Notes

Went to breakfast this morning. Some days we go to a place like Dunkin Donuts and grab some sandwiches and hashbrowns. It is nice to get something to eat, but it is running in to some bucks. I didn’t even think of fixing a cup of coffee this morning.

My head hurts from sinus stuff. The weather recently has been up and down in pressure. No sooner do I feel like I’m getting over something than it wallops me again.

Twitter is at junk status. I believe they prefer non investment status.

Just heard that Facebook is working on an office only social network. I bet you log in to it using your Facebook account. Guess they plan on taking on Linkedin. I hope the interface is better than Linkedin. I do not like trying to get around in Linkedin. There is something unintuitive about it for me at least. I just don’t get the motivation behind some of the choices and turns you have to make in the interface to get to messages and to figure out where messages came from. I bet the consulted HR people at some point. That just smells like (PC)3 to me.

This stuff just looks bad. I know this sort of thing could happen to anyone.

This is the world we live in.

I mistype my password so often on the first try that I’ve gotten in the habit of just wiping out the first attempt without trying it and starting over.

Animals swiping your GoPro is becoming a meme. I like this one. It is cute.

Today's doodle

Our lovely artist

Today's cup

Notes

One of the guys at work was talking about someone who showed him how to destroy his OS with a single click. His computer died and he had to reconstruct his OS. No warning. No are you sure. He had to reconstruct his OS and was able to pull files off the old hard drive. It made me think of my phone upgrade recently and not long before that doing a factory reset to fix some issues.  It freaked me out that I don’t keep much on my phone. Everything including most of my settings is kept in the cloud.

What is this China deal all about?

Wow, didn’t see this coming.

Interesting idea.

My cusin, the ex-cop, purchased a tiny drone. It does HD and she is going to put a laser pointer on it to do strafing runs on her cats. I told her to get a YouTube channel.

Surely, they can teach these automated landing craft not to park below a cliff where it can’t charge the batteries? This does not make me feel good about the whole automated car thing. Ten year mission in the toilet..

This might work.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid came up in conversation today. Hadn’t heard of it until today.

At some point, you have to pay for your own shit. The goal of ACA is socialized medicine. Socialized medicine basically means the government says who lives and who dies. All decisions from that point become moot except “Are you going to kill me?”

Word of the day cherubic

Out the Carolla window

Smells sweet, tasts bitter.

Notes

No war .. for now, That’s the good news.

One more failure in Asia.

Wonder why all that talk about attacking overseas bank accounts of U. S. companies went? Wonder why we are having a jobless recovery? Wonder no more?

The first cold day of Winter came today. We do not feel the winter so harshly where I live. We get humidity in Summer. Then comes rain and cold. Then comes a few lumps of warm enough to wear light jackets weather. Then comes spring, which lasts about a week. Then we are back to Summer. Typically people switch straight from air conditioning to heat and back again without cracking a window.

I want my tombstone to read “I wish I had spent more time at work.” Just because that is what everyone says no one says when they die.

Online photo editor.

I have a first world issue. When I take my laptop off the docking station at work, I go from Ethernet to wifi. That changes my IP and causes all my connections like SSH and such to hang. I have to kill all my connections and login again. This can be damaging for long processes. I have had to come accustomed to using the screen command to make sure my processes will survive a network disconnect. If anyone out there has a cure for this, let me know.

Winterizes Kelly

Bit weak. Nice scent

Complaining about work. Again.

Notes

Talk about redefining words or renaming a place as a direct attack on a people. Here it is in plain sight.

You have to lie about this stuff or the citizenry would never stand for it.

“if”???

Well, when you bend over and bend over and bend over, funny, the people you bend over for start to expect you to bend over.

Open carry in Texas. Some new rules on the horizon.

Justice.

Another Vietnam, or two or three.

Peer Reviewed is a fancy way of saying you didn’t let people who disagree with you have a say.

