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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

I'm on the Zero G Network

 

Your love is like   old open canned tuna


Yes, the Zero G Network: just like the 5G network, but with 5 less Gs.


Today I identify as  my dog


Pfizer today announced 'many Omicron variants' are really 'sneaky' and are ganging up to hit this winter. They suggest a very long and expensive course of vaccines.


President Biden heard the plight of Nicolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter. His attorney fees are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The president gave him a few million to make sure the poor lawyers wouldn't suffer while Cruz was languishing in prison forever. The president stated that suffering lawyers are bad for the entire legal system and we can't have that sort of thing going on in these United States.

Meanwhile, VP Kamila Harris vowed that Biden's few million dollars would go to black attorneys first. After the Secret Service tackled her (again), it was announced that the money would go to everyone equally, even if they couldn't find any black or minority lawyers in the crowd. UC Berkeley was incensed, voting to take off the rest of the week, and burning down a few of their own buildings. Firemen stated there were no Jews in the building when it was burned. UCB grumbled.


Speaking of the Parkland trial, I have never seen such vehemence after a verdict came back. Cruz got life in prison. The entire observing area wanted death. Now, if possible. It was stunning.


My mom used to tell me she didn't understand people wearing jackets and shorts. She made a very good point. I countered with hip guys wearing wool hats in the summer. 



Sign at Jiffy Lube: Gluten-free oil - get it now before it's gone


As I have mentioned here, a man I truly respect is Ben Franklin. The intelligence, the wit, the playing around on 2 continents (ssssshhhhhhhh). As if his actions weren't enough, he left a ton of wise sayings. I want to leave wise sayings as part of my legacy. Let's see how I'm doing, vs Ben...

“He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
My dog has an air mattress. Mine.

“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
My feet look like Swiss cheese from shooting myself in them.

“Well done is better than well said.”
I have no filters. I lost them in a tragic accident when I was little.

“What you seem to be, be really.”
Sometimes I'm a real asshole.

“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”
Line em up and shoot em 

“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!”
It's never sunny in Philadelphia 

“It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.”
Yeah, I'm goin right to hell...

Here are some more. Guess which one of us said the following:

Crackers and dip are set up on a quantum level to never be in the house at the same time. Even if you bought them at the same time. 

I don't even like sour cream, but if you mix in some French onion dip, I'll eat it with a spoon.

The great thing about being an (alleged) adult is you can have as many Yoo Hoo juice boxes as you want at a time.

If I see one more Joe Namath Medicare commercial, I will not be responsible for my actions.

I want to touch Linda Fiorentino in her bad place.


My favorite:
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
I truly wish I didn't have to repeat it so often....

Perhaps I should leave something other than my sayings for posterity.....



Well, that was a waste.... 

The season was ending, the last hamfest was upon us. A hamfest has nothing to do with edible quantities - it's a flea market for radios and electronics. We go because.... because... well, I don't know, but we go to local ones. Perhaps I like to see electronic parts in little bins. Perhaps I feel nostalgic for Radio Shack. Perhaps because the neighbors are terrified to find out I still exist. So after a hard-earned 3 hours' sleep, off we went. 

They moved the location. I didn't expect this to be a problem, unless they moved it off-planet or worse, out of state, but I got handy dandy directions from their website.  I'm not a webmaster, but you'd think a large event would merit findable directions. But like I said, I'm not a webmaster (HEY JOHNNY: hamfest is coming - make sure to hide the directions under nonprofit status or something). I just merrily click away until I beat them at their own game.

We got pretty close to the place. I think. Ever get to one of those signs that make you feel like an idiot? The one that says "Route 37" and has a slightly turned arrow? There are 4 possible turns, none of which seem to be indicated by the sign, one of which is a 180 degree turn. So you pick the first one and go merrily down the lane, only realizing it's the wrong street when the guy with the tractor is blocking the road. There's red spots on the tractor from when he mowed down the henhouse. I don't need no map to tell me this is NOT the right way. Also, the lack of Route 37 signs was a dead giveaway. So we went back to try yet another possibility to the Great Turning Enigma. Did you know Albert Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity after coming to one of these intersections? Fortunately someone else was driving. 

