Random Thoughts

Absolutely heartbreaking. Dusty in here…

Is it SAFE?

AWA at Gunfree zone covers first aid kits, when to rotate stuff. Aesop has an encyclopedia of this stuff. Start here. I need to refresh my kits both in the car and in the garage. I have a massive kit in my pantry closet that I bought after the 437th time I cut myself and couldn’t find a bandaid.

Since I work from home, I usually schedule doctors appointments after rush hour. Unfortunately, that’s when the old timers head out. I was on the way to one this week (a pre-op check for a hernia operation), and damn near was late. First, they take off from a light with all the speed of a garden tractor. Then go the same slow speed no matter what, three lanes across. Then at the parking garage, they are lost. FFS, you aren’t parking on the first two floors, pass them up. Then, there’s the walk into the building, and up the elevator.

Seems like I spend my day weaving in and around blue hairs. Yeah, yeah, I’ll be there one day. Sure.

All though the building there didn’t seem to be any consistency to who was wearing masks. The only ones that made sense to me were in the Oncology center. I went to have blood drawn, and the woman at the desk had no masks, but for some reason I can’t fathom, was wearing gloves.

And they were filthy.

Interacting with the staff there, I noticed there were two ‘types’ of staff that were happy, cheerful, helpful. One ‘type’ was at best mechanical. At best, distant. At worst acted as if they were doing you a favor. Got me to thinking of my time as a manager. You can teach a skill, even a technical skill to most people. What you cannot teach are friendliness, warmth, empathy. You know – soft skills.

The nurse at my appointment was a young Asian girl, who, turns out, has a degree in biochemistry. Found the market sucked for that and was going to nursing school. To her the inconvenience of a crappy market for her degree was merely a bump in the road. One of the nicest people I’ve met this month.

Good for them (Lego Corp). They realized that earf friendly plastic would ruin their product. But the funny part was this:

But LEGO is a terrible example of disposable plastic. In fact, the pointy little bricks are notoriously durable, as anyone with feet can tell you.

I wasn’t able to locate the video on YouTube, but several years ago I came across a very devoted LEGO fan who wanted to demonstrate exactly how durable the bricks really are. So he built a tiny robot arm that had exactly two jobs. Job One was snapping two brand-new bricks together and then unsnapping them again, over and over, until they no longer clicked. Job Two was activating a little LED counter that kept track of each successful snap/unsnap.

Can you guess, on average, how many times LEGO bricks can be used before they fail?

About 30,000 times.
Stephen Green, PJ Media

How it’s done – trying to cancel ‘the Legend’

July responded to this cancellation call on YouTube, “Here’s what’s going to happen and you’re going to have to get over it. Yes, we have people that the mainstream has deemed, I don’t know, abhorrent. Because maybe they have a view or two, namely it’s likely they support politicians or don’t support the politicians that they think they should.”

He then reiterated, “There are people that have been very creative and because they said something you don’t like you’ve deemed that they shouldn’t be a part of like the f***ing comic book industry? Who are these people? They are losers. And this is why social justice activism is the f***ing tool and occupation of losers. Because it unfortunately has been able to amplify people that are not only unreasonable, but it gives them some sense of importance that they have never got in their entire lives ever.”
Eric July

Amen, brother.

Even a blind pig eventually finds an acorn.

Next thing the Germans (and Brits) will be re-commissioning nuclear power stations and overturning the Duracell car mandates. I await such developments with bated breath, but I’m not holding my breath.

Such profound stupidity, especially when encased in law, takes a long while to be tossed out.
Kim DuToit

Profound Stupidity says it all, especially of our Dear (geezer) leaders.

Bwaaahaaahaaaa!

North Korea announced that it would “expel” U.S. Army private Travis King, who ran across the South Korean border into North Korea during a tour of the joint security area in July. According to the Associated Press, “King was transferred to American custody in China,” a U.S. official said.

I heard ‘expel’ and ‘eject’. Made me laugh. No “returned”, “Repatriated”. Best line was in the comments of that piece:

In short, they talked with him, figured out quickly he was useless, exploited him for the limited propaganda value he represented, and handed him back to us.
Some commentor

Honestly, I don’t think we wanted him back all that bad. The Norks taking him sort of solved a problem. He’s no hero. The South Koreans had him in jail for good reasons. You can’t pull the same shit you’d do in the ‘hood there. He was on his way back to a court martial. Why he was loose is anyone’s guess. Dude needs to bust rocks in Leavenworth and get his head right.

Big Country’s piece on it was hilarious.

I need to do this: