Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

**Intel goes down** They were a classic monopoly with MS. I was on Usenet with chip designers, when I hearing all the stories about how horrible they were with their people. It took a long time. Now, we have MS, the scourge of the world, who have a lock on businesses who like to be hacked. :)

**AI will mop up the mediocre** I can't stand reading anything from the AI, but the 'essay' format is dead. Nobody reads this stuff. I need AI to run my 3d printer (dreaming!). I need it to arrange appointments, and deal with stupid people. When I'm in the home, I'll play cards with the AI, and train it to laugh at my jokes. It can make movies, and do all the art stuff for me. :) AI can do all the mediocre science stuff, like endless increments. Everybody in Canada will be on welfare. In the US, they'll starve, and die of 'Endless Covid" :)

#physics #weather **No change in Pacific**
Just got the ocean currents map -- no change in anything. The Pacific Cold Phase will continue, and we might as well stop calling it La Nina. This is all being assimilated into Climate Change, as we speak.

#physics #weather **Winds of the Earth**

No. 1 - NA is getting a direct stream from the pole. Very cold, should nudge natgas prices.
No. 2 Asia continues with a much stronger flow from Siberia
No.3 Europe has mixed flows

#physics #weather **Extreme cold is climate change** It all makes sense to the influencers.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/asia/east-asia-cold-snap-climate-japan-korea-china-climate-intl-hnk/index.html

“we can consider this extreme weather – extremely hot weather in summer and extremely cold weather in winter – as one of the signals of climate change.”

This is the exact same symptom as the ocean currents flipping, and the coming of the Little Ice Age. Of course, this is all due to carbon dioxide acting as a thermal blanket. I'm 100% for this, and I no longer have to offer basic physics.
I will continue to show the charts that the world temperatures are going down, and this is an 'all inclusive deal'. Drink all you want!
In Canada, we will get colder and the Arctic ice will build up. There's nothing that climate change can't do. Just don't invest in an Arctic shipping service.
In the summer, we are free to note that El Nino has been killed by his little sister La Nina, and his body stashed in a snow drift. It's all good! Invest in umbrella sales for Australia.

Oh joy, I have to pick the kids up at the airport today. They've been having a wild time in New Orleans and they have a **SURPRISE!** No, it's not news of a new grandkid coming. It starts with a K and rhymes with 'aken'. :(

#linux **KDE update is a muck today** Lots of widgets won't work. Not the worst muck....

#physics #weather **Europe is a warmer mess** This is what I mean about it being a mess, but the African air is coming back, and the Siberian air is gone. Lots of tropical plumes up in the northern reaches, again warming everything. The influencers can dance again, the cold air isn't building up, and it will never come down again....

#weather **Toronto driveway cleared** We have the fun that the guy cleaning out the snow-row at the end is always too late. This was with my 6hp Honda single-throw blower which is enough for Toronto. Doing a full maintenance on my indoor sprout farm seemed to be more exhausting, but with limp, flavourless lettuce being so expensive, we all greatly enjoy the microgreens.

**Toronto Snow** A very wet snow, and now it is getting frozen solid.

#physics **Physics of air quality** I don't have much to say, but I'm thinking that the physics here is as bad as anything else. The story is all controlled by those who have skin in the game. They have 'qualifications' and the influencers parrot them. I'm thinking of uvc on titanium oxide. I've rigged this up a few times, and it gives a nice fresh scent like the outdoors. This gives out hydroxyl ions, and I'm thinking that someone should be bold enough to have a hypothesis that a heavy saturation of this in the air is harmless and stops covid from getting in the eyes. However, anything new is instantly sued in the US. Too bad. We'll just have to go with things that don't work.

**NHL massive tanking - not Leopards** They all want the new whiz kid. I'm not linking any more, since they all have paywalls, but it can be found using search.

**Social media landmines** Bunch of wimps.

https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788ebcd

#physics #weather **Normal winter** For NA, at least. Europe is a mess. Still not much air coming down the Bering Str. so we just get clippers.

**Horrible sleazy adds showed up** I'm glad they're gone now. I'm still terribly worried that the exponential growth impacts the linear growth of moderators. That's how every chat I've been on for 40+ years has died. :(

It's perfect snowman making snow. 6 inches of heavy packing snow. Everyone on the street were talking about the 30-ish kids artistic endeavours. One was a naked woman with a huge rack. I was embarrassed. Of course, these days....

#physics #weather **Moore Snoo** Wow, a neat storm in Toronto.

#gardening **New Seeds** We just discovered a great *hack*. Nobody gets photo prints any more, and we have these albums hanging around. We just got in our seeds for the season. I start the tomatoes in March under the lights. I may start the onions earlier, but extreme cold makes things difficult in the garage.

**Toronto Snow** It's coming in really heavy now. I'll have to get the snowblower out one day. We don't drive much, and I'll try not to drive in a storm.

**Drones** All I want is to go straight up from the summer hut, and take aerial shots, as high as possible. I'm amazed that Aliexpress now has good ones at $50 cdn. I'm 50/50 with those guys, but cheap enough, and I'll take the gamble. Maybe I should wait to be more in the recession....