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Have a BLM Bumper Sticker? Get an American Flag One Too 09/07/2020 Posted by Dave Comments (0) | Promote (0) | PermShare | Focuses (64) I have had this question for a long time. Why do leftists let conservatives "own" nationalism or Americanism? It shouldn't be "owned" either way, but if there has to be one, it should be the liberals who do, for all the reasons outlined in this piece. Question to my leftist/progressive friends: If you have a BLM or other progressive bumper sticker, would you be willing to slap on an American flag one right next to it? That's what needs to happen in order to dilute out the false ownership taken on by the right. politics Register to Comment | See Existing Comments (0)



I Swear, I'm Not Building a Cop Car 09/06/2020 Posted by Dave Comments (0) | Promote (0) | PermShare | Focuses (50) I made a few tweaks to my personal vehicle. In a Facebook video I posted I talked about how I was not gradually turning my car into a fantasy cop car. Well, this weekend I added a few things and tweaked the exterior a little, as you can see. But I promise, I still deny turning my vehicle into any such thing. And since you dared "go beyond the Twitter", I'll confess: This is an actual law enforcement vehicle who I surmised belonged to a plain-clothes officer I spotted while in the Walgreens. He was conspicuously packing his firearm above a loose fitting shirt, which suggested to me he was probably a peripheral officer of some sort (say, a probation officer, fire investigator -- in Tampa, the transportation code enforcement officers even carried guns). So, in a way, you could say the actual officer was likely doing some fantasizing...kind of hamming himself up needlessly (dude, like, for the sake of the kids that might be in the store, put the shirt over the gun, please). goofing photo Register to Comment | See Existing Comments (0)



Get Me To One Hundred On Earl Pin 08/30/2020 Posted by Dave Comments (0) | Promote (0) | PermShare | Focuses (121) I am in the final stages of launching Earl Pin Astrology. It's the first online theater expansion of my Battle Blog 3.0 project. I have several that will launch over 2020 and 2021 utilizing the new mobile-friendly platform, but Earl Pin Astrology has been one of the most important to me now for several months. I am adding a YouTube component to it which is not something I do with all my blogs but in this case I believe it fits naturally and has productive value. Here's the thing though, I want a custom YouTube URL instead of the weird numerically cryptic one they give you by default when you first set up a channel. But apparently, to get it, you need to qualify in a number of different ways. This must be a new requirement or something because I was able to get one for my personal channel which I don't even think has five, let alone one hundred, subscribers. Here those requirements are in a paste: YouTube Requirements for a custom URL. Here Is Where I Need Your Help Some of those requirements will take place over time naturally and others I can mitigate through production. But the one that I need the most help with is the first one requiring 100 subscribers. I need the help because I need that fast. That one is going to take a very, very, long time, left to its own devices. Yet, I need a custom URL the most quickly because the good ones are up for being sniped away. As well, its value at the start of my production is far more potent than later. You'd be doing me a great solid if you could join the Earl Pin Astrology conversation immediately by subscribing to the channel. If you're interested in the craft, even if as a staunch skeptic and critic, I am promising to make it one of the most interesting subscriptions in your YouTube feed. If you're not interested in astrology, then hopefully I can count on you to subscribe simply as a matter of friendly support. Maybe you'll wind up more engaged with the topic than you think! The blog I mentioned at the outset is online but I am not yet sharing that URL while I complete its configuration. If you want to be added to that mailing list use my contact page to shoot me that email. projects Register to Comment | See Existing Comments (0)





Six Minutes to OUCH 08/26/2020 Posted by Dave Comments (0) | Promote (0) | PermShare | Focuses (129) This guy pulled up alongside me at one point in traffic while I was driving home from work. Six minutes later down the road, he's nursing a bad hit on his noggin'! People sometimes see things like this and with a prejudice against reckless motorcyclists think "Aha!, he got what he deserved!". But in this case, this dude was completely lawful for as long as I could see him and, although it was a bit of a minimalist shortie, there was a helmet. Maybe he wishes it covered a little more now, I dunno. It appears that he bumped into, or got side-swiped by, another vehicle. The crash happened while he was well ahead of me so my dashcam didn't catch the actual event. He was writhing in pain with his arms and hands wrapped around his own head while the people on the sidewalk around him provided immediate comfort as best they could. But, I think he was largely okay or at least hope so. I heard the medic call go out on the scanner about a minute later so help was on the way. accident video wtf Register to Comment | See Existing Comments (0)



