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Sunday, November 08, 2015

Algorithms and Their Implementations

As I taught my students the Sieve of Eratosthenes, I described the sieve verbally, then I had them "run" the sieve on paper, then program it in Visual Basic. And as I did so, I contemplated, "What is the sieve itself, apart from its implementations?"

This of course is but one more version of the problem that Plato and Aristotle grappled with, on the relation of the forms to their particulars. Plato's approach was to regard the particulars as inferior "copies" of the forms, which tended to lead to a contempt for the world of particulars, and Gnostic ideas like the creation of the sensible world by an evil demiurge. On the other hand, Aristotle emphasized the particulars, leading him to posit a God who was so totally removed from the world that He did not even know it existed.

The problem, it seemed to me as I contemplated this matter, is that each view is one-sided, and treats the algorithm and its implementations as though they could be pulled apart. But the implementations are meaningless except as implementations of the form. We might understand this by saying that the "algorithm itself" is the generative source of the implementations. But it is not something different from those implementations, nor did it stamp them out, as though on an assembly line. We might say the implementations of the form are one in being with the form, and that they are begotten, not made by it.

Furthermore, we finite beings are only able to perceive the form itself through the implementations. There is simply no way to convey to anyone else what the generative form of the algorithm is without pointing them to the form fleshed out in an implementation, or, we might say, as humans, our only path to the generative source is through the source made flesh.

But we might further notice that we haven't completed our analysis of this matter just yet: neither the generative form nor its implementation are complete without the actual running of the algorithm, until we give it life by executing it, on paper, or in our head, or on a computer. The generative form is made fully real through its implementations by the power of executing it. But that power is also one in being with the form and the implementations: we might say the execution of an algorithm proceeds from its generative form and its implementation.

Somehow, this all reminds me of something, but I'm not sure what at the moment.

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  1. Gene, this is fascinating. What I'm trying to see is how Berkeley's Idealism fits in with all of this; doesn't he deny the existence of abstracta?

Chicken horror movies

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Archive for August, 2010

I am determined to settle this question.  Let’s take a look at the aerial photo.

Hmm.  Tough to tell.  I think I’m going to have to bring in an expert.

Okay, what’s your estimate?

"100 Billion!"

Well there you have it.  The crowd size at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally was around 100 billion!  I expect the media to pick this number up as the definitive estimate.  Otherwise the media is clearly biased!  I know there are some doubters out there.  But trust me, there were a ton of people out at that rally dressed in clothes made out of grass!  They were just trying to blend into the scenery!

Bendable straws……$2.88

Two bottles of bottled still water…..$3.00

Four round trip air tickets from Anchorage, Alaska (two first-class, two coach)…..$2,450.

One bedroom suite in deluxe hotel…..$6,000

Speaker fee…..$75,000

A chance to have one of the great thinkers of our generation, Sarah Palin, speak at your function:

As you probably know, tax cuts implemented during the Bush years are set to expire on January 1st.  There has already been a good bit of teeth gnashing over this on the Republican side, claiming this is yet another step toward Obama’s socialist vision (who knew that as recently as 2002, the United States was a socialist nation?).  Democrats for their part say that we simply can’t afford to let the Bush tax cuts continue.  But what are we really arguing about?  I saw a graphic at The Obtuse View via The Washington Post that demonstrates the substance of the “debate”:

Notice how similar most of those circles are?  So here’s the deal.  Republicans want to extend the Bush tax cut for 100% of all taxpayers.  Obama wants to extend the Bush tax cut for about 97-98% of all taxpayers (Obama would let the upper two tax brackets revert back to 2000 levels, so the next-to-highest bracket would go from 33% to 36%, and the highest bracket would go from 35% to 39.6%.  However, he also would raise the lower level of that next-to-highest bracket to $200,000 for single filers, and $250,000 for families.  All other brackets would remain exactly as they are now.)  You would think that with both sides being this close to agreement that there wouldn’t be much of a battle.  But these days, especially in an election year, every issue is do-or-die, end of the world, the sky is falling, the nation is going straight to hell in a handbasket type of issue.

Lost in this phony battle is a real discussion of whether either side is actually being fiscally responsible.  To really balance budgets and pay down the debt, realistically BOTH spending has to be reduced and taxes have to be increased (and frankly, you probably are going to have to find some of that revenue at lower income levels than just the upper two brackets).  But we aren’t ready for serious discussions yet.  Haven’t you heard? We have a Muslim problem to deal with.  They are hatching a plan to take over, a plan that apparently has been in the making for over one hundred years!