After much hilarity, we finally figured out that the cleverly-placed sign meant to tell us to Keep Moving Forward, we were just merging with Route 37. Oh. The Town Council is still laughing about that sign. They put up a camera to document the hilarity. At the town Christmas party, they view the top 10 and give awards for Worst Turn, Worst Panic, and Best Argument in the Car (alone or with other occupant).

Civilization was upon us. We figured this out by the lack of tractors and the presence of businesses and actual houses. It was an exciting time, let me tell you. Right up until the houses and businesses started to disappear and the fields started to get bigger. We shook our heads and pulled into a convenient Adult World convenience store to regroup and be all modern with our electronic devices. Wife has a 50-50 relationship with her phone, in that she can sometimes get what she wants out of it. Unless I'm within 50" of the phone.  She does well with getting directions out of it. Unless I'm in the car too. My phone is of precious little help, as it's locked down for nuclear war: even Google can't tell it's a phone (sometimes I can't either). The event was at a community college. No problem - even one of OUR phones will bring up a community college. Whoops, strike that. It will bring up a community college, but not if there is more than one campus. The phone desperately wanted to give up directions to the one closest to our house, 40 miles in the opposite direction. It's a good thing we were out in the hinterlands, as it doesn't look good, arguing with your phone in public. My somewhat stilted brain remembered something from the ancient past (5 years ago); "Hey, don't we have one of those GPS thingies?"  Ah yes, my arch enemy. The case had all sorts of scratches and dents from being lobbed around the car. The box that wanted to send us into the river, rather than an address. The box that only accepted every third keypress, that wouldn't even work right with a stylus. THAT box. Garmin will rot in hell for that box. It was the singular reason I had to go on blood pressure medicine that year. The doctors have no idea how I recovered so quickly, but it coincided with finally smashing the GPS to death one day, after it suggested we fly instead.

So the new GPS came out. I was praying to the GPS gods that this one was more friendly and less 'special.'  And sure enough, it pointed to the college near the house. I didn't want to be the one to tell it that we weren't AT the house, even though any GPS that hadn't spent the weekend with Keith Richards should know this. Eventually I pursuaded it that it was NOT at home and POOF - it 'discovered' there was another branch of the college, 2.3 miles away!  Ah, the GPS gods were smiling on me. This one did not need to go airborne, like the last two or three. I made the mistake of bringing the target up, at which point it asked me if I wanted to add it to our route, add it to next year's route, or select a route involving a river. Rather than blast a hole through the non-existent sunroof, I gave it to Wife. She's the GPS Whisperer, you know. My decision was fortuitous, because within 1.5 seconds, she had erased the location and the device thought it was home again. My eyeballs were spinning like a slot machine, then looking at each other, like a bad set of breast implants. Not to be deterred, Wife said the college was 40 miles away. 3 hours' sleep. I told her I knew of 4 diners on the way home, not requiring a GPS. I put the blasted device in the window and kept trying to close the window, but alas, the window would not break the device. Garmin has a very special business model: sell black boxes with pretty displays that don't do anything. Then get people to buy the new black boxes that don't do anything. And make sure you keep them updated, but you need a Windows computer to do this (fsckers). It also turns out that, in a clever design update, you cannot damage the box by repeatedly running over it. The car just glides over it. Just wait till I get home and break out the e$plosives. 

So I figured I'd catch up on some sleep, 3 hours being insufficient, even for me. Oops, too much coffee, in an attempt to counteract 3 hours' sleep. Can't nap. Meanwhile, Wife figured she'd catch up on her shoping. DSW wasn't open, nor were her other 47 favorite shoe stores. She was so upset, she went food shopping. Or rather, tried to go food shopping. One store had a line for parking. Another hurt her back walking to the door of the place. The third was even more affected by Supply Chain Inflationary Shortages, and while you could park, you couldn't get into the place. I'm glad I stayed home and stared into space for a few hours - the guitar stores didn't open until way later. 

When everybody was seated in their spots, I suddenly realized I was hungry. I didn't think of it before, but my stomach was kind enough to let me know, via playing the theme from the Godfather. Wife's was playing counterpoint. The only problem here was she was a bit tired. How did I know? Even with her stomach playing a song, she kept falling over to the floor. We had to have the floor cushioned because of this. We used very stiff, springy material, so she'd bounce back up to her seat, never knowing anything was wrong. You should see her drive when this happens! I suggested maybe a nap was in order (I'm very clever this way), then we could have breakfast/lunch/dinner. Wife put me on a diet, only I didn't know it (she's very clever this way). She took a short nap, resting for the rest of the day. I didn't make dinner, hence didn't eat. But the joke was on her... remember those boxes of donuts? The crumbs were very good, the plain sucked (as usual), but the chocolate-drenched were my favorites. 

