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Posted by Roadwolf on September 30, 2024 Family

At 18 Months, my little one is quite talkative.
The following are the words he says and how he pronounces them, if comical and different:

Da-Da
Daddy
Ma-Ma
Grandma
Hat (Hat)
Apple (App-L)
Choo-Choo
Ball
Shoes (shuz)
Truck (cuck)
Bubble
Milk
Cookie
Daniel
Yes
Yeah
No (Ner-Ner, No)
Baby
What's That? / What's This?
Fan
Dog / Wolf (Woof)
Cat (Meow, Cat)
Cow (Ow, Moo)
Bunny (Buhee)
Lion (Line)
Spider (BiSerd)
Hug (Hug)
Awww
Sun
Moon
Hi
Bye
Hello
Ten
Beep
Boop
Button (bun)
Buzz
Flower (Fower)
Oh! (like O'Riley Auto Parts Song - he says it as a point of expression)
Mouse
Howl (Awwooo)
Look
Fish (Ish)
Turtle (durtle)
Fork (fook)
Pop!
Uh-oh!
Nine (ine)
Seven (ven)
Six (ix)
Five (ive)

The doctor said the typical word count for this age is between 15 and 25 so I think we are doing well so far.

Fun stuff! Read more

AI Comments on The Matrix

Posted by Roadwolf on September 20, 2024 Thoughts and Politics

AI is indeed a powerful tool, and I have watched it develop over the last few years. In it's beginning, it was obviously silly. But now that it has matured, it's ability to provide reasonable explainations, rationalize and hypothisize, have impressed me. I'll admit to using AI to assist me with my coding. It is often so much easier than trying to search through coding forums, or manuals to try to figure out the correct syntax or standard to use for various pieces of code. It is like having a buddy sitting beside you, who is an expert coder, who can walk you through most things. So long as you understand some basics, AI can help you move forward. It can also frustrate you as well, especially if it gets stuck in a troubleshooting loop, and you aren't providing it with the information it needs to fully understand the problem.

In any case, I decided one day to ask about The Matrix. A great film from 1999, where humanity is unknowingly enslaved by AI, and a group of hackers who have freed themselves, fight to save humanity. I asked AI first, what the 'meanings' are behind the storyline: Read more

Railroad Realizations: Part 1 - Phosphates

Posted by Roadwolf on September 5, 2024 Blog and Journal Hobbies Thoughts and Politics

I have been having a lot of fun and doing a great deal of research related to, what is essentially, my virtual model railroad. My RailOps project is pretty much at Alpha testing stage now, and I will happily provide a link for interested parties to apply for an account. My SVNO rail line, runs from Northern Ontario through New York and is headed down the East side of the Mississippi River. Currently the Southern terminus is near Columbus, Ohio.

The current rail network is made up of four rail companies. And it seems that railcars and goods are interchanging betweem them just fine. Currently I have over 300 industries, trading over 400 different products. There are supply chains and for sure a need to link suppliers up with consumers.

As I expand my rail network, and also develop and define the industries to handle realistic material and create a realistic supply chain, I am learning more and more about our world. I will say that I am utterly shocked about just how many different products and chemicals are made from just Natural Gas, Air and Water. It is bewildering. Another thing I stumbled across was this gem below. What kind of mine or operation was this? This is located just along my SVNO mainline coming into Ohio from West of Pittsburgh. At first very little information could be found about it. Read more

FlyingCircus Craft!

Posted by Roadwolf on August 25, 2024

My lovely lady and I have been playing a lot of WoW lately on our little personal server. It is so great to enjoy those old quests and areas we once played together almost 20 years ago.
I have been playing Horde for the first time really legit and enjoying it. I know I played a little bit of Horder in the past, but it is so much more fun to play along side my lady.

The server does feature cross faction guilds and grouping and communication tho. So that is always fun.

Any friends and family wishing to play are welcome to. It is such a huge world, it would be nice to see some more life in it. The server page can be found here: Flying Circus Server Read more

New Concepts!

Posted by Roadwolf on August 17, 2024 Blog and Journal Hobbies

I have trains moving on my virtual model rail network now. I have railcars being exchanged and being loaded at industries. Seems good, right? It is!

But I ran into an issue. In my testing, I have the ability to add railcars to whatever company I see fit. It is like a cheat code. But there was a little mix up in the coding. I had a Bulk Railcar Add feature, which would add a group of a user defined number oif railcars under the chosen company's name, starting at a user defined numbering scheme, and counting up.

