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May 28, 2019
tor network rejections remain steady
binary fist    

Tor is freeware that enables anonymous communication on networks. It routes traffic over a free international network with relays all over that conceal a user location and blocks identity from those networks upon which their users might tread.

I have specific policies in place whereby access from tor networks is forbidden on my stuff. I have rules in place to assure this at several levels:

Firewall rules block subnets known to me.
Web server rules catch the bulk of the rest.

Very few tor networks escape this redundancy but I notice that the trickle of tor user access attempts haven't abated over the years to the point that I've stopped that bulk of block attempts in favor of letting the existing infrastructure handle the problem.

I'm not so much against anonymous access as I am those exploits too many tor users choose to attempt at my expense.

Sorry, but I'm all done being a sucker for web traffic and I'm happy to block anyone and everyone including google and anyone else out to exploit my sites.

No one else is going to make me their bitch. I don't care who you are.
 

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May 27, 2019
Memorial Day 2019
Memorial Day 2019
Dad    
    Stepdad
Memorial Day is back with it's marking those lives lost in service to the country. Though it is the unofficial start of Summer; we're already there with most high temperatures in the low 100s already.

My plans include visiting Fort Jackson National Cemetery to pay my respects to my late stepfather. I would also like to travel to Salley SC to visit the grave of my daddy as well.

It's a more somber time than it was in my childhood having lost sigificant numbers of family and friends with military backgrounds.

It doesn't hurt emotionally as much as it has at various times in the past.

Happy Memorial Day

Tags: holidays, endings
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May 26, 2019
Nadler Looks Rough in Press Conference
    Nadler craps out during press conferenc

Delusional chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler appeared weak and looked like he was going down for the count at a presser held by equally hallucinating moron New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Friday morning in Manhattan.

I suppose the stress of spouting the democrat standard bullcrap is starting to wear on his psyche because he looked really bad at the fete.

There's something about that realization that everything you're doing is a facade devoid of reality which can become toxic.

Sometimes it's better for a human to step back and perhaps discard that lack of reality in their lives.

Losing the fantasy aspects in much of my own life did wonders for me.
 

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May 26, 2019
National Paper Airplane Day 2019
paper airplane

I'm sorry to say that I haven't made a paper airplane since well before the last time I spoke about this subject.

While aerodynamics and creativity are stimulating concerns I'm afraid the workaday world simply does not provide enough time otherwise for these pursuits.

National Paper Airplane Day is one of many observances and is observed each May 26 in the US in commemoriation of these home made toys tossed in elementary schools since time immemorial.

There are even competitions involving the creation and flying of paper airplanes with recorded statistics for posterity.

Not to knock it all, but there simply aren't enough hours in a day.
 

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May 25, 2019
Geek Pride Day 2019
propellerhead
The word 'geek' has undergone some evolution over the recent past, i.e., during my lifetime. Early on the reference was to social ineptitude or being clumsy and/or possessing distressing social habits.

There were circus freaks labeled as 'geeks' for the horrors they imparted as part of those theatrics meant to repulse the paying customers coming to see them.

Later that parlance evolved into describing others who are accomplished in science or technology ... but retaining the aforementioned social ineptitude.

Be all of this as it may, I was always rejected for being the fat new kid with acne and as such nobody really cared anything about my abilities or lack thereof.

Flash foward to Geek Pride Day.

This celebration of geek culture has never really been my cup of tea, though I am completely immersed in that environment which causes it's existential aspects and have been so for the entirety of my career. The thing originates in Spain back in 2006 and was propagated by the internet into that which exists presently.

A number of technophiles were instrumental in the startup of Geek Pride Day and though some really are into it to a fault; personally I always preferred a paycheck to be my primary source of pride and I'm afraid that the pursuit of the almighty dollar has been my personal motivator throughout my evolution as the consumate subject matter expert and therefore "geek" I am today.

I care not for fifth avenue parades featuring floats centered around prime numbers nor even the Big Bang Theory even though I watched up to the time they became too complicated and tedious with their various love interests and/or whiny lack thereof.