Since writing about the proposed so-called “Ground Zero mosque” way back in May, this issue has only heated up.  I have put my Sarah Palin/Newt Gingrich hat on and now I know this community center mosque MUST be stopped.  The reasons are clear:

  • There is no better way to honor the memories of victims of 9/11 than with an abandoned Burlington Coat Factory!  This must not be replaced!  We want visitors to see this at “Ground Zero”.   OK, they can’t see it at “Ground Zero”.  But they will know.  They will know.  Besides, urban blight is way cooler than an active multimillion dollar community center mosque.
  • The community center mosque will have a basketball court.  Don’t you see what they are planning on doing?  It’s going to be a training center for Arab nations to take down the U.S. “Dream Team”!  Winning the gold medal in basketball is our right as Americans!  We can’t allow Muslims to hatch this devious plan!
  • And it’s going to have a library with a reading center.  Yeah right, we all know what kind of books they will have:
  • Exactly!  We get the failures of the underwear bomber and the Times Square bomber and now some Muslims want to build a “library”?  Coincidence?  I think not!
  • A culinary school and restaurant aye.  Well let’s see what kind of books they are planning on having in this culinary school:

  • OMG!  Kanamits aren’t aliens!  They are Muslims!  And they are going to eat us all!
  • Oh, and they are offering childcare services.  Certain to be the training ground for the terror anchor babies that one of our brilliant Congressmen has been warning us about!
  • A September 11th memorial and quiet contemplation space?  More like celebration central I’m sure!
  • Oh and get this, they’ve invited Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich to Park 51.  They claim that they would “really love it”.  Don’t fall for this Sarah and Newt!
  • Admiral Ackbar is right!  It is all part of a Muslim plot to kidnap our greatest leaders!

The facts here are clear.  Now don’t get Sarah, Newt, and I wrong.  This religious organization has the right to build a terror training center dead set to kill us all at this location.  But is it right?  It would be perfectly fine with us if they built it, just as long as it is not at this location (or in California, or in Tennessee, or in….well, any state that’s in America really).  See, we are not being unreasonable at all! 😉

OK, taking off the Newt/Sarah hat.  Ah, brainwaves working again!

If you want more information on the actual Park 51 plans, go here:  Park 51

Seems like it has the potential to be a really cool place for the community, and as a bonus it will be completely funded by private funds.  I really don’t see how this can be either offensive or threatening.  I have a hard time seeing how one can come to either conclusion without having a bigoted view of the Muslim faith.  But a recent poll though said that 70% of Americans think this project will be an insult to 9/11 victims so I guess I’m in the minority.  (Then again, the same poll had some pretty scary results.  Twenty-eight percent of those polled said that all Muslims should be banned from serving on the Supreme Court, thirty-three percent said that all Muslims should be banned from running for President, and 24% think President Obama is a Muslim.  I’m beginning to think that I’ve been dumped into Idiocracy world!)

Boy, this is exciting stuff.  Alabama football head coach Nick Saban has decided to endorse a Bessemer candidate for mayor!  It would seem kind of unusual for a football coach in Tuscaloosa to get involved in Bessemer politics, a small town 45 miles away or so.  But clearly Nick Saban has endorsed Bessemer councilwoman Dorothy Davidson for mayor of Bessemer.  The photo does not lie!

This photo appears in campaign fliers for Dorothy, along with the claim that she has Saban’s endorsement.  Picture was taken as the two talked at a golf course one day.  Hmm, kind of odd that he is fuzzier in the photo than she is.  But whatever, stupid cameras, I can’t ever get them to work either.  This has to be huge for Dorothy………..oh.  What’s that?  Another picture?  Sure, I would love to see another picture of Saban standing with the candidate!Hmm, Dorothy looks a lot paler in that shot.  Heck, it doesn’t even look like she is even wearing the same clothes!  She really needs to get a new camera!  Oh, that’s not Dorothy?  It’s Saban’s wife?  Oh, okay.  Wow, what are the odds that on a different day that he would be at the same golf course with the same clothes on?  And look at him, he hits the same exact pose, even down to the wrinkles in his shirt!  Now that’s discipline!  That, my friends, is why Nick Saban is coach of the defending NCAA National Champions!  OK, so it was cool to see another photo, but I really don’t know what the point of………..what’s that?  There’s something I need to read?  What?

