When I was a youngster there were farm animals in my midst. Among those there were various fowl including ducks and chickens. Some of the chickens were intimidating because they wanted you to think they could kick your butt if need be. It was an idyllic life where I knew my place and respected their boundaries.

I recall that the chicken houses operated on my uncle's farm became a murderous rampage by him and his family as they harvested dozens of birds to put in the freezer.

I also recall one day the chicken people came early and caught them in the act.

I don't know what those consequences were but it was a shocking spectacle which made me cry.

Nowadays I am pretty brazen to random acts of violence. Who wouldn't be with children popping caps in anyone and everyone due to the ineffective nature of both their parenting (or lack thereof) as well as law inforcement failure to intervene prior to the fact.

Today is International Respect For Chickens Day. It is a day to promote compassionate treatment of chickens and other domestic fowl. We have a chicken processing plant in the middle of the river front resort area because the insipid inbred management of the city hasn't forced their relocation. I don't exactly get the idea of the place being very merciful and the offal odor eminating from Sunset BL at the Jarvis Klapman bridge screams of death and decay.

So when you pick that fryer out out of the cooler at the grocery store you might want to give how that bird got there a moment of consideration.

I really don't think United Poultry Concerns has true compassion for the plight of food animals.
 

I run a server cluster with email and web server access across three domains on a 5 node gigabit subnet.

I hate to go off on a rant here but I would like to state unequivocally that in my entire existence I have never needed google on any of my assets ... and all they do is grow worse over time.

They simply do not provide me anything that I value.

If I could view them as objective and if their spider worked in an organic manner I wouldn't be so dead set against them. If you access me from google I think yeah, I'll let you in provided you haven't attempted exploit from your subnet — however, I don't think you get unfiltered results and I've viewed their scripting and they index mess which is not in even in the subset into which they have placed it by the time it hits their threads.

Given the inept environment and faulty subroutines, I decline to run ads. I decline a google web account. I detest the leftist libtard orientation of alphabet and all of their properties. I made a decision a couple of years back not to just firewall a network because they piss me off. Once upon a time I would terminate them with extreme prejudice and my personal failure to do so is the subject for a fair amount of self loathing.

In other words, the world would be a better place without google, alphabet, and their fellow woke ilk.
 

There was a time when google was the best organic search engine on the planet.

That was then, this is now.

They have devolved into an advertising mechanism and the search engine aspects are secondary and subject to redirection based on their whims.

They don't even support those search configuration switches which were once available.

In my last job I was subjected to a woman whose most common response to any technical issue in the workplace was "just google it". They lost me and my assistant over the fact that this was status quo in the lamer leadership there. This is a person without grasp. Lacking her own technical knowledge base. Lacking expertise. Lacking savvy. Just another slug on the planet. Good riddance.

The stupid people who think google is a good thing have less in the way of objective requirements than I do.

If google were nuked from orbit, Earth would be a better place.

Since their departure from their excellent organic search engine model I have not had much need for them in my existence. They primarily provide that angst of knowing you're being subjected to manipulation and bias beyond your control.

The fact that their ineffectual ip geolocation fails the accuracy test at every turn is simply another infuriating aspect of their low tech unskilled outsourcing and other people running that show.

Boo google. Boo alphabet. Boo stupid proponents of google. Boo outsourced failure called IP Geolocation.
 

I used to spend a lot of time traipsing through the woods in an effort to maintain some modicum of fitness and weight control.

As it stands, my efforts in those times were effective though I suffered a few encounters with ticks for my troubles. The resulted in my decision to utilize insect repellants with wild abandon and I became effective in their application such that I no longer encountered the little buggers.

I was one to apply deep woods products and I'm happy to say that I was always to detect a tick on my person prior to it becoming embedded in my skin. Must be due to my caring, sensitive nature.

May is National Lyme Disease Awareness Month. I've only seen a few cases of the infection but it is pretty horrific with the "bullseye" rash and those with the disease were children in my experience.

Lyme Diasease is an inflammatory disease which first presents as a rash, accompanied by headache, fever, and chills. Sequela include the possibility for arthritis and neurological as well as heart problems. These are caused by bacteria that are transmitted to people by ticks.

The affliction may be misdiagnosed, further complicating the problems associated with it. Ensure you have a medical provider who is competent before you allow them to treat you.

Incompetent medical providers are an issue in the United States of America where we graduate inadequate clinical expertise and call it qualified.

Boo CDC, Boo US healtcare system, Boo Lyme Disease. You might think a physician can't be a dullard. You'd be quite incorrect in that notion.

I once saw a chief resident deliver a 8 and half pound "kidney stone" because he believed a patient's story and admitted her without checking her pregnancy status.

Can I get a DUH ?
 

The Black Moon will occur on April 30th and be visible at 2:45 pm ET. It is set to peak shortly after at 4:41 p.m. ET and will last be seen at 6:37 pm ET as specified in the threads.

Note that these times are for live stream viewing since the phenomenon won't be visible in this part of the world.

I'd like to say my biological clock is running. However I cannot verify that this is so. In all my lack of grasp I feel my biological clock and it's effects are pretty much a waining past tense entity in my exstence.

Humans are said to have an internal biological clock which reacts to light and dark cycles as well as circadian rhythms and effect various preparations of metabolic and biofeed back mechanisms to prepare for various events indigenous to life and it's associated processes.

It is said that you may regulate your own biological clock with the utilization of routines for your body such as regular bedtimes and wake-up time, nutrition timed at regular intervals, and fewer periods of napping.
 

The phrase 'biological clock' may evoke images of birthing babes, but there’s a lot more to the biological clock itself than urges for procreation which allegedly arise at certain intervals in the lives of females.

Both men and women have biological clocks. In light of this April 28th is set aside as Biological Clock Day.

The biological clock affects behavior and mood on a daily basis.

They maintain the sleep-wake pattern which corresponds to the light and dark of a day on Earth.

In addition to circadian rhythm, the biological clock monitors light, temperature the environment factors to influence things like the level of alertness, those energy levels present, hunger, and and other motivational factors.

The balance of the biological clock is subject to upset by the technological influences of the day.

Your natural internal timing device regulate those cycles that make you who you are.

It interacts with the cellular systems of the body and nearly all tissues and organs have them.
 

I do a fair amount of design in my everyday blogging life.

There are graphics to create, sketches to lay out and color, and a variety of artsy fartsy mess that goes with it.

Today is World Design Day, aka International Design Day.

It is held each April 27 and the International Council of Design is celebrating how design has improved everyday life in local communities in conjunction with it.

I really am not qualified to discern if my stuff is "good design" or "meaningful design" but I know it is simply design and the merits thereof are left to others.

Whether it is impactful is up to the viewer. I do know I get a compliment here and there.

So whatever you do where ever you are design plays a part in various aspects of your activities whether you do it or not.

Happy World Design Day.