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- November 10, 2018
- You turn around and you're old ...
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I spent a large part of Saturday rearranging various items in my environment in pursuit of that elusive feng shui nirvana I can never seem to attain.Old
Having lived or existed for a long time; old. that which has been subjected to aging.
synonyms: elderly, ancient, mature, senior, hoary, senescent, advanced in years, Dave
antonyms: young
During the course of the festivities I found myself seated at my workstation in it's new location and happened to take a random gander at the one of the several mirrors attached to various walls in my vicinity.
Lo and behold, but what did I see. This white haired jelly belly santa claus in civies looking fellow all stout and pout pecking away at that luxury backlit keyboard like they weren't going to make any more of them.
The striking clarity of the moment involved how old I appeared to myself inasmuch as "you're as old as you feel" so they say ... I never felt too old until that first gaze into the codger I have become.
The irony surrounds not realizing it's happening while it's going on — THEN the personal shock value of that particular destination STILL remains. Alas, I am old. "Middle aged", hell. Real old. It was all of a sudden I turned around and I'm old. Older than dirt. Older than paper. Older than matches. Older than fire.
Shoot. I remember when I was the youngest spring chicken in the office — for what seemed like years and years on end.
Where did all the years go?
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- November 9, 2018
- World Freedom Day 2018
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Since 2001 each November 9th is a federal observance commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communist rule in eastern and central europe.
It was declared by then President George Walker Bush ... who ironically is the son of the "New World Order" traitor George Herbert Walker Bush.
He proclaimed the Agenda 21 "New World Order" to us when he was president with the aim of the entirety of our populace becoming subserviant minions of the United Nations. As if we would simply go quietly into the night like all the victims of his other Nazi predecessors.
This included submitting to "sustainable" population controls where we kill people under the auspices of FEMA and the UN after they do away with our constitutional rights such as The Second Ammendment.
Imagine this guy proclaiming anything containing the notion of freedom.
Happy World Freedom Day anyway.
Walk softly and carry a number of powerful concealed weapons.
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- November 8, 2018
- World Urbanism Day 2018
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World Urbanism Day aka "World Town Planning Day" began in 1949 and was founded by the late Professor Carlos Maria della Paolera who worked for University of Buenos Aires.
It is meant to advance public and professional interest in urban planning and is observed internationally in 30 countries on November the 8th.
World Urbanism Day provides a vehicle for the examination of planning from a global perspective and therein lay my only problem with it.
The Nationalist in me wants all the city planners like Barack Obama and his ilk to stay out of my government like the unqualified muslim foreigner married to a dude he is.
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- November 7, 2018
- King Kong Bundy
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It's not often you will encounter a figure imposing as King Kong Bundy.
After watching him in a few films and wrestling expositions on teevee I briefly followed him during his 300 consecutive victories when he suffered quite the theatrical beatdown of a brawl with Terry "Hulk" Hogan thereby losing the World Wrestling Federation World's Heavyweight Championship.
Now look, I'm not one of these wrestling afficinados like I was back in my childhood over at Mortimo Gleaton's house in Perry watching all the wrestling on Saturdays with him and his son Ricky so very long ago.
But back in the day I WAS a believer ...
Born Christopher Alan Pallies he is now retired from professional wrestling and likewise remains finished with the acting and stand-up comedy for which he has been known. He probably doesn't miss the steel cage matches and their imposing tests of endurance.
Regardless, this is no ordinary man. Happy Birthday Christopher Pallies !.
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- November 6, 2018
- I Voted in the Midterms of 2018
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- November 5, 2018
- Tough Times Don't Last ...
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Today saw the resolution of an extremely difficult problem at work. It required a team effort and though the struggle was insufferable at times we saw the issues through and have recovered from them.
It's an easy matter to curse the darkness rather than light a candle and when those trying times arrive — as they always do — we should determine and address the problems as we on our team did rather than affix blame ... which was all mine I might add.
Tough Times Don't Last ... Tough People Do.
Today was a good day. A satisfying day. A day which reveals the nature of that who we are, the techs on duty with a job to do — despite the wussy irrelevant vendor support we received.
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- November 5, 2018
- Vote Republican
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- November 4, 2018
- Politicians DON'T know me
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I was amused at cnet's article regarding Midterm elections: How politicians know exactly how you’re going to vote
It is attributed to the "political data industry" whereby data brokers acquire voter registration information which they subsequently sell to any number of buyers.
While I admit that they may glean certain things from this information; I decline to provide a lot of stuff they may want to get a hold of otherwise.
My obfuscated presence on the internet with vpns and firewalls, and hyperencrypted bus elements simply don't provide the level of information harvesting they can get from someone like some idiot facebook user who tells everything they know without even realizing it.
Yes, I shun social media primarily for those data harvesting tidbits rife with disguised apps which access your contact lists and profile elements proving you're the buffoon that you are.
But I don't stop there. I have also initiated a false information distribution of my own to prevent that information which does seep through the cracks making sure it is largely either incorrect or meaningless.
As evidenced by the inaccuracy of my personal information offered by the vendors of such information to the web using public I would say that I'm pretty darn effective at keeping them from who I am and what I'm really all about.
Suffice it to say that you sheeples need a lot more privacy than you're getting.
You trust those who are untrustworthy and therein lay your problem.
