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- July 13, 2023
- Embrace Your Geekness Day 2023
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The appelation "geek" has been both a perjorative term and one of endearment or honor, depending on both to whom and from whom it is directed.
I was called a "nerd" early on prior to the advent of the common use of "geek". This is primarily by those with whom I have worked.
Those in my social arena pretty much thought I was "stupid" because they neither comprehended nor cared about my particular set of skills — which didn't become mainstream until well after my desire for any semblance of popularity ended ...
Be all of this as it may I have never really objected to either term and personally, I equate the term "nerd" with "geek" because I don't believe there is any fine distinction between the two.
A geek is a person who both knows about and displays high level interest in one or more subject areas — which is likely something technical or niche.
However, that act of engaging and discussing technical information at length and with great attention to detail also marks me as what I am.
Suffice it to say I am satisfied to sit before a person's keyboard and remove all doubt about just who knows what in the realm of technology.
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- July 12, 2023
- Paper Bag Day 2023
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I utilize paper bags often. There are various things I need to transport that they seem to accommodate quite well.
I even went so far as to buy a bale of these thinking they were standard grocery bags only to find they were about half that size. My dismay over this persists presently.
This is likely because I couldn't get them out of my face because my mom doesn't think ANYTHING should ever be discarded.
I continue to remain a bit perturbed over this matter.
Today is Paper Bag Day. AKA World Paper Bag Day it goes down each July 12 annually in the name of the paper sack.
This all purpose carry all is a boon to humanity ...
Unless you buy an entire bale of the wrong size bags and then can't get rid of them — so much for a little satisfaction.
The origins of the day remain unknown. A lot of people were involved in the evolution of the paper bag so just snag one when you can and set it aside — as long it's the correct size.
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- July 11, 2023
- World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2023
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I recall a time when I was immersed in the drug culture. It was not what I viewed as a viable lifestyle and I abandoned recreational pharmaceutical use back in the late 1970s for that reason. These things can't be substituted for reality because inability to function in the real world does not eliminate your problems though you may well be opting instead for some variant of your own misbegotten concoction.
Benzodiazepines are classes of heterocyclic organic compounds utilized as psychoactives and tranquilizers. These include — but are not limited to — drugs such as Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Restoril, Versed, Dalmane, Tranzene, and Librium.
I have known quite a few benzodiazepines addicts in my day. The thing that really chaps me is how the prescriber will allow their patients to fall through the severe withdrawal of these drugs once a problem is recognized. Also, it is amazing the lengths some will traverse to obtain these drugs by "hook or crook".
Today is World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day. It is observed each July 11 annually.
The day is used to spotlight the dangers of benzodiazepines and how frequently they fall into a pattern of abuse, particularly when taken over long periods of time. Overdose and dependence are two of the most frequent pitfalls of using benzodiazepines.
It has been my personal observation that people are better off avoiding benzodiazepines, particularly in the recreational arena as I so often find them utilized.
I have always been very thankful that I did not allow these drugs to overtake my life as I have seen them do with so many others I have known. Ultimately, you are responsible for your life and drugs can do great things unless misused whereby they interfere with health or mask reality by and large.
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- July 10, 2023
- National Kitten Day 2023
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I was never was a cat lover. My sister had a couple of cats when we were kids. My sister in law has had one a long time now and it has grown on me. My mom feeds a number of the neighborhood cats from her stock of half and half we purchase by the case for her coffee. No, I never was a feline aficionado. I do however refer to most cats I encounter as "kitty".
As a rule I do not pursue them, but I stopped persecuting them about 30 years ago and I am never unkind to a dumb animal for a long time now. My mom instilled kindness for animals in me long ago.
Today is National Kitten Day. It's a July 10th observance of baby felines.
All domestic and feral local varieties of cats begin their existence as kittens. Large cats like lions and tigers begin theirs as cubs. I think a cub would be more interesting to me personally but then I would always have this fear of being eaten sometime in the background of our relationship.
Whether you love them or hate them or are like me ...
Decidedly ambivalent today is a day to make that effort to befriend some feline in your midst.
I have found not persecuting felines to be rewarding in the antics I now occasionally enjoy.
Anyway, happy National Kitten Day and if you're a cat person you're okay with me.
