Blogging to work out my thinking about issues in technology, programming, religion, and politics.
A staggering 40% of the country’s tax revenue is now going to service our national debt. At this rate, with current inflation, it won’t be long until EVERY dollar we print will be used to service the debt, and the entire world’s economy will crater. But, sure, let’s continue to fund other countries’ wars.
I was making a snarky comment on a post about how hackers should break into banks’ IT systems, and delete everyone’s loan information, and this happened.
The account has me blocked now. Surprise, surprise.
This is so well done, I don’t even care that it was an ad.
These things are great. I guess it’s time for a whole new Gen Z Bible translation.
After Jesus started live streaming, and the chat filled up, he began to go off saying:
W to those who aren’t thirsty for this mid life, for they will have eternal life.
W to those who take L’s from this life, for they will receive an everlasting W.
W to those who don’t throw hands, for they will secure the eternal bag.
W to those who want help passing God’s vibe check, for he will say bet.
W to those who don’t cancel others, for they will not be cancelled by the top G.
W to those whose spiritual fit is immaculate, for their hearts will be cuffed by god.
W to those who turn opps into bros, for they will be called CEOs of peace.
W to those who catch hands for being valid, for they will not be left on read by God.
W to you when the opps be cappin hard and do you so very dirty because you’re my fan,
Trust you have crushed it and have the eternal W, for so they did the true bros before you.
The CIA & NSA are running the media, “social” especially. Like the Allies cracking Enigma, and carefully choosing what pieces of intel to act upon, lest they give the game away, the deep state is very careful about what posts to amplify or remove.
I’m just going to say it: I miss getting a slice of Garcia’s pizza after a night of drinking in West Lafayette when I was going to Purdue. If they were still there, I’d drive up to taste it again. There was no pizza like it.
By Duran Duran, 1981
So soon just after you’ve gone
My senses sharpen
But it always takes so damn long
Before I feel how much my eyes have darkenedFear hangs in a plane of gun smoke
Drifting in our room
So easy to disturb, with a thought, with a whisper
With a careless memory, with a careless memoryOn the table, signs of love lies scattered
And the walls break, with a crashing within
It’s not as though, as though you really mattered
But being close, how could I let you go
Without some feeling, some precious sympathy followingFear hangs in a plane of gun smoke
Drifting in our room
So easy to disturb with a thought, with a whisper
With a careless memory, with a careless memory
With a careless memory, with a careless memoryOh, I walk out into the sun, I try to find a new day
But the whole place just screams in my eyes
Where are you now ’cause I don’t want to meet you
I think I’d die, I think I’d laugh at you
I know I’d cry, what am I supposed to do, follow you?Outside the thoughts coming flooding back now
I just try to forget youSo easy to disturb with a thought with a whisper
With a careless memory, with a careless memory
With a careless memory, look out
With a careless memory
With a careless memory
Look out, look out, look out, look out
I’m sitting here watching the braintrust in our IT organization tell everyone about a NEW! “PRO!” product that will do database migrations with Jenkins, and I’m just sitting over here thinking about the native migrations available by default in Ruby on Rails since version 1.0, which I’ve been enjoying for the past 15 years. I’ve deployed Rails apps with Jenkins, but I still like Capistrano better, because it’s “native.” I’ve yet to fool with their new Docker-based deployment tool because cap works so well.
They showed a script to call the Jenkins API to do deployment jobs. Again, I’m just sitting here wondering what in the world they’re talking about. Jenkins literally does all of this for you. They seem to think that Jenkins can’t handle deploying to separate environments, and therefore you need to script it so that you can parameterize the deployment with tags that live in git. I haven’t used Jenkins for 1o years, but — without even looking — I’d bet my eye teeth that Jenkins can do this without needing a script to call its API.
They’re signing off their dog and pony by looking for volunteers to demonstrate new things in this space. I think they’d barf if I demonstrated my workflow with Rails and Capistrano, and by so doing, illuminated how much time, effort, and money is wasted on a default stack using Java, React, and Oracle. It doesn’t use any sort of middleware, and therefore doesn’t have any steps to sit and wait for rubber stamp approvals by useless middle managers who aren’t going to actually review the changes, so I’m sure it would go over like a lead balloon.
So my new chronic pain doctor gave me a DNA test, and based on the results prescribed me several psychiatric drugs, not for the psychological effects, per se, but because that’s what my brain chemistry supposedly needs according to my specific genetic mutations. I admit the pain is a couple points better, generally speaking, but now I just feel dull and depressed, and taking all this stuff makes me think of this song.