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, et al are in your business and you can't even stop them because you don't choose to recognize the ramifications.
Luckily this blog is about the only place a person may get to know me. Those for whom it is written read it. I firewalled google for their misbehavior and I am no longer looking for any audience whatsoever.
Too many place too much online. I'm not for sale and I can keep you out of my business effectively.
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- November 3, 2018
- National Cliche Day 2018
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In writing one of those things you are supposed to steer clear of are cliches — those trite overused phrases which allegedly illustrate a fundamental lack of original thinking ...
Today is National Cliche Day; that day set aside for these tidbits lacking originality. One thing you can say for me is I don't fear their use and actually enjoy the pun and other manifestations of cliche in writing; but I am definitely one of those eccentric originals who would never be mistaken as "being cliche" as I am far enough "outside the box" to be in orbit to paraphrase my friend Corey.cli·ché
/klēˈSHā/
a phrase or opinion considered to be overused or betraying some lack of original thinking
old saying, trite phrase, banality, platitude, hackneyed phrase, stock phrase, maxim, truism
However, this being said I sometimes go for days without uttering a single cliche and this may well happen today.
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- November 2, 2018
- International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2018
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That worthlessness called the United Nations is observing The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
This happens each November second, the day supposedly directs the world's attention on the plight of the journalist ... whose murder may go totally unchallenged and without adequate investigation or prosecution.
As ususal, the UN is impotent to do anything about these matters because they don't involve Agenda 21 or their other underhanded directives toward a global one rule government with the leadership in Belgium and THEM as the enforcers (of course).
If they can't trod on the freedom of the world and dismantle national governments they simply can't be bothered. They think we're just going to walk into the night like the victims did for the earlier Nazi's of the third reich.
Consistent corruption, illegal activities, and bad judgement calls internationally are the hallmark of this failure in world domination. The New World Order they propose is simply that culmination of elitist mind farts such as those of the Bushs, Clintons, and Obamas of the world.
A lot of good the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists did for Jamal Khashoggi the journalist who met a henious death which included drugging and dismemberment while still alive in the consulate of a sovereign nation.
For sure, the Saudi government is unlikely to fall victim to Agenda 21 and the rest of the nonsense propagated by the United Nations lest they all wind up similarly.
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- November 1, 2018
- World Vegan Day 2018
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Today is World Vegan Day and celebrates 'vegans' that subset of vegarians who omit all animal products from their diet with some going further as to refraining from using any animal products whatsoever even clothing items made of leather or wool.
Okay. I'm all for the vegan lifestyle.
I am convinced that it is healthy second to none because it eliminates most of the useless fat and other food residues which are part and parcel to consuming that lovely cut of meat of which I am so fond.
The day was founded in 1994 by adherent one Louise Wallis who was then chair of a thing known as "The Vegan Society" and the entire observance is a series of presentations and of course potlucks and feasting ... vegan of course.
As for me, I remain a carnivore and while I do not thrust this on anyone for any reason I will likely continue my penchant for all types of meat products until my arteries finally clog over and I kick the bucket from all those lifestyle diseases I will acquire as the result of this practice.
Happy World Vegan Day to you. I envy you vegans for your ability to enjoy vegetables to the extent that you can.
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- October 31, 2018
- Halloween 2018
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- October 30, 2018
- I watched Bicentennial Man again
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Since the death of Robin Williams I have been having difficulty watching his work on the television. Just yesterday I viewed my bluray of Bicentennial Man after a long while of avoiding it intentionally.
Somehow, the melancholy of his passing infuses me with a sadness still after all this time.
Robin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Born in Chicago. An improvisational virtuoso, he first caught my eye listening to Throbbing Python of Love ... a stand up comedy recording available at the local Tower Records in El Toro, California where I resided.
Robin Williams
July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014
He had a long career on television and film. He was accessible to his fans who typically got a great shot of him smiling in their selfie and what not ...
He died at has own hand after cancellation of his television series and a recent diagnosis of Lewy body dementia.
Oh the humanity ... and now all we have are those parts he portrayed and the clips from appearances and such.
August 11, 2014 was the date of a personal tragedy for me when he decided he could not go on.
Those thoughts of who he was and all he did pass through my mind from time to time.
Sometimes it's difficult to fathom that nobody could make a difference for him and therein lay what hurts for me.
If I could have intervened I would have but alas, I was not even in his sphere of existence other than through the media he frequented during his lifetime.
The "what if's" and "if onlys" plague me to this day.
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- October 29, 2018
- International Internet Day 2018
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Each 29th of October we celebrate International Internet Day in commemoration of the first electronic communication between two computers in 1969.
The user was a student programmer named Charley Kline.
The supervisor was Professor Leonard Kleinrock.
The point of origin was a SDS Sigma 7 machine located at UCLA.
The destination was a SDS 940 at the Stanford Research Institute.
From those humble DARPAnet beginnings the internet has evolved into the fairly high tech smattering of computers across the planet.
I have three fully connected servers on the 5 node 300 megabit per second network at my place and work with a bunch more servers and workstations I use as a function of my day job.
Ah, my life would have turned out much differently were it not for this plan B and the ability to do something I never intended to pursue as a career. Not to mention my late step dads recognition of "the right stuff" for a cushy coding gig when he saw it while everyone else was saying "nay" !
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