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- March 8, 2018
- Electric Chair to return to South Carolina
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I have seen videotaped executions. I have witnessed firing squads, hangings, electrocutions, lethal injections, beheadings, and even one draw and quartering.
In all of these morbid spectacles the overlying image projected into my mind was one of intense suffering in all but one case. That case were those condemned dispatched via lethal injection.
Then the pharmaceutical industry got all self righteous saying that their product couldn't be used for executions and therein lay the beginning of the end for an attempt at humane executions.
It is my personal opinion that those states who wish to utilize lethal injection seize the patents on whatever drugs they need, preferably the trusted tried and true three drug cocktail and go about their business and the pharmaceutical industry be damned.
Besides, the state will seize any OTHER patent it chooses for whatever reason it chooses to concoct. Why not do somethig which benefits the condemned for a change.
In a move which is secondary to the pharmaceutical industry alleging that they may control the use of products bought from them, the senate of the state of South Carolia has approved the use of the electric chair in those executions where lethal injection is unavailable.
The bill was initiated by William Timmons of Greenville in an effort to ensure certainty that the sentences imposed by law are carried out and not modified by some prosecutor seeking life terms in the name of expediency.
So we will devolve to a more savage time in history just one step up from the public hangings we all enjoyed as the troglodytes we once were due to the "forward thinking" pharmaceutical industries and their attempt to enact some misguided 'virtue signaling' which simply doesn't wash in the reality of that cruel punishment which now awaits the convicted in capital cases.
These pharmaceutical social justice warriors have simply relegated those they were trying to save to a more difficult end than would have been otherwise.
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- March 7, 2018
- Lady Hands
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Yesterday in the elevator a coworker said that I had "lady hands". I would have smacked her, but we were headed to the street so that I could meet her husband.
Not being a midwife, I do not have lady's hands ... nor a lion's heart. I just have a private nature which gets violated frequently at work.
My hands lack the callouses and sandpaper rough appearance of my youth. I attribute this to hours slaving over a hot keyboard day in and day out for about 40 years now. Were I engaged as a field hand chopping cotton during the same period my hands would certainly appear differently. Everybody acts as though I apply lotion and such — and indeed, my nails could always use a trim anymore ... but I am not a 'girly man' by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't feel as though I'm making the transition to old geezer very smoothly. I'm thinking about getting a brine tub and toughening my hands up as they were in the Navy. There was certainly no mistaking them for lady hands then.
Perhaps if I put the sleeper on a couple of females in my midst they might RECOGNIZE ... Lady Hands can't cause you to wake up drooling on the floor wondering where you are.
Lord help me not to be an overly sensitive candy ass in my old age.
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- March 6, 2018
- Coming to a Windows Update near You
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Ah, I love the smell of hacked computers in the morning. It smells like exploitation.
So Windows has decided to side step the dreadfully sluggish response of hardware manufacturers to produce microcode fixes for Spectre and will utilize Intel's set right in the windows update headed toward you ... sometime.
I smell trouble. Something about kernel mode and the HAL in particular is bugging me regarding those chipset modifications ... and I'm just hoping that your fix doesn't adversely affect my motherboard.
You see, Microsoft has a well defined history of half ass approaches to everything, as evidenced by the hijack of windows 8 users to windows 10 all over the place WAY before it was ready; and I just don't trust them for a long time now.
The dual route mechanism for updating the microcode and the requirement for a "compatible" antivirus package are further hitches which may or may not affect the transition to Spectre variant 2 protection.
Luckily the skylake processor line is their initial test case so at least I won't have to be a guinea pig in the process.
Sometimes I long for the good ole CLI MS-DOS days and that simpler place in time. Maybe that's why I've clung to unix all these years.
While I indeed hope that nobody has "risen to their level of incompetence" I just have a number of trepidations regarding microcode uploads during a live update session.
It's all too anxiety provoking when I ponder the possibilities for failure. Maybe they can just burn a recovery DVD up front.
