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Goings on

2015-02-08T10:34:10Z

* Have passed the, "Can assemble Ikea stuff," test

* Poking at a new character, a superhero using the name Chaparral Racer (as in Chaparral Bird, another name for a Roadrunner).
** I'm also getting the feeling this character goes either in the newest of my three supers settings (how did I end up with three?) or in ysabetwordsmith's Terramagne.
** Chaparral's also already undergone a change of power while figuring him out.

* Breaking down boxes like some sort of anti-box vigilante, bwahahaha :p There's something cathartic about slicing through the tape and unfolding the box back to a compact flat shape.

* Pondering getting rid of more stuff.
** Have to check if the T.H.E.M. library is still a thing and see if some of the books can go there.
** More to go off to the local used book megastore and library donation bin as well.
** I've actually now got an official To Read shelf! (which consists of three shelves, all double rowed)

* Weight. Yeah. Not giving up on getting weight down, even if that seems to have stalled.

* I seem to have replaced Flight Rising with Marvel Puzzle Quest. A match-three-or-more tiles game with story lines and a character collecting/leveling element.
** Always have to giggle when taking down Iron Man with Squirrel Girl.

* 3:30 AM. Nope, not believing that, can't actually be 3:30 AM. I think I'll get some sleep anyway.

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Flagpoles... Some at half mast

2013-07-02T03:27:08Z

On the way to work and on the way home I had the chance to observe flagpoles, noticing some at half mast and others not. For those who don't know, yesterday 19 fire fighters were killed fighting a fire near Yarnell, Arizona yesterday. These were 19 of 20 members of a single hotshot crew (essentially the elite of wildfire fire fighting crews). They were based out of Prescott, meaning one small town has now suffered 19 deaths and taken a big hit to their own fire fighting capabilities. So as I looked at the flagpoles I found myself asking why so few of them were at half mast.

Fire fighters are everyday heroes. Day or night, war or peace, every season and any weather they stand ready to throw themselves into harms way to not merely protect our lives but to simply protect our property. Often doing so knowing that we did something foolish to create the problem to begin with. I remember hearing about five or so years ago during a spike in gas prices about a home that burned down because someone decided to hoard gasoline. They filled twenty or so gas cans and then stuck them all into an indoor closet -- where fumes collected until one tiny spark started a blaze that burned the place down. Seeing such foolishness fire fighters don't abandon us, they put out the fire, shake their heads, and head back to the station and prepare for the next fire. And unless they're showing up to fight a fire at our own home our thanks for them is usually grumbling on our part when we have to pull over to let their truck pass by. Or worse trying to take advantage of their presence to speed through traffic putting them at risk of accidents.

So for lack of a better conclusion I'll simply ask, why the hell aren't more of the flags at half mast here in Arizona and suggest that you thank the next fire fighter you see. They may not be around to thank tomorrow.

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Don't care about privacy? Prove it.

2011-08-03T17:16:24Z

So, we have yet another executive saying we should stop with all this privacy talk. In this case, Randi Zuckerberg who is Marketing Director for facebook. In fact based on what she's said, "I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away. People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. … I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors." (source: blog post on the EFF's website Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online) she thinks that people won't misbehave if their real names will be attached to their actions...

( rest of rant below cut tl;dr version: I might listen to you if you voluntarily give up all privacy yourself first )

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