Summer

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Apple's Cheap Phone

been a premium brand. Apple is all about sexy. A cheap plastic phone with a shit screen is not sexy. Speaking of bling, there is supposed to be a gold version as well. Not buying that either.

Apple is also getting some good bleed numbers from Android right now. I think what is happening (because a couple of my friends did this) is people buy a crap Android phones, hate them, and when they upgrade, they go for an Apple because it is the premium brand. Certainly, not everyone upgrading does this. I will not. I have a grudge against Apple for being so freaking posh and just working.

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Europe has an average of 70% of working age people working. Sweden has 85%. The Swedes hav cut unemployment and other benefits and taxes pensions and their form of welfare. Maybe we should look at  these ideas in the U. S. to increase the employment rolls.

When you get a bunch of unemployed people start screaming about more affordable housing. The minute you have more affordable housing people start screaming “We need to do something about that slum.” The problem is resource management and the will to do more than survive.

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Normally it depresses me when a poet or author dies without  being recognized for their work. Walden however deserved to die broke.

When I was something like twelve, I used to ride my BMX bike up and down the two bayus that ran round my parent’s house. We were in East Texas. I once walked across a frozen lake in East Texas. Not many people can say that. Lately, I feel I’m hitting that middle aged slump. I would not cross the lake today.

One church in Egypt canceled mass for the first time in 1,600 years. Tell me things are not falling apart.

The Whitehouse in the form of the DOJ is telling police to break the law.

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I just watched my first Duck Dynasty. I did not think I would like it. I did like it. I may go back and watch the episodes available online.

One more thing they are not telling you about Obama Care.

Today a miracle happened. A fire truck tried togo through the intersection below my work window. One asshole cut off the fire truck. A cop pulled the asshole over from behind the fire truck. I nearly cheered.

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I had a dream last night that someone hired a hitman on me. I was flattered someone would bother if I’m honest.

The Whistler, one of the old radio stories I listen to, was about Milton. He was a 45 year old accountant who was making $35 a week. The company retired hm at half salary. When was the last time someone could be expected to live on $17.50 a week? You can barely get a burger for $17.50 these days. He ended up taking it out on his wife by skipping out on and stealing her inheritance. He lost it all on some land prospect scam and getting pinned with a murder charge that he didn’t commit. Worse, the wife drags him back home.

Where are all those watch/phones I’ve read so many leaks about? I remember watching a Jetsons where Elroy watched a Flintstones cartoon on his watch in class and got in trouble. I need this to happen in my lifetime. ... They better be waterproof or no sale.

We had a pizza party thing at work today. I had a couple slices. I think they under bought because some folks were turned away. not sure what happened there. I think someone said they got 35 pizzas. I would have guessed that was enough. I didn’t stick around for the raffle. Someone said I won, but I had to be there to collect. Doh! I had gone back to work. Still, better than a stick in the eye. Once I heard what the prize wsaa, I was glad I missed out on it.

Some study said that students who take notes on a laptop or tablet end up learning less than people who take notes on paper. They said it boils down to distractions. I believe it. Maybe the problem is wifi and not note taking.

Armed woman takes on 6 armed men in Houston.

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I argue that leaving debug code in the project commented out for future archaeological bug hunters to stumble across is time saving and constructive. If one programmer had to figure it out, so will the next one. It does make for ugly code. Perhaps one of the code hiding tools should be implemented.

Lot of dark fictional podcasts lately. Not sure what is going on. Need to find something a bit lighter. Even the light podcasts feel like a downer lately. maybe it is me.

The DOJ is finally catching on that letting all the airlines combine down to 2 or 1 might cause the airlines to start acting like monopolies. Good old competition keeps the airlines honest and the politicians in the air. They have to deal with airlines every day after all.

There is a movement to hold bankers responsible instead of banks themselves for all the crap they pulled in the recent collapse. What a novel idea. If you fine a bank, it is a cost of business. If you toss some rich prick in the klink, it becomes a message. Maybe, the next rich prick will think twice before screwing millions of people at a throw.

There is a story on Marketplace about country club dorm rooms. I would have loved this stuff. You have shuttles for one thing. The rooms are geared for busy rich students. I think I could have concentrated much more on my studies in one of these places. Just saying.

Marketplace attributed 17 billion dollars to Apple’s value based on 2 tweets from just the right person. I think I got that right. What is the record for cush social manipulation? I need to wrangle more followers.

