My really bad day trying to fix up my computers. I am very tired and worked all day on my computers to try to speed them up, and it failed badly. Hugs. Scottie
Category: Technology
My day today so everyone can understand.
I love the current well feeling I have right now. After the weekend intervention that helped me decide to leave the MS site, every day moving forward has felt better and clearer to me. I did not realize how I was being dragged down in an endless spiral I was in. My nature and how I trained myself to care for others against my adoptive family’s childhood training. Maybe that was why I never fit in with them, they sought and took advantage of everyone, I try to help or establish a bond with everyone. Is it genetic or learned behavior, I guess I won’t ever know.
Today started as I like it. I got up at a bit late for me, and after taking care of the cats and stuff, I reached out to an online friend. I wish I had more online friends that want to voice chat like my new friend does. See I always and still do have contact with all my online friends except on via email or blog comments. When this friend suggested voice talk I was not at ease with it. But once I got use to it I find I enjoy it. I was worried it would trigger my intense fear of talking on the phone. But like on Skype I found it doesn’t trigger me. I would like to find others to do that with but that is a topic for another day.
So after that I moved on to other things on the computers, videos and news, gathering memes for my Friday meme post. But soon I went back to bed for an hour before we get up to walk. But after a vivid dream, I woke up well after sun up. I woke Ron and asked him if he wanted to walk, he said not today. So I went back to sleep for a bit. I woke up, got up, medicated and fed cats, then settled in to blog.
The point of my post is I am feeling good for once in days, and when Ron got up we spent more time together. We worked on projects together and talked about other things.
This is a question I have for the IT people that come here, my XPS has 2133 MHz ram. It can be increased from the 16 I have to 64 which is with in my budget. The faster / the newest computer is Inspiron with 2400 memory but is topped out at 16 GB ram which it has. It normally runs over 50% ram usage to 65% usage. Ron wants me to boost the XPS to 64 GB of ram and switch to using it to blog on. I simply don’t know how to move forward with the upgrades, but even though the memory is not expensive I don’t want to sink money into computers that might be aging out.
The whole post is about how I am feeling good for the first time in a long time. I was doing dishes while Ron was out and my back was giving out, I was bent so low over the sink when he came in he thought I was going to nose dive into the sink. My back had given out but I was struggling to finish. But when he came in, he took over right away. He finished the dishes while I went to the bedroom to fold the laundry. See it is the standing in one place I can not do, my back gives out when I try. It is why I hate going grocery shopping with Ron as he stops and compares everything. So then he came down and helped me finish the laundry. Then he made me a grand salad and after I eat I am going to bed. I had a wonderful, fulfilling day. Hugs, Scottie
Van Gogh painting mirrors real atmospheric physics
September 18, 2024 Ellen Phiddian
(One of the teachers with whom I worked had a beautiful tattoo of this painting on her inner wrist. She said it gave her strength. I need to send this to her, as she tutors STEAM aside from classroom work, and this is her top favorite painting.)
Scientists have peered at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting and discovered it displays a startling resemblance to real atmospheric turbulence.
To see stars, one needs clear skies. But just because we can’t see it, doesn’t mean there aren’t intricate patterns of air movement above us on a clear night.
A paper published in Physics of Fluids, suggests that van Gogh had an “intuitive” understanding of this while making his famous painting in 1889.
A Chinese and French team analysed the brush strokes in The Starry Night, aiming to see how similar they were to real atmospheric movements.
The masterpiece has been the subject of several atmospheric studies before, with contradictory conclusions, but the researchers say they’re the first to look at all of the painting’s whirls and eddies.
They looked at the 14 main swirls in the painting, and compared these with theories on energy and turbulent flows in the atmosphere.
“The scale of the paint strokes played a crucial role,” says author Associate Professor Yongxiang Huang, a researcher in fluid dynamics at Xiamen University, China.
“With a high-resolution digital picture, we were able to measure precisely the typical size of the brushstrokes and compare these to the scales expected from turbulence theories.”
As well as brush stroke size, the researchers also examined the “relative luminance” of paint colours used in the painting’s swirls.
They found that the picture aligned with a theory of turbulence called Kolmogorov’s Law, which predicts atmospheric movement based on measured inertia.
The changes in brightness reflect a process called Batchelor’s scaling, which describes how fluids diffuse at smaller scales.
“It reveals a deep and intuitive understanding of natural phenomena,” says Huang.
