2021 archive
QOTD 0
Noam Shipancer, on the topic of “positive thinking”:
If you are falling, there’s no use in telling yourself that you’ve learned how to fly.
Shipancer, Noam, “Laws of Emotional Mastery” (Psychology Today, June 2021), p. 54.
The Privatization Scam, the Bill Comes Due Dept. 0
Governor McDonnell outsourced management of public roads to a private company.
The con is now taking its toll.
Zuckerdorsey’s Monster 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Phil Reed offers some thoughts. A snippet:
(Syntax error fixed.)
Maskless Marauders 0
We are a society of stupid.
Facebook Frolics 0
Methinks Parmy Olson is unduly optimistic.
Plus, she provides yet more evidence that “social” media isn’t.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Sam, Emma, their guest, attorney and writer Sam Melo, discuss the history of immigration and immigration legislation in the United States.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Aside:
The first rule of flight club is don’t tell anyone about flight club.
False Warranty Claims 0
David Lazarus explores the “your car’s extended warranty is expiring” robocall scam.
Even if you already know the calls are a scam, his explanation of the nuts-and-bolts of the con is enlightening.
Aside:
We sometimes get two or three of these a day on our cell phones and land line (yes, we still have a land line).
Per his article, the number of such calls in the United States this year is projected to be in the neighborhood of 13 billion. That’s about 40 calls for every man, woman, and child and about 120 for each registered vehicle.
Geeking Out 0
Updating a VirtualBox virtual machine of Linux Mint MATE using the command line (the command line is always faster, if you know the commands) on Mageia v. 8 under the Fluxbox window manager. The Mint wallpaper is from Mint. The Mageia wallpaper is from my collection.
