Terry Etam

1 month ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

These are tough days for us that loathe politics, and loathe discussing them even more. How to empty a coffee shop. Oh, please, tell us how angry you are. Dying to know. Hmm, how odd, no one seems to be changing their minds even when someone goes to the bother of pointing out how stupid they are. Better try more decibels. And the nasty memes! Well done. KO’ed that guy! Look at you, ripping through the doom-scroll like Conan with a broadsword. I’ve been drawn into that crap before, and not going back.

1 month ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

Engaging articles of the WeekAESO, the Alberta Electric System Operator, released their 2024 annual report in March, full of interesting statistics. No really. Particularly if you recall getting stung by sky high power bills such as December 2022, when power prices averaged $330/MWh ($0.33/KWh, in electricity bill speak). What’s happened to power prices since then is pretty incredible, in an inflationary world – power prices have crashed.

1 month ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

Engaging articles of the weekData center news…can’t go a day without touching on that, can we…stuck my head into the info flow earlier this week and saw some chatter that pops up now and then: “Calm down, AI/data center power demand isn’t going to amount to all that much, Microsoft pulling back big.” Hmm, interesting. So I tracked down the story. As usual, have to read the whole thing.

1 month ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

If you enjoy being angry, politics is your surest bet, and so by all means analyze that hellhole until you are purple in the face. It will get you nowhere (this advice aimed mostly at myself, but wise for all to absorb), it will endanger friendships, the hardbitten on either side will remain hardbitten, and the great tide of history will just do its thing regardless.

1 month ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

It seemed fitting the other day, when discussing current global events with a particularly erudite friend (and if you think that’s a ten-dollar word hold onto your hat), the word ‘haruspicy’ came into the conversation. Haruspicy is “a form of divination that inspects the entrails of sacrificed animals, particularly the liver of sheep and chickens, looking for omens.” We had exhausted all other options.