I believe in giving credit where credit is due and today I got such beyond and above service from Kenmore Camera that I felt it was worth sharing.

     Recently, I bought a Tech Digital Charger to charge Canon camera batteries.  I bought it because it was about one third the price of the Canon name brand chargers and it had an additional plus of being able to be powered off of AC or a car cigarette lighter.

     It would decide a battery was fully charged when it barely had any charge on it so I’d go out thinking I had a fully charged battery, take a dozen pictures and I’d be empty. I bought a new battery thinking it was a battery problem but the new battery did the same thing.

     So, long after having lost the receipt, packaging, I took it into Kenmore Cameras along with a battery and camera to demonstrate the problem.  I wasn’t expecting a refund or a replacement, I was just going to fork out for a name brand charger.  The guy there immediately knew something was wrong because the LED on the charger is not supposed to light when it’s not plugged in.

     He got another out of a package, it behaved properly, gave it to me and took my defective unit and put it in the package and sent it back, all with no receipt.  I was expecting to spend $60 to get a charger that worked and instead got the issue resolved free.

     It seems that when you look at something, a liquid, a gas, a solid substance, on a small enough scale, it’s just molecules, assemblages of atoms held together by charge or perhaps shared electrons.

     And when we look at those we see they really aren’t particles at all, more like little self-contained standing waves, little eddies in the ocean of nothingness and every-thingness.

    Here I sit, pouring one assemblage of these little standing waves that on a macroscopic scale takes on the appearance of Diet Coke, down another assemblage of these standing waves that takes on the appearance of a sentient, at least partially, and it is that partiality that is the reason for pouring down this assemblage of little Diet Coke stuff standing waves, into what takes on the rough appearance of a human being, that is me.

     Full well knowing that dissolved molecules of carbon dioxide, made up of electrons and protons and neutrons that are just more little ripples in the fabric of space-time, are going to come out of solution in my gut where they will build up pressure and cause me pain tonight when I attempt to sleep.

     The top 12 posts on my Facebook time line now are re-shared political advertisements.  Not a single original thought amount the top twelve.  What a sad mindless world we live in.

     I ate two burritos and drank too much Diet Coke today and the predictable but painful result of that is bad gas which keeps waking me up about once an hour.

     And waking up from some odd dreams.  The first dream involved something that was a school of sorts but built more like a big shopping mall, but you had libraries that had ancient books, want to know about Copernicus, you could read one of his books, translated of course.  The books were huge old books.  At one end of this mall school was a huge theater where historical events would be reenacted.

     And the second dream, people were amphibious and would have bedrooms where all the furniture was submersible and they’d fill the entire room up and sleep underwater and be able to breath that way.  There were stores with furniture storerooms like this and Spielberg style fish-tank lighting for the rooms was popular.

     Little cracks in the hologram that I experience as the universe, allowing darkness to slip through, which must be destroyed promptly, lest it spread and destroy my reality.

     This song really pacifies my troubled soul.  I don’t know how else to describe it except to express that I can go from a wound-up overloaded state to instant peace upon hearing this.  This is a particularly good performance although the recording has a lot of thumps it’s still a good listen.

     The Flaming Lips have always been good at bizarre, always liked She Don’t Use Jelly, but this song it’s the video not the lyrics that is ultra bizarre.

Just a few weeks ago Mozilla Firefux blocked the execution of all versions of Flash because of Flash vulnerabilities, today in the Qualsys Exploits Newsletter there are not one but two Firefox vulnerabilities, BOTH of which involve privilege elevation on Windows systems.

Yes I deliberately misspelled Firefox as my way of chastising them for their holier than thou attitude when their own security sucks.  I still prefer Firefox because they adhere to standards better than anyone else, but that last round of Flash blockage almost convinced me it was time to change browsers, but to what?  I’m not giving Google access to everything I do via Chrome and Opera has serious compatibility issues.

There are also four MORE Flash vulnerabilities, a couple of Adobe XML vulnerabilities, and a couple of Windows vulnerabilities.

Linux, is notably missing from the list of new exploits.

     Dreamt last night that my wife and I were in shallow water on a fairly crowded beach on a warm day.  We were at a depth where the water was up to our waist.

     In the water coming towards me was a very tiny snake, like a baby garter snake.  I don’t really like snakes so I grabbed it and tossed it away but it swam back towards my wife and she grabbed it and tossed it at me, this time it had gotten bigger, like an adult garter snake.  I then grabbed it and tossed it out deeper in the water but it swam back, this time it was very big like three inches in diameter and twenty feet or so long.

     It came at me mouth open and seemed quite threatening so I reached into the water and pulled up a fairly good sized rock and smashed the snakes head.  It took several strikes before it finally became immobilized and didn’t continue to pursue me.

     I think the snake has the same symbology as it did in Genesis, that of Satan, and I think this is just my awareness that Satan would like to take me from God, take me back into a life that didn’t work out so well for myself or those close to me.