One year ago today: January 8, 2025, Chloe is gone.
Five years ago today: January 8, 2021, Jan Ostman, hmmm . . .
Nine years ago today: January 8, 2017, unbelievable quiet.
Random years ago today: January 8, 2012, my most successful “gig”.
This may not be so easy, finding the right doctor. When the first four sites I open begin by asking my language preference, I take it this is not a field dominated by Anglo-Saxons. This trip to Miami, 465 miles, cost me $186.75, of which half was partying. It took 16 days for my insurance payment to reach Tennessee by first-class mail. These post office AOLs are determined to get themselves fired wholesale. Let me tell you about Fiesty, the raccoon.
This photo is an Arduino controlling a stepper motor. My diminished energy levels give me time to pursue these circuits, and I’m now extra glad I developed this interest. This view is from the latest round of on-line tutorials and they are a grand disappointment. They’ve taken the wrong turn of focusing on the wiring and code, eliminating almost all mention of the how and why. It’s all wiring instructions and copycat code, which teaches you nothing about what you need to know. Sad, but reality.
There are some improvements, but again they work best if you grasp the underlying system. For example, getting a shape to appear on-screen (called a sprite), can be a tedious process. Most tutorials show you how to draw a heart. There is now a graphic interface, called a LCD Character Creator (as one example) where you just click which pixels you want. This one even generates the Arduino code.
The downside is it will create code for persons who cannot even read it. Myself, I prefer to write the code in binary because even that is easier to read than the hexadecimal equivalents. I have yet to find another Arduino enthusiast who even knows this is a consideration.
The owner of that Swiss club that burned 40 people to death as cleaned out all his cash and fled, says the NYT. The newspaper does not mention which country he fled to, but he was a convicted kidnapper. The same news source is constantly broadcasting the version of the ICE shooting that does not show the third agent who fired the shots. How about New York claiming her children, who live in other States, are now “orphans”.
Still nothing official concerning a ban on institutional house buying. I’ve be pleased to hear it true as Blackrock and Vanguard are heavily leveraged. The Hunt Brothers of the rental market. In what I consider desperation, the banksters hammered silver back toward $74 and a drop of $9 is too much to believe. Four hours later it was back at $78.
This trip had one half-unexpected effect. People like the boxes. I handed out five free samples. So remind me to pick up some lumber later today. The sturdy Z-box is handily the favorite and kind of matches the amount of energy I can muster these days. Later, I picked up enough to keep busy while I’m thinking about changes that are now necessary. It’s not as simple as keeping current, it is breaking with a past that no longer exists. JZ did not just side-step computers, he presumed the options to do things the old way would never change.
For example, talking real estate y’day revealed he still believes you can find that section in the newspaper, yet he has not bought a newspaper in years. I know some twenty people like this. The system they presume they can operate with later in life is no longer there. Without a computer, folks like JZ have zero contacts or sources in the outside world. Just television. Most people nowadays do not even know the proper way to listen to the radio.
Turkish gold tobacco.
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We have a dead liberal, meaning she will get a zillion times more press coverage than all the White rape victims put together. I watched the various videos. While America knew that violence on the Democrat side would lead to this, I also see that this was a classic police setup they have used countless times. They stand in front of a vehicle they know has a right to leave, then scream attempted homicide. I saw the killer step toward the SUV when he could have stepped away. I saw the tires of the van turned away from the agent.
My phone guy, the owner of the local outlet, is related to a sizeable portion of Lakeland. So I asked him today about finding a neurologist. He says I was lucky to get as far as I did. He confirmed the majority if the medical offices in this county are billings and collections. Turns out Trump has spoken out against the mass housing purchases, but he needs action from Congress who are all on the take. I love the meme about the millennials who say in the future you will own nothing. Dudes, what do you mean “future” when you are 34 and already own nothing.
I stopped for the day and studied a bit on timing crystals. Turns out that is another topic it is hard to get straight answers over. The space station is evacuating for medical reasons they refuse to release to the public.
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Buried down here is a symptom. I’ve had a form of eczema all my life, normally very mild and focused on upper thighs and forearms. It is not bad and rarely shows, but I was reminded returning from Miami that I have reverse- adapted to the condition. And I blame Tennessee. I get the discomfort when I arrive back home.
You get more grits lore today. Did you know JZ eats boiled grits with no condiments? Now of course, to me, this is uncivilized. Minimum is salt, pepper, butter, and I know what grits goes best with. Now he can be that cheap and is equally in awe if I add butter or gravy. Or if I eat a bowl as a main course. And forget that he put leftovers in the fridge. The guy was raised wrong, grits-wise. Nobody eats boiled grits out of the pot just like that. Make that almost nobody.
Finally, the book on privacy has an semi-interesting chapter, the job application form. As California proves, computerization of records enables the capabilities of a “cradle to grave profile” and job resumes have been big business since. No jobs or employment, just the resumes. The chapter centers on Target stores, with a reputation or intrusive hiring tests. They use Psychscreen, a form I would refuse to use. It asked hundreds of questions like if you know somebody who cheats on their taxes, do you consider it wrong.
I do, but I do not consider it any of Target’s business. But I see the point, if something goes wrong later, it is Target and not the test or the employee that gets sued. I retired before such issues became commonplace, but this blog contains elements of the conflict. For example, if I apply for an accounting job, why is it their business if I have a valid Florida driver’s license?