Spent half my day today tracking down version number issues. If you are not a programmer who works on projects touched by committees, you may not understand the version number conundrum. You would think the next number in the progression made sense for the next version of the software. No. You have to have digits that mean things. I don’t know why. A unique identifier is all that computers need. Only humans insist on having an at a glance use for the numbers in the version string.

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2013-08-12

Too freaking busy today to even think about writing anything. So was Nat. She got a bunch done. How do families make it without someone doing the working and someone doing the running around?

2013-08-13

Blackberry is up for sale. I remember people flipping their shit over Blackberry phones. They were the executive toy. The commentators are calling this the end of Blackberry. It looks like Android is the current winner. Apple is sliding off a cliff and no one seems to notice. The minute my parents bought iPhones, I knew the end was near for Apple.

Hassen, the guy who shot a bunch of people on a military base, says that the military pursuing the death penalty give him a second chance at martyrdom. His lawyers want out because he has said as much and they cannot help him achieve his goal in good faith. Mr Obama, are you sure this is workplace violence and not terrorism?

I am getting past the whole zombie thing. nearly done with it. The only long lasting exception is Walking Dead.

“I love animals. They’re delicious.” Ted Nugent.

My head hurts. It is sinus and/or ear infection. It will end up in the doctor’s office. I’ll end up on antibiotics. My life will boil down to stuff oozing out of me. ... again. It is just not fun.

I am not one in one thousand. I am not one in a million. I am myself. There is no on else who is me. I am unique. I am one of a kind.

One of the big bosses came round this afternoon just to shoot the breeze for a sec. Crazy. Don’t mind. She was just looking for a minute away from her desk. Made me feel better for some reason.

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Just another day

Or two or three. This was shot over a couple days.

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2013-08-07

The powers that be are calling the Fort  Hood shooting workplace violence. This is so they don’t have to call it terrorism. I suppose they could do the same to what happened on September 11, 2001. All the people in both buildings were at work .The flight crew was at work. Most of the people on the plane were there for work. It was a commuter flight between the coasts. Think of all the problems that would solve. ... Assholes. They are just a pack of cowards who fear the paperwork of fixing something. Paperwork that they invented.

Military and police mashup. The Drug Cartels in Mexico and elsewhere are driving the U. S. government to move toward the warrior cop mentality. The Drug Cartels are entities that cannot be dealt with with tools like treaties and political pressure. They call this insurgent kind of warfare 4th Generation Warfare.

2013-08-08

My candidate in 2016 is John Bolton. As for a running mate, I nominate his mustaches.

It blows my mind that people like traveling. I mean, even for work there are people who enjoy disrupting their lives and hauling off for points elsewhere just for a short time. I must just be a home body.

Department of justice to police itself again. We really are the freest nation in the world.

Walked by someone’s desk this afternoon. They asked me about making ID tags with a logo in MS Word. It turns out after page 3, the logos vanish. We sat down with it and it turns out the picture of the logo was massive. Shrunk it down (resized the image in an editor to use many fewer pixels) and Word started treating it much better. I hate Word. She told me “I’m so happy you walked by Kelly.” Glad I could help.

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I’m not sure what to think about Newsroom. The guy keeps saying he is a conservative and that he is a member of the Republican party. Yet, he spouts liberal bullshit half the time. The show is really about the relationships.

Online time will top over TV time this year.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/08/05/Will-Cable-Industry-to-Move-Away-from-TV-Service

Need to look up Jenkins.

Is our current president too noble to fight, or a coward? Because he ain’t putting up a fight against the parts of this human civilization trying to take us out.

Gmail has the wrong language in and only in the email composer on one machine in Firefox. That is rather specific. I believe the language is Portuguese. The spell checker seems to work everywhere else. Gmail is set to English. Firefox on that box is set to English. No idea what is going on.

I’m finding myself hating some fictional audiocasts. Not because of anything the audiocast people have done besides their story selection. I think we are in the era of mountains listening to fictional audiocasts. Great. I want blood and guts speculative fiction, fantasy, crime fiction and things like alternative history. Emphasis on the blood and guts..

One of the economists say we are indeed in a recovery. The crap employment numbers are simply the new normal. The median income in the U. S. will drop soon for the first time ever.

