So the end of the first month of 2014 comes to an end. All I can say it was a start and things can only get better. The stars are in my favor. The rest is up to my own volition and will. I think February will be a lean month for posting. I am going to apply the magic formula for success, a method that served me well in the past. I need to concentrate on this and only this. Internet surfing and checking the local news will have to wait till the wee hours of the night after a long day of cracking the whip.
It finally looks as if the Cosmos is ready to smile upon me. According to my 2014
Chineese New Year
forecast, the year of the Horse holds good things in store for me. I have to make things well, but I won't be swimming up stream. These past two years have been dismal, to say the least. Here Comes the Sun!
A business opportunity is knocking at my door. It needs to be nailed down, but if this is possible, I may not have to worry about working at some shit hole corporate sweat shop during these final months I have to spend here in Wisconsin. This would mean a great deal to me. It would be comforting to end this month out with positive news and favorable circumstance.
I am not alone. One week before Christams, my position was axed. I was told that I could be physically removed from
the building at any moment, so I better keep my mouth shut and get with the program. So much for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes. The philosophy of business is, "we will use you till we are finished with you."
I don't know anything about Patch. The recording makes it sound like the company is the greatest thing that has occurred on planet Earth since Jesus Christ. Corporate executives inform their people they are shit canned via a phone message? This corporate behavior is the new status quo; your place is beneath them with your neck under their boot.
"Hello everyone.
Pack up your things and leave the building. It has been determined that you are not the kind of people Patch wants to employ or associate with." This is the second chop to the knees of those still left standing.
The recording continues with an address from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. For the record, I did some research on what Patch was. I use the past tense because it is history. This fact puts this entire fiasco in a proper perspective -- AOL is shit.
This was the first swing of the corporate axe back in August 2013. The fish stinks from the neck down.
I like to end things on a positive note. Talent needs to be appreciated.
February 28, 2005
I left work early today to see my Doctor. He wasn't available, so I saw another MD at the office. He didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. My lungs are not working at 100% capacity. I had chest X-rays, and did this breath test where I blew in and out into a tube that measured my intake and out take. The out take was crap. So, I am scheduled to see a specialist at the main facility on April 6, 2005. I have to laugh the way Western Medicine works. By April 6, I could be dead from whatever it is that is interferring with my ability to breath properly. The chest X-rays will be sent, I imagine, to the same place where I will get the testing done.
In the meantime, I have to get serious about working out again. I haven't got a choice in the matter. It is move forward, or slip backwards. There are a number of Yoga exercises that focus on the lungs, so that is where I will begin again. I've said it before, "Physician, heal thyself."
I don't really want to die just yet. I haven't had a great deal of success in this life. I have tried my best, but to tell you the truth, I have failed in a great many areas. I don't have friends who call me. I haven't been told by anyone lately, "I care about you." I haven't been able to find a line of work I can call a career. I turn on the news, or log onto the Internet only to see the world is a horroble place filled with hate and misery.
I feel a responsibility to make the world I am living in a better place for myself and others. That is hard to do when you are struggling to just survive emotionally and financially. Now that I can't breath, I am having a crisis of the spirit. I have to find a path of physical exercise I can live with. One thing I learned in the martial arts is this, you have to find a way. Failure is not an option.
I put this past post up for a reason. I have been thinking about the same things over the years, time and time again. Shit, I wrote this 8 years ago. What have I done since then? Little, if nothing at all has been done. I'm in up to my eye balls in some serious shit and I have to find a way out of it. For the record, I never did go to the appointment. I was fed up with the lack of care I received and I never went back to this over paid leech handler. In fact, I have had no real contact with any doctors since then. I did get my knee repaired while I still had the insurance. That was a good move. Since then, I have been taking care of myself and I plan to do so in the future. Getting back to the point. This shit ends now. I am ashamed at the level of my procrastination. I realize I am limited as to what I can accomplish, but this ridiculous. I am capable of making a better life for myself. I keep getting lost in the shuffle. Time to slow down.
For the hell of it ... 52163/16604
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I saw this article in the news this morning. In my opinion, Dennis Rodman is being tossed under the bus. I don't like watching people being crucified.
On his third and most recent trip to Pyongyang this month, Rodman reportedly brought several gifts for the young Kim's 31st birthday. They allegedly included hundreds of dollars worth of Irish Jameson whiskey, European crystal, an Italian suit, a fur coat, and an English Mulberry handbag for Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju.
