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- March 20, 2022
- Vernal Equinox 2022
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I just love the equinoxes and other celetial events. It makes me feel part of a much larger picture; that of the solar system.
I have been much more observant of the seasons much more since the astronomical scientists in their infinite wisdom have chosen to demote Pluto from it's long standing status as a planet, I decline to accept that demotion and view it the same as I always have.
The Earth remains my home and barring any unforeseen extraterrestrial kidnaping which may be in my future I pretty much feel as though I'll be here for the duration.
Spring begins on March 20 and ends on June 21. Springtime is my second most favorite season, next to autumn. The advent of the vernal or spring equinox signals warming temperatures as we progress toward summer.
Typically the azaleas blossom early with their white, pink, and red variations.
We in the northern hemisphere are tilting closer to the sun and this results in longer day time hours and increasing warmth. Our friends in the southern hemisphere experience the opposite as they tilt farther from the sun.
I'm trying to get motivated and get out there in the yard and chop up a few leaves and pick up various yard debris blown out of the trees. It hasn't been going well but I have high hope for the future.
Spring has sprung
The grass has rizz
I wonder where the birdies is
Mr. Davis Shull
10th Grade Home Room
Wagener-Salley High School
circa 1971
See Also:
Vernal Equinox 2021
Vernal Equnox 2020">
First Day of Spring !
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- March 19, 2022
- Let's Laugh Day 2022
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I used to think I had quite the sense of humor. I thought I was funny. I thought others to be funny. I would spend a significant portion of my day laughing and being happy.
Then the workaday world took hold of me and my sense of humor waned. Some times I laugh as in the old days. Most of the time I maintain a more serious comportment as though nothing has ever struck me as being funny.
In my defense I also abandoned that goofy nature cultivated by my early years watching copious three stooges and my subsequent channeling of Jerome Lester Horwitz aka Curly Howard — despite being referred to as 'retarded' by some of my Aragona Elementary classmates older brothers for my efforts.
I have read where laughing aids in relaxation and stress reduction. It is also said to impart health and social benefits.
I have read accounts of laughter reducing the blood pressure, increasing immunity response and improving the heart rate. I have also read that it can aid in sleep and burn calories.
Today is Lets Laugh Day. While I don't get out there and guffaw as I once did frequently in my youth I certainly won't hold it against you if you participate in a little raucous laughter today — or any other day as well.
Happy Let's Laugh Day to you.
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- March 18, 2022
- IP Geolocation continues to be a miserable failure
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Internet geolocation is said to be software capable of deducing the geographic position of a device connected to the Internet.
For example, the device's IP address can theoretically be utilized to determine the country, city, or ZIP code, thereby determining its geographical location.
In actual practice it's a utter crock of steaming horse manure.
My continuing perturbance with Spectrum's utter inability and multiple failures to publish correct IP geolocation data for my subnet led me to test a random IP address on a variety of IP geolocation sites with very humorus results. I checked a mobile ip 166.137.19.x against 7 of the various free IP geolocation sites on the web and got 7 different locations in 7 different states.
Most of the stated addresses were distal to each other across multiple state jurisdictions. I suppose one of these may had been correct but that determination was impossible from the data extracted. I find it amazing how inept people who sell data services are.
I always prided myself on sophisticated code providing accurate results. That which I provided is not available to me now that I'm winding down.
To be fair, I have utilized a few IP Geolocation providers who were totally accurate — but they had obviously incorporated whois data and derived my exact street address and tied it to the subnet whereas most including google, bing, and various retail presence sites did not.
Spectrum, google, and bing you are ALL stupid companies ... but you're not the only ones by a long shot. I'm surrounded by incompetence calling itself technical expertise.
Boo dullards !
See Also:
close, but no ip geolocation cigar
Too much IP Geolocation appears intentionally FAULTY
What Good is Geolocation when it's always INCORRECT
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- March 17, 2022
- Saint Patricks Day Day 2022
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I was at the bank the other day and the customer service manager asked me if I was going to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day to which I replied "That depends on what happens".
It seems I was wearing my green shirt and looking mighty Irish in my old age.
