No Curly Today

I probably mentioned this elsewhere, but I got a job. I hired me. Actually, I have a partner, but he's so busy at the moment with his other projects, he may have to bow out (so I may soon be looking for a talented JavaScripter and all-'round web person who wants to step in to take his place; if you're interested, you know where to find me). Over the last few weeks, I've been applying for jobs and waiting for him to get caught up, but things on the project are starting to gel, so I may not be posting as frequently here in coming weeks.

Some of you will be getting e-mails from me soon, as I want to give y'all some freebies that will be a win-win for everyone. I have to keep the details close to the vest at the moment, but I expect to be able to announce something in the next 30 days, so stay tuned.
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It's Morning, So

... why the flash? Oh -- I didn't set the thing from "auto" to "off." Well, there's probably a reason for that -- Canon wanted to make the Powershot A410 small and light, I guess, so they underpowered it by using two AA batteries (I use the handy rechargeable NiMH sets that you can get 8+charger for about $20 at Sam's Club). Eli warned me about that, didn't he?

Oh well... long story short, I've set the display to shut off after one second, to conserve the battery, so I often don't have time to set the camera up the way it should be, for a given shot. Hell, it's a point-n-shoot... sue me. :)
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The Enemy Of Choice

... is indecision.

It's been in the 60-65F range most of the day, so Curly's had free access to and from the balcony for a time. The result? He stays near the open door, on one side or the other.

Ain't that goofy?
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NSA Domestic Spying Article

... in Newsweek: Palace Revolt. An excerpt:

There was one catch: the secret program had to be reapproved by the attorney general every 45 days. It was Goldsmith's job to advise the A.G. on the legality of the program. In March 2004, John Ashcroft was in the hospital with a serious pancreatic condition. At Justice, Comey, Ashcroft's No. 2, was acting as attorney general. The grandson of an Irish cop and a former U.S. attorney from Manhattan, Comey, 45, is a straight arrow. (It was Comey who appointed his friend—the equally straitlaced and dogged Patrick Fitzgerald—to be the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame leak-investigation case.) Goldsmith raised with Comey serious questions about the secret eavesdropping program, according to two sources familiar with the episode. He was joined by a former OLC lawyer, Patrick Philbin, who had become national-security aide to the deputy attorney general. Comey backed them up. The White House was told: no reauthorization.

You can read the whole thing here.
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TRVC™: Bag Cat

Hilarity ensues. Well, I thought it was funny (obviously).
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Prime Real Estate

So, I wake up this morning, and turn on the tube, and whose visage greets me? Tweety's! That's right, folks -- Chris Matthews has scored the very desirable 5:30-6:00 a.m. Sunday morning timeslot in Nashville's airspace. Oh, and who's this sharing this rarefied air? The Wall Street Journal Report? Is this the same program that airs (aired?) on PBS, with the charming Paul Gigot?

Speaking of Tweety, for those who've not seen this site, it's worth your time to look into it.

(screen cap via TitanTV)
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Sunny Corner

What a great way to start out the morning... lounging in the bright January sun.
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Even More Curly

I'm sure I heard a bird. I'm sure of it. Hey, you talkin' to me?
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John Farmer: Coward

John Farmer purports to want to keep you, the voters in the TN-8 Congressional District, safe from al-Qaeda... yet he can't endure the mildest scrutiny over his own remarks defending George W. Bush's rape of the 4th Amendment.

At least that's how it looks to John and Jane TN-8th -- dude's shut down his comments section, coincidentally after I started asking him why his blog went down. Once it was restored, it didn't have the conversation he solicited regarding the 4th Amendment. Hmmm...! I'm sure there's an innocent explanation that had nothing to do with my response, and his comments will be fully restored in no time, at all.
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More John Farmer Ping-Pong

Jeffraham Prestonian jprestonianATgmailDOTcom Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 6:42 PM
To: John Farmer meATfarmerforcongressDOTcom

John,

Sorry to bother you again... but your blog seems to be up, now, yet
strangely absent is that 4th Amendment debate you posed.

Are WordPress.com still working on getting you fully restored?

If you need any help, I have a full copy of that entry, at
http://home.comcast.net/~jeffraham/Farmer.htm.

