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April 29, 2020
Happy Birthday Jim 2020
Jimmy and Sonya
Happy Birthday Jim
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April 28, 2020
Workers Memorial Day 2020
SCDOT Workers Memorial    
Every so often you hear of some poor soul who is killed while on the clock during their workday.

Sometimes the person is known to you. Such was Ted Yandle, a student of mine who was enrolled in the SCDOT Site Manager training program at York County Tech so very long ago.

Ted was a strapping young man with dark hair, that ruddy complexion you get from being out in the sun for much of the workday, and a personality that would reach out and grab you with his patented friendly persona cultivated in the South.

Anyway, I was pretty taken with the guy and enjoyed his company and witty reparte for the week.

That happy family man that he was shone through the days we worked together.

I was dismayed to learn that he was struck from behind by a young man driving under the influence on August 16, 2001 while Ted was working the Peak exit.

My mood became solemn for several months after receiving the news. Thoughts of his two daughters and the rest of his family and their great loss punctuated my days long afterward.

Today is Workers Memorial Day aka International Workers Memorial Day aka International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured.

It is held internationally each year on April 28 and is a day of remembrance and action for workers killed disabled, injured, or made unwell by their work.

Canada observes the day as the National Day of Mourning.

So on this day I hope you'll remember Mr Ted C Yandle, his widow, and two daughters. He was a happy proud husband and father, a good man, and he should still be here.

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April 27, 2020
Server Downtime
    Intel SSD
Alas, the web server went down hard when the SSD failed. It seems that there are a finite number of rewrites on an SSD and I had reached that threshold over the extent of the disk ...

Likely due to firewall reconfigurations.

Anyway, after collecting my stuff and provisioning for linux access on windoze 10 so I could retrieve a few items after the fact we're back up on a new drive new installs and newly restored scripting and data.

The frustration level never rose above ... oh 6.5 or so I guess.

Anyway, it was a good tough exercise in DR and I passed.

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April 26, 2020
World Intellectual Property Day 2020
intellectual property    
Once upon a time I had intellectual property.

Massive documentation projects that took me hours to produce and refine. Illustrations included which were even more difficult than the text.

Stolen by my "so called" director who put her own copyright on my stuff ... just because I worked there.

Intellectual property is work or invention derived from creativity like manuscripts or designs to which rights may be applied via patent, copyright, trademarks and so forth ...

Today is World Intellectual Property Day.

Observed each year it is meant to raise awareness of how protection mechanisms like patents, trademarks, copyrights, and such are valuable additions to society and the creation of properties which are more abstract than might be usual in the workplace.

People will rob you blind when they think they own you.

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April 25, 2020
DNA Day 2020
    DNA
It's National DNA Day, a US holiday celebrated on April 25 commemorating the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA.

Whereas the day is about the discovery ... the facts and science of DNA as it relates to human existence is largely behind the scenes.

We have companies which engage in mass karyotyping of human DNA sequencing but alas, according to PEW Research, they share data among each other.

Also, it is foolhardy to think that this information might never be used against those from whom the samples are derived when it comes to insurance, treatments, and more or worse.

Given the unscrupulous and immoral nature of the United States since the advent of the National Security Act which enabled the country to do whatever it likes in the supposed name of "national security" — confiscation, incarceration, and even murder you are much better off avoiding these surreptitious incursions into your privacy.

We are not the nice people a lot of us think we are.

DNA deoxyribonucleic acid, a fundamental component of nearly all living organisms is the main constituent of chromosomes which bear the genetic information for living things.

The ersatz so-called "trans" individuals are attempting to attribute validity to "how they feel" saying that men can be women and women can be men fall outside the configuration mechanisms which exist for sex assignment as a human being.

The bottom line is your genetic makeup determines your sex as a person and what you "think" doesn't even matter in the actual equation.

With the democratic party gone bat crap crazy and the deep state and shadow government needing removal by any means necessary it's bad enough that we've become evil as a country.

We don't need to cultivate stupidity at the 'transsexual' level as well.

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April 24, 2020
Arbor Day 2020
tree of many colors    
Trees have been special to me since about the seventh grade when Mrs Martha Robinson at Horace O'Bryant Junior High School in Key West, Florida had be stand beside my desk and recite the poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer.

I considered the imagery.

I looked at the photo of this rough soldier in uniform with gigantic hands and the same name as my mother.

I thought about the farm in Salley, South Carolina nestled in trees and my grandmother Ida and how much I loved and missed her.

Finally I thought about what trees do with their provision of shade and cleansing of the air via their method of respiration.

So today is Arbor Day 2020.

