Author Archives: slackwrdave

health

Just a reminder that AstraZeneca is here to help. 💊

geiger counter

Like those irradiated Jimmy Dean sausage biscuits, I think a Claxton Fruit Cake could safely have an expiration date of 2050. ☢️

seasonal

As a child, it was thrilling to go Christmas shopping with my family downtown. Stores glittering and music thumping inside. 🎄

Now it’s bankrupt shopping malls and Target. 🎯

idiomas

A progression of phrases that a beginning language learner would use in a target language. They get more bold as the language is acquired and confidence builds:

— Hello!
— Today is Thursday.
— My name is _.
— What is your name?
— We need to get these pants off you. 😁 ❤️

eye roller

Some of these political posts I see

cooking by ignition

Hamilton Beach knows that I frequently cook by ignition. 🚀

“If contents ignite, keep door closed and unplug oven.”

Cuba does not allow the United States to interfere in internal affairs

Damned good article from Cuba:

Cuba does not allow the United States to interfere in internal affairs

On the evening of Saturday, November 28, 2020, the Director General in charge of the United States at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, summoned the United States Chargé d’Affaires Timothy Zúñiga-Brown, to whom he conveyed that “Cuba does not allow the United States, or any state, to interfere in the country’s internal affairs”. He also asked him to reiterate that statement to the State Department.

Fernandez de Cossío pointed out to the diplomat that to have gone on several occasions to San Isidro, where his Embassy was aware that an event of political and social provocation was taking place, and to personally transport and support those who were violating the health regulations protecting against the COVID-19 pandemic constituted serious violations of his functions as a diplomat and as head of mission, a flagrant and defiant interference in Cuba’s internal political affairs and unquestionable violations of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

He emphasized that Cuba does not accept such behavior, and will not tolerate him and his Embassy conducting themselves in Cuba in contempt of the law and regulations, in violation of their obligations as diplomats.

The Director General clarified that the government of Cuba “is fully aware of the involvement of the United States government in financing, orienting and inciting groups and individuals in Cuba to challenge the government’s authority, both through peaceful and violent means,” which is aware of “the insistent but failed effort to add to those purposes the most representative sectors of art, culture and intellectuality in the country.

He emphasized that Cuba is also aware of the powerful machinery that from the United States manages, manipulates and harasses in the social networks, with an unmatched technological and financial support, in order to spread false information, incite hatred, divide the population, encourage resentment and call for illegality.

He clarified that, as in the rest of the world, in Cuba there is “full knowledge of the trajectory of the government of the United States in the overthrow of legitimate governments, in the execution or promotion of coups d’état, in the promotion of social instability at the cost of death and suffering.

Fernández de Cossio was emphatic in stating that he will not be allowed to do so here.

Translation by DeepL: http://www.deepl.com/translator

price park walk

From today at Price park, Greensboro.

vee-dubya beetle

At times I have entertained myself with Volkswagen Beetle history. I saw this picture on the wall at an antique store yesterday. The split rear window indicates 1953 or older.

There are a lot of subtle clues that one can use to identify the year of a Beetle. I enjoy piecing that puzzle together.

Brian and I rented new ones all the way up through the 2000’s for our tours of the Yucatan in Mexico. Mexico had a much later run of Beetles than anywhere else in the world.

juno free e-mail still there

I just checked on a free e-mail account I had from ages ago at Juno. I’m surprised that it still exists.

It’s not one I intend to use, but I updated the contact info and password just in case.

It doesn’t look technically sound: password has to be simple, no 2-factor auth, no IMAP. Anyway, I’ll keep it for retro fun if needed.

Juno hails from the dialup days when they gave you a little free time to connect, send/receive some e-mail, then disconnect. Windows 95 era and earlier.

#juno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Online_Services