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- July 10, 2017
- Nikola Tesla Day
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Today is the birthday of one of the singularly advanced intellects ever to grace the planet Earth.
Today is Tesla's birthday and marked by many as World Tesla Day, Nikola Tesla Day, or simply, Tesla Day in honor of that auspicious moment for science and technology on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia.
I cannot really celebrate the day so much as note and celebrate the man — for during the course of his life some of the most profound discoveries in science were made.
His personal effects including personal papers from the vault were confiscated by the government of the United States upon his death on January 7, 1943 at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel in New York City, NY ... likely the work of MJ12 or some other shadow government element which assumed control of the United States during the loss of control by the Eisenhower administration.
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- July 9, 2017
- Time just gets away from us
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I was watching True Grit on some broadcast network when the 40 year old Mattie Ross reflecting while returning from paying her respects at the grave of Rooster Cogburn quipped "Time just gets away from us".
In that hustle and bustle associated with paying the bills and taking care of business it has been one of those hallmarks of my life that others come and go before I've really had time to notice and the rush of the workaday world is relentless with that need to chase the almighty dollar.
Just the other day it ocurred to me how many I haven't seen for so long that we're more than alienated ... I no longer know them; our intersecting circles having parted long ago.
It's a shame how that party animal I once professed to be has devolved into this being whose entire life revolves around getting up and going to work or making preparations for getting up and going to work.
How I yearn for those days when I had places to go and people to see. That reality which is our 21st century schizoid world does not appear to be firing those retros of past good times and absent friends regardless of that yearn which oozes from my soul from time to time.
I'm satisfied with who I am and what I'm doing. It's just that the finality of business is becoming the last word in my existence as well.
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- July 8, 2017
- The Myth of Fat Shaming
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Oh the memories from my childhood. Having been a fat kid long before it became a national tragedy I was all too aware of fat shaming by my peers. Like that from the superficial idiot slug Steve Stoneburner at Goose Creek High School along with the rest of the contemptuous brain dead others I encountered in that smelly navy brat infested bung hole of the planet earth ...
Earlier, I recall the lady minding the school store at Horace O'Bryant Junior High and her all too smug attitude looking down upon me with my fatness and acne when she could barely keep those rolls of fat ladled upon that oak stool she had shoved half way between those gigantic buttocks reeking of disdain and self righteous indignation at the thought of being in my unworthy bluborious presence ...
butt cheeks not withstanding.
I attained a high degree of fitness in my early 20s but never forgot nor forgave the past. This resulted in an aloofness which raises it's ugly head on occasion — evolving into blatant hostility should the need arise. And it has.
So now, it's not so easy to fat shame me. Yeah, I'm pretty hefty but so many more are heavier (or not) but carry that weight with much more difficulty. It seems that the belly fat of metabolic syndrome is not so predominate as the gelatinous rolls so prevalent today and the chinage, love handles, and guts and gunts which appear in our midst everywhere.
I don't care if you're fat. I don't care if you're ugly. However you appear simply cannot affect me because of my history. If your appearance suits you who am I to be concerned with it? The health aspects of overweight are not such the priority with me as they were with almost everyone surrounding me when I was a child. Though indeed some level of morbidity may be present ... it simply cannot own me anymore.
It would seem that the cholesterol lowering agents and the reductase inhibitors do a pretty good job at diluting that crisco blood of mine and the fat is far less visible than it was — because it's visceral; the most dangerous kind. I don't wear a lot of external fat anymore compared to my younger days.
Be all of this as it may I am content to make whatever progress I can and I dare anyone to call me down on my girth. You see, I retain quite a "left" and a "right" as well and it is foolhardy to bring some stick to a gun fight.
If the fatter person is you I will allow you to pass unaccosted because that is my life now. You get to be you and I get to be me. If it floats your boat go for it. Those sophomoric criticisms which pervade social media simply lend credence to the notion that it is populated by narcissistic individuals too preoccupied with primping to trim that hair growing from the big wart on the ends of their nose.
You simply can't play the fat card on me anymore. It doesn't work and it will get you hurt ... feelings or otherwise. Just ask the few "kidders" who took the plunge only to regret it.
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- July 7, 2017
- Cheating higher in Older Americans
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The Independent had a rather interesting piece (sic) on extra marital sex among persons in their 50s with an increasing trend being noted.
