ADMINISTRIVIA: Happy Saint V’s Day

Monday, February 14, 2011

After a weekend of mostly “altered mental status” — with unexplained causes, and after the innumerable transports of Frau Reinke to the toilet, I returned her to the comfort of her recliner. She couldn’t get comfortable. In a raspy strained voice struggling for breath, she said: “I have to get fresh air. I have to stand up.” So for the innumerable plus one time, I helped her to stand. I doing most of the lifting. “Just stand here” was her quiet words as she tightened her grip around my neck and held me close. Like one of the many slow “dances” we shared forty plus years ago. Until her legs tired out, she said “thanks”, and I placed her back in the recliner. Where she promptly was sound asleep. And, I was energized for the innumerable plus two times to come. Happy Valentine’s Day.

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SERVICE: Google Chrome Print

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Worked with a meaningless email on Gmail mobile from the IPAD. Interesting!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Snowfall ends

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Amazing.

I look out the window and it’s over.

Looks like I’ve got about 24 inches of “global warming” at my door.

Time to fire up the old snow blower and go clear it.

Luckily, having no life, I have no where to go today.

But, with my patient, keeping a clear path for help, is a priority.

Sigh, this too shall pass.

I hear we’re getting another snow storm on Saturday.

Oh joy!

I think I have enough gas for this one and maybe the next.

I remember one storm like this in both the 70’s and 80’s. Maybe this is that “event of the decade”.

Do a few data chores. Wait for the neighbors to wake up. And get to work.

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IPAD: Task swap ain’t

Friday, January 21, 2011

In using the IPAD, I have noticed that “swapping” between tasks or even between SAFARI windows isn’t a swap in the sense of ALT-TAB on a “real”computer.

Using the on screen keyboad is a PIA.

Different apps have different keyboards?

CARINGBRIDGE app loses input if not committed before task switch, hibernate, or time out.

Arch!

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SECURITY: LASTPASS (Recommended with a big caveat)

Thursday, December 16, 2010

https://lastpass.com/

LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure

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Recommended, with a caveat.

I would never ever trust anyone with passwords to “financial” or “key email accounts”.

So, then by definition, passwords for “financial” services and their dedicated email accounts are NEVER shared with anyone, any service, or put on any machine. Written down in a secret spot. Not carried in a wallet or anything you’d expect.

(Handwritten and rolled up in a pen.)

Since there are very very few of these, they are easy to remember.

Yeah, under my tin foil hat, I’m paranoid!

And, you must use unique passwords for everything. It’s a pain, but necessary!

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FLASH: Six U.S. troops were killed Sunday

Monday, December 13, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/12/AR2010121200857.html

Suicide bomber kills 6 troops in Afghanistan
By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, December 12, 2010; 2:58 PM

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KABUL – Six U.S. troops were killed Sunday when a man rammed a minivan packed with explosives into a newly built military installation in Kandahar Province, U.S. and Afghan officials said.

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I think Ron Paul was right; “take the first thing smoking coming home”!

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IPAD: Tables in IPAD’s PAGES

Friday, December 10, 2010

Couldn’t figure how to size the cells. Adjust the font”? it’s definitely NOT like a desktop.

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MACBOOKAIR: Back from shop

Friday, December 10, 2010

Well, got it back last night. The apple store employee was stunned I was less than pleased at the hard disk being wiped! I expected it, but was hoping against it. The official report says that the hd wouldn’t mount. Worked fine when it went in. Visualize this: it goes in for a sound problem, a failure to sync on one account, and they nuke the hard drive. Lazy!

CARBONITE appears to be working at restoring my data. It appears to take a whole day to restore it all. We’ll see! I know that DROPBOX has my data as well.

It is just a big PIA to restore all the software and configure it!

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MACBOOKAIR: Ready for the shop tomorrow

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Well, at least, I think I am.

Have alternate platform that will allow me to do email and Jasper Jottings, CHECK!

Have complete backup of McBa, CHECK!

Have complete data backups at CARBONITE, CHECK!

Have documents backed up at DROPBOX, CHECK!

OK!

Monday, if all goes well with Frau Reinke at the lab, then I’m off to the Apple Store: (1) missing sound; suspect hardware; (2) failure to sync; suspect OSX os; (3) intermittent slowdowns; suspect OSX networking.

Best outcome: all three fixed

Worst outcome: completely wiped “repaired” machine.

Somewhere in the middle: a permanent replacement “new but old model” mcba machine or one of the new macbookairs.

I should have keep a book on how much time and effort this has cost me.

Argh!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: WordPress iPad app ng

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tried the iPad app for word press. Doesn’t work so well. And there are no shortened.

Also the iPad autocorrect is a PIA!

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RANT: Election Results

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

With all the angst leading up to the election, and the same old characters are reelected over and over again. You can’t beat the system. You an’t change the system. The only choice is to leave the system!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Do you have B- blood in the Winstom Salem NC area?

Thursday, October 21, 2010

I know a baby who needs some blood. Can’t offer you anything much more than “thanks”. Young parent are going nuts. The grandparents are my old friends. Drop me a email or call me.

fjohn68

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FUN: Expert in eckynumbics

Friday, October 15, 2010

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to three economists. Should we have even given one out this year? If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past two years, it’s that there’s no such thing as an expert in economics.

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PLINKY: If I Could Invent Anything

Thursday, October 14, 2010

… an obvious one fmpov!