So St Patricks Day, Saint Patricks Day, or St Patty's Day aka the Feast of Saint Patrick is a day for revelry in the best traditions of the Irish with their boisterousness and happy vocal imbibing celebrations.
Few of us know much about Saint Patrick, except that his feast is associated with the Irish, shamrocks and clover, the wearing of green, getting pinched, good luck, leprechauns, corned beef and cabbage which goes down each March 17th, that day Saint Patrick passed this earthly existence.
When I was a child I remember the school time observances of Saint Patrick's Day and getting pinched for failing to wear an item of green attire and it was all an annual game of hit and miss. Sometimes I anticipated the day. Other times I did not — and got pinched until later in life when it no longer mattered to everyone I was around.
It is said that the remains of Saint Patrick lay in repose beneath Down Cathedral in Downpatrick, County Down.
It is also a day famous for drinking Green Beer if you are so inclined.
There is a local celebration held across the river where they dye the fountain waters green, serve green beer, and party all day and into the night.
I am told that the observance having been cancelled two years straight because of the incompetent handling of COVID by an inept government meddling in something it neither knew about nor could handle with any modicum of elegance or appropriateness they are looking forward to making up for lost time.
Happy Saint Patricks Day to you.
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- March 16, 2022
- National Freedom Of Information Day 2022
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I've never filed a foia request. However, I have seen several cross my desk over the years as the result of various requests by individuals for elements of information they believe they require. I recall some jobs where foia requests inspired shock and awe — as well as fear and disdain and typically go through the legal departments of organizations for confirmation and clarification.
Be all of this as it may I feel some foia requests are capricious and unnecessary but all of them are considered as a matter of the law.
Today is National Freedom Of Information Day. It is inspired by the ideals of James Madison, Jr who was the fourth president of the United States and the "father" of the US constitution, who drafted that document as well as the Bill of Rights which those of us who are patriots hold precious while the leftist libtards wish to curtail at every opportunity the conflicts with their innumerable illegal activities.
It was James Madison Jr's contention that a nation should hold no secrets from the people it served. Dream on.
This is not how things are in the United States because the dirtbags in government feel that they should be able to disclose that part of the truth they wish to disclose.
Shame !
The Freedom of Information Act being enacted on July 4th, 1966 and went into effect the following year.
It specifies and guards your rights regarding information which others would withhold at their whim for even it supports nine exemptions and three statutory exclusions.
Perhaps someday we will throw the deep state, shadow government and most of all the democratic party with all the ruination they place upon us continuously.
Happy National Freedom of Information Day.
God bless America.
I hope we are finally saved from the deep state, the shadow government, and the democratic party of idiots.
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- March 15, 2022
- International Day Against Police Brutality 2022
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One of the single most misrepresented topics on the face of the planet is police brutality. So many think police brutality is is effect when the actual problem is reistance to the police attempting to apprehend a criminal.
Take George Floyd. He was an addicted drug abuser and felon with a violent criminal history who resisted arrest.
The officers responsible for taking him simply weren't going to put up with the resisting arrest mess and held him down.
Just because your're black doesn't mean you have an inherent right to resist arrest as we see so often these days.
While I am okay with the thought that arresting officers should not have placed their knees such that Mr Floyd's breathing may have been compromised; the bottom line is had he submitted to police authority they would have never had to enforce it upon him.
George Floyd was not a victim. He was a violent drug abusing criminal who died during apprehension while attempting to resist.
So on this International Day Against Police Brutality I hope your stupid globalist leftist libtard asses can finally differentiate between how YOU attempt to spin justified apprehension and more so the REALITY of who is being apprehended and why.
This never seems to transpire in the main stream media, who are complicent with those who would break the law.
The democrats, progressives, racially motivated liars and other perpetrators of the untruths spun against the bulk of law enforcement.
Every apprehension cannot be police brutality but this would be the appearance by and large if you're so stupid as to believe the main stream media liars.
Alleged police misconduct and violence is too often resisting arrest by a repeat felon under the influence of narcotics.
George Floyd is a prime example of this, but not the only one. George Floyd was not murdered. He died as the result of being a drug ravaged felon resisting arrest.
I wish you stupid wikipedia morons could get that through your thick uncomprehending troglodyte skulls.
