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- March 9, 2021
- Biggie Smalls murdered this day in 1997
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On this day in 1997 Christopher George Latore Wallace aka Biggie Smalls aka the Notorious B.I.G. aka "Biggie" was gunned down in a drive by shooting in Los Angeles, ostensibly as part of a rapper war in which the gangster culture will always shoot first and never attempt civil negotiations.
He was born May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn New York and died March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles California.
He died at the ripe old age of 24 years old after attending the Soul Train Music Awards in a hail of bullets fired by mean uncaring individuals who would just as soon kill you as look at you.
Wallace was a rapper and songwriter orginally hailing from Brooklyn, New York who became one of the greatest rappers of all time with that popularity of a genre only true afficinados of the culture can understand.
Me, I never was a fan — but I have always thought that his ending was a sad note to the never ending saga of violence in the United States and totally unnecessary. After all ... he was only pursuing his art.
Couple this with a ever heating and escalating East Coast–West Coast hip hop feud and tragedy was bound to ensue. This is the way of gangsters.
He knew the risks and spoke of them on occasion.
Even while he was attempting the quell the fighting in an effort for the two factions to perhaps collaborate more and wage war less.
His music involved the telling of hardship stories and criminality, but also of debauchery, of course sex, expensive automobiles, as well as partying and celebration.
The saddest part of it all is how those ignorant people with cash to buy automatic weapons enact revenge upon whomever whenever and that is the actual tragedy which is rap music, hip hop, and stupid forced rhyme scheme in lyrics with repetitive beat you like they own you background tracks.
He has released a number of well received albums with a portion of those posthumous releases and by and large I feel the man did not get a fair shake as we will never fully realize the full extent of his talent and reach in the presence of that cruelty known as the gangster lifestyle.
No, I was never a fan of rap or hip hop.
As for young Mr George Latore Wallace — he certainly deserved better than he received ... from his peers no less.
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- March 8, 2021
- International Women's Day 2021
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International Women's Day is a commie pinko observance celebrated on March 8 internationally.
It's thrust involve women's rights to the exclusions of the rights of any and all others, particularly men.
There are both female and male feminists and they all project the same stupidity of absence purpose and tout how down trodden females are when they actually have more opportunities in the United States than males. In particular, the female populace at large are less technically oriented with very few excellent exceptions. The rest are simply vagina packing blow hards without any semblance of technical merit.
Typically, this is a day for ridiculous hair colors, whining, moaning, and groaning about how badly women are treated when in fact they and their misguided male confederates are the abusers in this relationship with false accusations of glass ceilings, good ole boy networks, and other figments of their imaginations.
The socialist nature of the feminist movement in the US is another reason they should be stricken from the record.
In the United States of America there is no room for socialism, communism, and all the false flag railings to the tune of these impediments to freedom should be quashed by any means necessary.
I don't celebrate Woman's Day because of the falsehoods it projects and ignoring the day is about the only way I may express adequate contempt for it and other socialist and communist manifestations of identity politics in The Republic spawned and cultivated by the stupid democratic party and their leftist cohorts the mainstream media. Yes Craig Melvin you stupid complicit dupe this means you.
These leftist contrivances should be eradicated as the blight on truth and justice in the country by ax grinding stupid individuals with an agenda which is a far stretch from anything based on the truth.
Boo pink and blue haired pussy hat wearing liar bitches. You are the reason so many are dismissive of women in general.
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- March 7, 2021
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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On this day in 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom broke off diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel entitled The Satanic Verses.
The book was Salman Rushdie's fourth novel. It was originally published in 1988 and was said to be inspired in part by the life of Muhammad.
Rushdie used magical realism and contemporary people and circumstances to formulate his characters.
The title is a reference to the satanic verses which are derived from the Quran and refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses named Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt.
The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.
The Satanic Verses was well received in Great Britain and the controversy which was inevitable with the Muslim penchant for blasphemy accusations and other claims of mocking the muslim faith.
All of this resulted in a fatwā calling for Rushdie's death issued on Valentine's Day 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who was a raging maniac anyway. The resultant death threats, murder attempts and the murder of a translator summed up the entirety of why radical Islam should be eradicated from the planet.
