WTF Wednesday #19

There are a lot of WTF things going on in my head… many of them I just can’t write about. There are a lot of reasons for that too. I think that is a WTF thing all on it’s own.

We want to be able to express ourselves and an open forum is an open forum. Anyone should be able to say what they want when then want. Take it with a grain of salt, get out of the kitchen if you can’t take the heat, suck it up, put on a pair of big boy pants or big girl panties, stay on the porch if you can’t run with the big dogs… I could cliché you to death but I really don’t want to think that hard about it all.

How able are we to say what we think is necessary to be said, how able are we to vent our frustrations, express our opinions, feelings, thoughts, ideas and emotions in the written forum.

We have because so litigious that, what a person thinks in written form isn’t really all that safe any longer. You are free to say it but it may not be protected any longer.

The machine of information that exists in the world today can blow something up so quickly into something it was not intended to be.

What about the substance of what is being said, as we become more scrutinized by what we say in public and even semi private forums the content is shrinking and the accountability is huge.

Quip mentality … how many characters do you get to sum up your thought a 120?

Oh ok that is plenty to make a valid point

Well in some cases it is, other times it isn’t nearly enough space to say what needs to be said to ensure a clear understanding of the message being delivered.

Unfortunately no one seems to care any more. Lets all get fired up because Bocephus made a dumbass comment trying desperately to cling to that last few minutes of fame he has left in the public genre, yes I know that is so incredibly timely however it does make the point.

Because who the hell really cares what Bocephus thinks about anything really... the people interviewing him did not, he was there to appeal to a demographic, and the demographic he was meant to appeal to didn’t care what the hell came out of his mouth because they agreed with his statement anyway, which was really that he doesn’t agree with the politics of the current president… Shocking

Language is an art form, it can be violent, caring, reassuring, confident, awe inspiring, fear inducing, beautiful, ugly, confusing, bitter, cruel, angry, happy, joyful, celebratory and so many more things

But WTF people if someone tries to make a point that is well thought out some one is going to interject some snarky quip that doesn’t mean a thing and we all bleat along as we disavow, discredit or otherwise ignore what was being said.

Everyday we lap it up from the 4th estate and the entertainment media who are both whores to greed and their own narcissistic endeavors and do not demand more from them.

This whole way of thinking has corrupted every institution of our society. Say what you need to say, but say it well. And if you disagree with what someone has to say how big a deal is it, really?

Oh and if you are a business and you make a product and your product is not a functional product what ever it is, you need to take the bad press to heart and make a better product or get out of that business don’t sue the reporter out of existence because you decided to cut corners in building a substandard what ever the heck and don’t want the bad publicity. Make a better product and people will sing the praises of what eve the heck you’ve made, make a bad one accept that song as well.

Certainly there are things that people say which are unacceptable but most of what we complain about isn’t worth the time it takes to reply to it and most likely it wasn’t said by someone whose opinion makes a difference in what anyone else listening to them already thinks

Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely

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WTH / WTF Wednesday #18

It has come to be a constant in our world the use of cell phones or some other form of personal communication device is going to be around and there really isn’t much you can do about it. It is the way of the world …well until there is an EMP and then well …welcome to the stone age because we don’t have a sable structure to communicate without them any more.

However, our one sightedness about things isn’t the WTH/F of the week. It is all the little annoy things these devices can do or more to the point what the annoy people do to make their toys more annoying.

Sure they are with it, they are hip, they are nifty, they are neat, they are cool, they are gonzo… maybe not gonzo … eh, well I suppose the right person could make it gonzo but more likely you’ll capture a gonzo rather than be gonzo. Thing is they are the thing to have and things your thing can do well that makes it a better thing …I think… and some have more than one thing, my thing one and my thing two and more.

Most of us are also accepting… dealing… trying to cope with the fact that these things are going to make noises and sounds that annoy the ever loving stuffing out of us and get on our very last nerve at times … but we calmly ignore these things because the doctor said letting the little things like that get to you is going to cause you to have a stroke and you need to not let that happen because it’s bad. Very bad (insert scolding doctor face)

So even if the phone in the cubical next to you… down the aisle … across the office… is playing the theme song to a science fiction movie franchise about a misunderstood knight in a futuristic iron lung you have to let it go. Even if it plays the wheezy mechanized breathing of the before mentioned black knight 50 bazillions times a day … you must stay calm.

I’m sure there a plenty that play other equally annoying things too and even some you may enjoy the first twenty or so times you hear them but after one of their idiot friends or their kid has spam dialed the person for the 5 millionth time, even your favorite song will spin you into a homicidal rage.

My point isn’t the music and cutesy ring tones

It’s the idiots using the devices. So here are some rules you should follow when using your toy/device/phone

First - It should be with you always that way when your idiot friends call you, you can hit the ignore button so we don’t have to hear the phone ring and how else are you going to drop it the toilet if you don’t take it in there with you.

Second – If you call someone and they do not answer the first time. Do not call them again on the same phone. I’m sure you really must think well they just can’t hear the phone ringing because if they know it is me call they will answer. Sorry cutey-kins they are ignoring you or unlike your idiot self they have things to do and your whacha doin? Call isn’t ranking as important right now. They will call you when they have time to call you or they just don’t like you. Either way you should probably find something else to do with your thing like play one of the gazillion apps on the thing

Third – No matter how anxiety ridden you are do not call that person again for at least another hour. Unless you are a parent trying to call your kid then spam the hell out of them most likely they have their ear buds in a listen to some other portable device you bought for them too and they just haven’t heard, seen, felt your phone call yet. Yes felt they all vibrate now so you can feel them … I’m not certain that it’s proper usage but that isn’t really a sticking point for me.

Forth – When you down load your ring tones do not apply them for income calls … I don’t want to hear … Please enjoy the music while your party is reached…insert song that only the person owning the phone enjoys … I do not want to hear that crap and no one else does either… so stop it and cut it the hell out.

Fifth – If some one is talking to you face to face 90 percent of the calls you get are going to be secondary to the person who is in front of you. Now I say 90 percent because it could be an escape call, it could be one of your kids, your spouse generally trumps the person in front of you… well unless you are with your other significant other … well that’s just uncomfortable for everyone.

Sixth – if you are with someone else and you take the call let them know why you have to take it .. It’s my kid, wife husband, mistress …expect a slap if you say that last one to your wife or husband. But it lets them know why you are not talking to their face when their face is in your face.

