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- August 30, 2017
- The Myth of Being Unlucky in Love
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One of those social adages I have encountered over the years has been "unlucky at love" whereby the person is single and has never had any serious coupling prospects or something in a similar vein.
Anyway one of those "kiss of death" moments in a blind date introduction for me personally has been the revelation that someone is "unlucky at love" whereby my shields go to maximum and the entire outing becomes yet another lesson in futility.
Why then have I, who pretty much is undatable with my girth and my baldness, been able to attract those females for various excursions when all of these perfectly lovely people who are "unlucky in love" have had to settle for let us say ... less than optimal company.
It's your standards. I set high goals and those women I entertain are in search of that which I can provide: a technical edge. They are not so much concerned with me as a life partner or "Mr Right" as it were as they are with an immediate need I can provide thereby rendering me "Mr Right Now".
I'm typically very satisfied with these relationships because it saves me from having to show anyone the door and let's face it ... "the game" is not something a person my age should have to pursue anyway.
So I'll take what I get from time to time and enjoy those companies which enjoy mine — regardless of the underlying motivation. Should I be sad that there is always some ulterior motive ? I think not. The benefits are highly satisfactory and that's all I really care about.
Someday I may be smitten once again having been there only once in my life. I don't see it happening but would not begrudge it's arrival a single iota.
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- August 29, 2017
- MJ
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I remember where I was and what I was doing when Michael Jackson died. I was working for an evil persian who lured me away with promises he never intended to keep ... my actual duty at the moment was programming a web based bare metal backup machine manufacturing and service database for a company called Unitrends and I was deep into the guts of a coldfusion application growing exponentially.
The news came over the radio and one of the other persians broke it to me ... first that he was very ill and they could not revive him. Then that he had passed and that more details would follow.
Never in my entire existence did I think that I would outlive Michael Jackson with his hyperbaric oxygen chamber and boundless resources but ... I'm still here and he lays somewhere in southern california in a gold plated casket with velvet lining.
I witnessed his evolution from black child through the various plastic surgical stages which made him first "pretty" then a white appearing man. I was not aware of those things which went along with all of that like the tatooed make up and darkening of the scalp to lessen his bald spot's appearance.
Despite the controversy which was his life and after hour pursuits he was after all a father with three young children who lost him entirely too soon. I remember the funeral and the despair exhibited by his lovely little daughter and wishing there were something that could be done for her to bring him back.
Alas, this was not to be and she has had to simply get past it as best she can with such matters being the of the most difficult a person may endure.
So today, Michael Jackson would have been 58, a scant four years younger than me. So rest in peace Michael. I hope you look over your children and family and that you have finally found some peace at long last.
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- August 28, 2017
- Charlottesville
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When the white and black combatants at the Charlottesville rally were seen exiting the same buses prior to the fray — with alleged 25 dollar an hour payments to those participants by George Soros ...
it is rather difficult to fathom why this polarization directed at two obviously misrepresented groups exists in an objective society.
Then we have that massive vitriol spewed by the democrats, progressives, and that joke known as Antifa who utterly throw a gasket when the President speaks of violence on "both" sides because that isn't what they want to hear — even though it is the truth.
This country has an element which founders when their subterfuge fails. When they cannot misrepresent the conservative element without the lies and manipulations coming to light the reaction is sheer insanity.
There are threads of truth available to those of us who pursue them. Just steer clear of CNN, the NY Times, the LA Times, and all of those others with false preconceived notions which bear witness to that fake news they present as fact.
Those of us who pursue the truth are not being fooled by the yellow journalism and fake news being promoted as factual when the facts simply are not there.
Too many are either in collusion with this setup or simply decline to acknowledge the interference by outside fundage. At least call yourself what you are: conspirator or stupid or both.
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- August 27, 2017
- Avoiding the Dim Bulb
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I have always prided myself on trying to cultivate both knowledge and wisdom. I have met others with one but not the other. I have also met those with neither.
While I hesitate to comment on my intellect I can at least say that I've tried to learn as I went along and not allow my life to become some never ending stream of repeated mistakes ... unlike some I used to tolerate in my midst.
Appreciation of the fact that it takes all kinds of individuals to make a world hasn't always sufficed in my existence. There have been times when I wanted to kill people I believed to be stupid. Acquaintances, family members — it didn't make any difference.
Tolerance was something I had to grow into. That sum total of who we are is based on a bunch of highs and lows existing in the same universe. And then there is Iceland.
Iceland claims to be eliminating a genetic defect from their population by aborting pregnancies where the conceived suffers from things like trisomy-21 ... the common origin of Down Syndrome.
I am left with a quandry involving the right to life of an individual compared to the right of a society to eliminate individuals they consider to be "defective". Having met a number of persons with Down Syndrome I have found many of them to be preferable as company and in fact some of them exibit insights to living that I in all my "superiority" have overlooked.
