Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

Not X

Let X be one of the following: homophobic, racist, sexist, transphobic, or xenophobic (or any other of a seemingly ever-expanding set of bigotries). I submit for consideration the following hypothesis: Someone who is actually not X will never have to say, "I am not X". Introducing a statement with "I…

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Texas Sheriff Locates Cause of Deputy's Murder

According to CNN, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman has stated that the murder of Deputy Darren H. Goforth is because... wait for it... #blacklivesmatter "When the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, cold-blooded assassination of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of…

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David F

A Maze in Corning

We visited Corning yesterday, which is quite a bit dolled-up from when I last stopped there. Well, I admit: that was in a year that began with a '1'. This may be very silly but I was struck by how cool it was to find…

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David F

Pen-Gate

Samsung can't catch a break lately. If it's not their Smart TVs getting caught spying on you, it's their smart refrigerators exposing your GMail login. (Wait. What? Why does your refrigerator even know your farking GMail login? Do I even want to know?) Samsung's new top-of-the-line phablet,…

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