Testing of Google Docs

I want to use Google Docs to store my copy of my blog entries. This is a quick test of things that I do every time I use documents. I know most of them will probably work in the Google Docs editor, but this is a test of how much of this will survive to the Blogger environment.

This is a test of ctrl enter to remove space after a paragraph.
Works in Google Docs.
The default page settings are changeable now. This means I can reduce the acre of margin to something manageable. I can put some space after the paragraphs, which is what it looks like on my blog more or less.

• Bullets 1
• Bullets 1.5 (worked hitting tab)
• Bullets 2
• Bullets 3

There only appears to be “Normal Text” style. I haven’t found a way to make, for example “Code” style, which I need to make things work in my technical universe. I’ll keep looking.
Spelling works, but no hot keys. Can’t find a way to remove bad custom words. That could be bad.
No way to get rid of page breaks it seems. Though, the separation is unobtrusive. There is a simple line between pages. That will work if it is consistent.
Embedding does not work. Will have to do embedding code separately. No big deal to be honest.
No way to do an HTML preview of anything.
Headers and footers are a bit clunky. I don’t typically use them for my needs.
Looks like the editors are identical in Linux and windows.
Lets find out how editing on one computer and the changes showing up on another computer that still has the document open works. ... I didn’t have to reload the document or anything. The moment I killed the screen saver, the changes had beaten me from one desk to the other. As a matter of fact, I could just leave the doc on multiple machines and run back and forth without much effort. Have to remember that.
The highlight color is too light. I could use something with more contrast. They appear to be copying Microsoft or Apple on the just change the shade and not the color hilight front. The underline for the spelling is of the same level of too light to see half the time. Too bad for me.
After a quick test of pasting the contents of this and the other entries for today in to the blogger editor, I noticed the text spacing and other things are messed up. That doesn’t matter if I’m honest. The editor has always sucked on Blogger’s system. The styles of the template you use are applied after you hit post. If that editor was much better, I wouldn’t need to find an editor for my posts.
Test for blockquote (emulation)

This is a test quote. From some link somewhere

Finally found the column width setting. Looks workable to me as long as the copy and paste works properly.
Table for vlog entries

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I have to say that the table above looks exactly the way I want it on the Google Docs screen. The real test will of course be the Blogger paste. I’ll have to put together a seed document for tables and blockquotes and such for the blog. Note: I can’t use bullets in the above description section because that is the format YouTube wants for bullets to show up properly in their interface.
This just might work. I’m sure there are issues that will piss me off. This interface has many shortcomings. It is miles better than it was a couple years ago. I think it is finally something that will work for me.

Notes:

2012-08-27

I’m learning that wifi is not science. it is voodoo. Sometimes you can have two devices too close to one another and one will jam the other. Microwave ovens are like black holes. Even if shielded, they seem to absorb EM energy. There must be something to this. Mirrors and glass seem to hurt pass through most of the time, but not always. Even though you tell people not to rely on wifi, they do. Have a backup plan means screw it, just use the wifi.
Not sure what is going on with my audiocasts. They are all falling off the end of the world. People are figuring out that it takes effort to talk into a microphone for more than ten minutes. If you don't do your homework, no one listens. You will get sick of your subject matter. You will answer all the questions 85 times and start referring people to old audiocasts. It does just get old. Many of my audiocasts are professional radio shows that are simply recorded and any IP removed that would get them in trouble. These seem to last. Of course, someone is making money on these shows usually.
The contacts I’m wearing now were put in Monday morning. It is Tuesday well after lunch at the writing of this paragraph. The contacts are more comfortable now than my old pair were even moments after putting them in. it still amazes me how much difference there is between brands of contacts.
All the new projectors come with wifi display setup. It has the same issues as all of wifi. That is, a lott. However it really saves effort on running wires. You don’t understand how much of a nightmare it can  be to run a wire from the floor level to the ceiling level of a room in an office environment. You have to deal with people and governments. You have to deal with insulation and bugs. You have to deal with wet and dust. You have to deal with bosses and desperate salespeople. I still recommend the wifi video.

Vlog

Too lazy for this details stuff tonight.

Trigger happy

Yikes. It looks like all the people injured in the shootout in front of the Empire State Building were shot by cops.

All nine people injured in Friday's shooting in front of the Empire State Building were wounded by police gunfire, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters Saturday.

CNN Headline News email

This is one I want to know what happened. I'm going to have to follow this story. What kind of confusing circumstances ended up with the cops gunning down nine civilians? I need to know.

Notes:

2012-08-27

KVM devices need reset switches. Three times a week I get calls from folks saying their KVM died. "Unplug all the USB ports from the KVM to the computers at the same time. Count to ten. Plug them back in." Every week.

You have to spend money on fixing things. There is not much you can do about it except not fix things at some point. You need to make sure you are getting value for your money and you pull the trigger. Then comes the inevitable bitching. If you fail to fix something you will receive hate from people for whatever it was needing to be fixed again. If you did fix it correctly, those same people will bitch that you waisted money fixing it in the first place.

coming back from special forces to civilian life is going to change. The government has always been terrified of military members coming back from training and combat. These are capable people. The government needs to keep track of these people. They are all but encouraged to apply for disability. This makes them easier to track.

Vlog - New camera:w

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Why are turbochargers more efficient?

A turbocharger does two things. It recovers energy that would have been waisted out the tailpipe. It also increases air pressure and airflow through the engine. It is important to remember that internal combustion engines do not run on fuel. They run on air. The fuel is a catalyst to burn the oxygen in the air.

When a cylinder moves, the amount of space it takes up is called displacement. The ratio of most volume to least volume tells us the compression. The higher the compression, the more explosion. The higher the compression, the more finicky an engine becomes. The higher the compression, the better quality fuel you need to use to make your engine run smoothly.

A turbocharger lets you cheat on compression. Instead of crushing the fuel air mixture in to a small space, you force more air and fuel in to the cylinder when it is at maximum volume. This gives you the efficiency of high compression with the fewer issues of the lower compression engines.

