2017 b day

My yearly-ish shout out to the new peeps, with a view back to the past.

There have a been a TON of new people who made 2016 ... less insane, less a nightmare, less THE END, that it could have been.

And you are all friends of a small circle of my other friends.
And that is not a credit to me or them, but you.

And then there is the purely ONLINE ONLY connections.

Synthia/Eric/Frank
Through Synthia, I met Eric, and she sold to Frank, and we were forced to be friends. (Such a chore)

BUT ...
The three of them introduced me to .... an insane number of people (wolfram? WHERE is your chart????)
People who are here everyday

HS - the dolphins started showing up and now their are a plethora of you ... I think Charles Tatum is to blame for bring the rest of you into focus.
Not a day goes by that I read something from Terry, and dont get me started on Ardelia's insanity. I found out that one of you lived in my DAMN BUILDING for 5-10 years ... that's on me .... I was there longer ... HAHAHA

I have been working the last few years to ACTIVELY HUNT DOWN (AND KILL) I mean reconnect with some of the missing circle from Circle Campus.
Culminating with seeing Echo and the Bunnymen with some long lost friends.

PURE online .... I met a large number of ..... NERD playing World of Warcraft ... and the true power is that a bunch of them have become true friends.

I picked up Abel at Great Lakes Training, to spend the best xmas ever. A sailor, away from family for the holidays. We had know each other for years, but met in real life, I learned about KNOTS, the lake, the ocean, history of naval warfare, how OLD PEOPLE are treated in boot camp ... ahahah haha

BUT most importantly ... standing in that museum, waiting to pick up family and friends on leave, I saw ... REAL AMERICA .... PEOPLE picking up their loved ones.
SERVICE .... service are all these amazing kids and oldsters, who are putting their lives into place ... to SERVE ....

To the amazing people that I have met on FB ... thank you ... there is literally no way that our paths could have crossed in any other way ...

Friends of a brother of a guy that I work with?
A crazy Mexican who owns a vinyl store in Mexico City (while making TUBE amps)

WTF IS WRONG WITH CANADA???
Seriously 10-30 percent of you are Canadian ??

North, South, Worldwide (seriously India-England-California?)

And the few extra special people .....

Thanks for all the well wishes ... but you made this a great year. Thanks again .

PS, if you think that you were left out, PM me .... and I will correct you ... HHAHAHA

PPS
IF there is a truer test of what we are ... who we are ... it is the number of cross connections that my friends from one place have connected with others.

Time to harness this pow

Drones

mehI don't even know how to process this ...
at least we killed them before they could leave children that we would need to kill ??

Asymmetric wall is hell
All war have collateral deaths
Drone wars? WELL OUR GUYS ARE SAFE


In the strangest way, shouldn't drone wars reduce war?
1) cost a ton less that "regular" wars ....
2) LESS our side dying on the ground
3) easier to KILL their side, and everyone around them ...

That level of tech advantage SHOULD get the other side to the peace table, right??

And yet nothing ....

conquest

BUT .... it is ONLY since the UN charter, that winning land in wars became unpopular "legally"

In SOME WAYS, this is an awesome idea, stop people from expanding their territory by war .... but ... it also froze in time the borders, screwing the Kurds and the Palestinians (among a trillion others)

[[ Simultaneously, the UN Charter's guarantee of the "territorial integrity" of member states effectively froze out claims against prior conquests from this process. ]]

And how do we put Yugoslavia into this framework?

which all leads ... WHAT?
"civil" wars splitting a country is "ok"??? so external forces arm one side and the other and break up countries ....

in the end, we always have might makes right ... not unless the majority are willing to CRUSH the fighting parties.

ISIS? UN could/should have landed 5 millions boots on the ground and crushed ISIS. Instead ISIS had a civil war ... right?

Taliban? Taliban controlled something like 98% of Afghanistan, effectively winning their civil war, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_conquest
eyup ... as long as we have weapons, we will have war and death

azure recurring charges FUCK

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tomatoes

http://www.tomatodirt.com/grow-tomatoes-from-seeds.html

chrome settings

chrome://dns
lolwut

chrome://net-internals/#dns


chrome://settings

chrome://flags/

chrome://flags/
QUIC

Number of raster threads to 4
Only Auto-Reload Visible Tabs enabled

http://il.speedtest.rcn.net/
laptop - wireless - 280Mbps download

brandy

http://brandy.underthelabel.com/compare/30-37-41/Jacques-Cardin-VSOP-Cognac-vs-Jacques-Cardin-Apple-Flavored-VSOP-Cognac-vs-Camus-Cognac-VS-Elegance

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planets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exoplanets
take planet data create visual

X what year it was discovered
Y how far from earth in LYs or AC ratios
Z bubbles size/mass of planet log

AWESOME
new tech

2017 01 01 - saved video links - science and cool

1 - visual science
2 - graphic showing the discovery of asteroids, in recent history
3 - seriously nerdy awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKKg4lZ_o-Y
asteroids

2017 01 08 - climate change is done

arctic ice volume

fish moving north

larsen C

done done and done
nothing will turn this back

download this now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA

pot roast

2-4lbs big pot roast (the more fat the better, you dont need to EAT the fat, but you WANT the fat for flavor while cooking)
tablespoon minced garlic (less or more to taste)

1-2 cups beef bouillon
(better than bouillon soup base is best)
(do not buy those whole foods or trader joes soup/boullion containers ... yuck!!)
or could jsut be water ...
salt and pepper to taste
onion - giant white or yellow, cut in half, then quarters ... big chunks

optional
cubed mushrooms (pint or two)
cubed celery (cup or so)
cubed carrots (cup or so)
NO POTATOES - POTATOES ARE THE DEVIL'S FOOD

1) (optional) sear meat - this REALLY is not needed and meh ....
2) put roast, garlic, salt, pepper, soup stock into crockpot
leave the meat sticking out of the soup (aka, do not completely cover)
3) add a tiny bit of celery, carrots and mushrooms (these will be soggy as shit when you are done cooking)
4) cook on low for 8+ hours
or high for 4+ hours

5) 30-60 minutes before dinner time: add the veggies - you want them al dente - not MUSSHHHHH

6) ENJOY

"problems"
The meat is tough and impossible to eat, until it is magically soft and easy to eat with a fork
Trying to eat this too soon is the worst thing ever.

IF you have been slow cooking on low, and dinner is getting closer (2 hours), and you are worried, turn on high for the last two hours .... really cant go wrong with this.

OMFG now I wants pot roast

you really can not go wrong (too much salt?? start with less)
too long? whoops it is too tender
cut in huge chunks before cooking, for easy freezing