Seventh –when you get a call with your annoying as hell ring tone that you only like and you are in public answer that shit right away no one wants to hear it and if you have an annoying ring tone the only time you are likely to get a call is in the one place you don’t want to hear LMFAO singing, Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle dance like the Holocaust Museum. …Awkward

Eighth – I forget what eight was for

Ninth – it is only a thing it is not a way of life and if you are spending more time playing with your phone / device rather than interacting in reality with other people except of communication devices you’ll find that you won’t really have people to hang out with who aren’t talking to other people who aren’t with you at that moment.

Tenth – don’t talk really, really loud or even keep taking that personal call around your friend or remain in the office if your call is going to be more then an minute. No one wants to be a part of your drama… and its’ all drama to people not involved in it so no matter how important it may be talk softly or go somewhere private.

So for firetruck sake put the things/devices/phones away and talk to someone or do something with your hands you may find there are better toys out there in the world

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WTF / WTH Wednesday #17

WTF Wednesday #17

So in the Spirit of the WTF issues this is the text speak issue

Now I’ve been thinking that some of you may be offended by the title WTF so if you prefer it can be WTH /WTF Wednesday.

Now I understand that with the whole limits of texts and tweets that a certain amount of universal short hand is going to exist ie text speak

Hopefully by now most of you know what a lot of this stuff means so if I write

IDK OMG WTF FML BTW U R l8 4 WRK or jk LOL or RFOL you know what all of that means.

If you don’t know what the above stuff means then you are not L33t

Not my problem is not with the text speak it is with the whole transference of text speak into real speech.

LOL being said as Loll like roll
RFOL being said as Rah Off El

OMG as OH EM GEE

WTF as Double U Tee Ef

Seriously people, this is not really language why, why, why?

It isn’t like you have some big secret slang going on here and if you are in a RL conversation f2f w ppl Y R U talking in Txt Spk

Oh and on a related note if you are in a domestic living structure and your parental units / significant other or some other person is in a floor above you or below you and your ability to travel to that person is not hindered by any reason, you should probably go to them rather than send them a text

In other news

The idiocracy of our political representative shouldn’t amaze me any more but it does. Like last night. The president gives his state of the union address.

Then the Republican guy says in his rebuttal, No, no, no, The president has it all wrong what we really need to do is exactly what he said to do but with a Republican in charge.

Seriously, not to over simplify his speech but that is what he ended up saying

Enough all you jack offs regardless of party there are real problems that need to be solved. No one cares how it happens as long as it happens. Because if you don’t have a job and some one gets you a job, you don’t care about their politics

My son has an assignment how is the US like Roman Empire and are we in decline or not. Right now I would say yes and BTW the barbarians are at the gate. WTF ppl.





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WTF Wednesday #16

This is a WTF entry that I’ve been thinking about for a while, which I’m not really sure qualifies as a WTF but as it is my thing if I say it does it does.

It’s good to be the king


Every guy who has ever been in a relationship has done some thing their significant other has wanted

Well maybe not every guy, a lot of guys… ok a few guys… ok there was something moving in the bush.

One of the things that guys will be asked to do is watch something or other that woman are into watching. We don’t want to watch them but we do because you ask us to do it and no matter how into it we seem to be, we would rather be watching grass grow most of the time.

The one and only exception to this is … no not Twilight… life time movies. Now we don’t want watch these at all but there is something about these that put you into a hypnotic trance and then two hours later you are like man what the hell was that but you didn’t move.

You have to move in that brief window of opportunity because Lifetime will PIP the credits down and start the next movie and if you don’t run when you can you are sucked in again.

It’s a horrible trap.

Now you may think, hey if I watch enough of these with my girlfriend, wife, whomever I’ll understand them better.

The answer to that idea is a solid No you won’t. You’ve just been the victim of some hypnotic beam that traps you one the sofa.

The thing is that you’ll be watching these and they all seem to have Valerie who used to be married to Eddie Van Halen, Cynthia Gibb and that one lady who was one that one show, no not that one the other one, yeah that one.

Thing is you feel the same way after every movie, what the hell just happened and it’s like two hours later. But there you are and you look over at your significant other and smile and she smiles back but you still are like WTF just happened.


In other news

There was other news but I don’t remember what it was so there is no other news today.


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WTF Wednesday #15

WTF Wednesday #15

So why the hell does Donald Trump think that anyone wants him to run for president?

Seriously does he honestly think that anyone in the world wants to see this happen? I’m sure even North Korea and the terrorist cells around the world even say man if he gets elected it is surely a sign of the end of days.

Perhaps the Mayans saw these things happening now and figure if he does get elected the world would blow up with in two month.

The bigger WTF in all of this isn’t that Trump wants to be president or pretends to want to be president it is that the new media whores actually give him the time to pander to his own ego.

It is on both sides the conservative based media whore out to him, the liberal media whore out to him and no one says shut the front door Donald no one cares what you have to say.

Of course the Donald has a bunch of money but that doesn’t mean you should be president. If that were the case then Oprah and Bill Gates would always be President. Personally I would prefer Oprah to just about anyone who is running for President. But I don’t think she wants to take the pay cut or have her free time so utterly messed up.

If anyone says, “But he has a really interesting TV show”, I will scream. If you think his TV show is worth watching you should go to a store buy a two by four and then try to sell it to anyone on the street. That would be better entertainment than his show. It has been turned in to Celebrity Apprentice because no one seriously looking for a job that has an iota of self respect is going to submit to that sort of degrading treatment and seriously expect anyone to take them seriously for the rest of their lives. These “celebrities” just want the fame and a reason to have the SAG cards renewed for another year without really having to do a lot for it and they get paid on top of that when it is becoming increasing more difficult for them to find jobs. Yeah that is excellent programming.

In short Donald Trump, go back to your board room stand in front of a mirror and repeat your catch phrase until you understand no one wants to see you, or hear you in public ever again.

In other news

I saw a hammer drop in one of the most diplomatic ways I’ve even seen it drop. And that is all I have to say about that.


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WTF Wednesday #14

WTF Wednesday # 14

Now before you read this I know there are certainly more critical things I could be writing about than the following topic

Second that you may not care about the topic at all not even a tiddly bit


My WTF of the week is gamer cheats and douches. Now if you are reading and you are like ok inviso boy what the heck do you have to say about this issue.

First is that cheats and douches are two different things. You can be both but not all douches cheat but all cheats are douches.

Second, if you are a cheat, seriously WTF? Is it that important to you to be the top of the leader board for a video game? There is no award for this 99.999999 percent of the time. Yes sometimes there are prizes for being the best ever. But you can be damn sure they are going to snoop all up in your device and if you have a hack, a bootleg, an aim bot, download or enhancer of any kind you’ll be disqualified and then they get to keep the loot.

So there are tons of things out there make the game easier for you to get lots of points, kills, live longer, what ever the hindrance is to your success there is something out there to help you through this. Well you cheating douche the point is that you figure it out and succeed on your skill not someone else’s enhancers.

