Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

Christmas gift for our fearless qoto leader.

This has some wonderful quotes. Coffee with a splintery wooden lid up my nose.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-taxes-congress-vote-release-1.6692712

#physics #weather -- Fickle Finger of Cold heads to Toronto -- My son's flight from Sanfran to Toronto was cancelled, probably stuck in Vancouver. They better get here before this thing does.

#physics Momentum keeps cold water going -- It is universally acknowledged that La Nina must die. All 2023 forecasts incorporate this. However, the kinetic energy involved in this flow probably exceeds all known natural events.

AI to destroy the Internet. Quote:

But there is a more serious long-term implication. We may be witnessing, in real time, the birth of a snowball of bullshit.

Ha, I think I broke my side laughing. Can we have a list of all the current bullshit?

Sign in the Musk Curiosity Shop - If you buy it, you break it.

#physics Sodastream -- put in the flavour drops *after* you zap it. Excellent lesson in gas explosion dynamics. 😭

BC gets the black. That's 40 below. Pipes will freeze.

I'm dreaming of a solid ice Christmas.

"City of Toronto
Significant winter storm expected late this week into the holiday weekend.

Precipitation may begin as rain or snow late Thursday before possibly transitioning to rain in many areas early Friday. Temperatures are expected to plummet on Friday leading to a potential flash freeze for locations that receive rainfall. Rapidly falling temperatures will be accompanied by strong to potentially damaging winds along with snow that may be heavy at times. Blizzard conditions are possible late Friday into the weekend for areas downwind of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.

A multi-day lake effect snow event is expected into the weekend in the wake of the system for locations east of the Great Lakes."

The toboggan hills will be solid ice. I remember those days of my youth. I think I chipped a tooth.

#physics A tale of two graphics. First is the latest from The Guardian, second is my choice of 'all months' from NOAA. Mine makes it look like the temperature is going down. Perhaps it is distorted. Anyway, we have a hypothesis --

" But he added: “For next year our climate model is indicating an end to the three consecutive years with La Nina state, with a return to relative warmer conditions in parts of the tropical Pacific.

“This shift is likely to lead to global temperature in 2023 being warmer than 2022.”

Yeah -- Total Success. This is my textTicTok hack for fixing the stinkin' ignitor on the bbq. Wrap a tiny bit of sandpaper on the eraser end of a pencil. Rub it on the big spring end, and then twirly twirly on the hidden spring inside. Those springs get so gunked up. This satisfaction will keep up my brain serotonin for a whole day!

ps. these are 'earthquakes of the sky' made more violent by the cold. We are back to the 70's, so a good physics hypothesis is that we'll see more of these, and the ozone holes will get larger, and my pipes will freeze. :)

#physics Violent Clear air convection. It's not studied any more, since it can't exist in a greenhouse gas situation.

Hudson Bay closes up for the winter. We had a heat vortex for the last month, and now the cold air just goes over it.

ha, even when I read the instructions, it took a while for an old man. You press the 'salad' at the top right, and then 'pin' the column. Yeah!

How do you split the columns on the advanced web interface?