On my deathbed, the only regret I will have is waking up on this day.



Drug abuse is killing more children lately. It's fentanyl, which is deadly.
The Mexican cartels are sending it north and the kids, as kids do, are taking it. And sometimes dying. Schools are urged to carry Narcan (reverses the effects of opioids) and some are urging students to carry it in their backpacks. Is this the 2022 equivalent of carrying condoms? Hey Bob - you're turning blue. Can you hear me? Let me stick this up your nose - it could save your life. Things were better at Woodstock, where people were warned not to try the brown acid. It might give you a bad trip, but it wouldn't kill you.



Google search crashes when you ask "How many emojis on Apple"

This is an easy one. Don't use Google, emojis, or Apples. I'm already there.



US Army soldiers felt ill while testing Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset
This is the same device that takes a scan of your iris when you put it on.
Why? In the case of Meta, for targeted ads.




US Officials are Discussing How to Regulate Cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins

Told you so. They were salivating to get their hands on it. Now it's not an if - it's a how to regulate.


Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one

Ooh, if that ain't creepy, what IS? If you thought you had grief problems before, you just wait til you hear THIS! And no, insurance will not cover it.


Fresh from being banned from Twitter for antisemitic rants, Kanye bought Parler, a free speech, conservative platform that wasn't doing so well. Now he can rant about the Jews til something smashes into Earth, destroying it completely. Unfortunately, not many will get to read his rants, before or after the planet dies. You have to wonder what else he'll say.... don't forget - not everything he says is untrue or offensive or plain stupid.

  • WASPs worship Satan
  • Black people may be Jews so most of em aren't worth shit anyway
  • hot dogs are health food
  • See - I was right about Trump
  • I dumped Kim because I was tired of the spotlight (and her butt was the size of a city block, proportionally)
  • the voices are mad at me for taking medicine to make them go away

UC Berkeley came out in support of Kanye, closing the campus for a week. In their press release, it said, "We're with Kanye, especially if what he says is about the Jews and Zionism. Or just the Jews... we can't tell the difference anyway." So far, the UCB has spent 2 days in the classroom this year, and that was to protest having to be in class for 2 days.

Kanye was diagnosed bipolar, which can explain some of this. Or he could just be an asshole, which would also explain this. Kanye is not one of the fun bipolars. Patty Duke Astin would jump on a plane and shop til she dropped in another city. Mrs. lefty would go shopping at 2am.


  • if you use the word "hawt," I don't want to know you

The country of Kenya wishes you to know that they are not, in any way, Kanye. A press release is planned for the dyslexic.

UC Berkeley, not quite knowing what to do with this, went on strike (their default), "out of an abundance of caution".


WARNING: Although it is very difficult, especially before coffee, pay attention to your creamer. If you don't, you might get your spouse's pumpkin spice. Or coconut creme. Is this the kind of morning you want? 



Scientists and the Military Want Us to Eat Food Made From Plastic
  • Bill Gates wants us to eat food made from cyanide.
  • the government wants us to eat food they can tax
  • Kanye wants us to eat Soylent Blue, which is made from Jews


 
Study links coronavirus lockdowns to birth rate drop in Europe

Europe - you're doing it wrong. 
Another study showed a rise in American births. 


NYC Congressional Candidate Releases and Stars in Porn Video For Some Reason

We all like original ideas, but this guy might've gone a little too far. Just a bit. Just a hair over the line. The hill upon which he has chosen to die is full of termites and hollow underneath. Although in NYC, this is but a blip on the electoral radar. He should have been filmed being nice to people on the street. That would cause a ruckus.

 

Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone

ThermionicEmissions put its crack staff, so-named because they're on crack, to the task of finding out what happened to the crafty crustaceans, the hardshell habitants...
  • Aliens. It's always aliens.
  • Left to join the dolphins. So Long and Thanks for all the Shrimp?
  • finally figured out what life had in store and refused to show up
  • got lost because they wouldn't stop to ask for directions
  • got UC Berkeley to go on strike with them, to have them reclassified as Not Food
  • decided it was just too cold up there and moved to Florida. UC Berkeley realized there are a lot of Jews in Florida and has banned crabs from the campus.