They covered a study by the IFS which went so far as to state the emergence of a 'generational gap' when it comes to extramarital sex ...
It simply follows that those who once constituted that group called all my slutty friends have simply gotten older and are remaining just as they were.
The trend in the younger folks appears to be opting for less promiscuity than their predecessors.
I blame the 1960s and it's drug culture and permissiveness which likely spawned these attitudes and likely can never be curbed.
I also attribute some of the inclination for whoredom to others who have male partners with those affectations of old age like "low T" and various other organic causes which force their corresponding "lackanookie" partners to seek comfort elsewhere.
Some of the stories I've heard regarding nursing homes and such could likely become the stuff of grannies gone wild videos were there a market for varioius flapping body parts — and likely spills over in the subsequent prevalence of plastic surgery anymore.
There is some comfort to the notion that my diminished activity offers me a level of protection compared to that wild child on the west coast which was once me ...
Jumping the bones of any and every female I could coax into the sack. Didn't take much either. A few drinks. A little toot. Another girl wanting to be room mates.
I may be older and wiser, BUT I'm also quite a bit less functional with health care provisions which simply do not accommodate my needs on the hormone replacement front.
Perhaps should my attitudes lean toward the more aggressive sexuality I once pursued vigorously ... things might change. Until then I'm prepared to watch television and sit at my computer rather than pursue the polyamory my cohorts obviously prefer.
America’s Generation Gap in Extramarital Sex
Institute for Family Studies
July 5, 2017
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- July 6, 2017
- National Fried Chicken Day
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As one who consumes entirely too much fried chicken, I am proud to announce National Fried Chicken Day ... begun who knows when by who knows who to celebrate that greasy artery clogging southern delicacy called Fried Chicken.
You differentiate the "fried" of the species by that medium in which it is prepared.
My personal favorite is KFC Original recipe ... the one done up by the fine people on Decker Boulevard.
I won't eat the local Kentucky fried chicken nearby on 12th street in West Columbia because the ignorant bitches can neither cook it much less serve it in the manner in which The Colonel intended.
The only place worse than KFC in West Columbia, SC is Bojangles next door at 12th Street and Augusta Road — where the rip off employees don't even realize that a four piece box should contain 4 pieces of chicken and NOT 3.
Leave it to some insipid inbred West Columbia denizen to get fried chicken wrong ... of all things. I suppose the quality of employee may be lacking given the work environment. I never had a problem at the Bojangles on Elmwood Avenue uptown.
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- July 5, 2017
- Adding a Confederate Flag to the Decor
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Well, I ordered a hand sewn 4x4 foot Confederate Battle Flag to hang on one of the walls of my home. My ancestry has deep roots in the confederacy and I'm really not concerned with whomever doesn't like the notion ... after all, it is my house and I get to pick what is there and what is not.
It's okay with me if others dislike the confederate flag for whatever preconceived notion they have. I do have distain for those jurisdictions who deny what the flag is in deference to what it totally is not.
Like the political coward Nikki Haley did in South Carolina.
You can say it symbolizes hate because the idiot crackers in the KKK utilize it as their so-called symbology. However, there are those of us with honored war dead who fought under that flag and as such it is a difficult matter to simply wipe it from the earth as stupid revisionist morons might like to do.
The confederacy is merely a part of my heritage. The flag will take it's place on a wall somewhere yet to be determined. I won't let anyone mess with it, either.
History remains after the desecration ends. The confederacy has been desecrated by the former govenor of South Carolina among many others. There remains a contingent of citizen tax payers who will not let it's memory die.
Dylann Roof and his ilk do not represent the memory of the confederacy and his use of the confederate flag is anathema to that memory. The KKK likewise do not represent the confederacy and project an ignorance which is at once humorous and disturbing.
There were a lot of slave holders in the North as well as the South and the people who brought the slaves here were Dutch traders.
I likewise make no apologies for slavery because I never owned another human being nor wanted to either. This business of holding generations hostage for the past hasn't worked out too well for those seekers of reparations, now has it ?
We cannot help where we're from and who our ancestors were. I am from the deep South and my ancestors fought for both the confederate and union armies. Some of the more poignant stories of my ancestors revolve around the confederacy.
