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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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- October 9, 2016
- Adventures in Cameraland
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Friday I got froggy and decided to reconfigure my LAN camera array. Big mistake.
I was either way too naive or there is some SID or GUID considerations unknown to me.
The fact that my attempt to reconfigure the router only to have it rendered dead in the water has me reticent to blame the cameras so much than the router itself.
After conferring with the support guy we both agreed that the problem with connecting to the internet lay on my side of their connection ...
so I restored a backup of the router configuration and voila !
Back up and running like there wasn't ever a problem.
Mulling over the possibilities has me wondering just how much the web server played in the festivities given the scripting in place that I didn't bother to stop prior to the start of this fiasco.
Anyway, everything is as it was prior to my getting all prematurely ambitious and yes ...
I had better things to do Friday than recover my network.
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- October 8, 2016
- Roomba Maintenance
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Fred, my beloved Roomba, has had a bit of maintenance this evening. I disassembled the brushes and rollers and blew everything out with a can of air. Then I took a damp cloth and wiped down those internals where dirt has accumulated and washed out the dust bin.
F.R.E.D.
Free Roaming Electronic Device
After everything dried out I reassembled the parts and hooked him up to the charger.
I bought the high faluting Lithium Ion aftermarket battery upon which he will operate for just a tad under 3 hours. However, the down side is I can't just put the base station down and let him go at charging himself.
This new battery has to be totally discharged prior to a recharge or it throws errors during the charging process.
So I hook him up manually after having him run until the battery is totally depleted via a start with the "dock" button.
It's all very lovely from a labor saving device perspective and living on a sand hill like I do the carpets really can use the extra attention they get since I got him.
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- October 7, 2016
- The Trials and Tribulations of Yard Work
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I have taken the opportunity to pursue some long overdue yard work here at the homestead. Those duties have been shirked for far too long resulting in the various weed overgrowths ... with those weeds even predominating my lawn in several areas.
So I sat upon the tractor the other day and rode it around my acre for several hours cutting the weeds short and mulching up all the leaves on the ground. I have found the homogenous appearance of mulched leaves and the even low cut weeds to be far more esthetically pleasing than that wild and wooly appearance had but a scant two days back.
Yesterday I took a plastic trash can and collected as many of the sticks from the yard as I could. It seems that these fall from the trees during episodic winds and some of them are quite large indeed. Most all are easily broken and hauled to the street to await yard debris pickup by the city which happens every week or so.
I have noticed that even in the presence of good breezes I tend to be congested after these yard pursuits and despite my best efforts I always seem to end up not wearing the little respirator masks mama likes me to wear.
With the approaching bad weather I'm going to try and work on the farthest corner and pick up the beer cans and various wrappers then trim the limbs high enough to ride the tractor over that part as well ... even though I will go beyond the limits of my property it really could use some work.
It seems that the locals prefer to throw trash out their automobile windows as they go by more than anything. I keep wondering why we tolerate these people who exhibit such a distinct lack of raising.
I once saw the occupants of a truck toss McDonald's cups, bags, and wrappers out their window right in front of my house with me standing there — while they live three doors down. I started to go over there and have at them seeing how law enforcement doesn't really give a rip otherwise ... but I relented.
Ah the origins of vigilantism must have arisen from littering thy neighbor's domicile. It sure has stirred the baby harp seal bludgeoning redneck in me.
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- October 6, 2016
- Cryptocurrency Community Shuns OneCoin
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There's a player in the cryptocurrency game called OneCoin which has made claims of revamping the cryptocurrency blockchain rendering it capable of mining 50,000 tokens per block with markedly increased speeds than known previously.
They also claim to have made wallet improvements and have publicly released this information to the press resulting in ... shall we say "less than enthusiastic" response from the cryptocurrency community.
It would seem that the bulk of the bitcoin proponents feel that OneCoin is engaging in fraudulent activity which is likely to damage both the public and the technology characterizing OneCoin as exhibiting "classic fraudulent behavior" over a backdrop of what they would have others think as being "legitimate blockchain community".
Bitcoin vs OneCoin. Now there's a concept. The upstart company speaks in terms of "our coin" and this in and of itself is rather disconcerting. The cryptocurrency market is supposed to be "one thing" not "two or more things" and it does ring of some attempt to fraudulently usurp the present cryptocurrency infrastructure via a mechanism which is outside the purview of the existing entities.
This being the case I am even more reticent to engage cryptocurrency as a viable market because there needs to be vetting and arbitration regarding just what cryptocurrency is now and where it is going.
Like the bulk of Bitcoin people out there who view OneCoin as fraudulent ... there are many others of us who view the entire notion of crypto currency, mining tokens from block chains, and gaining wealth by running code to be equally dubious financials.
As law enforcement and regulators are closing in. could the bells be tolling for OneCoin ?
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- October 5, 2016
- Operational Shutdown
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We're in operational shutdown through Friday due to the weather.
I'm going in this morning briefly to take care of a few loose ends.
I'll likely devote this time to attempting once again to implement Apache which has eluded me during the intial setup.
Thank heavens for Tomcat. Now to make the two talk to each other.
Shoot man.
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- October 5, 2016
- WikiLeaks at 10
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So the secrets started coming forth on WikiLeaks a decade ago and their celebratory posture claims more election and google secrets to be shortly forthcoming.
Why? Because everybody want everyone else to "dish" on something or someone and they are entirely too happy to accommodate our gossip — er ... FACT seeking world.
Julian Assange, founder and fugitive in embassy hiding has promised electoral revelations along with other whistleblower and tell-all dossiers of documents on whatever else he has that might titilate your thinking toward these mainstream icons and just how they operate behind closed doors.
While all too many are ready willing and able to sift through the masses of leaked communications it all has this tawdry "kiss and tell" taste to me.
Likely I will read digests of various leaked topicals that strike my fancy ... but I also think that Bradley Manning and other traitors of his ilk should be summarily executed on the supreme court steps.
Therefore, I'm much less a proponent of trading in government secrets even in the presence of those abuses I know occur.
However, I'm sure Mr Assange isn't sitting around worrying about what I think, either and has distinct plans regardless of that vetting I might wish for otherwise.
Suffice it to say that although this soap opera nouveaux has proven edifying at times, they're not the same type "stories" my dear late grandmother used to follow while cooking dinner on Hollow Creek prior to her decline.
We'll just have to see what happens next because despite our best efforts those results and consequences will evolve regardless of you or me.
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