Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Want to remember the Kings and Queens of England?

Well try this...


Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry 3.
1, 2, 3, Neds, Richard 2.
Henry 4, 5, 6,

Then who?

Edwards 4, 5,
Dick the Bad.
Harries Twain
And Ned the Lad.

Mary. Lizzie,
James the Vain,
Charlie, Charlie,
James again.

William and Mary, Anna G’loria
4 Georges,
William,
And Victoria.

Edward Seven, Georgie Five,
Edward,
George,
And Liz (alive).

Sunday, June 14, 2020

How's it doin'?

You know I got these snakes
And I cannot lie
They'll bite you in the ass
Just to watch you die.

They ain't all like that
Some are slick and smooth
Like a cat in a club
Wanting into your goove.

There's a limit to venom
You know that's true
Some might take you to heaven
But only if you want to.

Got a bad reputation
For doing some harm
Cuz we live in a nation
Where we don't do calm.

There's no correlation 
Between a bite from an asp
When the envenomation's
already in your grasp.

You'll die from your paucity
You'll die in pain
In the heart of a poor city
You know who's to blame.

Monday, May 18, 2020

EPIC FAIL: Got another "We switched on your webcam" scam email


Email Subject: I am aware, xxxxxxx, is your password

I require your full attention for the up coming 24 hours. Or I may make sure you that you live out of embarrassment for the rest of your existence.

Me: LMAO. Can I live out of the trunk of my car instead?

Hello, you do not know me personally. But I know everything concerning you. All of your facebook contact list, smartphone contatcts along with all the online activity in your computer from previous 157 days.

Me: LMAO. Why 157?

Which includes your masturbation video footage, which brings me to the main reason why I am crafting this specific e-mail to you.

Me: I am on tenterhooks!

Well, the last time you went to the porno websites, my spyware was activated in your personal computer which ended up documenting a beautiful footage of your masturbation play by triggering your web cam. you got a seriously odd preference btw lmafao I have got the full recording.

Me: What are “the porno websites”? LMAO.

Just in case you think I am playing around, simply reply proof and I will be forwarding the recording randomly to 10 people you’re friends with. It may end up being your friend, co workers, boss, mother and father I’m not sure! My software program will randomly choose the contact details. Would you be capable to gaze into anyone’s eyes again after it? I question that… But, doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. I would like to make you a one time, non negotiable offer. Buy $ 2000 in bitcoin and send it to the address below:

1*bitCoinkeyfOllowsheRE

[case SENSITIVE, copy and paste it and remove * from it ] If you don’t know how, lookup how to purchase bitcoin. Do not waste my valuable time ) If you send out this ‘donation’ (we will call it that?). Right after that, I will disappear and never ever contact you again. I will get rid of everything I’ve got concerning you. You may very well continue living your current normal day to day lifestyle with zero concerns. You’ve got 1 day to do so. Your time begins as quickly as you go through this mail. I have an one of a kind code that will inform me once you have read this mail therefore don’t attempt to play smart.

Me: LMAO so hard. (a) I have more than one friend and (b) my parents never had an online presence and (c) I can look anyone in the eyes. If I met you, could you say the same?

Me: You are, what is the word I am looking for…..? Oh yes, A FUCKING LOSER and actually yes, I AM SMARTER THAN YOU.

Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Movies to give a wide berth to in 2020


Tentatively, these are the movies to avoid in 2020

Bad Boys For Life
Dolittle
Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn
Fantasy Island
Sonic The Hedgehog
A Quiet Place: Part II
Mulan
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Black Widow
Legally Blonde 3
Scoob!
Fast and Furious 9
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Wonder Woman 1984
Candyman
Top Gun: Maverick
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The Purge 5
Bob’s Burgers
Escape Room 2
Bill and Ted Face the Music
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The King’s Man
Venom 2
Death On The Nile
Snake Eyes
Godzilla vs Kong
Coming 2 America
West Side Story
The Croods 2
Tom and Jerry

