Monday, 28 May 2012
Before I left France, I attended my last Memorial Day ceremony at the Suresnes American cemetery. Back a year ago, I was very very busy and was only a month away from moving permanently, but I absolutely wanted to take the time to go...
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
I swear, kids these days:
-I left a lot of messages on her Facebook wall.Also, why texting is not for communicating information...
-Facebook! Facebook? Why don’t you email her?
-No one has an email address, dad.
-Really?
-Well, they might, but they wouldn’t look in their inbox and answer you...
-Why don’t you call her on the phone?
-She’s like my friends. She doesn’t know how to answer a phone.
-What do you mean? They all have $500 phones.
-They don’t know how to answer them.
-How can that be?
-They all are iPhone type slabs and they have to lock them so they don’t butt-dial 911 and their mother twenty-five times a day. They can’t unlock them fast enough to answer them.
-Well, why don’t you leave them a voicemail and tell them to call you back?
-Dad, they have no idea how to use voicemail. All their mailboxes are full and have never been listened to.
-You’re making that up.
Via Tam, who claims to have "sent maybe two dozen text messages†in her life.
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The Daily Mail:
The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S."Pork†is obvious: Just think of all those right-wing extremist "Porkbusters,†right...?
The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as "attack,†"Al Qaeda,†"terrorism,†and "dirty bomb†alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like "pork,†"cloud,†"team,†and "Mexico.â€
The Mail’s story has the complete list. For future reference (and as a service to readers who might want to maintain a low profile), I’ve linked it in the sidebar: You’ll find The DHS Suspicious Words List in the Useful Stuff section.
Elsewhere:
Huffington Post: Homeland Security Manual Lists Government Key Words For Monitoring Social Media, News
RugerForum.com: Who wants to be spied on by Homeland Security?
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012
FYI: Roberta’s handy guide to completing the new form 4473.
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Monday, 21 May 2012
"RobotGrrl†over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs turned up a 60s-vintage Heath VT (as in "vacuum tubeâ€) voltmeter kit. So why not put it together?
Assembly starts here.
(Have to check my parts cabinet, I may have that capacitor bracket she’s missing.)
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Not that this should surprise anyone...
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