Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

**Madonna tickets at $6K** The normal routine is to set a 'social' price of 20 bucks, then rig the system so that 'certified resellers' get them all. For these guys, like TS, they should just set all prices at $6000 each, then cut the prices every day. You wouldn't destroy the Internet that way. :) I'm glad I'm too old for concerts, although if the real 'skinny Elvis' showed up, I might be tempted.

#physics #weather **La Nina Forever** I think someone tried to stop the tides once. It didn't work out for him. The first picture is the usual fluff. The second is the ocean temps that haven't changed for a year. The third is the latest ocean current gif, which hasn't changed for a year. Someday, the influencers may 'ghost' this whole La Nina thing, and the poor Australians will be sucker-punched. :)

**Beyond the Stupidity Defence** This is the "Buffoon Defence" As in 'Just because I'm waving a loaded gun around, doesn't mean anybody thinks I'll fire it". This is fairly close to an insanity plea.

#physics #weather **Siberian air finally hits Europe** That cold air has been stopped many times by ocean plumes. Also, most of the plumes have been stopped in the Arctic, except for one from Siberia, which is pushing a cold-air blob to Toronto. Once all the plumes have stopped, it looks like the Arctic cool pool will start filling up again.

#physics **Indoor air quality** For those being forced to go back to work. From the experience of my neighbours, you'll be back sick from covid a week later. I am impressed with a new generation of air quality monitors, at about $40 cdn. Quite the competition, so it will be going down.
I had the dubious honour of being in the first of the 'new wave' efficient office buildings in the 70's. Many people had to quit their jobs because they got so sick. For huge floor of 500 people, they recycled all the air through cheap filters, and had an opening of less than a sq ft for fresh intake. It was a soup of disease.

#physics #weather **Empty Arctic gets attacked by sharks** The pattern this year has been for the Arctic to fill, like a pool, with extremely cold air, and then spill it all out in high-velocity channels. Now it is empty, and all the plumes are coming in. We don't know if it will start the filling process again.

#physics #weather **California** Just to admit I was wrong, the big storms in the Pacific are still forming, but the path is now to Alaska. This brings Toronto a lot of NW clippers, very cold. However, the rain all bypasses callie, and they can be dry again. The mechanism is that the Arctic cold air well seems to have emptied again, and cold air through the Bering Str. isn't pushing down the storms.
The Europe cold air streams seem to be done, but that might just bring in the 60 below Siberian stuff.

ps.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/entering-resting-phase.html

I like my predictions.

**Going into resting phase now** As someone just said, you use up all your juices and need to rest. The Great Story can go on without me for a while.

#physics #weather **A bit more on the blog** I am giving up on the California report, and maybe, Europe.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/calicanes-have-convection-to.html

**Tech problems** My neighbours are very active 80+ and own a Mazda 3. It's a fob arrangement like my Toyota. The same as everybody, when one fob runs out of battery juice, they just go to the other one. Now, suddenly no fob works and they run to me. I showed them the key thing. Yeah! Then I took the fob apart (nasty) and the coin battery was bizarre, not in my collection. I had to do the overnight thing with ammie. Anyway, she comes running back with --there's no key thingy for the engine and trunk. So, you have to hold the dead fob real close to the ignition switch, and make sure the car is unlocked to open the trunk. whew!

**Madonna goes on tour, doesn't destroy the world** Unlike *some* people we know.

ps. The last big creative cycle had all the monopolies collapsed - Fairchild, Xerox, IBM, att, government, etc. Right now, all the monopolies are super-powerful.

#physics Longer paper on our sad state of 'creative destruction'.

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

**Ukrainians get full Nato kit** And a full sound system! Ok, cut the crap, this is a full Nato operation, sans the jets, and nuclear artillery shells. :) Poots has started a massive production of conventional weapons, which were languishing before, because we couldn't get such cute photos. :)

**Anybody see the recession yet?** 'Money physics' is the study of fundamental forces. I'm beginning to think that if everybody and their dog thinks a recession is coming, then it won't, because they are all preparing for it. Big recessions are a surprise. I also think the 'post covid' industrial rush will flood us with cheap goods by the summer. Look at Tesla! Single burner induction plates are flooding us right now. They have thermal sensors. Cooktops are flooding at $500 but with no sensors. Right now, thermal sensors for a cooktop add $2000 to the price, when it is only a 10 buck addition. We'll see the effect soon. Cheap cars will soon flood us when they finally get the chips, any day now. Only the house speculators will suffer and they are mostly foreign.

**Musk goes for the 'Stupidity Defense'** This always works for old white males, but never for the females. And that young bitcoin guy is using it too, but no chance.

#physics **Poop Cabbage** Physics tells us that the root membranes are effectively 'Reverse Osmosis Filters' Nothing gets by them. At our cottage (summer hut) we have a compost toilet and all the compost goes to growing 'Poop Potatoes'. I have this huge thermal compost bin in the back and it's hot even in the winter. I put all the dog poop in it. However, I also put in Miraclegro for the nitrogen. The physics error in the article is that there is not enough natural fixed nitrogen in the world to feed us.

#physics #weather **Pacific storm hits Alaska** These are very fast, and impossible to track, part time. Some new ones have formed.