This is about Apple’s fight with the FBI. I, by the way, am siding with Tim Cook because I don’t want the FBI having a back door to look at my porn phone. ( Even though I stopped being an I phone user two phones ago, and I have no
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Pouring gasoline on an open fire.
So, it would appear a portion of America really wants to prove to the rest of the world how ignorant they really are. Donald Trump won Nevada. Yet another shameful moment that is the United States election of 2016. Now the media is all over Mr. Trump, calling him unstoppable.
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While I was back in the Whining States of America, I made the obligatory run to Barnes and Noble. I picked up a copy of the Federalist to re-read, my original copy having gone long by the boards when the ex trashed all of my things as was her worthless
Continue readingSir, your blog is fixed. Please pay 999.99 dollars and we don’t take checks.
Looks like the comments fix I worked on last night worked. The display “wrap around” problem where the lower half of the sidebar folded under the content appears to be fixed. “ Life is tough son, its even tougher when you are stupid unable to interpret HTML code.” Let the whining and
Continue readingI always leaves a few parts behind when I fixes ’em.
Did some major site maintenance tonight, trying to get display issues fixed. In the process I screwed up the comments editor and my header. Will work on it tomorrow. You should be able to read content though.
Continue readingWhistling past the graveyard….
After almost 24 hours of travel back from the Whining States of America, I am back in definitely not sunny Germany. A week in Shopping Mall and then a week out west. The second week was very frustrating from a work standpoint and makes me very, very, uncertain as to
Continue readingAs if things were not screwed up enough.
God decided to play a cruel joke on American politics by holding a recall election of His own. The winner was Justice Antonin Scalia. The loser will be the rest of the United States, that is left behind to watch the Constitutional farce that will be the nomination of his
Continue readingThe prodigal son returns
I’m back in shopping mall this week for a variety of reasons. Had some medical stuff done, did some stuff related to the S.O. Permanent Residence Card, and checked on my house. I also got to sit through rounds of American political commercials as the clock ticks down to the
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This video is a little long-but provides an interesting view of the gamut of Japanese history, albeit told from an American viewpoint. Enjoy it. I did. In nine minutes, Wurtz goes through a broad but very entertaining history of Japan: theearly settlement through frozen land bridges, the spread of rice cultivation, the internal
Continue readingThe legends leaving us.
The month of January has been a sad one for folks like me, who treasure the music of the ’60s and ’70s and had some of my best times in life with the great artist’s creations in the background as a soundtrack. David Bowie, Glenn Fry. Dale Griffin, and now
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