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- March 30, 2017
- Now is the Spring of my Discontent
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At once I am reminded of Dallas Buyer's Club, that movie about a man stricken with HIV who took the initiative to procure life extending medications and provide them to victims at reduced prices.
The character was Rayon's father, portrayed by James DuMont and I was struck with how similar his attitudes in the film were to mine in reality.
There is this notion that acceptance is warranted regardless of whether behaviors are considered abberant or repulsive or down right unnatural and our permissive society would rather allow a person to pursue perversion rather than call anything by realistic terms.
The same holds true for men who think they're women and women who think they're men. Rather than treat the misconstrued genotypical interpretation we simply embrace the fallacy and try to treat the phenotype which is an ineffective solution given the genotype remains both in existence and the determining factor.
Coming to grips with a populace who want to let their little boys grow up as girls and their little girls grow up as boys has left me thinking that the educations of these individuals are lacking in the fundamentals of reality, heredity, and meiosis.
All I can really do is attempt to cultivate tolerance for this psychosocial stupidity which is what society has become in all it's ambiguity.
I suppose I'm at fault for being heterosexual and living under the realization of what my XY genotype entails. So if I'm "normal" (whatever that is) just what are the rest of these people ?
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- March 29, 2017
- The Real Me
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I sometimes wonder about the real me. I don't fully understand the nature of that "authentic" person which resides herein. I know that I have certain attitudes and predispositions for various kinds of people, certain places, and spins on things. Then there are aspects which have become abundantly clear over the ensuing years.
But what does it all mean ?
Likely that I shouldn't be taking myself so seriously; inasmuch as the time that remains is so much less than the time already spent. It should be adequate to accept who I am and quit trying to evaluate and improve on those abstractions which constitute personality and motivations in favor of just sitting back and enjoying the ride at this point.
There is very little to which I look forward anymore. Much of that which is me is variation of past evolution ... and I see litle in the way of change in this for the future. However, it is said that change often comes when you're not looking for it.
Perhaps I am wrong and things will change and give me a wholly different focus. This, surprising though it would be is not what I would call unwelcome, however. A fresh perspective is something I always consider favorable in existence.
This being said, authenticity is sometimes elusive. Being real is something I've had to work on over the years. I wanted to try and grow as opposed to just "aging".
Keeping myself up has been a priority. I actually became a hygiene freak at some unknown point in the past. I'm not a "germophobe" by any stretch of the imagination but I don't allow the small stuff to get me ... like during cold and flu season I'm usually not a casualty.
I used to say "yes" to others in the work place to a fault. This resulted in predatory college administrators preying on me in an effort to have me do their bidding; regardless of how unreasonable the tasking was. Nowadays I at least check out the feasibility prior to going out on a limb. I don't like to enter into any agreement lightly anymore. This was another lengthy cultivation experience borne of necessity and experience with the preying moron educator.
Not following the crowd ... not doing things just because "everyone was doing it" came easily enough. Keeping agreements was sometimes challenging and problematic ... but I finally got there after several spates of people giving me a dose of that medicine on various projects.
Finally, I try to be an example and set a decent standard and demonstrate it as often as I can. If "what goes around comes around" one should be quite willing to practice those precepts they preach to others.
About the only thing which is derrogotory within me might be holding grudges. I have been known to remain angry over various things for too long many times. It's not something I'm particularly proud of — but something with which I contend as a facet of who I sometimes am. If you rile me to a sufficient degree we might never be on good terms again. I can't explain it either. But like the fine print in the yellow box above says I neither look for, nor run from trouble.
So there you have it. The crux of my "authentic self" surfacing yet again. You can catch glimpses of the "real Dave" periodically when you least expect it. Some of my antics have been the stuff of legend but all in all I'm a lot cooler headed and calmer than I ever was in my 20s.
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- March 28, 2017
- The Errors The Errors ... Ahhhhhhhhhhh !
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So at work we were going over a gigantic script and finding a bunch of table errors introduced by none other than ... ME.
It seems that it's not enough to have good code command structures, those structures containing those commands must also be viable for the control structures to work properly.
Bear in mind that this particular script has been in use for about 4 years now.
It seems that older versions of the middleware allowed the browser to "shore up" the code elements somewhat and as time progresses they have all become less forgiving.
In the final tally the table is better suited for less complex scripting. However, if it is to be used it must be used correctly. Suffice it to say that I must pay attention to the structure of tables if I continue to use them.
Then of course, if the number of post elements set in the server is far too low ... this is also problematic and erroneous !
Pa TOOEY !