Thanks again,

-Jeff

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John Farmer Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 6:54 PM
To: Jeffraham Prestonian

Jeff, WordPress has nothing to do with this problem. That is just the php
software we are using. This is a problem with the server my site is on.

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Jeffraham Prestonian Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 6:58 PM
To: John Farmer

John,

That's great -- can I quote you on that?

Is that how post #160 went from "4th Amendment" to "Technical
difficulties…please stand by"...?

Your blog posts aren't stored @ WordPress.com?

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John Farmer Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 8:05 PM
To: Jeffraham Prestonian
Yep, they restored what was backed up, but obviously missing the last few
days. And once again, my site has nothing to do with WordPress.com.

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A Response From Candidate John Farmer

E-mail exchange from this evening:

Jeffraham Prestonian jprestonianATgmailDOTcom Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 5:21 PM
To: meATfarmerforcongressDOTcom

John,

Your blog is down. Did you know?

-Jeff

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John Farmer Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 5:54 PM
To: Jeffraham Prestonian

Yes, thanks for the contact. Seems my host is having some issues.

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Jeffraham Prestonian Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 5:56 PM
To: John Farmer

John,

Other WordPressDOTcom sites are operating. When do you expect to be back
up and running?

Thanks,

-Jeff

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John Farmer Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 6:02 PM
To: Jeffraham Prestonian

Don't know...my hosting service said within 48 hours (that was yesterday),
I'm on hold with them now :)

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Jeffraham Prestonian Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 6:05 PM
To: John Farmer

Cool. Btw, it's only fair to tell you, I'm the guy giving you grief
over your 4th Amendment stance... I just wanted to make sure you were
still up for open debate in front of your constituents (my girlfriend
and her family being part of that constituency). :)

Best of luck,

-Jeff

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John Farmer Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 6:07 PM
To: Jeffraham Prestonian

No grief, it is not a 4th Amendment issue :)

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Jeffraham Prestonian Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 6:11 PM
To: John Farmer

Heh! Well, I'll leave that to you to present to the voting public, then.

Again, best of luck!

-Jeff

I hope John gets his blog up and running again soon. For the curious, here's the post that got this kicked off.
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Fun With The Cutout Filter

The ever delightful Charlotte Smith and I were having an exchange (here) about this photo of Curly, which got me to playin' around in Photoshop. Well, she liked one that I e-mailed to her so much, she made it her desktop. "Dammit, Jim!" thought I, "I should have saved the honkin' huge original file out of the camera!" Well, as it turns out (and I should have known... duh!), when you're using the cutout filter, image fidelity just doesn't make all that big a difference. I made the image above (click it if you want a 1024x768 version, suitable for your desktop) by scaling the 320x240 version of the photo to 1024x768, and then applying the filter.

Have a pet photo you'd like given this treatment? E-mail me w/the photo attached (and if you insist, if you feel guilty receiving gifts from bloggers, I'll put up a donation bucket to allow you to self-selectively soothe your torment). ;)
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What Would Friday Be

... without catblogging, I ask you. Curly stands guard, ever vigilant against the scourge of the pine needles. If you look closely, you'll note that the pine in the background is literally trembling in fear.
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Rush Says

... to sign the petition in support of H.R. 550, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act. Megadittos, Rush!
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John Farmer's Blog Is Down

Whether for national security reasons (heh) or technical difficulties, I couldn't speculate. But, for anyone following the 4th Amendment discussion seen here and elsewhere, I have a copy of his remarks handy.
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Morning Curly

Always good to start the day with a good stretch and a yawn or two. Okay, let's make the coffee.
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4th Amendment?

UPDATE: John Farmer's blog seems to be having some difficulties, right now; fortunately, I saved a copy of his remarks, here.

Who will defend it from the excesses of the Executive? Not John Farmer, who's a Tennessee Congressional District 8 candidate. My response to his post (which actually started here) goes something like this:

Your arguments seem to condense down to one main point: Trusting the POTUS. A lot of Americans have trusted this POTUS about matter, such as:

* WMDs in Iraq;
* Getting to the bottom of (and terminating those responsible for) the leak of a CIA anti-proliferation operative’s identity to the press;
* Finding and capturing or killing Osama bin Laden;
* Administering a Department of Homeland Security that can respond swiftly and effectively to crises, natural or man-made;
* Administering a Medicare prescription drug benefit that actually provides benefits to our seniors;
* Etc., etc., etc.

