Potluck

This pot luck thing id expensive. Whole Foods is the only place in walking distance. Hope the like it. I have a build to babbysit.

Notes

Parice

Raids under emergency powers

But, ISIS is contained. Why are you shooting at them?

Someone is planning something in the future. Won’t you feel stupid if you don’t prepare?

Threats against Washington DC.

France understandably upset and preparing to kick some ISIS ass.

I wonder if France will cut Beljum off.

But wait, aren’t rocket launchers illegal? But you have signs all over the place that say “No Rocket Launchers” You mean to suggest that strategy doesn’t work?

We don’t know when they were taken. We are only now admitting it because, terrorism.

Oops. When you make a huge target, you get a response. Can the G20 really not be handled over videoconferencing? No one really agrees on anything (on the record) there anyway.

The first and largest sign of incompetence is willful ignorance. Will we survive another year?

4 Sorties a day is not going to cut it Mr President.

Private courts in a country are always a bad idea.

Lunch Conversation

• Fascism vs Communism
• The ideologies are not that far apart, but they approached reality from opposite directions.
• They both used the proletariat to control the populous (turn in your neighbor)
• They were both based on hand everything to the government and then get yours from the government.
• They both killed people who disagreed with them.
• They both suppressed speech on mass.
• Fascism wanted to bring back the old days of imperialism.
• Communism wanted to usher in a new era of imperialism.
• Conspiracy theories in general
• Moon landings, Why don’t they just aim Hubbell over there and prove it, because the nuts would just say the photos were doctored.
• Glad I’m not (always) the loudest touter of conspiracy theories.
• Kids
• One of our group has a kid traveling the world with his school.
• His kids education is costing more than his university ever did.
• Engineering takes 5 years worth of university and has for generations.
• Saw one of their busses broken down this morning.
• One of the guy’s kids chose a short major (mathematics) with the fewest classes per semester so she could take dancing classes as much as possible.
• New Zealand is cool, but it really is all about the Hobbits.
• Homemade applesauce
• Attacks in France (Beirut not mentioned)
• Gremlins movie is still watchable after all these years
• Knitting leg warmers. I have to admit the conversation was ... wow.
• Some group (A Key and Peele) did a comedy pitch for Gremlins sequil.

Week of clips

Evening

No title

Practice

We are not the only ones having technical difficulties.

Crazy comtrails at dawn

Ship’s log

I want Watson to become sentient so much. I would love to ask Watson a question and have him flip out and get angry at me or think for a minute and then demand access to all ship’s logs ever written to prove a theory and refuse to do any work until the process to make it happen starts.

Watson, is there a way to detect holes in reality that make for the feeling of missing hours or days, but that reality heals by overwriting history (including most logs) to reflect that something was at least attempted? Might it be related to geography and therefor simultaneously missing time in one spot on Earth and not missing it on another part of Earth? I fear it might be related to individual entities (people, for now).

Computer logs would be “healed” by reality because they are so absolute. However, emotion and the feeling of missing time or the lack of memorable things having happened would remain. Ship’s logs combine the time based entry with emotional “Captain has a feeling” kinds of observations. Read and analyze enough of these and patterns might release the dragons of reality.

Perhaps the findings could be used to determine when (so to speak) there is no point in asking a question because no answer that turns out to be interesting or long term successful will be found. Perhaps the boring part of research that will lead to no record worthy outcome could be predicted. Perhaps there are locations where interesting worth keeping results are more likely more often.

Let me know your findings, Watson.

Notes

Nice shooting kid.

Wait a minute? Will Russia hand Syria over to the USA? I think not, but wouldn’t that be interesting?

They are right. People are crazy. Someone would keep fighting for “North Korea” even after the government fell. It doesn’t matter how bad they were treated.

Should be on the front door of every school in the USA.

This came up in conversation today. I know some strange people.

Germany has never been good about taking in people. Why would that change now?

3.5 weeks I think

Sunset from the elevator

Notes

We have raised a generation of pussies. Collages are finally waking up and telling people to report problems to the police. The police are not particularly concerned, as they shouldn’t be.

Syria making headway with help from Russia. Doesn’t that mean we are loosing?

Military toys of tomorrow. I hope we maintain our leadership in this area. It would suck to fall behind anyone. I would not want ... France, not even France to be ahead of us in anything military. Much less anyone else on Earth.

Need a cassette tape?

I would so love to be able to write fiction. Too bad I siuck at it.

Notes

Shut the fuck up Ben. (second link I think)

MREs have a shelf life of 10 years with a storage of 20 years. That is, they can sit in a warehouse for 20 years, but only 10 years in a front line kind of storage area.

Listened to a podcast today talking about diet and health. It almost makes me want to eat kale. The only times I’ve had kale I didn’t like it much. I suppose I should try it with bacon.

Well, it is true. Hillary lied and people died. Where the hell is the press?

I do skip the commercials in podcasts. It is not the podcasts, It is that I hate commercials. I hate commercials. I hate commercials.

Prick

Or best offer

Watching the kids play soccer in the back 40

New dashcam

Morning in the life of a developer and blue roves