Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics **Goognoculars** A brilliant idea to keep Google from the trash heap of history. I was reading about mechanical stabilized binoculars. They used a liquid prism that probably wasn't good at 40 below. Then I thought a successor to the famous creepy Google glasses. Make stabilized binoculars, all electronic. We'd call them 'prismless' Hook them into the Pixel 7-8-9.
I'd look at a bird from the cottage deck and it would recreate a beautiful AI image. Then I would move the slider from 'dull reality' to 'AI happiness'.
I would say - 'Darn, that's a common house sparrow. I want a Greater Spotted Tit'. And poof! Take a picture.
Now AI would put everybody out of a job. And then, why need goognoculars? Just make up pictures. Life is good. :)

#physics #weather **Trickle Becomes a Flood** This is just pouring through the Bering Str. but no big flow on the continent. However, we are getting standard cold.

**A fine raqulet dinner for New Years Day** You can see it's Teflon. :) Very Canadian.

#climatechange **Insulation allows you to get a hot-tub**
There are no words for this.

I added some more with my blog, but I think nobody could get funding for this, since it is unpopular.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/brilliantitis.html

**Hershey House** from the kit. By the 30-something kids. Lots of cursing, and not recommended for kids.

There's a problem that this condition isn't recognized until it becomes depression. I will call it 'brilliantitis' It should be treated earlier with trace Paxil. If you wait until depression, you can't shed the booze. Our medical friends here should find the dna marker. :)

**Intervention for 2023** I wrote about the 'Great Brain Defect' that conquered the world, but we should talk about what to do about it. This is a northern Europe defect that cuts down on brain serotonin. I blame the Vikings.
I'm seeing it in people again, and the #1 response is 'I don't need no pills!'. The defect allows you to be super-brilliant, but burns out your brain at 40. You can see it in brain scans.
For those who self-medicate, they either suicide, or become drunks. It is up to those around them to 'intervene' and get them to a doctor who knows about this. This hits both male and female. We know about the billionaires who go funny at 40. They aren't taking the Paxil.

**Canada in the news** Although I hate the concept of lithium cars, this can be used for my methanol hybrid cars. :) We just need that whole groupthink thing to explode. The biggest crime of that, is not building a million windmills for battery cars (Ha!), but in the elimination of >all< funding for atmospheric physics. :(

**Oversteering** You can safely depend on the gov't to oversteer. A foreign coin laundry drove up prices of luxury condos and houses that nobody in Canada can afford to buy. When walking, watch out for falling houses. :)

#physics #weather **Cold air about to spill** Once again I am blinded by mimic, but this is also in the regular forecast for Toronto. The headpond is now leaking in two places, one for Texas and one for UK. Texas spill is now going through the Bering Straight. This will turn and freeze Vancouver and Sanfran. The flow will split and pour down to Texas on the other side of the mountains. This is a very early physics forecast, and I'm following the last pattern, because of no ocean plume activity. I wouldn't speculate on natgas with this.

Just put the grandson to bed. Told him a story. When they all get bigger, I can put them to sleep with my physics boring stories. I did that for the cousins at the cottage. Nobody could survive 'The Water Cycle'. :)

*Question of the Season** Did anybody have good fruitcake? I did.

#physics **Pumped Storage** It's hilarious, but we are awash in electricity at night. That's from the nuclear plants. If anybody figured out a good storage system (think freezing!) then no need for solar, etc.

**Christmas has been disease-free** When the new covid variant comes out, you can be sure that I, in Toronto, will get it first. I've had three 'knockdowns' already. Then, I can laugh at the rest of you. :)

ps. the term 'until March' means the place is frozen solid. Why install heat tracing when the groupthink tells you the oil will soon boil.

#physics **However, the continental ice is building** There's no physics here. A healthy glacier spouts out ice. The volume decreases during a surge, and increases during a 'pause'. However, the influencers don't do physics, which is fine. Looking at the temperature chart, Antarctica is flat as a pancake.