The games I like to play are first person shooters, if you don’t know what that means it is basically you see what you would see in the game world if you were in the game. You don’t see your avatar except for the tool you are using, most of the time it is a firearm of some kind or other.

Aimbots and locators are cheats used a lot in these types of games by cheating douches. Aimbots mean they just have to pull the trigger and their weapon automatically locates target. Well unless you are a terminator you can’t do this and it is a douche move.

Locators allow you to see through everything in the world to see where your enemy is. You are not superman and you can’t see through buildings or anything else.

Glitch Switchers – making the game lag or skip to your advantage causing other players to freeze while you move around them or they move by you while you are not really in the game for a second because you have frozen yourself out of it. This sort of douche baggery is seriously annoying.

All of these things and the others out there are so annoying but even more annoying is that these cheating douches are the biggest shit talkers in the games.

I p-owned you dude and then the T-Bagging starts

WOW are you a two year old? You killed me because you cheated and then you are going to talk about your mad skilz and then attempt to make me feel bad but making a computer person perform a sexual act on a dead avatar body.

Yup you are a genius.

Then there are the non cheating douches

These are players who do things to rack up points and kills because they can.

Now these morons will group together and they talk more shit than the cheaters. The favorite thing these people and I use the term people as loosely as you can because I’m not certain that they are people.

The thing about shooters, is that you have to spawn into the game at some location and then you run about and do some objective or just kill other players.

These douches, will go to the point were the opposition spawns in and kill you before you can move or move very far. It’s no fun to play in those games. Of course these dipshits will be well the game doesn’t stop you from doing it so I’m going to do it.

True, the game doesn’t stop you from doing it, but do you ever wonder why most of the matches you are in end with people quitting or you end up in games where even bigger douches do the same thing to you. Of course you don’t wonder that, because the would mean you were capable of rational thought and you aren’t, my bad for assuming you were thinking people

I mean I certainly understand a group does better than a single player and I do understand tactics and strategy.

You want to protect an asset in map with a group then I respect that it means I have to use tactic and strategy to get around you. And if I die ten times that way that’s ok I can concede that you did better than me.

However when your plan is to use the fact that I will appear at a specific point and you kill me before I can move, that is a douche move and you know it. And it makes you a douche and even worse than the cheaters

Glitchers and Campers are a another form of douches these individuals will hide in an area of the map that opposing players can not get to or exploit a flaw in the program which makes you immortal. If you are going to kill other players do it where you are a target as well. Even if you are using a drone, the drone is vulnerable or should be.

There are a ton of other things these idiots and asshats do in the games that just take the fun out of them for most of the other players The game developers do try to level it out. First generation shoots the spawns were in game which didn’t move and campers would just wait for you. So then the developers created randomizing spawns so if there were a lot of douches around a spawn then the randomizer would spawn you else were but they were always the same locations. Which just divided up the douches into multiple groups to kill everyone who spawned. Then the red lines were created if you crossed the red line you die This is where the technology is currently some games have invulnerability for a few seconds at spawn but it doesn’t give you enough time to get away but it can allow you to kill one person but if five are shooting at you the result is the same you die and the douches live.

The developers do understand that the douches are not the ones making them money, and try to keep the games fun for the mass of players. But what ever change they develop ends up being abused by the douches. The cheaters get bans but will open up a new account and are back in the system within minutes and while they loose their stats they are back in the games doing the same douche things again and downloading the same cheats until they get reported under the new name.

Thing is these are games not ways of life for the players. Even the game developers die in game, now they will give themselves better toys in game but they made the game, they spent the time writing the code they have earned a slight edge. But do you notice they don’t’ make themselves immortal and then just run around killing everyone and they don’t spawn camp or use aimbots or do anything that makes it completely impossible to be beaten.

So WTF, cheats and douches get a life and don’t live on these games. Seriously there are lots of other things to do. They are fun but they are only games.

Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely

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WTF Wednesday #13

WTF Wednesday #13

Being that Number 13 is supposedly unlucky I could do the obvious and write something about bad luck but there isn’t anything really all that WTF about bad luck. Well I guess there really is a whole WTF factor to the number 13. So why do we assign bad luck to certain things and good luck to other.

Like a horse shoe. I’m sorry nothing seems lucky about having a piece of metal nailed to the bottom of your foot. Just not fun. I’m sure it’s not painful for the horses and does prevent a lot of injuries that can cause horses lots of problems. Wild horses seem to avoid all of these problems some how without being shoed

Still doesn’t seem all that lucky.

Rabbit’s feet. Ok not at all lucky for the rabbit

Four leaf clovers – this is essentially a genetic mutation and not normal. And while the X men have made the whole mutation thing work for them there is a lot of not so much love going on about them too.

A penny? Really? Why is this good luck, so you can say you aren’t completely with out cash?

There are so many things but on the bad luck side.

Broken mirrors? Sure it’s a bad thing but 7 years of bad luck for breaking one? I think this has more to do that once upon a time a mirror was really costly and breaking them was not a financially good thing to do so we should treat them with extra care.

Black Cats? Sure they hang out with witches not the word that sounds like witch but starts with a different. But the guilt by association thing seems a bit harsh for the cats to be tagged as bad luck.

The number 13? Spilled salt? Stepping on cracks? Saying things three times. Picking up a penny that is face down and not face up?

What is with all the things that we thing are bad luck?

I carry around a crystal because it is supposed to collect negative energy. I have a four leaf clover in my wallet and once upon a time I had a rabbits foot and I will pick up pennies from the ground and if they are face down I’ll turn them face up to leave for the next person to find. I’ll make an X if a see a black cat cross my path some times. I don’t know why I do all these things because I don’t see myself as being overly superstitious but I do think at times Karma does take a bit too much fun phucking with me.


What are your good luck bad luck things?

In other news…I’m pretty sure I know what I don’t want to know

Litter box thought …scoop, scoop sounds like poop.


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WTF Wednesday #12

WTF Wednesday number 12

I know I missed last week but I had other more important things to do than write a blog… no I’m not going to tell you what I was doing…you’ll just have to trust me when I say it was more important.

My WTF this week is about the entitlement or our supposed sense of entitlement. In the information age we are under the presumption that we have the right to know absolutely everything about everyone and everything. We assume that because there is information available it is our right to have it and our right to demand any information be given to us without reservation. This is a very large problem because we don’t have that right, I don’t have that right, and they guy or gal down the street, the next town, other country simply do not have the right to all information.


Specifically I’m talking about the death of Osama. We do not have the right to know anything more than the information released in the initial Presidential statement. We had and enemy and that enemy, was eliminated by our troops period. End of our right to and more importantly our need to know anything more than that information.