Morning Adventures

Elle had to get to school early today. She was volunteered to sell coffee for some charity. The parents have to come in to the school to log kids in so they are ripe for plucking.

Nat asked Bill to come over and grab her. I rode along because it is a ride. It works out well because Bill rides past my work on his way to his job or home.

Bill pulls out of our street onto Westheimer. He clipped something in the road and pops his rear right tire. It was very interesting. His computer said the wrong tire. The sound as the tire lost air told us it was a different tire. He has been trying to get a mechanic to work on his tire sensors. Tehy are not working properly. No one wants to take his money it seems.

We ended up At TirePro just down the road. it is closed, but it is a driveway out of the way of all the traffic on Westheimer. This is not always possible when wooga-woogaing your way down a busy street in Houston. They are not big on shoulders here.

Bill starts emptying the trunk to get the spare. I’ve asked Nat to clean out our trunk for this very reason. It was a little chilly this morning, but at least it wasn’t raining. If it was, everything gets soaked. Not to mention how much extra time it takes.

We get the jack out and flux with the tire iron. it turns out the tire iron that came with the car will not work with his rims. It hits the rim before getting a good bite on the lug nuts. I need to check this against our car. it is ironic that we are right in front of a tire place. They didn’t open until 9 so they were not much help.

Nat picked us up and took Elle to school and me to work while Bill waited for the road side assist folks.He texted me the progress. By the time I made it to my desk, the road side folks had the spare on his car and he was off to the tire shop.

All is well. I feel really bad bugging Bill just to get him a flat tire for his trouble. He just got new tires no less.

Notes

Obama lied, now we have death panels.

I’m still against anonymity online. Just the way I feel.

Stay off reddit except to read it.

What is the exchange rate?

China flexing muscles.

How do I get a holding deal for the next ... oh fifteen twenty years?

Sunrise take 2

Sunrise

Sunrise

Notes

We had to lie about that turd of a bill, or no one would have fallen for it.

Doritos flavored Mt Dew!

Didn’t expect this. The head editor is trying to protect some friends and driving her brand in to the ground.

Some new dirt on Benghazi. This is a hit against CBS. They are carrying water for their choice in leder. The worse he looks the worse they look.

I listened to a podcast about the Spanish Inquisition. It really is a time in the Western civilization we should all be ashamed of. The thing we should really be ashamed of is how Israel is being treated right now by descendants of the Inquisitors.

One thing about us not advancing as fast as we should, China will not have anyone to steal better designs from.

Well, they just walk across the border. no wonder we are lousy with spies.

Evernote web clipper thing basically doesn’t exist on Linux. Might as well not. You can take a screen shot or copy the URL. What a pack of cunts.

Sombody has to drink this stuff

Waiting at CVS

Notes

Beautiful ride in this morning. Weather was amazing. Cool and crisp. Funkey post storm looking cloud formations. Blue sky. Clean smell if you could get away from car exhaust.

They are laughing at the president finally. He has lost his base. I don’t say that to be mean. We should always feel safe laughing at those who are at the top of our government. The fact that the citizenry have been afraid to express themselves about the failures of our leaders has terrified me for a long time. Now that we are laughing at our current leader, perhaps we can disagree and limit the powers he holds over us as well.

Finally, a story I can believe in the media.

I can tell when I unplug my phone right after my alarm goes off at 4:45 and when I leave the house later in the morning. The charge indicator really is about 2 hours different.

Expelled Journalist from Russia.

IRS emails You know, people used to go to jail just for being misinformed and regurgitating that information to Congress. Right now, people working for the IRS are bold face telling Congress to fuck off and no one is going to jail. What does that say about our government.

Another point of view.

Wanna watch this.

Good for patrollin’.

Iran bullshit. In Iran, they have the right to burn U. S. flags too.

Not the first time I’ve heard this story.

It is OK to use racial slurs as long as it is against a Republican.