Most of all it is their appreciation for life which causes me the greatest pause. After all, when a person is filled with wonder for the world and can conduct their activities of daily living appropriately who am I to say their life is not worth living?
Eugenics not withstanding, I personally continue to cohabitate, engage when the occasion arises, and refrain from judging anyone for their intellect or lack thereof.
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- August 26, 2017
- Women's Equality Day
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Equality. It's been one of those items of contention for various groups over the years.
Even now, the rehetoric continues on multiple planes of existence and the alleged downtrodden are sometimes whining and moaning and groaning to the actual underdogs in society.
People touting the "privilege" of another group is often suberfuge for the greedy seizure of more and more while those objects of that complaining receive less and less.
Entitlements it seems cross all sorts of boundaries these day. Those qualms of yesteryear were a simpler time and place than that reality we now know.
August 26 marks Women's Equality Day in the United States. It commemorates the adoption of the 19th Ammendment to the US Constitution of August 18, 1920 which guarantees the right to vote regardless of the sex of the voter.
It was first celebrated with significant fanfare in 1973 and is proclaimed annually by POTUS since.
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- August 25, 2017
- National Waffle Day 2017
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The US patent on a waffle iron fell on August 24. This inspired National Waffle Day in the United States. I really enjoy these a small crispy cakes made of batter which has been baked in a waffle iron.
I like them hot with butter and syrup — sometimes honey or fruit compote and whipped cream..
My love of the Belgian Waffle was cultivated in Southern California in the early 1980s at a little place in Laguna Hills where I went every so often for breakfast.
All in all the waffle is one of those things which recurs through my life over the years because I actively pursue them.
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- August 24, 2017
- International Strange Music Day
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One of those things I have always taken pride in are my esoteric tastes in artistic pursuits. I am teased at work over the electronic pieces of ambient and psych music I listen to routinely because they invoke some counter culture visions in a few of my cohorts.
Be all of this as it may, I certainly do not intend to stop listening to them and I find much of those selections a source of soothing relaxation in the midst of a tumultuous work day of code and technical issues surrounding me.
Strange Music Day is a vision of professional musician Patrick Grant. Among his endeavors are Strange Music Inc, a vehicle through which he releases compelling works and recordings. The crux of the theme of Strange Music Day involves listening to recordings you've never heard before ... and he is quite the broad spectrum diversified Julliard graduate involved in marking this day since August 24, 1998.
Over the years his celebration has been embraced by a number of radio stations and school programs and it never hurts to immerse yourself in something new and artistically relevant as well as technically worthy.
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- August 23, 2017
- Birthdays
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A birthday is an anniversary of the birth of a person or other entity in our midst. Celebrating one's birth is wide spread and crosses many cultural boundaries and has many inherent traditions depending where you are.
Often there is a gift or party or some rite of passage which transpires during the event. Religions are replete with celebrations of birthdays — such as that of Christ, Buddha, and others notable to the founding of the various religious sects.
While the birthday is a recurring occasion, the birthdate is totally singular. Contrast the recurring celebration such as August 23 being my sister's birthday while August 23, 1956 was her birth date.
The birthdays recur while the birth date remains static.
Damn she's old.
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- August 22, 2017
- Confiscating Technology
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There is a disturbing reality whereby the shadow government will confiscate technology — even existing patents in order to promote the continued use of fossil fuels and maintain a status quo of technological stagnation while the military industrial complex profits at the expense of the tax payer.
Those who invent innovating technological marvels thinking the world will come to their doorstep are right ... only the murderous thugs enforcing the whims of those who supersede the president himself in that hierarchy which is those in charge of those in charge while the bulk of the media has been infiltrated by various agents assigned the task of insuring the truth is suppressed and those innovations once invented remain unrealized in favor of those profits the war machine deems essential to their existence.
The wherefore and the why extend back to the Truman and Eisenhower administrations when the control was first lost to the persons placed in charge of technological matters of the Roswell kind. The situation has snowballed through the Kennedy debacle right on up through our modern era with presidents claiming to be "told" what they may and may not say or pursue in their administrations.
Then you have the annual private Bilderberg Group and the Committee of 300, aka "The Olympians" a c 1727 construct alleged to have been founded by some members of the British aristocracy all trying their hand at steering us toward some globalization manifest in that failure of constructive action called the United Nations. I personally choose not to be ruled by some international entity out to take my freedoms and impart their burdens borne of irresponsible conduct onto me.
Couple this with the casual overstepping of our own thugees in government such as the late Nelson Rockefeller and his ilk, the too many Bushes in the mix, the profiteering Clintons who enter politics to monetize it for their own gain, and the brigand Barack Obama and what is left ? With leadership like this we might as well make George Soros president and just give up on everything except that stupidity called socialist evil.