Given the track record of this administration to-date, it strains credulity to play the fear card in defense of the indefensible.

Either we are a nation of laws, or we are not. If we are, the POTUS is as beholden to obeying them as anyone else. Period.

FISA allows for law enforcement to start a wiretap, and get the warrant retroactively within 72 hours (and depending on whether or not we’re considerd officially “during wartime,” FISA allows this period to stretch out to 15 days).

Sen. Mike DeWine (R - OH) proposed legislation that would have lowered the standards for obtaining a FISA warrant from “probable cause” to “reasonable suspicion” (what General Hayden suggested WAS the FISA standard, a few days ago) but the Bush administrations DoJ said that wasn’t necessary — that in effect, FISA was working well, as is.

And that was no partisan hack bureaucrat writing that DoJ opinion — that was James A. Baker.

It is also disingenuous to suggest that those who wish to do us harm are unaware that our government has both the technological means, and the wherewithal to employ said means, to surveil their activities. No one — NO ONE — has ever suggested that we make FISA warrants available for scrutiny on the Internet (they never have been before, after all), nor has anyone suggested that we shouldn’t surveil terrorists. What has been suggested is that there is a legal way to do this, and that this POTUS has gone outside those legal limits.

So, really, why would the POTUS circumvent the checks-and-balances that have served us so well for 230 years? The answer seems clear: This domestic spying program goes beyond tracking enemies, and without oversight, no one is the wiser. Recall this quote:

“I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don’t agree with each other, but that’s OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator,” Bush joked.
— CNN.com, December 18, 2000

I’m sorry, but I’m just not laughing at that, any more.

Now, there's nothing here that you don't already know if you've read Glenn Greenwald's excellent piece (and if you haven't, please do)... but the message needs to be clear, out there, in light of the obfuscating and shifting standards and justification being put forth by the Bush administration.
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Hoodbloggin' III

In this episode, we document the existence of the extremely rare terragator (not to be confused with the more common land shark).
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Stalker

Keeping the balcony pine needle-free since April, 2005. Oh, and, he prevents terrorist attacks without violating the Fourth Amendment, too.
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Top O' The Morning

You know it's almost time to start the diswasher when you get down to this coffee mug. Just look at how poorly designed it is -- base smaller than the body -- certainly not the kind of thing you want for that first cuppa.

A shower is coming up in my future. Then, more hoodbloggin'.

And Curly, of course!
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SotU Live!

You might have to get falling-down drunk to sit through it (and if so, please call a cab, or have your designated driver handy), but for Gnashvillians, there's gonna be a potluck/gathering at the 5 Spot on Tuesday evening.

I hope to see y'all there!
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Hoodbloggin', Pt. II

... and that goes double for you filthy English-speakers!

(not sure what this implies for Spanish-speaking solicitors, though)
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Pine Needle Predation!

Pine trees: You're on notice.
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Sensible Liberal

Does this remind you of anyone YOU know? Discuss.
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Totally Random Video Catblogging™

In this installment, Curly is enticed by Jeffraham to visit the balcony through a series of amateur birdcalls. Filetype: WMV; Size: ~1.4MB; natsound
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Hoodbloggin'

The Cumberland River. I was in the bathroom when I heard the noise -- a tugboat was passing. A minute later, I grabbed the camera, and headed out the door. But by the time I got down there, I would've had to use the crappy digital zoom to get a shot of the boat. So, here's ya some muddy water! :)

This is one of the beautiful condo units where I live. It's like the Taj Mahal, only brickier.
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Good Morning, Visitor!

Ah! Not even 7:00a, and I've already been productive. Made coffee, had a bagel, applied for a job.

Still no leads on TruVote (see below), but it's early, yet.

Web venture is slightly stalled, as the coding guy is busy with pulling someone else's chestnuts out of a fire.

It's foggy here.

Be on the lookout for TRVC™, later.
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TruVote: It's Important

I'm desperately seeking to contact anyone involved with the TruVote project. I am but one guy with a DVcam, but I'd love to do a short documentary on TruVote. I'm hoping now that NashvilleIsTalking.com has me blogrolled, this might be seen by someone -- anyone -- who can point me in the right direction.