“Van Gogh’s precise representation of turbulence might be from studying the movement of clouds and the atmosphere or an innate sense of how to capture the dynamism of the sky.”
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/van-gogh-starry-night-atmosphere/
This is cool-
Haters are going to hate, Republicans are going to try to spark hate everywhere. Lies are not a bad thing to them as long as they win so they can continue to hate.
A day after a Springfield school and other public buildings were evacuated and closed due to bomb threats, and the same day that two other Springfield elementary schools were evacuated and one middle school closed due to a new, separate bomb threat, Husted posted a photo of two geese on X Friday morning with the comment, “Most Americans agree that these migrants should be deported.” Husted’s spox has refused to comment. He first appeared here in 2012 when as Ohio secretary of state he eliminated extended hours for early voting.
“When people ask me…What’s gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say…write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards! Sooo…when the Illegal human ‘Locust’ (which she supports!) Need places to live…We’ll already have the addresses of the their New families…who supported their arrival!” Zuchowski wrote.
Read the full article. Replies to his post are turned off. Zuchowski made news several years ago for a rant about the name change for the Cleveland Indians, which he claimed was “erasing our heritage.”
“I’ve seen the guns myself and all, and, yeah, they had a lot of guns and stuff over there, and, yeah, a lot of people were afraid of him back in the day,” she said.
“These are people that want to destroy our country. It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat. They do it with a combination of rhetoric and lawsuits they wrap me up in.
Earth will have new “mini moon”, length of a bus, for 2 months
September 16, 2024 Evrim Yazgin Cosmos science journalist
An asteroid is approaching, but it won’t crash into Earth. Instead, it’ll be our planet’s little companion for 2 months before continuing on its merry way.
2024 PT5 is about 11m wide. The asteroid was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in South Africa on 7 August.
In a study published in the journal Research Notes of the AAS, a pair of asteroid dynamics researchers calculated the asteroid’s size, speed and path. The researchers determined the asteroid would complete a single orbit around Earth over 53 days before being flung back into outer space.
The asteroid will start its orbit of Earth on 29 September. The bus-sized “mini moon” is scheduled to depart on 25 November.
Many asteroids follow a similar journey, falling into partial or full elliptical orbits around our planet as they pass by. One such “quasi-moon” is an asteroid discovered last year which astronomers believe has been orbiting Earth for more than 2,000 years.
Other quasi-moons make much briefer visits, like the 5m 2006 RH120 which orbited Earth for about a year and 2020 CD3 which was a mini companion of our planet for several years before leaving us in May 2020.
The researchers also believe they know from where 2024 PT5 is joining us based on its trajectory.
“Such orbital elements are consistent with those of the Arjunas, a sparsely resonant population of small NEOs [near-Earth objects] in a secondary asteroid belt found surrounding the path followed by the Earth–Moon system,” they write.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/mini-moon-asteroid-2-months/
Reblog from Octoberfarm:
Germany Laughs at Trump With the Rest of The World
Germany is denying an assertion made by former President Donald Trump during the presidential debate Tuesday about the country’s renewable energy industry.
“You believe in things like we’re not going to frack, we’re not going to take fossil fuel, we’re not going to do things that are going to be strong, whether you like it or not,” Trump said in his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. “Germany tried that, and within one year, they were back to building normal energy plants.”
But on Wednesday, Germany’s Federal Foreign Office decided to issue a rebuttal, echoing the former president’s language.
“Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables,” the Federal Foreign Office shared on X. “And we are shutting down – not building – coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest.”
The German Foreign Office also poked at Trump for another comment he made during the debate.
“PS: We also don’t eat cats and dogs,”
https://octoberfarm.blogspot.com/2024/09/germany-laughs-at-trump-with-rest-of.html
Hey, Any Good Environmental News Lately? There IS?
Thanks Joe Biden.
DOKTOR ZOOM SEP 14, 2024
The presidential election has turned into a contest between a capable, smart woman who emphasizes what Americans can achieve when they work together for the common good, and a sundowning old racist creep who would be pathetic if he weren’t so dangerously close to returning to power.
In case you’re wondering what the difference looks like, compare the hate and division the old racist creep is spreading with some recent announcements from President Joe Biden’s administration, nearly all of them about programs funded by one or another of Biden’s big legislative packages. Just a little reminder of why elections matter, and of the legacy that Kamala Harris is committed to building on. For, y’know, the people.
Lots of news-go read! 🌞
I thought so;
I knew it!
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