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- October 23, 2016
- Soft Drink Diabetes Connection
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I have metabolic syndrome x. This condition is actually composed of several concurrent maladies to include elevated blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess visceral fat and an abnormal lipid configuration to include high cholesterol and triglycerides. The morbidity is an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
This condition has been present since I stopped exercising and the consequences have been a gut and endless ridicule from those who were supposed to be "friends" of mine — one of which died of cancer a few years back.
Evidence for a distinct connection between consuming sweet soft drinks and diabetes has been raised yet again in the threads. The evidence is quite asymmetric with various soft drink habits spawning different levels of the disease ...
But the claims are quite thought provoking at several levels and make me happy that I stopped the wholesale consuming of Mountain Dew by the can and quart bottle back in my old Red Bank heyday.
Given the fact that these green sugar bombs which I consumed in mass quantities with gusto were accompanied by various cigarette brands like Marlboro when I bought them to whatever else I would bum from others periodically ...
I'd have to say that the bulk effect of giving both up concurrently must have helped at some point.
I only wish that serious treatment of these issues had started much earlier. There is a disconnect sometimes when a physician either doesn't recognize or correlate the lab work to the person and I feel this is what happened to me until things got way out of control.
So now my beverages are virtually sugar free and unsweetened as I don't like artificial sweeteners by and large.
I gave up the smoking years back. I have little body fat aside from the visceral stuff by and large. If I could only get some exercise I might have a chance.
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- October 22, 2016
- I was cold last night ...
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Last night I was cold for the first time in the year. No, not Idaho cold with frost and snow everywhere; but significantly cooler than I recall thus in 2016 and it made for brief excursions to get a lottery ticket and pick up a few beverages.
It all has me feeling like the fall of the year and I certainly welcome the feeling. However, we are supposed to be in the mid 80s early next week and it's rather conflicting indications.
I went to the bank yesterday and toyed with all the girls briefly with my psycho dave act.
I don't think I was REALLY fooling anyone because I'm kind of a wuss otherwise. It comes with the territory. I don't mean any harm and everyone seems to know it. I must be smiling or something when I'm talking smack.
Oh well, I'll never be a convincing menace because of the soft girly man hands I suppose.
Anyway, the weather has been refreshing, I'm living within my means, and continuing to poke fun at anyone and everyone.
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- October 21, 2016
- The Cusp of Immersive Security
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Immersive environments such as VR in conjunction with AI and all those peripherals dotting the landscape should ring a few bells of caution in the area of social design and the constructs of suitable security mechanisms interspersed ... not as an afterthought; but as a fully formed and integrated subsystem.
Situational awareness across multiple dimensions with sensory inputs which may simulate realistic attack postures in progress are a requirement now, not in the future. We are presently deluged with more than the tabular and chart metrics can adequately display in real time to spot trends and active incursions.
The dynamics of visual and spatial interaction with the inclusion of holographics and VR are essential for the user interface required to achieve the competent security analyst equipped with contextual security application in real time as though standing before the actor attempting exploit.
Business intelligence now traverses the full gamut of immersive technicals of which user interface, security, and database schema meld into a seamless presentation with metrics and scenario analysis.
It starts with the engine required to display the parameters and interact with the user. It ends with the logic control sufficient to the task of rules processing and multidimensional thinking.
All that remains is the space between our ears and that activity triggered there.
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- October 20, 2016
- Hillary's Debate Questions in Advance
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What good is a supposedly "spontaneous" debate when one of the participants is given the questions in advance ?
It seems that Hillary Clinton has been getting nearly all questions asked during the past 18 months approved and agreed upon in advance.
This notion of heavily scripted and rehersed responses to questions during the course of a campaign is HARDLY presidential much less the pompous hypocrisy represented by the entirety of the DNC with their hidden agenda of buying votes with entitlements and mass influx of illegals in pursuit of a free ride in exchange for their vote.
As one of her "basket of deplorables" as she puts us ... I submit that she and her husband are just as deplorable as we are as well as ANYTHING Donald Trump has been accused of by various others paid to come out with supposed anecdotal evidence for mishbehavior on his part.