You are certainly welcome to have an opinion about it and at least here to cause a stink about wanting to know. By all means please rant to your hearts content, this doesn’t change the fact that you or me, or Joe the plumber have any more right to know this information.

This extends to what we know about the Operations Team that carried out this mission. This may or may not have been a US Navy SEAL team. The reason that the SEALs, the SAS, SBS, GSG9 and other special operations and anti terrorism units are successful is that the public does not have knowledge about what and how these teams operate. If we start making information about these teams public then terrorist groups and cells will adjust their tactics to how these teams operate.

A real world example of this, and I tell this with no disrespect to the team involved, is that a reporter put a microphone in front of a GSG9 member following the successful retaking of a hijacked aircraft. The team member related that they knew where the terrorist were on the aircraft because they were able to see in the windows of the aircraft by lowering down on the outside of the plane from the roof. Any Hijacking occurring now results in the immediate closing of the window shades by those persons making the hostile take over of the aircraft.

As the public we simply don’t need to know how these teams do their jobs. We have congressmen and senators who are empowered to and can and do investigate and conduct inquiries into the possible wrong doing into the activities of our military and other agencies. And our Special Operations teams aren’t a bunch of adrenaline junkies who don’t follow orders. If you don’t follow orders and work as a team you don’t remain in special operations long before you are put into the field.

We further more do not need to see the photographs, video and other information concerning the mission and then open this up to the court of public opinion led by our sound bite journalists. A photo out of context can be made to say so much more than what was really going on and do far more damage to our safety and the lives of our troops and others around the world.

Wake up people this was not a Call of Duty Black Ops load out on the Xbox. This was a real time covert military operation lives were in harms way. Harms way is the military’s polite way of saying that statistically one or more team members are expected to be seriously injured or killed in the completion of the mission. For any military unit there is always the chance you’ll be placed in harms way in the performance of your duties. Because there is no way to predict what will go wrong and how wrong thing will be once they go badly.

Our special operations units and those of our allies do not need the likes of our sound bite journalists and video game Monday morning quarterbacks making a public critique of every step of the mission. Osama and his entourage were considered and known to be dangerous. Lets not forget that every photo or video Osama released of himself contained him either holding, shooting, or having a loaded assault rifle in his hands or within reach. You do not assume because you don’t see a weapon that there is not a weapon around.

If you second guess in a military mission, especially in a special operations mission, you get people killed and then you may not have another opportunity to complete that mission again. It took us ten years to have an opportunity with a high enough potential for success that minimized loss to acceptable levels and provided a real opportunity to capture a target. However, the capturing the heads of terrorist organizations is not usually successful and end in the death of that person regardless of what nation conducts the mission.

In addition because we have eliminated this person, we do not have the right to chant in the streets and cheer his demise. I’m not saying that we were wrong to kill him. I’m saying it is wrong to dance in the streets and act a fool about this action. We as a nation were justifiable offended when thousands around the world celebrated the attacks on 9/11.

We, in the completion of this act of justice, have to behave with more dignity. A nation’s greatness is not measured in its ability to dispense brutality but rather in how it reacts in the face of brutality. This doesn’t mean to always turn the other cheek or to turn an emotionless face to tragedy. It simply means that when diplomacy fails and the use of other means are employed it is done with dignity. We don’t need to put the heads of our enemies on the bridges spanning the Potomac River or on the fences around West Wing hopefully we are a bit more evolved.

Remember that we still have men and women of our armed forces in harms way every day. You can agree or disagree with why our troops are deployed but our actions here and the information released can increase the amount of harm they face every day. I think in closing it is befitting to quote General Douglas MacArthur, “Above all no one prays for peace more than the solder.”




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WTF Wednesday # 11

WTF Wednesday number 11

I usually don’t talk about politics because it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to talk about politics. Why?

Because people don’t listen when you talk about politics they really just wait to talk and don’t care what you have to say especially if you think something different than they do.
True story.

My WTF today is Donald Trump running for President? Seriously, WTF people come on. I really hope that this is just a thing to keep ratings for his dying TV show making money and not a real thing that you think you should do. I don’t watch the show but I do see the ads for it.

However, If you haven’t noticed this Trump is not saying he is or isn’t or is running for president so much as he has been running his mouth and has been flying the flag that President Obama isn’t a US born person.

My first thoughts are, Ok, whatever Trump, go back into Busey’s dressing room and drink some more turpentine with him. Because you seriously sound like an imbecile when you say stuff like that.

However the tea party is full of people who like to run on the politic of the sound bite and fear. Lets run with this and the Trump has a shit ton of money and can make us relevant or at least make us more heard and being heard by more people makes what we have to say more important. Yah, doesn’t matter that it’s stupid and inane.

So largely I’m ignoring the whole Trump run for president thing and the whole I’m interested in running for president and I’m going to talk shit about running for president but I can’t really say I’m gonna run for president because I have this TV show thing on right now that is watched by six or seven people and it would be wrong to say I’m running for president until that his over so I’m not sure if I’m running for president or not but I will get back to you in June and let you know if I’m running for president.

OMG WTF FML just shut the hell up until June then please.

No can’t do that I’m going to say that the current president shouldn’t be president because he isn’t a real US citizen and I’m going to say it often and raise a big stink about it and I’m going to get Sarah Palin on board with too and the rest of the Tea Party.

So this morning Obama interrupts the last bit of the fluff the Today show was doing to say

We interrupt the thing you are doing now to tell you this.

ATTENTION UNITED STATES

I AM A NATIVE BORN CITIZEN, BORN IN HAWAII AND HERE IS THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE. WE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS TO SOLVE LET’S FOCUS ON THAT.

YOU MAY NOW RETURN TO YOUR NORMAL LIVES.

Play out special report thing

So basically Obama said STFU Trump.

The thing is, Trump is still going to make an issue of this and the media is going to cover it and make this non issue an issue that takes the focus away from the real problem.

WTF people we need to treat Trump like Charlie Sheen and tell him to STFU when he starts talking. Yes its’ rude but his wasting our time is equally disrespectful

In other news.

I was looking forward to something happening today but now I’m looking forward to the same thing happing in a week.

Litter box thought

Stunt boy did that

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WTF Wednesday #10

WTF Wednesday number 10

How on earth did Russell Brand become famous? One day no one on earth other than his drug dealer and his parents know who the hell he is then the next day he’s famous. Granted it had been growing slowly but seriously why? WTF people are we getting that hard up for comedy that this guy is it?

I know I’m not the only one fed up with him. Hell, Mother Nature has been trying to kill the bloke since he married Cat E.