Exhaust exits the cylinder and travels out the tail pipe. A turbocharger uses some of those hot expanding gasses to crank a fan that forces more air in to the engine than would normally happen without a turbo. In a normally aspirated engine you have about 1 atmosphere of pressure shoving air in to the engine. No matter how big you make the intake, you still only have that amount of pressure to work with. A turbocharger might double or even triple the amount of pressure shoving air in the engine.

The difference between a turbocharger and a supercharger is the turbocharger uses exhaust gasses to turn the turbine. A supercharger uses a belt driven straight off the engine, like the alternator. Super chargers have an advantage of instant power. Turbo charger have the advantage of recycling the lost exhaust energy. There have been vehicles that use two turbochargers or even a supercharger and a turbocharger to solve the issue of turbo lag without loosing performance.

In some cases you can put a turbocharger on a vehicle that did not come with one from the factory without a bunch of modifications. I've heard of this being done on trucks and Suburban vehicles. As long as the turbo does not push engines limits the conversion should work. Typically, this is a low boost turbo. In one case I read that an older Suburban went from 13 MPG to 17 MPG and from 20 sec 0 to 60 to 12 sec 0 to 60. Not shabby. It is important to note this was a pre-fuel injection vehicle.

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Notes

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2012-08-23

Should abortion be aloud in rape cases or is that murdering a child for the sins of the father? That question kind of focus on all three entities in the issue. People have issues with calling abortion murder, but is it?

Vlog - Allergy tests and a Jeep Liberty

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Notes:

2012-08-22

If I were on the jury for that Apple vs Samsung paten battle, I would as the judge one question. "Is there a way to find both parties at fault and make sure that they both know they have lost?"

It is august. The humidity was not that bad this morning. The breeze was blowing. I sweat a bit on the way in, but it was sweat that worked. That is, it evaporated and cooled me down. This is a novelty in Houston. I don't know what combination of weather conditions lead to this pleasant morning, but more please.

I should have kept track of my pod-fade. I bet I'm listening to 5 of the same podcasts that I listened to 3 years ago. I went through recently and found that several podcasts in my list have gone away or faded in the last few months. Typically I let them sit for six months before killing the feed. This always motivates me to go find some new sources. This time I found a couple that don't suck. I need to put a list together.

Vlog 2012-08-21

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Julian Assange whining about his choices

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, making his first public remarks from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he is holed up, called on President Obama on Sunday to "do the right thing."
"The United States must renounce its witch hunt against WikiLeaks" and "dissolve its FBI investigation," he said.

CNN headline news email

Hey Julian, the right thing is to nab you and force you to pay for your crimes. I just wish the powers that be would just accept the fact that they are going to have to just throw you to the wolves and not use trumped up charges.

I'm hearing some really horrible shit about old Assange. I can't find any corroboration, but some say he is a terrible house guest. I'm not going to repeat what was said. Let's just say that from this source, it sounds like Julian is one of those people you would kick out of your house after 24 hours.

Notes:

2012-08-20

The company had a free lunch to answer some questions with all the new stuff going down at our work. We had Chick Fil-a. The food was awesome. The people who helped setup were great. It was a big hit with the employees as far as I could tell. They had these cookies that were awesome too. I was a wreck after lunch. I had consumed far too many calories. I was logy.

Started using Google Drive. It really works in Windows and Ubuntu? So far, things work with drag and drop. Linux appears to support some command line mounting well. That means, I could mount the files live from the web and edit them on the fly. The trouble with this is I would leave them open when traveling back and forth. That would suck to be hones. I need to come up with a strategy for dealing with these documents. When I write more than a few paragraphs, I by far prefer a true word processor like LibreOffice Write. Who doesn't?

2012-08-21

Many newspapers are cutting their days of print back ad just printing on high profit days. Some papers are just eliminating offline production all together. Once they do this, they are just another web page. What about the 20% of people in the U. S. who don't have internet access? Well, they are the new class of the left out. At some point I envision a right to online because all government pages and such will be online. People have to pay for water and electricity service. Somehow, I feel the information age will lead to free connectivity and paying for everything you do online.

I listened to a guy talk about the war in Syria. He spoke of atrocities committed by both sides. There is no right and wrong in war. There is winning and loosing. A guy called in saying his Christian family had been ordered out of a town in Syria. It seems like he was cut off before he completed his statement. Frigging NPR.

In the U. K., they want to make bank account numbers as movable as mobile phone numbers. How cool would that be? You could change banks and not even have to contact anyone you have automatic payments or deposits with. This would make it one step closer to people having some super magic number that everything is based on. This is where we are headed. What is your human number? Isn't that the mark of the beast?

Notes:

2012-08-17

Have big news that I don't want to talk about on the blog. Sorry listeners. Maybe one day. Unfortunately, this is all that is warring on my mind the last couple days. Thus, I have little else to say on other subjects. It good news for me personally. Nothing happening right now. The next year or so will be interesting.

I'm thinking of challenging myself to pick a news story at random from the font page of a news organization, reading up on it, and vlogging about it even if it doesn't interest me. It isn't that this would prove anything. It would be good exercise for the whole public speaking thing.

2012-08-18

Best MincCraft mod I've seen yet.

Megadeth gaff

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Julian Assange 101

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Notes:

2012-08-15

Most people say they want smaller government until they are the ones affected by the cuts.

Obama won't even say the word "stimulus" any more. It has become toxic.

an atheist believes there is no god. An agnostic believes it cannot be proven either way. I believe in God, yet reject religion. What is that called?

I use Google Reader for my podcasts. It has some shortcomings. Not the least of which is the lack of a rating system. I would like to give stars or thumbs up or down to podcasts on a per episode basis.

Lately, I've been bunching several notes sections together. I think I messed up last night and missed a post or double posted something. I need to stop doing this when I'm fighting off sleep late in the evening if I want things to not suck.

Saw an interesting post on Facebook. "You are prettier than a beer truck pulling up in my driveway." That is the kind of complement that a real guy gives. I don't like beer that much, but I get the sentiment.

Amos and Andy were two white guys. I have the hardest time listening to them. They were on one kind of media or another from 1928 to 1960 doing that show. It disgusts me. I don't blame these men for following the money. I don't blame people for laughing at shows that were racist by today's standards.

