I began working in computers back in the 1970s. I have been doing the work ever since "plan A" was no longer feasible.

Over the years I've worked with a lot of great people and others who were not so great.

It seems that right about the time we raised that generation of burger flippers (duh) in the 1980s the field went into steep decline. Talk about a stupid bunch of dope smokers and glue huffers.

I am amazed how people who can't even write, much less CODE call themselves "professionals" of any kind.

The "oop" or 'object oriented programming' people are the most prevalent example of this particular variety of idiot.

These dumbasses I have encountered far outnumber those stellar examples of technical skill I always attempted to both attain and demonstrate in the workplace.

This has been both a double edged sword and a benefit as my subject matter expertise has always seen me through and has often impinged on my premium free time.

I find that the hardware and software skills I have were always a good mix in the workplace. However, you end up being some master degree holders bitch even though they are typically as dumb as dirt. "Personnel Director" bitches are the absolute worst. Talk about dumbass on the hoof in a skirt ...

You can usually find them working some attorney group on Main Street in Columbia, SC as well talking about "qualifications" as though they knew what they were or had a single one.

So today is National I T Professionals Day. It goes down on the third Tuesday of September since 2015.. Don't ask me what the platitude is all about because I really neither solicit nor need "a day". Regardless I hope you fall on the stellar rather than dumbass side of the skillset.

A note regarding this word "professional". In IT you are a professional if you can do the work to the point of subject matter expertise. So many IT so-called "professionals" are suits without skills. Therein lay my disdain.

Good luck !
 

We have another September 11 upon us with it's memories of the 9/11 attacks on multiple US sites. This was due to failed leadership, dawdling civil defense, and ignoring the signs up front. We allowed the perpetrators to be trained on big jets here in the United States because there was no vigilance. This is what happens when your chief executive is a ninny.

This resulted in Patriot Day as a time to reflect on the devastating terror attacks that took nearly 3,000 lives as well as those failures associated thereto. We commemorate those lost and thank the first responders. Many of the casualties were realized long afterward in the form of breathing those dust particles and that subsequent infirmity they imparted to our frail human existence.
 

I generally take a few moments today to consider what we stand for as a nation and how we can work together to make the world a better place for all.

The influx of foreign criminals caused by the totally FAILED Biden-Harris regime is certainly NOT a proper path in this regard. I feel it's quite outrageous to make a failed current vice president your candidate stupd democrats.

So if you lost someone in the 9/11 attacks I hope you have been able to gain peace. Otherwise you might display a little of that anger toward the administration and the handling of matters within the Republic by the incompetents we vote into power and over whom we exercise NO control.

What a stupid country we have become existing in an equally stupid woke world.

The so-called "elite" are just a another group of dumb asses with "safe space" degrees from Harvard and Yale.

Boo !
 

Today is White Balloon Day. It is held each September 10 under the auspices of a group called "Braveharts" during what ostensibly is National Child Protection Week. The idea is that cchildren should be able to feel safe and happy but this is not always the case. The Bravehearts organization brings hope to the abused.

It is said we have a contingent of evil permeating the political sphere whereby people travel great distances for adrenochrome, a blood derivative typically "harvested" from children who are then killed.

In the further name of consipiracy theories, this is something I believe:

We have evil lesbian pedophiles who are both elected politicians and pursue innocent victims who are made subject to their perverse whims.

Consipiracy theories ? I certainly wish I thought they were — but I have read too many evidentary depositions and seen too many photographs. Plus with the vast bulk of democrats being the lot of scum that they are I believe the anecdotal evidence presented regarding high level operatives within the democrat party being taken to places where this behavior transpirers.

Sexual assault and adrenochrome harvesting on children is alive and well in the United States. The Biden administration has created a favorable atmosphere for child sex trafficking with the massive influx of foreign criminals and NOBODY is doing anything about it.

I say gather the evidence then throw these criminal politicians who are said to prey upon children into GITMO and chain them to the walls outside in the sun til they are well done.

White Balloon Day is not what it should be. There is no proactive prevention of child abuse on any avenue.
 

I have only owned one iguana in my lifetime. His name was Iggy and he was acquired due to my own bad judgement from my boss at the college where I taught continuing education computer classes for some 20 odd years.

Now it seems that Iggy got along grandly in his reptile enclosure even though the entire room reeked of lizard excrement. It was the winter months and I ran a oil filled radiator on high in the room as well as keeping a 'heat stone' in the enclosure for him to rest upon.

He never struck me as being uncomfortable with this arrangement. He would get a a lot of baby spinach and other mixed greens sprinkled with a calcium supplement powder along with fresh water every day. He consumed these things with apparent gusto.

I cleaned his enclosure about once a week or when it became heavily soiled as it did periodically. I devised a good methodology for quick and efficient cleaning using a lot of white vinegar and water on the back porch. I then dried the thing with a heat gun I used to use on shrink wire wrap tubing.
 

After a year or so I encountered some neighbors who were from Puerto Rico who inquired as to whether they might take ownership of Iggy along with his enclosure and other accessories in use to feed him and clean his environment.

I thought about it and having never wanted in actuality to acquire a lizard anyway I turned everything over to them.

On a chance visit some weeks later I discovered a fairly substantial pile of bones in their yard along with what appeared to be lizard skins and I inquired as to where Iggy was. They then admitted that they consumed him for a family meal one weekend and that Iggy was no more. It was also obvious that Iggy wasn't ever the only main course, either.

This was quite a shock for me personally as I had never intended for Iggy to become a food animal. I thought he would remain the companion animal that I viewed him as being. So much for what I thought.

Today is National Iguana Awareness Day, held each September 8 annually as a vehicle to promote the iguana as pets.

So if you acquire an iguana you no longer want you may or may not wish to pursue whether it will end up as a pet ... or food with the new owners up front. Had I done this I would have handled matters differently.

I had bad dreams of him being dispatched and prepared for cooking for a long time afterwards. I suppose it is just deserts for such irresponsibility in reptile ownership. You see, though I didn't really like Iggy very much I was in it for the duration.

Alas poor Iggy I knew him well Horatio.

Rest in peace.
 

You are what you are and you is what you is.

From You Are What You Is
Frank Zappa
1981