Bessemer mayoral candidate Dorothy Davidson claims Nick Saban endorsement, passing out fliers with altered photo

You are kidding!  That photo was altered?  Man, I couldn’t tell at all!  Whoever altered the image must have spent days hours minutes seconds on that!  Well there just has to be a reasonable explanation.

……the candidate acknowledged that her image was digitally added to the 2007 photo.

“They said we could do it this way,” Davidson said.

Davidson’s part of the picture is what was taken three weeks ago, she said Tuesday night.

While the photo is fake, the support of Saban is real, Davidson and her campaign manager, Kevin Morris, maintain.

“My dad, Larry Morris, and coach Saban are friends,” Morris said Tuesday. “We were on the golf course one day, and I asked him myself if this would be OK.”

See, I told you!  Perfectly reasonable.  I’m sure Saban asked if they wanted to get a real photo, and Morris just told him that it would be totally unnecessary.  With today’s technology, it would be much easier just to doctor one up!  It makes sense to me.  I’m glad we’ve got that cleared up.  So now we can move on……what’s that?  There’s something else I need to read?  Oh, I bet Nick Saban has approached the media.  He has probably now endorsed Dorothy Davidson publicly and cleared this thing right up!

Bessemer mayoral candidate’s campaign manager admits he lied about endorsement from Alabama Coach Nick Saban

What?!!!!!!!!!!!  I’ve been bamboozled!  My faith in Alabama politics has been shattered!  Well, it would have been had I any faith in Alabama politics to begin with.  I tell you what, I’m never going to trust what I see in an obviously photoshopped picture ever again!

OK, so the Dorothy Davidson/Nick Saban picture is a fake.  But I want to know when the media will start to question whether or not the supposed original photo of Nick Saban and his wife has been digitally altered.  C’mon, we all know Nick Saban doesn’t ever smile! 🙂

“But greatness comes at a price.  It always has.”

Yes!  This looks epic!  Mmm….grade A schlock….*drool*.  Look for Sharktopus on the home of all the great movie classics, the Sci-Fi Channel SyFy on September 25th at 9pm est.

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I thought it was vitally important that Tim James and Roy Moore get defeated in the Republican primary so that they could not be governor of Alabama.  So I decided to vote Robert Bentley not so much because I agreed with his views but because he wasn’t Tim James or Roy Moore.  But reading some recent comments from Robert Bentley is leading me to believe that in reality it didn’t make much difference who came out of the Republican primary.

Robert Bentley favors elevated toll road for U.S. 280

First, just a word on the proposed elevated road.  Here is an artist’s rendering:

First, isn’t it wonderful that this thing will be the first structure in the world that will not cast a shadow on a sunny day?  Maybe they should sell it as a vampire bridge!  But anyway, once you get to the point that you are literally building roads on top of roads, don’t you think it might be time to start considering alternatives?  I don’t know, maybe something like mass transit (something that technically exists in Birmingham, but is so woefully underfunded that it almost may as well not)?  But Robert Bentley says Birmingham won’t support mass transit.  I would say that they are about as likely to support it as suburbs like Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills are to support having this thing run through their community, but what do I know?

So Bentley is clearly the expert here.  Speak to me Bentley:

“Birmingham is not a mass transit city. It’s just not. If you take light rail to get downtown, what then?” he said, questioning how people would get from a train station to their workplaces.

Well first, it’s hard to argue with scientific proof like “it’s just not”.  As far as how people would get to their workplaces, I don’t know.  My crazy idea would be that they would just walk.  I know that’s kind of kooky.  But I am wondering how people are getting to workplaces from their cars.  It’s not like anyone is just parking right next to their desk.

But Robert had other things on his mind as well.  In regards to Arizona:

He believes Arizona did the right thing in passing a law — much of which has been struck down by a federal judge — that required local law enforcement to enforce immigration law.

“I’m proud of Arizona,” he said.

Sigh.  I’m thinking that Robert Bentley probably doesn’t disagree with the sentiment behind the Tim James “We Speak English” ad, he is just not stupid enough to state that view explicitly in a commercial.  And that probably means that we are probably not going to get anything significantly different under a Robert Bentley governorship as we would with a Tim James governorship.