Suffice it to say, I'm a geek and I'm proud — but not for those reasons which might first come to mind.


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May 24, 2019
Staycation for Memorial Day
staycation too

I'm off for the long weekend. In fact, I stretched it out from 3 to 10 days. It's a difficult matter to contend with everything going on anymore so I'm needing additional down time to recoup my losses of serenity and calm.

This is my second staycation in the recent past.

I don't really have any plans for Memorial Day itself. I think I might visit my father and step father's graves to pay my respects but that's about it.

I'm also probably going to release a little bug spray around the house. Not that there's a problem but I don't want one either. I usually pick a day when I will be out a long while.
 

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May 23, 2019
World Turtle Day 2019
    Tortoise
I have a "catch and release" attitude towards turtles I encounter on the roads. I will typically place them in the bed of my truck and relocate them to a suitable habitat for release.

I never see them again, but feel confident that those woodland and waterway areas are much better than the asphalt from which I retrieved these animals.

Today is World Turtle Day is observed annually under the auspices of the American Tortoise Rescue.

The day is meant to:

  bring attention to turtles and tortoises
  increase knowledge of and respect for turtles and tortoises
  help turtles and tortoises survive and thrive

The day is marked internationally in various ways primarily in schools.

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May 22, 2019
World Goth Day 2019
goths jason lavitt and friends    
I don't have any goth friends. I have had a few goth acquaintances over the years. The bottom line is I feel it's more of a fashion statement — although some practice a decidedly wiccan subculture with spells and other crap they sometimes take to heart and truly believe influences the world around them.

By and large though I have felt it all to be primarily a show mechanism to bring attention to those individuals who obviously were insufficiently breast fed while infants ... or something there abouts.

Today is World Goth Day. There is an "official" site which says it is "a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world."

Originating in the United Kingdom in 2009 it was a subculture vehicle which blossomed into it's own identity for indeed, there are a lot of practicing goths on the planet. This tradition has a continuum with what are now international boundaries revealing much about who we are as people ... and those many 'hings' which become our 'things'.

In 2019 there will be some 50 events internationally celebrating World Goth Day.

I think its fine. Everybody needs something. This is the goth's thing.

Tags: people, places, things, world
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May 21, 2019
Diversity Day 2019
   Diversity Day

Today is "Diversity Day" aka "The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development" a UN response to the destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan in Afghanistan in 2001.

While that act did indeed infuriate me personally, I have since come to know that underhanded thing called the UN and their goal to control all countries of the world and as globalism slowly dies this painful death reality is placing upon it all I can say is GET US OUT OF THE UN.

The promotion of diversity issues is a passe pursuit in the vein of identity politics and seeks to control freedom of speech and other aspects of the Bill of Rights in favor or some populist mythology like "transgenderism" and "sustainability".

While they view it as an opportunity to help communities understand the value of cultural diversity and learn how to live together in harmony I personally fail to see the value of a lot of others trying to seize control of my country and my life.

Diversity is fine when it happens. We neither need a catalyst nor regulations to control how we interact with others not like us.

I grew up in a Navy family which was colorblind.

My father never was one to speak harshly of other races in my presence.

I don't need the UN trying to teach me anything nor do I want it interfering in my government at any level.

I'd just as soon they moved somewhere else with their meddling.
 

Tags: people, world
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May 20, 2019
Remembering Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker
May 20, 1944 – December 22 2014
John Robert Cocker, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire aka Joe Cocker, was an English singer known for his gritty renditions of orignal and popular music featuring spasmodic movements and gesticulations during performances.

I recall seeing him on stage after a long hiatus wherein I noticed that elements of his performance resembled some manner of physical recovery.

I entertained the idea of researching it — but his sincerity and happiness with the audience curtailed that ... for in the end all we get to be is who we are and it is those moments when our personal lights shine that we become truly relevant in the scheme of eternity.

So Joe Cocker passed in December some 4 years back and I sometimes look at that grandaddyesque later visage and compare it to that riff belting dynamo he was in a younger day.

