2014-12-01
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
2014-11-29
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2014-11-26
Notes
Today is the day before Thanksgiving. I was very sick yesterday. I had a pain in my side and a slight fever. No, it wasn’t my appendix. Back at work today,but I’m not sure how long I will last. Part of me fantisizes that they will let us go home early today. Not holding my breath.
Heckler gets Obama to admit he changed the law. He admitted in that moment to executive edict.
This should make for far more interesting dash cam videos from Russia.
One less asshole.
Book I just read
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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Quick read. Made me think a lot about all the end of the world scenarios that have hit media in the last couple decades. This came out in the seventies.
I did not know this was a short story or novelette. I thought it was a whole novel. Imagine my surprise when the book ended with several hours to go on the audio book. One way to prevent people from skipping to the end I guess. Most of the other stories were at least interesting, but some were downright annoying. People used to have a fear of someone being able to harm you through the phone.
This is the station wagon they mention in the story I'm pretty sure. It is more like a Chevy suburban than a typical station wagon. Looks more like an old Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Very different from the book.
2014-11-24
Notes
I like riding in with Bill in the morning. We swap stories about things that happened over the span of our lives. I do not have many stories. I’m 45 and there are just not many stories in the queue when I hold conversations. This morning I told a story about a flood when I was a kid. I had to censor some bits because I do not like myself as a kid. I was damaged. I’m so much better now. It has taken a lifetime to get here.
I got to play manager today. I ran a meeting. Took notes and everything. Even handled a follow up conference call. Had this odd urge to play 9 holes of golf, but resisted.
Twitter version of above paragraph
I got to play manager today. I ran a meeting. Even handled a follow up conference call. Had an urge to play 9 holes.
Nocebo effect. This is where someone says you will get sick if you eat that gluten and you eat gluten and get sick. There is a blocker you can take that will block the effect. and indeed the sensitivity to pain.
Apparently, the cure for Ebola is Bill Cosby being accused of sexual assault. (From Penn Sunday School)
2014-11-23
2014-11-22
2014-11-21
Notes
Lie.
Obamacare lawsuit. Someone is getting tired of the make it up as you go approach of our president. The president of the U. S. does not the ability to change laws approved or disapproved by Congress. More.
The answer is “what negotiations?” Iran is telling the U. S. how it is going to be and the U. S. is saying OK. More.
Poor bastard. The distraction is too much to work there any longer. He would work in crosshairs every day if he stayed.
Just amazing. I could not sing the Canadian anthem. I might take the time to learn.
“Bisier than a one legged bobcat covering up its own crap on a frozen pond.” Heard on NPR in a story about cattle rustling in Oklahoma.
I got another Amber Alert in a meeting today. I have to say that they pick poor times for me. Seems like half the alerts I’ve received are in the middle of a meeting.
Remember the days of having to break files up in to floppy sized chunks? I remember someone having a video file that was 32 1.44mb floppies long. I just made a compressed 5.2 gigabyte file and shoved it across a network that travels across the state of Texas without batting an eyelash. That wouldn’t even fit on a standard DVD disk.
I just read that the difference between truth and making stuff up is the direction the thoughts travel in your brain. Apparently we have a forward path in our brain for reality. A physical path for thoughts to travel. Everything goes in and then things start coming back out as we make ourselves creative.
Gout, the disease no one freigging understands. Every food chart has 9 different numbers for how bad they are for you. The experts say “Well, you just have to play with your diet to find out what works for you.” “You only have control over about 30% of your gout via diet.”
2014-11-20
Notes
The Oil Sands called Keystone Pipeline. No pipeline is not a win for the Green Party. Without a pipeline trains have taken the oil where it needs to go. Well, that and oil tankers. Trains derail. Way to go greenies. The rest of the world wants it pretty bad. ... Falling apart.
Interesting idea.
2014-11-18
Notes
Will anything come of this? What if they find absolute cowardice and treason? Who is going to tell the president?
Linch him or we riot. Not a way to run a country.
I remember Apple fans saying big phones suckd and were more useless than useful. Then, the day Apple came out with a big phone, they all collectively sighed “Thank God!” at the same time. it is the brand, not the products people seem to be in love with. That will indeed fade.
The U. S. will not negotiate with terrorists! Well we won’t take military action. Well, we won’t pay ransoms. Well, shit.
Ouch.
Great Depression II
Japan is back in recession. Well, it never really left recession. japan has a different way of doing things. The whole world is in recession, but people in charge refuse to admit it. They wouldn’t want you think it is their fault or anything.
I wonder if I should live long enough if I will find out that historians call this era Great Depression II.
The only reason we are not calling it a depression is because we have redefined a depression in order to not call this a depression. So many people are out of work that studies come out saying many young people who would normally go in to the workforce say they do not define themselves by a career. They may never do so when you consider how often people have to change jobs now in order to pay the bills.
The work ethic of the U. S. is being redefined. People used to introduce themselves by their name followed by their occupation. Now, people do not do this. you are lucky to hear any qualifiers used to group people. Political correctness should be called a war on labels. Indeed, “label” has become a bad word.
Buzz words are used on resumes in order to throw those resumes out. People doing the hiring look for reasons to discard resumes just as much as reasons to hire someone.
The economy shows all talk about the lack of inflation. Many countries and currencies have pumped gobs of money in to the system. This has inflated the overall system, but people are not buying so the effect of higher prices has not hit. They will hit all at once. We will go from this point to a massive spike in inflation that catches everyone out of balance.
Retail will undergo a transformation to kiosks or your personal device where you pick what you want off a list and go through the payment process without human contact. There may be a web interface to someone in another country to handle anomalies or not. You will buy things in the high street from someone in India who doesn’t have a clue if it makes you look fat because everyone in America looks fat to them.
Truckers will be replaced with robots driving the trucks. Teamsters will still be employed to watch robotic forklifts load and unload cargo because it is just more safe that way.
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