Last night I edited a video with the touch pad on my laptop. I had done some editing before with the device, but not much. I found myself craving a mouse. This time, the mouse was across the room and I didn't feel like getting up and dragging my lazy carcass over there and getting it. It was a snap to edit the video. It didn't cost me much additional time to use the touch pad. This means my dislike of using it for video editing was a preference and not based on performance.

Lately, I've been running power strips under the couch and other furniture to bring plugs to the front, you know, where the devices re.

Had to hunt down a modem to day. We want to set up a low traffic fax system at work. We ended up using an old laptop that had been collecting dust for the last couple years. I'll probably keep you informed about or progress. I think I have an old modem at the house that hasn't been used in forever. I might just bring it in for giggles.

Wouldn't it be funny if jalapeños were the fountain of youth? That or pickles. If you ate pickles every day, you would live forever. Wouldn't it be great if it were that easy?

Anything you do that is not the most difficult thing you have ever done is teaching you enough.

Lost domains

Video idea: Spent 45 minutes hunting down a non existent domain name.

• Where is the domain?
• It is right in front of me
• Can't find it
• Stuck in a page break in the PDF

The next version of MS Office is to edit PDF files natively. This is something that Microsoft should have done fifteen years ago. I wonder if some patent ran out or something. Why now? LibreOffice Draw has allowed editing of PDF files in one form or another for years. It has been a pretty good selling point of the package. Maybe that is it. And, yes, this sounds like a whole new opportunity to get virus software installed on every computer in the world.

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I listened to a podcast all about the seventies show "Logan's Run". That movie made me think as a kid. It makes me think as an adult. I'm 43. I'm going to start saying hello and good morning by saying "Be useful". Logan gets fucked by a computer. He is not in charge of the computer. It is in charge of him. He does not know how to tell the computer to get fucked. No one does. The computer has a set of rules and orders to enforce them. The computer doesn't care if any human lives or dies. The computer doesn't care if humans suffer. The computer has an off switch somewhere. Find it. Work it. Live!

I took my first 20 minute look at Rails today. It took me 3 hours. Ever started a big project and wished the same first 200 or so steps that are pretty close the same thing every time were already done? Ever tried to copy an existing project and at some point thought it would have been easier to start a new project rather than hunt down every frigging place you have to change something to fit the new project? Well, Rails is what you were looking for if your project is web app.

Have you watched Star Trek, the original series? Half those shows have some kind of god or daemon with the power to wrestle a starship frozen in the orbit of a planet or to toss stars about like jacks. Could you imagine writing those mission reports. No wonder Kerk was a nutter.

Notes:

2012-08-14

Who do you work for? You work for whomever pays your check, right? Who pays their check? Is it the consumer? Is it the bank that supplies the consumer with credit? Who do you work for?

I sweat like a fiend this morning. The walk in was in the dark, but the humidity was nuts. By the time I got to the bus stop, I was dripping sweat off my head like a fountain. It was so bad that a mosquito got stuck on the back of my neck and I got her. It was awesome climbing on the bus. It was the Houston deep freeze, just like it should be.

Some say there is no privacy any more. I say that privacy has been so devalued that no one wants it any more. It means so little to many people that loosing it costs them nothing. Or, perhaps they let it go for nothing so the cost of fearing its loss will not drain them.

Do you know who Opha Mae Johnson is? You should.

Still using gvim for most of my text editing needs. The more I use it the less I hate it. That is the sign of long term acceptance isn't it?

I listened to a podcast all about the seventies show "Logan's Run". That movie made me think as a kid. It makes me think as an adult. I'm 43. I'm going to start saying hello and good morning by saying "Be useful". Logan gets fucked by a computer. He is not in charge of the computer. It is in charge of him. He does not know how to tell the computer to get fucked. No one does. The computer has a set of rules and orders to enforce them. The computer doesn't care if any human lives or dies. The computer doesn't care if humans suffer. The computer has an off switch somewhere. Find it. Work it. Live!

I took my first 20 minute look at Rails today. It took me 3 hours. Ever started a big project and wished the same first 200 or so steps that are pretty close the same thing every time were already done? Ever tried to copy an existing project and at some point thought it would have been easier to start a new project rather than hunt down every frigging place you have to change something to fit the new project? Well, Rails is what you were looking for if your project is web app.

Have you watched Star Trek, the original series? Half those shows have some kind of god or daemon with the power to wrestle a starship frozen in the orbit of a planet or to toss stars about like jacks. Could you imagine writing those mission reports. No wonder Kerk was a nutter.

Vlog 2012-08-10

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Notes:

At work, we are going through efforts to restore some old files from backup. It is certainly possible, but the software makes it a pain in the ass when it really doesn't need to be so. For example, you need every single file listed in an index before you can even look at what files you have. It takes an age to find out you are missing one little file that is just on the next or previous drive in the series. It would be great if you could tell it to shut up and show me what you have, or rebuild the index without needing an act of Congress. Way more trouble than it should be.

The average price of gas has gone up 30% in the last month. It is higher this year than the same time last year.

Rush had an interesting idea. The Democratic party is trying to turn the U. S. government in to that missing husband and father that so many communities and families lack. The Democratic part seems to want people dependant on the government that this sounds like a fair point.

Half the poles say Obama is several points in the lead. The other half say Romney is in the lead. It all depends on who you are listening to at the moment. I don't get it. Someone needs to figure out and report how these places are so bias. I've heard some stories that describe how questions can be manipulated, location, time of day, method of communication and any of a hundred factors can affect the outcome of surveys.

There is no way to tell what tomorrow will bring beyond our hopes and dreams.

2012-08-10

I'm burning through podcasts. That is, I start listening to them and then they fade away. It is called pod-fade. I have fewer podcasts now than a year ago. So many just suck.

On this blog, I've stated that I don't like saxophone music. For the most part, I don't. However, I just heard a base sax used in place of a base guitar on a podcast and that was great. Maybe I just don't like saxophones used as the focus of music.

This morning, I looked up some replacement SSD drives for laptops. The prices on these things has really come down. I found several 128G SSD drives for SATA II and III at $100. SATA II is a bit more expensive than SATA III it seems. I suppose fewer companies are manufacturing SATA II drives these days.

