Our new home exchange.
We have a lazy day after our wonderful but busy Yosemite experience. It’s so good to have Internet, I can catch up on blogs, the news and the 1001 questions. Wendy’s busy pricing up a Disney Cruise and Orlando trip for the whole family next Autumn. She’s right excited.
It’s hotter than hell and half of Georgia, 98F / 36C and not a cloud in the sky. I knew that Palm Springs was going to be hot but had no idea that Fresno was as hot.
In the evening we catch up with Netflix.
Lounge.
Anyway today’s good news is there isn’t a black hole in my pocket or anywhere on earth. Watch this entertaining little video that simply explains what would happen if there was a black hole in my pocket.
Dinning area.
They invariably are struggling for days to find any other motive. Even though the perp may have shouted Allah Aqaba, be of middle eastern origin, complete with a beard and was dressed like some 7th century barbarian. Yet quicker than you can say “Mohamed peace be upon him” they’ve diagnosed this mystery attacker as having a “mental health” problem.
Come on folks, lets man up, face the problem that Muslim extremists are at war with us, and call a spade a Muslim terrorist.
My only conclusion is that reading the Quran or being a Muslim must cause mental illness.
Madera – I think we’re really in Mexico. There are 6 of these big fat Greek wedding dress shops on Main Street, they stay open until 20:00. How do they survive?
We encounter a few Trump signs but most of the political signs seem to be “We need jobs and water”. Does this hint at why Trump could be popular?
There are some signs of civilization as they have a MacDonalds, Starbucks and even a Taco Bell. Wendy passes on lunch. Mind you didn’t see a visitors Centre.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have pledged more than $3 billion towards a plan to cure all diseases in the lifetime of their 10-month-old daughter.
George Carlin again, this time left wing nonsense:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=em-hot-vrecs&v=PEeHkPpDvQQ
Madera.
Wot no scorpions (shaking my shoes just in case), snakes or bears yet. Centipedes yes, and there’s 8 vultures circling the house. Should I be worried.
After the usual lazy morning we set off to explore Fresno. Sadly not much to it. Go down to the Woodward Park to do a geriatric shuffle around the Japanese garden – sad to admit I quite enjoy them these days, really screws with my 16 year old mind. $3 to park my car and to top it all the Japanese garden doesn’t open until 16:00. Pass. Have a wander around the lake, not a blade of grass to be seen, just geese and geese shit.
View from the lounge.
Kids take note, today is National Grandparents Day.
Woodward park.
A cruise is on the bucket list of many grandparents
Hoping for a big inheritance from Granny? Forget it — she is going to spend it all before she goes.
See the Times article on how your inheritance is being frittered away: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/grandparents-blow-kids-inheritance-3wpzn332w
Crazy Alaska Laws
Bedroom.
It is illegal to throw a grenade on the street.
No one may tie their pet to the roof of a car.
Actually this law was written to protect animals riding in the bed of a truck. Accoring to the law the pet needs to be in a secured cage in the manner that the animal will not be thrown from tne vehicle, fall out of it, or be able to jump from the vehicle.
A moose may not be viewed from an airplane.
It is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they are moose hunting.
Qur’an Gangbang episode 7: Would I Lie to You?
Bass Lake.
Well there’s not really much to it. Nearly all of the lake front is private property. Americans have this obsession with trespassing signs –
‘You will be cited, blah, blah……’. Pass on the two restaurants. Drive down the lakeshore and finally find picnic area by the lake. Time for our picnic. Then some shifty individual comes and asks for $5 to park in day use area of National Forest. I point to my Nation Parks pass which he claims isn’t valid – wrong go read the T&C’s.
Well I’ll express my feelings on Bass Lake on trip advisor – don’t bother. No wonder so much property is up for sale.
Picnic at Bass Lake.
Take the scenic route back home.
Bass Lake.
New centre for human compatible Artificial Intelligence opens.
The new center will be funded, primarily, by a generous grant from the Open Philanthropy Project for $5,555,550. The center will focus on research around value alignment, in which AI systems and robots will be trained using novel methods to understand what a human really wants, rather than just relying on initial programming.
Will a robot take your job.
Kitchen.
Check your job out here at http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34066941
Has anyone noticed it’s Grandparents Day today?
Giant bathroom.
We also need to pack and tidy up. Fortunately this is a lovely home so it’s quite relaxing, like staying In a 5 star hotel. Sadly the area around Fresno is not exactly a tourists dream but to be fair it is the largest town nearest (2 hours drive) 3 national parks. Actually it’s worked out quite well to have 6 relaxing days after Yosemite and before our next NP’s foray.
Finally a word on my scientific experiment to discover if all this dry golden California grass is dead or just parched awaiting some rain, to spring back to life. For the past 5 days I’ve daily watered a square of California’s finest gold grass. I’m sad to say it has not come back to life. It is well and truly parched to death. The only way California’s every going to be green again is plenty of rain and grass seed.
And of course an all American barbecue.
Kia explained that his team’s theoretical chip design utilizes chaos theory. Instead of each circuit in the chip performing a single function (as they do currently), the circuits would each be multifunctional. This would allow the same number of circuits to perform an increased number of functions, resulting in more powerful chips without the need to make them any smaller.
Back outdoor lounge, awesome views and swimming pool.
Computer sayings
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That’ll do them in. ~Author Unknown
Swimming pool.
Never let a computer know you’re in a hurry. ~Author Unknown
To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer. ~Bill Vaughan
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ~Clifford Stoll
User – the word computer professionals use when they mean “idiot.” ~Dave Barry
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~Edsger W. Dijkstra
Fairy Tales and Fables – The Quran
TV room.
I rest my case.