Made me laugh

If you are an old Trekie, you will understand.

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I’m Done

It has never happened before. I was an early adopter of home computing when I bought an Apple 2C way back in 1985. I have had a computer in my home ever since. I have played the game of upgrading and buying new machines to stay on the edge of competency with the latest technology and computing specs for home users.

Then yesterday it happened. For the first time ever, I filled up my Hard Drive.

The disc in question is a 1/2T SSD that hold the operating system. Up to this point I have been putting everything on it even though that computer had an additional 1.5T in HHD space, using two HHDs that this computer inherited from my previous game machines. So, I moved all my documents, records, pictures, movies and Itunes files to a spare drive. That freed up a whopping 100MB. A little investigating led me to find that I also had over 100GB of data for three games I was playing. World of Warships, They are Billions, and Fallout 4.

Moving World of Warships was EASY. Just drag and drop it to the F: drive and adjust the path in the desktop Icon. It worked just fine.

Fallout and Billions are Steam games so I used their utility to move those files to the F: Drive as well. Billions worked fine and restored all the saved games seamlessly as if I had never left.

Fallout was a problem. In addition to the game data files and saved game files I had gazillions of mods, organized in Vortex. Moving all of those was not as easy. The saved game files never made the transition. No telling where they went. They were supposed to be automagically restored from the Steam cloud but that didn’t happen. I knew this could happen when I started this process and I had intended to restart my game progress anyway so that I could take advantage of new looks, new content and better dialogs from over 500 new mods I downloaded as part of a new content collection of mods. It was downloading those mods that “broke the bank” on my primary SSD. The consequence of moving this game to the HDD from the SSD is that cut scenes take three times the time to load. Otherwise, play is the same.

I enjoy the way mods can make an old game shine like new and add new content. It’s like having a whole new game. All that new content was created by smart industrious nerds who find enjoyment creating those mods from scratch and then distributing them for everyone… FOR FREE.

So, I am back in business now. I have never filled a drive before. I thought that only happened to shady people like movie pirates and porn servers.

There is still an unaccountable amount of data on that SSD and I need to discover what is hogging all that space.

Just today I found out that Bethesda, creators of the Fallout franchise, intends to release an update that will incorporate all the fixes they have been avoiding making for ten years. That update will likely be forced on every user through Steam while we sleep and will make all our mods unplayable. If that happens, I will likely see the last of that game. I hope they give me enough time to discover the new parts of my current mod collection.

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Decline of Civilization

I’m seeing commercials on Hulu for pre-mixed drinks. Evidently, people are now too stupid to add alcohol to fruit drink or follow a 3-part recipe.

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Transformers, extinction review

Oh for freaks sake. This movie is just one long CGI enhanced car chase. The excitement is so pervasive, it just gets boring. Add to that the dad-daughter story and it just gets even more boring. I cant even tell who the good robots are anymore. Just tons of metal flying everywhere and explosions.

If normal background physics were a thing in this movie, millions of people are being killed under collapsing buildings and billions of tons of scrap metal falling from the sky.

GM seems to have bought prime placement rights.

Again, the white guy working for the CIA is the villain. And after making it clear he was doing it for the money, he still gives a speach about doing it all for his country. Pathetic writing.

Chinese industrialists are all hard working honest and productive and completely free of base motives. Just like real life (wink). One might think the producers allowed the Chinese government to review the product first.

Optimus prime… riding a transformer T-Rex. It’s like they aren’t even trying anymore.

Wait. Optimus Prime doesn’t need a space ship to travel? Did the writters get dropped on their collective heads?

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Christmas Deer posing.

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Twitter Twaddle

I have been watching this with great interest. Here are my thoughts for consideration:

  1. What Twitter did in influencing the election was unfair, but not illegal and should have been expected all along. It is perfectly acceptable for people to use their private corporations to benefit causes they support, including political causes. There is no law preventing this nor would any such law be possible. Sort of like why Democrats in the Senate were totally against any Catholics being on the Supreme Court.
  2. For elements of the US government, privately, to collude with Twitter, etc in their “influencing the election”, is a blatant violation of law on the part of each and every person who participated.
  3. For elements of the US government to take part in an election and attempt to sway it’s outcome is also a clear violation of law. But since if you win the election, you get to enforce the law (or fail to), we get a system where some people are above the law. This has been objectively true since the Obama administration. And in the trump administration, we discovered that nearly all of the high ranking bureaucrats in DC, regardless of administration, are loyal to the Democrats.
  4. When you are trying to win public office it is you fault if you do not understand the political and public terrain well enough to understand that your political enemies in Twitter and facebook will actually be working against you.
  5. To the Extent that Twitter and Facebook edited information to influence the election, they violated no laws. But the Democratic party and it’s candidates did violate campaign finance laws by not claiming those in kind contributions that amounted to the equivalent of BILLIONS of dollars worth of free advertising. But again, if they win teh election, and have thousands of supporters working at the FEC, DoJ, and FBI, there is no possibility of this law being enfodrced.
  6. It is a natural and predictable path that FB and Twitter would use their hidden algorithms to guide the election outcomes. Newspapers have been doing it since print was invented. Radio and TV have been doing it since Marconi.
  7. Such “collusion” is unstoppable. No laws will prevent it. This is why it was absurd on its face for the Democrats to go all in on the Russian Collusion story, instead of trying to nail Trump on something that was real and an actual violation of law. Remember, all of the national media covered that story as if it were real. All of them similarly covered over the Biden Laptop story. All of the national media twisted the Ukraine phone call as if it were a crime for Trump to ask Ukraine to investigate corruption, instead of focusing on Biden BEING CORRUPT.
  8. To the extent that Twitter and FB users paid for political advertising in targeted time zones and locations and did not get them, this would be a violation of law and contract on the part of FB and Twitter as the deep pockets, but also naming the corporate execs who made the decisions to do that. In Democratic speak, it’s Ok to refuse to bake a cake for the gay couple wedding if you refuse to take the order, but not if you took their deposit and then don’t tell them until the last minute.

I still don’t know why any adult has Twitter.

But since the democrats no longer need voters, it hardly matters how much influence Twitter and FB do.

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Commercials: Drugs

Oh geez! Now they are advertizing drugs to treat diseases I’ve never heard of and are so rare I’d likely never hear of if I hadn’t seen that commercial. And even after I have seen it, I don’t remember it because it’s just random letters that stand for arbitrary names.

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Vacation: Montana

I am vacationing near Glacier National Park in Montana.

It’s cold out there.

This is a very white state. Everyone is white. Even McDonald’s employees are white. There is also a LOT of wealth here, judging by the mansions everywhere. There are a lot of casinos and canibis stores too. Casino = mini mart with computer betting machines. Finally, not a lot of fat people here.

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My Superpower: Invisibility

I have discovered that I am totally invisible to women under 50. But if I enter a women’s bathroom, I suddenly become visible again. What a fickle superpower. How is this any advantage?

EDIT: Pretty damned inconvenient power when I’m trying to get the waitress attention to pay my bill and catch my flight. Seriously. Totally invisible.

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Review: Lost in Space… black and white

I’m watching this old series from my childhood. It’s a great series. Lots of old actors playing bit parts long before they were famous.

Kurt Russell at 15 years old, playing a 12 year old, proving his manliness by beating up 10 year old Will Ribinson… and losing.

The Amazon version is terribly high definition in a way the old TV series could never be. You can see every hair and pore on close up faces.

What the F were they thinking sending a single family into space. Who were the young Robinsons supposed to mate with and continue the human race? Aliens?

Kill Smith already. Every single episode he is causing potentially lethal challenges to the family. Push him off a cliff. Smash his head with a rock. I don’t care how much of a pacifist you are. Just look the other way when the military pilot gets in a rage. For the good of the family, Smith MUST die. Exile is not good enough. He just comes back.

Episode where will goes back to Earth. Great episode. Made in the 1966, intending to be decades later, but will goes to a town that is primitive even by 1966 standards. I was alive in 1966. We had dial phones in every home. We didn’t have those edison phones from 1930. Now were we still using wagons with wheels made by the local blacksmith.

I swear. Every single episode. Crisis. Where are the kids? Let’s go find them. More crisis. Probably should rethink that whole, let’s take children into space thing.

Over and over, they learn the lesson of being armed everywhere, and then the very next episode, they are wandering around without their guns. These people learn way too slowly to have reached space travel. Ever.

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