Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

My new workstation arrived with a high-falutin NVMe solid state disk installed. It is presently the system drive and is just like the one installed in Mama's Intel NUC.

My machine's manufacturer, in their infinite wisdom, fail to realize that SSDs are for people who don't do anything ... given their finite NAND writes even in the presence of overprovisioning.

While I admit this particular SSD is more efficient in it's ability to maintain operational stability ... it remains better suited for Mom who does everything she likes and more while I would tear it up with my workload in less than a year.

I am a user who does a whole lot in the way of heavy graphics and markup, code, versioning, experimentation, and those pursuits which have killed several SSD predecessors prematurely when I mistakenly installed SSDs in the servers on my network ...

Suffice it to say that when it comes to my workstation, a fast server grade magnetic SATA is more my speed given the re-writeability in general and toward that end I have been migrating both applications and their associated profiles with other aspects of application immediate storage to the 4 tb WD Gold I slapped into the case of my new workstation when I received it.

I cannot get past the tremendous server failures I experienced secondary to SSD utilization. I'm not selling this new NVMe ssd boot drive short by any means I just cannot allow my assets to depend on it as I did with other SSDs in the past.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

I don't intend to allow my enterprise to again be damaged by inadequate provisioning.

If the SSD fails I have a strong magenetic HDD up and running already and can simply apply an operating system install should the need arise.

We do what we must do.
 

November 30 is (unofficially, of course) said to be a day to smack as many asses as possible. The guidelines are simple: you simply have to smack every ass you encounter, no matter how large or how boney. Ideally, you maintain a count as well.

It is said "So go smack some ass my children".

Let the count begin !
 

It's amazing how many people access my web sites anticipating the ability to hack some lamer wordpress installation. They hit just about every known folder configuration in these efforts and simply afford me an interlude whereby I may block them and their cohorts with wild abandon.

That's exactly what I do.

Then there are the mail server exploit attempts. Trying to gain access to dedicated ports intercepted by a specific set of protocols as though it were merely open and available.

The same pitfalls await these individuals as well. They too get a variety of blocks set before them — some are pretty brazen filling my log with their unsuccessful antics. It's as if they don't realize that the rules for access are theirs to circumvent. A lot of them are sophomoric and laughable.

I am far less likely to block a domestic network than I am a foreign network. After all, my assets are domestic in nature and I'm not looking for a lot of international communication. When the vast bulk of your business is within a ten mile radius what is to be said for a 5,000 mile distance for some packet ?
When you come to my site and you're from a problematic network you likely will not get past that soft minefield I maintain for your elimination. I keep up on the rules of passage because I have gone up against some very formidable exploit attempts and prevailed.

MIT, the psychz network, the dns sites, the reverse variants, and so many of the tor entrance and exit points are filtered due to where they went and how they behaved when they first arrived.

Suffice it to say that you can behave or begone.

I'm not one to suffer exploits laying down and I actively pursue those who would cross my patio with malintent ... not the homeland security program, but "bad" intent.

What began as an effort to share openly with the world has been closed down due to the exploitave nature of too many ... particularly foreign nationals.

Can you say china boys and girls ?
 

I remember the day I was told Bruce Lee had died in Hong Kong. I was sullen for a year or so suffering those consequences of his passing in the midst of my extreme fanatical existence. I thought I was going to be like him. Alas, it never came to be. So now in retrospect I remember the man for all he was and all to which he aspired and I only wish that I had really known him in all my poverty of both material wealth and spirit.

Rest in peace.
 

	Bruce Lee Born Lee Jun-fan on November 27, 1940 at San Francisco, California Died July 20, 1973 at Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Hong Kong American actor, director, martial artist, martial arts instructor, philosopher Founder of Jeet Kune Do A hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines Often credited as the precursor of modern mixed martial arts

Well ... just what did anyone expect? Vigilantes are either held in esteem or found objectionable and unacceptable at multiple levels. Aye, as in so much of failed interpersonal relations otherwise ... circumstances are the rub.

Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr were found guilty of murder in the death of jogger Ahmaud Arbery. The facts were pretty damning. The locale, distinctly afrocentric. The white boys never had a chance given the facts of the case and should have just left the brother alone.

After all, a jogger could not be doing much more than tresspassing in the course of a neighborhood jaunt. I'm afraid jogging garb simply doesn't supply much in the way of the storage of loot.

Any thoughts they had of 'protecting the neighborhood' were distinctly misguided in this outcome. I would have let him go on his way but I'm not one to get riled at a stranger in the hood. I suppose in retrospect these three wish they had done the same.
 

Travis McMichael

Gregory McMichael

William Roddie Bryan Jr

Shucks ya'll. Though it is early in the appeals proceedings, barring any unlikely win these guy have pretty much done themselves in with an overly aggressive pursuit of what appears to be a guy out jogging.

The convictions for their various charges including felony murder, aggravated assault, and false imprisonment have the three each facing up to life in prison. They will be sentenced at a later date.

They've given the mouthy cracker hating negro Al gd Sharpton and the marxist BLM morons at large carte blanch to badmouth whitey as though they really need further provocation. Hell, I may be on trial soon if one of them makes the mistake of getting in my face. However, I would never harass a jogger out getting in some exercise, either.

I think they were wrong to go so crazy getting after some fleeting perception of invasion in their mind, but that will only take those out for so-called 'justice' so far in my presence. I get rather tired of their continuous petty demonstration show because that's all it is in reality.

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