Friday, January 03, 2020

My Movies in 2019


Movies I saw in 2019

Stan and Ollie
Fighting With My Family
Greta
Us
Long Shot
Trial By Fire

Booksmart

The Dead Don’t Die
Anna ( aka The Poor Man’s Red Sparrow )

Midsommar ( twice )

Crawl
The Art of Self Defense
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark
Ready or Not
The Farewell
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Official Secrets
Ad Astra
The Shining

Joker

IT Chapter 2
Lucy In The Sky
Pain And Glory
The Lighthouse

Jojo Rabbit

Motherless Brooklyn
Midway
Ford vs Ferrari
Parasite
Queen and Slim
Waves
Bombshell
Knives Out
Little Women

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Want to see some phishing domains?

in just one day...

@bricksnarl.icu
@childfail.icu
@coldday.icu
@descentcook.icu
@dilemmamass.icu
@dooroak.icu
@feestay.icu
@geneticjam.icu
@goaltime.icu
@homecoin.icu
@husbandzone.icu
@jeweltail.icu
@liberaltree.icu
@linenpest.icu
@moralesilk.icu
@mysteryfault.icu
@oldageflat.icu
@politevain.icu
@postiron.icu
@poursay.icu
@proofold.icu
@queenfat.icu
@queueking.icu
@rentcase.icu
@ricehall.icu
@scoreslow.icu
@screentalk.icu
@silverlaw.icu
@singlearch.icu
@sitewood.icu
@snubrun.icu
@sodiumhalf.icu
@solvelimit.icu
@spellneck.icu
@spitstand.icu
@sumlane.icu
@sworddecay.icu
@taxman.icu
@teachbell.icu
@temptfolk.icu
@thawdesk.icu
@tissueoven.icu
@treadcrew.icu
@trenchknit.icu
@variantdate.icu
@virginpig.icu
@voicelion.icu
@volcanodrum.icu
@wandernest.icu
@wantlost.icu
@watchsite.icu
@weaponlong.icu
@worrypop.icu
@writeherb.icu
@yearmiss.icu

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Pinterest has suspended my account

Fuck Pinterest. They have arbitrarily suspended my account. I never violate their assinine ToS rules. If I lose access to my personal photographs, I think I will take legal action.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Keanu Nahnu Puns.

Keanu Reeves' range of melted butters? They would they be Keanu Ghees.

 

Friday, May 03, 2019

The Schism


Is this really a thing? “The Fall of Man” or as David Icke calls it:

The Schism

“There was an energetic schism at the level of the metaphysical universe ( the waveform based information construct) and that as it was decoded through into this holographic reality, obviously mirrored in the holographic play-out world, the schism in the information construct.”

WHAT THE FUCK?

People pay money to hear David Icke speak for 10 hours at a time and this gibberish is what they get.

And it makes no sense because it is literally, nonsense.


Wednesday, April 03, 2019

PSA: You can ignore any emails you get like this one...

This is the body of an email received by a colleague today (word for word as received):


This account was infected! Renew the password this time!
You might not know me me and you are probably wondering why you are reading this particular letter, right?
I’m ahacker who openedyour emailand digital devicessome time ago.
Never try to msg me or find me, it is definitely not possible, because I forwarded an email using YOUR hacked account.
I’ve installed virus on the adult videos (porn) site and guess that you have vistited this site to have a good time (you know what I want to say)
Whilst you have been watching movies, your internet browser began operating like a RDP (Remote Control) having a keylogger that gave me the ability to access your monitor and network camera.
Afterward, my programgatheredall information.
You have put passcodes on the websites you visited, I caught them.
Needless to say, you are able to change each of them, or have already modified them.
Even so it doesn’t matter, my program updates needed data regularly.
What have I done?
I made a reserve copy of every your system. Of all files and each contact.
I formed a dual-screen movie. The 1st section shows the video you were watching (you have got an interesting taste, wow…), and the second part demonstrates the tape from your camera.
What do you have to do?
Great, I think, 1000 USD will be a reasonable amount of money for this very little secret. You will make a payment by bitcoins (if you do not understand this, try to find “how to buy bitcoins in Google).
My bitcoin wallet address:

     [ Idiot Put The AdDreSS here ]

(It is cAsE sensitive, so copy and paste it ).
Warning:
You will have only 48 hours to perform the payment ( I have an exclusive pixel to this email, and at the moment I understand that you have read this email).
To monitorthe reading of a letterandthe activityin it, I utilize a Facebook pixel. Thanks to them.
(Anything thatcan be usedfor the authorities should helpus.)
In the even I fail to get bitcoins, I will undoubtedly transfer your video files to all your contacts, such as family members, co-workers, etc?

---||---

So let’s analyze this one together shall we?

Even if this guy had put a virus on a porn site ( and he has not ), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on PCs is by default DISABLED, so he cannot have taken control of my internet browser and he cannot have installed a keylogger and he cannot at any time ever have had access to my camera because...I DON’T HAVE ONE.

Therefore anything he says about what he’s done is just complete fucking hogwash.

No capturing videos, so no “dual-screen movie”. So then his pathetic attempt at extortion via bitcoins is just laughable. And because he never got control of my PC, he cannot have my Contact List to threaten me with. And “I have installed a pixel”? LMAO. I don’t thing he knows what a pixel is nor what Facebook Pixel does. The sap. This email came via Russia and Japan using spoofed addresses.
He’s right about one thing, he is untraceable. But if you receive an email like this, it is 100% shitcanable and I suggest you do just that. And then laugh your ass off that this schmuck.

Tuesday, January 08, 2019

And 2019's list of crap to come...

Sequels, comic books and nonsense of all flavors.
Movies to avoid in 2019

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Happy Death Day 2U
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Captain Marvel
Dumbo
Pet Sematary
Hellboy
Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame
Pokemon Detective Pikachu
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
John Wick: Chapter 3
Aladdin
Minecraft: The Movie
Godzilla: King of Monsters
The Secret Life of Pets 2
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Men in Black: International
Shaft
The Grudge
Toy Story 4
Annabelle 3
Spider-Man: Far From Home
The Lion King
Dora the Explorer
The Angry Birds Movie 2
The Addams Family
Zombieland 2
Charlie’s Angels
Terminator
Sonic The Hedgehog
Kingsman 3
Frozen 2
Jumanji (Sequel)
Masters of The Universe
Cats
Star Wars: Episode IX



2018 - a few gems amongst the dreck


Movies I saw in 2018

Darkest Hour
The Post
Proud Mary
Black Panther
Annihilation
Red Sparrow

Vertigo

Unsane
Death of Stalin *
A Quiet Place *
You Were Never Really Here
Avengers: Infinity War
Beirut
Bad Samaritan

RGB
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

Upgrade
Hotel Artemis
Hereditary
First Reformed
Equalizer 2
BlacKkKlansman
Slender Man
Puzzle
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Blood Fest
Mile 22
The Wife
The Little Stranger
Peppermint
A Simple Favor *
Fahrenheit 11/9
Assassination Nation *
Hell Fest
White Boy Rick

Bullitt

Bad Times at the El Royale
The Hate U Give *
Suspiria
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
A Private War
The Possession of Hannah Grace
The Favourite *
The Mule


Friday, December 07, 2018

When hackers attack your email server...

