Category: ranting

So, Adobe got hacked. I got a letter in the mail explaining this. Ok, fine. Thanks. And email would have been better. Why a physical letter? All the way from Ireland to Singapore.

It arrived a day after I got an email from Evernote telling me:

There were published reports recently of a security breach at Adobe that may have exposed private information, including Adobe passwords, email addresses and passwords hints of millions of users. The list of compromised Adobe accounts has been uploaded to the web. We compared this list to our user email addresses and found that the email address you used to register for an Evernote account is on the list of exposed Adobe accounts.

Now that’s what I call service.

While watching Ken Burns The Dust Bowl the other day I noticed this:

Which shocked me a bit. So I tried to look it up. Looking up Swastika Coal and Coke gets you an article on Wikipedia that covers the use of the swastika symbol in the west prior to the Nazi’s use of it. That article does not mention the specific company but is interesting. I also found this:

On auction at Artfact.com which seems to be a different model of the same thing. Several other things came up from the same Swastika Fuel company of Raton, NM.

The company who makes this packing material has no soul. They are pure evil, sucking the fun out of life.

You can’t pop the bubbles! I ask you: what’s the point of bubble wrap you can’t pop! Evil. Pure. Fucking. Evil!

So…..

It’s been forever since I last posted something worth reading here. Family and work have consumed most of my time. All my hobbies, including this navel gazing corner of the internet, have suffered. I plan to change that and get back to posting something more than a screenshot or quote.

It’s not that I have not had things I wanted to say, just no time to finish saying them. I’ll spare the world most of my not out-of-date rants on current events (actually I’m not sure why, ’cause all the rants about current events on Confusion are, by definition out-of-date now…, but anyway I’ll spare you.) I have a number of half-finished book reviews and stores that I need to complete and then post but I also recently stumbled onto a small treasure trove of navel gazing gold! I resurrected a hard drive that I took out of my computer back in 2000! Holy fucking dot-com bubble batman! It’s got an interesting selection of emails and papers from my heady days as a code slave and full-time Computer Science student before the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 and that European thingie I did. Unfortunately it’s a small treasure trove and the vast majority of interesting stuff was on a different drive that a penguin ate [confusion.cc]. Nevertheless! There is some gold in them there magnetic platters! I shall endeavour to post some here for fun and ridicule. I assume my public awaits with bated breath.

[H]uman beings do not act solely on impulse. They are prudent, they reflect, they weigh consequences, they ask whether what they are doing is worth while.

Thomas Nagel, in The Absurd from Moral Questions

Well, not all human beings meet that definition…