They, he and Cat E, go to India to marry... earthquakes floods and disasters like the day after.

Everywhere this guy goes there Mother Nature starts pooling her resources to try to kill this guy. I know I don’t want him coming to my house and spending any time. Seriously do the google searches Russell’s location and natural disasters. I think he was in Japan too. Just saying.

But the tabloids are saying the Cat E is nearly done with him. So we know that it is the whole truth if the Star, The Examiner and the Enquirer say it is true. They would never make up a story just to sell papers.

I wonder if Russell is the creation of these rags in an attempt to see if they can make a horribly not funny person famous.

Also on the Russell front and if you are as sickened by this guy as I am you may have missed this bit of news but the daft bastard has a plan to try to crash Will and Kate’s wedding next week dressed at the Queen.

Brilliant

I wonder if the SAS might accidentally snap his neck like a twig. Then what can you do really at that point. Scold ruthless trained killers for killing some twit for being a security risk.

Now boys you aren’t supposed to snap the necks of every person who tries to crash the party, but in this case we’ll let it slide. I wonder if that would make the news or not? Would they replay it with that warning, some viewers may find the following story upsetting so you should leave the room for the next few minutes while we show you in graphic detail the twist and snap and then an idiot slump to the ground dead.

Now he is trying to infect children with his nonsense dressing up as the Easter Bunny for a movie, well speaking for the EB. Look buddy I had that gig long before you so back off.

But if anyone can explain his fame please but I think you’ll be just as puzzled by it as me. WTF?

In other news

Yeah I can’t get into it work certainly sucks at the moment and if I could talk about it you would ask me to stop talking about it. And that’s why I haven’t been writing the last few days.

Litter box thought

I don’t have a clue what is going on


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WTF Wednesday #9

WTF Wednesday number 9

I don’t really think I’m ever going to get to that one thing I been trying to put in here for the WTF issue. Next time I promise… most likely.

It’s bag on invisible don day again, but in a much nicer way than I normally bag on myself.

Somehow I’m turning into a morning person…WTF… seriously I’m waking up before my alarm every freaking day now and it’s getting a bit crazy. At least I’m not a chipper and up beat morning person or else I would just have to kill myself.

You know the type, the ones who say, OMG it’s such a wonderful day, I’m happy to be awake… and blah happiness blah…you just want to choke the life out of people like that… am I right?

So the one good thing in all of it is that I’m not happy about being a morning person but boom …awake… look at the clock / phone … ugh … seriously?... WTF

I really like sleep… as in a lot.

Now granted I don’t really try to do a lot of sleeping in the first place but I try to a lot a certain amount 5 to 6 hours is good right? So waking up before the alarm is messing with the system in a major way.

I’m not exactly sure what has brought all of this on but I recently made some changes based on the fact that I didn’t die when I thought I would. Yeah, I wasn’t certain I would make it this far along the game board. Rather than get into a lot of detail, we’ll just say that I made some questionable choices a few times and harm has had a way of finding me. There are things which I can’t write about too because, well they are classified and what not. But even when I’m just minding my own business, Karma chose me as a whipping boy for some reason. I’m not all that clear what that reason is but who am I to question it I just roll with the punches, car crashes, and other random stuff.

So as the clock went pasted the time that I figured would be the end of invisible don and it doesn’t look like the end is all that nearish unless you believe the Mayans I should probably develop a couple of …ugh… healthier habits. I know I’m nearly ashamed too.

I have developed unmentioned healthy habits and a side effect of that choice appears to be that I get to be a morning person … Yea!…


Not Yea… because I still like being a night person. Better stuff happens at night. Vampires, werewolves ok maybe not werewolves, other spooky stuff and better TV. Seriously if you’ve even been stuck at home during the day, TV in the day time sucks in a big big way. Thank god for the internet and netflix

The other day I just rejected being a morning person. I held my own one man protest and told morning person me, No. No, I’m not getting up and I laid there awake, eyes closed in defiance and justified to myself saying in bed, laying there awake for the entire fourteen minutes or so that I was awake before the alarm. And then some more just to thumb my nose at the morning person I’m becoming. Didn’t matter because what did I do today

I got out of bed before the alarm.

I know I’m sorry, I’m a goner I have cheated on the alarm clock, I’ve been untrue to my night owl ways and not hit the snooze button in over a week, I even thought about…I’m not even sure I can say this next part it is awful …you may want to sit down if you aren’t already sitting… it is horrific …I thought … I though about… I can’t believe it actually crossed my mind… I though about drinking less coffee.

I am sorry I don’t know what has come over me. I should just tie on a massive drunk sleep until noon just to see how morning person me likes night person me.

I won’t do it though …WTF is happening to me?

In other news.

Hoover decided that I might be a little Emo but not is the wearing funny clothes and not bathing sort of way but other aspects. I’ll give it some thought

Litter box thought

Stuntboy had it as his chore today so there isn’t one

Shower thought of the day

What direction do most people face in the shower … toward the water or away from the water?

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WTF Wednesday #8

WTF Wednesday Number 8

Once again I had something else planned for today but something else has come up that I feel really merits the WTF of the week.

That would be all of our elected officials. WTF boys and girls in your job description I think it says something about leaders

You know to do something

As in get shit done

We pay your *&^#*) @$$es pretty darn well too - bet you get your phucking checks even if the government isn’t working WTF?

Grow the hell up, be men and women and lead don’t be little boys and girls and bicker and fight.

Before start in on me with the hatin’ I agree there are two sides to an argument

If you really want to get to it there are countless, ifs and buts to any argument and as the saying goes, if, ifs and buts were candy and nuts oh what a Christmas it would be.

There are things that need to be done, regardless of your side of the fence

So get it done compromise and then fix what doesn’t work later. No government has ever built a perfect policy, piece of legislation or program … and my money is on that it never will happen.

So gather up your big boy and girl panties, put on your work clothes and get something done

In other news

I lost sight of that Aldo guy not sure where he has ended up but I’m sure he is fine.

Trying to keep it a little more Zen, better to keep it more Zen at least for now.

I’m sure Aldo is fine …right?

Litter box thought

It would be nice if they just didn’t poop for one day.





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WTF Wednesday #7

WTF Wednesday number 7

Ok so I had this whole other idea for the WTF Wednesday, which I’ll be saving for another time now. So I had this other thing that I wrote down on a piece of note paper. But I can’t read my writing because I got in a hurry.

I know I am my WTF Wednesday… eh… it was going to happen at some point. I’m a little surprised really that it has taken so long to be honest.

They say, yeah they, that is a whole other topic to talk about for another time, but they say we as people are our own worst critics. I may actually be a panel of people to pick on myself.

