Got some ice cream out last night - it was the perfect consistency for eating.
Which means it was too warm for having been in the freezer.

Mrs DT thought maybe the freezer door hadn't closed all the way as sometimes happens if something hangs up on the shelf. That and the ice cream carton lid was loose.

Today she discovered the temperature control wasn't working.

I had to reboot the refrigerator
Say What??? Reboot a refrigerator?

Remember the old Honeywell bronze colored thermostat that hung on most everyone's wall? Set the temperature by spinning the clear plastic plate?
The heat would go on if the temperature went lower; the air conditioner goes on if the temperature goes higher.
Worked fine ... and nary a computer in sight.

Same with so many other things in life.

Microprocessors in everything. All programmed by low paid programmers (you don't think low margin products hire the best, do you? probably H1Bs from India) with the goal of cheap and "first to market". Maximize profit and ignore complaints. Require the customer to go to "arbitration" (of the manufacturer's choice) if something goes wrong.

More and more, our lives are dependent on some code bunny - and the code bunny management - properly assuring the computers work as expected, especially when things don't work as expected. I've been there: "Proper assurance" is not on the development list. Test under nominal conditions and devil take those when things aren't "nominal".

The normal attitude is that computers don't make mistakes ... and now more and more, the world is coming to be dependent on "AI" - a misnomer if I ever heard one.

I wonder who rolls off into the unknown first, us "boomers" or the world.

grumble, mumble, grumble ... reboot a refrigerator ... mumble, grumble, mumble

An absolutely tragic mass shooting unfolded at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, leaving an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old dead in the pews and injuring 17 others. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara told reporters that the shooter took his own life in the rear of Annunciation Catholic Church.

"Minneapolis Catholic church shooter Robin Westman was a transgender who "identified as a woman" and legally changed his name from "Robert" in 2020."

Damn your rotten soul to hell.
And the Damnedocrats that try to use this for a political statement.

I hesitated about posting this as it's a topic I wish to avoid. But killing kids in church? Die you SOB!
I also originally wanted to block comments ... but then I figured if I was going to post on a "forbidden" topic. I should let others respond. But I despise tranzies and all that they stand for. They are severely sick people and should never be allowed to obtain positions of authority ... and perhaps should be treated like rabid dogs.

"Florida law enforcement will adhere to President Trump’s executive order to remove non-English proficient criminal illegal aliens driving commercial trucks from the roads."

That's nice. Want to actually "solve" the problem?

Arrest those that did the hiring.

Miners - bless their hearts - have been known to weigh themselves down with rock while at work. For some reason or another, the owners of the mines frowned upon this practice. One way to prevent such activities was to make the men strip down and change clothes before entering and exiting the mine. While the practice continues today - even in coal mines - modern facilities often include showers and lockers.

Not so much then:

Some of the more remote places where good ore was found are difficult for the casual traveller to get to (or even know about) so souvenir collecting has been less intensive. This is the changing room of a silver mine barely in California just over the state line from Nevada. It's actually not far from well-known mines but requires some degree of effort to hike to (and find - lost behind brush and up a narrow canyon). I stumbled across it by accident long ago (and haven't been back since). There are no obvious roads to it and at the time I was there, the path - such as it was - looked like an animal trail; not a trail one would normally follow. I suppose at one time it was a burro path for hauling sacks of ore out to better opportunities for reasonable transportation. A very dry climate helped preserve some of the construction over the 100 years or so.

The entrance to the diggings is just through the door. Square head nails (aka "cut nails") helped date the workings; they were the primary nail used until about the 1890s when round wire nails became common. A bit of research suggests this mine was probably active for a few years in the late 1870s to early 1880s with fewer than a dozen men working it. The ore was good enough to construct this room and interior bracing but not enough to allow more extensive development and roads. I explored the interior a bit but the timbering was questionable and I decided I wasn't all that interested in exploring the ore face.