I'm tired of the mainstream media and other uninformed entities placing their erroneous spins upon and misrepresenting the facts on all too much anymore.
When the majority of heroes held by any group of people are predominately law breaking hoodlums, drug addicts, criminals, and thugs what can be said for that subset of the populaton ?
Erect statues and pay tribute to real heroes for a change stupid libtards of our nation. The riff raff you idolize cannot stand the scrutiny they presently face — much less that of history.
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- March 14, 2022
- Genius Day 2022
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In my living room, in a place of honor adjacent to my bookcase hangs a large black and white photograph of Albert Einstein resplendent in the formal attire of his times.
While I would have preferred a large color portrait, alas this was the photography predominately available within the era of history in which it was taken and it is a cherished possession I received as a gift and I would much rather have it than someone else — or nothing hanging on the wall.
It is there to honor him, his intellect, and his accomplishments.
He hangs adjacent to Robert Crumb, Dr Jimmy Quinn, my parents, my stepfather, and those others I feel are significant to my existence and those with whom I would surround myself. There are indeed others conspicuously missing due the absence of their picture from my collection.
Today is March 14, aka "Genius Day" aka "Scientists Day" — which corresponds to Einstein's birthday.
Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire. He passed at age 76 in Princeton, New Jersey on April 18, 1955, a mere 4 days after I was born.
He is noteworthy for developing the theory of relativity. He also contributed to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are the pillars of modern physics. His mass - energy equivalence formula E = mc2 arose from his theory of relativity and has been hailed as the world's most famous equation.
He also influenced the philosophy of science.
As I have always been one to honor the memory of Albert Einstein thoughout my sentient lifetime I wish you a memorable Genius Day 2022 or Scientists Day if you prefer.
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- March 13, 2022
- National Jewel Day 2022
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I have never been one to wear jewelry.
It all stems from the tragic loss of my high school ring to a dirtbag from my past in the final move before navy boot camp in orlando on June 11, 1976. I was very young at this juncture and the aversion to walking around bejeweled just stuck. Thusly, like hats on my head I have never felt the impetus to wear any form of jewelry ever again and this attitude has held me in it's grip for almost 50 years now.
Thank you Michael S Johnson.
March 13 brings us National Jewel Day and recognizes precious stones, jewelry, and jewelers.
I admire cut stones. The facets and faces and angles and sparkle. I was once a student of gems and their relationship to the findings comprising jewelry. While now my immersion ended long ago and I may admire these things — I do not wear them.
I have also been known to watch antique roadshow on pbs to have a look at the jewelry they encounter.
It piques my interest but I no longer covet them as I do so many other things in the material world. I like jewelry from a standpoint of observatory esthetics.
I don't wear or covet it but I enjoy rubber necking and eyeballing — admiration from afar if you will.
Go figure.
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- March 12, 2022
- National Plant a Flower Day 2022
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I have always loved flowers.
I am particularly interested in the south carolina maypop aka Passiflora incarnata aka Passion Vine which has exotic blue and white blooms errupting from July through September.
I also love the tall sunflower. It is majestic and fields of them have been known to hold my attention for extended periods of time. The ones with which I am familiar were planted to attract birds for hunters but I was enthralled by the appearance of the large sundial like seed pods surrounded by yellow petals.
March 12th brings us National Plant a Flower Day.
The crux of the day is that beauty and fascination flowers bring into our lives. They represent more than 400,000 flowering plant species internationally.
You would be hard pressed not to be able to find something in the way of a flower you like .
Personally, I prefer flowers that are fragrant because I find that simulus most the most pleasing floral experience.
The word flower refers to the the seed-bearing part of a plant. It includes it's reproductive organs which are called stamens and carpels. These are usually surrounded by a brightly colored corolla called petals and a green calyx known as sepals.
Flower blooms are celebrated for the beauty they bring to the surroundings. They also adorn the people of many cultures and have further significance from the symbology they represent to life, nature, and our cultures as people.
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- March 11, 2022
- National No Smoking Day 2022
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Smoking is bad for your health.
If you like so many of us in the United States are overweight — it further compromises your cardiovascular system beyond that imposed by the extra corpulence you may be carrying.
Today is National No Smoking Day. It focuses on awareness regarding the dangers of smoking.