So your area suffered the worst flooding in recent history (Florida).

Now you have a new wave of flesh-eating infections.
God has a strange sense of humor.
I think the crabs should reconsider their decision to move from Alaska to Florida.



It's perfect!


Friday, March 12, 2021

The Dog Still Won't Take the Trash Out and other gas station hits

 Your love is like  sushi cooked in the sun for a few days


Your government is getting ready for that $1.9 trillion bailout. Still no word on who is paying for it. The debt is larger than the economy for the first time ever. Congress shows no inclination to do anything about it, other than expand it. You voted for this. This will continue until you do something about it.


Today I identify as  the great flavor of hot oats


Look, there's no surprise we're in an extra-speedy race to the bottom in something called a handbasket.. but...  people are thinking about vaccines. A large percentage are not getting a shot... people are thinking! It's unprecedented. Not automatically getting in line like good sheep. Who woulda thought?  That said, I hope the vaccine works and there are no bad side effects.

Oh yeah, since we've been inside for a year, the next issue will be skin cancer - use your sunscreen when you get the mail.


  • The best states to live in list: Washington best, Kentucky worst
  • I guess Washington needs some drunken tractor races 


THE BIRDS 

They're making an incredible racket. The dog is not happy. Yes, they got into the air conditioning hose. Now it sounds like there's birds in the bedroom. I'm kinky, but not that kinky. May have to go with a finer-grained approach than shotgun this time.

You know this happened 15 minutes before the alarm went off.



Ghislaine Maxwell's US jail conditions 'are torture' - brother
  • no linen toilet paper
  • plastic silverware - can you imagine? 
  • below one star food
  • no sleep number mattress
  • constant surveillance  (until it coincidentally breaks)
  • everything is decorated in one color
  • Two Words: boxed. wine.

Russia has given the finger to NASA, signing on with China for a Moon base.
They are working on a "scientific" station. They are putting the infrastructure in for very high speed internet, so they can both hack the US government together. Countries around the world hailed this as a genuine example of cooperation, and asked for a few tips and passwords. Many countries of Earth look forward to the day when everybody will be in US government networks, equally.

China will also be moving manufacturer Huawei to the scientific station, alongside Russian manufacturer Stolichnetwork. They will trade networking hardware and hack Space Force's scientific station, a sprawling complex of buildings that has been on the Moon since 1960. 

Back in America, the Pentagon has announced a $24 trillion initiative to beef up the US Moon scientific station with new, state of the art weapons, in order to achieve military superiority over any other scientific stations. This was discussed last year at a meeting of the Subcommittee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

On the other side of the moon, the aliens are peeing in their suits and sounding the Solar System Bat Alert because the Earthlings are moving their penchant for tribal warfare off-planet. Pretty soon other alien races will start to orbit the Moon and destroy it, to keep the human virus from infecting anything past its own planet.

NASA bombed the Moon twice: once for Science, to see how long it would ring, and once because it was "damn effin cool to bomb your own moon". Rather than admit aliens blew up the Moon, NASA will say it spontaneously combusted, like a Tesla.


  • Psych evaluation ordered for man caught having sex with stuffed animals inside Target. In Florida.
  • (ex-)girlfriend told him to go f- a unicorn 


the actual unicorn


I don't want to say my workplace is weird, but there is a mask mandate for all employees. Including the majority who work from home. I don't want to say we like to waste time, but I missed the Women in the Workplace seminar, that I'd get paid to sit through. Still no left handed history month.


  • NASCAR driver Conor Daly lost a major sponsor because his father used a racial slur in the 80s.


New gay dad Jesse Tyler is playing Britney Spears and reading books on drag queens to his baby. But he'll love him if he comes out as straight anyway, said on the Ellen show.     @lgbtqnation

"Dad, I have something to tell you. Please sit down. I know you have raised me with all the love and best intentions possible. In spite of that, I need to tell you something. Dad, I'm straight. I'm so sorry. I hope I haven't disappointed you." 

--> Hang on a second... playing Britney Spears for infants is child abuse.


The other day I asked if Derek Chauvin could get a fair trial. Here are the questions asked of potential jurors. They got 14 pages of them. 


Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb stole the show at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration but when a renowned Dutch author was asked to translate her work there was an outcry because the translator is not black.