I remember a time when I had to think about thins I wanted to do on a computer before sitting down and doing anything. There was no internet or really entertainment available on computers. The entertainment was making the computer do something that it was really supposed to do without much effort. I wondered at the time if programmers were really sadistic.

There was a guy in the parking garage walking around in a circle on the top floor. He was out there for exorcize I'm sure. I was vlogging. I just vlogged with him around. I ignored him as best I could. If you share the space you share the crazy. He came around even after I vlogged so he was not scared off.

There are some really dirty politics going on this year. The campaigns are out for blood. At least the fight will be interesting, if completely bogus. Both people who are in the top spots are basically identical on what they will do once elected. Well, they are not that far off anyway. I firmly believe neither of them will get anything constructive for the U. S., her citizens, or the world done. It turns out democracy is very expensive entertainment.

I miss having summers off.

Vlog 2012-08-08

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The Religion of Kelly

L Ron Hubbard once said "The real money is in making your own religion."

Once, a while back, I asked God "God, which is the correct religion? What really matters?" I got an answer. This following words popped in to my head as matter of fact as any thought in my life. "Everything matters"

That is the name of my religion. Everything Matters. It is a complete thought. It is even a complete sentence. It is the truth in science. and it is my mantra.

I have been listening to Penn Gillette probably more than I should here lately. I need to come up with my own religion. I'm trying to come up with rules. That is what religion is all about isn't it? Rules and control are the name of the game. My real thing when it comes to religion is that I believe very much in God, but not at all in religion.

Rules

• Afterlife
• You go to the same place you were before your were born. Was it so bad then?
• You are currently in a body. The body dies. You do not.
• Treating other people
• Be careful because everything matters.
• Reward and punishment
• Be careful because everything matters.
• Sins
• Be careful because everything matters.

Do you get a trend here? What happens when you do whatever Kelly? Well, there are no freebies. Everything you do matters in some way. Everything has consequences. I have to breath to keep this body alive. Every breath I take affects the world that little bit. It matters. That breath might do harm to someone else. I am expected to take care of this body. I am expected to breath. It still matters.

Will there be punishment if I do something wrong? Yes, just like there will be reward if you do something right. Or, maybe not. The universe or fate or circumstance or chance or God or whatever you call it makes the choice, not you.

Poor automation

One of the trading companies got stuck with a very high bills after one of their automated transactions went nuts. It brings in to question the idea of automated trading. Even the old guy who was reporting the story said "It isn't the computer's fault. It is the idiot who programmed it." This is true. This is the kind of thing that happens when you do not test properly.

Possible excuses for the above cluster fuck.

• Its my first day.
• I just clicked next and whammy!
• The window washer exposed himself. As I reached up to cover my eyes, I accidentally hit the submit button.
• I was tying to show the new guy how not to do it when I hit submit out of habit.
• The word "Shit!" screamed at the top of one's lungs should be mapped to the "undo" function.
• I was trying to add some entry limitations to the code and forgot to switch off the production database.

I don't have any details on the case. I wonder how long it took the powers that be to figure out this horrible thing was happening.

• Did the bank call someone? I would not have wanted to be the recipient of that call.
• Did the person realize the moment they hit send?
• Did one of the traders who made a killing off this send a thank you note?

From what I've herd, this case only made it to the media because it might put a large firm out of business. I doubt they had insurance to cover this size of snafu. The news says it might have been 400,000,000 pounds involved. If you or I took a bottle of pop from a shop, we would go to jail. How many of these boners roll by without making the headlines?

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2012-08-07

They mowed. I noticed it yesterday morning while Nat was giving me a ride in. I enjoyed it this morning. The tall grass isn't so bad. It is the heather stuff that grabs your feet after it gets past 20c or so high. That stuff is dangerous.

The lunch conversation today consisted of people being violent toward each other, stake tar tar, one of the local lunch groups, and the Olympics. Not much else going on. Did head out and shoot some vlog.

I'm only just now getting used to doing every day work on laptops again. At my old company, I had laptops along with everyone else. I did use a keyboard and external monitors to get my job done. These days, I use the laptop at the house without an additional monitor. Same at work. I use a desktop for most work and a laptop for the over lap stuff and as a media player. This is the way the world is going. The day you can't find a classic desktop is coming.

We have a USB DVD drive at work. Every week someone barrows it because a bunch of our systems don't have CD or DVD drives. They might need to burn A CD or DVD as well. It has a habit of vanishing. This time, one of the new guys has taken it upon himself to track it down. How awesome. Most of the developers just say "sorry" and stick their nose back on the screen. This is refreshing. It won't last.

2012-08-08

Excuse: No internet last night. No uploads of vlogs or blogs. Get over it. It isn't like that many people are reading or viewing these things. Thank you for being one of the people who do.

Banksters; All these asshole big bank executives breaking laws. I heard this on NPR which means I should have heard it elsewhere before this point.

There are a couple new people at work who brought their phones in. They want to use them as internet machines. I don't really care except they want me to provide a cable and a monitor. Screw that. With our internet policy that is currently in place I shouldn't let them use the damn things, much less provide them with help.

There was a story on NPR about down town London. The big push for the Olympics was all about how much money it was going to bring in to the area. It was supposed to be a bonanza of economic wonderment. Instead, people are avoiding the entire area like the plague. Parts of London's retail areas are ghost towns. People don't want to get in the way of all the security. Many businesses are going under because they planned for heavy traffic and have none. Between the congestion tax and check points for security, I cannot believe anyone thought it would be any different. I would stay away as well.

Another story on NPR was about the nightmare in Cuba for small business enraptures. If you start making money, the local government comes in and just takes it all away from you and shuts you down. Unless, I suppose, if they have skin in the game.

One of the bus drivers gave me a complement on my chair. He said it was smart to carry one of those little camp chairs around.

We had an outage this afternoon at work. It took people calling in to alert us because we were all doing other stuff. I thought about combining a WIFI enabled switch with a bubble gum light to better alert us in the future. Mark suggested a sound looping mechanism that blares Star Trek red alert. Just a thought.