Donate Blood (p6180505)

A device, that given a a drop of a patient's blood, it would produce 100% identical blood in whatever quantity needed.

My wife has a unknown blood problem that presents as an dramatic quick disappearance of red blood cells. A "blood xerox" machine would give the docs

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RANT: Some folks are !!!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Parents: Dying Girl Kathleen Edward Taunted By Neighbors In Trenton
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/the…

A Trenton (Michigan) family with a dying 7-year-old daughter says they are being harassed by a neighborhood couple. And those accused neighbors aren’t disagreeing. Go inside the the story to watch a video report from FOX 2’s Ron Savage.

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I find it hard to imagine any feud with my neighbors that would cause me to do anything to upset a dying child or their family. If I had a way I’d submit this to O’Reilly for a “pinhead” award! Or, worse I’d call them !!!

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TECHNOLOGY: Hospital clocks are out of sync

Monday, October 4, 2010

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Clock in this room is five minutes slow as measured by my notebook and Verizon wireless phone.

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So how can evidence of time be introduced in any court say in a medical malpractice suit?

If a nurse documents something using one of the many different clocks, then transcribes it to the computer, what time is it.

It adds an element of uncertainty and distrust. AND, if they are so sloppy in this very simple matter, what makes one think that it would be different in stuff that we don’t see, depend upon, and could be life threatening.

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INSPIRATIONAL: No mosque at Ground Zero

Thursday, September 30, 2010

“I’m against building mosques, churches, synagogues, temples anywhere, because I’m an atheist and I think these are places that perpetuate mass delusion.”
— Comedian / Political Commentator Bill Maher September 14, 2010 Larry King Live

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POLITICAL: Anti-war, not anti-D or anti R

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

http://counterpunch.org/jacobs09272010.html

September 27, 2010
We’ve Been Here Before
The FBI Raids in Context
By RON JACOBS

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In short, the government is attempting to criminalize the organizing of antiwar protests. Furthermore, it wants to make opposition to the the government’s assistance in repressing struggles for self-determination illegal. Other repressive actions by law enforcement against US citizens, including the sentencing of a videographer to 300 days in jail for trespass after he tried to film an unauthorized talk in Chicago and the acknowledgement (sic) by the Pittsburgh FBI office that it had spied on peace activists and used a private agency to help out, makes it clear that the PATRIOT Act and its excesses are alive and well under the Obama administration. Repression is a bipartisan activity, especially when it comes to the repression of the left.

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I remember the anti-war left that was taken over by the D’s. Of course, as soon as a D was in the White House, that ended the anti-war protests.

Now, older and wiser, I see.

Both the D’s and R’s have no problem with “war” as long as they are in the White House and control of Congress to profit from it.

If we can’t end the warfare /welfare state, then we’ll have to divide and conquer.

Secession!

Just like what happened to the USSR.

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POLITICAL: Advanced Free Speech

Friday, September 17, 2010

“America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, ’cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can’t just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the “land of the free”.” — President Andrew Shepherd played by Michael Douglas in “The American President” (1995)

The fired NJ Transit worker is a classic example.

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RANT: BHO44 Speech today

Friday, September 10, 2010

He’s kidding right. The D’s have super majorities in both houses. He blames the R’s. If he had all the D’s, he has NO NEED of any R.

So he’s jerking us off.

And, we need LESS spending; not more!

Argh!

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FUN: Book burnings

Thursday, September 9, 2010

FROM TWITTER

M_Ahmadinejad

I like to retaliate by burning a book that you Americans hold dear, but the only book you care about is Facebook.

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ROFL!

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VOCABULARY: “artisanal”

Thursday, September 2, 2010

What the heck is “artisanal” as in “fresh express artisanal salad”?

Is that a word?

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PLINKY: One Thing I Learned Recently

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Campbell Ohio Open Carry Protest 2010

When presented with an unreasonable policy, don't get mad. Just non-violently ignore it. "They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!" — from the movie Gandhi (1982) spoke by Ben Kingsley <unsure if it's a real quote. might or might not. but it was true to his spirit imho.> Maybe it was my "Homeland Security" shirt that depicted a Old West posse that did it.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: TESTING

Monday, August 2, 2010

ECTO, my desktop Client for blogging, is unable to post to the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom!

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TINFOILHAT: Getting rich off the dead and maimed

Sunday, August 1, 2010

http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/wikileaks/

Wikileaks
Who’s Hiding What and Why
by Fred Reed

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If you don’t think that contracts—money—have a great deal to do with wars, reflect that all those hundreds of billions of dollars end up in pockets, and those pockets do not belong to soldiers. Makers of body armor, boots, ammunition, helicopters, on and on, are rolling in gravy. All this half-watched loot flows in cataracts at the price of at most sixty dead American kids a month (and lots of brain-damaged droolers, but what the hey). A bargain. Afghans don’t count.

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Who’s getting rich off the AfPak war?

Is this another case of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses?

Time to change policy. And if, like baseball, we can’t change the policy, change the head coach!

In this case, ALL incumbents should be shown the door. While the new politicians may be worse than the current, we should just keep the revolving door spinning. Could we do any worse?

How about we pick folks from the unemployment office? At least, then they will have a job. And, when they select their staff, they have to take folks from that unemployment office. It may increase costs a little, but it may cut down on the graft and theft.

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PINKY: My Favorite Quote of All Time

Friday, July 16, 2010

“Do or do not… there is no try.”

(To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!)

— Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas's "Star Wars" movie)

I now try to never ever say the word try!

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