My conservative friend wants to turn back the clock and make the world as it was…

http://tcentric-media.deviantart.com/

I don’t think so…

Has anyone managed to get Plymouth, the graphical boot logo program, to work under any Linux kernel newer than 3.13.x, and if so could you share your secret? I’ve got my workstation here presently running on 3.18.9, but can not get Plymouth to work. It actually broke when I upgraded the distribution from 14.04 to 14.10, and part of that upgrade involved a kernel upgrade from 3.13.x to 3.16.x.

A former CEO of Google, Eric Smith, couldn’t make it clearer:

“We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”

And that is why I like duckduckgo!

     I’m getting a lot of those old people advertisements in the mail these days.  The ones I really hate are the, “You’re almost dead, give us your money now”, advertisements, like the Neptune Society.  I always questioned the name of their organization, Neptune was God of the Seas was he not?  What does the Neptune Society do?  They burn people.  They should be called The Satan Society if you ask me.  I tell me wife, I don’t want to be burned when I die, if you can’t afford a burial then donate my body to medical science.  It’s not that I’ll be using my body any more once I’m gone, it’s just the symbolism of the thing.

     Advertisements for incontinence supplies, maybe that will be a problem some day, but not yet.

     AARP, Abusing Aged Repeatedly for Profit.  Luckily my recycle bin is between my mailbox and the front door.

      I know it’s only going to get worse.  Sometimes I wonder how much the stress of all this crap contributes to premature ageing and death.

Fight Club is one of my favourite films, and this is one of my favourite quotes from that film:

Tyler’s First Rule of Innovation:

 No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”

     Had a disturbing dream last night where we cooked our Doberman and were slicing her up like a giant ham.  I had suspected she was a bit psychic because when we use dog treats to train her, left paw or right paw (trying to get her to learn a left-right abstraction as I was able to do with a previous dog), she often gets impatient and anticipates the paw I’m going to ask for.  I thought perhaps it was body gestures she was picking up on and tried hard to avoid this by first taking a position and then without moving deciding what paw I’d ask for, but still she’d usually get it right. Then I stopped verbalizing altogether and I could get her through the whole routing just by thinking what I wanted her to do.  So last night after I had this dream, I awoke, it’s 4:30AM, in my mind, I asked her to come to us and she got up and walked into our room.

     Then another where it was just the day I was being release from prison.  I am approaching the time I will be released from community custody but it’s been nearly three years and I still have dreams of the time near my release date in prison.

     Shoreline’s solution to the fact that the road is now too narrow after they’ve added a big curb for no good reason since neither a side walk or bike lane continues past 5th.

     Paint a double yellow stripe down the middle and it’s all good.  Never mind the fact that a car can’t really fit there.  Notice to the right by the stop sign, there is NOTHING past that curb, it serves absolutely no purpose other than as an additional waste of tax payer dollars.

     Here is the other end of it.  You’ll notice the road doesn’t go past this intersection, which is why there is no significant traffic, which is why a $680,000 divided bike lane was totally unnecessary.

     For contrast, here is a picture of the road at this intersection that goes in either direction perpendicular to this road, 1st Ave.

     1st Avenue, which actually DOES go somewhere and actually has some real traffic, has neither a divided bike trail or even side walks!  Incredible.

24 more days to go until I’m no longer under community custody.  24 days until freedom with a little “f“.

When I exited prison, we had ongoing therapy outside prison for a year.  Our therapist had multiple groups one person who finished and for whom community custody ended, went out and drank himself into a coma and died.

On the 10th of April, funds permitting, I intend to go out to The Rock, a wood fired pizza place that makes, or at least did six years ago, the most excellent pizza and not bad drinks.  This will be at the Lynnwood location.  A note, not all of these restaurants are created equal, not being allowed to go to Lynnwood, I tried the one on Queen Anne, it was a massive disappointment.

Best Pizza Anywhere!

The Rock
4010 196th Street SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036

I’m planning on being there around 8 PM.  I don’t plan on drinking myself into a coma, so for those of you hoping this would be my demise you’ll have to wait for another opportunity.

This will be my freedom celebration, and for those who would like to join you’re welcome, but my funding situation presently doesn’t make it possible for me to buy for everyone, so if you come you’ll need to do so on your own tab, sorry.