Notes

I got that extra huge battery. I like the amount of charge, but I hate how freaking heavy my phone is with it attached. It is a brick. It was nice not having my case on the phone. I forgot how much the case ruins the sound quality. I cannot use the back facing camera because the plastic lense over the sensor is double thick and tinted with some soft of anti glare or something. The automatic dimmer doesn’t work any more. It just kills me to make videos with it in that case. I guess I’ll go back and forth for a while.

They are so Morines it hurts. I like that quote.

Seems the only way to get your message out there these days it to stack the bodies like cordwood on a bunch of internet videos. Another view.

War of civilizations.

I had a 15 minute discussion with one of the other developers about moving to Ubuntu on their primary workstation. I’ve already done this. I went from Red Hat to Ubuntu. They are going from Windows to Ubuntu. They want to make a backup of their drive on an external drive first. When I took my plunge, I only made a backup of my user folder. I uttered the words “Backups are for wimps.” I was joking of course. I back things up. Not as often or as thoroughly as I should I’m sure.

I want to get the bug for vlogging back. I’ve been working a lot lately and have lost the drive a bit. I still want to do it, but it doesn’t seem to give me that shot of satisfaction so much as it use dto. I’m not sure , but I think all the jerking around YouTube has done with its contributor's incomes lately has put me off my free contributions.

I was listening to Old Time Radio on Shoutcast (undr the talk heading). Orson Welles was on three channels at the same time in different shows. Probably decades apart. It was weird. I really like those old time radio shows. I heard “ ... from beyond the grave.” in his voice.

Notes

What exactly is this pig farm all about?

I wonder if Ted Cruz will bring NASA back to Texas? Somehow I doubt it because he has tried to cut science funding in the past. I wonder if it will simply shrivel up and die on his watch.

Funny how our overlords can stop cartoons from being published, but not bomb instructions. I think freedom is freedom, but you know, no one listens to me.

Scientific method. A great explanation of the Scientific Method. It is very important to know and practice. It works well in so many parts of life. I use the concept of elimination in bugging software. Worth a listen. You might just learn something. If there is no way to disprove a thing than it is not a fact, it is not science.

Mad scientist. Never heard this until today. Sea Monkeys to Super Soaker, invented by an anti semitic white supremacist nut job. (podcast)

Blury lunch

Money

The UK is terrified of deflation. Something completely new is going on. The economy of the banks is getting better due to international investment. However, employment in the country is hurting. People are being squeezed by fewer jobs, immigration, and businesses not having their products and services paid for by people who are worried about their jobs. It is a pretty vicious cycle.

Only the banks are happy. They are rolling in cash. Foreign investment and the local government are pouring money in to the banking system. The banks charge for both every action and every inaction. They then lobby the government to take the money of people who died without direct heir. They take risks and assume the taxpayers will bail them out on the short end.

Notes

Bill got a new Jeep. it is pretty darned nice. He gave us a ride in this morning. My mom used to have Jeeps. The new ones have much better amenities.

The next time I have to give my cats medicine, I’m going to put it in a dart and use a fucking blowgun.

Notes

Getting myself to write or shoot a video has been like pulling teeth. It isn’t like I put that much effort in to it. Something snapped over the vacation. Now I just don’t want put it down.

I hate this extended battery I got. It is awesome that I have the ability to go 3 days between charges. I can slam the snot out of the phone for two solid days and still have juice. However, It just feels like a brick in my hand. I am also paranoid without the otterbox. As much as I freaking hate the otterbox. I cannot believe this phone is still working. It has been almost a year and a half or so. I just want the best of all the potential worlds here .Nothing big.

People in parts of Europe just might be waking up after the Parice attacks from last week. Not sure if the momentum will stick. Let’s hope. They keep making the same points over and over. There is a bunch of arguing over money in the podcast as well. They do come back to this point a couple times.

Ghost rider level 1000

http://i.imgur.com/EAyb5zF.gifv

Your 14 year old nephew is a shit programmer.

Notes

Europe has deflation. Governments don’t like deflation. Inflation is a way for the people who print the money to put a tax on the economy itself. Deflation means it actually costs the people who print the money to just sit there and print money.

I listened to Adam Carolla show recently where they spoke about other people they had worked with. There were some interesting stories. Lots of assholes in show business apparently.

Working tomorrow (Saturday). Haven’t worked a Saturday in quite some time. We are under a crunch time. It is annoying, but one of those things you do to make your life and the lives of those who are around you better. No point in fighting it. Help row the boat. i didn’t have particular plans anyway. Some people did. Several folks are canceling plans to come in and help row the boat. We may grumble a bit between drum beats.

