I saw earlier on a astronomy forum people complaining about the smoke from the Canadian fire(s) who are in the northeast which would include Boston. Lot of smoke.
Missed earnings I think. I watched a few minutes of bloomberg live before the market opened and a couple of guest made the same comment. Tech has been concentrated on building data sites and such and forgot about non AI software. No idea but it sounded like they all got the same briefing.
I had an ultrawide 32" or 34" monitor. I found I wound up using only one end of it and didn't sit far enough away to get a good picture of it. Probably just the way I used it. Went back to 27".
I don't have a long beard, but it's 100% white now. I've always had facial hair but having to shave it off to get into some facilities I never really grew it real long. My dad made a big deal and had an award for winning a beard contest in 1976 which was one of the bicentenial deals. Not for me.
People used to use them to make a cut and slide the board down to make another and wound up cutting into their arm. Happened a lot in production type shops.
I don't think it worked that way this time for some reason. Oil prices went up, oil well count did not. Kept checking the weekly oil well count and it was up a couple and the most since February was +12 from a year ago. Of course the roughnecks aren't in charge of when/what to drill. If more...
On the north end of SA now along the I-35 corridor near Schertz and stuff there is heavy logistics of stuff coming in from Mexico and heading up I-35. Lot of warehouses and associated offices for large companies like Catepillar and such. Not all coming in from Mexico but a lot being shipped...
The last steel fab shop I worked for sold all their drop (scrap) sonce a year and used the money to pay for a crawfish boil for the guys in the shop. You go from some alloys that cost $55/pound when new to a crawfish boil for 35 guys.
https://pagesix.com/2026/07/09/celebrity-news/bonnie-tyler-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-singer-dead-at-75/
Don't see this every day. Tyler is survived by her husband of 52 years, Robert Sullivan.
I'm old school. I still listen to music at the house (not the truck obviosly) on reel to reel through a 70s receiver. I can rebuild and tune a carb much much easier than coming up with a tune on digital fuel injection myself (not just somoene elses tune) but I really don't see the gotta have...
I have a fence around the house and a large gate at the driveway, though the property is low fenced with barbed wire. The fence around the house is because cows will rub on anything, including the faucet and turn on some cool water to dirnk.
Didn't meta say some time ago they were making fake people for facebook to like peoples shit and up interaction and such. May be all AI now, but someone had to come up with that to begin with.
I bought one of these in college and used the hell out of it and kept after Ifinished. Handy as hell when you are cooking for one. I got my money out of it considering I probably paid $5. My pre build a gigant grille for customers days.