This day attempts to spotlight resources that are available to help people decide to try and quit as well as trying to offer encouragement and support in a useful and non-judgmental way.
Trying to convince others that you don't smoke when you do is quite a bit on the unscrupulous and immoral side of the equation.
My sister smokes and INSISTS that she doesn't as if she didn't reek to high heaven from the habit.
If you don't smoke don't start. If you do smoke stop.
☠ Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air exchange sacs called alveoli found in your lungs. ☠ Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smoking causes most cases of lung cancer. ☠ Smoking makes you look older, imparting facial wrinkles and premature aging of the skin. ☠ Smoking damages your teeth and yellows both them and your fingernails. ☠ Smoking leads to gum disease and ulcers as well as dental infections which can result in tooth loss. ☠ Smoking imparts odor to you that remains in your hair, clothes, conveyance, and home. It precedes you when you enter a room so everyone knows you smoke even if you lie about it vehemently as does my sister. ☠ That smokers cough results in phlegm and can lead to chronic bronchitis. ☠ Many smokers develop COPD. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is common and some 80% of cases of COPD are the direct result of smoking. ☠ Smoking affects your immune system and restricts your ability to fight off infections. Smokers have more respiratory infections than non smokers. ☠ Nicotine causes constriction of the blood vessesl and increases risk for high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attack. ☠ Smokers increase their susceptibility to heart disease with smokers accounting for 20% of all deaths from heart disease and 70% higher mortality from coronary heart disease compared to those who do not smoke. Smoking a pack a day doubles your risk of a heart attack. ☠ Smoking increases insulin resistance in diabetics. It causes a rapid increase in the progression of type 2 diabetes. If you smoke and are diabetic you become increasingly at risk for kidney disease, eye problems, and heart attack. ☠ Smoking increases your chances of developing cancer. Not JUST lung cancer, but throat cancer, mouth cancer, kidney cancer, esophageal cancer, and bladder cancer. ☠ Smoking negatively affects your family's health. Second hand smoke accounts from 37,000 to 40,000 deaths each year. Children become at risk for chronic respiratory conditions when they are subjected to second hand smoke. Bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, and ear infections all increase in those exposed to second hand smoke. Infants are more at risk for SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome.
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- March 10, 2022
- Festival of Life in the Cracks Day 2022
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One of those things I've noticed over the years is the propensity for plants to flourish, sometimes in the apparent absence of soil.
I've seen plants growing in the cracks in rocks and even on the sheer rock faces of cliffs.
My beloved mother had a driveway which would spring forth with greenery despite my efforts to do away with it.
Today is the Festival of Life in the Cracks Day and notes first hints of spring weather like various sprouting plants erupt from the cracks in sidewalks.
The day celebrates rebirth and renewal in life promotes beauty and life on the planet.
Festival of Life in the Cracks Day meant to promote sitting inside, but is a time for the sojourn either alone or with others and experiencing that beauty in life ...
Even if it is found in cracks on the ground.
You can celebrate the day by going outside and looking for life in the cracks.
Springtime is bearing down upon us and the greenery of plant life should be just starting to sprout.
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- March 9, 2022
- Amerigo Vespucci Day 2022
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I remember Amerigo Vespucci from my primary education as a young child in Virginia Beach, Virginia as well as Hanahan, South Carolina.
However, I never really thought much about other than America was named for him. I was always under the impression that his purview was derived from the military and not commerce.
I was always interested in him because the topic of "America" and "American" have always been dear to my heart.
Amerigo Vespucci as it turns out was an Italian navigator, explorer, and merchant from the Republic of Florence in what is now italy.
The name "America" is derived from his name and it has been stated that he was the first European to set eyes upon the new world.
In 1497 he made his first voyage of the Age of Discovery in the name of Spain.
In 1504 he participated in a second voyage of the Age of Discovery, first on behalf of and then for Portugal
He is known for proving those in Europe that the New World was not Asia as was widely believed — but a fourth previously undiscovered continent.
He was born March 9, 1454 in Florence, Italy. He died February 22, 1512, Seville, Spain. He was married from 1505 through 1512 to one Maria Cerezo. They had no children.
In the world while the left would attempt to revise the facts of the past; some must remain fast in our memory and that is the ones of Amerigo Vespucci.