Lunch conversation

I had PB&J with Skippy peanut butter. It is important to note the brand name because I skipped down the hall saying "Sssskipyyyy" like an extra in Beatlejuice just before getting to the lunch room. My beloved wife had bought some good for you healthy peanut butter that was difficult to work with with plastic implements. The Skippy was perfect. It was the creamy kind and lived up to it's name. It brought back thoughts from my childhood. "I hate peanut butter!" I've since grown in the eatable Spackle.

We spoke of movies mostly today. There was some movie by the same guy who did Signs. In this movie there was a guy who only worked out one arm. This kicked off another discussion of people who only use one arm for things.

I knew a kid in middle school who was in a car wreck. The couple years I knew him, one of his arms was strong and the other was flimsy because it needed all kinds of physical therapy.

We spoke of movies that creeped us out at various ages. One guy it was Freddy. One girl it was The Exorcist. For me it was Alien. That was the first real scary movie I saw. My father covered my eyes from the row behind me at one spot, where the robot gets his head knocked off. I didn't catch that scene for almost a decade.

Vlog 2012-08-04

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Lunch conversation< 2012-08-03

No bulleted list this time. I need to convey the order of operations. The following list is in order of one thing lead to another.

Who watched the Olympics?

The North Korean fencing chick who got robbed came up first thing.

She had to wait on the stage while her handlers went to get the money to appeal the decision.

When they were denied she cried for 45 minutes. Yes, we did crack some very politically incorrect jokes about how every one she ever met was probably being detained pending her winning a metal, or her getting thrown from the airplane on the ride home. We are bad like that when unsupervised.

We started talking about the leader of North Korea. Someone asked how one of the guys at the table who was about the leader's age how he would act if he were the despotic leader of a corpse nation. He basically said he would act a lot like the current leader.

We did all seem to agree that we could give a shit about North Korea getting screwed on the metal, but we felt bad for the woman. On a side note, I could only feel bad for her thinking of all the people in North Korea starving and here she is trying to make this hell on Earth to look good in order to get her family that extra crust of bread. Now that is all shot to hell.

We also spoke of the badminton teams who tried to loose a couple matches in order to get better positioning in subsequent matches. Apparently the two Chinese teams didn't want to play one another.

Notes:

2012-08-02

The mechanism for itching has only been understood for about 15 years. You want a cure for cancer? Give us 100 years or so. -Paraphrasing from Dr Karl.

I have been eating French fries again. Well, it is time to realize I've been screwing up and getting right back on the wagon. There is just no need to eat French fries. They are not an essential food.

Some days I seem to have a dozen extra podcasts coming in. Other days It seems like I am way short on material to listen to at work. Is it my work that makes me feel the difference, or the number and timing of the podcasts coming in? I'll have to pay better attention and document my findings here.

No sooner do I get a portable seat for the bus stop than I find an article that says people who sit are more likely to get a million age related diseases like Diabetes and such. No more French fries.

Vlog 2012-07-31

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Notes:

2012-07-30

So much science fiction says that humans will either reject technology, become technology, or be dominated by technology. How about we just live and things work out? Well, that doesn't sell stories.

Found out that one of the color laser printers we have at work could be bought at Sam's for less than a set of color cartridges for a time. They are long out of manufacture. This is not a new story. I still wonder what happened to Wal-Mart getting in to the printer business. I suppose it is a fat monthly check from the likes of HP.

2012-07-31

"People who can't juggle usually know they can't juggle. People who are not funny don't always know they are not funny." -Penn Jillette (from memory).

There is one kilometer range of the Olympics is a no non Olympic advertising zone. Truth and something that will get you in trouble if you complain about it. People are being fined and arrested for trying to make a buck off the Olympics without handing the profits over to the Olympics.

Twitter is pissing me off. They are kicking people off when NBC asks them to do so.

I like the idea of writing in the old fashioned way. You know, with a pen or pencil. I like the sound and feel of a graphite pencil as it glides down the side of a ruler. There is something primal and left brained about using a sharp wood pencil. It is left brained because I used to use pencil's exclusively in drawing and math. Thus, these two activities are connected. The smooth rolling of a ball pen reminds me of pain because I used this kind of implement for writing class and had to re right things because I suck at writing by hand. The feel of a felt tip pen reminds me of the Son of Sam. He used a blue felt tip to write his letters if memory serves.

A quarter of health care spending goes in to the last year of life. This according to some guy on NPR.

Mow

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My stool is herr

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Europe

Global Carbon Regime : Heard this term used to describe one of the problems with Europe.

The U. S. can't do all the heavy lifting. France and Briton are cutting or freezing their military. They tried to start a fight in Libya a couple months ago and ran out of bullets on day three I think it was.

Turkey is making noises that they really don't want to be part of Europe. They would rather side with the Middle East in all of this.

People who live in countries where they have been ordered to make huge cuts in order to pay back loans to someone they have never met who they don't know, who doesn't care if they live or die as long as the payments keep coming are getting fed up with the idea. If all of them just told Europe to go jump in a lake, who would stop them from defaulting?

Russia is all about making a buck off Europe. Russia sells a huge amount of heating gas to European countries. Now that we have no nuclear plants being built and companies getting rid of nuclear plants they will depend on the Russian gas. The Russians can cut back on the supply and get more money. Germany can afford to pay the bill. They will not be left in the cold. The Russians will make a buck.

&lbquo;Will Spain get another financial band aid?&rbquo; Answer &lbquo;That is all they can do right now.&rbquo;

Europe is in a bad state. Will she fall apart? Will she pull it together? I'm not sure I care on a shallow level. I do care because of the instability that will come from a fall, but that is of course self interest.

Notes:

2012-07-24

What sound does a sheep make when it has a stick of dynamite up it's ass? ... "Sys-boom-bah!" Heard on The Penn Sunday School podcast. It was originally uttered on Johny Carson a millennia ago.

Notes:

alpha, bravo, Charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, India, Juliette, kilo, lima, Mike, November, Oscar, papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, tango, uniform, Victor, whisky, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. I did need to look up the spelling of several words, but I got the sounds correct. I need to keep going until it is natural.

One of the podcasts I listen to is from Australia. It is funny listening to them talk about Spring in July.

