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The Resemblance is Uncanny

by Al January 5, 2019
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On the left is Felicity Jones playing the part of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the movie ‘On the Basis of Sex’. On the right is the real Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It’s simply amazing the resemblance! Not! Let’s contrast that to Christian Bale playing the part of Dick Cheney in the movie ‘Vice.’ Bale is on the left, while Cheney’s on the right. Outside of the evil smirk on Bale’s face, they are amazingly similar. It just shows what a good job they can do recreating the likeness of a character when they want to. But the two movies have very different goals. One is meant to build up a woman while the other is meant to take down a man. …

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Technology

Rotating Log Files with Easylogging++

by Al December 28, 2018
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I was looking for a logger to use in some of my C++ projects and came across Easylogging++. It’s pretty easy to use and has a decent feature set, but like so many open source projects it’s a bit lacking in the documentation area. I wanted to set it up to do log rotation when the log file exceeded a given size but how to do this was not really clear. I played around with it this morning and finally figured out how accomplish what I wanted to do, so I’m sharing the code here in case anyone else is trying to solve the same problem. First the setup process: Download EasyLogging++ from the repository on GitHub at https://github.com/zuhd-org/easyloggingpp#configuration Unzip …

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Politics

Low Expectations

by Al December 23, 2018
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This crazy lady thinks we should eliminate library fines because they are a hardship for our ‘most vulnerable’ citizens. Once again, more liberal insanity. Why should anyone listen to advice from a librarian that admits to having paid $500 in fines over the last few years. The woman is so irresponsible that she can’t even make sure that she returns the books that she’s borrowed on time, yet want’s us to believe she’s so intelligent that she knows better than the rest of us. Why should anyone listen to advice from a librarian that admits to having paid $500 in fines over the last few years. The woman is so irresponsible that she can’t even make sure that she returns …

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Reviews

Peppermint

by Al December 17, 2018
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Once again an example of critics injecting their politics into movies. Peppermint isn’t high art by any means but it’s a solid vengeance flick that should be judged with that in mind. The movie is well constructed, entertaining and well acted, yet it only gets an 11% average review by the critics on Rotten Tomatoes, while the audience rates it at 74%. Here’s a few examples of what the critics had to say: Alternate-reality Trumpian racial panic where MS13-inspired street gangs are a global threat somewhere on the scale of HYDRA. The shambling end result plays like a Lifetime movie conceived by Steve Bannon. – Bob Chipman – Geek Peppermint is jaw-droppingly ugly, horrendously violent, implicitly racist and routinely handled. …

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Politics

Sounds Like an Admission of Guilt to Me

by Al July 21, 2018
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A clip from a speech Obama gave in Kogelo Keyna on July 16, 2018. Did the truth just slip out?

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July 21, 2018 0 comments
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Politics

Fake News

by Al June 30, 2018
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An article in the UK Daily Mail had the following title, “Black 12-year-old boy mowing lawns for the summer has the POLICE called on him by a customer’s neighbor”. They followed it with a quick summary of the article which included, “It is similar to another incident in San Francisco, where a white woman dubbed ‘Permit Patty’ called the cops on a black girl, 8, for selling bottles of water.” OK, if you don’t go any further you are now left with the impression that those horrible, racist people in America are once again discriminating against a poor little black kid. If you continue scanning the article, it becomes apparent that this is not true. Further down in the article, …

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June 30, 2018 0 comments
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Photography

Some Times You Just Get Lucky

by Al June 27, 2018
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UPS delivered a Sigma 150-600mm lens for my camera today. I decided to test it out by going into the backyard and taking a couple of pictures of a tree or the neighbors house. As luck would have it a hawk was just sitting in the middle of the hill. The lens is huge and heavy, but not as big as a lot of lenses in it’s class. I was hand holding it for the hawk photo and had a hard time keeping it steady enough to get the hawk in focus. I took about fifteen shots and about a third of them were usable. I’m not blaming the lens, something this big really needs a tripod or mono-pod to …

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June 27, 2018 0 comments
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Culture

Diversity Morons

by Al June 3, 2018
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I’ve been thinking about putting up a new antenna for my HF radio and did a Google search to see what was available in the way of masts. A hit came up for Home Depot which carried the Channel Master – Universal 25 ft. Indoor/Outdoor Telescoping Mast. Picking up a mast at Home Depot would be quick and easy so I clicked on the link and here is what I found in the description… Just incredible. We’ve gotten to a point where using the term ‘guy wire’ apparently isn’t inclusive enough so we have to call them ‘person wires’ instead. I wonder what moron made this decision. These people are just frigging insane. Next time I go to the supermarket …

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June 3, 2018 0 comments
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Politics

Anti-Trump Artists Fill A Room With Vermin (and they brought some rats with them too)

by Al April 1, 2018
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The New York Daily News reports that the guerrilla art group, Indecline rented a hotel room at the Trump International Hotel on Central Park West and filled it with rats, McDonald’s wrappers and a Donald Trump impersonator as part of a so called art exhibit. They also displayed pictures of some of their heroes on the walls, including such greats as Communist Party Leader Angela Davis, Western civilization hating professor Howard Zinn and multi-millionaire socialist, Noam Chompsky. This obviously wasn’t art and these obviously aren’t artists (although I’m sure many on the confused left would feel otherwise.) These are nothing more than dangerous children, holding their breath and throwing a temper tantrum because they didn’t get their way in the …

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April 1, 2018 0 comments
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Personal

Goodbye Dish Network

by Al January 29, 2018
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As cable companies come, Dish Network is the best of the bunch. Sadly, it’s time for me to leave them. I’ve been a Dish customer for about twenty two years. When we first moved into the house, I assesed our options and ruled out both Comcast (maybe it was Road Runner back then) and Direct TV as being way too expensive. Dish on the other hand, seemed reasonably priced and had attractive packages so they became the provider of choice. It’s been a good relationship, but in recent years it seemed like the price just kept going up and up. To deal with it, every time there was a price increase, I would cut back programming a bit to keep …

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