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- July 4, 2017
- Happy 4th of July
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- July 3, 2017
- Dog Days
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Today commences the "Dog Days" of Summer, that hot and humid time for taking it easy when in the outdoors lest you sunstroke or something worse ...
Named for Sirius, the dog star, known as the largest star in the constellation Canis Major (big dog).
These days correspond with it's rising at dawn and the seasonal effect was one of heat, drought, lethargic people, thunderstorm activity, fevers, mad dogs, and less than optimal luck.
In the Northern hemisphere they connote the hottest most miserable part of Summer.
They may be described as those 40 days beginning July 3rd and ending August 11th.
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- July 2, 2017
- World UFO Day
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My recent involvement with research into extraterrestrial presence on the earth has been at once disturbing and edifying for me personally.
Those revelations made to me and cross referenced by me have impacted my attitudes toward my government, faith, and disdain for this globalist political thrust which seeks to destroy our constitutional government and place us at the whims of some multinational association such as the UN which only seeks to control every aspect of our existence simply because they believe they can undertake the task and achieve it.
Today is World UFO Day. It is an international observance for people to attempt to observe UFOs and is named the UFO crash in Roswell New Mexico back in 1947 which the military has repeatedly lied about on several fronts in an effort to maintain that control above the constitutional government in favor of the "Greada Treaty", the "Majestic 12", and the shadow government which subsequently assumed control turning our "constitutional republic" into an oligarchy in the name of personal enrichment for those who Eisenhower mistrusted which remains to this day.
Luckily, there is a large sector of the populace which has done it's homework and amassed the data appropriate to the tracking of this misuse of tax dollars in support to the black ops required of the shadow government and those billions for which accountability is not required have fallen both into question and scrutiny at this late stage of the game.
That trechery which is the shadow government will stop at nothing to retain power and can and will murder citizen patriots as it suits them for any reason they perceive to be warranted against the taxpayers.
So happy UFO day in the land of the enslaved and the home of the cowards.
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- July 1, 2017
- July is here ...
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As we enter the seventh month I am suddenly aware how time is flying right on by (as usual) those doldrums of June and the oppresive heat and humidity are likely to continue and I'm sure glad I work in air conditioning.
This morning finds me off to do a little shopping to buy some of those many items I'm out of — like dish washer tablets and "real" pine oil cleaner (NOT Pine Sol).
Anyway, I'm on a 4 day weekend and will be tooling around town on various errands for the bulk of it all.
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- June 30, 2017
- Local Whining over the Affordable Care Act Demise
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As work on the Republican health care plan continues there has been a local uprising of sorts by those who want the tax and spend dole of Obamacare to remain.
The coverage in one of the local rags was really quite a bit much with comic book representations of so-called debilitating disease represented in lipstick, mascara, and varioius body paints being characterized as "a gruesome scene" (puhLEEZE) and the chanting and home made signage touting this lament of that freebie which will soon be gone.
It's all fine and well and good to live in a socialist country and if that is your preference, by all means move there and live.
This business of expecting the workers to pay for varous others to receive never ending treatment at their expense simply is not the way to go in these otherwise uncertain times.
We are being expected to fund and support a never ending stream of children brought to the world by various women engaging the genitals of countless men who chose to lay around and breed rather to engage gainful employment and it simply is not happening.
People who have worked all their life and need some help are a different story.
Deadbeat parents can simply make other arrangements.
So yes, I come off as hard hearted over this matter but I've seen one too many emergency rooms flooded with colds and what have you which should be treated by private physicians which have never been present due to the motivations of those parents engaging this "need to breed".
We have been left with an entitlement crazy generation who feel that whatever need they may have should be funded by everyone else in the country.
It all has to end sometime. May as well be now. Naturally all of the "agencies" and the protests against the Republican health care bill not to mention the South Carolina Progressive Network leeches who want to take everything from the worker and hand it over to the shirker, calling the Republican measure to resume some semblance of sanity to government a "zombie bill".
Rumor has it that the military industrial complex and their masters the bilderberg group want to thin out the population anyway with nobody even bothering to challenge them. Well ... if that what it takes, it just may happen.
Get off the dole and go to work.
