2016-05-13
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2016-05-09
2016-05-08
2016-05-07
2016-05-05
2016-05-04
Lunch Conversation
We went to Whataburger. They have a half good chicken sandwich. I was going to skip lunch and just walk around. This restaurant is a fair walk from our office across a lumpy soccer field and several parking lots.
- US vs UK
- Food, cars, laws, taxes, traffic
- Moving back and forth
- Renting vs landlording in both places.
- Deposits (from both points of view)
- Getting from one place to another.
- Coworkers getting in wrecks in front of the office.
- Catchup and other spices.
- Berger places
- Mexican and Tex Mex places in Texas (and North Carolina) vs the UK
- Houston Flooding
- Flying, landing
- Automated vehicles
- Sleeping on the way to and from work.
- Solve parking issues as well as traffic jams.
- Automated boats and helicopters
2016-05-03
2016-05-02
2016-04-29
2016-04-28
2016-04-27
We saw a wreck this morning
Saw a wreck this morning. Bill gave us a ride in. There were three cars at the end of our street trying to get on Westheimer. Bill even mentioned it was a traffic jam. We hardly every have to wait for more than one car, if that.
The pickup in front of us pulled out slowly and went across all three lanes and got smacked by an SUV. If they had just pulled in to the far right lane, they would have been fine. The pickup was able to pull over in to a driveway, but the SUV was having issues. The right front wheel was folded inward at the top by about 45 degrees.
Other than that, traffic was really light. We made it to Elle’s school and to my work.
All I was thinking about was the lack of a camera in bills vehicle. Dangit! That would have been on YouTube in no time. Man, it really upsets me. I have had a couple times in Bill’s vehicle where I wanted a camera running.
The pickup in front of us pulled out slowly and went across all three lanes and got smacked by an SUV. If they had just pulled in to the far right lane, they would have been fine. The pickup was able to pull over in to a driveway, but the SUV was having issues. The right front wheel was folded inward at the top by about 45 degrees.
Other than that, traffic was really light. We made it to Elle’s school and to my work.
All I was thinking about was the lack of a camera in bills vehicle. Dangit! That would have been on YouTube in no time. Man, it really upsets me. I have had a couple times in Bill’s vehicle where I wanted a camera running.
2016-04-26
2016-04-24
Some shady shit in Michigan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3554797/Woman-19-leading-Flint-water-crisis-lawsuit-murdered-week-suspicious-death-man-wanted-questioning-lead-poisoning.html
2016-04-23
2016-04-21
2016-04-20
2016-04-19
2016-04-18
2016-04-17
2016-04-16
2016-04-15
2016-04-14
Eighth Deadly Sin
Pride, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and the modern sin of Haist.
Haist is the sin of the incomplete job. We do not teach our children to work well. We teach them to get done. They are taught to move from ticked box to unticked box. We set deadlines that when they are met the next deadline is set that much closer.
Our mail carrier constantly puts the wrong mail in our box. They expect us to finish their job of delivery. UPS and FedEx drivers throw the box at the door without knocking, disregarding the law in the process.
This sin has always been around. It is just affecting my life more and more lately.
Haist is the sin of the incomplete job. We do not teach our children to work well. We teach them to get done. They are taught to move from ticked box to unticked box. We set deadlines that when they are met the next deadline is set that much closer.
Our mail carrier constantly puts the wrong mail in our box. They expect us to finish their job of delivery. UPS and FedEx drivers throw the box at the door without knocking, disregarding the law in the process.
This sin has always been around. It is just affecting my life more and more lately.
2016-04-09
2016-04-02
2016-04-01
I wonder
When cutting a throat, would it be less time to unconsciousness to slice the left side of the neck or the right side?
The left side bring blood to the brain from the heart. There are check valves in the arteries to try to prevent back flow. Stopping that flow would cause loss of consciousness as quickly as the blood in the head lost oxygen.
The right would allow blood to flow out of the head much faster than the heart could ever hope to replace it. Loss of consciousness might happen more quickly because even though blood is coming from the heart, it is not at enough pressure to feed the brain at all before running out of the body.
