Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

@Micromineral Beautiful, and I'm glad that llamas don't spit.

@szescstopni As long as they don't rub in it. My dog always does that, and it's worse than a skunk spray.

@TheOldGuy I've never understood why Big Oil hasn't investing a tiny bit of money into physics. So, sue the heck out them, there is no defense.

Merry Christmas with first grandson. All the family is here, and it's noisy.

The first stage of 'negotiation' is a male pissing contest. Without emotions, I think Ukraine should lease some land like the old Hong Kong thing. They bring in Nato, like they have already without jets (who needs them?) and the leases are 'no combatant' zones. The US increases the range of the himars to 150km. Neato.

@samyalkenawi When we brought in a big consultant for a seismic review, he said "Tell me what you want me to say, and I'll see if I can live with it."

@samyalkenawi Real engineers don't use equations.

#physics #weather It has begun. Based on a wing and a prayer, nothing stops people from injecting sulphur into the atmosphere. What could go wrong?

@lxo My best friend is a left winger. She zooms down the ice like there's no tomorrow.

#physics #weather Next year will be very warm according to philosophy. This is nice, the cataclysm will come next year when La Nina shuts off.
**sensitive content** The evil physics states that Newton cannot be denied. The kinetic energy feeding the Pacific Belt is greater than any natural event on Earth. Bad physics -- go to your room. ***

Merry Christmas, eh? I'm so proud!

Norad does a fine job tracking Santa -- Sometime around 1979, our rock mechanics graduate students visited the Norad facilities to look at the rock. Norad is located deep underground at an undisclosed location somewhere in Canada. :)
The great thing was that they were terrified of replacing their tube computers, with something using transistors. There were two computers, each taking up the space of a huge room. Everyday, the technicians would switch and over-volt one. Tubes that blew out would be replaced. The remaining tubes would last a whole day. The replacement standing in the wings was the size of a washing machine.

#weather Good Morning Toronto -- Merry Christmas. Today we wake up to a marginal white Christmas. Should be 2cm on the ground, but we're at 1.9. The radar shows that any second now, we'll top the requirement. :)

@lxo OMG, good thing you didn't read that other thing I said. Merry Christmas.

@szescstopni Where again? Snowmobile time.

Just starting running Linux on an old Pixel Slate. It is held together with a lot of glue.