The radical element has done nothing but grow worse and attempt to force Sharia on the rest of the world under threat of death ... even in the United States.
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- March 6, 2021
- The Michelangelo Virus of 1991
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I vaguely recall The Michelangelo virus. Back then I was a voracious reader of the technology journals of the day with Jim Seymour and John Dvorak authoring much of that predominating literature which passed by my desk.
This tedious exploit was discovered on it's first computer on February 4, 1991 in Australia. It was designed to infect DOS systems and did not engage or make any calls to the operating system proper. Michelangelo was a boot sector virus and operated at the BIOS level. Annualy, the virus remained dormant until March 6 which is the birthday of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
There are no references to the artist in the payload of the virus, and it is doubtful that the developer intended Michelangelo to actually be referenced to it. The name was chosen by researchers who noticed the coincidence of the activation date. The actual significance of the date to the author is unknown.
Michelangelo is a variant of the Stoned virus of 1987 which had a payload which reported Your PC is now Stoned ... Both viruses were first detected in the pacific rim region of Australia and New Zealand.
Some people are easily amused.
On March 6, if the PC was an IBM PC-AT or a PS/2, the virus overwrote the first one hundred sectors of the hard disk with nulls. The Michaelangelo virus assumed a geometry which would obfuscate the presence of existing data for any average user with no editing or removal tools.
Can you say BACKUP and RESTORE boys and girls ?
There were specific actions on hard disk subsystems and floppies.
There were admonitions for a while warning users not to run their computers on March 6. The actual mechanics of it all were much less sophisticated than payloads these days.
The Michaelangelo virus has been relegated to the past as one of those early efforts to disrupt the information age by trashing the data of a user. With the more sophisticated payloads like those triggering bitlocker and so forth we now have a need for active detection and removal such that the software manufacturers themselves often build in subsystems designed specificallly for that purpose.
Good riddance to the Michaelangelo virus; but the dirtbags and hairballs remain out there attempting other exploits for your computing persecution.
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- March 5, 2021
- I remember Billy De Wolfe
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When I was a kid there was a comedic character actor named Billy De Wolfe who I encountered on shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl, The Debbie Reynolds Show, The Doris Day Show, and of course ... Love American Style as well as a number of movies on television and other appearances and fluff pieces common to that era.
The guy was rather like John Wayne in the regard that he was pretty much the same character projecting similar mannerisms throughout his appearances and the funny part was that schtick and how recognizable it all became. He kind of grew on me over time and the older he got the more endearing he was to me personally.
William Andrew Jones aka Billy De Wolfe was an American character actor who worked from the mid 1940s through the mid 1970s. He was born on February 18, 1907 and died March 5, 1974 and was professionally engaged in films until his death.
A Massachusetts native, he was the son of a Welsh bookbinder who encouraged him to become a Baptist minister. He became interested in the theatre and found work as an usher before becoming a dancer with the Jimmy O'Connor Band.
At this point in his career he changed his last name to De Wolfe in honor of the manager of that Massachusetts theatre where he worked. He went on to tour Europe with a dance team and performed in a London revue called "Revels in Rhythm".
He was said to be a closeted homosexual by Sir John Gielgud, author David Kaufman, and The Advocate but in my mind all I recall is his art and flamboyance in those productions I watched and he was pretty entertaining. I mean just how significant is someone's sexuality when they keep their private lives to themselves anyway?
During the second World War he did a hitch in the US Navy and was discharged for medical reasons in 1944.
Billy De Wolfe died just after his 67th birthday from lung cancer at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief hospitalization.
All in all he was literally quite the character.
Rest in peace.
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- March 4, 2021
- Assuming homosexual rights
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On this day in 1998 there was a lawsuit Oncale v Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc whereby SCOTUS ruled that federal laws banning sexual harrassment on the job apply not only between men and women but also when both parties are lesbos or other fags.
While my personal preferences take precedence here I would qualify my opinion by stating that I do not hold anyone's sexuality against them and I am friends with others of various sexual proclivities and persuasions. As long as people keep their private lives or controversial opinions to themselves I have no issues with anyone ever.