I wonder which it is. What kind of doctor/scientist would know?
The left side bring blood to the brain from the heart. There are check valves in the arteries to try to prevent back flow. Stopping that flow would cause loss of consciousness as quickly as the blood in the head lost oxygen.
The right would allow blood to flow out of the head much faster than the heart could ever hope to replace it. Loss of consciousness might happen more quickly because even though blood is coming from the heart, it is not at enough pressure to feed the brain at all before running out of the body.
I wonder which it is. What kind of doctor/scientist would know?
2016-03-29
2016-03-25
Bad attitude
A woman who I ran in to in the elevator on the way up to work at around 7:15, was greatly pissed at having to come in this Good Friday. Briton has the day off. We could have taken a floater today if it pleased us. It is a religious holiday. Get over it. I did feel sorry for her. She is going to have a bad day based on her attitude. She could have a good day if she so decided.
2016-03-23
2016-03-22
2016-03-21
2016-03-20
2016-03-19
2016-03-17
2016-03-16
2016-03-14
2016-03-13
2016-03-11
The way the world looks
When you are in the middle of the great plane, the whole world looks like it is right below your feet.
When you are on top of a mountain, the world looks far away.
When you are in a valley the world looks all around you.
In a forest the world looks lost do you.
At sea, the world looks like it drown and left you to follow.
In a crowd, the world looks away.
In orbit, the world looks back at you.
This poem makes me think of Adam Savage and his adventures.
When you are on top of a mountain, the world looks far away.
When you are in a valley the world looks all around you.
In a forest the world looks lost do you.
At sea, the world looks like it drown and left you to follow.
In a crowd, the world looks away.
In orbit, the world looks back at you.
This poem makes me think of Adam Savage and his adventures.
2016-03-09
2016-03-06
Don’t want to Jinx it
Friday was a good day. Work was not easy. I learned some new procedures. Some things got done. I severed my beliefs from reality. It went well. The world is still out to get me, but it is okay somehow. I made it home alive. The family is OK. None of the idiots running for president is all that far out front. The foundation of the universe is built on the will of a dreaming god.
Saturday was pretty good. I watched Inside Out. It made me cry and it was a good thing. The show is about crying being a good thing. It was about growing up. I hear someone put together just the outside scenes of the show and it still made a good movie. That is just how that production company works.
I’m turning 50 in a couple years. For the first time in my life I’m looking forward to a year. This frightens me. I have never looked forward to a birthday or getting older in my life. It has always not been all that bad. Now I’m terrified of jinxing it by looking forward to getting older.
My eye doctor, when I was 21, told me I was good to go on the vision front until I was 50. Strange things happen to eyes after age 50. Still, I look forward to the half century mark. I mean, shit happens. Shit happens whether you jinxed it or not. Shit happens to good people and shit happens to bad people. Shit happens to people who never had shit happen to them.
I still don’t want to jinx it. Do I let myself feel OK about it?
As we age, bad things seem to happen more often when it comes to health. That is just accepted. I have a history of fearing things long before they hit me. When I was younger, I feared going bald. Now I embrace it. I never feared going gray, but it is happening right now and it is no big deal. It really is distinguished.
Real illnesses of course are different. Few folks look upon a health scare as a right of passage. That is what i fear this time. The prediction by my old eye doctor haunts me. I must not let fear guide my life. I must take the reins and put my will in to it. We must all do the best we can with what we have and then do it again, and again.
2016-03-05
2016-03-04
2016-03-02
2016-02-29
Great news
Dementia cure may be just five years away, says world expert
As he steps down as chairman of the World Dementia Council, Dr Dennis Gillings says he is optimistic that the first cure to halt or reverse the disease is on the horizon
If only I could remember what it is. That is a bad joke. Between this and artificial eyes and kiddies, we are set to live forever. (not)
Oh no
2 hour meeting on really uncomfortable chairs. Parts of me are going offline soon. This kind of thing happens every week. What would fix these chairs?
