An inquisitive old fart with a camera
New culverts on the Playa Mansa now that tourist season is over. I only knew there was a problem from walking the dog on the beach there once in the past year.
Note the raging surf. Quite amazing to have no waves when the closest landfall looking this direction is over 3,000 kilometers away.
It was like a summer day today – little kids on swings in the nearby park with no shirts. But it’s clear and noticeably cooling. It will probably be quite cold tomorrow when the workers arrive at 0700 (which is why the car is parked outside).
They’re everywhere….
Our cochera gets a new maintenance-free roof tomorrow. And it’s earth-friendly, because nothing says “ecology” like a product that’s 99% expanded polystyrene.
That piece of firewood.
Maybe they didn’t forget about installing wiring before plastering.
Maybe they weren’t imitating their great-grandfather, who built his house before the grid reached it, and had to chip out part of the wall to make a run for conduit.
Maybe they just wanted their house to have a big smiley face. Makes as much sense as anything with this crazy built-and-rebuilt no-apparent-design project.
On the dog walk today. No chemtrails, almost ever, in Uruguay.
Our neighbors are moving back to Canada, and in a box of old computer junk I offered to make go away, there were a couple of external drives. Wayne wasn’t sure if they had data on them. I offered to find out, if possible, and sanitize them.
The smaller had a long-deprecated Mini-AB USB port. It’s been a while since I had a cable that would fit the early-2000s USB port, so I pulled out the 2.5″ 160 GB drive, clamped it in the vice, and gave it a couple of smacks with a hammer. Ta.
The other was a monster by comparison, a 5.25″ drive manufactured in 2003 with a capacity of (drum roll, please) 5 GB! It looked like an old Apple Firewire connection–again, nothing like that lying around. I was unable or unwilling to completely disassemble the hard drive assembly, so I drilled a few holes through the drive. Ta.
The case was an aluminum wonder which I planned to recycle, but after mentioning to a couple of people that you could probably run over it with a car without hurting it, I knew what I had to do.
Yup.
That would have been a very well protected 5 GB of data!