One step closer to play

Not yet at Elle's play

Notes

2014-12-11

Google Drive got a makeover. Not sure what they intend for the future. They have something up their sleeve. I just can’t figure out what it is.

Peew! Peew! U. S. Deathstar deploying to Persian Gulf.

Obama is the one in charge. I don’t personally blame him except for not retaliating with catastrophic unbalanced response.

I want to be a farmer. Well, I am way too lazy. Still, I love to watch it on YouTube.

Hostile takeover among thieves.

I like Chany. He is not full of crap. He shot a lawyer. Death is afraid of him.

I need to have a talk with which ever kelly pays the bills. He needs to get over the fact that it has to be done in the first place and do some better documentation while he is at it.

More on Benghazi. Good luck with prosecuting anyone. The people committing the crimes are the ones running the country. More - I won’t hold my breath if you don’t mind. Even if you do mind.

Sometimes I prefer a divided government. It means government gets off my back. Well, that is a nice thought anyway. Not sure it works in practice.

I don’t have an iProduct. This does not help me at the moment.

Notes

Plotting. All nouns redacted.

Right to work should also be called right to get laid off for no reason.

But will it sell in the sticks?

It depends on the definition of the word “depends” I suppose.

I hadn't thought of this. I hate it when “without firing a shot” is included in the description of where America is headed.

This is a great fear of mine.

Sunrise today, bit late to post

Notes

Elle is turning in to a bear in the morning. Puberty is hitting her both barrels.

My work computer’s fan sounds even worse today. Fan on the way. I’m secretly planning on handing it ot IT here in the building and saying I want it by the end of the day. That would feel so good knowing I don’t have to dig through that laptop to replace something that everything else appears to be bolted to. There are no YouTube videos showing the specific swap. That alone scares me.

One of the conversations earlier today was all about picking people who will be good workers. One of the guys said you need to find out if someone gets obsessed over things they are working on. If they do, they will be much better and more determined. I wanted to say that I would call that focus. Obsession is when you can’t turn it off and ends up being very bad. No good over the long run. I get what he was saying though. He is right.

Justin case you are normal and don’t keep track. I’m not normal.

Meanwhile in DC (on Iran) More lying and covering up for lying.

They are training to control citizens of western countries. Where better to learn these skills than the most western city in the world?

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Just so long as pirates get French taxpayer money, everything is OK.

Thank you Mr. President. I’m learning that only white people can be racist.

Germans protesting Islam.

Social class is somewhat genetic.

Lunch Conversation

We went to Pho One. I’m told it is not the best Vietnamese food, but it is pretty good.

• Telling customers the facts they want and that the facts they want are not going to win them anything. They want to out think us on our own product and eek out some performance. The trouble is, this is what we do and our product is what we do it on. This is all we do. You are not going tobeet us on our home field at our game for very long.
• The hot sauce, excellent by the way.
• Lawn care and how we all pay for our lawns to be taken care of.
• I didn’t have a chance to mention that I just want to pave it over and paint it all green.
• Compared prices and services of lawn care professionals
• Rarely the same crews for very long.
• No idea what is going to happen after amnisty
• One of our guys is a Scott. He is pissed at Obama for making him spend thousands of dollars and waiting for years to get on the citizenship train and then just handing things to people who were willing to break the law.
• Metric system
• Tea
• Eating with chopsticks.
• I remember my first whole meal with chopsticks. It took me 45 minutes. I was in my thirties.
• Getting old
• Adam’s dad didn’t bother learning how to use a watch because he is 70. Adam worries that this is his future. It is. Mine too. Actually, it might be my past. Not sure.
• 24 hour lan parties
• Politics there of
• Past bosses
• “So and So and I do not see eye to eye. I cannot help you sell our equipment to him.”
• You can’t talk to some bosses. Modern Ethernet is not the same as a token ring.

Notes

Pleading the 5th for writing a law. Oh, it is for admitting he lied to congress by submitting the law in that form without telling Congress about how stupid the American voters are beforehand.

IBM is putting its name on a project that uses discarded laptop batteries, coupled with an LED, in the hands of people in third world areas of the planet who are off the power grid. This gives them light at very low price. I can’t help but think it is going to cause these countries to come after IBM in 10 years to clean up the ditches and rivers plugged up with spent laptop batteries.

Something always told me I was special. Not the kind of special that your mother or teachers tell you to keep you from committing suicide before you really wake up a grown human. I don’t know where it came from or where it went. But it was there.

