Long day, limited accomplishment
Mar. 12th, 2011 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoOh, set the clocks ahead.
Disrupted routines due to choir performance tomorrow that Gary has extra rehearsals for, his mom came out to hear it, etc. Skipped guild meeting, did get groceries and made dinner.
Cold west wind gusting much of the day, gray skies, didn't feel at all like spring.
For those acting smug about Japan's disaster, GROW UP. It would be even worse here. Hurricane Katrina proved that. Note that Japanese nuclear engineering is probably as good as any. Their corporate hubris is very similar to that of American corporations. So it seems that their "safe" nuclear power plants weren't so safe after all, and especially when built on earthquake fault lines. American companies have proposed the same thing and made the same claims. I don't believe they are any better than the Japanese.
Did not weave, nor work on diorama, nor on fixing Gary's crashed computer today. However, last night I found that booting from a Linux LiveCD does allow access to the drive that Windows is rejecting. He was able to copy quite a lot of data off it. My Windows XP based rescue CDs were all useless because they had only IDE drivers and this machine is SATA. The Linux CD had no problem with that.
Disrupted routines due to choir performance tomorrow that Gary has extra rehearsals for, his mom came out to hear it, etc. Skipped guild meeting, did get groceries and made dinner.
Cold west wind gusting much of the day, gray skies, didn't feel at all like spring.
For those acting smug about Japan's disaster, GROW UP. It would be even worse here. Hurricane Katrina proved that. Note that Japanese nuclear engineering is probably as good as any. Their corporate hubris is very similar to that of American corporations. So it seems that their "safe" nuclear power plants weren't so safe after all, and especially when built on earthquake fault lines. American companies have proposed the same thing and made the same claims. I don't believe they are any better than the Japanese.
Did not weave, nor work on diorama, nor on fixing Gary's crashed computer today. However, last night I found that booting from a Linux LiveCD does allow access to the drive that Windows is rejecting. He was able to copy quite a lot of data off it. My Windows XP based rescue CDs were all useless because they had only IDE drivers and this machine is SATA. The Linux CD had no problem with that.
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Date: 2011-03-13 05:28 am (UTC)I'm annoyed with how they are downplaying it over there. An exploding containment building, two partial meltdowns, and seven venting reactors is not less serious than Three Mile Island.
And America uses the same reactors as the first meltdown. For example, the Dresden station in Morris IL uses the same obsolete General Electric Mark 1 BWR design.
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Date: 2011-03-14 03:06 pm (UTC)I know. I can't believe that even Americans are such self-centered dorks, but there it is.
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Date: 2011-03-15 07:11 pm (UTC)