Now don’t get me wrong I am also my biggest fan and as far as I know am probably the best authority on … well everything there is to know about anything. Well you know unless I don’t know anything about it. Then I’ll either say I don’t know anything about that or I won’t say anything about it all and pretend I didn’t hear what you said.

What …oh sorry I was distracted, but back to me being my own worst critic. Oh, it is awful sometimes. I mean really if the things I say to myself in my head were out loud the neighbors would call the police.

Yes, officer… yes who ever is talking over there is being very mean and degrading … I had to look some of it up in the dictionary. I didn’t know there were so many mean things in there. You better hurry.

However being my biggest fan too I can usually counter back and I don’t spend more then an hour weeping in the corner.

I’m not the only one who does this though, there are books our there about this stuff. Hell I would bet there are counselors and therapists who fund whole offices on this stuff of self loathing.

We don’t like us. But why don’t we really like us. Because we make some stupid little mistake that most likely no one else but you noticed.

That’s what you hope, says the mean nasty voice in your head.

Then you hear a laugh, oh gawd they did see I’m sure they think I’m a complete dolt.

YES THEY DO says the mean nasty voice.

And on it goes.

We have whole arguments in our heads about something that isn’t even real and if it is what does it matter that someone you won’t ever see again saw you trip over the crack in the side walk.

Yeah they are sort of tricky to be sure. That’s why you aren’t supposed to set on them. They will make you fall down not really break your mother’s back. If that were true every mom anywhere near a side walk would be hospitalized any time she punished a child under the age of 10.

Take that you ….bleep, bleep… bleep. Scream of agony crumple fall moan.

Don’t do it again Simon you can play X-box …

Back to not liking ourselves, Why not like you, if you don’t like you no one else will.

The thing is we work out this whole OMB ( oh my bob) FML WTF you dumb@$$ thing in our heads and then you lash out at someone who has no idea about the whole gripe, bitch and moan fest and all the nasty-grams you have been sending yourself. Then when you grumble at them and bite their head off, they call you a lying evil nasty and then you start in again, see no one likes me I’m better off dead and I should probably just go eat worms like the song says.

Yeah you should.

Oh shut up you twit.

You shut up

You’re fired

You can’t fire me I’m you

Any way that was pretty tame I’m trying to be a more PG 13 blog, which means I can say phuck without the PH once an issue, but lawdy be, I can lay myself out something awful when I’m not typing it and I’m pressed for time.

I guess the WTF point of this is be nicer to you, and I’m sure you’ll see a nicer world around you. Sure you’ll phuck things up some times and in some cases a whole lot but I bet there are shit ton of people out there that like you.

What do you mean shit ton isn’t PG 13… bullocks

You’re not British either

Wanker

Oh name calling that’s really mature…oh and obscene finger gestures… nice no wonder you got pushed down the stairs in grammar school

Yeah I got your...

Ok time to end this now… So for the record I like me but in a healthy way not in the narcissistic way and I while rant on at myself at times mainly it is a way to keep me motivated to get things done and don’t we all need the metaphorical kick in the tail to keep us going. Just be a kinder gentler motivator when you do.

In other news

Doodle came over for dinner and we watched Despicable Me. We loved it

Litter box thought

Oops … guess you know where I’m going now so that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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WTF Wednesday #6

WTF Wednesday #6

Stink bugs

Good Gawd you all… what are they good for… Absolutely nothing …. Say it again

No seriously go back to the top and say it again only this time like Edwin Starr did in his song War... yeah there you go. You only have to do it once then you can keep reading.

Moving on, WTF… no seriously WTF, why do these wee nasty little beasties exist. They don’t do anything except smell bad and look ugly.

They don’t eat other bugs. Birds, don’t even like to eat them and birds are just rats with wings. Unless they are an aquatic bird or in the raptor class. (Ravens, Crows, Owl Hawks, Eagle, Falcons, et al)

Back to the stink bugs did you know they are not entirely innocuous … nope they can bite. Yup it’s a fact. They has the teef and will bite you. Google it if you don’t believe me. I’ll wait.

Yeah see. I know right.

They can also cause temporary loss of vision if they mist you in the eyes. Mainly because it burns your eyes and you can’t open them hence you can not see. It is still a fact too or fact two if you prefer.

Not so harmless at all now are they

They are also ugly. That’s a fact as well. Although most bugs are really rather low on the attractiveness scale, but they can’t even play off the ugly with a cool factor. Like Tarantulas they are ugly but they are kinda cool… not as cool as a Praying Mantis or Black Widow spider but still Tarantulas have some definite cool points. Flutter bys are not bugs they are flutter bys and moths get a pass because they are fake flutter bys but not as many cool points a the flutter bys.

Stink bugs have no cool points at all. In fact they would need a bunch just to get out of the negative cool arena.

Stink bugs will drown though so that’s a plus. However if they drown in your coffee it’s not a good thing. That’s a fact in addition to the other stuff.

I’m not saying how I know this fact but if you were to say maybe have a sip of coffee that had a drown stink bug in it you wouldn’t like it not even a tiny little bit.

Microwave ovens kill them too.

Did I mention stink bugs are not so smart? Well they aren’t, they will get in a microwave too. But they can’t read but they aren’t really inviting like oh hey come hang out in this metal box.

The microwave doesn’t give them super powers it kills them but not before the make the smell

The good thing is that it only lasts about a minute

Well that was as long as it took me to get to the microwave to clean it with better smelling stuff.

I dare any person out there to tell me one good thing about a stink bug. I double dare you. However, if it isn’t a really good reason and legit one, any member of the invisible army may to slap you in public with no other provocation one time and you can not defend yourself.

Tips

They do really drown so scoop them up and toss ‘em in the toilet they don’t swim. But don’t squish ’em they will smell bad on your hands. Yup it’s kinda gross.

Clean your window seals with bleach and water and let it soak a bit. I use I part bleach to ten parts water. It will kill a lot of the eggs of not just the stink bugs but all the other wee nasty beasties that laid their hundreds of nasty little bug eggs in your windows. That’s why on really sunny days in winter you get bugs in your house.

Three don’t waste money bombing your house it won’t kill them

Fire kills them too but burning your house down is really rather counter productive but only slightly if you have enough of the little pests.

In other news…

I need to play real, not real a little more and not listen to my demons… No bad demons … shut up … I’m telling mom… I know she doesn’t like me … stop it… I’ll do something... yes I will… yes huh….

I have to go kill the demons so that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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WTF Wednesday #5

WTF Wednesday number 5

Daylight savings time. Seriously people what is the point of day light savings time.