You have people who don’t participate in the political process because they are totally apathetic.  But you have other people who don’t participate in the political process not because they don’t care, but because they feel like it really doesn’t make a difference.  I find myself feeling that way more and more.


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All that can happen in 4 months..

Well, well, well. Here I am writing for the first time in 4 months. Four. Actually there was one drunken post at one point but then I removed it because it was just crappy nonsense. To say that things have been busy around here would be true and to say they’ve been crazy would be even more truthful. Honestly, I feel like there isn’t time for anything other than living right now and my nerves have been shot but might be starting to settle down soon. Maybe.

Marshall is away at a residential treatment facility. He will be there for about a year and should help him a lot. This was court ordered by a very nice judge who probably saw the desperation in my eyes when I requested he be placed. As you know I love all of my kids more than anything and I had been wanting him to be sent somewhere for a while for his own good, as well as for ours. He and Aidan had it out one night and it got really, really bad. I had Regina call the police because Marshal was seriously out of his head attacking Aidan. It was scary. That was in February and he hasn’t been home since.

If I am lucky and can get back into the swing of things I will talk more about Marshal in later posts.

I really miss writing so much.

Regina is another stressor.. Her graduation is next Thursday and she is scrambiling at the last minute to get her work done so she can actually graduate. Why she does this I just don’t know. She’s failing cosmetology because of her attendance. She’s months and months behind on her on-line courses. She’s playing hardball with her head in the clouds. Do I think she’ll get it all done in time to participate in graduation? Yes. I’m I worried sick that I’m wrong and she won’t? Yes. It’s her life and I can’t do it for her. All I can do (and do daily) is nag. Fun for all.

On top of those two my mother has been very odd and apparently has/had begun drinking around the clock. I don’t even know what to write about her other than I am worried. I think she is going through some mental health issues and trying to self medicate with more alcohol than usual. Trying to help my dad and brother help her has been difficult because I am so far away, have two little boys that I don’t want to bring around her and also I have to do a few driving trips each day to get or drop off Regina at work or school or what have you. I’ve also honestly have been hoping my mom gets her head out of her ass and gets her shit together. Not realistic.

The little boys keep my days busy. Maddox is starting to walk now and has been getting into everything for a while now. Logan has been getting jealous and they both constantly want my attention to be directed at themselves. It’s rough, it’s normal and I’m blessed to be able to be home with them. They drive me crazy though. :)

My mental  state hasn’t been so hot but I know it’s because of everything that’s going on. I feel stretched thin but it will all fall into place. My medication was switched and it’s taking it’s time working. I have gained 20 pounds since starting the first med and it’s making me miserable. This new med that replaced it though should help me lose that weight. I hope so though because I really feel disgusting. It’s terrible. Especially concidering that I had lost so much weight after having Maddox, who will be a year old next month.

Logan’s 3rd birthday is on Thursday. Since the boys birthdays are so close together I am having a combined party. I don’t want to do all of the work twice and we are far enough away from family that one trip is good for them to make instead of two.

In August Regina will be 18. Holy fucking shit batman. I would be close to the end of child hood! But that’s not the case at all. I’ve got another 17 years before I can say that. Sigh. I love the kids, each and every one of them but this Mama is tired. Really tired. I turned 38 on Friday. My life is chugging along and of my whole life I’ll have had 35 years of kids under 18. If that doesn’t keep you young then I’m fucked.

I’ve been working on the stairwell and woodwork in the house and it’s been moving quickly. I’ll update more soon, Logan just woke up.

What’s the story morning glory?

I’ve gone from posting once a day to now once a week every TWO weeks. Ugh. Time is flying at least, right? I started this last week.. Yup.

I don’t understand what the struggle is about waking up early anymore. I mean I really go to bed at 8 or 9 every night and still hit snooze two times to many in the morning.

Oh, I know! It’s because Maddox has been nursing a lot more at night. He has more teeth coming in so he wakes up more often. Poor guy. Poor Mama.

The past (two) weeks was (were) okay (kind of). We ordered Maddox’s convertible car seat because he outgrew the infant carrier. We got the same brand as the carrier and the convertible one that Logan uses, Evenflo. Most of the convertibles are around $300 but we got this one for $180 on Amazon and we know that we like it because like I said Logan has one.

When I pulled it out it looked huge and I couldn’t imagine that Maddox’s head would even reach the head rest on the lowest setting that it adjusts to. Seriously? I put him in it though before throwing a hissy fit and holy cow my kid is a giant!