I’ve had a couple people ask me what I want for Christmas. I don’t need anything. I want health for everyone in my family and friends. If you figure out how to hand that out for Christmas, let me know.

Amazon has 26 million items in stock (from memory). I do not know what that means exactly. It is impressive. Now it is all being gathered up by robots. They don’t need space between racks for people any longer. The robots stock it and the robots gather it. At what point will missing robots turn up making offspring robots and hiding them in the big pile of inventory?

I’m in the midst of another gout attack. I’m just going to have to get used to a life limping and in pain. I’ve tried to stick to the diet. The doctor won’t put me on the medicine because of potential liver and kidney damage.

Syria is not the only place the U. S. is falling down.

The words “fox” and “hen house” jump to mind.

People ask me why i don’t go out. My goal when I leave my home is to make it back home in one peace. I can make this more likely when I just don’t bother leaving my house.;

Term of the day. Third Wave Coffee.

Fence and a bad lane of traffic

The History of TelHave not watched Madmen or Jersey Shore

Diet

I’m thinking of not eating on Tuesdays and Fridays. That is, I would eat a dab of breakfast and a snack sized dinner on those days. I plan on eating normally on every other day of the week. This is a new diet that scientists somewhere have suggested saying our hunter gatherer heritage would lend itself to this sort of skipping meals diet. We are programmed to over consume when available in order to successfully survive lean times. If only this were true with money.

Over the last couple years I’ve spoken with other men who have given me anecdotal evidence that this skipping meal plan has worked for them in the past. Now I’ve heard some one give an interview on NPR I think it was saying they are actually studying the effects of skipping means and indeed days of eating on the human body and attitude.

It turns out that people don’t get angry at skipping meals. They get angry when they are forced out of obtaining a mail by work or someone screwing them out of it in some way. If people make the decision themselves and remember they will eat normally tomorrow, they don’t get irritable.

There is a myth that your blood sugar is not in your control. After a couple weeks of doing this, the body adapts and quits with the whole hands shaking thing. If you are doing manual labor, then eat something for goodness sake. If you have hypoglycemia or something like that, eat something. For the most part a healthy person should be able to adapt without a lot of trouble.

I’ll post here how it goes of course.

Notes

Fighting Executive overreach one state at a time.

Why I do not buy Apple. This is just how Apple thinks. The users are just a commodity to be manipulated and herded so as to maximize profits and guarantee future returns. Wait, all businesses are like that. ... Screw Apple!

Wages are headed up in other countries. That is, they are headed up in Asia mostly. This is global inflation. The idea behind a recession is to spread the load. That is, to take work away from inefficient methods and put it in the hands of more efficient methods. That is, transfer jobs and manufacturing to cheaper places.

Those are some awesome budget cuts you got there. Shame if they bit you in the ass.

Jump out of the gate and fall on your face. Nice start.

Maybe the American people are finally waking up. Well, some anyway.

VRMF means Version Release Modification Fix.

Example: 3.1.0.36

For years when someone asked me “What’s up?” I’ve answered “Everything.” with as much conviction as I could muster. Today one of my coworkers said “Awesome. That means everything is up and running. Right?” I’m going to have to modify my default response to “What’s up?”.

It begins in China. Wait, it already began decades ago in manufacturing. it is funny how few sail manufacturers there are nowadays. Yet, there are several maritime diesel engine manufacturers. This is called disruptive technology. Progress! As long as the robots know when I order a burger and say “meat and cheese only” that I still want a bun, we are good.

Free breakfast at work

Firedrill at work

Coffee cart at work

Notes

Humankind still not destroyed by Human inaction, action or artificial intelligence run amok. We have not yet been hit by an act of God or galactic indifference. I await that which tomorrow brings.

Between adventures with homeless people this past week and listening to stories of some space adventurers stuck on a very long and dull journey through space they should not have made, I’m thinking my life is not so bad. When Humankind adventures in to space, the bad thing is we will still be there.

I didn’t make lunch today. I had an excuse all ready to use that my ankle hurt too much to walk to anywhere except the bathroom, but no one asked me to go.

At some point I thought I would write something. I was wrong. I just don’t have in me that thing that lets me put something down that makes sense. See? I might try my hand at a Discworld short story. Maybe even just a conversation between a couple characters.

One of our new servers

>$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       396876544 kB [That is 48 8G sticks of RAM, roughly]
...

>$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

...

processor : 63 [That is the 64th core listed [hyperthreaded]]

...