Some day the educators will stop talking about safe spaces and globalization and again teach about our real history and why we don't wish to be doomed to repeating it. The educators are the root of all the misinformed evil in the United States of America. We have educators infusing nonsense in to those who will ultimately take over. We have educators decrying the Republic and providing false information with that liberal spin which will carry us straight to the sewer as it's doing presently. Before you may educate you must first be able to think. We lack critical thinking and evaluation of the evidence anymore. Manufactured facts are something else not reality.
I only hope enough of us wake up before it's too late.
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- August 21, 2017
- Pretty Spectacular
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A few minutes ago I witnessed the full total eclipse to my amazement. The photosphere was masked by the shadow of the Earth and the corona displayed like a ring of fire in the sky.
The darkness of the moment was striking with the total absence of birds and squirrels and as the phase passed and the light again became apparent I went back inside to ponder the moment.
All in all it was a wonderful thing and I can fully understand the terror of ancient peoples who must have thought something horrible had gone amiss with the universe upon being immersed in the early afternoon darkness as I was a very few moments ago.
Quite a show !
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- August 21, 2017
- Total Solar Eclipse
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Monday August 21 a total solar eclipse will transpire. My hometown is in the direct path. The weather is projected to be cloudy.
In that thing which substitutes for infinite wisdom, I have decided to forego work on Monday in an effort to avoid the influx of eclipse viewers who will either be ecstatic or in various stages of disappointment and/or rage secondary to cloud cover at some inopportune time.
Interstate traffic has been heavy the few days prior to the eclipse and it is my understanding that a lot of tourist dollars have infused into the area as the result of this event. I sure hope there isn't a disappointing show for all the people coming for the astronomical fete.
As for me ... I intend to kick back and perhaps take in a bit of the ole NASA streaming or some other relevant high definition news source available.
Ready or not, weather or not ... it's not going to be stopping just because some aspect of the environment may not be ideal.
West Columbia, South Carolina, USA
August 21, 2017
Total solar eclipse visible (100.00% solar coverage)Magnitude 1.0114 Duration 2 hours, 53 minutes, 11 seconds Totality 2 minutes, 30 seconds Partial begins 1:13:06 pm Full begins 2:41:48 pm Maximum 2:43:03 pm Full ends 2:44:18 pm Partial ends 4:06:17 pm Times shown in local time (EDT)
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- August 20, 2017
- World Mosquito Day
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In our modern world it is sometimes shocking to see those illness we or our companion and draft animals may contract which prove difficult to either prevent up front or cure after the fact. Mosquito borne illness vectors such as:
• Malaria
• Chikungunya
• Dog Heartworm
• Dengue and Yellow Fever
• Eastern Equine Encephalitis
• St Louis Encephalitis
• LaCrosse Encephalitis
• Western Equine Encephalitis
• West Nile Virus
• Zika Virus
in particular render the medical establishment helpless in so many instances.
Today is World Mosquito Day, an annual observation commemorating British physician Sir Ronald Ross and his 1897 discovery that female mosquitos transmit malaria to humans.
Dr Ross is the orign of the day stating that day marking his discovery should be known as World Mosquitio Day for posterity. This commemoration was assumed by The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine which holds celebrations with parties and events since about 1930 or so.
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- August 19, 2017
- National Aviation Day
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Now I don't REALLY have a fear of flying. It's more a fear of FALLING. I recall flying at 45,000 feet to Chicago once at night at how small the twinkling lights on the surface of the earth appeared and how intent I was on listening for anything irregular coming from the engines.
Let us say that at the moment I was not too enthused at the thought of being on the safest conveyance in modern travel and visions of fiery impact predominated my free fall thoughts for much of that trip.
It's National Aviation Day commemorating manned flight and corresponding to the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday. Proclaimed in 1939 by Franklin D Roosevelt it became part of the United States Code and any sitting President may proclaim the day and order federal resources to fly the US flag and inspire the citizens to hold activities on the day which promote the field of aviation.
With the new convergence of the airplane and space vehicle whereby landings are said to become runway affairs where you embark and disembark like an airline passenger perhaps I'll grow more warm to the notion of the wild blue yonder or the final frontier.
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- August 18, 2017
- Tensile Times
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Monday we have the big eclipse event which will pass through as a result of astronomical fate. Like several others in my building I am opting to take the day off to avoid the people who are coming into town to witness the event ... or the clouds which may obscure it.
At any rate, I decline to wade through the happy or otherwise throngs of people I expect to be up town for this thing and cannot believe that my bank is closing for it as well.
Then there is the lottery which has ballooned to 510 million dollars which compels me to buy extra tickets even though each one improves the odds for my winning quite a minute percentage ... next to zero or so.
Is it any wonder that the distractions creep in like so much high tide of preoccupation seizing my "now" with the "what ifs" and "if onlys" I act so hard to ignore.
So, what have we learned about current events. We know that I really don't give a rip about the eclipse and will overspend on the lottery yet again in an attempt at that pie in the sky prize I've sought and lost so many times.
What is that thing they say about repeating past mistakes ?
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