2017 Movies to Avoid

Jeez, this looks longer than last year's list...

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

Underworld: Blood Wars
National Treasure 3

Splinter Cell

The Beguiled

Clerks III

Death Race 4

Fifty Shades Darker

Rings

John Wick: Chapter 2

T2 Trainspotting

The Lego Batman Movie

The Great Wall

The Legend of Conan

Power Rangers

Kong: Skull Island

Logan

The Shack

Smurfs: The Lost Village

Fast and Furious 8

Baywatch

Pirate of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Annabelle 2

Terminator Genisys 2

Barbie

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Wonder Woman

Transformers: The Last Knight

The Mummy

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Despicable Me 3

World War Z 2

Cars 3

Spider-Man: Homecoming

War for the Planet of the Apes

Independence Day 3

The Fantastic Four 2

Alien: Covenant

Flatliners

ChiPs

The Equalizer 2

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Zorro Reborn

Blade Runner 2049

Friday the 13th

My Little Pony: The Movie

Justice League

Thor: Ragnarok

Murder on the Orient Express

Star Wars Episode VIII

Jumanji

Pitch Perfect 3

Death Wish

Chucky 7

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Maybe I can do the Blade Runner.  But probably not. Nice to see Jumanji as a holdover from 2016's list though.

One of The Best Jokes Ever

A shortsighted man accidentally walks into the pet shop next door to an electrical appliance store where he was intending to make a purchase. On seeing a young man who seemingly worked there he asked:

"Excuse me young man, but do you have an infrared griller?"

To which the young man ( who was very keen to make a sale ) replied:

"No, I'm afraid not Sir, but we do have this lovely ultraviolet chimpanzee."

New FitBit daily record for me

My fitbit #Fitstats_en_US for 7/31/2016: 51,107 steps and 21.8 miles traveled. https://t.co/SwtavsFTcO

— The Chalcenteric Kid (@AlaninSoFlo) August 1, 2016

Enough Said

No words necessary

Social Media Day

Being Positive

#PoemYourLife - The Sequels

Doggerel and rhyme
Do I have time
To parse all I've been told
For that nugget of gold
That calls out my foes
As gardeners with hoes?

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Brit-born, forlorn on an island of scorn.
America-bound, with a life to be found
In sunshine and friends
Where Florida ends.

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Reserved & distorted
Like a life that's contorted
By politeness and fears
That melt over years
Living and growing
Then knowing.

#PoemYourLife

Fly over the sea
For all you could be
Believe in yourself
A collector of Delft
Snakes in the yard
And a bowl of Swiss Chard.

My take on Bathroom Bills

I agree with Governor McCrory, it isn't a problem, it has never been a problem. Not in North Carolina, not anywhere.

Leave transgender people alone. Bigotry from the government should not be yet another affront they have to bear..

Prosecute people guilty of committing actual crimes in bathrooms. They won't be trans folks I guarantee you that.

Jim Garlow: Utter Buffoon.

"How many nations in the World have this many people of their highest level of leadership call on god the way we just heard?"
 

Well Jim, Iran for sure. Saudi Arabia too. Probably Syria.
 

You fucking moron.

And a "Clap Offering"? You've got to be kidding me.
 

https://youtu.be/lH0IMx4InIw

My thoughts on how not to run Yahoo!

So, the game is to get eyeballs on advertising. That is your #1 objective if you are Yahoo! And how do you do that?

By giving your users a great experience which encourages tham to come back to your site. Sounds simple right?

So what do you do to make that user experience seemingly as shitty as possible?

1. You fuck up your "redesigned" email. Possibly the biggest draw of users to your site. You make it slow, java-heavy and some days, unuseable.

2. You screw up your news feed, making it hugely irritating to try to find the stuff you want and you embed political content like Faux News that cannot be filtered out. And you make every fourth item some sort of "Sponsored" advertising. This raises all users' hackles.

3. You mess up your mobile email app so badly that people uninstall it and swear to never download it ever again.

4. You completely fuck up the user comments sections on news stories making it now impossible to follow reactions and replies to a user's comments, even though you tell them "You have 2 replies and 3 thumbs up" to those comments.

5. You take away a user's ability to create a simple profile for themselves with a pic and a short bio. This one you messed up years and years ago and with your utter contempt for your users, you have never ever addressed fixing it.

Microsoft blocks emails from QuickBooks

A friend's company has set up an email server and is using it to send monthly email invoices to his customers via QuickBooks.

This has been working for about a year and now Microsoft have taken it upon themselves to block some emails due to "spam-like activity".

The server is clean and not on any spam lists. It is used 100% to send invoices to customers.

Microsoft have taken, on their own "initiative", to decide that emails generated from one of the most common accounting packages used in business today are spam.

This is simply not acceptable.

And when you try to delist yourself a second time from the MS blacklist ( after you thought you had successfully done so the first time they fucked up) you get this response:

We see that the IP address in question has been submitted for delisting within the last 90 days. 

In order to process this new request please provide us with the following information:

1.       What caused the spam-like activity from the IP address?

2.       What steps have been taken to prevent the spam-like activity from occurring again?

Please respond to this email with your answers and any questions or concerns you may have.

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Of course, they do not tell you what "spam-like activity" is in their myopic eyes.

I'm sure QuickBooks are not happy that is assholery is happening.