I was looking at a Sony phone because it is water resistant. I just cannot bring myself to buy a Sony phone. I’ve always wound up pissed at Sony products for doing stupid shit. Why can’t Samsung make a good water resistant phone?

My leg hurts. Not bad. I did a bunch of knee bends spraying for bugs Sunday. My legs are both sore. My right leg is extra sore. My inner thigh feels like I pulled something, only not so bad. The rest of my thighs are now feeling much better

There is nothing wrong with sexting between consenting of age people. If you trust someone with a dirty picture and they fuck you over, that is on both of you. Leaving a trail of dirty texts floating about the either  will probably come back and bit you in the ass somehow. With adulthood, comes responsibility. Know what you are getting in to. Know who you are trusting.

Wreck this morning

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The wreck on the way in this morning was pretty bad. No, it wasn't us. I’m not sure what happened, but I can speculate wildly without any real evidence. I fear some people died in that wreck. At least people were hurt so I do not want to make light of the situation. I can help but run through what happened in my head. That means you get to sit through it on the blog.

We were headed east on Westminster. In the turn lane on our side of the road was a cement truck that had been hit head on by a full size pickup. It looked like the cement truck was sitting still and the pickup had crossed over at speed and hit solidly the front of the cement truck. Both vehicles were badly damaged. The front of the pickup was raised above the massive bumper of the cement truck and had hit the grill, folding it in. The front of the pickup was all but swallowed by the front of the cement truck.

Another car was on the westbound side of Westheimer. It had been t-boned badly. The position it was in made it look like it was headed south on Dairy ashford and had been hit by the pickup. The pickup then went in to the front of the cement truck.

I have no way of knowing who, but someone appears to have run the red light or at least jumped it. The truck had to be going more than a few miles per hour judging only on the damage done to the t-boned vehicle. That doesn’t tell me who ran the light.

The other option for what might have happened involves unprotected left terns and I cannot wrap my head around the movements of vehicles well enough to write down my speculation.

Nat had a wreck (no injuries thank God) only last week and the scene upset her. That is understandable.

It turns out sa friend of ours has a store right there. The security camera on their store might have captured the wreck. That might help the investigation. It also might mean I can find out what happened. I’m highly curious. Maybe it is a sick fascination, but it is there nonetheless.

Pat Condell added me back on GPlus. Not sure what to think of that. I don’t agree with everything he has to say, but I’m glad he is out there saying it.

Night isn’t the sun’s fault.

Banks are starting to feel the pinch by social finance or peer to peer lending. Between that and bitcoins, the world is saying that they want to be in control of their destiny more so than some arbitrary government. I say arbitrary only because most people do not choose where they are born and thus their birth country.

The job participation rate is now as low as it was in 1979. That means the number of people working vs the number of people not working who could work is the same now as in 1979.

Lunch conversation today was dominated by NFL players who messed up. I read somewhere that NFL players are arrested less often than the general population. I’d have to go look that up again to prove it. Everyone seemed very impressed with some kid who as either stupid as a post, or being crafty for some reason they didn’t know. Something about selling autographs.

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Who's afraid of free speech?

I'm glad someone has the balls to say it and say it loud.

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Title	Vote ^your^ conscience
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This was originally titled something like “Lie to your friends about what you vote for.”  That was horrifying. I’m bad at selecting titles. The title above will appeal to people more than the one I started with, but I’m told the first one would appeal to search engines more than the second. What is one to do? Go with your heart, or was it conscience?

They'll put anything on YouTube.

I do not condone or support this activity. I do laugh at it.

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After the car wreck, I’m looking into dash cams. They sell them in convenience stores in Russia. The insurance situation there is bat shit crazy. It would be nice to have footage of someone acting a fool before crashing.

Zinga games is having issues. They are the Farmville people. I hate those games because they have claimed my wife as a victim. How are they not making money? Facebook is fanning the flames of developers to get some competition in the market.

Windows NT is 20 years old. The Windows NT kernel is still in use today.

If today were the middle day of my life, what day would I die? 2013-07-31. That means I would kick the bucket at 89 or so. Not sure what I think of that.

The people doing the ice cream social thing today have to get building visitor badges. Funny, the delivery people don’t have to. Probably because they will start dropping off at the front door if they have to comply. They don’t have time to deal with that nonsense.

I got some kind of pineapple sherbet ice cream hybrid with nuts and Lucky Charm marshmallows.