The 'hitting up on' others at work has never been anything I thought to be an interesting or fruitful endeavor. When you come to work there is a need for barriers because you're there to work and not to socialize or pursue sex partners or otherwise cavort in your carnal inclinations.
It's simply unseemly and can make co workers uncomfortable.
While I am a proponent of 'to each their own' likewise I don't view this as extended to unwanted advances toward any other regardless of their sexual orientation and the thought of such antics is repugnant to my existence.
So while I don't believe in gay, transexual, or any other identity political rights of that nature I do believe in human rights. While I don't believe you should hook up with a person of your own genome nor do I believe that you can 'fake' a sexual identity via your phenome ... I absolutely do believe we should not impinge on those who wish to be left alone.
The fact that I think you are a sick bird is neither here nor there in this context.
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- March 3, 2021
- Remembering David Ogden Stiers
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David Allen Ogden Stiers October 31, 1942 – March 3, 2018 was an American theater, screen, and voice actor as well as an accomplished conductor.
He appeared on Broadway and television.
In 1977 during my Navy hitch, he was cast as Major Charles Emerson Winchester, III, M.D. on the tv show M*A*S*H.
This was both my favorite role he portrayed and I believe the one for which he is most recognized to this day.
Mr Stiers was a multi faceted talent whose performance arts set high standards and crossed boundaries of genre and style.
He also portrayed District Attorney Michael Reston in several Perry Mason television films and did a fair amount of voice acting for Disney.
He was on television on the supernatural drama series The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy who he portrayed for 5 years.
Stiers spent his later years as a conductor of the Newport Symphony Orchestra.
He passed in 2018 from the sequela of bladder cancer and with him passed an eloquent, articulate man of the world who brought his unique imprimatur to those things he embraced during his career.
And yes, he was a gd democrat. It just goes to show you that I may appreciate your talents as long as you maintain a level of good sense, tact, poise, and decorum of which most democrats are no longer capable in all their leftist libtard stupidity.
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- March 2, 2021
- Unlocked Backdoor Ajar
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I have a personal rant ... against myself regarding what is becoming an increasingly frequent problem. It seems that my door is both unlocked and ajar or simply quite ajar as to negate the value of any lock itself.
Just this morning I awoke to yet another ocurrence. I would start logging these but I fear what the records might indicate.
Luckily, though the neighborhood has certainly experienced urban decay over the years — there has been no attempt to break in (er ... push open the door) during the night. Actually, I don't think it's so much a downward curve but just a demographic shift from poor white trash to poor trash comprised of mixed nationalities
Safety is my paramount concern. I have two heavy steel doors on the front and back entrances.
What good are these if you can merely push the door open and gain entry because the door is not fully closed or worse: unlocked or unlocked and ajar as well. All of these conditions have been recent ocurrences.
Let us hope that I acquire some modicum of increased responsibility in my security efforts prior to retiring.
This way perhaps you won't read of me in the local paper falling victim to some criminal gaining entry and beating me to death or shooting me or something.
I don't understand my continued problem with all of this.
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- March 1, 2021
- National Pig Day 2021
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March 1 brings us National Pig Day, the annual event celebrating porcine specimens in the United States.
Midwestern areas of the US are primarily the focus of this event, but I know a lot of pigs in the deep south held in equally high esteem.
The holiday originated here in the US in 1972 by sisters Ellen Stanley, a teacher from Lubbock, Texas and Mary Lynne Rave who hailed from Beaufort, North Carolina.
The day is primarily a vehicle to recognize the intrinsic value of the pig ... it's intelligence and such. Unfortunately, it's primary existence consists of procreation for it's role as a food animal.
To add insult to injury the dumb asses at Smithfield sold their company to the gd chinese who now owns a US company.
We should seize all chinese assets in the US and nuke the country from orbit ... preferably while the Bidens are visiting to collect their criminal family payola.
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- February 28, 2021
- Rare Disease Day 2021
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The last day of February brings us Rare Disease Day, which is intended raise awareness for rare diseases and improve access to treatment and medical representation for families having individuals with rare diseases.