Souble hat tonight

Dont see this every day

Notes

Rough video to watch. The video on that page shows the murder of a French police officer. More on the Terrorist attack in France. Interesting question. Unrelated fact.

We use VMs for testing at work. I can tell you that they are slow. There must be a fundamental issue with VMs when it comes to accessing or acting like you are accessing hardware. VMs have their place and make a lot of things faster. Not driver testing. Still, when you are struggling to find hardware for testing, they are awesome.

I just noticed the little speaker on the tab of Chromium in Ubuntu Linux that I’m using that indicates sound being played. It at least tells you which tab has the annoying advertisment playing so you can kill it or close the tab. In this case, I’m listening to a podcast on the web in that tab. Nice touch in any case.

I had to turn off the word completion on Libreoffice. It is one of those features that sounds great until you use it. Then it turns out to be more of a pain in the ass than it was ever worth. I found this out a long time ago, but it seems it takes me a while every time I have to use a new copy of Libreoffice or OpenOffice to switch it off.

You’re welcome

Notes

Germany is threatening to throw Grease out of the EU.  Grease is calling the Germany’s bluff. The thing is, Germany has a history of not bluffing. I can’t wait for the cards to hit the table in this case. I imagine that drop will be heard round the world.

GED does not stand for General Equivalency Diploma. It is a company name. They are in the process of making the test computerized. An issue arose immediately that not everyone knows how to use a computer.

Wow, a downer look at today.

People keep saying things like “You can go to a public library to get on a computer to apply for all this online stuff.” But, you have to register for that access at my local library. They ask for an address, phone number and email. I’m not sure if there is a human who can override the requirements in order to let someone make all that stuff happen. If someone is too poor to have a home address, they are going to have to produce a big pile of self drive to make the first step of getting online to register for

Direct attack in France on the freedom of expression when it comes to saying anything negative against Muslims.

Robotics seems to be missing something at the moment. All of work is making something happen in the real world that was in your head. Even if it is mindless BS task, you have it in your head before you can make it happen. Robots work off of a make this servo move this amount and then make this gear turn so many times. All robots that I’m aware of are just sleep walking. I wonder what will happen when they wake up.

Robot insult “2+2=5”. Ya?!? Screw you too buddy!

In video games people don’t get sick. They don’t wind up in wheelchairs much. They typically just die.

I watched a video this morning of a French police officer getting caught out on a street in Paris. The officer gets shot and falls to the ground. The terrorist jogged up and shot the officer in the head. He then jogged back to the car and they drove off. it made me think of video games. So often people take a far too nonchalant view on death in video games.

Lunch Conversation

We tried to go to one place and it was full. The second place wouldn’t split the check, so nine of us went to another place. Bad business model. We ended up going to the Thursday Chinese place. I would have been hot if I hadn’t been along. Something told me to go today.

• Used cars
• Someone knows a tycoon who runs an entire business for used cars.
• Auctioning
• Selling
• Repoing
• Selling again
• Repoing again
• Car lots are putting GPS units with kill switches in some of the cars they sell. They will display a countdown on the dash until the repo guys shows up.
• I had a relation of some kind that made money in fleet sales of cars.
• Video games
• Individual games
• Steam
• Video cards
• CPU vs motherboards
• Kids Media
• Kids TV
• Kids using Netflix with their own account
• Kids using the adult’s accounts so we can keep an eye on them.
• Passing around Netflix accounts.
• Hulu will not let you pass around accounts.
• Netflix profiles didn’t come along fast enough.
• The hot sauce was not nearly as hot as last year.
• Names
• None of us remember names it seems.
• We are dealing with international people nowadays and the names are killing most of us.
• Chinese New Year (sometime in February)

Chilly bus stop

Cat guy

Autistic man builds feline fun house http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4ad_1420524942

This will make you feel small

A close encounter with a grey whale http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=869_1420578701

Notes

Germany says if Greece doesn't impose austerity until it chokes, they will get thrown out of the Euro Zone. I’ll believe it when it happens. Europe can be trusted to sit on their hands until something just pushes them off. They have a long fuse. I swear , Europe has just been letting things fall apart until the world economy gets over the whole depression recession thing it is going through. The trouble is, this is just the new normal.

I love it. People are screaming for the taxes on gas to be jacked up right now. We have had a huge drop in prices. Some people call it a subsidy on gas by not putting a higher tax on gas. The only people saying we should drop the gas tax and put an emissions tax on vehicles are people who no longer work in the public sector.