A Jaunt to the (New) Exchange Street Train Station 08/23/2020 Posted by Dave Comments (0) | Promote (0) | PermShare | Focuses (134) As may have been hinted at by about 15 years of websites and the occasional mention at this blog, I have a fascination with transit rail systems. Subway systems, light rail, high speed rail -- and to a lesser degree, conventional commuter rail. Don't ask me to explain the intense specificity (why not freight rail or Amtrak?), I can't. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Video element. Video Pan of Progress on the Exchange Street Station, with Commentary. Buffalo is building a new train station for its Amtrak NYC cross-feeder called the Exchange Street Station, which is a replacement for the old standing one of several decades, and which goes by the same name. Today was sunny and warm and, shoot, I showered, so I indulged in some ground footage on how the construction is going, including this video pan with some pretty limp commentary. You can check out Buffalo Rising's June 2020 post on the progress for some more insightful exhibition, and its Exchange Street tag for even more. Tasting this project for content has excited me for its future. Buffalo video Register to Comment | See Existing Comments (0)



Ye Olde Computer Support Website 08/21/2020 Posted by Dave Comments (0) | Promote (0) | PermShare | Focuses (211) I never went on to develop web pages or to code at professional grade levels, but for as long as the web has been a thing I have always developed web pages and coded. Here are two videos (you'll need to full-screen these bitches to see them completely) showing off some work I did for the computer support department that I worked for from the mid-90s to about 2006. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Video element. Ye Olde Computer Support Website Nostalgia 1 (Watch full-screen). Your browser does not support the HTML5 Video element. Ye Olde Computer Support Website Nostalgia 2 (Watch full screen). I worked at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida, which at the time had an independent (versus campus-centralized), computer support center. There was a small crew of us supporting maybe 200 users or up to 500 PCs in that specific research building. Back then formal lines between technical roles were not as defined or regulated, or, at least weren't for our small shop, yet. A system administrator might just as easily be called on to install MS Office on a user's PC, as they might to add a printer to a server -- and vice versa. Roles solidified in my 5 or 6 years there, but early on, anything was on the table in your role as a "PC tech". If you could log into it, you were the dude doing it. Under this liberal arrangement I at some point picked up the role as webmaster of the departmental website. It was a natural for me because it did in fact involve coding (HTML and the old "Cold Fusion", AKA, the language of MySpace - fun fact), and it allowed me to craft in departmental service structure directly to the interface that people would be using to call upon it. The website, to the extent I had control, was in effect support policy and procedure. For years this worked out well. I was able to take this trip down memory lane using a weird archive site I had not heard of before called oldweb.today . Looking at this today it's stunning how static my web skills have stayed. You'll notice that my preference for the clean uncluttered mechanical social path between the various pages is the same you'll find, say, here at my very blog. I have always preferred that a website look and behave like a document. video WWW Register to Comment | See Existing Comments (0)



Predicting The Fall Of The Useful Web 07/19/2020 Posted by Dave Comments (0) | Promote (0) | PermShare | Focuses (371) The world wide web might have been a way to share all kinds of information in a useful way that ecompassed the input of multiple presenters for every topic imaginable, sometimes for the same topic many times over. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Video element. Malcolm Gladwell effectively predicts the 2020 web in 2002. It was imagined by the still-living web founder as something that would be an indexed resource of a million perspectives, all able to interlink and evolve in infinite digital interplay. And then, commercialism. Now web page/site development can only be justified by the amount of money it might procure its producers. Web pages that don't or can't take on the architecture of e-commerce equate to content that might be better moved to evolving social media platforms such as Facebook. Places where any universal search mechanism breaks down. Malcolm Gladwell made the prediction above in 2002 that seems to hold up well in the 2020 web. video WWW Register to Comment | See Existing Comments (0)