  • FYI: A smart-speaker box can monitor your heartbeat using high-pitch beeps and a pinch of algorithm – study
  • doesn't seem to be any end to what your smart speaker knows....


Matthew McConaughy considers run for TX governor, Geraldo considers OH senate.

Voters write-in Lucy, Mickey Mouse, ManBearPig, Prince Harry


  • Florida is the worst state to walk, with more than 17 people per day, on average, being mowed down. We are very slowly coming to the realization of what I've said all along - exercise causes cancer.


Milo Yiannopoulos, gay conservative icon, has prayed his gay away and dedicated  his life to St. Joseph. This is terrible news, both for people who think you can pray your gay away, and fans of the very silly entertainer Milo. He drove campuses apoplectic, with his conservative viewpoints and humor. I watched him once enter on a platform chair, carried by 4 men. The man was truly entertaining and very intelligent; he blew away his debaters (so to speak). He was canceled by social media due to his outspoken conservative views, not his homosexuality.

He is treating being gay like an addiction, mentioning he only slipped once in 250 days. It ain't gonna work, Milo. Unless this is a stunt. [Milo goes back in]

I looked up St. Joseph. Wow. Not the father of Jesus but could have been a contender. Married to Mary, with a chaste marriage. Hey, was it a marriage for show because he needed a beard? Maybe dedicating your life to St. Joesph sounds good and Christian, but it's just affirming you're gay. The Christian hate mail is going to blow up my mailbox.

I guess it's better than that ridiculous womb repatriation where they wrap people in carpeting, sometimes killing them. Whatever happened to good old therapy for depression or bipolar or wanting to off certain people? Being a megalomaniac?


  • Parler, right-wing social media dropped from Google Play store, Apple store, Visa, and their hosting, has been refused re-entry to the Apple store. 
  • I'm not sure why anyone is confused over this. If they played by the rules, like Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and others, and didn't have any of that nasty hate/free speech, none of this would be a problem.
  • Gab, the original free speech network, was hacked a 2nd time. They went offline, cleaned up, and went back online. 
  • Re-NOTE: I am for free speech and affirm hate speech doesn't exist - it's free speech. Free speech can mean speech I'm not comfortable with, but that's the price we pay. It is very important to have free speech for all and I'd have featured this same information if the left-leaning sites were being canceled.


I had a pleasant discussion, sort-of, with a gay lady on Twitter. Women have really been pushing the Women in IT topic. She wanted everyone to know she's here and she's queer. Well, I follow her for her tweets. I don't give a rat's patootie about what she chooses to do in her spare time. It's none of my business and more importantly, none of the government's business. Why is it necessary to identify as someone who sleeps with the same sex at home? I don't identify by my sexuality - I'm here, I'm Hetero. She said she does this because of laws. Still no left handed history month.

While I'm on the topic, why does the state government make laws about who you can marry? Why is it their business? The state can act as registrar, and take down the fact that you're married and to whom. Two states just recognized polyamorous marriages. Let your religious institution marry you, if you care. Otherwise, just register.


  • No matter how many times a day Penny gets out of bed, she always runs up to me, incredibly happy to see me. You can't pay for this kind of wonderful.



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It Continues  

Disney+ pulls Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Aristocats for 'racist' stereotypes






from Giorgio Tsoukalos, on Twitter


Tuesday, January 12, 2021

The USPS Delivered All the Packages. Somewhere.

 Your love is like  shoving a Buick up my ass


The USPS tried to throw me a curve ball today, when notification of a long-missing package popped up. Like the last one, they inform me it's going to be late. They can't tell me how late, or even where the package is, but they sent me a notice, so now I apparently feel much better and won't write about it in my widely-read blog and get them in trouble.

The one package has spent literally a month wandering around New York, from where it was mailed. They keep assuring me it has hit Philly, but I'm suspicious, for some reason. Perhaps it will go back to New York for a while, because it prefers the weather. Or the accent. Strangely enough, the package from Michigan wandered around Michigan for 30 days, but they assure me it's out of Michigan now (and winging its way east to Panama).

You realize if these deliveries hit 40 days, I'll have to come up with something about Jews wandering around the desert, probably with USPS packages to deliver.


  • I don't have any of their products, but I'm in awe of the FU-Tone name.