Go out and plant and dedicate a tree to someone who is special to you.

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April 23, 2020
The Great fireWall of China 2020
    firewall

So I just completed firewalling the entirety of China proper.

This is a geographic based IP exclusion and does not include all of the various subnets they've purchased on networks outside their country because so many people hate their lying ass Wuhan COVID-19 coronavirus guts.

I am actively pursuing those networks supplying them access outside of China and firewalling them along and along.

The subnets are many and the complicient ISPs can run, but they can't hide.
 

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April 22, 2020
Earth Day 2020
Earth, North America    

Yeah it's another Earth Day. Time for the whack jobs to come out in full force and spout a lot of unscientific nonsense making claims which simply aren't real.

So while you all gather around Greta Thunberg as she goes off on another globalist idiotic rant I hope you'll take a moment to consider just what she's saying and what her qualifications are.

Using an individual with a sophomoric world view is pretty much the hallmark of the leftists anymore and as such we should reject both them and their claims.

The general consensus is that we are headed for another ice age instead of a continuous global warming that is being the present hysteria driven false science propagated to the ignorant masses.

Brief warming then extended cold.

Educational institutions are becoming renoun for their applications of false science in the name of twisting the public's opinion via false information.

There was Harvard University's bought nutrition propaganda which ruined the food industry.

We have teachers touting how boys can have babies and girls can impregnate as long as this is "how you feel".

There was Colorado's "Condon Committee" which did nothing except promote false information regarding celestial events. The government still refers people to these lies for information regarding close in astronomical phenomina.

At some point the pursuit of profit needs to take second seat to the pursuit of science. This simply does not happen in the United States due to the nature of our failed educational institutions.
 

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April 21, 2020
Yom HaShoah 2020
We Remember - Never Forget   
   Oskar Schindler
Today is Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day; aka Yom HaShoah.

It is observed by Israel and the Jewish diaspora to honor the heroes of the holocaust.

Those like Oskar Schindler, "righteous of the nations". I wonder just how many realize the honor of that designation by the entirety of the Jews of the world.

It's mind boggling. Then to be the only member of the nazi party to be afforded the right of burial on Mount Zion. I would be immeasurably honored to be held in a small fraction of such esteem.

So I am relegated to the rest of the gentiles who are not holocaust deniers who simply note:

We Remember.
Never forget.

On this day the Jewish of the world note the six million or so of their people who perished horribly at the hands of the Third Reich in World War II. The actions of Nazi Germany and it's collaborators are called to answer for their crimes against so many innocents for whom they had no mercy.

The day also notes the Jewish resistance for that period and the fact that many chose not to go quietly into the night but fought their oppressors to the bitter end.

The first official commemoration took place in 1951 and the day became codified into Israeli law in 1959.

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April 20, 2020
Four Twenty (420) Many Years Later
cannabis leaf
Back in my youth and young adulthood I consumed marijuana as a manifestation of the socialization which results from the peer culture into which I had naturally become immersed as a function of 'being like others'.

Yes ... but another poor choice of many over the years which became the hallmark of my life up to a point.

Anyway, all of this was contemporaneous with the now famous San Rafael California moniker for 'cannabis consumption' called 420 (four twenty) marking the 4:20 PM meeting time a group of local high school harrys got together to "smoke dope" and comiserate as "heads".

I must admit that some marijuana was (much) better than others and those excellent samples lead to paranoia while behind the wheel among other manifestations of legality viz a viz indulgence.

So the deliberate consumption of an illegal plant material leads to speaking in code such as 420 to symbolize that which might not be outwardly spoken as contrary to mores of the day.

Nowadays '420 friendly' means you tolerate marijuana consumption quite well in your presence. Though I do, I really pursue other company these days since I no longer personally use cannabis as a matter of personal preference.

Not one to encroach on the personal freedoms of others, as I said earlier this week my attitude towards such things remains "to each their own".

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April 19, 2020
The American Revolution begins in 1775
Battles of Lexington and Concord

Back in the late 1980s I spent a bit of time in Bedford, Massachusetts pursuing ATEX computer training. The town of Lexington lay just to the southwest and the town of Concord lay just to the southeast.

I wasn't aware of the historical significance of this area until my good friend the late Jerry Landry of Saltrock Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts brought it all to my attention.

He was quite the history and militaria buff in a time when I had little interest for either.

Staying at the Lord Bedford hotel was much more interesting in the the billowing snowflakes thereafter ...

On this day in 1775 the battles of Lexington and Concord became the first military battles of the American Revolutionary War.

The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (now called Arlington), and Cambridge.