Is it just me.. He’s adorable right? I know as the mama I am supposed to think he’s the cutest, but really — he is a cutie to the rest of the world, too, right?

Aside from being very big and cute (19 pounds and I forget how many inches) Maddox is very strong. He’s about to start crawling and can sit himself up pretty well. Not entirely by himself but almost! He sat up all by himself twice this week!! And he gets arounf the room in an army crawl like nobody’s business.

Here he is in his bouncy seat refusing to take a nap:

He is a fussy guy and whines quite a lot. He gets really mad when he wants to play with something that he isn’t allowed to have (specifically electronics) and squeals like a pig. Yes, a pig. I predict “Babe” being his favorite movie or another one with pigs. I should read Charlotte’s Web to them. Really, that would be a good one to read, it’s on my list.

Better you than me, sister!

In other baby news, I think that I mentioned my niece and my sister-in-law are both pregnant with their seconds? Well, I’ve been successfully getting stuff together for my niece and have another batch of items for her. Luckily she is having a boy and probably won’t need anything other than things she wants.

On Saturday we went to Aidan’s parents for his Dad’s birthday. It was a nice get together and my sister-in-law was there and is now 7-8 months pregnant. She looks adorable but extremely miserable. I felt sad for a second knowing that I will never be pregnant again but that only lasted a second because pregnancy sucks. I feel bad for her and how uncomfortable she must feel. They aren’t finding out what the baby is. I have no guesses either. If I had to choose I’d say a boy because her belly looks like mine did but I don’t know that it’s an indication of anything.

 Things that broke..

Well, we have now officially updated every single major appliance in the house. Every single one.. The furnace, water heater, washer dryer, refrigerator, dishwasher and most recently the stove.

Let me tell you about the stove.. For whatever reason when I bought the house it had an apartment sized stove in it. Really it was unnessecary because my kitchen really isn’t that small and a normal sized one could fit, but anyway it came with a 20″ stove and over the years I learned to love it. It was a work horse. Seriously, I cooked and baked in and on that stove so much and our relationship grew over 11 years. It was a piece of shit that didn’t work right, but I figured out it’s quirks and I agreed to not cuss it out everyday if it would just help out a little.

So.. That agreement worked for 11 years but finally the little stove that could finally called it quits and just couldn’t anymore.

Why, yes! That is a stool propping the door closed! I tried to work with it as best I could but it just turned rediculous. I had to keep the door propped but the stool kept getting knocked into which meant the door would fall, not just open but just about off.

I was really hoping it would keep together until we could afford to replace the cabinets and counters but that didn’t work out.

Aside from the little stoves being super small, they aren’t very popular so no major companies make them. They are hard to find and very pricy. I could have gotten a regular sized stove (LG at that) for a lower price than what we bought. It would have been more costly to buy the cheaper stove and replace everything else though, so it was what it was..

We had to replace the tiny stove with another tiny stove..

Please don’t mind the kitchen. It was (is always) a hot mess.

So there is our tiny new stove that seems to have as many problems as the old one. The door stays closed though. I guess that is good? We had to call the place we bought it from because of course one of the burners doesn’t light. None of them light easily but the one has a broken piece.

Will I learn to love this stove? Probably. But damn I really just want new cabinets, counters and a backsplash. And a new floor. And a billion dollars. And a maid who will just clean the kitchen. And maybe the bathrooms..

There is so much more to write about but the littles are awake. I really need to rethink my schedule and find a better time to write since the mornings obviously aren’t working for me anymore..

I hope you are all well!!

“Mom, do you have a pair of socks?”

This boy. I seriously bought him 26 pairs of socks for Christmas. Twenty Six. A whole months worth, just about. Combined with all of the other socks he had and has stolen from us.. I’d say he has at least 40 pairs down there.

What fucking nerve.

“I promise I’ll start my wash today.”

His problem.

I can’t give him socks because I myself only have maybe 6 pairs. I do my laundry when I need and if I’m late by a day or two I’m stuck wearing slipper socks. My problem. I don’t try robbing other people or asking other people. I get my shit done and move on.

I really need a shower.

Aidan’s been leaving early for work so he can get home before 7pm. It’s better that he gets home early but it’s harder in the mornings. Plus I don’t know why but I’ve been having a very hard time waking up lately. Like super hard Regina-needs- a-ride-to-school-now late.