There isn’t really any point in it other than to pretend that we have some magical control over the forces of nature. We don’t, we never have, and my guess is we won’t ever.

One rule in life is certainly true, nature doesn’t like us and if don’t respect nature you die or at least suffer.

Oh but we are people we know better than nature. See watch we can control the amount of sunshine in the day with a piece of paper and the turning of some mechanical hands or pushing buttons.

Tada

This is the part where you are supposed to ooh and awe at the wonder that is man’s control over the sun. I’ll wait while you do.

Ok that is enough awe maybe a few more oohs for good measure, alright then good.

We aren’t magicians and we haven’t made it sunnier longer. Our position relative to this hemispheres vernal equinox, axis rotation and approaching the northern solstice on our orbit of the sun is really what is making it sunnier.

If you say economy I may have to slap you. And I’m all about being kind to the planet see that rule above. The day in April should be called save the humans from their own stupidity day not Earth Day. DST is not all that economical

So now we trade an hour of darkness in the evening for an hour of darkness in the morning to save electricity. I’m not sure

So wait if I have to turn on my lights in the morning now for two hours and not turn them on in the evening for one hour haven’t we used an hour more electric than before? I’m just checking because some times my math can be a little fuzzy. Because I don’t know about you once the lights come on in the a.m. they don’t go off until you leave for work school, or where ever it is you spend your days not at home if you are like most people. And if you are like most people that means lights are on now for more than two hours in the morning while you are getting ready. There is no savings here, there is more usage.

Then for the next several weeks people will be waking up late, calling in sick because if you are late anyway might as well just take the whole day off if you can, or you rush out the door, get into an accident and cause a traffic jam that makes 900 people late for work, which leads to a helluva lot of bad choices which makes even more people angry then there is crime and chaos and unrest all because we want it sunnier in the afternoon for a bit longer. That seems like a lot of trouble for some sunshine. If you really want more sun wait a month it will be sunnier or move closer to the equator its sunnier there most of the time, but don’t mess with my mornings. I haven’t had my coffee. Ok I’m not that cranky in the mornings I’m just a slow starter, always have been with or without the coffee.

I’m just not a morning person I’ve accepted it there are millions I dare say billions of us that don’t do mornings well. To the masses of us who are not morning people, mornings just seems like a really bad idea that someone came up with very early in the morning and submitted without coffee at a board meeting and then it became a thing. Seriously who gets up out of bed, already ready to meet the world with a smile and wants to get things done quickly. Isn’t that’s what afternoons are for not mornings, mornings are for sipping coffee in a dark room without the lights on because they hurt your eyes and stretching and telling the person you like they are great and the cat curling around your feet and not doing things quickly.

But now you are going to take away an hour from the day. Don’t say they didn’t take it away because they did. It’s gone. They moved the clock up whole hour in one second and then we don’t get it back for 7 months. That’s not a fair trade I want two hours in the fall this time and then I say we forget about this whole daylight savings time business.

Back to the economical thing most of you turn your lights on when you get home in the afternoon sun out or not because your house, apartment, basement lair isn’t built to maximize the sunshine or if it was some inconsiderate person built a house right next door to your house and it blocks the sun or worse you live in a interior facing apartment. This means you can see into other apartments most of the time rather than really seeing outside.

I’m just not sure we are really accomplishing anything here other than making a lot of people angry and sleep deprived.

Morning people are up before the sun anyway because they like being up at the ass crack of dawn. You haven’t made anymore day light for them in fact you pushed them an hour behind schedule.

I don’t know why anyone wants to wake up to see the sunrise, I find it is far easier to say up and wait for the sun to come up and then go to sleep but that’s just me. That said sunrises are rather beautiful. I have still seen more sunrises by already being awake from the previous sunset and staying awake and then going to sleep than I have seen waking up before the sun and then going to work.

In other news

The thumb feels better today

And a newish thing what do you think? Yes … no ????





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WTF Wednesday #4

I worried that I might run out of things to write about for this segment of the invisible don issues. Silly me I have so little faith in mankind with coming up with ample things for me to shake my head at, hell commiserating this morning with Hoover and the unnamed Marvel, I may have enough things in my own history to keep things going for awhile.



This weeks WTF is the stupidity of men



Sorry guys we aren’t that smart and you are going to be hard pressed to find a woman who seriously injures herself right after uttering, ‘Hey y’all watch me do this’. Just go to Darwin Awards and you’ll find ample evidence of men how have said this or at least thought it before exiting the gene pool.



Coming soon is April Fools Day. Now you are thinking this is harmless enough. Not anymore.



Here are the ingredients;




A large helping of male stupidity

The internet


Any type of video camera

A contest for a $1,000.00 Prize



Yeah, it’s that small and I am worried that this will generate a very bad result if not an entry or two dozen into the Darwin Awards.



If you don’t know you have to die to earn a Darwin Award, as you will no longer shape the landscape of the human genetic code.



The one thousand dollars is being offered for the best April Fools Day prank.



If you have watched anything on the internet you have seen the amazing fact that there seems to be no limit to how stupid people are out in the world. Because it isn’t just the US filming this stuff. 99.99999999999999% of the people in these videos are men.



Not a lot of ladies out there risking their lives, although I have seen a few ladies take the face plant or two.



These things have all or mostly been done for free.



Now you are going to have these dimwits battle it out for money too. WTF?



In other news…



I think I’ve written this before but if I could have a super ability it would be to emote physically.



Like when you were really happy about something to just explode into confetti and fire works and then reform at some point not long after.



Well If I were able to said thing or turning into confetti I would have, complete with buzzy little sound effects.



Ok…I’ll sweep myself up now.



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WTF Wednesday #3

WTF Wednesday #3

Something I’ve noticed lately is that people in Roanoke drive almost as badly as people in Ohio. If you are from Ohio, sorry you can’t drive well and if you were born in Roanoke, you are challenged. Well that is a gross over generalization I know three or four people who drive well you are from here, so not everyone.

However, something that baffles me is the swinging wide for turns. In a Semi it is sometimes necessary, if you are driving a Smart Car there is no need for you two swing three feet into the left hand land to make that right turn or vice versa.

I’m really sure that this happens in other places and it’s not just a Roanoke thing. I swear half the time I’m driving in a two lane road the car next to me swings toward me and turns (right or left) onto another street.

Seriously though do you really think you need that much extra space to turn your car 90 degrees to the left or the right? If you do maybe you need to take some improvement classes or stick to public transportation.

My car isn’t in the best condition. 90% of the dents are from people hitting my car with their vehicles mainly in parking lots.

Seriously my car has been hit 5 different times by people while I’ve been driving. Once if front of a law enforcement officer then the driver tried to lie and say I cut him off. The officer just laughed at the guy when he was telling the lie and said you do realize I watched turn into this person’s car from right over there. The guy actually considered sticking with the lie for a solid 30 seconds.