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- July 9, 2023
- Fashion Day 2023
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My fashion days were back in the 1990s I believe.
It was then that I donned the latest fashions and spent a lot of money on clothes. Those days have past and I now were more utilitarian attire and since I retired shorts predominate my wardrobe.
Today is Fashion Day. It happens each July 9th since 2016. It provides an opportunity for everyone to put on their finest threads and strut their stuff.
We celebrate Fashion Day on July 9 every year. It arose predominately via social media and celebrates every day fashion choices by the populace.
The day is important as it gives everyone the opportunity to put their fashionable side on display and let the world see their unique aesthetic sense, be it through their clothes or accessories. Fashion is an integral part of American society since so many culturally diverse communities live and thrive in this country where every individual has a unique way of expressing their fashion sense.
Some use it as a day of public revolt against trends in fashion styles and wouldn't you know it the LGBTQ pervs instigated all of that. Revolting pretty much sums up the tastes of the LGBTQ pervs because let's face it ...
Abomination is abominable.
So on this occasion I hop you'll get out there and exhibt that flair, that taste, and je ne sais quoi, not to mention style only a heterosexual can truly understand and utilize.
Happy Fashion Day to yous guys.
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- July 8, 2023
- Pretty Infuriating
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I have a new Hotpoint Washer and Dryer for the crib.
It seems that my relatively new washer abruptly decided it would not drain anymore. Rather than wait a week or so for the service guy I opted for a new pair to get on with my life.
The infuriating part of it all is that the Hotpoint appliances are made by General Electric.
My failing washing machine was a GE washer which not only failed to empty the tub anymore — but the tub is actually rusting, made of stainless steel and ALL.
Anyway it's 1500 dollars later and I remain both chapped over the washer and grateful for the new laundry appliances.
Onward, through the fog.
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- July 8, 2023
- International Skinny Dip Day 2023
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I remember the few times my compadres were skinny dipping. I recall everyone else abruptly disrobing and getting into the water then being the only one remaining fully clothed both times.
The first time was in Rosmon, North Carolina with Leroy and Joe Dodson et al. We were at a very cold mountain river and everyone shucked off their clothes and jumped in. Everyone except me that is. The second time was in Salley, SC with my dad and brothers and a few cousins. As in North Carolina I declined to disrobe in public in South Carolina as well.
Skinny dipping is not meant for we who are bashful. I had absolutely no desire to traipse around showing off all that I don't have.
It was an embarrassment and I was very careful to pick and choose my venues more carefully after that. All of a sudden I wasn't so quck to join anyone for a trip to the river. They all noticed this as well.
International Skinny Dip Day comes each July 8. Skinny dipping goes back long ago. Some famous people have decided it was appropriate to shed all garments and jump in the water ...
Shamlessly exhibiting their packages and parcels in public. Some people think nekkid is beautiful. I'm just not one to go on display.
It just wasn't anything in which I cared to participate. It also created a sense of avoidance in some social situations. I don't just accompany anyone for swimming at the ponds and lakes anymore. Cart your boorish exhibitionist ass elsewhere.
Happy International Skinny Dip Day to all of you with no shame.
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- July 7, 2023
- Alas poor Firewall I knew him well, Horatio
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Yeah, I've had to go all CSI Miami and lock down the web server with the firewall.
I was so hoping to leave it open but there simply isn't any modicum of resistence to exploit attempts even in the presence of no chance in hell of them getting through.
Luckily when I took it down I didn't discard the rules set.
Of the intruders, stupid php programers are the worst of them all. Not only are they unskilled but they don't even exhibit good judgement.
Also, too many seem to think wordpress is the only web cms interface in use. Someone sees a URL with 'blog' in it and they automatically think it's a wordpress construct. Think again camel breath,
I like something in a more custom and less decipherable back end if you please. I also have an addiction to tooling various maintenance and trapping subroutines. There is nothing more gratifying than throwing up a nice impenetrable exception in some exploiter's face.
Not much going on in the coding world these days as far as I can see. Just a bunch of oopers and AI clients it appears to me. Drag and Drop addicts.
While I'm all for the IDE in production environments I think the likes of powerbuilder are not the way to go. Call me fickle. I must have been raised compiling at a command line interface and debugging in notepad.