2016-02-28
2016-02-27
2016-02-26
2016-02-23
Elle's new(ish) phone
I gave Elle my old Samsung Galaxy S4. It was messing up for me, but a factory reset usually fixed it for a while so I still wonder if it was software. Hopefully she has better luck. She loves it. “I like having a bigger phone.” We have to go by T-Mobile to get a smaller SIM card.
Elle also found out one of the awesome things about the cloud. She signed in to Google on her new (used) phone and all her apps and settings started setting themselves up. She was impressed. I plan on keeping her old phone around for a backup or a 911 phone.
She has been pretty good about using the phone. We haven’t caught her doing stupid things much. She plays her games and texts her friends.
She will want a new case. The case I had was an Otterbox that was once waterproof. It is huge and clunky. Not the kind of case young teenage girls like or so I’m told.
Elle said she wanted an iPhone of course. Her rich friends at private school (thanks Bill and Ted, yall rock for keeping her in private school, Thank you.) have iPhones and probably rave about them. If you have money, iPhones are the way to go. Everything costs money. The only easy way to do anything on an Apple device is to pay someone to do it for you. It seems that DIY is deliberately hindered to make more money. I dislike this greatly.
2016-02-22
2016-02-21
2016-02-20
2016-02-16
2016-02-15
The Red Pen
Keyboards are more important today than any pen. The shelf we have at work has notepads and pens available on it, but they time interval we allow between purchases does not keep us in proper black and blue pens. By the time people start to get worried enough to replenish our supplies comes to fruition, we are down to the bottom of the barrel. The seven or eight boxes of red pens that remains behind holding down the fort mocks everyone who wants to use a tree pad to take notes.
Red is the color of mistakes, warnings, trouble, negative amounts of money, notes from a teacher of boss. In my case, my old boss insisted on my printing out a web page and he would mark it up with a red pen for me to apply the corrections and then ... print it out again to be marked up.
Of course, I wind up with a handful of leftover pens. Many are odd brands or red. it isn’t that our office spends a lot of money on pens. They turn up with crates of store brands. I do not remember the last time I liked the pens we had on our supply shelf. The shelf happens to be next to the restrooms so I get a chance to notice our lack of proper color pens a couple times a day.
If you do find yourself with a couple black pens at this point in the office supply cycle, it is a good idea to grab a couple red pens and swap the ink cartridges. Put a piece of tape or something on the pens for your own convenience. Then guard them with your career because it might be a while before the supply lines find their way back to your oasis of booty known as the supply shelf.
Firefox and Chrome on Linux
I’m having some issues with everything about Linux. I have become far less tolerant of bullshit issues on Linux than I used to be. I used to consider that the OS and software was free so leeway should be given. This is changing for me. I am getting bug intolerant as I age. I believe the scientific term is cantankerous.
Firefox Works
- Mouse over works. This is the kind of thing you don't think about until it is broken.
Firefox Broken
- High contrast sucks.
- Leave it open over night and it runs like crap the next day even if you kill it and restart.
Chrome Works
- High contrast is awesome.
Chrome Broken
- High contrast has scrolling issue that makes it really annoying.
- Mouse over is jacked. You can kind of fight and make it work. Sort of.
It seemed like more. I’m sure I’ll come up with more to complain about. Give me a bit.
Memory Wipe
Scientists Have Discovered How To 'Delete' Unwanted Memories (telegraph.co.uk) 93What will prevent people from making the same bad decisions that lead to the memories in the first place again? Will companies want this action at the end of contracts?
Posted by BeauHD on Monday February 15, 2016 @02:00AM from the eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind dept.
A new documentary from PBS reveals how cutting edge science enables us to 'edit' memories and create new ones from scratch. "For much of human history, memory has been seen as a tape recorder that faithfully registers information and replays it intact," say the film's makers. "But now, researchers are discovering that memory is far more malleable, always being written and rewritten, not just by us but by others. We are discovering the precise mechanisms that can explain and even control our memories."
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