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March 24, 2022
National Cocktail Day 2022
    Mojito (mohito)

In my younger days I was known to imbibe much more than I do presently.

When I was in the Navy I cultivated a taste for beer over the period of my enlistment.

I would also engage many a screwdriver as well as the occasional gin and tonic in the Enlisted Mens Club on base because at two bucks a snootful it just couldn't be beat.

Some nights I would stagger back to the BEQ and sleep in a drunken stupor til morning.

Nowadays, I keep a small amount of alcohol under the sink but haven't had a drink in several years.

I attribute this to that realization of my metabolic syndrome and the effects alcohol has upon it.

I tapered down from a few jiggers of Drambuie and Cointreau to the next to nothing I now consume.

I have a life long friend who can down entire bottles of most any liquor at the drop of a hat then ask for more.

I'm afraid this could never be 'me' for a number of reasons the LEAST of which is bars repulse me and are not a target rich environment for companions because I'm looking for friends and allies with a bit more in the way of sober insight.

Today is National Cocktail Day.

It is held each March 24 and notes the alcoholic drinks of which we are known to partake.

This day celebrates those concoctions that remind us of good times, good friends, and going out.

I won't say that I will never drink again. It's just highly improbable given my past efforts.

Happy National Cocktail Day anyway.
 

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March 23, 2022
Atheist Day 2022
I used to be a heavy handed Christian. Whereas in my immaturity I would once think your beliefs to be incorrect and go to great lengths to attempt to have you see the error of your ways — now I am content to hear your point of view and leave it at that.

Today is Atheist Day. I once equated atheism with satanism. Over the years I have realized that they are not the same and this has caused me to lighten up on the atheists somewhat.

It is said that some 2% or so of the world population do not adhere to religion of any kind. This absence of belief in diety is the crux of atheism.
Atheist headstone symbology    

• Atheism is a lack of belief in gods.
• Atheism is not a belief system.
• Atheism is not a religion.

Once upon a time I might take you to task if you tell me you worship satan. While I won't try to convert you I will allow you to make any germane points you deem appropriate and keep any unsolicited exchange to myself.

Simply an absence of belief no longer raises my hackles at all as it did at at an earlier point in my life.

Actually, I think I toyed with the idea of atheism myself in a younger day. I also question my theology in the absence of that lottery jackpot for which I have prayed a long time now.

Be all of this as it may I think my religion is intact. I attempt to learn more regarding scripture and live my life more in tune with my religious beliefs and from which I indeed do stray at times.

I have heard the terms Humanist, Secular, Bright, Freethinker, Agnostic and such to describe atheism. IMHO you believe or you don't. Being a believer does not qualify your beliefs with me. Likewise, I don't hold what you believe against you as long as you do not encroach upon or force yourself on mine.

Athiests claim to be members of the so-called LGBTQ* community. I neither claim this affiliation nor do I force what I think upon those who have these desires which do not cross chromosomal configurations.

Just because I think you are a male though you "identify" as female is a function of how I view science which is by design outside my theological believe system. Likewise the trans stupidity exhibited by these notions is yet another matter.

The fact that I believe you may say there is no heaven yet hopefully pray there is no hell is neither here nor there. We make our own beds in life by those choices we make. Where you end up will either be good or bad in accordance with who you are.

The eternity is quite a long time.

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March 22, 2022
Some think I'm mean
    hangmans noose

 

 

 

 

 


I have received a number of complaints regarding my allegedly mean postings regarding George Soros.

I am told that I should be more tolerant.

I am told that violence is never the answer.

While I restate my personal aversion to violence to these people I state unequivocally that George Soros and anyone who accepts his funds to undermine the United States of America are enemies of the state and deserve any harsh treatment they may encounter.

Death to George Soros the nazi.

Death to those who take his money.

Boo !
 

 

 

 

 

 

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March 22, 2022
As Young As You Feel Day 2022
George gd Soros    

So this is Young As You Feel Day.

It is allegedly a day for losing ones inhibitions, taking the plunge, going for it, carpe diem, etc.

Those usual and customary expectations we place on one another are not in effect this day.

A day of rebellion as it were.

You can celebrate in a number of ways.

A new hairdo, interaction with a different age group, or even doing something unexpected.

Me, I'd like to celebrate by summarily executing George Soros and any United States dwelling democrat or progressive who leeches from his funds on live television and then taking care of their offspring in a similar fashion public and messy as well ...

You know, complete the job such that their nazi interloping libtard bloodlines disappear from the face of the earth. Stop them from poisoning the air by breathing it.

I'm as young as I feel.

Die meddling leftist libtard scum die.

Yes, quite a bit severe but the world would be a better place without this individual on the planet.

Luckily for him and his I remain nonviolent.
 

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March 21, 2022
Big Bang Day 2022

When I came across this reference and decided to do a blog entry I had a knee jerk reaction to thoughts of the television program now apparently in syndication called The Big Bang Theory with Mayim Bialik, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, et al in that socially awkward show featuring the physicists and their adventures in life and love.

However, it seems the actual reference is the 10:28 am first trip of protons through the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

The media called it as Big Bang Day. This year it is observed the 21st of March but has been known to traverse the calendar somewhat.
 

Large Hadron Collider Project CERN


It is poignant to recall just how much the character Sheldon Cooper wanted to go there on a Valentines day jaunt with Leonard Hofstadter with diasasterous consequences involving flu like symptoms and and last minute stand in by Raj Koothrappali.

Shudders.

The reality of Big Bang Day didn't mark any new beginnings from the standpoint of our universe and nor did it mark the start of a new universe or make any striking changes in the particle physics of the moment — while it certainly did usher a new era of science.

Anyway I've read sensationalist literature regarding the exit of demons and such from the Large Hadron Collider which are quite a bit beyond the scope of believable science.

Suffice it to say that the research site is under construction and remains in flux while the alleged demons likely remain figments of those inquiring minds who read about them in the tabloid pulp fiction.

So happy Big Bang Day to you and I hope you too get to see the large hadron collider someday if that floats your boat.

I'm afraid I will be quite content to lack any and all of it including the alleged demons thank you very much.
 

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March 20, 2022
Vernal Equinox 2022
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.

Vernal Equinox 2022



    
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
    annoying orange laugh
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
IP Geolocation continues to be a miserable failure    
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
    Four Leaf Clover

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

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.
 

Freedom of Information Day

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
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.

    George Floyd drug addicted violent criminal
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
Albert Einstein 
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
    gems
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
Passiflora incarnata
Sunflower
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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