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- March 5, 2018
- Remembering Patsy Cline
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Virginia Patterson Hensley
aka Patsy Cline
aka Patsy Ginny
September 8, 1932 - March 5, 1963When I was a child Patsy Cline was a staple in that music enjoyed by my biological father. His was a rural raising and the country music scene was part and parcel of his musical enjoyment ...
'Shit-kicking music' as he called it. Others know the genre as 'the Nashville sound'.
Having been eight or so when she died in a tragic plane crash at age 30, Patsy Cline has been well known to me over the years and I once could belt out a couple of her standards in the best redneck tradition of such audiophiles.
She was also a "crossover" success in the realm of popular music.
Hers was a professional life of live performances and black and white television venues and I have met so many over the years who love her music for the clarity, range, and rich contralto tonality she imparted to her numbers.
She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame a decade after her death and the accolades have continued thereafter as well.
Rest in peace.
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- March 4, 2018
- National Grammar Day
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grammar
When I was a kid in elementary school I wasn't doing too well in much of anything, including my studies of English.
/ˈɡramər/
noun
The entirety, including system and structure of a language usually consisting of morphology, inflections, phonics, semantics, and syntax.
A particular analysis of the system and structure of language or of a specific language.
A book on grammar.
As a consequence, my mom took her adult ed books and sat me down and drilled them into me over and over — along with the requisite yelling et cetera and it was all very exciting.
The results of all of this was I became pretty fluent with an ability to write far beyond skills demonstrated in my everyday speech.
This resulted in my English teacher at Wagener-Salley High School, a Mrs Mary Lou Willis, wrongfully accusing me of plagarism.
No one defended me in this matter and I recall her 'self righteous indignation' at my alleged "crime" though I was totally innocent having done all the work myself without a single reference.
This initiated a subsequent disconnect from all further public educational endeavors and teachers in particular as the stupid human beings they are generally and I make no apologies for this scathing opinion and invite anyone who thinks they can take me to task on the validity of stupid public educators to "challenge" it.
Today is National Grammar Day which we observe each March 4. The holiday was founded by one Martha Brockenbrough who is both a published author and established the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar.
The typographical error not withstanding, I have held proper grammar as paramount importance in my personal existence and this attitude has caused me to reject totally that stupidity which is called "ebonics" as well as the mendacity of those moronic individuals who think that a formal paper can be written in those shorthands of SMS texting and so forth.
There is a place for such goings on but it certainly is not in a formal report or any other written instrument nor on a work application as I have seen on too many occasions.
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- March 3, 2018
- Technology Breaks
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I have a long history in breakfix computer support. That part of information technology which involves cracking the case, having a look, testing, and either replacing components or the entire machine.
Yesterday I had a similar incident with my HVAC whereby I purchased a new high tech filter which never has to be replaced.
It has a high merv and really looked substantial ...
Except for the massive break in the frame on the right side of the unit.
So I took pictures and sent them to the manufacturer. I presume that this will be replaced and so far we seem to be headed in that direction nicely.
I was well pleased with what I saw other than the bent frame with fabric hanging out due to the shipper's obvious inability to transport fragile freight with finesse.
Probably dropped a 70 pound box on it in the back of some brown truck.
Boo !
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- March 2, 2018
- The Tek of Fasting, Ice Baths, and Yoga
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I once led the life of a superman. I put down the cigarettes and pursued a physique chiseled by miles of running and hours of exercise while on the west coast and turned myself into quite the specimen ... until I returned to the deep south and my Kentucky Fried Chicken addiction.
Alas, when I returned to the east coast I found the ammenities far lacking for maintaining some workout potential in the utter lack of opportunities in my midst — and ended up falling back to the big fat blivet I've always been and remain today.
It is being passed around in the threads by CNBC that some up and coming technology people are fasting and taking ice baths in an effort to push their bodies beyond the threshold of difficulty.
Their need to work much longer hours and handle inordinate amounts of work find these sources of "positive stress" enablers in those lifestyle choices involving career they have decided to undertake as activities of daily living.
