Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics #weather **MIMIC is fixed!** We have two cold blobs coming to hit NA and Europe. First - rain on frozen ground, and then a flash freeze.

**Drone Boats** I thought this article was interesting.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/drone-boats-navy-usvs-research-automation-nato-1.6661191

**AI dominates Twitter news** Freelancers need the money.

https://boingboing.net/2022/12/27/tesla-stock-sinks-another-11-as-elon-hypes-russian-prime-minister-tweet-predicting-u-s-civil-war.html

This is a horrible image, but people gotta eat.

#physics **Mouse ultrasound on drones now** This will be the latest thing, next to those useless mosquito suckers. Perhaps they will claim they are good for that, as well.

**Oh yee, of little faith** Yea Virginia, there is no **Twitter Claus** The scum of the Earth need to find something else for their living.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/27/there-is-no-next-twitter-and-thats-ok/

#physics #weather **MIMIC continues to be attacked by left-wingers** Or probably not, it's just that they don't respond to my constant hectoring. Maybe someone else can give it a try. Anyway, two very strong plumes are warming us and Europe. the plumes are low, so expect cold soon. In the meantime, we get lots of rain on frozen ground.

**Nerd's Guide to Girls** I am amused at the nerds here talking about 'What women want" Ha, ha. I am 100% single-focus nerd. It's an inherited mental condition that burns out your brain at age 40, and tries to kill you. The main symptom in high school is that you are terrified of girls. You try to get over it in University, but you have no hormones, and you can't react to female hormones. Everything is plastic. I did programming, physics, and read a lot. These days, the guys do endless computer games. The poor girls only have high-testosterone guys, who mop the floor with them. At some time they get sick of the abuse, but there are no alternatives.
At age 26 I had a high paying job, my own apartment overlooking the city and a car. I decided I should talk to girls. There followed a life, for a while, that should be a comedy. Eventually, I reproduced. All's good.

Before you all ask, the rubber things are there for one of 3 reasons.

1. So the baby can pick up a jar and chug the brine.
2. Pickling 'Free the Nipple'
3. It's a one-way valve for fermentation, and X razor cut.

**Christmas gift pickles** This was a pickle kit that uses the brine method, which is the same as sauerkraut. In the background is the mandolin, nicknamed **Vlad the Impaler**. It has caused much blood. Now, the rule is to not go within 3 ft of it without the cut-proof gloves. These are a cheap ammie thing, with stainless steel threads. Much to the dismay of my cut fingertip, the 'safety' holder is useless.

I want **Bold** text.

#physics #weather This is my big weekly-ish blog on the ocean currents. I find you can't do anything semi-serious here.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2022/12/state-of-oceans-december-27-2022.html

However, nobody reads anything longer than a sentence, if that.

#physics #weather I'm just collecting 'End of La Nina' stories, with no thought on it whatsoever. The biggest bet of the year will be on this.

Manic phase over. All night with the most ridiculous dreams. Now, all is calm, and nothing funny is coming out.

#physics #weather Big wad of Pacific air coming for Toronto. BC's rainy loss is our gain. The plume is unusual in it's intensity and direct hit.

No recession for Canada. Don't put any money on it. We'll have a few weenies who didn't listen to anybody and bought a house at peak with a variable rate, butt the banks will quietly brush them under the carpet. All our income comes from oil, gas, automobiles, and Ryan Reynolds. All looks good for coming years, especially with it getting colder than you-know-what in the world. We excel at living in cold and can send paid consultants to US states that don't how to plough a road. The economy will shine when we start growing coca plants, and opium poppies. All the prairies will be covered with greenhouses, run by Ukrainian refugees.

Too manic. I've take a big dose of my homemade snake oil. My problem is that I start making fun of everybody, including the Major Sourpusses of Mastodon. Someday I'll go after the Hitman of Climate Change. This is dangerous, and so, now, I am totally mellow-yellow.

I'm much too gabby today, and will have to hit myself with bat. All the family in yesterday, too much drinking on my part. I had lots of fun with the big male Scotch drinkers shooting expensive Japanese Scotch. We only got it because of my California hipster son, who loves it. It burns like a friggin hot iron down your gut. Hilarious!

iphone flushed down the toilet leads rescuers on a merry chase.

#physics Ontario gets silly again about energy. I did all the preliminary geotech studies of the new Niagara Tunnel. It would only work if we expanded the pumped storage. I left that division, and the gov't forced them to build the tunnel -- 'Worth it at any price.' they said. The tunnel cost 2 billion and was never used, because of the fact they couldn't expand the pumped storage, as I had said. The walls were dirt, and already had failures. Now, we go into buying all the lithium in China. If we accelerate the demise of Climate Change, then natural gas is the physics solution. But, physics is a fiction. :(