April 2024

I just upgraded my iMac and it forgot my bluetooth keyboard and trackpad.

Fortunately, I had a wired USB mouse I could use to reconnect them.

When I upgraded macOS to 14.4.1, my keyboard and trackpad were disconnected.

I had to reconnect them using a wired USB mouse.

Then, my keyboard was slow to type and the mouse was not moving smoothly.

It turns out that the various problems I had were caused by the UB400 bluetooth adapter that I use to connect Wiimotes to Dolphin.

I disconnected the adapter, made macOS forget about the keyboard and trackpad and added them back.

Now everything works great.

The more I think about it, the problems might have been brought up by the reboot, not the upgrade.

Since I plugged in the UB400 adapter, I did not reboot my iMac.

Since the hydro will cut the power at 8am, I plugged my computers (including my server) into our generator.

The generator worked great.

I just made a webpage about our generator.

http://www.philippe97.ca/generator/

It's funny how almost every animal on land is based on the same model.

Two eyes, a nose, a mouth and an anus.

I just put online the fourth episode.

I have not watched it yet.

http://backyard.goldrush2010.net/

Dust comes from people.

In movies, you can see rooms that no one has been in for years and yet, there are inches of dust on everything.

If there is no people, there is no dust.

I downloaded the episodes yesterday and put them online today.

http://tv.philippe97.ca/Wile%20E.%20Coyote%20and%20the%20Road%20Runner/

For the past few weeks, I've been re-watching Gold Rush from season 1.

I just finished season 11 episode 6.

I skip over Fred Lewis and Rick Ness.

I also re-watched season 1 yesterday.

The fifth episode is still not on The Pirate Bay.

That's weird. I'll look again tomorrow.

I hope Discovery didn't block it somehow.

At the back of Tony's Dredge #1, there is a pipe hanging under the stacker (tailings conveyor).

I wondered what it was for (Tony was not using it).

In season 11, Tony bought a mobile trommel with a similar pipe under its tailings conveyor :

http://www.goldrush2010.net/mp4/Season%2011/Episode%2012%20-%20Resurrecting%20Monsters.mp4.video?vtt%5Ben%5D=Subtitles%2FEpisode%252012%2520-%2520Resurrecting%2520Monsters.vtt

31:20

The pipe may have been a discharge pipe meant to suck fine tailings out from the sluice box and spit them out the back on top of the course tailings.

The episode just came out on The Pirate Bay.

I torrented it, converted it and put it online.

http://backyard.goldrush2010.net/

I have not yet watched it.

I just finished watching the last episode.

http://backyard.goldrush2010.net/

I just deleted my mom's Facebook and LinkedIn accounts at her request.

It was very hard to delete the Facebook account by following their instructions.

The links it said to click were not there.

I found the link to the account deletion page on another website.

I get the feeling that someone reading my blog would think I have a mental disorder.

I believe saying someone has a disorder is just a way to alienate that person and separate them from others. To refuse what that person is saying.

But I am not asking to accept what I say.

I believe this is also how disorders are created.

A doctor looks at someone. He does not like what he sees. He wants the person to fit within what he sees as normal.

So he makes a list of what he does not like, calls them symptoms, and makes up a name for it.

And then, bam! You've got a new disorder.

Then, he puts it in a book. The DSM. It gets published all over the world and every doctor reads it.

Then, you've got a ton of doctors who all share the same opinion. They all decide to agree to think the same on what is or is not a disorder.

Those doctors are very annoying to talk to. They so strongly believe in their beliefs that they no longer see them as beliefs.

I spent the last weeks rewatching all 14 seasons of Gold Rush.

I finished the last episode a minute ago.

I skipped over Fred Lewis and Rick Ness.

Todd Hoffman was way more entertaining than Fred Lewis.

I just finished watching the latest episode.

http://backyard.goldrush2010.net/

The mouse I used with my work PC can no longer do right clicks.

I replaced it with a spare I had.

For the past few years, I have been having daily panic attacks.

They are not caused by anything. They just come out of the blue.

Every. Single. Day.

When they happen, I am completely paralyzed. I can't do anything and I am in excruciating mental pain.

I want to shake violently, but I keep it inside to hide it from others.

I never know how long the attack will last. It can be seconds to hours.

When it is about to come, I can feel it in my arms.

It sometimes happens in the morning or early afternoon. But it always happens just before I go to bed until I fall asleep.

It also prevents me from going to sleep immediately. I have to wait for it to go away first.

I sometimes let it out by punching the wall in my bed. There is now a hole in the wall, as I was not hitting a stud.

I sometimes cry. I want the pain to go away.

I do not want to kill myself. I believe that even if I died, the pain is not guaranteed to go away. So I might as well finish this life first.