One year ago today: March 29, 2018, another category of dunce.
Five years ago today: March 29, 2014, oh boy, multiple choice.
Nine years ago today: March 29, 2010, a whopping 15 cents.
Random years ago today: March 29, 2007, great early digital pic.
The world is unfair to grits lovers. Take a look at this label, it is representative of all grits prep instructions. It has directions for 1 serving or 4 servings. But nothing for 2 people. So what does that tell you? Huh? About their attitude. Nothing happened today. That usually means let’s compare my nothing to what’s out there. This warm day and cold night weather has taught me something. I was not imagining how, long ago, whenever I’d return from the tropics to my day job out west, a month later my upper back muscles were a mess. Right on schedule this week, after twenty years, guess what? So, skip any handstands for today. Instead, I breezed through the musician ads. Nashville is not the best place for musicians unless you are squarely in with the radio-corporate inner circle.
Telling it like it is, last week I responded to an ad looking for a country or southern rock bassist. The guy was quite clear about being “nowhere near pro”, duh, okay. He has practice space and was looking to gig down the line. Considering some of my best efforts have been hauling two-bit guitarists up to speed, I sent him my one-paragraph form letter. You know, about song lists, and a demo clip or two. He never replied which is nothing abnormal in this business. Today his ad reappeared.
It’s changed and worded to exclude bassists like me. I’d say I put the fear of god into the little bastard, except he’s 56. His ad now reads if you have ever been a pro or could have been, this “aint for you”. I mean, how terrible a guitarist can he be? Anyway, he’s asking for a jam session Saturday night, and he has no idea what I look like. He’s specifying acoustic guitar, which I have. I should show up and see what goes on. It would not be the first time I was the only one to arrive.
Shut down the border, Trump is issuing the warning and something about this time tells me that Mexico had better listen. Further, add an embargo on all Mexican products. Mexico has spent decades creating a financial model based on bleeding the USA. For years now they’ve done nothing but talk, which Trump correctly calls “a big fat con job”. The liberals and Mexicans think he’s kidding. The liberals must be going ballistic, as this is the opposite outcome of the way they systematically stall while a problem continues—and their tactic of labeling all opposition as Nazis hasn’t worked since they lost in 2016. Ha, they are now being called “socialist” which is has the same number of letters as “communist”. So it won’t be long. And they surely don’t like their own medicine.
In a related tactic well-advocated by this blog, Trump is cutting foreign aid to countries that don’t stop the immigrants themselves. Good, an economic embargo will bring Mexico to its knees in a matter of weeks. No doubt the liberals will scream that cutting the aid will increase the border problem can stuff it. Even if it does, they don’t know that because it hasn’t been tried, so they are just bloviating. Besides, there would be more money available to secure the crossings. The general feeling at street-level is that Trump has sincerely tried to stem the illegals, but entrenched liberals are dragging their feet. Trump is in again in 2020 and if he closes the border now, with the Democrats exposed, his presidency begins a new dynasty.
And how about that fine for Office Depot using fake scan software to rope customers into paying for unneeded repairs? I’ve always installed and learned to use my own anti-malware. Those who rely on others to do it for them, well, they are likely being suckered left, right, and center. Office Depot is just one who got caught. (They were exposed by a Seattle television program showing PC Health Check would detect problems on brand new computers.) My suspicions were triggered by the opposite situation, that is, I began to notice that Android scans would intentionally ignore certain brands of malware, and none of them detected the seriousness of the Google Chrome spyware.
I barely forced myself to finish watching “Gravity”. Those who are not questioning NASA’s announcement to make the first person on Mars a woman should be forced to watch the movie. It delivers a strong message on the consequences of using cutesy logic when choosing who gets put up in space. NASA is screwing itself badly with this “equality” kick, coming up with crackpot plans like the first all-female space walk. What kind of nonsense is that? A waste of good money, but that is what NASA does best. If I was SpaceX, I’d use NASA as a model of what not to do.
As for the European copyright laws, they have really gone overboard. That was to be expected and it will produce a new set of problems. Sites like youTube will be essentially put out of business. Mind you, if I was their programming department, I’d start right now writing codecs that convert all content to an untraceable proprietory format. Why? Because youTube is not the entity breaking the law, they are the innocent disseminator. Um, this does not mean I would not be even more against some other way of handling the issue.
Nor do I care for those ads about “taking your music with you”. It says if you sign up, you can play music you’ve bought on all your devices and share with family. Stop and think. How would they know who is in your family and when they are listening. My advice is always to ask people first before you get suckered into signing them up for anything, especially “free” bank accounts.
Computerized knitting machine.
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What do you mean there is no such town as Bucksnort, Tennessee? Here’s a photo of the Bucksnort Saloon and Family Restaurant. Why look, here’s a photo of family vehicles in the parking lot. What? This establishment is in Colorado, not Tennessee? Well, let’s find something in the real Bucksnort. Okay, they have a trout farm, population unknown. Okay, here is a link that proves there is a Bucksnort, TN, or judging by that shirt, at least there was in the 1960s. You know, by the looks, I kind of like the Colorado place better.
I barely forced myself to continue watching “Gravity”. Those who are not questioning NASA’s announcement to make the first person on Mars a woman should be forced to watch the movie. It delivers a strong message on the consequences of using cutesy logic when choosing who gets put up in space. NASA is screwing itself badly with this “equality” kick, coming up with crackpot plans like the first all-female space walk. What kind of nonsense is that? A waste of good money, but that is what NASA does best. If I was SpaceX, I’d use NASA as a model of what not to do.
I’m watching “Gravity” in stages now, because the script is so contrived I can barely stand it for long. Space debris smashes the space station and sets two space-walkers adrift. Should be a good premise, but in comes the politically correct crap. One of the walkers is a woman. The debris strikes. He tells her to get inside, she fights him. He tries to save her life, she fights him. He tries to conserve oxygen, she fights him. Dammit, there is a right time and a wrong time to assert yourself as a women. I’m only 22:29 into the movie and he’s quite justified on several counts to just let the bitch drift away. You just know the movie is setting us up to believe she will survive because she is woman.
It just now passed the scene where she gets out of her space suit and flashes a lot of recently waxed leg and that perfectly sculpted body that landed her (as it were) this role.
ADDENDUM
I barely forced myself to finish watching “Gravity”. Those who are not questioning NASA’s announcement to make the first person on Mars a woman should be forced to watch the movie. It delivers a strong message on the consequences of using cutesy logic when choosing who gets put up in space. NASA is screwing itself badly with this “equality” kick, coming up with crackpot plans like the first all-female space walk. What kind of nonsense is that? A waste of good money, but that is what NASA does best. If I was SpaceX, I’d use NASA as a model of what not to do.
As for the European copyright laws, they have really gone overboard. That was to be expected and it will produce a new set of problems. Sites like youTube will be essentially put out of business. Mind you, if I was their programming department, I’d start right now writing codecs that convert all content to an untraceable proprietory format. Why? Because youTube is not the entity breaking the law, they are the innocent disseminator. Um, this does not mean I would not be even more against some other way of handling the issue.
Nor do I care for those ads about “taking your music with you”. It says if you sign up, you can play music you’ve bought on all your devices and share with family. Stop and think about the information they must have on you to make such a system work. Is it wise to tell strangers that much? How would they know who is in your family and when they are listening? My advice is always to ask people first before you get suckered into signing them up for anything, especially “free” bank accounts.