Briton has blown 15 billion dollars on a party. Now that it is far too late to fix anything, the people who are walking off with fattened pockets are admitting that it was not an investment. Few who live in the place where the Olympics makes any money on them. I am still very glad that Houston lost the Olympic bid all those years ago. I was preying we would loose it. Houston is far too ugly for the Olympics.

Sunday evening I got about 3 hours of sleep. Monday I didn't feel that bad. As a matter of fact, I stayed up past 22:00 watching Warehouse 13. I caught a full night's sleep last night. (Monday night) Today, however, I'm sputtering. Is it psychosomatic? What is the deal? This is one of those questions I should send in to Dr Karl.

One of the other IT guys is a generous when ti comes to making networks jump through hoops. He was complaining at break today that it took him an hour to get a Vista 32 bit system talking to a printer. This kind of thing has happened to me. I don't feel so bad. That sort of thing has happened to me a couple times. I've even gripped about it on this blog.

Over the hill and though the woods

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X Minus One

X Minus One. Shanghaied (episode 17)

Notes for the video

• 15 year journey
• Swabbing decks
• Mutiny on a space ship
• Guns on a space ship
• A man was trapped on board and could not identify himself because he did not have his wallet.
• Can't transmit back to Earth.
• The idea of an engine room and flight deck that cannot talk to each other.
• Communicating from ship to ship with a flash mechanism
• The reason the man is found is because of a signed check

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Israel and Iran

Israeli Prime Mister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed the finger at Iran Wednesday after a deadly explosion on a bus carrying tourists at an airport in Bulgaria.
"All the signs (are) leading to Iran," he said, according to a statement from his office.
Netanyahu said his country "would respond with force to Iranian terror."
At least three people were killed in the explosion on a bus outside Burgas airport in Bulgaria. Bulgarian officials are still investigating the blast.

From CNN Headline news email

My only comment on this is "Aw shit!" I hope that is not my last comment on it.

Notes: (over a couple days)

The walk in to the bus stop was pretty easy this morning. The mosquitoes carried me part way.

Some of our laptop computers have multiple WIFI adapters. I don't consider them a separate adapter unless they have their own MAC.

Penn Frasier Gillette. Did you know Penn's (of Penn and Teller fame) middle name was Frasier?

I don't take vacations. When I'm sick, I do not usually check my email until I come back.

Every time I reboot my computer I have to restart my Linux virtual machine. I use VirtualBox. Every time I restart my linux VM, it seems like I have to reinstall the client software. That is because VirtualBox has had an update and the client and host software have to match perfectly. It is really annoying.

I walked around the parking garage at lunch today. I wanted to shoot a vlog entry. The trouble is, nothing came to mind. Well, nothing coherent anyway.

Everyone complained about the humidity this morning. I doubt many walked further than their car. I didn't really notice any higher humidity than normal. I walked my normal mile and a half or so. Guess there are some advantages to doing it every day.

Environmentalists are extremists. I do not like listening to them because they remind me too much of Jehovah Witnesses. I'm not the only one because I'm hearing whispers that the environmental movement is toning it down a bit and pushing sustainability instead of more radical life altering taxes and marching off to war against the nonbelievers.

What gun control laws that wouldn't have helped are going to come of this shooting in Colorado? Not every tragedy is worthy of more rules. Not every murderous individual needs to be immortalized in legislation.

the president came on and called the shootings in Colorado senseless. I suppose it is. He hasn't mentioned anything about all the killings in Chicago. I suppose those are necessary. Obama's buddy is running Chicago these days. Nice politician we have in charge of the country. Too bad we need a president.

I tried listening to KTRH online to get the news about the shootings. They played more advertisements than any other content. It was like sneaking a couple facts in between the commercials. No wonder I haven't listened to terrestrial radio in so long. There is not much point.

I hate to put it like this, but I don't do opening nights of movies. I don't like the crowd. It turns out, that may not be a bad thing.

We had about a week of rain. Couple stragglers since then. Today is the first day that I have not noticed a full thunderhead go by at work. We are still pretty far behind, even if you count back a couple years. We need rain, but the doubt was kind of nice for walking. The grass and weeds didn't try to tackle me every other step. The ground didn't try to dodge my foot when I stepped. Still preying for rain.

Quick look at my commute

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Voter fraud rant

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My weekend

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This is a test

I’m trying out a new editor just for the hell of it. Please ignore this post. Not that anyone reads these things any more.

It looks like you can still not insert code in this editor. That is a drag because it would be handy to do so. Guess you can’t have anything. Or, in this case, a minor feature that would not be very difficult to make happen.
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There may be a point where this editor will come in handy. I already use it for simple notes.
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Then again, it is not intended to be for real. This editor is only a placeholder for a huge corporation to say they have one in the cloud so they will have the option of chasing said ends in the future. This software cannot be regarded as competition to the existing office suites out there.

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This editor is google docs. It is simply unusable for my needs. I intend to copy and paste this to my blog to find out if Google tools are compatible with one another

Cops probably hate this guy

I believe the Penn did this. I bet it is word for word. I have friends who are cops. I wonder how often this sort of thing happens.

Notes:

There was a story on one of the podcasts I listen to where a brother took his sister as a second wife after the death of her husband. They said this was because she would die otherwise. The story didn't really suffer from it, but I did miss a couple lines of text after hearing this little bit roll by.

London is all a fit over the Olympics. They start there in two weeks. It is all about money. Every news story is about local businesses and jobs. I suppose if I listened to sports stations, I might hear more about, oh, you know, the games. The games sell themselves as a help for the economy of the area where they happen. I remember night mare stories about small businesses in Atlanta I think it was being driven out of the city by all the construction and replaced by chains that got tax breaks.

Atheist roaming around a parking lot, can't find a parking space. "God, if you find me a parking spot, I'll believe and be a follower." A Uhaul pulls out of the spot right in front of him. "Never mind God, I got it."

People trying to get reality shows should get frigging vlogs and have done with it.

I've met some pretty good people on airplanes. That must mean I'm the asshole.