They try to find a valid account on your server by trying username combos like this.....

larry@mydomain.net
larry_w@mydomain.net
larry-w@mydomain.net
larry.w@mydomain.net
larryw@mydomain.net
larry_white@mydomain.net
larry-white@mydomain.net
larry.white@mydomain.net
larrywhite@mydomain.net

lw@mydomain.net

l_white@mydomain.net
l-white@mydomain.net
l.white@mydomain.net
lwhite@mydomain.net

white@mydomain.net
white_l@mydomain.net
white-l@mydomain.net
white.l@mydomain.net
whitel@mydomain.net
white_larry@mydomain.net
white-larry@mydomain.net
white.larry@mydomain.net
whitelarry@mydomain.net

wl@mydomain.net

w_larry@mydomain.net
w-larry@mydomain.net
w.larry@mydomain.net
wlarry@mydomain.net

Bastards.

Monday, December 03, 2018

Funniest Phishing Email Scam


These Phishing Scams are just too freaking funny.
BEWARE OF THIS EMAIL. BUT DON’T WORRY. THE TWAT IS JUST TRYING TO SCARE YOU.
EVERYTHING STATED AND BADLY MISSPELLED IN HERE IS JUST UTTERLY UNTRUE AND CAN BE IGNORED.
---||---
Subject: This account has been hacked! Change your password right now!
You may not know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e mail, right?
I'm a hacker who cracked your devices a few months ago.
Do not try to contact me or find me, it is impossible, since I sent you an email from YOUR hacked account.
I setup a malware on the adult vids (porno) web-site and guess what, you visited this site to have fun (you know what I mean).
While you were watching videos, your internet browser started out functioning as a RDP (Remote Control) having a keylogger which gave me accessibility to your screen and web cam.
After that, my software program obtained all of your contacts and files.
You entered a passwords on the websites you visited, and I intercepted it.
Of course you can will change it, or already changed it.
But it doesn't matter, my malware updated it every time. ** THIS IS MEANINGLESS **
What did I do?
I created a double-screen video. 1st part shows the video you were watching (you've got a good taste haha . . .), and 2nd part shows the recording of your web cam.
Do not try to find and destroy my virus! (All your data is already uploaded to a remote server)

Do not try to contact me (this is not feasible, I sent you an email from your account)

Various security services will not help you; formatting a disk or destroying a device will not help either, since your data is already on a remote server.
I guarantee you that I will not disturb you again after payment, as you are not my single victim. This is a hacker code of honor.
Don’t be mad at me, everyone has their own work.
exactly what should you do?
Well, in my opinion, $1000 (USD) is a fair price for our little secret. You'll make the payment by Bitcoin (if you do not know this, search "how to buy bitcoin" in Google).
My Bitcoin wallet Address:
blahBlahBlahdiblah0001 
(It is cAsE sensitive, so copy and paste it)
Important:
You have 48 hour in order to make the payment. (I've a unique pixel in this e mail, and at this moment I know that you have read through this email message). WHAT THE FUCK IS A “UNIQUE PIXEL”?
To track the reading of a message and the actions in it, I use the facebook pixel. ** MEANINGLESS **
Thanks to them. (Everything that is used for the authorities can help us.)
If I do not get the BitCoins, I will certainly send out your video recording to all of your contacts including relatives, coworkers, and so on. Having said that, if I receive the payment, I'll destroy the video immidiately.
If you need evidence, reply with "Yes!" and I will certainly send out your video recording to your 6 contacts. It is a non-negotiable offer, that being said don't waste my personal time and yours by responding to this message.
---||---

My reply:

Release the video then. I don’t care. No-one does.

Also I love he says “Don’t respond” and then says “Reply with “Yes!””. So funny.

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Don't see these in 2018...


Movies to Avoid 2018 ( I know some may be OK, Paddington, Sicario )

Insidious: The Final Key
Paddington 2
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Fifty Shades Freed
Death Wish
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Tomb Raider
7 Days at Entebbe
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Super Troopers 2
Avengers: Infinity War
Deadpool 2
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Ocean’s 8
The Incredibles 2
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Sicario 2: Solado
The First Purge
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Hotel Transylvania 3
The Equalizer 2
Mama Mia! Here We Go Again
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Johnny English 3
A Star is Born
Goosebumps: Horrorland
Halloween
Mowgli
X-Men: Dark Pheonix
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Widows
Creed II
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2
Robin Hood
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Aquaman
Mary Poppins Returns

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But, just say 'No' to Sequels, Comic Books, Reboots, Reimaginings, Remakes and ideas stolen from my TV childhood.

Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Movies I saw in 2017 - even shorter list than 2016.

And it was another crap year at the movies.

Movies I saw in 2017:

A Cure for Wellness
The Great Wall
Lion
The Founder

Get Out*
The Belko Experiment

Colossal
Free Fire
The Lost City of Z

It Comes at Night

Beatriz at Dinner

Baby Driver

Valarian and The City Of a Thousand Planets

Atomic Blonde

The Dark Tower
Wind River
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Tulip Fever

Blade Runner 2049
American Made*
Suburbicon
The Foreigner

The Mountain Between Us

Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri*
The Shape of Water
Molly’s Game*

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*The Best Of The Year

Friday, December 15, 2017

That which confuses me.

It used to be child abuse, but now we are in a full-on social media Mass Hysteria over sexual harassment. Just look what happened to Matt Damon when he commented on this issue.....

That being said, and realizing as a man I am stepping into a minefield here, I want to address the issue of "Why Now?"

Why Now? Why is this an exploding issue now?

It was over 15 years ago that I had my first company training on sexual harassment. It was mandatory and we were told it was company-wide and everyone had to participate. It went on your training records and if you put it off, your supervisor would see you hadn't done it and not complete your annual evaluation until you had.

Yes, it was that mandatory. AND additional training happened over the succeeding years as laws changed. AND that training was just as mandatory and unavoidable. The Corporate America I worked for comprehensively addressed sexual harassment as early as the year 2000.

And in that training we all learned about "Hostile Workplace" sexual harassment, which is basically "if someone feels uncomfortable, then that is harassment."

We learned that hostile workplace harassment is in the eye of the beholder. You as the guy ( and it usually is a guy ), have no recourse if someone goes to HR about you. So we were told "Don't even have a picture of your wife or girlfriend on your desk, just to be on the safe side. Especially not that cute one you took on vacation."

So my company over 15 years ago, knew this was an area ripe for accusations and they trained us all to not do ANYTHING at ANY TIME in ANY WAY that might be construed by ANYONE as contributing to a hostile workplace.

I guess HR wanted a quiet life.

So the point I am coming to is "Why Now?" And I am forced to draw one conclusion, And it is this....

Ordinary working stiffs have had sexual harassment training forever, and we knew that there could be serious repercussions over many perceived sleights by the harassed. So we took our training and we did what our companies asked. And we avoided, avoided, avoided anything that could make us open to accusations.

But what about all these people who are now so publicly accused? Why did they continue? Surely they all worked for someones company at some time? Gosh, even as contractors they got the training somewhere? Even running their own companies, the lawyers must have told them about the law and the consequences of accusations....

Why didn't they stop until 2017 when allegations became avalanches?

Could it be that it was because they were Big Shots and they thought the law did not apply to them?

"Don't you know who I am?" to the power of a google? The bullying "I can ruin you in this town" mentality?

I think it was that. They all deserve everything that's coming to them.


Friday, December 08, 2017

Grifters on the Instagram.

In the last few weeks I have been contacted by two people through social media who wanted me to be their "friend" based on my Instagram posts.

One came at me via Facebook Messenger and claimed to be the Page 3 Girl Lucy Pinder, but from her broken English, I know it really wasn't her.

In both cases I got lines about "Needing a normal friend" and "You seem a genuine person". You know, generalized sucking up.

Lucy kind of backed away after I didn't respond enthusiastically enough to her. But I have reached out to see if she still thinks I'm hooked.

