Daily Archives: December 15, 2016
Scams and Hodgepodges . . .
First off, I want to thank everyone for their kind words about my recent addition to Greg’s Musings, “The Dakota Access Pipeline – Pipeline Politics”
I’ve posted a cleaned-up PDF version over there that you’re welcome to pass around as you see fit.
Next up, “When did Global Cooling become Global Warming become Climate Change.”
And on the subject of climate, also called ‘Weather’, it’s going to a real roller coaster ride on the temperature scale over the next few days. Today it was 68°/53° and tomorrow it’s supposed to be 74°/64°
Then reaching the very top of the hill on Saturday, it’s going to hit 80°. But then comes the steep drop-off, all the way down to 33° Saturday night. Then Sunday it levels out a bit with 42°, before that final drop at the end down to 28°.
In other words, typical Texas winter weather.
I always wondered if Jan had a past before I met her (of course she was only 19), but I didn’t know she had ‘naked pics’ out there.. Why am I always the last to know?
Here’s an email we got.
Just another phishing scheme going around, but the first one I’ve been tempted to open, but in a sandbox environment, of course.
In addition, if you have a Yahoo. com email account you probably received an email recently concerning a data breach. Yahoo Data Breach
Over 1 Billon, yes, Billon with a B, Yahoo.com email accounts were hacked. But I’m not sure how worried they are about the hack since it happened back in 2013 and they’re just now getting around to telling us.
Wrapping up, also be aware of a new Amazon hack from a email subjected, “Your Amazon.com order cannot be shipped.”
Needless to say, it’s not from Amazon. They don’t even know if you’ve ordered anything. They just send out millions of emails and the Law of Large Numbers guarantees that hundreds of thousands of them have Amazon shipments in progress.
We had another big flare at the site last night, but with the wind, it was blowing horizontal.
I keep meaning to bring my Panasonic camera with me to get some better pics.
Jan made up a big batch of what I call Hodgepodge Beef Soup. Please don’t ask for the recipe because Jan has no idea what’s really in it. She just threw it together.
She started with 1-1/2 pounds of beef stew meat, some beans from some long-forgotten bean soup package, carrots, a large box of beef broth, some shell pasta, a container of Campbell’s Slow Cooker Tomato-Basil Bisque, a can of diced tomatoes, the obligatory can of Hot Habanero Rotel tomatoes, and some condiments here, with some spices there.
Really delicious. But maybe not repeatable.
Thought for the Day:
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” – John W. Gardner
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