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hostile architecture and design

Posted on October 5, 2020 | Leave a comment

I think this has plausible deniability as a social-distance separator, but I suspect it might be hostile design aimed at homeless. Usually hostile-design benches have higher hoops, so I don’t know. It drew my eye as a bit odd. Maybe it’s dual-purpose.

An outdoor bench in front of Target showing a mild separator

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me and target

Posted on October 4, 2020 | Leave a comment

Me. 👍 🎯

impossibly small desert outpost target “I’ll still manage to spend $50 there”

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cheap and sweet like us

Posted on October 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

Brian and I enjoying the wine special at Olive Garden. 🍷

Cheap, sweet, fruity, tastes like pop. There’s a lot to like.

Confetti! Sweet Pink. It’s Italian!

Brian and David having glasses of wine.

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political databases

Posted on October 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

I sent Melania Trump an electronic birthday card back in April. Maybe I can send her a get-well-soon card eventually.

Part of the reason for doing it was to poison the databases on me. My mailbox has gone wild. My email went wild for a while, but filters are pretty good these days.

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political texting

Posted on October 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

Political texting has gotten worse than Rachel at card services and the new car “warrantee” calls.

You send a stop order and it resurfaces a few days later under another number as another goof signs on. Some won’t even take a stop order.

It’s stupid shit.

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disturbing

Posted on September 29, 2020 | Leave a comment

OMG

Selfie with a disturbing smiley filter

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goofing around in guadalajara early 80’s

Posted on September 27, 2020 | 1 comment

I’m always looking through the house for old photos.

This one is me, early 1980’s, standing atop the Hotel Fiesta Americana on the Minerva glorieta (roundabout) in Guadalajara, Mexico. Great view of the city from up there.

The hotel had recently opened, and it was a popular passtime with the immature crowd, of which I was a part, to sneak up to the heliport. One only had to know the right door to go to the top, and it was rarely locked. Just behind me, it would have been terribly easy to walk right over the edge especially at night. Attached Google image shows the hotel from the ground.

I’ll blame my hanging belly on the quantities of Estrella beer and Jalisco tacos consumed that summer, though it didn’t exactly go away at any point.

me atop fiesta americana hotel with city in background, map image showing outside from ground

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entertaining propaganda

Posted on September 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

It was embarrassing what propaganda this was. The “Amazon” title was just a wrapper. Most of the episode was talking shit about Russia, China, and Iran. It included a multitude of named, but unknown, “experts.”

It was so naked that I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.

Science Channel owned by Discovery.

Screenshot of TV show Amazon’s Secret Nightmare on Science channel

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experiences with linux flatpacks and snaps are unpleasant

Posted on September 26, 2020 | 2 comments

A browser I used to like to use was GNOME Web, AKA Epiphany. It is now available as flatpack only, which ruined it, I guess. It went from fast and sleek to a hard drive churning dog with horrible UI (user interface) and features missing. I’m thinking these alternative packaging systems are not good, but what do I know.

Same for Chromium browser. Installing from snap makes the UI bad. I’d rather have the full Chrome browser directly from Google than the current Chromium installed as snap.

It will have to be quite compelling before I install from flatpack or snap going forward.

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closer than ever

Posted on September 26, 2020 | 4 comments

Last night I streamed the 1984 British apocalyptic war drama “Threads” from The Internet Archive.

It’s old, and the video quality is low, but it’s surprising how many of the topics and situations are still current.

Other good “nuclear” movies are “The Day After” and “Nightbreaker.”

https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightbreaker_(film)

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