How bad is misinformation from our leaders? A recent video of our Texas Senator explaining, no, guaranteeing COVID-19 will “disappear” immediately after the election. As my friend Vic said, that didn’t age well.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1330666281348030467?s=01
Required reading. One of the best things I have read in a long time about where we have come from, where we are and where we seem to be going. From Harpers.
Got my little 500W motor for my riding mower conversion to electric. The good news is it fits in the space under the seat near the differential. My hope was that I would easily and directly be able to hook my motor shaft to the shaft of the differential of the mower. It might not be that simple. There is a whole catalog of shaft couplers out there but the particulars of both the motor shaft and the mower shaft might make this a non-starter. I’m not skilled or set up to do metal work so I’m searching around for the simplest way to do this. I could go with a belt drive which keeps the belt pulley for the differential in place, but I’ll need a belt pulley for the motor and probably another on a spring for tension. Or I could use the chain sprocket on the motor but I would have to fit a chain sprocket on the differential shaft. There might be an way to use the existing belt pulley as a plate and bolt it to another plate fixed to the motor. Need to think about it.
It was a nice day so we decided, for a change of pace, to go downtown, put on a mask, and walk around. The last time we had been downtown was in the early days of the pandemic. The road down was busy, but parking was easy. There was nobody around. Some construction workers, but basically a ghost town. Lots of places closed and even boarded up. Perhaps it looks different in the evenings or on weekends. Went home and made some chicken and egg ramen for lunch.
Put the code and some design info into GitHub.
Decided to bolt this guy to the garage wall and hook it up. All went well, which always worries me. Will post the code and parts list to GitHub.
Amazon thinks I need some brass Hose fittings. To be fair, I did try to buy a brass fitting for a pressure washer, but it didn’t work out and I returned it.
David Bowie discusses the internet (and other things) in 1999.
I got an alert that my google login had be compromised. I was in the process of updating an old, obsolete Linux box when the alert came in. I am pretty sure that was the problem. But it asked me to change my password. Insisted, really. So I typed in my old password. Bad move, it would seem. I can still read mail on my phone, but for now long? I did the recover thing (they have two factor authentication for me, but somehow that wasn’t enough). I can expect an email within six hours (!) telling me how to proceed. So if you aren’t getting email replies from me, try texting. Maybe it is time to decouple from the Google Universe a bit. It is so convenient, until it isn’t. Then it is very inconvenient. Heck, this post might not even make it out …
From the London Review of Books:
Steven A. Guccione 