On March 2, 1959 Governor Nelson A Rockefeller of New York declared the holdiay called Amerigo Vespucci Day. His reputation came to suffer at some of his radical ideas whereby he thought the common citizen to be "expendible" and could just "be killed" for wanting to know too much in the way of technology and private deals made by the government.
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- March 8, 2022
- International Women's Day 2022
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International Women’s Day is held each March 8. It is claimed to be a global day celebrating the historical, cultural, and political achievements of women.
The day also observed in support of taking action against gender inequality around the world.
Societal contributions of the female of the species are the crux of the observance.
Now then, we have freaks of nature ... the so-called "trans" sexual human beings who think they can be something beyond their chromosomal configurations simply because they choose to do so.
Deranged human beings such as trans swimmer Lia Thomas a University of Pennsylvania student who is a man masquerading as a woman on the woman's swim team, prancing and traipsing around the locker room naked with his penis on full display making the genetic females uncomfortable simply because his stupid institution embraces his so-called right to be delusional.
The institution should be made to pay. Were he doing this in the presence of one of my young female relatives I would make it my solemn duty to take him out of her picture by any means necessary.
It is a collective insanity of the left to discard science in the name of feelings. I don't care how he feels. He is a man and should be treated accordingly. Period.
Freaks should not be celebrated unless attending a circus sideshow — which is what the woke world has become.
This business of embracing of a total fallacy is why International Woman's Day should be cancelled. Too many so-called women today aren't really women.
Before our idiotic woke culture finally gets it we will likely devolve to a collective of these safe space seeking slobs who cannot accept who they are gracefully much like some whiny screaming mixed race bitch Yale student demanding the resignation of someone presenting a little logic in their presence.
XX = female
XY = male
the only normal variant is called mosaic aka "intersex" which combines XX and XY into various other configurations
XY individuals are not female.
XX individuals are not male.
Transexuals who claim to be female are not women.
Transexuals who claim to be male are not men.
Those who support them are just as deluded as they are.
Institutions that embrace the delusion exhibit faulty logic and corrupt actions.
If you're a parent expressing pride in your little poof of a boy that thinks he's a girl you should be taunted public and messy for your failure to instill effective role modeling on your little deviant pervert offspring.
Likewise, if you are one of the other tolerated deviants professing "rights" you need to be efficiently and permanently disposed of by society.
You are what you are and you is what you is stupid trans people. I decline to accept your stupidity. The characterless gullibility of the stupid leftist and progressive libtards never ceases to amaze me.
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Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham . . . )
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis
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You Are What You Is
Frank Zappa
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- March 7, 2022
- National Be Heard Day 2022
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Hear Ye Hear Ye ...
Today is March 7th and is therefore National Be Heard Day a day for small business owners and those aspiring to be owners to get out and make their voices heard.
Now then, this day celebrates small businesses and encourages those operating them to stand up for themselves and their ideas and lay claim to their share of the market.
I was once a small business owner in the form of computer consultancy. The issues therein for me personally were those clientele who wanted to control the environment and the product such that I was sometimes placed in hardware and software environments for which I had contempt.
I decided I didn't want the money. I wanted the stupid individuals making the bad decisions to go away. I wanted the customer's employees to stop bothering me with their low end consumer grade equipment seeking upgrades.
So now, I pick and choose and have a discriminating set of criteria which set me and moreso YOU apart should I not wish to be bothered.
It is appropriate to discriminate against the stupid who wish to force their faulty ideas and impressions upon you.
In these, my latter years I can still wire up a CAT6 network, configure routers and switches, wired or wireless — sit at a keyboard and tie everything together over IP ...
Then fix things should the inevitable issue arise.
Even though this is the very day to toot your own horn, I maintain a simple web presence with a secure contact form and call it a day.
My presence is known to those with whom I work.
All the little seo stooges and other would becontent consultants who like to bypass my spam filter by utilizing my online forms just get blocked at the server as required.
The fine art of firewalling interlopers is not lost upon me either !
So if you are not like me and already have more work than you can do such that you are actively pursuing clientele; today is that day to make yourself known to the world !
I hope your pitch is refined to a tee and good luck to you all.
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