Mainly I just shake my head while I’m driving then there are times while I’m driving I really think that perhaps it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to have our vehicles weaponized.

I bet it won’t take long for people to snap into shape with their driving habits then. However, you would be required to get permission to have your weapons armed.

Traffic control this is X ray Yankee November Five Seven Three requesting missiles hot on a Yugo going 35 miles an hour below the posted limit east bound on Maple.

This is Traffic control you are cleared for live fire on my mark…three…two…one…
Weapons armed.

KABOOM

However, there would be that time when you hear a weapons locked tone in your own vehicle. Shake your head and sigh. Explode.


In other news

I smiled about making a person smile.

Shower thought of the day, are the trees really starting to bud now? Yeah they are, man my allergies are not going to like this next month. I hope it rains.

Litter box thought of the day, didn’t have one because Stunt-boy cleaned the litter box today.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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WTF Wednesday #2

WTF Wednesday # 2

So as you may or may not have read in a past entry about my computer woes of late, my computer died. Alas it is a sad thing indeed, but it also is a WTF thing on several levels. The first is that these things are built worse than the first little piggy’s house of straw or at least that has been my experience with them. I have had 5 computers die on me in the last 8 years. I know WTF!!!

My bad karma can only do so much but I’m willing to chalk some of them up to this not all of them. Build them better it is pretty freaking simple concept.

Secondly and the bigger WTF is the whole programming changes and things not being compatible from version to version.

Seriously people you might just be to smart for your own good on this one. You are not reinventing the wheel with most of these programs and the updates performed.

So why the hell do document programs from one version to the next find it so impossible to read older versions? I’m not kidding this is completely stupid.

What is so dramatically different from the very first document creating programs to the current versions of them? I can’t get the computer to write papers for me. Even if they could write them is it necessary to make it impossible to read the saved files?

It’s call backward compatibility in the industry but that means that people don’t need to buy the new program if the old one does the same thing. So it is really about making money and screwing over the consumer.

If you argue it is more about intellectual property. Sure from one software maker to another. Sure there will be some differences. However from one writer to another the programs are essentially doing the same thing and this practice exclusivity is more about limiting consumer choice than it is about protecting intellectual property.

It’s not just with document producing programs. The industry does very little to insure backward compatibility and preserving the customers information from one version to the next regardless of the program.

This practice is rampant within every industry. However, when it comes to information this practice is even more dangerous and will ultimately lead to what I’m calling an intellectual ice age or stagnation.

We loose so much information every time an advance is made in the creation, storage and recovery of that information.

We loose information every time there is a glitch, hiccough or SNAFU / FUBAR moment within a server, network, mainframe or other grouping of computers.

Example in my work, yup that place I can’t talk about, there was an “event” with the computers at some point in the recent past. I can’t be more specific than that. This ‘event’ was experienced by every office doing my work. An @$$ load would be the technical term. This ‘event’ directly impacted ten of my cases that I know about. Now in my office if every person who does my work had ten cases impacted that would be 100 cases. Then times that by and @$$load. The information is gone.

So no matter what a computer guru tells you that information is still in there. Not so much and it’s not retrievable. All gone.

Our knowledge base can and will ultimately suffer a similar fate at some point if we don’t take precautions to fight against this and focus on preserving the information rather than just making a dollar.

Every step we blindly take forward via technology has the opposite effect of sending us backward many more steps backward leaving us with less knowledge.

In other news

Saw the movie Red. It was really good. If you haven’t seen it you should.

Gonna go kill some MAG avatars now.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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WTF Wednesday

So a new thing we’ll be trying is the WTF Wednesday. The first WTF thought of the day is that I actually made a reference using the character, Ricky Bobby. OMG WTF.



The only really funny thing about the movie is him being locked in the car with the puma. It’s not really funny as it is I hoped he died so the movie would end there. Alas he did not. Then today I’m talking with Hoover and I say, even Ricky Bobby got the girl. Really. I know I’ll hang my head in shame.



However that got me to thinking about WTF moments



One of them was about Doodle meeting some kid online and becoming friends. They talked for a while online, he even wrote a pretty catchy little song that wasn’t all that bad. She comes up to me one day and say hey dad this guy is coming to town.



I say, really?



She says, yeah, can we hang out?



I say, I’m not sure I’m thrilled about this.



What if you can meet him first.



Let me think about it. Which is dad for most likely No but I don't want to say no right now but if you can come up with a reasonable reason for me to say yes I will change my mind. Did I mention that Doodle has always been really logical even when she was 5.



She tells the boy that I’ll think about it then he tells her, that his dad wants to meet her too.



Doodle comes back with this info and I’m thinking well if his Dad is insisting on meeting my child and I’m insisting on meeting his child then we can assess the whole thing and then we adults will be there and they will have to tell us the same story.



So I say sure if I’m meeting the other adult involved in this. Doodle is all Yay, the kid is all Yay. I’m all this kid better be normal and I’m sure his dad was thinking the same thing.



The day comes when the kid is in town. The plan is that they want to walk around down town and shop, get some food and just hang out for a bit. So we head to the down town area. We get to the meeting spot and I’m looking at this guy thinking I know him. And he is looking at me like I know him. The kids look at each other and are All hey OMG so glad to see you IRL and junk. The introductions are just about to start and my brain goes CLICK. I used to work with this guy before he moved away and I say Hey (insert actual name) Guy. How are you.



He says, Hey Invisible Don, I’m good how about you.



I’m still working for the place



Things still the same?... the conversation didn't get much deep than that.



Both our kids are like WTF our dads know each other. We get there plan and both dads are feeling much better about this whole thing because we know one another and the kids aren’t exactly complete strangers.



They did hang out for a bit that day and they talked for a while longer online. They may even be friends, I’m not sure.

I’ll have to check with doodle.



In other WTF stuff



Lifetime Movies have like a hypno-ray or something in them that just pull you in and you are all like I just watched a three hour movie about nothing. If you like these movies fine I’m just saying that they just suck you in and then there you are for those three hours.



So yeah that really good news is really good news and the really bad part of that news is really bad.



In completely unrelated news the new Matt Damon movie, The Adjustment Bureau looks freaking awesome



Litter box thoughts - what do you think about when scooping the litter box. Today I was like, hmm the cats didn’t really do much today. I’m sure tomorrow will be more productive. Gross.



That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow



Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday



Thank you for reading, please subscribe, you know if you are reading this on blogspot or on diaryland. If you are reading on face book well you are already subscribed. Aren’t you happy.



Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood.



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