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This old house was only a few blocks from the state Capitol in Madison,
Wisconsin. All the neighborhood cats lived in the basement during the
winter. The house has long since been torn down, but in 1972 there were
AR2ax speakers in the front room, and a lot of good music was heard there. |
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In the 21st century I am just as opinionated as ever,
and I now have an outlet. I shall pontificate here about anything
that catches my fancy; I hope I will not make too great a fool
of myself. You may comment yea or nay about anything on the
site; I may quote you here, or I may not. Send brickbats etc.
to: dmclarke78@icloud.com.
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April 3, 2014The trees are nice
I'm not crazy about the Lehigh Valley. Too densely populated, too much traffic, tiny little two-lane roads across the mountains, an errand on a weekday afternoon is like trying to get to the beach on a holiday weekend. It all makes me want to go somewhere else. But the trees at sundown have a lovely light on them -- my camera can't really do it justice.
April 3, 2014#$@ passwordsA message from Google:
Someone recently used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account...This person was using an application such as an email client or mobile device. We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:
[an IP address in Tampa Florida)
If you do not recognize this sign-in attempt, someone else may be trying to access your account. You should sign in to yoiur account and reset your passwork immediately.
I am unaware of having a Google "account", though I suppose I do, because I belong to a Google chat group, and you can't do anything on the Internet without joining, registering, signing up, giving them everything except your underwear size.
So what does this message mean? Was somebody trying to do something through Google and nominated a password already in use (mine)? It is the combination of user name or email address and the password that is necessary, is it not? If the person couldn't "sign in" to my Google account, then everything is working as it should, is it not? Do I have nothing else to do but constantly screw around changing my passwords? It's not a bank account, for heaven's sake.
April 3, 2014The newsIn the Wall Street Journal today, Charles G. Koch writes "I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society". His op-ed piece is full of praise for himself, while I know a patch of Michigan that Koch owns where there used to be a chemical factory and that desperately needs to be cleaned up. But thanks to the Supreme Court Koch will find it easier than ever to buy politicians. ["Pssst! Hey mister! Wanna buy a congressmen? got a bogo on now, buy one get one free!]
Another op-ed is called "Why the Senate Races Will Soon Get Ugly". I see it's by Karl Rove, so I'm not reading it. The races will get ugly if they hire Karl Rove.
And a letter-writer thinks that the reason fewer people are going to the movies nowadays is because they don't have ushers anymore. I don't know about that, but if we had ushers today, would they have to be armed?
But Steve Case writes another op-ed, "Hey Washington, the JOBS Act You Passed Is Working". It begins,
Is it possible that a law passed by today's polarised Congress is actually working to strengthen our economy?
How'd they let some good news through?