Couple this with the profiteering on the politics of our nation and the mass predatory behaviors otherwise and I keep wondering why all the democrats are still blowing this smoke all over the gullible as they are.
Donna Brazile may share questions meant to be spontaneous with the Clinton campaign beforehand ... but this is HARDLY the worse work of the Clintons in their political history.
I wonder just how many more of the Clinton inner circle will die under mysterious circumstances as a result of the election shenanigans the DNC has continually been pulling during the course of the Trump candidacy.
Caveat Emptor: let the buyer beware. The Clintons are for sale and the stakes and fee schedules are high.
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- October 19, 2016
- The Fair Doesn't Happen for Me Anymore
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As much as I might fantasize about returning to the SC State Fair; I really don't see it ever happening again.
I was in the elevator at work speaking with a colleague from the legal department and she voiced one of my primary preventives:
They stopped selling beer.
Couple this with the even longer gone absence of "Hoochie Coochie" shows and I pretty much don't feel the need to ever return.
Now I'm not much of a drinker, nor a carouser ... and those indulgences were something I saved for the fair and my rowdy friends who accompanied me there. Things were that way for a good many years until everything came to a screeching halt in the mid to late 90s.
The fair people chalk this up to some family orientation they perceive to be "wholesome" and I simply counter with the fact that paying customers should be considered as well.
Anyway, it's all a moot point at this late juncture. I recall my last visit being somewhat less than satisfying because the concessions were mostly broken, the people running them rude, unbathed, and unkempt. All in all I'd just as soon pass anyway.
I suppose the fair is for a subset of the populace these days. Those hoity toity denominational christian separatists running that particular show.
The guy running the thing has been entrenched for as long as I can remember. Perhaps a new person in charge, a fresh perspective, and an orientation that the fair is for everyone might be in the offing someday.
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- October 18, 2016
- Ken Bone's Fifteen Minute Meme
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I'd like to preface this with the fact that I neither know this man nor do I have any problem with any aspect of his existence. So we have yet another nongenetic element of culture possibly imitated intermittently which has run it's course. My issue is with the situation and that cultivation of something into what it certainly isn't in reality.
That stupidity evident in our modern world ... particularly in the United States of America manifests itself yet again. This time, in the personification of an individual named Ken Bone who attended a Presidential debate only to assume the role of some national heroic icon in the mind's eye of a subset of our idiot electorate and media addict drivel oriented manifestations impersonating human intellectual achievement ...
THAT IS until he opened his mouth and removed all doubt it likely would have served his purposes far better had he just remained silent and merely be thought a fool.
Afterward, attempting a stab at personal gain for his apparently unassuming celebrity it is noted on various threads that his commentary is described primarily as "seedy" — and perhaps this focus upon him was undue and typifies that lack of awareness that has a gross percentage of the populace supporting Hillary Clinton for chief executive. You, and SHE are precisely what is wrong with the USA in these tumultuous times.
The guy has shared some of his ideas. Likewise some of his personal fantasy. All in all he projects this working class schlep mentality which is not only unqualified ... but purely subjective and while I certainly don't begrudge his indulgence by any means I personally have found it a total waste of time.
I must have never really given a rip one way or another ... but the fifteen minutes became hours and I have long grown weary.
It's okay to be who you are. It's not okay to assume an identity who is not you as though you're this permutation of some unknown ascended master come to earth to impart your essence on we lesser entities.
I don't care for whom Kenneth Bone votes. It's simply past time for his presence in the threads to be done and in actuality; he should have never really become newsworthy. But we are focused on this lack of substance as evidenced by those throngs of democrats and progressives out to open the floodgates of taxpayer dollars for anyone and everyone who might cast a vote in their direction.
Ask me anything ? No thank you. Yes, I really do think you're stupid people so why don't you just don your large red sweater and strike a portly pose or gnash your teeth for the papparazi in the dull blankness of it all.