These gifts could be more than tasteless. They could also put Rodman in legal jeopardy. They appear to be violations of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1718, adopted in 2006, and UNSCR 2094, adopted in 2013.
Perhaps more importantly, Rodman may have violated an American law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as implemented by Executive Order 13551, which President Obama signed in 2010, which makes it a violation of U.S. law for any person determined by the Treasury and State Departments "to have, directly or indirectly, imported, exported, or reexported luxury goods to or into North Korea."
The Treasury Department, in consultation with the State Department, is currently looking into the allegations that Rodman violated that law, one U.S. official told The Daily Beast. It's unclear whether the inquiry has included the participation of the Department of Justice, which would be brought in to prosecute any violations.
Rodman doesn't deserve this kind of legal retaliation for making a fool of himself. If he wasn't supposed to bring these item into North Korea, they should have been confiscated. This is a shot across the bow. I think the present administration could care less what Rodman was doing over there as long as he stayed low key. He didn't do that so now they are going to teach him a lesson. The laws of this country, if they are enforced at all are done so to punish, not to protect. This is a clear example.
It is cold and it is dark early this winter morning in the once great mid-Western United States. I have joined the Dogecoin community and have begun the journey of accumulating this new crypto-currency. It sprang onto the Internet about six weeks ago. You may have seen the news story how the Jamacian Bobsled Team received a $40,000 donation, all from Dogecoin. I set up my off line wallet and even bought some of these Dogecoin at an outrageous price on ebay. I knew I was paying way too much , but what the hell. They are currently priced at $0.00172515 USD each. Bitcoin started out much the same way and they are currently worth $787 USD. I even went as far as to set up my computer with this mining software and I am in a pool. The thing is chugging along doing something. I will have to wait around 24 hours to see if I actually earn any Dogecoins. I would like to see this crypto-currency explode and someday be worth $1 USD. If I can get my hands on a few 100 thousand of them and sit on them till this happens, that would be sweet. At the end of the day, it is all about being a geek with a hacker spirit; a desire to know how computers work and to create things using them.
I know I have to continue pushing my studies forward. I have been slacking the past couple days. I know I may never reach my goal of mastering a programming language, or all the freaking tools you need to manipulate to make the language sing. It is overwhelming. Regardless, I am capable of accomplishing enough to create some cool web applications or put a better web site up on the WWW. I have focused my efforts on Clojure and the developer tools I need to learn to make it all work. For me, it is about the journey. The destination of actually earning a decent living working with these technologies may never happen. That's OK. I know where I stand and I know what my motivations are. If I never pushed myself to learn more about how computers work, I never would have been able to get this mining rig set up on my machine. It wasn't easy. I tried to set it up on my Linux OS but I could not get it working right. I had to resort to making the attempt on Windows and I succeeded. It feels strange to be working on Windows again. Running the Windows 7 OS on my 15 year old machine designed to run Windows XP is a joke, but it is working. I'm sure this mining rig would be much more efficient if I had my newer HP machine online. No matter, I am enjoying myself. In fact, I am even updating my website from Windows again. I got this mining rig working and I don't plan on turning it off for the next couple days at least, it not longer. My Dogecoin wallet on my hard drive is still updating and synchronizing with the system. It is taking forever. I won't be able to receive my coins till it finnishes. I hope my transaction from ebay comes through without any problems. Untill this update completes, I will just sit tight and wait.
Looks like a new Siberian Express is coming our way. By next Wednesday, it is going to be -20 again. It is nice sitting here inside not going anywhere. My bills are paid for the next two months. I need to wrap my head around this programming paradigm in that timeframe. I would like to have some hard core computer skills under my belt, just in case. I can't waltz into Pueblo, Colorado empty handed. It all boils down to this; I have a great deal of work to do before I pack up and move out of here. I won't be going for six months. I will have to get some income rolling in by then. As for now, I'm going to sit tight and ride out the rest of the Winter in front of my computer screen.
Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license after police saw the pop star street racing early Thursday morning, Miami Beach police said.
"What the f*** did I do? Why did you stop me?" Bieber asked the police officer who pulled him over just after 4 a.m., according to the arrest report.
Bieber, 19, was released from a Miami jail an hour after he made a brief appearance through a video link before a Miami judge, who set a "standard" $2,500 bond Thursday afternoon.
He strutted out of the jail dressed in black, with a baggy hoodie covering his head. His pants appeared to be baggy leather. Bieber briefly sat on top of a black Cadillac Escalade, where he waved to screaming fans, before he was chauffeured away.