I need to get back in to videoing things every day. Just shoot the bullshit. You don’t have to use any of it, but if you have it you have the choice of using it or not.

Spaceships will simply print parts they need as they need them. This will include wings and landing gear. It will include engine pods, even if the engine itself needs to be purchased and the mounts printed around it.

I just listened to a NPR money show about a guy who wanted investors to give him money to open burger joints in the Ukraine. It was painful to listen to the Q and A. The show was all about western money supporting the rest of the world becoming more like the west. The Chinese and Indians are not investing outside their own countries as much. Best quote of the day “War with Russia is pretty much a deal breaker.”

I wrote like one blog entry and shot maybe two videos the whole two weeks I was off. Bad vlogger/blogger. I don’t care. it isn't like I make money off this stuff. Still. It pleases me to do it. This little exercise in retirement tells me I’m screwed if I don’t have a job to get me out of the house. I’ve always planned on working until I drop. Maybe that is the best thing for me.

Target Trip

I ran over to Target at lunch today to get a set of earphones. Mine did the one ear fail thing. they did last a while before dying without notice. I don’t even remember yanking them or stepping on them. Anyway. The new earbuds i wanted were $6.99 each and locked to the shelf behind a plastic anti theft contraption. I had to ask for help. I hate that.

The stock guy had to radio the manager or maybe she was another stocker. She walked over and used these magic pliers to free the headphones. I got 2 pair because I want to deal with this as little as possible.  I did notice one of the cases had been pried open. it makes me ill.

The last set of earbuds I got at the same Target did not warrant Fort Knox. That may have been over a year ago. Not sure what happened to cause the change.

The earbuds don’t suck. Which is a surprise. They were the cheapest ones I could find at the moment. Normally, Target makes me buy a $9.99 set for no good reason. Notice I got a couple sets this time. The difference is quality and longevity. Ask me again in a couple weeks if they have lasted.

There was no one in the place. I want at lunch time. The store was a ghost town except for a couple old woman who insisted on blocking the double wide aisles to talk, nay, yell on their phones.

Notes

i have a sinus thing going on. My head hurts. I’ve taken some medicine for it, but it is only taking the edge off. It feels like something is pressing against the back of my skull when I cough, sneeze or yawn. I’m not exaggerating. I mean, it feels like something is selling up and pressing against the inside of the back of my skull. That cannot be good.

I’m going to write a book “A book.” There. That was awesome. I’m good at this. Now, to sell it.

Just put in my contacts for the first time in a week.

16 kinds of glitter

Sunday

Today is the last day of a 2 week vacation. I am so ready to go back to work. it is better to go on vacation in my opinion when pretty much everyone is on vacation. I don’t have the ear of either being missed or not being missed any longer. I’m 45 and jus don’t have it in me to sweat that sort of thing. Paranoia takes up a lot of energy. I’ve been keeping tabs on the progress at work. They are still working, but with a skeleton crew more or less. Most people tooks some sort of time off over the break.

You are interupting my last rays of Sunday

Half past midnight

Today's cup. Not to my liking

About time

Texas approves drug testing for welfare. I agree.

http://abc13.com/archive/9060392/

That isn't riding a bike.

The cinema

I don't go to the cinema because of money and the other patrons.

I am broke. Everything I do wants to get paid for me to do it.

I am sick of people on their phones and cussing at each other in the show. I will go back when there are armed police arresting people who disturb the entertainment.

I'll not hold my breath.

It's raining Sweety. No it isn't.

Watching Lego movie. Waiting on women to get ready.

How I'm spending my vacation

Cooking with a squeegee.

Building a roll around bench

Editing videos

Done

Counting/County Crows

Christmas day 2014

Yee gads

All these years, I thought it was County Crows. Haddn't seen it in writing. It's like getting the lyrics to a song you like wrong. How bad is it that I like my name better? Is it always like that in these situations?

Christmas day video of choice

Merry Christmas all.

That's a BB gun

Gordon Ramsay's Scrambled Eggs

Never search for omelet or egg on youtube unless you are not hungry for the next 3 days.

Jamie Hyneman On Welding in His Workshop

I wish I could weld. Trouble is, I will weld my face to the medal.

Kid's party and fog

Up yours fortune cookie.

My fucking passwords all expire at work in exactly 2 weeks from yesterday. Could not have fucked me worse on timing.

There's that second chin. Why old guys grow beards

Survived the kid's party

Guy's sugarbowl

Notes

2014-12-08

GTFO.