My preterbedness lies with a concept, not an individual. Ken Bone could have been anyone. There are plenty of us around.
Perhaps you too can be a Ken Bone and have your meaningless fifteen minutes a la Warhola. Me, I'll just remain out of the spotlight here in the background if you don't mind. That microscope called the public eye is simply WAY too fickle for my tastes. Besides, like the fool girl at Yale screaming for her 'safe space' on youtube I too have unsubstantiated needs which will never be fulfilled.
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- October 17, 2016
- Autumn Breaks
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I'm pretty happy with the break in the weather. It seems that our spate of 110 degree heat index has abated for the year. None too soon for me.
Being a creature of the coolness I prefer to throw on an additional garment for warmth than to shed them for coolness.
The various splashes of color which enhance the landscapes are simply an added bonus. The local leaves have nothing on those of my childhood ... like Blackfoot, Idaho around the second grade or so.
I have a number of cohorts who are lamenting the cooler weather just as I am happier about it. To each their own and it takes all kinds of us to make a world.
October is half done and the advent of the holiday season bears down on me — anxiously awaiting. I could use a little more in the way of good cheer which has escaped me; probably washed off me in the sweat of recent days.
As my old friend Jerry Landry used to rail about the "oppressive" white hot August sun back in our Navy days, I too have acquired a disdain for all the heat indigenous to the area.
Could the rude yankee in me be awakening after all these years?
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- October 16, 2016
- My New Invention
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I'd like to introduce my new invention. It's called 'digital band-aid'. Properly applied to any piece of failing computer equipment it will automagically make all of your technical problems go away, be they hardware, software, or media related.
Furthermore, in the hands of a qualified individual applying the fix — the only problems that can't be fixed are those which would require total replacement anyway.
So if you're in a technical mess, don't fret. Call your friendly neighborhood digital band-aid applique today !
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- October 15, 2016
- Allegations are pretty much time sensitive
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A lot of late allegations come to light in some tactical attempt to sully others.
Pretty much, if you've waited a number of years to make anything known then announce your grievance at some chosen moment out of the blue your credibility comes into question.
2016 is quite a bit late to be reporting some harassment suffered in the 1980s or even 1990s. Statutes of limitations be damned ...
This projects the appearance of some attempt to gouge and the consequences of such moves are likely to backfire on those making all too late allegations for political ends.
Particularly when the individual is some fugly human being when the primary damage is to the target's sense of good taste.
I don't grope because I'm not interested. It's a highly charged prospect to make accusations just because they are expedient to the moment — and that burden of proof remains.
You who think you have some political ace up your sleeve might want to think about what you're doing in the so-called heat of the moment. That axe you're grinding may be reserved for someone other than your intended ... can you say "self inflicted wound" ?
Making someone controversial is not necessarily problematic to a political campaign in the presence of appearances and those I am seeing fall quite a bit short of credibility.
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- October 14, 2016
- Reflections on Senior Citizenship
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It SUCKS...
I suppose the inevitability of senior citizen discounts, that alleged wisdom which supposedly results from age and experience, not to mention the warm and fuzzies of understanding life at a level beyond those of the younger generations is comforting ... to some.
Me, I personally would prefer my late 20s and being able to know what I know now. I suppose that's asking too much.
I recall how I used to kid my late friend Dewitt regarding his age viz a viz mine and all the ribbing does nothing to comfort me at this age — well beyond that to which he lived and yet in the great beyond he now knows all things and leaves me in the dust from the standpoint of awareness once again.
Couple this with the various others wanting to move in and "be roomates" even though living by yourself is certainly a comparative groove has me shrinking from the fence when others call me there. It seems I've suffered one pitch too many.
No, I don't want a room mate thank you very much. Nor do I seek a baby momma nor an organ donor either. I didn't get here by laying around and breeding with anyone and everyone like so many I've met over the years and have no intentions of turning all slutty now.
Suffice it to say that further coupling is unlikely. I'm not searching for new domestic experiences, tantric or otherwise, and the notion of constantly interacting with someone whose vocabulary is densly populated with the phrase "do you dig where I'm coming from" simply isn't going to do it for me.