If you're unfamiliar with TruVote, check out this article by Bob Fitrakis (excerpt below).

Gibbs’ TruVote machine is a marvel. After voters touch the screen, a paper ballot prints out under plexiglass and once the voter compares it to his actual vote and approves it, the ballot drops into a lockbox and is issued a numbered receipt. The voter’s receipt allows the track his particular vote to make sure that it was transferred from the polling place to the election tabulation center.

This is the most current information I have found on the project, and it's woefully out of date. The project's website seems to be gone, so...

Help me, if you can. Please.
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This Blog: Jumped The Shark

Yes, the free ride is over. The cabloids don't call anymore... haven't gotten a free motor vehicle or vacation in weeks.

*sigh*
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And The Winner

... of the Translucent Epidermis Award for Ombudsmanship goes to...

Deborah Howell of The Washington Post!

Debs! Congratulations! Come on up and say a few words.

No?

Well, then, let's allow the fans a few moments at the podium...

Atrios
driftglass
Jane Hamsher

Skin so thin, you can even read the WaPo's classifieds through it.
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Yeah.

I'm sittin' on the impossibly-thin back of the crazy green checkerboard chair, waitin' for you to turn your back. You got a problem with that?
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Bald Is Beautiful

... or, uh... maybe not. I love my bald, gay cat, though.
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This Is How I Feel

... trying to keep up with threads over at Eschaton, the last couple of days.

Really... all I wanted was a sip!
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When Notebook PCs Hand You Lemons

... make lemonade.

Yep, the notebook display is kaput, again. So, Plan B: Hook up the 15" flatpanel, the keyboard and mouse. Hey, at least it's still working (knock on PCB!).

I also feel fortunate, since the WiFi signal is every bit as strong here in the living room as in the bedroom (which makes me think this may be a new network setup; before, the signal was much weaker in the living room, so it must be my downstairs neighbor, now, not the one just to the north).
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It's Saturday

... do you know where your Curly is? I do -- he's on the rail of the balcony, just a few feet from where I type this.
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The Latest bin Laden Tape?

When reached for comment, Romulan Senator Vreenak had this to say...










UPDATE: I mean, let's look at all the arguments for authenticity, shall we?

• Copies of the tape were made available to academics, to auntheticate both the voiceprint, and the accurate translation of the content... weren't they...?
  
• Every right-wing shill says that American dissent against the Iraq occupation plays right into the hands of OBL
• The Bush Administration says the tape's authentic, and when have they ever lied about anything?

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TRVC™: Stupid Pet Tricks

I was DV-ing Curly, out on the balcony yesterday... when he started doing this thing with his face I'd never seen him do, before. Fortunately, the tape was rolling, so...
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Self Portrait

A beard does not a jawline make, I am reminded... ;)
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This One's For Watertiger

... 'cause she cracks me up! xoxoxo
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Thursday's Cat

... looks pissed as hell! But, he's not -- he just got up, and is stretching. He's already gotten a good whole-beast massage, and is now trouncing up and down the hall, chasing imaginary flagella (or my imaginary dog, Foofer... who also answers to "Foof," btw).
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Nashville Snow

Up close, an' personal-like. This is the rail of my balcony. Oddly enough, Curly wanted no part of the rail this morning (but he did go out on the balcony -- as he does most mornings, he loves to fantasize about catching a wayward bird, out there). Can you believe almost every school system in the area is closed, today?

Enjoy it while you can, Gnashvegas -- on our way to 50F today... 60F tomorrow!
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No Milk, Bread or Eggs

This is a shot from a TDOT traffic camera, located about a mile from the condo. See -- it does snow in Gnashvegas (heh).
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Bald Belly!

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That's Interesting

Looking through my logs at StatCounter, I found this:

TRVC™: End Of Nap

I'm experimenting with putfile.com -- let me know how this works for ya (running out of space at my normal spot -- a donated Comcast webhost account). I would try Google's video hosting, but it doesn't work for me whenever I try to view anything that's been placed there, so...