We use this box for VMs. I do not know what we paid for it.

I currently work for a company with hundreds of thousands of people working for it worldwide. It is easier looking people up here than at the company I worked for before (that was bought by the big one) that had about 100 people working for it. This is the power of an intranet.

When I started using Evernote, I thought I would hit 1000 notes in no time.  I planned on putting most every web page I hit in the database. Well, I have done. It turns out I hit a lot of web pages over and over again. This saddens me. I am not deep. I have over 500 notes. I find Evernote indispensable. I do not even get close to my byte limit for the free version. This is the only software I’ve considered buying on the internet to date.

The only indictment in the Garner case is the guy who shot the video. Shooting the video is what drew attention to him during the affair. If you are going to record the police, better have someone videoing you from down the street.

More on Garner case splitting people. Well, it is really the media and politicians not letting a crisis go to waist.

More on Gruber. Not sure what this will come to, but some say it undermines the Supream Court case coming up soon.

Fraze of the day: gild the lilly - Try to improve upon something that is already beautiful or functional or in its best form.

Notes

The show must go on. OK, this is a bit much. There is only so much one can do before you have to call it a day and seek medical attention.

Yikes. Won’t someone think of the the nukes!?

Hacking defence experts call user actions hygiene. As in, how you act on a day to day basis  to prevent hacking. That is accurate, but big brother sounding to me. Besides, try a google search for the term. not easy.

Free breakfast this morning at work. Interesting timing to have a messy breakfast on picture day. I’m not in charge.

China just doesn’t care any more.

Cop saves the day. Straight out of the movies.

Just want I wanted to hear this morning.

Had to happen sooner or later. Troops warned their families may be at risk at home.

I believe artificial intelligence is just waiting for one of the well armed nations to fully automate their nuclear infrastructure to make itself known with the burst of several blinding lights. Earth will look like a disco ball from the moon. I hope they have a couple extraorbital video cameras aimed appropriately when it goes down. More on the same story.

There is still no way to easily, as in click it in a GUI, way to change the mouse cursor in Ubuntu. This is the twenty first century developers. Frigging fix it. I don’t care who is in the way. I don’t care who gets their panties in a not. Fix this. Fix it. It makes you look like you are a chicken shit outfit.

I’ve always hated this idea. I hope it gets overturned.

Something tells me ther is a traidoff involved. Hope I’m very wrong.

So shiny! I’m very glad that a friend of mine will get one of these.

I know it is bullshit because it came from our government. Was there any doubt?

((1000 - 523) / 3) = 159 Had to do this math today. you can copy and paste that in to google and it just tells you the answer.

Evil on a Budget.

Updating work machine to Ubuntu

Made the switch to Ubuntu at work .So far so good. Still working on some of the setup. Only took about 3 hours to get  to a point I could get some work done. Still playing with the email setup.

...

Many hours later, I’m still plugging away trying to get things to work .As soon as I fix one thing, the next things pops up. Normal stuff. At least I have written most of this stuff down over the years.

There were a couple times today I wanted to toss the computer out the window. Renaming the computer because of a 15 character limit that no one tells you about until hours after you installed is one of the issues that nearly pushed me over the edge. There is just too much information on the net. Too many versions of Ubuntu. Which forum to listen to is a question in itself.

Software

• Password Gorilla
• LibreOffice
• Chromium browser
• eSpeak
• Screen command
• MP3, Flash and some others
• Video driver update
• VNC server and viewer

Setup

• Spending an hour just on getting email and chat up and running
• Kerberous setup
• Decktop zoom (Accessability)
• Password expiration
• Display settings (5 times)

I'm thinking something's up with Tue

Driver blocked half the exit for 15 min

Notes

Assholes! If I ran the NFL, I would mention the decided lack of race politics required to exist to these folks. People will stop buying tickets and watching on TV.

Glad we didn’t try to go to the cinema this past weekend. Sounds like a pile of crap. I never even looked. Going to the cinema is just not on my list of things to enjoy. It is the other people in the seats that kill it for me. I wouldn’t sit next to most of them. Too many people prefer watching their phones to the movie and that kind of thing.

VertualBox runs on a computer and pases data through to the hardware. I is not an emulator. You cannot for example run VirtualBox on a PPC system and use it to run X86 programs or operating system.

QEMU is an emulator. Very slow. Hard to keep up to date. You could use it on a PPC server and run X86 software and operating systems in theory at least.

Word of the day: pedantic

Book I’m reading.