My fellows don't appreciate the fact that you can insert custom filters all over the place when you have a penchant for coding. I'm reaching the point where the blog may become by invitation only. Exploit attempts remain infuriating even though unsuccessful. No respect.
The stupidity of the tech community continues to run rampant. Must be googleitis ignoramus or microsoftosis dotnet vulgaris. Don't you wish you had been educated instead of indoctrinated ?
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- July 6, 2023
- National Hand Roll Day 2023
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I am a big fan of sushi. Early on I often felt as though I could never eat anything raw.
Then one day I was taken to the sushi bar for a feast and then all bets were off.
Sushi has a lot of different forms. Some are regional and others universal. Temaki, or The Hand Roll is a form which incorporates ingredients arranged in a seaweed roll called noori.
I was amazed at the varieties of sushi available and I find Temaki to be one of the more convenient to eat ... but would point out that it is perfectly good etiquette to eat sushi with the fingers. Some would balk at this notion up front.
I have never been one to manner up in the presence of others — but have made efforts to appear somewhat "worldly" when dining at the local sushi bar at Inakaya Watanabe.
After all, sushi is about community and when you dine at a sushi bar there are many others in your midst checking out both your order and your handling of it. I am often asked what certain sushi in my order are called.
National Hand Roll Day is celebrated each July 6 annually under the auspices of Sushi Nozawa Group.
Ah, the flavors, the colors, the textures. It's truly a wonderful experience to dine at a good sushi bar. I have been known to range from The Ginza in Tokyo to several places in New York and Chicago to the local ones here in South Carolina. I have yet to have a bad experience.
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- July 5, 2023
- Mechanical Pencil Day 2023
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I believe my mechanical pencil era was in high school. It was then I thought a nice mechanical pencil eclipsed the dull and commonplace wooden number 2 with a pink pearl eraser hands down.
I know in the intervening years I have periodically owned other pencils. By and large I am a Bic Clic Stic man myself preferring black and blue ink medium points. Actually, the majority of my work for quite some time now entails a keyboard and various applications into which I make entries.
Today is Mechanical Pencil Day. It is observed annually on July 5 internationally.
The day celebrates the invention of the mechanical pencil and promotes that lost art of writing with pencils.
The Mechanical pencil has found it's place in both the classroom and the workplace. Draft works are made for pencil entries which permit those all too frequent corrections.
I recall how aghast I was to learn that public schools no longer teach cursive writing. This is just how far the educators have failed academia. They no longer educate, they indoctrinate. Then they decline to teach those skill which will carry a person through hard times.
I believe that regardless of the sorry state of education and educators in the United States in ALL their woke promoting dumbness that the mechanical pencil is here to stay.
Happy Mechanical Pencil Day !
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- July 4, 2023
- Independence Day 2023
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Another celebration of our independence from Great Britain is upon us. Time to reconsider the hardships endured by our ancestors in the name of freedom for the colonies which ultimately became the United States of America as the result of their resistence to rule by decree.
In this day we have freedoms unheard of in many nations. Unfortunately, those persons who would allow their emotions to overshadow facts and science has been a detrimental effect of the result of this freedom. These people say men can be women and women can be men. They cannot. They attempt to revise actual history with contrived versions supporting some fantasy narrative. They wish to teach psychosocial pseudoscience and portray it as having been subjected to the scientific method when it has not.
Their idiotic rantings are not the way.
On this day I wish you a happy holiday and urge you to resist all things woke. They are synonymous with stupidity and perversion. It would be a happier day for me personally if our nation weren't drowning in stupidity, perversion, and law breakers gone astray and running rampant such as those constituting the US democratic party.
Happy Independence Day anyway.
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- July 3, 2023
- National Stay Out of the Sun Day 2023
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Avoidance of the sun has been a constant in my life.
To cap it off, ever since I sustained second and third degree sunburn back in 1975 I've pretty much learned my lesson.
Perhaps it was the stern brow beating I received from my good friend, the late Dr William G Alderman in the Richland ER regarding the dangers of skin cancer as well as that intense pain and suffering I endured as well.
Today is National Stay Out of the Sun Day.
It happens each July third in an effort to encourage a much needed break from the UV radiation damage inevitable in those who pursue sunshine actively.
A "sun seeker" is someone I have neither been nor pursued.