The observance began under the auspices of the European Organisation for Rare Diseases (which is now the National Organization for Rare Disorders) established in 2008 due to what was perceived as numerous rare diseases as well as those which are typically overlooked by the mainstream medical industrial complex.
The organization says that treatment modalities for rare cases is grossly inadequate as are those social and medical support networks.
The day is primarily a vehicle for promotion of support mechanisms, treatment modalities, and research on behalf of those suffering rare diseases. The National Organization for Rare Disorders claims some 200 different medical problems currently populate their list.
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- February 27, 2021
- International Polar Bear Day 2021
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The polar bear is a large white bear which is indigeneous to the arctic regions of the world.
The animal is anthropomorphized and used in various commercial spots for coke until they decided to go all libtard stupid and institute their "be less white" internal training campaign.
So much for the polar bear and coke, eh?
Today we have International Polar Bear Day.
It is a yearly event celebrated on February 27 to raise awareness about the conservation status of the polar bear.
Organized by Polar Bears International to raise awareness about the supposed impact of the global warming myth and reduced sea ice on polar bear populations.
The day would have people find ways to reduce their carbon output, such as by turning down their thermostat or driving less. It attempts to incorporate all the libtard fakery du jour regarding the world and is a picture of the morons incorporating the left in all it's stupid glory.
It has also been used to encourage the installation of energy efficient insulation in houses but that association is pretty weak in an otherwise stupid observance altogether.
It is basically a leftist libtard vehicle for circulating their stupidity at the expense of a wild animal.
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- February 26, 2021
- The Problem with Popups
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Anymore ecommerce is rife with popups admonishing you to 'stay in touch' with a vendor with whom you may not even ultimately do busines by plugging in your email address for a discount on your transaction.
The scenario involves going to a site. Looking around for quite a bit less than a minute and boom ... a popup with mailing list and superficial 'deal' offers appears in the way of what you're doing.
Now, while I'm sure some well meaning web developer is just accommodating the bidding of the client in these scenarios I for one simply close the browser with extreme prejudice on each occurrence so that they might know this behavior is unsatisfactory and will not be tolerated. After all, in ecommerce as elsewhere:
Caveat Emptor: let the buyer beware.
If they will walk on you during visits from the web they likely will treat you far worse over time.
Web sites need to be well mannered or begone !
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- February 25, 2021
- Stupidity
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There is an abundance of individuals having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense which has precipitated my resignation at work.
The local University of South Carolina recently had a senior faculty member report that degrees from that institution in the field of information technology weren't worth the paper they're written on because the curriculum is a failed example of higher education which doesn't know it's ass from a hole in the ground.
Given this fact you would think that a stupid so-called CIO at an incorporated municipality might realize that her ignorant contention that a 4 year degree requirement is valid might not be correct itself.
However, this is based on the contention that she were not as dumb as dirt when that likewise would be an incorrect notion. This is a stupid, skill-less bureaucrat with nothing on the ball except ensconcement in an organzation where the stupid are placed in charge of the skilled.
So the next time some stupid human being decides he or she needs to be in charge you might want to consider the trueism that a degree does not impart knowledge at any level.
I know so many people ... with Ed D degrees in particular — who are "all show and no go". Without smarts or redeeming virtue whatsoever.
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- February 24, 2021
- Memories of Don Knotts
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Don Knotts was one of those ubiquitous characters from my childhood and early adulthood.
I regret that once I attained what I mistakenly felt was maturity and sophistication that I was too complicated for his humor.
The award winning actor and comedian was born Jesse Donald Knotts on July 21, 1924 and passed on February 24, 2006 at age 81.
He is interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles; in one of those areas I once frequented in a younger "wild child" day.
He was on the Andy Griffith show as deputy Barny Fife, but also appeared all over the television with the likes of Red Skelton, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, George Burns, and of course the classic 'Mr Furley' on Three's Company as well as innumerable voice work in animations and starring in movies and such.
When he passed it was a fleeting memory of days gone by and those wistful thoughts which accompany them through the annals of my mind ...
But alas we will never return there again.
Rest in peace.
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