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- March 27, 2017
- Arbitration Cop Out
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Uber is telling the courts that customers gave up the right to file suit against the company when they signed up for the ride service. I've heard that crap before. Time Warner pulled the same crap on me. It's so they can provide substandard mediocrity in the way of support and get away with it.
I don't see Uber getting away with it ... just like Time Warner won't be as soon as my contract comes up for renewal. When a company is unworthy of your continued business there comes a time when the ball is in your court and you call the shots.
So if you contract with Uber simply stop contracting with them then sue away. Just like I've stopped contracting with Time Warner as of the day they sent that insipid inbred southern puke to my job and allowed him to cut my cable and place a splitter in the line.
He did so without my informed consent or permission and at no time was that satisfactory with the stark reality being that he was NEVER in charge. I am.
I can do business with plenty of other companies who realize who the customer is in a business class relationship. It sure the hell isn't Spectrum either.
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- March 26, 2017
- Restocking the Crib
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Friday, I found myself with half a loaf of bread and a little bit of peanut butter, a can or two of soup, a few condiments, and that was it. The cleaning and maintenance items were about the same ... slim to none.
So yesterday I went out and stocked up on all those things I've allowed to run out as the result of arriving home and napping instead of maintaining working levels.
My costco run took care of most of it all with a smidge of walmart and STILL I don't have everything I need.
Ah, perhaps tomorrow I can get out there and finish taking care of those chores of domestic business I simply dread anymore.
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- March 25, 2017
- She waved at me today
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A girl at work waved to me today. I think it was the first time anyone has ever waved to me — perhaps not; but that's just how it felt at the moment.
People don't always get the solitude others may lead as a lifestyle. I'm not antisocial or anything. Just decidedly unsocial.
This is primarily due to quite a few bad choices in the past and the repetitive nature of others calling me to my fence looking for a "room mate".
Standing there holding two toddlers with another three all about your feet is really not conducive to the cultivation of a live in relationship. It's certainly not that I don't like kids.
My issues surround the predisposition of all too many others who want to have their children with one or more other men then decide I need to be the one to raise them ... all.
It's simply not practical to immerse one's self into a never ending barrage of dirty diapers, stacks of dishes, snotty noses, whining, crying, screaming, demanding, and inevitable accidents as well as other socially awkward moments a child may place upon you unless you are half of the contributing genetics ... or REALLY into it. And I'm not.
Perhaps 40 years ago. Selfish ? Maybe. I just want to be responsible for those things for which I am actually responsible.
So a girl at work waved at me today. A little blonde girl. In a fleeting moment all my hopes and dreams came crashing down and I got on with the work at hand. I often jokingly admonish people to "work on that mind reading". Today it might have proven somewhat embarassing.
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- March 24, 2017
- Snailmail Security
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The shred box is my snailmail security mechanism. Sending me a letter gets it to the postal system mail box out by the road in front of my house. There, I look it over for significance and should it fail that connotation it is tossed unopened into a box I got from Office Despot for that purpose.
Periodically we have these things called "shred events" where I take this box and empty it into the bin of a shredder truck and voila ... everything goes away into coffee ground size pieces.
My criteria for getting opened are by and large a business connection between the sender and I. If someone hangs a note on my door it goes straight into the box. If the communication has a "bulk mail" appearance it goes straight into the box. If the thing is not an active bill that I await each month or from some insurance company or mortgage refinance concern it likely goes straight into the box.
In other words, the vast bulk of that which I receive in the US Mail goes straight into the shred box unopened. I have been told that this is shameful and I should pay more attention to my personal affairs. My reply to this is "I do" and "I am".
Taking care of business implies some level of existing business. Nothing that goes into the box is relevant to anything I have going on at any business level and I'm not one to quibble over much otherwise.
That's why I have the box.
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- March 23, 2017
- Lots of Data Breached Lately
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I've been reading about a lot of tech companies and the like getting hacked and their data confiscated by cybercriminals. Apple. Three UK. Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services. New York in general. America's Job Link Alliance. The list goes on ...
There is this notion I have regarding accessibility and secure channels with authentication which seems to be escaping some others. Perhaps my employment has turned me in to the security crazy individual they are becoming before my very eyes.
Most likely it's because I maintain a personal cluster for my needs here at the crib.
Regardless, just letting any ole body into your stuff is fool hardy and access control is the name of the game ... one way or another.
For this reason, I firewall those who do not require access to the inner sanctum at the drop of a hat. Then I force those who do require access to cross the strong password entry threshold whereby they must provide me with a key generated from my server and provided to them in an encrypted signature file which is time stamped expires quickly.
Though this transpires in a scant few seconds I can at least ensure that my technology doesn't follow the herd and step on a turd like these clods are doing ... repeatedly.
