Category: ranting

Another year, another anniversary. I stick by my thoughts 9 years ago [confusion.cc].

Unfortunately, what constitutes normal in too many aspects of our day-to-day life have changed more over the last 9 years than they seemed to in the first year. The slow erosion of Liberties not just in the US but around the world, under the pretext of security is appalling — and the cost of that ‘security’ in the lives on non-Americans and American Armed Services Personnel is, in many ways, more tragic than the events which caused it.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Benjamin Franklin

The image below is from a screenshot of my iPhone home-screen the other day when I was on a plane. Why does it show a burned in ghost image of an operator logo, time and alarm setting? Especially why did it choose to show a ghost image of an operator that is not my home operator and that I have not been on in over a month?

Weird.

That’s what a 5.9 looks like for a hundred plus miles away. Guess the needle can’t go back and forth far enough.

The quake, which had its epicenter outside Mineral, Virginia, was close to where I grew up. How close? Lets see:

Kinda close. Like 15 miles close.

Well, everyone I know seems to be OK. My dad was at home, and apparently slept through the whole thing. How bad could it have been? I understand it was the strongest quake to hit Virginia in more than 100 years. But there have been at least three other noticeable quakes [confusion.cc] in my lifetime produced from about the same area.

Ever had a feeling that tomorrow was going to be one of those days?

17,524. One thousand, five hundred and twenty four. Hours. In meetings.

Man-hours mind you, not my hours, but; holy shit. Can you imagine if I represent the average employee of my company? My company has about 20,000 employees. 20,000 * 17,524 is 350,480,000 man hours per month. (P.S. These numbers are for this month and many of my meetings are scheduled only a few days in advance…) When the fuck does the work get done?