Fasting, cold showers, hot yoga and restrictive dieting are how some are pushing the performance envelope in a world of technical demands and hours on end they are pursued.
I can certainly see the advantages these activities could provide in the way of supercharging an existence from the standpoint of both metabolism and endurance. So I tried just turning the hot water way down on my next shower only to determine that I'm QUITE beyond able to tolerate much in the way of planned stressors as I'm making ready to pursue my day.
Maybe I could drop back and punt ... you know, start taking walks instead.
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- March 1, 2018
- National Pig Day
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Today is National Pig Day and celebrates the porcine swine animals which cohabitate this planet along with us and the rest of the food and companion animals in our midst.
It began in 1972 at the behest of Ellen Stanley, a teacher in Lubbock, Texas, and Mary Lynne Rave of Beaufort, North Carolina who are siblings.
Their notion regarding the day was "to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man's most intellectual and domesticated animals" ...
And therein lay both the bounty and tragedy of the notion of National Pig Day.
It has long been held that swine are a very intelligent animal capable of understanding humans and interacting at a level befitting an individual with personality.
So often we hear of companion animals such as the pot bellied pig becoming a food animal as the result of so-called shelter "rescues" and it is a shame that we would actually butcher and eat one of our pets ... but it happens.
Nonetheless, the day is relegated to noting the pig and attempting to cultivate an appreciation beyond the BLT sandwich, beloved by so many including yours truly.
So happy National Pig Day to you.
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- February 28, 2018
- The Last Day of February
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Since it's not a leap year today is the last day of February. Not being an overwhelming fan of Valentines Day nor anything else held in the shortest month of the year I would be okay with the powers that be simply dividing the days up between the various other months and doing away with it and it's consitutent observances altogether.
Yes, I'm feeling a little crabby and in my crabbiness I tend to go overboard with what I feel is substantive and inconsequential in the world ...
And FEBRUARY is simply one of those meaningless things.
Perhaps if I knew individuals born in the month or it weren't simply a container of self agrandizement for a subset of the population who feel the need to be continually recognized separately from the rest of us and allowed to both participate in our conventional celebrations as well as hold their own segregated versions of the same gd thing I might feel a little different.
So as it stands, February can simply go away with everything in it as far as I am concerned.
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- February 27, 2018
- Anosmia Awareness Day
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In our environmental sensorium smell is one of those senses which provides much in the way of input regarding what is happening with us at any point in time.
Anosmia is the term applied to loss of the sense of smell for whatever reason.
Each year on this day Anosmia Awareness Day is observed to increase awareness of anosmia and it's impact on those suffering from it.
This day exists to inform indviduals regarding that impact anosmia may impart on people.
It subjects sufferers to dangerous environmental incidents such as hazardous chemicals, fires, leaking gasses, spoiled foodstuffs and so forth as practical matters of health, wellbeing, and survival.
It may impede nutrition because smell and taste are intertwined far more than most peopl realize.
It can impact socialization and psychological stress as the result of fears such as insufficient hygiene and a diminished connection with the parameters of memory, emotion, and pleasure.
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- February 26, 2018
- delusions of grandeur
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The leader of a sex doll concern called 1amdoll USA has stated to members of the media that online porn has changed the way men feel toward sexuality and now find his robots preferable to real women.
This fellow, identified only as 'Brent' spoke to one Jon Ronson on his podcast claiming that sites like Pornhub and RedTube have "raised the bar" on what is found attractive anymore ... so much that men no loner prefer real women nor find them sexually attractive anymore.
NOW THEN; I always consider the source when such controversial statements go flying through the threads and like I told the guy who created 'Roxxxy' the sex robot that given the interpersonal abilities of his clientele just what conclusions could be derived from a population of individuals who buy these things viz a viz we who go for real women preferentially.
My point being that your universe is too tainted with the attitutdes of weenies who cannot interact with other people to be spouting off generalities as applicable to all men and I personally prefer that you remain quiet until such time that you may speak for the entirety of those you include in your alleged statements of fact.