I suppose that if I were in my 20s it might be different, but I don't recall being attracted to airheads back then either.
I don't actually recall when hygiene became a prime focus in my existence — probably sometime during the advent of the reality of HIV but there are likewise aromatic barriers by which I am repulsed. Cheap cologne, armpits, the shields go up over many circumstantial existential spheres of interpersonal relations.
No offense, but I simply lack the tolerance of my younger years and it's much easier to make my position known these days so just shut up and back off.
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- October 13, 2016
- Haunting Echos from the Past
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Matt Drudge reports that in it's never ending desire to spin and color journalism in their own YELLOW image, CNN boss Jeff Zucker has ordered his network people to refrain from covering allegations by Arkansas resident Danney Williams, who claims to be Bill Clinton's mixed race son.
Young Mr Williams is going to be interviewed on infowars.com regarding his side of this sordid story and Mr Zucker believes it all to be a hoax. Of course he would.
While I certainly feel that Mr Clinton deserves the full benefit of any circulating doubt; I also feel that a DNA sample taken from Monica Lewinsky's blue dress to compare with one taking from Mr Williams might clear things up in a jiffy. The alleged baby mama and alleged son both are corroborating this story and the resources are available to make a determination.
Events secondary to daddy's little excursion in the woodpile may be mounting for yet another thrilling climax ! Until that time Mr Clinton of course has my complete indulgence and my sincerest sympathy for a reputation which far precedes itself.
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- October 12, 2016
- Today the SC State Fair Opens
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Today is the first day of the state fair. I was hoping I might make it but it now seems unlikely. I haven't been in a number of years with the last time I attended being around 1997 or so.
It seems that I lack company and the fair is simply one of those things I prefer not to attend alone.
Such is the life of an old fart ... particularly when most of those who were called friend have passed away or otherwise moved on.
Maybe next year.
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- October 11, 2016
- High Anxiety
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So there's been a lot to get me all pent up and fuming today.
Used notepad to edit the host file on a server. After wrangling with the extra security I overlooked the fact that it had hung a .txt extension on the file name causing it to be ignored.
Nothing like looking stupid at work.
Bought some spare parts for my robot which are taking longer than expected to be processed at the warehouse. Called tonight and they assured me they are on the way. I just expected a lot sooner arrival that I'll be getting.
Worked on a big project only to have the hurricaine come along and shut us down for three days of the campaign being supported by the project. Now all the time critical aspects have expired and I'm all revved up with no place to go.
Then we suffer a joke of a presidential debate where the so-called moderators were actually participants who were interrupting one candidate and not the other and holding that same candidate to strict time limits and not the other.
Such favoritism is not supposed to be present in presidential debates and the moderators are a couple of yellow journalists ... that color of way too much of our frankly slanted journalism — by the involvement of organizations and individuals with agendas to push upon the reader. I don't want to mention any names ... C N N.
I'm still voting for Trump.
The Obama legacy is damnation, lies to the people, underhanded policies, "executive privilege" turned illegal rule by decree, kowtowing to the illegals and foreign nationals, and a singularly subservient United States to all that is wrong with the world.
Hillary Clinton is a continuation of that entirely unsatisfactory illegal, unsavory, immoral, untruthful, and unscrupulous element pervading our politics these days.
The notion of a Hillary Clinton administration remains ill advised and uninformed, bad, sad comedy. When you're going to attempt to project some "holier than thou" persona you NEED to ensure your political history is above reproach. Her's (and Bill's) isn't.
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- October 10, 2016
- Google Gets Geolocation wrong AGAIN
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So YET AGAIN Google thinks I'm in Summerville, SC some 100 miles from where I am.
Yahoo gets my geolocation correctly.
Bing gets my geolocation correctly.
I can only surmise that this is either by design or that those in charge of geolocation at Google are stupid.
Probably some combination of the two.
I see google leaving my node in the near future.
I have this severe aversion to stupid.
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