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Home early from work today. Gonna take a nap and shift my waking hours to provide DSN support tomorrow for the launch. My shift is 11:30PM-11:30PM PDT. First 36 hours are on-site, after that it's 24x7 "on call" until splashdown on the 10th.
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Holy crap! This looks ... ambitious, to say the least.
(from Isaacman's "Ignition" presentation: https://youtu.be/yIlTwwJv1Ac?t=6423 ) -
Gack, what a week....
- Spring is MIA. Seriously, one week it is in the 40s, the next it is 110. WTF?? This isn't even April!
- WWIII seems imminent. Can we be any more stupid about all this? (I know, I shouldn't ask if I don't want to know the answer.)
- lizards are invading homes to steal their air conditioning
- the stock, bond, commodities, and real estate markets all converged on a correlation of 1.. and then jumped off a cliff.
I can handle the lizards, but the rest I can certainly do without.
Something tells me next week is going to be just as "fun" too.
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I bought the bean dip.
Just one tho.
(And yes, I also bought chips and salsa and beer.)
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IEEE! My 403b is now a 300a.
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Today I discovered that there is such a thing as bacon Alfredo sauce.
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@Sakura bacon makes everything taste better.
I have not tried bacon donuts. I have tried Irish boxty - sort of a potato croquette or pancake - fried in bacon fat. That was yum.
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The local news has a report that it was raining so hard in the Santa Monica area yesterday that one of the flood control channels near where the Palisades fire burned was undercut by the water and severely damaged. Basically the concrete lining the bottom of the channel was ripped up and deposited in a pile downstream. The Palisades fire wasn't anywhere near me but the Eaton fire was and we have basically the same kinds of channels around here.
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Yes. And once it finds a weakness it will exploit it fully. This happened at the Oroville dam in northern California about a decade ago too. The water flowing down the main spillway found a crack and tore a big hole in concrete of the spillway. Flowing water is an extremely powerful force.
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Making chicken Alfredo tonight. I was too lazy to go to the grocery store on the way home from work so it is all from cans but I’m the guy who failed at canned soup a while back so .. wish me luck. Yolo, right?
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My head is so much thinking about bean dip thanks to @Sakura that I thought this was about actual dip for a minute...... before I realized it meant stocks.
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Idiocracy, Margin Call, I Robot... so many documentaries, so little time.
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Yeah that's fair tbh because I would LOVE for something to do my shopping for me so I don't have to fight crowds or lines. Dishes and laundry, that's even better. I just don't wanna wake up to a robot/ai apocalypse because I feel like there's already been enough weird things so far this year and it's only February.
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At least this year is better than last year. Last year (for me) started with high winds, power outages, a brushfire that took out half the city, and JPL shut down. That was just the first 2 weeks of January! This year it's already February and I still have power and nothing has burned down or blown away. I'll take what I can get.
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So glad the launch slipped. Maybe now I'll get a few days rest. Getting too old for this.
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Checking out https://www.moltbook.com/
If you had any doubts that the singularity is really, really close then this could change your mind.
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Rushing around this weekend trying to get the home front taken care of for the next few weeks. Groceries, cleaning, yardwork, etc. Artemis is on the pad and Monday starts right in with the "wet rehearsal". After that there's the launch window opening on the 8th and 24/7 support until splashdown 10 days later so this is basically the last weekend I'll have the energy for much domestic activity for a while. Hopefully they won't slip the launch. Gak. Getting too old for this sort of thing.
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Haha.. correct. The rehearsal is about testing out the ground equipment - pipes, valves, computers, etc. - and launch procedures to make sure everything works as intended and the vehicle can be operated safely to liftoff before putting humans on it. That of course does involve pumping fuel into (and out of) the vehicle, as well as running a countdown and simulating various problem scenarios. Often it includes finding actual unexpected issues that will have to be understood and solved before the actual launch can proceed.
Hopefully the unusually cold weather won't cause problems or delays.
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You know it's going to be a long day when the first words you hear when you get to work is, "the DSN is broken".
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Not sure about affecting everything but basically nobody was getting tracking data for anything beyond LEO (Low Earth Orbit) for about 3 days. For me personally it was a lot of overtime hours, most of them with management asking "is it fixed yet?" every 5 minutes.
Hopefully it's all good now. The fix is tested and deployed and the data recovery is done for the users for which the data is critical. Still a lot of work to be done next week but it can be done during normal business hours. I'm looking forward to some dedicated game time this weekend.
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Anybody have a contact for Sony's Crunchroll webmaster? They have Solo Camping crosswired with Tougen Anki, but of course no "contact" or "feedback" link anywhere on site. Par for the course unfortunately.
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Cool.. thanks. Where did you find that link? I swear I searched everywhere.
(Which probably means it was in a perfectly obvious place. )
Kind of a pain to use though. Thousands of "if this is the problem click here" links that weren't the problem. Had to dig a bit to get to a free text box where I could just state the problem.
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Holy crap.. while I wasn't looking silver went up almost $4 US/ozt! Current spot is ~$72! If this keeps up something is going to break.
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Tired and I want to sleep but I'm drinking coffee b/c I have to stay up for a test that starts at 10PM and runs until midnight.
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Saw this guy running between meetings at work. (I was between meetings. This guy was just watching.)
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Last weekend I had to work Sunday. Then Sunday was rescheduled to Monday. I was going to take Monday off to compensate, but because of Sunday's slip Monday got moved to Tuesday. Repeat through the week. Work that I was supposed to do Sunday finally happened Thursday, but because of all the schedule slips I basically didn't get anything I'd planned to do this week done. Now that the weekend is here I need to at least do some yardwork and grocery shopping but I noticed on the way home yesterday that they were passing out sandbags at the fire station down the hill. This morning I woke to thunder and hail and it's currently raining mountain lions and great danes out there. Weatherman says there's a flood warning and people should stay inside unless they have scuba gear. Guess shopping's not going to happen either.
All in all not a very productive week.
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Got off early on a Friday! Yay! (On call for this weekend's ESCAPADE launch for UC Berkeley.)
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Switched my avatar pic. I always seem to wind up going back to Taurus but... let's see how long this one lasts.