In actuality, relationships have ended over this characteristic because I cannot go out in the sun and cook all day for some perceived chance at social interaction later. It's simply not worth it.
So regardless of whether you actively pursue sunshine or not — today is a day to give it all a rest in the name of reduced skin damage.
Suntans result in skin damage. Sunburns are much more severe in that regard. Go there if you like. Been there done that.
Happy National Stay Out of the Sun Day.
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- July 2, 2023
- World UFO Day 2023
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I believe that UFOs both exist and have been captured or appropriated or back engineered with surreptitious deals with extraterrestrials made beginning with the stupid Eisenhower administration as a continuation of the ground work done in the equally dullard Truman administration.
I believe the so-called "shadow government" has murdered citizens toward this end.
There is something to be said about a government which would consign it's citizens over to aliens of the planet earth for all manner of research even in the absence of an honored agreement supposedly set into place beforehand. I believe the Greada treaty which was declined by the Nordics and accepted by the Greys was entered into then ignored by the species Eisenhower who allowed them to abduct us in specified numbers in the name of procuring technologies in the best traditions of the Nazi party and their technology acquisitions.
Our elected officials bartered using taxpayers. Duh.
I believe the "Majestic Twelve" (MJ12) exists and is a criminal organization responsible for the murder of James Forrestal who wanted disclosure, and Phil Schneider over disclosure of the Alien Agenda and in particular the Dulce base on the Archuleta Mesa. I also feel that the Schneider was one of many transgressions which began with the strong arm military handling of Roswell and other recovery operations. The military should have never threatened a single taxpayer of the United States ... but they did.
The MJ12 confiscates the taxpayers money and then declines to disclose the nature of projects we the people are funding. This should be brought to a swift end but the congress is as spineless as everyone in the biden administration.
The New World Order is based on the Alien Agenda that idiotic leadership set into place then couldn't control because they appointed traitors to be in charge of it.
These shadow governement people control these undisclosed black operations projects saying it is for national security when it's really about personal gain and vendors supplying the military industrial complex.
I feel that we need to rout these individuals and remove them along with the shadow government and deep state from the nation by any means necessary. The cowardice of the elected officials of the United States is culpatory in this scenario.
They want to kill most of humanity then place a one world government into place to control everyone left.
Finally the false flag attempts to portray UFOs as attacking entities when they are far from it. These contrived attacks are an attempt to control the masses by the traitors in the shadow government and deep state.
I really don't appreciate the excuse that the general public can't handle the truth in these matters. Why has the world been allowed to devolve to such a totally stupid place ?
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- July 1, 2023
- International Chicken Wing Day 2023
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Ah, the chicken wing. All my life I have enjoyed this particular piece of the bird. I recall it being my preference at the dinner table from childhood through the mass quantities I consumed at various wing joints all over. This being said, not all chicken wings are created equal.
I once went to a place called Wingstop a block or so from my home. The taste was rancid and I learned later that all they do are "frozen precooked wings" and this in itself is quite self limiting and disqualifying.
Then I want to a place called Tasty Wings and Seafood another block farther. They served me extremely mediocre wings in a container filled with liquid. This too was disqualifying and I never returned.
Zaxby's — across the street from Wingstop — makes a half way decent wing and I have been known to order them from time to time.
The chinese joint Number 1 China next to Tasty Wings and Seafood used to be my favorite. However, my last order prepared under the new management regime was decidedly dry and lacking, as if it were entirely too old to be served to a valued customer so I don't know if I'll ever eat their wings again either.
Suffice it to say, the world of chicken wing consumers is quite fickle with one false move and it's over. I even bought a gas range with a built in air fryer as a contingency.
I would like to point out that my current favorite establishment servinng chicken wings is Wild Wing Cafe on Lady at Gadsden Street in Columbia SC ... although I must confess that I haven't dined there since I departed my employment with the city. I once frequented their lunch buffet until they closed it one sad day. I returned when they reopened it.
Regardless I continue to pine for those ever so crispy wings frequently.
Today is International Chicken Wing Day. It is observed on July 1 annually. The day is about eating chicken wings. All kinds of wings.
The first International Chicken Wing Day was declared in 1977 by one Stan Makowski, the former mayor of Buffalo.
Happy International Chicken Wing Day. Go forth and scarf down a couple dozen for me !
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