Apple is catching shit over their green bullshit. Apple is a company that duchbags like. Duchebags also seem to be green. It turns out that once you start paying attention to things like reality, Apple products are not all that more green than any other piece of electronics. A few things like glued in batteries so you have to buy a new laptop instead of getting a new battery or a three year obsolete OS support so you have to buy a new laptop every three years kind of crap is finally biting Apple on the ass.

Finance and money

Barkley's was manipulating Libor. As a matter of fact, there was supposedly some sort of gentleman's agreement to let the Libor slide down and stay down in order to line the pockets of rich people. The public are not having it. Some banker in England was supposed to get some huge pile of money, well in the tens of millions of Pounds for a bonus even though the stock fell 70% on his watch. He turned down the money and walked off with two million pounds and people still wanted blood. Let's face it, two million Pounds is still a lot of money to most people. The guy should walk away in chains as far as many are concerned.

"How is the man in the street supposed to act when you tell them to knuckle under in order to pay off a bunch of rich bankers?" That from memory. It is a legitimate question.

Our current administration would love people to be pissed at the banker. The more pissed at bankers the average schmo is on the street, the less pissed they are at the administration. This is a simple distraction method. In this case however, I think the anger is well aimed. I hope the guy in question lives out a healthy life without physical retaliation, but I also hope he gets poor at some point. As stated in the movie Trading Places "Seems to me the best way to hurt rich people is to make them poor people."

Notes:

There was an old story about an old musty was museum. A man was writing a story about sleeping in the museum. He would be paid 5 Pounds Sterling for his efforts. There was a day 5 Pounds meant something. Now it is about $8. I have to say that the description of the wax museum was far more frightening than being in one.

I wonder if I will ever buy another desktop in my life. I may buy a server for a specific need. From now on I picture myself buying laptops or tablets instead of desktops. Tablets have a ways to go yet.

Trying the contacts again. Put them in last night. Fantastic so far. Talk to me in two weeks. I have been using the glasses for like two months.

Second wet day in a row. I will never get used to being wet all day, even if it is only from the knees down. The leather boots I wore today di a much better job of keeping my feet more dry and drying out after they got wet.

I listened to a podcast today about the Higgs Particle. Some say the math points to a Higgs Field instead. Wikipedia has a better overview of the ideas and theories than anyone else. Scientists are fascinated by this whole effort, but the common folks just want to know 1) what the fuss is about. 2) Is this going to make it easier to slice bread? 3) Will it help gas prices? That kind of not sense about reality and every day living has no place in theoretical science.

Our HR person has been out of the office for over a week. When she came back and opened her door, she had to limb over a pile of paperwork that people had shoved under her door. She needs a mail drop hole in the door with a basket or something.

There are sites out there that have the business model of swiping ads off Craig's List and presenting them in a more user friendly or prettier web experience. Craig's List is of course blowing a gasket over the idea. The lawsuits are under way.

There is very little economic mobility in the U. S.. I believe it. People are not happy about it.

Some idiot came on complaining that people were not buying retail because there was too much choice. Dumb ass.

A woman, I cannot call her a mother, left her infant child on a motorway (busy street) somewhere in England I believe in the hopes he would be run over. A driver stopped and found the child before anything bad happened. It hurts listening to someone read this story and just moving on to the next story. I know they have a job to do, but I want to hear how the woman was captured and how she will be prosecuted. This is just not the story to leave at three lines between sports stories.

Lunch conversation consisted of, but was not limited to the following.

• bathroom etiquette
• Hazardous waist (not bathroom)
• Inventory moving around the company
• Mesh wifi networks
• Left over bagels fro some meeting
• The lunchroom being packed because it was raining

Toshiba Camileo wide angle lens mount

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Kid's birthday party

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Weekend

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Lunch conversation

2012-07-05

• Cherries
• Bugs
• There are bird eating spiders. Unfortunately, they do not capture birds in webs and gobble them down while they are writhing, but they are pretty dang big and scary looking none the less.
• Someone in the group had roach eggs end up in their hair while shampooing.
• &dq;Any bug that touches me dies.&dq; Several chimes of agreement after that statement.
• Legacy tomatoes and their best season. OK, not &dq;legacy&dq;, it was another word.
• Figs. There was a lot about figs.
• Apparently, people like figs.
• I worked the Fig Newton angle to no real laughter.
• Birds eat figs off the trees.
• Blood pressure related foods
• My father's numbers mostly fell in line after retiring.
• Studies that say women's life span is slowly approaching men's. Speculation says it is due to women entering the work force on mass.
• Some kind of nuts are good for your blood pressure.

We ate in the lunch room today. Several of the guys have a thing going on where they each buy a week worth of food and take turns cooking, buying, and cleaning up. I do not participate because of my lack of reliability.

Notes (from a couple days)

So ready for a day off in the middle of the week. Independence day falls on Wednesday. That is kind of a funny thing. I'm probably going to be out late Wednesday evening. This means I'm going to be dragging ass Thursday.

Andy Griffith died. That kind of hits me. I really liked most of his work. He was that guy who acted instead of that actor. He plaid lots of good guys and a couple bad guys. He plaid cops, lawyers, and some kind of plantation operator or something. He is and will remain a fixture in old TV reruns of movies. He will be missed.

People are up in arms about bankers not going to jail for basically steeling billions in London. Well, they would be up in arms, but they are not aloud to carry table legs at night in England.

Tuesday evening I was waiting for Nat to pick me up from Target after work. I needed to get some plastic flatware for a friend's place. She moved and couldn't find the box with that contained said items. I was able to get on the wifi network from in front of Target. Just, but but it worked.

I listen to All Over the Shop. It is worth a listen. They are old style DJs. It reminds me a bit of those old shows that used to be on terrestrial .

The mouse I use at work is heavier than the mice I'm used to. It is bigger as well. It is just a normal mouse. The trend over the last several years has been to smaller mice, or so I've noticed. It came from Dell, but I'm sure it is a rebranded model. I'm forcing myself to fall in live with it because it has LEDs on the top and is highly keen.

I experimented with Some of the color schemes for VIM. GVIM and VIM share a configuration file. I could not settle on one color scheme that works for the command line and GUI version of VIM. The big issue is the spell checker. I like white text on a black background, but the spell checker uses a red line to identify words. This will not work for me on a black background. If I leave the defaults, GVIM comes up black on white and VIM command line version comes up white on black. I think that will work best.

