RANT: Where are the “smart trash cans”?

Sunday, July 12, 2026

I want one that takes itself out to the curb on “trash day” and return to its spot when emptied.

Then I might believe that the machines are gonna take over the world.

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RANT: HANDICAP spaces

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Today, like many many other times, I see people use those spaces with no placard or plate. No one enforces it.  Argh!

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testing 1.2.3

Friday, March 27, 2026

WORDPRESS


APPLE: “Family” security doesn’t work

Thursday, November 27, 2025

RECENTLY, my problems with “DOWNTIME” for  youth account have resumed.

It started with:

  • A real child id account with picture
  • A “ghost” child id account without picture
  • An adult id that was duplicated.

Turned on, the child’s account limits and those limits were applied to my iPhone.

Argh!

— more coming —  

In attempting to “fix” the problem(s):

  • Had to wipe the iPhone to get rid of the “account limits”.
  • The restore from iCloud backup never would complete and after three tries just wiped the iphone
  • Restarting basically from a blank slate, WALLET didn’t restore or recover my passport or credit cars. Argh!
  • Also, all the apps had to be reinstalled with lost “history”
  • Every setting seemed to need a reset. Argh!

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RANT: Let’s record everything

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

FROM TWITTER.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1906860386508230897?s=46&t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w

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DOGE: Once the DOGE team breached the fortress of taxpayer-funded tranquility known as the U.S. Institute of Peace, the accounting firm overseeing its books promptly deleted over a terabyte of financial data—an act as subtle as a burglar torching the crime scene. Fortunately, Big Balls intervened, recovering the lost data and exposing a veritable orgy of fraud, waste, and abuse, including the agency’s peculiar addiction to private jet travel, all in the noble name of “peace.”

*** end quote ***

Why aren’t ALL Gooferment financial records, messages, and memos recorded to a blockchain? What are the bureaucrats afraid of?

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RANT: Politicians!

Sunday, March 16, 2025

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ADHOC: Car thieves steal fobs

Saturday, October 26, 2024

https://local.nixle.com/south-brunswick-twp-police-department

Alert: Crime Alert – Police Warn of Suspects Trying to Steal High-End Cars

# – # – # – # – # 

Breaking into houses to find the fobs.

Comes under the heading of: FAFO.

How long before they eventually break into the house of an armed citizen?

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

“I told you that ‘juvenile delinquent’ is a contradiction in terms. ‘Delinquent’ means ‘failing in duty.’ But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a ‘juvenile delinquent.’ But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.”  ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers    

I’m a gun owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian; not a “victim”.

I’m sorry if a “juvenile delinquent” gets hurt or killed, but that is the price of crime that they have to pay.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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RANT: All frequent flyer programs should allow donations

Friday, October 18, 2024

I have a of points at McD’s and other places. I’d like to donate them to Western North Carolina. Victims or responders don’t care. But no way to do it. Argh!

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

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IOS: My phone thinks it is the First; not the Tenth?

Tuesday, September 10, 2024