I set up the GL-1 on the tripod, 'cause Curly was "talking" in his sleep, and I was hoping to catch some of that on DV for ya. Of course, even operating quietly, this woke him up, and he decided to get up altogether within 15 minutes of my setting up the rig, anyway.
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So Nice

... to be blogging, indoors, not in a laundrette, enjoying a cup of coffee.

To my unwitting benefactor: Thank you! I will, of course, be happy to secure your network for free, and would happily split the cost of your Comcast broadband service (although, I think it would be reasonable to give me a couple of months of slack, there, since I'm securing your network -- Dell charges $149 for that, btw!).
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Monday Good News Post

Yes -- there is WiFi signal in the Curly Condo again!

Now, what do you think: Should I poke around a bit, maybe leave my neighbors notes, offering to secure their network in exchange for a couple of months of access (and then a splitting of the bill, thereafter)?
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Ferengi Nation

I've jumped to a conclusion: A person who tries to operate with integrity, placing honesty, good faith and fairness above profit is doomed in the modern American workplace.

This has weighed on me a bit, in my meditations looking back on my working life. As many of you know, I have spent much of the last 30 months without an income, and despite the dismissal of sane people everywhere, I'm still fairly convinced that a contributing factor to my continued employment status is because I made a mistake. I made the mistake of not lying; of not facilitating theft; and when retaliation came for not being "a team player," I made the mistake of not staying quiet about the whole thing. And, perhaps the biggest mistake of all? I resigned, rather than being placed in a paid state of limbo, where I may have been allowed to stay a while longer, but would never be given meaningful work, ever again.

I've worked at two Fortune 100 companies; what I outline above happened at the first one I worked for -- a job I was in for nearly seven years. In that time, I nearly doubled my salary, received two promotions and was known throughout the organization as a "go-to guy" on several mission-critical tasks. I gave presentations to the board; nearly all of the senior executives knew me by name. I was not even a member of management.

I was there when scandal struck the company -- I had the great, good fortune of having the same first name, and similar last name, of the exec in charge of corporate PR. I may have been the first person at HQ to know when one of our facilities was raided by federal authorities, because the switchboard forwarded the NYT reporter covering the developments to my voicemail, by mistake. This scandal took a few years to play out, but resulted in the largest ever fraud settlement to the USDOJ -- over $1 billion. Yep, billion, with a "B."

I had nothing to do with the scandal, itself -- had no knowlege of it, no understanding of it (at least as it was actually happening), nor did I play even an unwitting part in it. Still, when the final tab ends up topping $1 billion, you'd think that might rock the ship-of-state, in general. To be sure, heads did roll, but no one remotely close to my turf. The day the settlement was announced, the company's stock went up. And kept going up. If anything, the company's approach to its employees became even friendlier, more open, and more genuine. There was an air of "getting this behind us/bad apples, etc."

Enter nineteen hijackers, and a resultant economic slowdown. Gone were the days where guys like me could go to lunch, and after dessert and a handshake, have a brand new job, paying 15-20% more that what we were currently making. The rules changed. Critical remarks that were once welcomed in staff meetings were now shouted down. The culture evolved into one where the word "no" did not exist. Demands on employees became more unreasonable, petty and in some cases, frankly absurd. Finally, the requests I were given were unethical at best, larcenous at worst. I drew my line, and as I said, I paid for it.

The second, more recent Fortune 100 job -- the integrity issue was not as pronounced. An example: I was told to tell my customers that I owned whatever product the customer was interested in purchasing. Another: I was told that our technical support for our premium product line was U.S.-based -- not true for my customers -- only for business clients (to whom I could not sell anything, anyway).

I was raised to believe that hard work and honesty were two qualities that would always be prized and rewarded, but if I were raising children today, wouldn't it be negligent of me to explain to them the other side of that coin? That one must be prepared to turn a blind eye to cooked books, or outright theft?

So, now, a question: What's the biggest ethical issue you've encountered in your employment history? Did you stay? If not, were you pushed, or did you jump?
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Avast, Ye Mateys!

Thar blows a feline, off the starboard kneecap!

