Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Brainstorming Ebola under America First

    February 7, 2019
    Health / Medicine, Nationalism, Race / Racism, Uncategorized

    Saw a story that got me wondering what the reaction would be under the current president if the test had come back positive. An unidentified patient who was kept in isolation at a Philadelphia hospital while being tested for Ebola has been confirmed as not infected with the deadly virus. Thoughts and prayers? That seems…

  • “Look Like Them”

    January 31, 2019
    Race / Racism, Sex / Feminism / Gender, Uncategorized

    Read an article about pay disparities by gender in the system by which I am employed which mentioned research that students get along best with faculty members who look like them. It made me laugh out loud. I cannot recall a teacher who looked like me: male, tall, and half-white / half-black. Or at least…

  • Sort by delivery date

    January 17, 2019
    Uncategorized

    If Amazon wants a better way to take my money, then they would add to the filter a sort by delivery date. Two day shipping doesn’t mean something I order today gets here in two days. It means what is the date it goes out the door, it should arrive in two days. For most…

  • The Social Media Evolution

    January 16, 2019
    Facebook, Social / IM / Chat, Uncategorized

    The Make Me Smart Podcast episode 96: Do it for the ‘gram had an interesting quip that Instagram was what the Facebook News Feed was before it got corrupted by ads and political arguments: the trivialities of our daily lives. All social networks became popular because of trivialities. “What’s on your mind?” THAT is what…

  • Facebook should honor those privacy notice hoaxes

    January 4, 2019
    Facebook, Fact Check, Privacy

    I’ve seen several friends post the new variant of the notice saying that in order to have privacy, you have to post the note that does not give Facebook permission to use your photos or status updates. Here is the thing. Taking away that permission makes Facebook unusable as no one can see them even…

  • Happiness is the truth

    January 2, 2019
    Psychology

    Because I’m happy; Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth I occasionally review how I am using social media. For years now, I worry about how I leverage social signaling. (read more) There is an awareness of the temptation to make myself appear more successful than I am. And that excessive signaling on…

  • Relative Dating

    December 14, 2018
    Uncategorized

    “Today” and “Yesterday” are intuitive ways to indicate when something happened. Except when one cannot determine when today is. See, I appear to have a weird DNS issue where some software is not able to communicate with servers. Microsoft Teams appears to be one of those products affected. So, in a thread that says “Today”,…

  • The Special Character That Wasn’t

    December 12, 2018
    Uncategorized

    In trying to uninstall a piece of software, the computer reported that process failed because of a special character in the directory where it was installed. What? That doesn’t make any sense. First, it was a generic folder name. Second, how did the same installer software create this directory it now cannot remove? Eventually, the…

  • “School spirit”

    November 30, 2018
    Uncategorized

    It seems like a common thing where employees wear shirts with a high school or college logo in the town of the team on the days prior to and on the day of a game. The more I talk to people, the more I run across people who are posing. Employees dependent on good tips…

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