President elect Biden was advised to make a speech about the Washington riot. He was quite upset. Not about the riot...about being taken away from his Barbie Playhouse.

We have Barbies in the lefty Mansion. Too many. Of course, some would say 1 Barbie is too many. We have the Barbie Bus, Barbie Plane, and Barbie's Philly Crack House. It came with tiny replica needles and everything! There are Barbie clothes, which cost more than people clothes. There are Bob Mackie-designed outfits. We have a Barbie steering wheel cover, but I'm not mentioning it, lest someone try to install it. The internal kids think no moving vehicle is complete without a Barbie flag, especially construction equipment. When they get their earthmover, it will be Barbie pink, with a Barbie flag on the back. And then, as so many things go, the city will enact a no earthmover on the lawn law. I'll have to park mine on the street, with the rest of them.


Today I identify as  marmite


Dear lefty 

  • I have a bandana hanging out of my right back pocket. My friends tell me that the right side is gay and the left side is straight. Have I committed a preferential faux pas? (I'm straight)
  • take the bandana out of your pocket til high school ends and stay out of certain parts of the city if you don't



Mainstream or Pr0n?: Easy Vegetarian, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of My Basement 


  • Apple is working with Hyundai on an electric car for 2027.
  • Phew. Good thing I got my Hyundai early - all my friends would point and laugh (in a different way than they already do).


Conservative-friendly social network Parler is in a world of trouble. After getting thrown out of Google and Apple stores, they discovered that if Google and Apple don't like you, not many others do. This includes Amazon, which runs their servers (The Cloud)  They're looking for a way to get back online.
This points out the aforementioned agenda, but it starts to get hairy, because of some violent posts, like talking about killing the head of BLM. The thing Gab has over Parler is that Gab polices for illegal speech, although neither is in the Apple or Play stores.

And while we're at it, Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign site. No agenda here either.

Bright fellow Cory Doctorow says you must align yourself with a digital feudal warlord (Google, Amazon, FB, Apple, MS, etc) and if that warlord turns on you, heaven help you. 



Amazon and Walmart are telling some customers to skip returns of unwanted items. Turns out it's too expensive to ship them back. 

Hello, Walmart? I want to return this sweater. I only wore it once and It's quite ugly, really, like an Ugly Sweater Competition. 

We share your sadness. Please keep the sweater - it's probably full of the Flying AIDS anyway, and we'll credit your account. Looking at your account, you seem to return a lot of stuff.

I'm very picky. That's why I shop Walmart.  [sound of choking]


Hello, Amazon? I need to return this box of random Chinese sex toys.

Ma'am, the joke is on you, because you can't reach a human at Amazon. Think about this... do you want to rip the $1,000 bills from Jeff Bezos' hands as he wipes his bottom with them? Do you? 


Hello Target? I want to return this dress. It's an 8 and it turns out I need a 22. Plus it has red bullseyes all over it.


Hello, CostCo? I want to return this Chevrolet truck. It's the wrong color.

Sorry about that. Just filling the tank is prohibitively expensive, so keep it and we'll send you a new one.

--> although the CostCo customers are batshit crazy, you can return anything for any reason, even without packaging.
--> I really like saying batshit crazy. Or just batshit. Repeat after me: batshit crazy.


Hello Sears? I want to return this house. Whoever built it from a Sears kit back in the 60s did an unbelievably bad job.

Sir, we are bankrupt. They can barely afford to pay me to answer this stupid phone.

But they told me the guy who bought it that it was returnable if not fully satisfied. Plus anybody who would buy KMart is morally bankrupt.

Ok, Sir, we'll credit your account.

I don't have an account. They went bankrupt.

I'll stop by with a large sack full of bills, ok? 

Can't you send me a better house?

Sir, not only are we bankrupt, the houses haven't been produced since the 60s.

Oh, I see.. bait and switch. Bad faith. Pull the sweater right over my eyes, and other cliches.

Sir, how about if I bring a huge bag of cash and personally build you a house? 

How do I know you'll do any better than the last builder? It's a valid question.

Sir, do you live in Northeast Philadelphia or did you forget to take your meds today? 

Both.

We'll credit your imaginary account. You have a nice day now



  • My incredibly heavy vacuum tube shortwave receiver isn't making a sound. I think I blew a tube. And boy did that hurt.


