Month: May 2014

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REALLY? Thoughtless Local Realtors making my life difficult.

IMG 0280This is an example of the kind of stupidity that we’ve been dealing with since our neighbor put his house on the market.

We have realtors doing this shit all the time now.

This guy is by far the worst of the lot.

If he’d just parked in the damn driveway he’d have had a 50/50 chance of letting ONE of us out. This way he’s blocked in all FOUR cars.  

The really annoying part is that he could have parked in front of our lawn, he could have parked across the street under the tree.

HE COULD HAVE PARKED BLOCKING THE DRIVEWAY OF THE NEIGHBOR WHOSE HOUSE IS FOR SALE.

But no, he has to inconvenience the neighbors. 

This moron is actually parked in the middle of the street, in addition to blocking my driveway.

We called his boss, he said to go make he employee move it. The point is, we shouldn’t have to go hunt someone down, so that we can leave our house.

Great job dumbass!

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You read it here first!

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Slightly over a year ago, I wrote a blog piece explaining that Adobe was going to a subscription model, and why I personally was uncomfortable with that model.

You can read the original piece here.

Yesterday, Adobe’s cloud blew up.

I was blissfully unaware because I have only local copies of Creative Suite and Lightroom. I haven’t signed up for the subscription services and don’t use Adobe’s Cloud.

The chatter on the net was that lots of people couldn’t work because the Adobe Cloud service couldn’t log them in. This single point of failure, resulted in their software being disabled.

I never anticipated that as a failure mechanism. I honestly expected a failure to occur with the download of the application or it’s updates.

In the original piece I did question what happened when the application “Phoned Home”

Does the software degrade? Or does the software continue to work until the next time it phones the mother ship then self destruct?

I’ve got my answer. Without verification, the software stops working altogether. NICE!

I’m glad I didn’t drink the kool-aid. I’ll hang onto my local copies of Creative Suite and never connect any of the programs contained therein to Adobe’s Cloud.

I’m very content having software that works because my license key is local.

I do wonder if it’s time for me to start looking hard at other alternatives to Adobe.

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I re-read this today.

Yes, I know it’s weird. 

I re-read The Constitution about once or twice a year.

When I was testing printers for a living, I often Printed The Constitution as a test case. It was my way of making sure that people who might otherwise have never read the document had an opportunity to.

It’s surprising how many people haven’t read it, and equally surprising how many people came to my cubicle asking for me to print copies for them. 

We should remember that The Constitution is a document that defines our government AND its limits.  

You don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to read The Constitution. It is a remarkably straight forward document to build a nation on.  I’ve alway believed that the directness of the language was intentional, and the document was to be comprehensible to the general public.

I once had a grand time citing Amendment VII as my reason for refusing to enter into binding arbitration. I was probably citing and using the Amendment incorrectly.  Nonetheless, I did get out of the HR department of a company I worked for, without losing my right to have legal representation and trial by jury if it became necessary.

Allow me to introduce you to my friend,

The Constitution of the United States

Happy reading.

With gratitude to 

National Constitution Center

525 Arch Street

Independence Mall

Philadelphia, PA 19106

(215) 409-6600

www.constitutioncenter.org

For producing a very nice PDF of this document.