I was there many years after the fact.

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April 18, 2020
International Day For Monuments and Sites 2020
Confederate Flag atop the Statehouse Dome    

There is a group of historical revisionist miscreants out to remove various Confederate memorials and statuary as well as paintings and such from the face of the earth in an effort to supposedly erase past events from the annals of history.

Toward this end, the SC legislature voted to remove the Confederate flag from atop the statehouse dome and replace it with a flag on a flagpole in front of the Capitol as a monument.

This contingency was associated with a strong element of non South Carolinians who demonstrated along with the Confederate Supporters at the State House several times ... and the exchanges were heated and many. There was even a demonstration by the KKK who really didn't help the case at all and were a public embarassment to me personally with their nazi salute and ridiculous uniforms.

Dylan Roof likewise didn't help matters with his unsophisticated grasp of white supremacy and stupid inapproprate utilization of the Confederate flag as an emblem to represent murder of those who would welcome him into their religious fold and as such I await his execution as a means to end the single darkest chapter of the entire Confederate Flag mess which unfolded upon the rest of us unanticipated.

Of course the damn yankees, stupid democrats, foreign nationals elected to public office, and leftist libtards ignorant of the historical significance of the flag and without ancestors who died fighting under that flag were all for it.

A 2/3 traitor majority in both houses of the legislature allowed for the complete removal so the enemies of the South prevailed in the absense of any true Southern champion for prevention.

The flag was given to the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.

Gone, but never forgotten.

I really don't care what others may think of the that symbology which is the Confederate Flag.

It is simply a part of our history which will not be ripped from the fabric of those annals which record it, good or bad and right or wrong.

It's a part of my personal heritage and cannot be removed from me by some revisionist out to fake history like so much fake news and fakery everywhere since the the world went mad and right became wrong and good became bad and what is became what never was.

History may be written by the victors ... but you cannot change written history regardless of how many libtard educators you allow in your failed education system.
 

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April 17, 2020
COVID-19, Restrictions, Nazi Mayors and Governors, and Me
    COVID-19 Wuhan Chinese Coronavirus
Well, we've been in all this mess for a month now. I'm pretty tired of all of it. I am not unsympathetic for those suffering the effects of the virus.

I just don't feel that those lying ass culprets responsible for loosing this contageon on the world are being held accountable.

I suppose I wouldn't be happy unless we nuke Beijing anyway and I really don't see that happening.

We could capture Xi Jinping and drag him naked across the entirety of the United States ... but then some leftist libtard like Oprah would want to capitalize with a television special or something.

The bottom line here is that juxtaposition of duality whereby we have a responsibility for health and a responsibility for the adequate maintenance of business practices.

I say we need to get back to business. I haven't suffered any ill effects and this may be an unrealistic position for that reason.

The bottom line is the longer we curtail commerce the worse it will be us in the end. What is the use of a lot of addition lives saved if they starve to death or end up otherwise dragging us down.

Stay at home orders pale in the presence of financial destitution. This is what is happening. We cannot keep on bailing out business as though some never ending fountain of cash spews from Washington DC's ass ... because it doesn't.

Then we have the opportunistic bottom feeding democrats trying to make the population dependent on government by subterfuge. This is playing to the diabolical plans of the Pelosis, the Schiffs, the Schumers, the Nadlers, the gd Obamas, Bill Gates and his old lady who think they know all things, and of course the nazi Gretchen Whitmer as well as the public office monetizing Clintons with their buddies the traitor Bush clan.

We can't let these bad guys win. It's becoming a matter of rolling the dice and getting on with it. Start living or start dying. The choice is ours. We need to get back to work and stop squandering resources in the form of stimulus wastes of money.

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April 16, 2020
World Voice Day 2020
mouth speaking

    
When I was young I had a good singing voice. Like everything else in my life I squandered it over various immediate gratifications and supposed embarassments and as such I got precisely what I deserved regarding it which was nothing.

It's a difficult matter to cultivate things which do not fit into a given lifestyle and artistic pursuits by a child simply fell too low on the list of practicalities viz a viz the requirements of those activities of daily living.

Today is World Voice Day (WVD). Held each year it is an international event devoted to the celebration and conceptualize voice as it relates to communication.

Voice is said to be that sound produced in a person's larynx and uttered through the mouth as speech or song enabling expression of opinions, attitudes, or art.

So matters included span the gamut of voice health, prevention of problems with the voice, voice rehabilitation when necessary, training of the artistic voice and the list goes on inclusive of just about any aspect of voice, it's function, those who command voice to achieve effective communication at any level.

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