Funny thing about acting like a coward. People start treating you like a coward.

I have some friends who would like to be in on these auctions.

So, if we hand any more Guantanamo prisoners over to Uruguay, we are just letting them go?

I enjoy when people take the time to absorb my output.

All about your cousin getting the contracts.

I find that 9:30 and 13:30 are the big recieve email times of my day. Is this normal? Is every huge corporation the same way? I bet if I allowed for time zones and discounted automated nagmail I would find that pattern even more proliferate.

Hell ya!  They were stupid to attack at night. SF owns the night.

Industry based entirally on lies. What would the number of Gims be if you only paide when you showed up?

Silent Night

Some driving related clips

Notes

We went by Shipley's this morning for breakfast. The line was long and not moving. Watched a suburban back in to another vehicle. Didn’t have an angle on the video. We ended up leaving with 5 cars in front of us. They need to work on their speed of service. I like their donuts and kolaches.

What he said. More on why. Not sure what I agree with.

Nit picking executive overreach.

Funny stuff. I have no idea how accurate that is.

Lunch conversation today consisted of poking fun at one of our coworkers who is retiring. That sounds really bad, but she is an awesome human and took it well. She has been great. We speculated her life after work. She is still young and will raise the kids. Yes, I envy her.

Our building gave a free lunch today. It was pretty good. It consisted of chicken rice and beef tips. I ate the beef tips. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to make me worry about my gout. It’s free, so it doesn’t count, right?

TIL: In a dorm, if you smell burnt popcorn, someone was probably smoking weed and needed to cover up the smell.

If I was this guy, I would sue Autonation for not getting rid of his logo. This tells me that if I have a business, I’m going to remove any logos before I trade in the vehicle myself.

Obama doing something I agree with. Well, as long as he ends up signing the bill. Don’t dig too deep there big O, you might find out the military is full of assholes doing a very important job.

Isn’t making a movie poking fun at someone bullying? Well, North Korea might just think so. Oh, and for some hypocrisy on the subject.

Wow. I’m impressed. Never seen one that big before.

TIL: James Madison changed the words in the First Amendment from “aut not” to “shall not”.

Ain't here for me

Notes

Listening to Sherlock Holmes Radio show.

Crazy shit going down in H-Town.

At what point does a correction become a re-write?

Another argument against freedom.

Listened to a podcast about the extortion racket in Honduras. it is getting to the point where you can not have a business that faces the public without getting extorted by street gangs. They send kids to deliver their death threats. They make random calls to citizens to target them. They just say pay or we will kill you. This is what it looks like to live in a country ruled by the strong. I bitch all the time about feeling like I’m being shaken down by the government under threat of imprisonment for money to do things I do not agree with. I stand by that bitching.

Great. I do not need this.

I do NOT like Jeb Bush. Some of the reasons why. Jeb just seems like a tool to me. I’m not the only one it seems.

It really scares me when employees sue their own employer for doing something stupid. I don’t like Sony for other reasons, but I really don’t like the fact that they were arrogant about security for their own employees. I hope some rich people go to jail. How often do I say that on this blog?

I am a Constitutionalist. I’m just not violent.

Electric cars are more shit than gas cars if the electricity is made from coal.

A chopper just buzzed our building. Not sure what they were looking for, but they were not very high.

By the time it all plays out in the courts, there will be 10 million new Democrat voters. That is the plan anyway.

Today's theme.

Don't you have a videogame to play?

Notes

The traffic has been very light the last couple days. I have a feeling it is going to be light for the remainder of the year at normal commute times except on days where shopping will be a concern.

When I posted a blog entry this morning none of the links made it. I am so bad at going back and checking my work that I only accidently found out none of the links made it. I went and fixed it. However, I don’t even know how that happened. I’m not sure what I did to make the links not show up. As far as I know, I did the same copy and paste I always do. It worked on the first try on the fix run. I bother to take the information down and put it up on the blog, I should bother to double check it is not jacked up.

BBC had a story about a train that stopped for a problem between stations recently. Everyone was grumpy about it. The Engineer (or driver or operator or whatever) had to completely shut down the train, lights and all, then turn it back on. The train folks gave everyone a free cup of tea for their trouble.  The BBC commentator was one of the people  on the train. He asked people to send in stories of having to switch things off and back on to fix them. He said the idea of giving everyone a cup of tea to ease the delay was “Very British”.

Told you so. Well, these guys may have mentioned it.

I like the idea behind Field Notes products. I just have nothing worth taking notes out. If I do take any notes, it will be in evernote or something to that effect.

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