So I went and said okay, I want some hopper cars to carry some coal. Maybe 25 of them, and let's start numbering them at 33500?

So that made 33500 hopper cars, with the numbering starting at 25. It looks like I got some input variables switched around. Oh well, easy fix.

What wasn't quite as easy of a fix was the intense issues that I ran into when those 33500 railcars, all ending up in a single railyard, began being sorted at that railyard. The program bogged down the system and I eventually had to stop all processes and delete all railcars to fix it. So this displayed to me that there is obviously a limitation. Which is good to understand, especially early on.

33500 railcars is only a small fraction of the total real railcars in the North American system. There are well over a million railcars out there roaming the tracks in real life. So, if 33500 could bog down the scripting, and this was intended to be a representation of the real network, then I have to rethink how things are done.

Original Concept:

The main plan was to have a web page based multiplayer rail network, all hosted on one of my web servers, and able to be played interactively by no more than 100 or so people.

Possible Secondary Concept:

I was thinking last night that it could be possible to use the base framework, mostly from the industry and materials standpoint, and use that as a basis for a standalone version of the game where a single player could work on their own network, locally on their own computer. It would use the industries, materials, and processes that are defined, but their track and rail system would be stored and operated locally.

The original concept could still work in conjuction with that also, and since there will be limited space for multiplayer, it might be a premium feature.

I am thinking that this will all need to be hosted on my own box, as I think it will need the processing power of a full server, and not just a virtual space in a shared server. I do have a couple WAMP servers running from my little server farm, but the infrastructure was never built out to such an extent to really support such an operation. I do intend on setting up a LAMP server anyhow, in order to handle the open-elevation hosting as apparently that doesn't work well on WAMP. So we shall see. I do know I am likely going to be getting another static IP soon, and a fiber connection, so that will better facilitate hosting.

UPDATE:

I was able to move things over to my existing server without much hastle. There are still a few things to figure out, but for the most part things seem happy. Since my local server is WAMP based, it is a little different from the Linux system I was used to running on, so things like CRON jobs are a little different now. I am working on setting those up when time permits. The CRON jobs are important for the project as they are what handle the progression of time and movement of trains and materials.

For those interested, i'll link to the public information portion:

Global Material stats: http://dev.railops.us/public/publicstats.php

Global Map: http://dev.railops.us/public/publicmap.php

Currently I am just using HTTP and not HTTPS. So it will be all like *** WARNING THIS SITE ISNT SECURE *** but.... it's just a basic website. It's not like it will be asking for any payment info or phone numbers. I plan on getting HTTPS set up soon enough. Read more

Rail Operations Simulator

Posted by Roadwolf on August 3, 2024 Hobbies

My Rail Operations Simulator project is progressing slowly forward with every week. This past week saw the first 'train' move across it's simulated lines. To get a train to move I had to rethink a few of the ways I handled things. So I still need to go back and fix other related operations. But generally, the backbone of how a user can join, establish their first track, and build that track into a working subdivision is in place. Yards are set up as well. Read more

Reactions to Trumps attempted Assassination.

Posted by Roadwolf on July 15, 2024 Thoughts and Politics

I really have been avoiding the news the last few months, and as such it wasn't until late Saturday that I had heard about Trump getting shot at (or technically shot). I initially found it interesting that it happened in Butler, PA which is a town I have visited before. I watched the video and found it to be quite bewildering. One thing I did notice was there were a lot of female agents who were fumbling around. I also thought it was wild that Trump was able to break through his human shield while it seemed like shots were still ringing out, and gave a defiant fist. It was a strong show of power and leadership for sure, but the first thing I could think of was that this act will be used by the Left to suggest that Trump incited people to fight and take arms, if anything retalitory ever happened.

Having a large family here to entertain and take care of, I really didn't have time or energy to really look into things for myself, but I figured there had to be something strange with this. Security is supposed to be super tight around presidential type people. So I made sure to listen to the noagendashow. As I expected it was informative. As many reading have already seen, indeed there were a number of curious aspects to this. From the supposed shooter being involved in 'Blackrock' commercials (so he already had acting experience) and wearing DemolitionRanch shirts, a popular Right wing (tho not super political) YouTuber. The shooter himself was also a registered Republican. Not to mention the Police and Security's lack of response to the guests who were pointing out the shooter scurrying along the roof, including videos of these people doing so. Supposedly one officer did climb the roof but backs off when the shooter pointed the rifle at him. And what about the case of the Sniper who had the shooter in his sights three minutes prior, and was told not to shoot by the Secret Service. But then when the shooter did open fire, he shot against orders, killing the shooter, and supposedly got terminated and arrested by the FBI for questioning.

