas, for producing an extended harvest into Fall.
According to the first Fall frost date of September 5th for Lapeer, MI (holy shit that’s early), you can plant these now or before 7/1:
Beans, chinese cabbage, cauliflower, chard, corn salad, kohlrabi, peas, summer squash (actually, 6/20, so NOW), and turnip
Now or by 7/15: Tatsoi, spinach, lettuce
Now or by 8/1: Radish
Awesome news, Teresa! Also, I recently served food on that disasterware blue willow plate you gave me years ago. I love it.
Lindsey Graham needs to STFU he’s been rambling is idiotic mind puke on CNN.
NOT. F’ING. HELPING.
Good to hear, Teresa. What a year you’ve had. BOOOOOOOO
Laura, if you are looking for an excuse to fire up the BGE and bake a pizza, here is a good one:
Why those lousy sumbitches….I will be taking some pizza dough out of the freezer on Monday, Tushar!
I’ve got a great idea for a meat up for next spring.
http://garden-bloggers-conference.com/lists-of-top-garden-blogs/
I just spent the better part of my afternoon browsing here. Skaaweeeee!!1!!
Carin, you really need a big, cheap plastic hoophouse/greenhouse. It would change your life.
http://www.floretflowers.com In case your interests run towards non-edible plants.
Just trying to help a sistah out.
I found my spirit animal
https://imgur.com/f4UE7El
We give Mare grief for not attending a meatup, but if she ever attends, brace yourself
https://i.imgur.com/BkeezCl.gifv
I should really decide now if I’m building the greenhouse this year or not. After buying the new roof and new 8′ sliding door, I probably oughtn’t. OTOH, I will have both of the door panels from the old 8′ slider, so I could probably use them as roofing for a 14′ by 4′ cold frame, and maybe that over some matte black floor material could give me outside boxes warm enough to start seeds in next spring.
Happy Wednesday, weirdos.
Thank (redacted) there’s only a few days left in the week.
I’m not sure where you guys got the non woven fabric for your plants, but I would wager that the company I work for makes it.
It’s a reuse of the waste from the oil refining process. The byproduct is polypropylene, which can be melted and spun into tiny little fibers, collected on a rotating suction table, then rolled up into a big ass roll.
It looks like the biggest roll of TP you’ve ever seen.
As I understand it, most of what we use out of a barrel of oil was originally a “waste product” of kerosene production, gasoline being chief among these.
I need a basement root cellar.
My crawlspace is 5′, I suspect that I could use it as a root cellar if I were so motivated.
How cold does it get there, Leon? Some people do store crates of Winter vegetables in crawlspaces, at least for a month or three, depending on the climate.
I have a full-story unfinished cellar that isn’t heated, but doesn’t get close enough to freezing. Stays probably around 50. I would need an insulated crate with ventilation pipes running from an exterior cellar window. I would need to be able to close those pipes during very frigid weather to keep the produce hovering around 35 degrees. Kind of a pain in the ass.
My enclosed porch freezes hard sometimes, but otherwise serves nearly as well as a root cellar for refrigerating food during the winter.
Eh. If Scott stumbles over a big crate that can be brought down the steps, I might consider it.
https://is.gd/YFTJDg This is a pretty good book.
That’s not a crawl space, it’s a walk funny space.
What’s up with all the spirit animals? Why is everyone appropriating Liawatha’s culture?
I think I have a copy of the Coleman book, haven’t read it yet. I’ll put a temp probe in the crawlspace this winter and get a sense of its suitability. And yeah, it’s more like funny walk space. I’m short enough that I can stand upright between rafters if there aren’t any nails. I can crouch or sit comfortably and move crates around easily. If the potato or pumpkin crops are especially large I might store some down there.
My spirit animal is an Abrams tank.
I wonder if spirit animals talk about what type of human they’d be.
My spirit animal is my green fist of pain…IN YOUR ASS!!
” I can stand upright between rafters if there aren’t any nails.”
That sounds pretty scary. You might want to think about cutting them all off with a dremel.
The blight I have is very, very hard to deal with. This year I have special resistent toms and I’m using that mulch/plastic sheeting. I’ve tried … EVERYTHING.
Last year we had a very cold, wet, spring. My mater plants got blight bad but I was able to get about a dozen tomatoes off of them.
Like geraniums don’t like wet feet, tomatoes don’t like wet everything else. So this year, they get watered every other day and at ground level. They look so much better than they have in years.
I need to learn how to do potato growing around our Africa heat summers.
