6/27/2026 Saturday
So I am about ready to install the long coaxial cable from attic to outside panel, now that the cables have arrived. I just need to visit Home Depot for a few items after checking with Google AI below:
What should I watch out for if I want to drill a hole from inside the attic through the wall to the outside aluminum siding, so that I can put a coaxial cable through?
When drilling from your attic through aluminum siding for a coaxial cable, the most critical risk is accidentally drilling into hidden electrical wiring or puncturing a water line inside the wall cavity.
Take these crucial safety and structural steps to ensure a clean, damage-free installation.
1. Identify Hidden Hazards First
- Trace Utilities: Look closely at the attic floor and interior wall plates near your target zone. Ensure no electrical cables, HVAC ducts, or plumbing vent stacks run down into that specific wall cavity. [1, 2, 3]
- Inspect the Exterior: Look outside to ensure you are not drilling directly into or right next to an outdoor light fixture, security camera, or utility meter box.
2. Avoid Binding and Tearing the Metal
- Do Not Use Spade Bits: Wood-boring spade bits or wood-only drill bits will catch on the aluminum siding. This can violently twist your drill, warp the metal panel, or tear a jagged, dangerous hole.
- Use a Standard Twist Bit: A high-speed steel (HSS) or cobalt twist bit safely slices through wood, insulation, and aluminum.
- Drill from Inside to Outside: Use a long installer bit (bellhanger bit) to drill your pilot hole from the attic out. Once the tip of the bit pierces the aluminum outside, stop. Go outside and finish widening the hole from the exterior to prevent the metal from tearing outward. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
3. Protect and Protect the Coaxial Cable
- Sharp Metal Edges: Aluminum siding creates razor-sharp edges when drilled. If you pull a bare coaxial cable directly through it, the metal edge will eventually slice through the cable jacket and short out your signal.
- Install a Cable Feed-Through Bushing: Always insert a plastic coaxial feed-through bushing into the aluminum hole. This acts as a shield, protecting the cable from the sharp metal edge. [1]
- Create a Drip Loop: Before feeding the cable into the house, leave a small, loose loop of cable hanging downward right below the hole. Rainwater will run down the wire and drop off the bottom of the loop rather than tracking straight into your wall. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
4. Seal Out Moisture and Pests
- Water Intrusion: A hole in aluminum siding is a direct path for wood rot.
- Apply Outdoor Silicone: Once the cable and bushing are in place, generously apply a premium exterior-grade 100% silicone sealant around the cable, the bushing, and the siding seam to make it completely watertight and insect-proof.
To make sure you have the right setup, let me know:
- What tools do you currently have on hand (drill type, bit length)?
- How thick do you estimate the wall is from the attic space to the outside siding?
I can give you the exact bit size and steps for your specific equipment.
6/24/2026 Wednesday
About SBC's Al Mohler's view on Female Pastors - when he declared that the function of a pastor is prohibited for women as well, not just the office of a pastor, he's using a very narrow definition: @41:00 "...function specifically preaching to the gathered assembly..." Though some might find skeptical, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he never meant to refer to the works women like Allie Beth Stuckey do on their podcasts. However, These female podcasters are "preaching to the gathered assembly" online. Hence Al Mohler could only take a very narrow minded, a very American view of a Christian Pastor, that is, his only job is just to stand in the pulpit and preach to a physical crowd who are to shut up and listen and not allowed to critique the preacher. I am sure, Mohler would deny this, but it is the only way you can define the kind of pastoral function he's defining. Since he would deny this, I'm sure, his only alternative to save face would be to live the contradiction he created for himself, namely, avoid dealing with the real pastoral function Allie's doing on her podcasts: i.e. giving advices, preaching (prophesying as used in scripture), etc. and still condemn it by painting a church pulpit and congregants around what Allie's doing. "Allie, if you're not doing your podcast from a pulpit, I'm fine with it". This is an IDOLATRY OF THE PULPIT or church building: common among Baptists, "reformed"-anything.
Mohler's inductive argument for allowing female pastors leads to allowing LGBTQ one generation later @52:47, is clearly unreformed. Paul grounds the prohibition of women in certain office both pre-fall in creation and AFTER THE FALL! ("it was Eve who was deceived...") They only focus on the former, because these fundamentalists do not know the depth of general revelation. To absolute Paul's principle sole on the pre-fall condition is to fail in the relativistic intend of the order of creation. Sure, churches that have female pastors tend to lead to LGBTQ doctrine but to generalize this inductive observation is simply bad logic (fallacy of the converse) Since P -> Q, then Q -> P. A common fail of the low IQs. That said, I also won't support electing women over men as pastors, but I would recommend listening to Allie's podcast over Al Mohler's podcast, pulpit sermon, or anything.
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Videos from my mother's sharing, worth some note:
The above video is an interview with Jensen Huang. Summarizing the AI industry into the five-layer cake:
1. Energy (i.e. nuclear power)
2. Hardware/Silicon (i.e. chips)
3. Infrastructure (i.e. real estate, data center land)
4. The Model layer (i.e. LLMs, OpenAI)
5. The Application Layer (i.e. AI tools startups)`
"You won't lose your job to AI; you will lose your job to someone who uses AI." ~Jensen Huang. He believes the Terminator sci-fi film conception is nonsense.