How great a life it must have been to be allowed to traverse that performance spectrum available to him alone.

A true original in this world of cheap knock offs.

Rest in peace.

Tags: people, endings
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May 19, 2019
Hepatitis Testing Day in the United States 2019
It's hepatitis testing day in the United States. Where as I once thought there to be only 3 types of hepatitis:

Human Liver
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C

I now know there are numerous variants and types based on the origins and effects of the disease on the affected individual.

Suffice it to say that the mild case of Hepatitis A I got some 20 years back is small stuff compared to many of the other varieties I could contract and I am lucky in that regard.

However, being positive for the Hepatitis A Antibody pretty much precludes me from ever donating blood again as I am "tainted for life" as it were. I have read literature stating that some sluff off the antibodies over time but I simply don't feel that lucky.

Anyway, if you suspect you may have risk factors or symptoms you should get tested. My testing happened years after the exposure and everybody thought I was making a big deal out of little to nothing.

I suppose it's okay when it's not you.

Tags: health
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May 17, 2019
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2019
basher victims    
Today is The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, aka International Day Against Fagophobia.

It is a day supposedly about international events that raise awareness of LGBT rights violations and stimulate interest in LGBT rights work worldwide.

The only problem herein is the total absence of rights for some pervert to practice under the auspices of preferential treatment.

When a drag queen can read to school children in a library because some leftist idiot thinks it's their right, someone needs to be deprived of their civil rights to respire and metabolize.

The suffix phobia is misused here. It implies a fear when the fear should be on the part of the pervert trying to force themself on the world.

While I am most definitely a 'live and let live' kind of guy and I certainly have no desire to bash anyone for who they are ...

I have issues with a group of people who want to impose their deviant lifestyles on me as though it is some supposed right which has never existed.

Identity politics your ass right on down the road.

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May 15, 2019
International Conscientious Objectors Day 2019
    limp wrist
When I was a Viet Nam era citizen of age I declared myself a "conscientious objector" in some misguided notion that it would keep me from being drafted.

Later, when I enlisted in the Navy it came up again and I had to explain myself ... even though my explanation was obviously lacking.

The bottom line here was my "objection" was more ruse than anything else, that I knew not what I was doing, and we pretty much signed a few papers and they took me anyway.

International Conscientious Objectors Day is about resisting service in the military.

There is an organization about it all which calls for "action" on militarism.

It delves into those military causes of climate change and the various other mythologies du jour being proffered by the left.

Those tenets are typically a false gospel used to indoctrinate individuals into that pitfall which is leftist ideology and the notion of taking from those who earn and giving it to those who do not.

Those pacifist aspects are simply a manifestation of failure to be a responsible citizen. Further, that cowardice and lack of conviction typically arises as part and parcel to the objector ... unless you're like my good old friend George who is no longer with us.

He simply was pissed off at everything authoritative — and I think it was likely due to all that cannabis of which he partook.

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May 14, 2019
Tim Conway RIP
Tim Conway
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway
December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019
    
Tim Conway was a comedian who did acting on television and screen, writing, and directing.

Being a part of a Navy family, I first encountered him early on in my life as he portrayed the Ensign Parker in the sitcom McHale's Navy back in the 1960s.

Later, he was a regular cast member on the The Carol Burnett Show and was hilarious in the numerous comedic sketches in which he was featured.

He also worked with Don Knotts in films of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

He also produced his own Dorf series of comedy films and did voice acting as the voice of Barnacle Boy in the SpongeBob SquarePants animated series.

He was simply one of those pillars of my lifetime who made me laugh ... sometimes at moments when there was little cause for laughter otherwise and his career was a gem of the comedic genre.

He died today at the age of 85 from normal pressure hydrocephalus and his end was more tragic due to those complications leading up to his passing which limited his ability to make decisions regarding his own healthcare.

Gee. What can you say to sum up one who has always been there for you?

Simply rest in peace until we meet again.

Tags: people, endings
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