I back all this up with intrustion detection hardware and several scripts of my own design just to keep the would-be breaching hounds at bay as well as I can. This, coupled with pouring over the access logs after they're crunched by a script written for that purpose lets me be somewhat assured that anyone sniffing too close gets nipped in the bud.
Barney Fife was a big proponent of 'bud nipping' as am I.
Where is the world failing to see that the internet isn't this warm and fuzzy place they obviously think it is. I'm prepared to raise shields at the drop of a hat. I leave open ports just waiting for someone to hit them so they can get firewalled.
Listen, and understand. I am out here. I can't be bargained with. I can't be reasoned with. I don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear ... and I absolutely will not stop ... ever, until you are blocked at each and every exploitable vantage.
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- March 22, 2017
- Cell Phones and Malware
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There is a high incidence for cellphone infestation with various malware payloads.
The increasing prevalence of this predicament is part and parcel of that segment of the population using cellphones for web access in the absence of various exploit preventives.
This also implies an edge on those who specifically utilize dangerous web assets placed there specifically for the purpose of turning your phone into some type of abusive bot let loose upon the rest of the users of cellphones.
I use my smart cellphone for business communications or calls from my mother exclusively.
I engage telephone numbers of known individuals and very few text messages to only those in my contacts list.
I am quick to blacklist incoming attempts at contact and my personal phone is not a "smart" phone at all for reasons of caution and discretion.
My reticence to engage risky behaviors with cellphones is simply evidence for that older guy that I am and I am not interested in any of the chats, apps, or other acoutrements of the connected individual whose cellphone is "their life" as it were.
My cellphone could never be my life. I save my web access for my workstation because it has adequate exploit controls which I keep up to date religiously.
I'm even afraid that the "phablets" and "tablets" don't interest me as I avoid touch screens by and large and the keyboard implementations are less than adequate to meet my needs. The bottom line here is that distinct lack of caution evident in those who utilize the smartphone as their sole computing device and their interests are not the serious pursuit of work but more aligned with social media and other frivolity.
I can do without such mess.
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- March 21, 2017
- AI, Self Driving Technology, and ME
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I was wandering through Mashable again today when I encountered a provocative piece on self driving automobiles and Ford's one billion dollar investment in Argo AI which is lead by a couple of heads formerly doing similar work from google and uber.
Ford says they intend to place fully autonomous automobiles on the road by 2021 and rebrand as a "mobility company".
The underlying plan is to develop tech to license to others to market in their own vehicles some time in the future. The core of the technology will be AI systems and it is Ford's intent to become to dominate the self driving platform. NOW then. I'm pretty giddy over the prospects of all of this autonomous vehicle being batted about for the public streets, roads, and highways.
My issues — aside from cost, and other practical matters which concern me personally surround the local populace, some of whom presently maintain their vehicles in a perfectly dismal state of repair.
What happens to self driving vehicles which have fallen into such disrepair that the functionality of the components seriously compromises the safety of everyone else on the roads at the hands of some AI controlled POS reeking havoc on the masses ? What kind of fail-safes are included in the options packages ?
Plus ... there is the insurance. That legislated confidence game that forces us to buy "protection" as though we were voters in the mafia. I am curious as to what the industry is thinking up for their autonomous automobile tier in their unnecessary government sanctioned racket.
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- March 20, 2017
- First Day of Spring !
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Today is the vernal equinox this year ... when the sun crosses the celestial equator traversing from south to north. This marks the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and one of my favorite times of the year.
For I am drawn to the milder temperatures of Spring and Autumn compared to the heat of Summer and cold of Winter. It's just one of those quirks my niece finds endearing about me.
There probably aren't many other reasons for which I could possibly be endearing.
So if you're in the Northern Hemisphere today is the start of springtime and I hope you have a wonderful season of moderate weather and the sprouting of flowers and such.
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- March 19, 2017
- The Loss of Passion
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pas•sion (păshˈən)
A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger, ardent love, strong sexual desire; lust
Ah passion. That great mover of people throughout the ages. Even I was once passionate with a fervor rivaling anything upon the Earth ... only to grow old and lose it all to some jaded evolutionary process whereby all things became cliche and interest wained long past it's prime ... like some over ripe fig hanging ripped upon the tree.
Early on I was the great challenger of the oppressor — truly a legend in my own mind. That sass and agent provocateur that was me would get on anyone's case for any transgression slowly diminished into the ignorer I am these days, interested only in working, eating, and sleeping.