Five days after his pending charges of felony vandalism, Justin Bieber gets arrested for allegedly driving under the influence. I said he was a retard five days ago. Nothing will be made of this because this self righteous, immature shit head is making tons of money for people who have the clout to smooth these unfortunate circumstances over. In other words, bury them. If you or I behaved like this, we'd be tossed in prison for our own good and to protect society at large. A judge would determine this was being done not to punish us, but to ensure that we received the treatment necessary to help us get our lives back in order before we killed ourselves or someone else. This isn't going to happen with Justin Bieber. He might and most likely will check himself into a rehabilitation center for treatment. This will make him look like he is a responsible individual. The law will be happy because this maniac will be off the streets and out of their hair for the duration of the near future. They could care less if Justin Bieber, and his high paid attorneys, check him into some 5 star hotel/spa till things blow over. The same law enforcement apparatus would be chomping at the bit to throw you or I into the bowels of hell for pulling the shit this idiot has the past week.
Today was just another day in the turmoil that is the 21st century. The news bears nothing more than war, murder, fear, and chaos. 85 individual, unknown people control the wealth equal to the share of 7 billion. This is not a civilization moving forward. This is a civilization on the brink of collapse. Despite the futility that a better life is ahead of me, I still strive to become something greater than I am today. I am in great doubt I will ever develop the skill required to work in an IT related profession. I still have hopes this can materialize. I know who I am and what I am capable of. Computer science is not at the top of this list. I let that window of opportunity close long ago. I can not turn back the hands of time. I will still pursue my academic course. This is the exercise of mind. I can not let my body and spirit go unchallenged. Without challenging them also, my path towards becoming something greater will never be reached. It doesn't matter if the world around me is dying. Even more so, it is a call to discipline. I hear the trumpet and I have not answered. I am a fool.
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government has imposed a 60-day state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding provinces following months of protests by anti-government demonstrators in the capital.
The deputy interior minister announced the new measures Tuesday, giving security forces new powers to ban political gatherings of more than five people, censor news media, impose curfews and detain subjects without charge.
I see the media has substituted the words "martial law" for "state of emergency". It sounds much better. A state of emergency implies a set duration of time. Once people calm down, things will get back to normal --- their necks being crushed under the fascist boot of corruption. All that is necessary is to torture a few hundred innocent people and let the rest know what is in store for them if they don't get with the program. Bashing some heads in and spilling their brains out onto the street is also an effective measure in restoring order. A state of emergency makes this all possible.
I'm being buried under a tidal wave of information. What I've learned about programming in the past couple weeks is this. It is not just about being able to write code fluently. It is also about mastering the tools necessary to make that code sing. Every time I look at Hacker News, there are more tools and more ways to compile, package, and manipulate the programming language once it has already been written. I need to step back. I have looked at a half dozen ways to do the same thing so many times, I've lost my bearings. I only need one IDE. I only need one way to set up the framework for a web or mobile application. There are maybe 6-12 core dependencies I need to know like that back of my hand to do a specific task. It is about focus and finding that particular niche area you want to be an expert in. Everything else is distraction. I'll get there. Failure is not an option.
Cyber attack that sent 750k malicious emails traced to
hacked refrigerator TVs and home routers.
The California security firm Proofpoint, which announced its findings, said this may be the first proven "internet of things" based cyber attack involving "smart" appliances.
"Hack the Planet!"
Remember this battle cry from the 1995 movie Hackers? Yes, that is Angelina Jolie. Seldom do I find any news stories that strike a humorous tone with me anymore. If the media does broadcast anything that isn't designed to scare the living shit out of me, it presents tasty sugary sweetness that would gag an elephant. Quantum physics tells us the Universe is a hologram and we are living in an artificial environment. I don't need mathematical equations or proofs to tell me this. Turn on CNN and watch it for 5 minutes.
I'll enjoy this moment while I can. I swear, the media is going to jump all over this. The NSA has new fuel to stoke the fires of fear --- the Al Qaeda boogie man is hiding in my toaster. If you believe in Net Neutrality, you must be a terrorist sympathizer. Since the fires of fear are blazing, we might as well toss what's left of the US Constitution into it. For good measure, lets round up anyone with an independent thought floating around in their deluded skulls. If a death sentence for bucking the status quo was good enough for Socrates, it's good enough for those ass holes. It's a shame to put a good fire to waste.
United States of America – Astrology
The timing of the birth of America was no accident - Jordon Maxwell.