I learned a bit about Linux certs today. They are miles easier than Windows.

I dropped a cherry pit on the floor in the hall. I had to ask for help finding it. See, there are times I ask for help.

Our president is a gambling man. He keeps making statements about betting on the American people and business and military and that kind of rot. The idea here is not to say he believes in them. He also wants to avoid saying anything that would make it sound like he is committing to making things better of following a plan of any kind. Because there is no plan except to get reelected.

Trying the Facebook and Twitter apps on my phone again. The interfaces have changed a bit on both. The Facebook application shows up in the program list as a generic name that doesn't tell you it is Facebook running. Bastards. I suppose that it to prevent people from killing it as often as I do. They really want to follow you around on the internet.

I haven't worn a wristwatch in a long time. I still catch myself looking at my freckles trying to tell what time it is. I use my phone as my primary now. The bands are just uncomfortable. Now I need a water resistant phone.

Someone was telling a rather animated story in the office next to mine. All I could hear was muffled exasperation and the occasional phrase like &dq;... pouring down rain&dq; and such. It was interesting. I listened for a minute because I knew who was telling the story and I have already heard many of their stories. I could not identify this one.

Lunch conversation today consisted of me walking past the lunch room and overhearing a conversation about LOST and the fact that you could get away with watching the first and last season without much of a LOSS.

Helped cut a hole in the wall and <gasp> use a face plate to run a wire today. Will wonders never cease? It was both fun and informative.

Why you have left and right handed scissors

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Why you should get insurance

This video is of a guy with a car restoring business in Dallas. His wife had a bicycle accident several months ago. They didn't have insurance. Now, this guys is killing himself to pay tens of thousands of dollars worth of medical bills. It has just about ruined him and his business.

If you do not have health insurance, look in to catastrophic care insurance. The one I looked in to several years ago had something like a $12,000 deductible. It was designed to cover disasters on otherwise healthy young people who didn't feel the need to pay for normal health insurance. I used to tell this kind of story to the guys at my old work. We had to buy our own insurance there. When I got a family, I changed jobs because I could not afford insurance where I was.

Crane lifting crane ... cool

Fascinating. Bit long for the show, but they wanted to sell the cranes so there is a bunch of not really interesting to civilians information. Jump to the end if you wish.

Removing a cork from the inside of a bottle

I tels you, this internet thing just might catch on if you can learn cool stuff like this.

Obama Care

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Risk

Risk is nuts. You cannot make it though life without taking risks. If you put too much on the line it will come back to bit you in the butt. If you try not to risk anything, you get nothing. Worse, someone will risk coming and taking what you have. Life is risk. A successful life is risk managed.

Yesterday I paid bills. The day before that I mowed the lawn. There are risks involved here. I might get my identity stolen if I do not take care while paying my bills. I might run over my foot with the lawn mower if I'm not sober and paying attention. I might get heat stroke or pass out from lack of blood to the brain doing either.

Anxiety is a risk. Too much bad stuff happens every day. A bunch of good stuff happens as well. Every five minutes someone is telling you not to sweat making the decision they want you to make. These people are selling you something. Always be aware of people telling you to calm down. What is their motive. Sometimes that nagging voice telling you to get the hell out of there is a good thing.

I cross the street. Not everyone does on a daily basis. People get in their cars and drive around. People are terrified of flying, but they are more likely to die in the car on the way to the airport.

People talk a lot about the risk bankers took before the financial crisis. Some say that the bankers took too much risk. Well, they won for so long that it didn't feel like a long shot any more. Huge Ponzi schemes succeeded until they failed. When people need their money to make ends meet, the money wasn't there for them to rely on. Banking, insurance, the stock market, I would say all of these are based on the same principle as the original Ponzi scheme. Get a bunch of people to pay in. Limit the number of people taking out. Rinse, repeat.

Acting is risk. Performing is risk. Let's face it, performing started out as taking a risk in front of an audience. "Watch this!" The potential of humiliating one's self is a risk. I wonder if all forms of payment are simply compensation for risk. I suppose all forms of employment could be drug kicking and clawing in to the risk category.

Notes

I like the damage list from the earthquake in Australia recently. Paraphrasing "Some stuff fell off some shelves and no one was really injured who probably wouldn't have been injured just walking around anyway."

Women write a lot of science fiction about having kids in post apocalyptic societies. Just something that hadn't been thinking about.

All my evil scientist powers will be invested in to manufacturing a good luck vest, followed shortly by a bad luck gun. That is all.

I really do not like saxophone music. I don't know why. It must have something to do with Clinton.

I listened to a fictional podcast about a war between the U. S. and China. I just don't think the U. S. could hold its own against China. Not in China. We just don't have the ability to throw enough metal at them in a short enough period of time to do much good. I'm not saying that China would kick our ass, I'm saying we would have a hell of a time beating them at anything resembling a ground war on their territory.

Not the gloating type

In that last little moment of desperation before succumbing to the inevitable reality our mark asked "Why?"

The gun spoke it's first and last line in our play. Our mark slumped to the ground as gone to this world as all the generations that came before him.

Our killer slipped the gun in his pocket and began walking from the room in such a way that someone who had seen the whole even would question their eyes as to what just happened. He violated one of his rules. He answered the question in a muttered whisper to no one. "I didn't ask."

Notes:

People at work are figuring out that digital video looks better than analog. We are still one of those companies where you get equipment when you start and keep it until there is a business need for you to get upgraded. People are looking for reasons now. Not a bad thing. Some of these folks really should have been upgraded two years ago.

We need to come up with a term for news that is designed specifically to change people's opinions regarding politics. This sort of thing should be taxed or something. It is getting to the point that you can't even figure out what happened because they just sit there and blame someone for something that might not even a bad thing.

I need to watch a movie called Kaleidoscope.

Reporter swamped

I am a pedestrian, but I am also a human. I have to give this guy a thumbs up for taking it in stride and sticking with the story.

How to check for bad eggs

I learned something from this video. How many out there already knew this? Why didn't you inform me of it earlier?