You could tell a lot about me by that music to which I listened. Early on it was the top 40 am drivel which turned to rock and roll Styx, REO Speedwagon, ELP, and Joan Armatrading in the Navy through my progressive days of Renaissance and Jimmie Spheeris to the now which primarily consists of a lot of ambient and esoteric stuff few listen to aside from myself. My substitute for that confrontational nonsense is a bit of cutting up with co workers and belting out a brief tune now and then as I grasp feebly for some tidbit of that essence which was me so long ago.
However, I do take solace in the the quietude and vegging out before the teevee with the occasional socialization thrust upon me by the various others in my midst ... the ladies taking precedence but even some of those are disturbing at this late juncture.
I have substituted being on the road from sun up to late night with the occasional attempt at yard work and putzing around on various personal projects at the keyboard of my workstation. I still lament the loss of my hair, the fatness of my body and that general lack of shape I used to take great pains to cultivate.
However, that impetuous youth has been replaced by a certain wisdom which results from being resilient over the years and remaining here when so many of my people have departed.
I miss them all too. Pretty much I strive for the kinder, gentler Dave seldom known in past iterations.
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- March 18, 2017
- Why I will NEVER return to New York
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I'd like to qualify this with the fact that I am not a "hater". I just prefer to engage matters of humanity in those biological terms which suit us based on the meanings imparted upon me throughout my education.
This has formed my orientation to people and I'm afraid that I decline to suffer fools just because it's the prevailing idiocy du jour. If you want to "call" me on this feel free for I can place my back against the wall and take on the world regarding any conceptualization in the realm of humanity.
Personally, I really don't care about how you choose to live your life, your various orientations, or what you think you are even when contradictory to those natural properties that being human entail.
New York, bastion of stupidity in the United States of America. Home of the dreaded NYCHRL (New York City Human Rights Law) which requires employers, landlords, businesses, and professionals to use a preferred name, pronoun, title regardless of the individual's genotype.
The stupidity of this gender non conforming crap is if you're XY at the chromosomal level you're male and if you're of an XX chromosomal arrangement you're female regardless of hormones, attire, makeup or whatever and the so-called "law" doesn't change this fundamental aspect of people.
So ... I've been to New York and viewed the whores performing fellatio in the alleys off Times Square, the used needles in Central Park, the United Nations and it's continual attempts to rule the United States and all the rest of it and as far as I am concerned New York can stay there and I'll travel elsewhere thank you.
That absolute stupidity which is the NYCHRL is precisely what's wrong with the progressive moment and it's relentless pursuit of all things unnatural, abominable, and nasty in humanity.
Your gender was chosen at fertilization. Whichever gender you choose otherwise is simply a manifestation of abnormality. Now I can live with the concept of "choosing your gender because you're screwed up" but passing laws to require the normal to accommodate the abnormal is simply insufferable for me personally and evidence for the fact that the progressive movement is simply pandering for democrat votes during elections.
The people of New York City should have stopped the freaks from having their way with the legislature.
Bottom line here is:
If you're XY you're not a woman and you're never going to be one.
If you're XX you're not a man and you're never going to be one.
Despite your best efforts and expenditures you are who you are and this was determined long before you had any control of your destiny. Should medicine develop a nanite capable of rewriting your DNA such that you're sex chromosomes reflect your so-called "gender identity" then of course, the rules will change.
Otherwise you will remain that strapping "female impersonator" with 5 o'clock shadow by and large or that squirrely little "man" with the big hips and other feminine features which mark that lesbian that you really are.
However, by all means be who you are. Just don't legislate what I call you because I have a right to express my opinons first and foremost and the United States Constitution remains in effect as does the First Ammendment to it.
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- March 17, 2017
- Saint Patrick's Day
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I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I didn't realize it was St Patrick's until I went to the bank and the ladies asked me why I wasn't wearing any green. Suffice it to say that my attention to details has evolved somewhat over the years and for sure ... I've had other things on my mind of late.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig in the Irish, or The Feast of Saint Patrick, aka Saint Patrick's Day is a Gaelic cultural holiday with religious origins held on March 17 — the traditionally recognized date Saint Patrick (c. 385 – 461 AD) died.
Since the early 17th century it has been an official Christian feast observed by the Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and Lutheran churches commemorating Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland as well as well as Irish heritage and cultural significance.
In the United States the lack of recognition of St Patrick's Day as a "holiday" has not stopped the many wide spread celebrants from marking the day for as long as I can remember.
Locally, there is a shopping and entertainment district where the celebration has heavy participation with merriment, lots of green, food, and refreshments all around.
So, in that spirit of Saint Patrick's Day and it's many adherents everywhere I wish you a happy celebration be yours sacred or secular wherever you happen to be.
Happy Saint Patrick's day !
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