Nice podcast. It is heavy on the esoteric, and if you are not into that slant, you probably won't find any value in it. I am into the esoteric and I do find value in the sacred science. I like what Jordon Maxwell has to say. You can do your homework on him. People say he is a disinformation agent. I have heard him address that issue and I was satisfied with the response he made. I don't think he is "on the inside." If he were, I don't think he would be in the situation he is right now.
Is Justin headed for deportation? Bieber could be
sent back to Canada if convicted of felony after vicious egg attack on neighbour's house.
I don't know much about Justin Bieber. I didn't even know he was from Canada. Sure I have seen the tabloid shit roll past my field of vision but I haven't paid any attention to it. I did look at this story and it is hilarious. I love the stories I read about some crack head jumping up and down in public, waving his arns around and then gets questioned by the police. Sure enough, after they search him, he's got rocks on him. Fucking retards never learn. Lil Za is a retard. Justin Bieber is a retard. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a picture.
*Note*
Intel confirms it will ax 5,400 workers in 2014. Let the finger pointing and the private witch hunts begin! This is sad and I don't intend to take this headline from today's news lightly. IT is NOT pulling the US economy out of the fire. This is where the growth of substantial, GNP revenue comes from. Technology is our strength. All you have to do is look at this sector and you can judge the health of the US economy. The rest of the stories you read about improved housing and hiring is all bullshit. IT is bleeding and so is the US economic recovery. It hasn't even begun. We are in deep shit, still.
One last bit of information to convey. Dennis Rodman checked into a facility for
treatment for alcoholism. I tend to forget that under that thick cranial skull of humanity lies the soul of a human being who is frail and prone to error as myself. I still think Justin Bieber is a retard.
Ingo Swann with Art Bell
Coast to Coast AM - 2001
I always admired Ingo Swan. He was humble. The last video I saw him do he seemed perturbed with the audience. Maybe he was just being sarcastic. I really don't know. Emotionally, he didn't seem at his best. Human Super Sensitivities and the Future, presentation at the International Remote Viewing Association Conference in 2006.
This interview with Art Bell is a classic.
I saw this picture and I liked it.
I think it sums up what most of us really feel about this program.
Delusional quote of the day: Say it ain’t so, Anderson Silva
"I don't think he should consider it a win. It was an accident. And I am pretty sure I would have won the fight."
"To land the perfect kick, I needed to distract him by punching him in the face so he wouldn’t pay attention to the kick. He was protecting the upper part of his body, and he raised leg instinctively. The kick was so strong he lost balance."
I hate to think like this, but apparently Anderson Silva is heading down the merry path of brain damaged fighters.
I am not in the class of fighters he is. I'm small potatoes. I've trained. I'm not a total stranger to the martial arts. I do know this. You don't strike with your shin. You strike with the ball of your foot, the heel, the side of the foot, or the top of the foot. These leg kicks in the MMA need to be struck with the top of the foot if that is the point for striking an opponent in this fashion. Throwing a kick with any force using your shin as the striking instrument is ludicrous. I've seen the video.
It was poor technique. It was lazy. It wasn't focused. This is also a description of Anderson Silva's fights with Chris Weidman. Silva needs to bow out gracefully. If he continues forward with his head up his ass, he'll end up like Dennis Rodman. People won't see a great althelte. They will see a clown.
Internet activist Aaron Swartz took his own life one year ago today. He was 26 years old and facing federal hacking and fraud charges for downloading millions of academic articles using MIT's network. Before his passing, he was an outspoken advocate for freedom of information and a founder of Demand Progress, the nonprofit that invigorated a successful grassroots effort to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012.
Aaron Swartz
believed in making the world a safer place for whistleblowers to expose injustice and wrongdoing. We are all worse off without the passion and curiosity he surely would have brought to Edward Snowden's continuing disclosures about NSA spying. We are reminded of Aaron as we push forward in our court cases against the NSA, help organizing against the spying with the stopwatching.us coalition, evaluate the Congressional proposals and, of course, as we continue to build and support technologies that let people take their privacy into their own hands. Aaron understood deeply that, more than ever in a world where information is power, both legal and technical protections for privacy are essential to keep people from being rendered powerless.
Richard Stallman is another person who has been fighting against those in power trying to use information as a tool of oppression. He has been saying for many decades that technology is being produced not to free or empower us, it's being released as a tool for the Powers That Be to enslave us. The general consensus is that Dr. Stallman is a nut case. Maybe he is. The great ones usually are, but his message is clear. As far as most people are concerned, as long as Miley Cyrus can swing on a wrecking ball bone ass naked the Internet is fine. Maybe that is what they want us to believe.