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- June 29, 2017
- Yet ANOTHER New Ransomware
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At work we received an enterprise wide warning regarding the new petya ransomware which encrypts both files and the master boot records of infected machines.
It orginates in Europe with Russia and Ukrane hit early and hard. It has also impacted enterprises in the US and Western Europe and uses several attack vectors.
Once you get hit you receive a message demanding three hundred dollars in bitcoin to unlock the data. All data is encrypted at that point in time.
It appears to extract credentials from an essential windows file. It's primary portage are TCP ports 445 and 139 and unless some mistake is found the data cannot be accessed.
Now then, this is quite similar to Wannacry but adds a "worm" component for spreading the malicious code. Luckily my servers all keep stealth port assignments in effect and the firewalls are tighter than a ...
Pretty doggone tight.
The clear and present danger appears to be enterprise configurations such as those in multinational companies and like I keep telling ya ... backup is your only real time hope.
There is banter of the "Petya is not ransomware" variety being passed around with the definition leaning toward "destructive wiper malware". I find this reasonable given the fact that the email company the originators had been using has terminated their account with extreme prejudice rendering them incommunicado.
So, uh if you value what's on that disk drive let's hope you have a spare copy lying around. This has got me all fired up to start cloning my drives and I intend to get hot on that task immediately.
ALSO, I suppose that my repeated admonitions regarding what a cold place the internet is may be hitting you in the old realization by now ... ? Good luck and back up !
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- June 28, 2017
- Facebook, people, and hate speech
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It seems that Facebook is in the midst of a thing they call "Hard Questions" which is a series discussing various issues of modern existence. One of these coming to the fore is "hate speech" and opened with one of their officers stating how the company is against it in all forms.
My personal view is that speech should be free, hate or otherwise. One of the primary problems in the world today is this "protected mode" existence where a sector are "offended" by hate speech and want it banned.
This "safe space" mentality is a prime mover in the "pc" impetus and as such is a detrement to a free and open society. It turns us into an intolerant population of twits who cannot function in the throes of reality.
The value of "freedom of speech" is the ability to know from where a person positions themself in their sphere of existence. If that existence is offensive then the offended should simply shun the presence where ever it happens to arise.
Instead we find these people wanting to squash the rights of others to save themselves some modicum of offense in life. Therein lay the problem with this bunch of hoity toity patent leather types who would just as soon suppress you as look at you all in the name of "their" view of "correctness".
There are times and places for polite company. How you comport yourself in those various venues available to you is an indication of just who you are and where you stand. I, for one would prefer knowing that from your own expressions of idea ... not some watered down version a Yale grad accustomed to "safe spaces" and that sweet nothingness called their lack of reality can accommodate without screaming in protest.
I make no bones about it. If I believe it, I'm going to say it and I really remain unconcerned as to who gets offended. This is the nature of freedom of speech. This is who we are and we are not going down the revisionist apologetic path concoted by some misinformed manipulative would-be educator.
Freedom of speech is a constitutional right and not subject to the whims of those who would claim it implies a requirement for any level of polite interaction or any other predicating condition anyone might want to impose upon it.
So I get my share of hate mail. So there are those on the earth who hate me. There are likewise a segment of populace at the other end of that spectrum and I am satisfied with who I am and what I say. So whine on about it all you like. I'm remaining me and I'm fresh out of apologies for what I think or say. It's reality and you can just deal with it.
America
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
Samuel Francis Smith
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- June 27, 2017
- Great Expectations
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I expect too much. On the cusp of what awaits me in the world of technology ... I still expect the vendors to be one step ahead of the exploits, nipping the hackers and bots in the bud. However, this is fairly impossible — leaving me to simply firewall the problem children and go about my business.
Icarus Falling by NikkelahGhaz on DeviantArt
This business of earning a salary and maintaining the side stuff not to mention the ever present blog. There remains little time for those other things I need to do. Even some of the highest priorities must await completion of those duties which pay the house payment and buy the food and other goodie consumbables I typical throw down with great gusto.
So, given the fact that I am who I am and my situation is such that it is; I suppose I'll just have to cool my jets and not get all fired up over news of various shortfalling security implementations on those packages I purchase — or have shoved down my throat like Windows 10 was.
After all, it's not my world out there. I'm just another cohabitating techie trying to get by.
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