Don't forget - per the Flying AIDS relief bill, the president gave the intelligence agencies 180 days to produce an unclassified report on UFOs. This is almost a dream come true for researchers, and more than 60 years overdue for America and the world. The only question remaining is how the agencies are going to worm out of this. They have a long, storied history of lying, so that's a start. I predict one of the following:
  • Lie and say they don't deal with UFOs, like they always have
  • Produce a very light paper, short on facts
  • Claim it's a national security matter and remain clammed up
It's not that I don't trust the intel agencies, but I don't trust the intel agencies, and those above them. I guess we'll see soon.



Ain't The Cloud great?
Whenever anyone says The Cloud, you are required to repeat it and genuflect. Or at least your CEOs and that level guys.
What happens is you have your Corporate Buzzwords, which must be spoken frequently, or the Corporate folks aren't doing their jobs. So a while back, the buzzword was The Cloud. Because of this, businesses began adopting things that were in The Cloud. They got rid of their mail servers and used horrible services like Microsoft 365, which was, you guessed it, in The Cloud.

Let's get to brass tacks. I don't know why brass tacks... they sound painful, like some sort of World War II torture. Let's get to the truth. In reality, The Cloud just means Someone Else's Computer.

So your mail is processed and hosted on Somebody Else's Computer; in this case, Microsoft's. Microsoft now has responsibility (sort of) for and control of your mail, and unfortunately, possession of it. Their service claims some ridiculous amount of uptime, like 99% or more, but you've read about the outages. Your mail is not under your control, so you can't make any changes. You've taken a security risk by letting it out of the building. Lastly, you've introduced a delay in receiving the mail.  This is not the way for a company to operate their email services, but it's the way companies are going. After all it's The Cloud, and they save money by farming out their email. And their IT services. And whatever else they can send. If the staff is particularly unattractive, their work goes out too. Your security goes into The Cloud sometimes, even if you have security devices in-house.

So down the line, when there's an outage, all you'll have is your work laptop or desktop, with no email, Faceyspaces, service, or security, because they're all in The Cloud.

Newer Corporate Buzzwords are Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). If you haven't heard them, you will. Artificial Intelligence is when some software will be put in place to do something humans can't or can't easily. It will perform functions like facial recognition, where it has trouble with black people. The Internet of Things is a very slow motion train wreck, wherein you wire up your house with 'smart' devices that fail when your internet connection is down, because they have to check in with their server before they work. This is a bit inconvenient when it's an oven or fridge. Security is bad or non-existent, so it will be a matter of time til your entire house is hacked, like people did with baby monitors. Do ya really want people from all over the world monitoring your baby, and telling it stuff you'd rather they didn't hear yet? Or ever? Do you want your car doing whatever the hacker wants it to do, while you're in the driver's seat?

There is a right way and a wrong way to do these things. Guess which way they're done currently?


  • Ugandans have been warned not to eat dead fish that wash ashore.
  • also warned not to drink bleach, stab themselves in the eyes with forks, and piss off people larger and stronger.

An app developer in Milton Keynes, England, used a delivery robot to deliver an engagement ring to his girlfriend, also a technology enthusiast (geek). After they wed, they will have virtual sex, with and without the robot. They will also have virtual fights and will ultimately get a virtual divorce. Presumably the robot will pick up the ring.




The US Space Force joined the US Intelligence Community, to defend the national security of the US. 

From what?
We have satellites to spy on every area of the planet. WTF is going on in space that we need defending from? Are they hip to Ziblat and his pals, performing all the mischief to confuse us? Putting up Roadrunner cutouts in front of the Mars Explorer? Taking it for the occasional joyride? Knocking on the Space Station doors? They're not harmful. Is it the others they're worried about? Are we able to do anything about them other than HEY FRANK - INCOMING! 

Some of the literature describes one alien race as 6' tall and beautiful.
SHIT. Can you imagine if models were aliens?

"This cosmetic is infused with hyaluronic acid and micellar water. They both mess with your DNA to produce beings better suited for our home planet."

Do you want to live on a world where people are beautiful but dumb as a box of rocks? Cindy Crawford has an engineering degree, but who knows about the rest of them. Master class in lip pursing? Books about how to do stuff to keep you in the papers? Winking at the non-gay guy on TMZ? Disavowing any relationship with the Kardashians?

But let me try for the positive in all this: maybe they need to reproduce frequently.
The line forms to the left, guys.