Your love is like extra large fried spiders. the value pack.
I bitch a lot about having 6 blog followers and laughable traffic, but I want to sincerely thank those of you who come here, hopefully not under duress or threat of (too much) bodily harm.
Today I identify as someone who just discovered his work laptop has a touchscreen. After 2 years.
The males grow to 3cm, the females 5cm (that's 4 kilometers Canadian).
Happy nightmares!
Conversations with my Dog
Me: Why do you chase and catch birds when you're outside, but when a bird gets in the house, you bark like a mad dog?
Her: So you'll do something about it.
You're probably seeing a lot of press or email about TikTok. Congress wants to close it. Many other groups call it censorship and/or call for more laws about data protection. The problem is being framed incorrectly: the problem is that it's owned by China, which isn't a good thing, given their propensity to spy. From the White House down, we've gotten rid of Huawei phones and networking equipment for the same reason. In the meantime, feel free give all your information to the existing data thieves at Faceyspaces, Google, Amazon, Instagram, and many others. As for more laws, it's not going to happen, due to the contributions to Congress and because they don't care. We also know what happens when the government gets involved. In an ideal world, our information would remain ours. In the real world, we already have laws and they're not working. There are laws on robocalling, yet we still get robocalls.
If you want your information to remain yours, there are a number of things you can do, but you're not gonna like them
- Get off Faceyspaces and other social media. Faceyspaces has profiles on people without accounts
- Stop oversharing
- Make everything you do anonymous
- Use tracker blockers and privacy addons on your browsers and email.
- Dump Gmail or other 'free' email. Everything you type is scrutinized for better ads.
- Dump Windows - a lot of what you do is sent back to Microsoft and 'others'.
Got questions? Check out Safe Surfing (above) and feel free to ask in comments.
Speaking of laws:
Another great-sounding law. It will cause manufacturers to have staff assigned to this project, raising their costs and the cost of the device. They're not going to just absorb the price. Right now, android (the operating system) guarantees to support their operating system for around 3 years (also dependent on phone manufacturers-it's a mess). Making that 10 years would certainly cause issues. Also, some OSes are out of date and beyond safe at that age. Again, I'm not saying it's a bad-sounding idea, but unintended consequences. Most of Congress is incapable of understanding this (or just ignorant).
Europe's laws are more citizen-centered, where America's laws go to whoever has the best lobbyists, with the most money to give. Of course this is the corporate world. Congress only listens when a LOT of people make a LOT of noise. Do what's necessary.
Mainstream or Pr0n
This is the exclusive ThermionicEmissions game where the reader picks whether the 2 movies or tv shoes are mainstream or pr0n. No looking it up on the web - that's cheating.
- The Flourish
- Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu 2
I've been seriously wondering when we would have a new form of propulsion. Stealth planes are so old, some are retired. We have yet to see really new propulsion. I define this as not burning something to move the craft. Maybe this is it. I'm also not stupid enough to think there are technologies that are still Black. I doubt this was allowed out of the basement before it was scrutinized. Bravo!
- I receive approximately, about, more or less, nearing zero phone calls per week. This is not a good thing nor a bad thing. The phone is always attached to me, excepting the odd shower. If I leave my office to get something from the kitchen, the phone will ring. If I walk out to have lunch with Wife, the phone will ring. How does it know?
- Due to some sort of snafu with 7 of the planets in retrograde, the I-Ching sticks caught in the ceiling, and the tarot cards having sliced off a few body parts, my phone somehow got listed as Wife's number. Sometimes it's fun.
Hello?
[silence]
Hello?
.. uhhhh... is Mrs. lefty there?
[when I'm feeling particularly prickly] This IS Mrs. lefty
Uhhh.. I'm calling to remind you of your doctor's appointment yesterday.
Ok, I'll be there.
Click.
As fun as that is, it gets tiresome. I discovered that trying to get phone numbers switched is several orders of magnitude more difficult than getting the IRS to admit it was their error and give you your house back. Some of the numbers on file are so bizarre, I don't know where they came from. One place had the in-laws' area code, the brother's first 3, and anyone's guess on the last 4. The trick here is that once they fail at this number, they'll call mine anyway. All roads lead to lefty.
I'm managing to avoid the Gwyneth Paltrow case quite successfully. Wife pointed out that she just sits there, with the most bored "just ate a lemon and it bothers me to be with the average people" puss. I suspect lack of humility could cost her, but my lawyering days arekicked out of the courtroomover. Consistent with the press on the story, I have nothing significant to say.
A-HA!
It's great when you figure something out. Something others might not have.
It came to us the other day, going to Chik Filet. When we got there, there were 2 complete drive-thru lanes, with 3 people manning each one. Both lanes were wrapped around 3 times. I thought maybe the entire chain is a mafia laundering operation, but no. They make so much money, they don't have to work Sundays.
Yes, I've had larger brainstorms, but sometimes I don't have enough explosive ideas to blow my nose.
Speaking of the little things, websites keep track of people in many ways, but one identifier is your browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc). Some browsers allow you to change the "agent" string, which says what your browser is. It was a chance for a bit of fun, so I did. Google sent me a note about a login to my account with a Death Browser. You gotta get your jollies where you can.
By the way, this blog entry is coming to you from the keyboard of my new laptop. Can't you tell the difference? It's so much more smooth, the keys make more noise, the screen is better, and the keyboard's backlight cycles through all colors by itself. It's probably a bad thing for consumers of recreational pharmaceuticals, but I have other problems.
Expected to fetch up to $50 million.
Jesus.
oops
Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face
We ate at a place new for us: Smashburger. I read reviews before making a decision. They did pretty well, but my favorite review gave the place 1 star because they opened the paper on his straw for him and he didn't like that. If I bothered with review sites, I'd definitely add a note to his review:
Dear Sir or Madam (or anything in between)I read your review with interest. The first thing that occurred to me was that you obviously don't understand rating systems. Did you have fun buying a car? A house? Toothpicks? It's ok that you didn't like the Straw Situation, but rate the place on food and service (you idiot). As for your emphasis on the opened straw, what exactly are you afraid of? Germs? They'd be the same germs on your food. Eat up!Apropos of nothing, medical science has come up with excellent medicine to counter germphobia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Some of that medicine will also help with various other neuroses. Therapy is also recommended with the medicine. Anybody who read your review would suggest therapy. You have a nice day and stay away from restaurants and any other retail outlets.
P.S. it was just as it was said to be: decent food (several large steps up from McD's). They had an employee shortage and warned the customers via a note on the front door. They were still faster than other places we've been.
You know me - I'm the safety guy. You never plug an unknown USB drive into your pc. NEVER. You don't know how things could blow up on you....
In 1967, at Malmstrom Air Force Base, in Montana, Captain Robert Salas was given a report of a large, saucer-shaped craft close to the base. At this time, many ICBMs were deactivated. This was not normal. The Air Force whistled past the front gate, saying "There is nothing to see here, move on." The witnesses were ordered to stop any reports and not to submit them. Shutting down nuclear warheads is very serious, yet nobody seemed to do anything. Read up on this and many others, before you believe the recent committees on UAPs are breaking any ground on the topic. Don't get me wrong: I hope this is the start of disclosure, but the policy of 100% denial and deception was/is in full effect. The book Disclosure details many of these events, from the people who were there.
Mainstream or Pr0n
- The Flourish is pr0n
- Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu 2 is a tv show, possibly not made in America
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