Climate Change Predictions

They haven't been all that accurate, but the believers don't seem to mind.

Paint the World White

In a 2009 speech.  DOE Secretary Chu wants to paint rooftops white or some lighter color to save the planet.  Not one mention of the $$$ to do this or the environmental damage to get that much TiO2, if there is that much TIO2 or the economic cost of that much displacement.  Truly, getting a Nobel in one area doesn't prevent you from being a total idiot in another.

More news about a Green

This one seems to be a family tragedy.  You wonder why no one noticed anything if the power had been off for two months.

greeners in the news

Alvin is running for senate.  No relation.  Well, if he does well we might do some creative genealogy.  He has a few "famous" news encounters.

Bunny Ears

Night Walk

At 10pm in Anchorage it's still light. Pretty neat

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Anchorage

Made it

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Amazing tale of incompetence

The News and Observer's series on the NC SBI is an amazing tale of absolute incompetence.  Intentionally incompetent, it seems.  I read it with great disbelief.  The folks mentioned in this series had one thing in common, none had science degrees.

Unbelievable

Droid App

Blogger for Droid seems to work pretty well.  Comes up with the last on you used.  Will how it works.

Droid app

Checking Droid

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Bath Project

The new toilet is in.  The new vanity is in.  Had a bear of a time getting the drain in so it didn't leak.  Bought a Price Pfister Avalon kit.  The cheap plastic drain and pop up assembly was beyond my ability to install so it didn't leak.  I had to buy a steel ($25) assembly to get it to work. 

Demel Multi Max

I bought a Dremel Multimax     for a flooring replacement project, largely because the ads looked pretty neat and I needed a saw for door jambs.  The tool worked as advertised.  When I did my part, it cut neatly, quickly and accurately.  Looks like a good tool to have around for home projects.

Sustainable Biomass?

This article   
from the NYT on sustainable electricity from burning trees points out a bunch of problems with this whole green concept and leaves a few out.  It takes 20 years of tree growth to produce pines that might be usable.  The amount of land for growing trees to sustain one 47 mW plant is huge.  Pine is not as good as the slower growing hardwoods.  Pine is more polluting.  In fact, wood is as, if not more, polluting than hard coal.  Emissions controls would need to be as, or more stringent, than coal plants.  The high moisture content makes the fuel less efficient.  Bark and chip burning plants generally die pretty quickly based strictly on economics.  The article certainly doesn't mention the cost of the electricity produced or how much of the cost in the form of price and subsidies the public gets to pay.  Not a good idea

HT Instapundit 

Obama's Expensive 10 minutes

The presidential desparation to sell the stimulus as working was estimated to cost $500,000 to $1,000,000 for a 10-minute speech.  In honor of the presidential speech, construction workers were laid off with no pay for the day. 

It's time for real results and not fluff and nonsense.

Inexcusable Federal Obstruction

The oil-sucking barges work and the Coast Guard shuts it down. The Feds are bound and determined to make this tragedy worse than it has to be.  It is past time folks started getting fired.

hat tip Drudge

Obama Plan

Obama's plan is BP bad, BP gonna pay.  Tonight he did little to assure me that there was any real plan to protect the coasts and restoration.  Cap and Tax, stopping drilling, and beating up BP will destroy the country.  Just how many gallons of oil does a lawyer suck up?


We have been had by absolute lack of experience.

Good bye Merc

Cute article from Time on the demise of the Mercury.  I guess I never saw much difference, except price, between the Mercury and the comparable Ford model, so I never owned a Merc. 

Federal Response to the Oil Spill

I watched the joint press conference today. Napolitano and Salazar said the same thing: 1. BP is responsible; 2. We will hold them responsible; 3. We are making it a priority mission for a group of government scientists to figure out just how much oil is spilled; 4. We've been on it since day one and have been to the coast 4 times; and 5. BP will pay.

This is about the dumbest conference I've heard. The Feds have no plan, no ideas and are doing nothing to move things along. The only plan they have is fixing the blame. Why do either Napalitano or Salazar have jobs with any responsibility?

