I understand planning ahead. But Reddit’s advertising algorithms just tossed this one out a little early, don’t you think? As I type this, it’s 86℉ outside and the local temperatures will hit 94℉ later with heat advisories. Speaking of that, I don’t get the need for “heat advisories” today. 94° is pretty normal because I […]
Category: Out Loud Thoughts
Things I thought about or did this weekend or last weekend or whenever…
I can still fabricate a network cable with standard RJ45 connectors and a hand crimper. I used the think the NFL was the biggest money-printing machine after the federal government. I am more and more convinced each week that the WWE is catching up with them. I really need to start culling through my photo […]
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Superpower
I was in the doctor’s office this morning, waiting and staring out a window, when an idea hit me. If I had the opportunity to request a superpower, I would want it to be the ability to find lost things. First for myself, then for anyone who asked. I guess I would have to have […]
Fun with Text Scammers
A common pig butchering scam often begins when the target gets an “accidental” text message from the scammer – often purporting to be a woman – and the target innocently responds. The scammer then apologizes and begins a bit of back and forth with the mark, hoping to rope them in, with the eventual goal […]
Birthday gift problem for modern parents? Solved.
Modern parents have critical issues facing them, especially regarding their kids. We live in a brave but tough new world. I wish my parents were still alive so I could ask them just how they navigated the treacherous waters of parenthood. I just turned 70, so I suppose it doesn’t matter. I think I turned […]
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Sharing
Here’s a couple of quick hit things I decided to vent about on a Monday. […]
Why?
I read a site this morning that listed 40 or so problems that science is (allegedly) this close to solving. I read the one in the box above, and my immediate reaction was why would anyone want this? […]
Not Enough Toilets
I saw this bit of information in Reddit’s Today I Learned subreddit. I have two toilets in my home. Does this make Kel and me privileged and part of the 1%? I was kind of hoping that my career successes or financial status would be more critical than the number of commodes over which I […]
You can’t drive anymore. Or run for President
Kelly sometimes uses really precise analogies to express her opinions. She came up with a great on the other day. We were discussing the pressure being applied to Joe Biden to drop out of the current Presidential race against Donald Trump. Kelly’s analogy was very familiar. Biden being pushed to drop out is similar to […]
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Did you have chicken pox?
Here is some medical advice, even though you didn’t ask. If you have ever had chicken pox (and a lot of my fellow boomers did as kids, as we didn’t have a vaccine for it), go get a shingles vaccine. Go today. Now. Do not wait. I am in the tail end of a shingles […]