Memphis kind of sucks. The plant I’m working in makes paint for roads, white and yellow. Everything is covered in this yellow pigment mixed with red clay dirt and despair. Apparently it is ammonia based paint which makes the very air I have to breathe smell completely toxic. The plant was built in the 1950s and is falling apart.
Other than that this project is great.
I’ll take “things that would benefit from arson” for $500.
Unrelated note: I finished the flamethrower book. I think The only tool I don’t have is a drill press, and I think I can substitute my corded drill and my bench vise. I can probably get it done for less than $200 and about 6 hours of labor.
If I burn it down I’ll have to come back to rebuild.
I don’t ever want to come back.
I think your flame-thrower is commercially viable, Leon…have you considered making it a new career?
I have. I think the video of me burninating my phragmites will be a good link for my “Have flamethrower, will burn things for $$. Call for estimates.” ad on Craigslist.
I have no link fu. A Moron linked an obese bear in captivity as his spirit animal on FB. Back in the day, there was a Little Debbie eating Trash Panda. I claim both as my spirit animal.
After I build thing I may change my spirit animal to a Zippo.
You should design a self driving flamethrower drone.
I need one of those.
My real spirit animal has 57 facets.
My spirit animal is your moms bush.
Comment by leoncaruthers on June 22, 2016 9:24 pm
I have. I think the video of me burninating my phragmites will be a good link for my “Have flamethrower, will burn things for $$. Call for estimates.” ad on Craigslist.
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First call is going to be for a spouse….
Or I could get some sweet armor and…
First call is going to be for a spouse….
“So, is this spouse… a witch?”
…
“No no , it’s not extra, I don’t charge for witches. Public service. I think it’s even a partial indulgence.”
…
“Not a witch, eh? Well, I can refer you to a guy I know in Dearborn, but I’m afraid that’s not a service I offer to a first-time customer.”
“Mostly weeds.”
…
“Yeah, I suppose if there were something tucked into the weeds that I couldn’t see it would probably burn too.”
Beasn! https://is.gd/pgw0nc
*next call*
“No, I don’t do houses.”
…
“Old barn you want taken out? Are you sure? There’s no guarantee anything will be left.”
…
“If you want to sell tickets, okay, but I get 10% of gross ticket sales.”
You should design a self driving flamethrower drone.
Oh HELL no.
Things would have been different if the Gorilla had a flame thrower.
Or one of the club kids at Pulse.
A self driving flying flame thrower drone with a retractable stock, bayonet lug, and flash suppressor.
And high capacity magazine.
In other words a machine flamethrower.
*fills 28 water balloons with 151 rum*
Hahahahaha
That’s gonna have some serious recoil. Especially if you’re a pussy reporter out of NYC b
pussy reporter out of NYC
Major league Heh.
Well … work sucked.
that sucks.
When we moved out here in ’87 we were in the 100 year old farm house.
There was ten inches of water in the crawl-space. We could have farmed shrimp.
There was three buildings on this property when we came.
None of them exist today.
We fucked-up. Should have bought bare land.
Too soon old, too late smart…
I was sllllllooooow at the bar, the restaurant was busy. So… I’ll leave early, right? Noooo… three men come in half hour before close, and don’t order until 10 till close. And then order …. crab legs.
ARRRRGGGGG.
So, I got home to a messy kitchen and am ready to lose my shit on my children.
Good evening, fellow flame enthusiasts!
Got back from an Ireland trip on Monday and was a bit jet-lagged yesterday. No, I did not over-serve myself, thanks for asking.
Normally I do pretty well managing my sleep schedule and get back to normal right away. That one sucked for some reason. Must be getting old.
Have a few days off before Sao Paolo on Monday.
Comment by leoncaruthers on June 22, 2016 9:38 pm
Or I could get some sweet armor and…
Dress Possum up as the awesomest Halloween costume EVAH!
Have an appt with the cardio doc in the am.
Moderately concerned, but feel great.
Had an EKG come back a bit abnormal, no big deal for most.
Given my profession, it could be a show-stopper.
Gotta get it checked out. Wife is WAY more stressed about it than I am.
No way I would tell her this, but if I died tomorrow I would die happy.
Never planned on living past 40. If you told me I would still be alive at 50 I ‘might’ have taken better care of myself!
Keeping my fingers crossed for good results, phat. Hope you had a happy birfday.
Cry baby cry
Make your mother sigh
She’s derp enough to know better.
So cry baby cry.