Show me your papers

Rather bad press by the President and others. As a US citizen I carry and, depending on the situation, can be expected to show: driver's license, retired military ID, voter registration card, car registration, car insurance, fishing license, boat and trailer registrations and others. If I were illegal, could I get by with less?

Graduation

Last child graduated.  Absolutely beautiful, sunny day to enjoy the show.

A minivan trumps anything

But a ragtop of any kind. Car lust is a great website

Car Lust

Really neat blog on cars

Nelson on Greta

Listened to the interview with Nelson from Nebraska.  Either he is the dumbest senator who ever broke bread or his is the worst liar.  He apparently didn't know about the kickback, then said it was a placeholder because they didn't have time to score it.  Asked about the rush and he just didn't know.

The US would be better off if the good folks in Nebraska elected him but then requested he not go to work.  Absolutely disgusting.

Half the Bathroom is coming together

Walls painted, shower in and hardware in.  Shower doors will be added tomorrow.  Just too lazy to drag them up the stairs tonight.

Peace in Our Time

Chamberlain's quote is about all that is missing from the current strategy of apology, discussion, deferring to our avowed enemies, kicking our friends and the newly announced nuclear policy. 

Pine Pollen

The season started late Friday.  Very nice yellow-green dust by Monday.  I discovered the windshield washer fluid pump on the Camry didn't work yesterday when I tried to remove the dew and pollen with the wipers.  Nice mess on the windshield.  If you a prone to pollen allergies, this is not the greatest place to be.  Bit of a thunderstorm this morning will bring some, temporary, relief.

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Wallboard in the Bath

Wall board is in. Going green. Better if I replaced the wallboard. Not all that hard with new board. Now for the fun of mudding the board.

Go Spartans

Great game against Tennessee today.  Of course, you gotta love Butler.

Earth Hour

I guess I'm just too far right and have spent too much time doing things environmental to get caught up in the Earth Day or Earth Hour feel good, enviro stuff.  My favorite eldest child put out a Facebook request for all her followers to turn out the lights for Earth hour.  I turned on extra lights between 8:30 and 9:30. 

Unlike most of the left, I don't have the arrogance to believe I can change the climate.

More Bath Remodeling

Problems encountered
1.  The premolded 34" shower wall is really 36" and extends into the drywall on the perpendicular wall face.  My solution was to cut the overhang from the drywall.  I'll install the wall then cover with a small strip of drywall and the metal corner edge

I decided it would be easier and look better if I didn't try to cut mounted drywall and patch it.  The drywall on the back wall was removed.

The rear of the pan was 1/8" inch too far back and the wall didn't fit into the mounting slots on the pan.  A bit of removing subflooring and moving the pan solved that.  Took about an hour to figure that out.
The shower  faucet is nice.  Just takes a while to figure out the set up. 

Shower surround

Partially installed but not with caulking. The back piece was loads of fun for two old folks to get up the stairs.

More Bathroom Plumbing

Delta R10000 faucet, CPVC piping.

Bathroom Plumbing

Needed to do some additional cutting to get the drain to fit. Then replumbed the drain piping. Not much of a job, but I'm slow. The empty hole is where the tub drain was located.

Shower base going in

Stirling (Koehler) 60"x34" shower going in. The base is a very tight fit. More drywall gets removed. Can only find these in center drain. Took a couple cuts to get the drain opening in the subfloor big enough. Next step will be do rough in the plumbing.

Bathroom, a bit more progress.

Old Tub out.

Redoing the batchroom

Lot's of fun just cutting out the old one. A bit more stuck under the drywall than I thought.

Notice the really professional shower head attachment.

None of his business

Now the lord, high Obama is going to fix the BCS What absolute arrogance.

Upgrading Computers

Bought computers to upgrade what we had. Came with Vista and a free upgrade to Win7. Vista isn't great. W7 seems to be better. They still did a fine job of renaming everything. Probably would have been better if I had stayed with XP