Yes, amazingly, there is 2.4GHz right here in the Curly Condo tonight... which appeared as mysteriously as it once vanished. Good timing, too -- I went to the laundrette last night when SNL got boring (that is to say, after 1.6 minutes), and there was no WiFi to be found, at all.
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Outside, Looking In

Yes, this is borrowed from the last episode of TRVC™ -- I just thought it'd be fun to post. Note that the Canon GL-1, while fabulous as a DVcam, leaves a lot to be desired in the stillcam category.
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Early Friday Cat!

He says, "Leave me alone with that flashy thang!"
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Sex, Rinse, Repeat

I almost never watch Sex In The City, but now that one of the local channels shows it every weeknight at 10:35, I wind up on it occasionally while I wait for the laundrette to be more-than-likely vacated (yes, I feel odd and awkward when someone else comes in the laundrette when it's obvious all I'm doing is something on the notebook -- definitely not doing laundry, is he?). So maybe it's that the local station only licensed one season, but it seems like I see the same four episodes over and over again:

• Cynthia Nixon's character is dating the "anger professional";
  
• The ladies are at a fireman's calendar/stripping contest;
  
• The ladies are in a resort town, and end up at a keg party;
  
• Kim Catrall's character hooks up with a rich geezer who she won't fuck.
  

Still, it's all mildly entertaining (I'm sure in its uncut version, it's perhaps even above-average entertaining), and beats the blue hell out of Leno.
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More Pictures of a Sleeping Cat

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Screenshots

People let me tell you 'bout my best friend,
He's a warm hearted beastie who'll love me till the end.
People let me tell you bout my best friend,
He's a one boy cuddly toy, my up, my down, my pride and joy.
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WiFi Geeks?

Any WiFi geeks with "cantenna" building experience: Do you know what type of pigtail and cable I will need to connect my cantenna to an Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card? Also... know of cheap source for such?

Please respond in the comments -- thanks!
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Snag!

One thing that's not so good about using the Canon Powershot A410's macro function: It gets the wrist strap pretty close to one's subject. If one's subject happens to be a cat, for example, this can lead to interesting photographic challenges...

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Name This Bad Star Trek Episode

As you can see, he's still trying to prevent me leaving the condo... any time I lay the notebook bag on the bed, he's on it like a cat on a notebook bag.
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My (Not-So-Beautiful) Laundrette

a/k/a "West Gnashvegas' Latest WiFi Hotspot Rage!"

Posted for the Doubting Sallys amongst you. ;)
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Curly's Inner Kitten

... peeked out from under the years behind him tonight. Doesn't he look like a kitten in this pix? I thought so. Maybe it's the ears, or the angle at which I took it (making his head a stark iso-triangle).


Well, I missed this, tonight; had some drive-by company (decidedly non-political friendage, who wouldn't be caught dead at a public meeting) drop in around 4:30, and we ended up watching some Wild Child Saturday NFL playoff action on the electronic potato maker. So, apologies to hamletta, to whom I'd hinted last night that I would probably attend. Of course, I did qualify that by saying I'd have to awaken in time (not much danger of that not happening), and that I'd have a mirror in front of which I could shave. That last point: My bathroom sink's been backed up for a couple of days, but it finally drained today, after using illicit chemicals on it for the last few days.

So, again, I ask you... don't you wish you could live my life?

Name That Bad Stephen King Film Adaptation!

Okay, that was a gyp in the cuteness department (but it gave me a chance to use the macro function), so here's the actual photo:

You can't tell it from the photo, but this was immediately after a whole-cat massage, and the Curly engine was on full purr.

So, what else?

I went to visit the ladyfriend Thursday night. She paraded me through her workplace, showed me her office (and you haven't seen depressing until you've seen a Wal-Mart "office," trust me on this). No exciting night on the big town, but instead, a curl-up on the couch to watch Dancing With The Stars (oh joy) and My Name Is Earl. Is this how married people live...? :)

All day Friday, it's been too cold to sit outside and blog, so I caught up on my sleep, drank a little coffee, and made up with Curly (who was pretty pissed that I was gone for more than 12 hrs. -- you'd think that whole Dell thang would have gotten him accustomed to that, eh?). Well, after all the petting, it's all good, now.

And whodathunkit? Gnashvegas is supposedly the 12th most-physically fit city in the U.S., whereas Memphis is the 6th least.

Don't you wish you were living my life?
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