RIP in Aaron
President Obama takes a selfie while openly joking with the pretty blond prime minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning Schmidt, in the middle of the Nelson Mandela memorial service.
The question of Obama's meglomania has been questioned prior to the Mandela memorial service.
America's Megalomaniac President Thomas Crews - The Daily Pamphlet - July 15, 2012.
More serious questions were raised as early as 2008:
Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, super-rich contributors, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power. Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate
"His is not a name that will be associated with greatness, but with great decline in the standard of living and the culture of the American people." The Megalomaniac-in-Chief
I can not pass judgment on the job President Obama is doing because I can not pass judgment on someone who's job I can not do.
I do have a personal opinion on what the Obama Administration has accomplished, and it is nothing to be proud of. I welcomed his historic election with an open, but skeptical mind. That skepticism was well founded.
On a lighter note, Dennis Rodman is still doing what he does best. It's not getting rebounds. It's making a fool of himself. I feel bad for the guy. The higher you rise in fame, the farther it is to fall when you hit rock bottom.
Dennis Rodman apologizes for his
rant on CNN about North Korea trip.
South Koreans Show Outrage Over Rodman's Pyongyang Trip.
Dangerously cold air sinking into the region tonight and Sunday will becoming Life-threatening Sunday night through Tuesday morning. Wind chills will drop to 20 to 25 below zero late tonight and Sunday for South Central Wisconsin, then plummet to 40 to 55 below Everywhere by Monday morning and again Tuesday morning. Only slight improvement is expected during the day Monday and Tuesday. This will be the coldest air we have experienced since the Arctic blast in February of 1996, about 18 years ago.
The perfect storm. I must let this pass. I have made a promise and I must hold to it. Having this time is what I needed. I may not always appreciate the things I have accomplished, but the most important accomplishment is not putting my mind in a cage. It isn't anything to boast of. The greatest gift that we have is freedom and this is also the hardest thing to hold on to. Time is not my friend, but I do have some to grasp on to and I must make the best of this opportunity.
I remember the conversation I had with a computer scientist I met at Club Inferno here in Madison, Wisconsin.
He told me, " ... find a niche that no one else is in. Become an expert in that area of expertise. That is where the money is."
It isn't often you have pearls of wisdom tossed your way. Often times, you don't realize their worth even if they are thrown in your direction. To my good fortune, I picked up on this and I have tried to solve this problem of finding a niche in the computer science arena and becoming an expert in that sphere of influence. I think I have found it.
Since I am in between contract positions at the moment, I have loads of free time on my hands. Idle hands are the Devil's workshop and in my case, that could very well be the case. Luckily, I have made it my business to learn the programming language Clojure. Functional programming is hot. Clojure is here to stay. Why Clojure? ClojureScript has also been released. The applications of Clojure/ClojureScript
are immense. I have to learn the language and then master a niche area. I know that is easier said than done, but it can be done. I have even gone the lengths of learning algebra to expand and better wire the left hemisphere of my brain. By the time I leave this rat hole of a state, I will have skills. I also have an idea of how to generate other income streams. I will become master of my own financial destiny. Relying on anyone or anything other than your own self is a recipe for disaster and economic slavery.
Happy New Year!
I have never been accused of being too bright. Habit is a double edged sword. Good ones sustain us. Bad ones hold us back. The habits that have served me in the past are not useful to me in the present. 2014 has to be a moment of turning 180 degrees and getting on track towards accomplishing what I know is necessary to my personal growth.
It is important to start the New Year off on the right foot. I wish to say to all the low brow, hillbilly ass holes I worked with in the great state of Wisconsin, "you are not worthy to lick my balls." I never did anything to any of you. I pity the fact that you are going through life filled with hate, but that is your problem. If life is such a cruel place for you to be existing in, it would be better if you crawled into a hole and expired, alleviating the rest of us from your temper tantrums. While I am on the subject, the rest of the people who called me friend to my face and shit on me behind my back, "I don't know you." You haven't got the sack to face me head on. Misery and cowards enjoy their own company.
I'd like to end this bitter and noxious attack on the great unwashed with a bit of humor.
"Hack the Planet!" 
On a lighter note, Dennis Rodman is still doing what he does best. It's not getting rebounds. It's making a fool of himself. I feel bad for the guy. The higher you rise in fame, the farther it is to fall when you hit rock bottom.
