There are selfish acts all over the world these days. There are also a myriad selfless acts as well.

Today is Random Act of Kindess day which is said to originate from a term "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" coined by writer and editor Anne Herbert on a place mat in 1982-1983 at a restaurant just to the North of San Francisco in Sausalito, California.

The day became officially observed in New Zealand in 2004 and it is held on September 1 there. It is observed on February 17 here in the United States. Regardless of how or when you observe it that notion of spreading kindness is appropriate universally.

I sometimes reach out to touch others in an anonymous fashion; such as helping out someone I don't really know when they may be having difficult times ... or even kind words penned into an obituary guest book.

Whether you call it altruism, 'paying it forward', or even kindess or being a 'good Samaritan', We who try to assist and lend good cheer to others indulge this notion of the "random act of kindess".

Now if I could only cough up a little senseless beauty to go with it all ...
 

Gorp is a mixture of high-energy foods typically including dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, and seeds consumed either as a snack or remotely as a primary sustenance. Loosely, this term may be applied to "trail mix" which is essentially the same thing.

My first encounter with gorp was a trip to the Chatooga River where I consumed it with great gusto having arrived with little in the way of funds and stayed pretty much starving the entire time. Still, I wanted to make the trip so I went with no money like the fool that I was at that time.

Today is National Trail Mix Day in the United States. It is a time to consider or possibly enjoy that high energy snack called trail mix.

It now comes in a variety of mixtures and is more or less healthy depending on what you combine to make it. Me ... I enjoy the large unsalted nuts and dried fruit combinations.

Others prefer the more indulgent varieties which include chocolate and other sweets in the mix. Regardless, it's a fine way to stave of hunger ... regardless of how it occurs.

Happy National Trail Mix Day to you. Trail mix is gorp. Gorp is trail mix.
 

Facebook, Google, Twitter and all those other things leftist and manipulative on the internet are going to get theirs.

There are a new bunch of tech people on the horizon who will blockchain their way into a new internet and supplant the wussies and their deviant scripting to the point that the bums will be thrown out due to their inability to do anything about this rising tide.

Zuckerberg, Pichai, Sandberg, Dorsey, and the rest of the egocentric and self agrandizing clods obviously don't anticipate the things I feel are coming down the pipe. They are too busy trying to control how you think and your very attitudes ... while you let them.

As for me ... I'm just biding my time until I can get a fix on search engines which are really that and not some advertising company selling positions in results like google.

Those other social media outlets cook the books controlling their operations and they too will begin to decline.

I can already taste those ad revenues diminishing.

You're gonna get what's coming to ya. Better hope you get your own project paperclip technobuttholes.
 

I eat a lot of bananas. I enjoy the fruit straight from the peel or cut up in cereal and banana nut bread is one of my all time favorite treats from way back now.

Today is National Banana Lovers Day. The day celebrates what is said to be the most popular fruit in the United States — as well as one of the most popular fruits internationally.

Bananas are fruit produced by several kind of plants in the genus Musa, large herbacious plants indigenious to tropical climates.

The typical table banana in the United States is the Cavendish. Unfortunately, it is being affected by a new strain of what was formerly called "Panama Disease" called "Tropical Race 4" or simply TR4.

Happy National Banana Lovers Day. I hope that we overcome this TR4 illness from which those plants suffer and get to enjoy the fruit for many years to come.
 

You. You and your socially networked exquisitely trackable self are being profiled with dossier for sale to various others in that ether which is the internet without your permission and beyond your control.

That anonymity you may think is there is less in your purview than the scads of others monitoring your presence here there and everywhere across the web.

I took a rare foray into mainstream news television one night and watched most of a piece on CBS 60 Minutes regarding data privacy which was fairly congruent with my research on the topic of data mining and while disturbing it left me feeling glad that I've been harsh regarding the topic and perpetrators of what should be more than "just regulated" ... but a CRIME all along. They even had a followup piece on exploit prevention.

In a word, data brokers are why there are no ads here. They are why I routinely block data centers harboring these scumbags.

They are why I utilize heavy duty encryption on my mail server. They are why I scour the whois database and keep current on the user agents out there to the best of my ability. They are why I script my web server and control who gets to it and how they may access it's content. They are why this IP address is so exclusionary. It's a mean internet out there and so many of you are SUCH totally easy pickings. Nothing makes me shudder quicker than to see my mother on Facebook looking at all the others routine display of themselves.

Though I do realize that a certain number seek some sort of "digital fame" and others simply "don't care"; I decline to be an active participant and wish to retain a certain amount of mystique regarding myself and those who use my network.

Good luck to you in your pursuit of maintaining your privacy out there in the global electronic data mine — if that's what you want. What's the catch? YOU.
 

Back in the 70s through the 90s I dined a fair amount at Waffle House with my late friend Dewitt. I think it was a combination of the coffee and the consistent food offerings ... like the waffles which were a personal favorite along with the double pork chop plate.

Anyway... nowadays I seldom consume waffles and really can't tell you when I last dined upon one. And that is one of those wistful consequences of losing Dewitt back in 1997 and all those things we enjoyed together until he became interested in the Marine Corps League.
 

So today we have a Swedish celebration called Waffle Day. They celebrate it on the 25th of March. We observe it on the 24th of August because it corresponds to some patent on a widely used waffle iron here.

In India they celebrate National Waffle Day on July 19. So the day does indeed vary.

Be all of this as it may I have been one to enjoy the waffle with all those things that go with it such as the butter, syrup, and perhaps fruit and/or nuts.

I have a waffle iron and may just break it out and cook me one soon. There are worse things to eat and believe me I consume them frequently anymore.

Happy Waffle Day to you !