Of course, Jensen Huang only prefers to see the optimistic side of technology.
Second video is from the YouTube channel "澳洲Henry" (Henry in Australia) covers the shifting dynamics of the global AI race between the US and China:
Hardware Constraints Breeding Algorithmic Ingenuity: Because US sanctions block China from buying cutting-edge NVIDIA chips, Chinese engineers were forced to innovate on architecture. Companies like DeepSeek popularized Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) frameworks (splitting models into distinct "expert units" like math or coding, and only activating a few at a time), which radically lowered compute costs and energy usage.
Knowledge Distillation - vocabulary for training a smaller/cheaper model on the outputs of a larger model (data scraping), which is a widely known industry practice, though Western tech firms strictly forbid it in their Terms of Service.
These Chinese AI talks are really pragmatists vs. Christianity. Not that everything practical is wrong, but pragmatism is inherently anti-Christ. Even Google Gemini noted their similarity to the Babel-like Ambition (in building architectural and technological monuments to encourage reliance away from God for the sake of money making rather than gratitude for God). So we are seeing this as a battle of U.S.A. vs. China, rather than cultural mandate.
3rd video is a talk show Yuan Zhuo Pai (Roundtable Parlor, Season 6) features host Wang Wentao alongside guest speaker Prof. Cao Zexian, a theoretical physicist and researcher from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), discussing making higher science (quantum mechanics) accessible for the general public:
Vocabulary - Esoteric subjects: Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
Professor Cao mapped the Industrial Revolutions from thermodynamics (the steam engine) to electromagnetism (electricity) to quantum mechanics (semiconductor chips) to geopolitical/industrial competition.
Mathematical beauty in nature is recognized here. Thus, an opening for Christians to dialogue on God's aesthetics. The creation is an ordered one. What the professor is proposing, entering into the hard sciences, mastering quantum mechanics, is actually an act of obedience to God (Book of Job is full of this at the end), rather than some, I think, fundamentalists, view of treating these as secular distraction.
6/23/2026 Tuesday
Stephen Tong teaching kids how to draw:
Learning to Draw - Rev. Dr. (H.C.) Stephen Tong BCN 2026
Narrow road of virtue and wide road of sin,
Painting by Jan Christiaensz Micker (1598-1664),
Painted circa 1650,
oil on oak panel
© National Museum in Warsaw
Matthew 7:12-14
Some view it as choosing heaven and hell. I would interpret the verses as choosing life or death. As for this painting, I suppose the skeleton figure on the roof is closer to biblical teaching.
6/22/2026 Monday
I asked my mother about my dad's back, it's still the same. She's feeding him in the master bedroom bed which is more comfortable. It is a bit of a relief that my brother was there close by and well ready to help.
6/21/2026 Sunday
News of my dad's back problem since yesterday concerns me. Only learned of it this morning before church from my mother. Old injury.
Sunday Sermon by Pastor Dan on Numbers 13. I read to Nadia earlier in the morning with dramatic narration. Pastor Dan came to us after the service so I was able to ask him about his father's "swim" - I was just joking that I thought it was a Pacific swim, I think he may have taken it seriously. Troy wanted to eat together the next week, possibly at Spice24. As for the sermon, theme was "Big God vs. Big Problems" but as he preached, I was raising other questions and getting fascinating with them using AI. I'll add this to the Numbers 13 Bible Study entry. But I did get a chance to challenge Pastor Dan a couple of them: If the land was promised, why even bother to send spies? If they would only occupy Canaan if there were no giants or weaker, wouldn't that seem to be a bully mentality? He seemed to just want to focus on his topic. Fine by me. His sermon was fun too, I don't usually stay awake so fully but not this time.
The music chosen for worship: Hillsong's Man of Sorrow was actually quite catchy. So I Sunonized it (wouldn't work with lyrics sung so I had to hum it):
I don't think I used my time wisely, as usual, in the night time when Nadia asked to watch a movie. She doesn't really watch movies in general. I should have done something else, but with her by the side, rather than REwatching Spiderman - No Way Home, mostly myself while she scrolled through Instagram or something. Tagging this as my fault.
We lunched at Asian Food Market first time in North Plainfield. No public seating, but the staff was nice enough to welcome us to their staffs' lounge to eat. Ate there because Nadia had something to return to Sierra which was near the area.
I measured and purchased two coaxial cables, to be setup for the attic antenna I bought last week. So far, everything seems to work well. Baby Room's TV may not be hooked to this system as I really don't want to drill too many holes in the wall/ceiling, and that TV can work with the portable antenna that came with the portable TV (for testing) I bought recently. Perhaps I would rescan the channels for this TV with the attic antenna just to store max channels before swapping back to the smaller portable antenna. I plan to drill a hole in the attic by the front window and pull the 20+ft coaxial cable from antenna down to the Verizon panel on the side of the house outside. There's a splitter for already setup cable to the master bedroom and the office. I should expect 71 channels at least, or I would need to get a signal booster.
I looked at my first successful potato plant (paperbag method) from regular potato that was growing "eyes" that Nadia gave me about a week or two ago. So 8 weeks to harvest would mean mid-August. Sign of harvest time is when foliage turns yellow, wilts, and completely dies back.