Annabelle contacted me two days ago via Instagram. She quickly sent me her phone number ( 612 470-xxxx ) and we texted away; me telling her how lovely she was and her massaging my ego saying stuff like "You have a genuine heart" and nonsense like that.

Then of course, out came the "I am flat broke, my phone service is about to be cut off" ( so we would not be able to continue to text ) and "I need a $75 i-Phone gift card and no-one else will help me."

She was good, but I'm a 60 year old man and I know that a 34 year old woman is not randomly reaching out for friends on social media.

So then "Poof!", I blocked her phone number, deleted her texts and blocked her on Instagram.

On IG she trolls by the name of "sassyannabelle". So, Buyer Beware. Especially Olde Buyers.


Monday, July 24, 2017

Fuck Microsoft

Microsoft: YOUR DELISTING SERVICE IS BROKEN! Fix This!

Access denied, banned sending IP [AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD]. To request removal from this list please visit https://sender.office.com/ and follow the directions. For more information please go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=......

You are breaking Customers' E-faxing!

When I delist, the IP is not being removed. This has been happening ALL DAY. 7/24/17

I used to have to Delist once a month when I sent out invoices, now you've fucked up my IP permanently.

You need to fix this. And you need to fix it YESTERDAY.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Southern Baptist Convention: As Unchristian as they wanna be.

Yesterday, the Southern Baptist Convention hurriedly passed a resolution condemning white supremacy and the alt-right after a major backlash against the organization occurred when their leadership scuttled an initial and more strongly worded resolution against those ideologies.

At a news conference, Barrett Duke, a Southern Baptist leader who had led a committee that decided which resolutions should be considered for a vote, said the resolution as originally written contained inflammatory and broad language “potentially implicating” conservatives who do not support the “alt-right” movement.

Well Barrett, that's the point isn't it? Conservatives are not really Christians. To paraphrase George Carlin, they are just a group of people who meet up on Sundays to compare clothes and cars.

If a resolution so palpably right actually implicates your members, then surely you look at them with questions, not at the language of the statement that exposed them?

Hands up all those who were surprised by the SBC's initial stance.

My hand is down.

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Dateline 05/17/17

Someone needs to tell Rush Limbaugh three things:-

1. Obama is no longer President.

2. Obama publicly commenting on an investigation which he thought to have no merit is way less serious than Trump trying to influence an ongoing investigation privately.

3. "Let it go" doesn't mean "investigate but don't prosecute", it means DROP THE INVESTIGATION. Plus, the fact that the investigation continues is a reflection of Comey's integrity and not of President Trump saying that the investigation should continue.

If we want to compare Obama's actions to Trump's, anyone with half a brain will see that what Trump is doing is far far worse.

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Word

If someone says to you "Your voice is like smooth jazz", after your initial double take, it is perfectly acceptable to punch them in the nose and say "And your schnoz sounds like Nico McBrain's high hat".

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Monica Crowley's book has been pulled

Monica Crowley, what went on in your head?
Oh, Ms. M.Crowley, did you talk to the dead?
Your life style to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magic
Yeah, you waited on Murdoch's call


So Ms. M.Charming, did you think you were pure?
Shining PhD, in nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred
Manifest on this Earth
Conceived in the eye of a secret
And they scattered the afterbirth

Ms. M.Crowley, won't you ride my white horse?
Ms. M.Crowley, it's symbolic, of course
Approaching a time that is classic
I hear that Fox Babes call
Approaching a time that is drastic
Standing with their backs to the wall

Was it polemically sent
l want to know what you meant
I want to know, I want to know what you meant, yeah

---||---
No really. What did you think you were doing?

Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Movies I saw in 2016 - it's a short list


The Forest
The Boy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Witch
Secrets In Their Eyes
Eye In The Sky
Green Room
Love and Friendship
Money Monster
The Nice Guys
The Lobster
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Tale of Tales ( Streamed )
The Purge: Election Year
Everly ( Streamed )
Our Kind of Traitor
Fight Club ( Special Movie Theater Screening )
Lights Out
Absolutely Fabulous
Captain Fantastic
The Infiltrator
Star Trek: Beyond
The Disappointments Room
Sausage Party
Don’t Breathe
Morgan
The Girl On The Train
Denial
The Handmaiden
Arrival
Nocturnal Animals
La La Land
Miss Sloane

Monday, November 21, 2016

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.

Monday, August 08, 2016

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."

Monday, August 01, 2016

New FitBit daily record for me


Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

#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.

Monday, May 09, 2016

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.

Wednesday, May 04, 2016

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.
 

Thursday, April 21, 2016

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.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

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.

Monday, December 21, 2015

The Differences are what will make the Difference

Today on the Diane Rehm show on NPR, the political "experts" in the studio said that the three principle Democrats vying for their party's nomination essentially all agreed on the major issues of US politics.

Well, that's debatable of course, but if it is true, then the differences that the candidates do exhibit are what we must use to choose between them.

So Hillary voted for the Iraq War. Bernie Sanders did not. And of course neither did Governor O'Malley.

Hillary was Secretary of State, and a poor one. That cannot be laid at Senator Sanders' or Governor O'Malley's doors.

Hillary and Bernie can definitely be tagged with the the label "Washington insiders". I don't think that can be put on Governor O'Malley.

Bernie Sanders is proud to call himself a Socialist. As an ex-Brit who lived under the Socialism of the British Labour Party, this will forever disqualify him from getting my vote. I did not become a US citizen to have Socialism follow me to the United States.

I am a liberal. But I believe is American Exceptionalism, I believe this is a country where the success of its citizens is lauded and still possible.

I do not wish to live in the Nanny States of America.

This is why I so fervently hope Governor O'Malley stays in the race. He is the only Democrat I will vote for.

If Hillary goes get the nomination, I will write in my choice for President.

#NoBushes #NoClintons #NoSenators #NoBuffoons


Monday, December 07, 2015

2016 shaping up to be bad for movies...


Pointless sequels, remakes and comic book crap. Yes, 2016 is setting itself up to be even worse than 2015.

Ride Along 2
Kung Fu Panda 3
Zoolander 2
Divergent: Allegiant
Batman vs Superman
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
God's Not Dead 2
Amityville: The Reawakening
Barbershop 3
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Captain America: Civil War
Angry Birds
Neighbors 2
X-Men: Apocalypse
TMNT 2
The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
Now You See Me 2
Finding Dory
Independence Day: Resurgence
The Purge 3
Ghostbusters
Ice Age: Collision Course
Ben Hur
The Shack
Mechanic: Resurrection
Bridget Jones's Baby
Magnificent Seven
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Ouija 2
Underworld 5
Assassin's Creed
Jumanji

Thursday, December 03, 2015

Are these the choices?

1. You bring in a radicalized bride on an arranged marriage from Saudi Arabia and she poisons your mind into hearing every casual insult to your religion as a monstrous insult against the Prophet. And she tells you you're not a true man if you don't stand up to the people who secretly hate you. So one day you do. And she does too.

2. You bring in a demure and totally submissive wife on an arranged marriage from Saudi Arabia and you browbeat her every day until she will agree to kill people with you because of your perception that there is a torrent of workplace insults against your chickenshit religion happening every single day.

Seems to me that one of those statements will turn out to hold more than a grain of truth.

And that is scary. Because what we will have are religiously fueled workplace rampage killings.