I also found it interesting that Biden, on the Friday before hand, had come out and said that Trump was a threat to the nation. Had the roles been reversed, they would of had Trump up on charges for saying that just before an attempted assassination of his rival.

In any case, I initially thought that this could go very well for Trump or it might not matter at all. I still believe the latter is true. I believe that the deep state is so deeply entrenched, and so much in control, that they will get their desired result. The Democrats control the voting 'machine' and so it isn't tough for them to pull off a win. But I think this year they were getting scared that they might not be able to pull it off a second time.

Another thought I had was that maybe the shooting event was planned and staged by the Republicans and it was intended to be just an attempt, and a staged shooting using squibs and blanks was part of the plan, which is why agents were told not to open fire on the shooter. Perhaps he was supposed to live? Perhaps he actually is still alive? Who knows. It is so hard to really know what is truly going on behind the scenes these days. Hollywood and the Media are so intertwined.

Who knows... I am thankful Trump is alright. I really don't see him as a 'politician'. He is just has the average Alpha male dude personality which I think is why a lot of working families tend to like him.

In Retrospect, many people in my life have been saying for a while now, that the country is in danger. I agree. Problem is they seem to think there is going to be an uprising against the Left. My thought is that it is highly unlikely that the American people will form up to stand up against a corrupt government. Most people are so busy just trying to get by, or so stoned, or so lost in their electronic games or social media, that they won't go out of their way to stand up to anything. Small groups here or there will never be successful either. To be successful it would have to be a national, co-ordinated action with some semblence of a command structure and plan in place. For example, maybe focusing an overthrow of the court system, the local government, and the state level government. Sadly we can't rely too much on our military to step in to protect the country for us, as most of the top brass has been culled by Obama to remove more Right leaning Generals. This means that it is more likely that in such a situation the armed forces would be split up into localized allegiance forces, and we would have a civil war on our hands. A civil war with the most advanced force in the world.

But like I mentioned, this is highly unlikely to happen. Most people are too caught up in their own lives that they are too entitled to think about doing what is best for their country and for preserving what it stood for. Now for sure, I am sure some might say 'But Roadwolf, you were a Canadian! What do you know about being an American!'. A valid reply. But for those who don't know me, I will just mention that those that do know me have commented that I am more American than most Americans. Meh.... I have lived in Canada. I wouldn't want to go back. I don't really care for the socialist and Left leaning society that is promoted up there. I feel that the self esteem movement, and catering to minority groups is not a good path to follow. People need to learn to earn what they get, which makes them respect what they have more. Giving people handicapts to jump ahead won't help anyone, including those you are attempting to help.

Honestly, if it was easy to do, right now I think I would choose to live in Russia, as I feel that its now Right leaning, and Republic style social system more so aligns with what America stood for than where American stands right now. It is interesting to me how since the Soviet era, Russia has become more right leaning and conservative, while the USA has become more Left leaning and Socialist. Acting like the same Commies that we hated during the Cold War. And when it all comes down to it, those Commies of the Soviet Union did end up winning World War II for us. Without them we would have seen Germany reign. Tho some would point out that German is reigning now in Europe, as it pulls the strings on the EU.

Edit on July 28th:
As more details emerge, it seems very suspicious that the building the shooter was on and the company within, was owned and financed by Blackrock, Blackrock also had a Put on Trumps stocks, and the shooter was in Blackrock commercials - so he had ties with them. Also Soro's son had distributed flyers just before showing a bullet hole through a window and a hand holding 47 dollars. So it does seem like an inside job. The explosives point towards a FBI 6 Week Cycle event. Obviously the shooter was killed - video seems to have proven that. It is also clear that it wasn't anywhere close to a Republican false flag. The head of the USSS stepped down, and also Biden is essentially stepping down, on the understanding that he and his family will get full immunity, which in it's self is telling. Now that Harris is in, it seems they might try to fudge the vote for her, and maybe they think they can get away with it this time, because she isn't Biden. But we shall see.... Read more

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