'Brent' you are an overgeneralizing moron. Just because you haven't had any since it had you; there are plenty of men remaining who prefer the company of true XX human females and I decline to ever try to hook up with some rubber representation ... particularly some shared model in a "bordello" as it were. I would find such interaction just as repugnant as some so-called 'trans woman' who is merely a mutilated man in elaborate disguise.
I pitty the individuals with those personal tastes in company you describe.
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- February 25, 2018
- Silicon Valley Diaspora
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I once viewed Silicon Valley as the premiere domicile. With all the tech offerings with their high pay and various perks I simply thought it would be a hoot to be employed there.
Alas, it seems that for most in the area the honeymoon has been over for quite a while now.
So we have a mass exodus from San Jose and the San Francisco metropolitan digs in favor of areas less prone to high prices, unreasonable democrat induced taxation, and earthquakes.
It seems that the real estate prices simply aren't realistic and Jerry Brown has ruined everything in his wake. What would you expect from a fool who would marry Jane Fonda and her traitor prehensile vulva. Yes, Jane I saw your exercise video and those lips were flapping like a bird trying to escape a tornado.
Quite a show, though.
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- February 24, 2018
- Cyberimmortality
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I was amused the day I heard Sheldon Cooper on the Big Bang Theory speak of the singularity and having his consciousness transferred to a robot whereby he would attain immortality.
He was dismayed regarding his impression that his lifespan would be insufficient to reach that point in the evolution of science and began a program of health maintenance which included a high fiber and cruciferous vegetable component to his diet which ultimately gave him gas which he believed to be an appendicitis until it abruptly was expelled.
Scientists in Sweden are studying the digitization in an effort to transfer that essence which is humanity to the circuitry of a robot — designed to resemble the deceased (of course) with an AI component which would evolve to eventually simulate those capabilities of speech and interaction that one would expect in a robotic representation of a loved one.
All of this flies in the face of Mr Musk and Dr Hawking who have touted the risks and dangers associated with AI as it relates to criminals, rogue states such as that which ours has become, and that propensity for a government to assume it can just murder whomever it may choose without consequence.
In the sum total of these developments I must note the infancy of such proceedings and acknowledge that the evolution of AI to such a level would require a suitable environment in which to exist as well as an interface by which it could interact with the world.
These robotic creations are not quite there but I can see the AI implementations of tanks and other armaments being loosed first on the enemy and then upon the citizens as something which could loom before us.
I also view the United Nations as the last entitity which should control such technology for they indeed are the enemy with their agenda 21 and agenda 30 with their so-called "sustainable development" which is nothing more than concentration camps, machine gun turrets in "green space no-man's lands", and slavery or depopulation at their whim in the true image of the traitor bushes, the criminal clintons, and the abominable obama.
The morbidly amusing part of all of this united nations subterfuge surrounds the fact that they think we will go blindly into the night like so many victims to the nazi death camps without any manner of retaliation and simply allow ourselves to be subjugated to the belgians with london and the jesuits controlling our finances.
So fantasy remains a solid part of the evolving horror as described by Mr Musk and Dr Hawking given the fact that the second ammendment won't just go away because some group of indoctrinated children scripted by CNN and a bunch of liberal moron educators and the namby pamby panty waist progressives wish it to happen.
There are the rest of us. We who will not be stomped upon just because the so-called "New World Order" would make it so. No stupid traitor president, no crooked would be president, no criminal kenyan interloper is going to have their way with us just because it's what they want.
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- February 23, 2018
- National Banana Bread Day
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I have always loved banana bread. All that moist sweet cake oozing with mashed bananas and the aroma ...
Oh the aroma of those baked goods just keeps me wanting more.
Today is National Banana Bread Day
I used to work with a fellow who was quite the banana bread baker.
He would bring in great masses of banana bread and leave them spread out on the counter in the kitchen at work and we would partake for days.
I kinda wish he hadn't retired recently when I remember those baked delights he would bestow upon the department.
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