Friday, November 20, 2015

2015 has been a Terrible Year at the Movies

These are the movies I have seen:

71
It Follows
The Woman in Gold
Ex Machina
Avengers Age of Ultron
Spy
Inside Out
The Gallows
Trainwreck
Mr. Holmes
The End Of The Tour
American Ultra
Pawn Sacrifice
Sicario
Roger Waters' The Wall
The Martian
He Named Me Malala
Steve Jobs
Crimson Peak
Bridge of Spies
Spotlight
Spectre
Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part II
Krampus
Trumbo

These are the movies I still have to see this year:

Macbeth
The Big Short
Concussion
MI-5
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

And these are my predicted critics' Oscar favorites for 2015:

99 Homes
Freeheld
End Of The Tour
Steve Jobs
Brooklyn
The Danish Girl
Room
Trumbo
Carol
Joy

For me this is a very short list, which defines why 2015 was so bad for movies. And the worst movies I saw were without doubt, The Avengers and Spy.

Thursday, November 05, 2015

Dazzled by the Flashing Lights of Mediocrity

So Twitter took away the Favorites star and replaced it with a Likes heart. This tells us many things. And most of them are bad.

The Arrogance of the Wrong Management

A company may initially provide a Social Media service to users, but it is the users themselves who shape that Social Media platform's ethos and culture. They take it, and organically use the features provided to create interesting communities and unexpected usages of the software. And people like the platform. And the number of users grows. And the service is a success.

Thus it was with Twitter.

Then there is an IPO and the initial geekiness that drove the platform's creation is lost in a haze of quarterly reports and stock price expectations. And you bring in management who supposedly know how to run publicly traded companies and they fuck up what differentiated the service and made it special.

How? Via late night brainstorming sessions and workshops to come up with exciting ways to keep the platform "relevant" and "buzzing" And what ideas and innovations do such corporate-driven events tell you to do?

They tell you: Copy Facebook. Remove the favorites star and replace it with a "likes" heart. FB has likes, we should have "likes" too.

And a feature is wiped out and morphed into something no user ever requested and no user ever wanted.

Innovation is not driven by copying. It is driven by addition.

But, after an IPO and putting the Wrong Management in charge, the safe bet, the copying of features, becomes the order of the day. And a pseudo-stability of the share price is maintained by timidity. But bonuses all round! That's what counts right?

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The Mediocrity of Unnecessary Changes

So the changes come in on the platform, and your millions of pretty contented users collectively shout "Why?" and "What are you doing?" and "That was working fine you stupid idiots!".

There is a direct relationship between tinkering with changes no-one asked for and pissing off your users to the point of their leaving you.

This tinkering with software is now what laughingly passes as development. Companies are not developing anything. That is all done before the IPO. What they are doing is very little, changing interfaces and pissing off users.

And this mediocrity of unnecessary changes plagues once innovative outfits that are now treading water and saying "innovation" but no longer doing anything innovative.

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Agile Software Development

And my biggest bugaboo that allows unnecessary tinkering on the edges of your product? Tinkering that produces maximum anger in your users? Agile Development! Fixed in the next build. New app! New app! New app! This methodology of software development is a recipe for bad software. Heck, updates come out so regularly from some companies they are actually screaming "We make unreliable stuff!" to anyone who cares to listen.

And now, users have to take some blame. Because they don't complain about poor software quality because they have now an almost Pavlovian acceptance of bad products and services when they hear "Fixed in the next build".

You know what? IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT IN THE FIRST BUILD.

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Please Twitter do not go down this road. Yahoo! went there and you know how successful that was.

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Bank of America - A Definition of Bad Customer Service.

Dear Bank of America,

AFTER I phone you to say I will be using a credit card for large purchases, I DO NOT want any transactions denied at the POS. And doubly, AFTER I get the transactions allowed at the POS, I DO NOT want a hold put on that credit card and to have to log on to your website the next day ( WHERE I CANNOT SEND AN EMAIL to complain ) to clear that hold.

This is pisspoor Customer Service. Really, really BAD.

Friday, October 02, 2015

What I know

Two things I know for certain:

1. When you tweet Truth to Power and they block you, you win the right to the moral high ground.

2. Everywhere in the developed world, 10-year olds grow out of playing with guns. But in the USA, that doesn't happen.