2015 archive
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
(Oliver) Twisted history repeats itself.
Facebook Frolics 0
The UK forms the Fighting Frolickers.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Learn how to use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, February 5.
Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)
Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (Janaf Shopping Center). (Map)
The Pile Next Time 0
Hilary Sargent and Roberto Scalese of Boston.com attempt a taxonomy of snow shovelers on the sidewalks in Beantown. Here’s a bit from one that seems too true to be funny (emphasis in the original):
Follow the link to find out where you and your neighbors fit in.
“We Know Where You Are” 0
The Bangor Daily News reprints a Bloomberg article on the explosive growth in the use of automobile license plate scanners, leaving you no place for privacy. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest:
But the use of license plate scanners and other car surveillance techniques may already be so embedded as to prevent any rollback. And with private companies leading the way in normalizing surveillance in the name of financial savings — as Progressive Insurance has done with its Snapshot program, which offers discounts in return for collecting data about driver activity and behavior — the public may already be so inured to it as to quell any public outrage to the recent revelations.
“An Armed Society Is A Polite Society” 0
Be polite when you are with a patrolman:
According to the police report, upon approaching the vehicle, Officer Diaz learned the driver, Brandon Lee McCraw, 20, of 6402 E. NC Hwy. 108 in Mill Spring, had removed a firearm from a holster at his side to place on the seat and intended to advise the officer of his possession of a firearm.
In the process of removing the weapon from its holster, McCraw shot himself in the hip with one round, with an exit wound in the thigh.
Motives for Malice 0
Paul Elbert offers ten reasons to “hate-watch” the Big Game. Here’s one; follow the link for the rest.
Remember in 2011, when an emotional Robert Kraft and Jeff Saturday shared a hug that symbolized the ending of the lockout? That hug came after Myra Kraft, Robert’s wife, passed away at the age 68. Not long after that, however, Kraft began dating dancer and actress Ricki Noel Lander, who’s young enough to be his granddaughter. That’s just creepy. Opposing Kraft is Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and owner of too many nice things already. Anyone partly responsible for Windows 8 is unworthy of being called a two-time world champion.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The Booman agrees with Rand Paul (!) about the hypocrisy of Jeb “Oh God Please Not Another” Bush.
There Is Hope 0
Pitchers and catcher report in three weeks.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It is comforting to know that our young are being taught politeness at an early age.
Albuquerque police say the toddler apparently reached for an iPod but found the loaded weapon.
More guns in the purse no doubt would have prevented this.
Obedience Is Mandatory 0
Anything else will come back to bite you.
This story has been going on for days in my part of the world and I have been trying to figure out how to blog about it, without success; I could not find a handle, because the smell of bigotry overcame me.
If you cannot be safe from the persons who are sworn to keep you safe, you cannot be safe.
The police chief says, “unreasonable.” I say, “racist.”
Selma and the deaths of Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner were not that long ago. They were within my lifetime, and hate has more lives than a cat.