Sigh. That’s why I haven’t been writing for a few days either.

Mommy needs to hibernate. And not be harassed about socks.

Well, the kids are up, have a great day. I’ll try to write more later if they take a nap at the same time. har har har.

My titles need a lot of work..

Yesterday was a bust. A big ol’ bust. I didn’t get anything done. I was so tired that all I could get done was thinking about what I wanted to do. I guess that happens.

We ate leftovers. I didn’t shower. No cookies were made. No bathrooms were scrubbed. The kids were though.

I woke up this morning to a huge mess in the kitchen. One that I did not make but now one that I will clean up because if I wait until the kids wake up it won’t be until after noon.

The real kicker about yesterday is that I didn’t even really relax. I didn’t watch any tv or get a good nap. I just thought and walked around like a zombie. Stupid day.

I’ve been writing on this blog for over a year now. I got my anniversary notification over a week ago. I had to look back into my posts to find the date: December 14th. Since then I’ve written 270 posts, not including this one.

That’s great for me!

On my old blog, which was more successful (in terms of readership) I had posted 248 times from December 4th 2010 – January 26th 2014. Over here I’ve written way more posts in way less time.

Loss of laughter?

My old blog was better in terms of content and editing I suppose. I used to edit the shit out of what I was posting. I had to leave that behind but couldn’t delete it though. When I sometimes look back at that blog I realize that I was pretty funny.

Sometimes I think I am a little funny here but over there it was easier to make fun of myself and the bad luck streak I was stuck in. I must have come across funnier over there too because I think my humor here is often missed.

That leads me to think I have lost my sense of humor quite a bit over the years. Life has hardened me in ways that I don’t even realize. Don’t get me wrong, I still have fun in me, I’m just not like I used to be. I want to be sarcastic and goofy still but it feels like I sometimes don’t know how.

I think sarcasm served as a defense mechanism for me through a tough life and bad times, but I miss that about myself. Not the tough part — which we all know isn’t completely gone — but I want to try harder to be fun again.

I think I am still quite funny but it doesn’t seem that many of you either get me or think that I am funny. Sylvia gets my humor. I wonder if anyone else does? I wonder if you all just think I am just a huge complainer? I try to make light of my complaints.

I mean seriously..

I don’t know why I care so much for making people laugh or chuckle at least. When I was in the 6th grade I was voted the class clown and have always enjoyed making light of situations. And being sarcastic. Now I probably just seem dark and cranky.

I am cranky but I am a mom of four.

Poor Aidan. He’s known me forever and as a total goofball. Now I’m serious all the time. Well, more often than I used to be.

Okay so now that I’ve complained about being funny and the mess in the kitchen I guess I better go laugh my way through cleaning. Man, I always wished I had magical genie powers. I still sometimes put my arms on top of one another, nod my head and blink hoping they will finally kick in. True story.

Stubborn or Stupid

There is so much that I have to write about when it comes to Marshal. Life’s been a struggle for him lately and he just can’t seem to shake it off. I don’t know if I mentioned that he went to truancy court for cutting just about all of his classes for most of the year.

Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) the truancy officer knows my two kids and I very well and has been a great help to us for a few years. She met Marshal when he was in 5th grade, 4 years ago, when she was in the counseling department.

That time of our lives was the beginning of our long and difficult journey in regards to getting him diagnosed, medicated, therapy and an IEP. This was also at the time when everything blew up on the home front and led to my divorce.

In any case, she worked with Marshal and a few years ago started working with Regina when she was having a really tough time in school.

The truancy officer has been a great mentor for Regina, a caring support for all of us and has gone above and beyond in trying to help me help these kids.

So when we met a few weeks ago to talk about the big kids cutting and I found out how bad the situation was becoming I asked that she bring him to court. He doesn’t always (if ever) take me serious but he does pay attention to a judge.

So we went to court, he got the run down of the law and the consequences and a new meeting was set up with the school to see if we can get him placed in a smaller school. The high school here is huge and frankly too much for him. I’ve been pushing for placement at another school for him for over three years and (now that it’s almost too late) they are seeing it through my eyes.

Anyway. He’s involved with truancy courts.

But that wasn’t enough. Yesterday afternoon he was out with his friends at the local rec center and apparently there was a group of about 20 kids, 2 of which were fighting. A neighbor of the rec center called the police and said someone (matching my son’s description) had a knife and a gun.

Obviously a thousand cop cars pulled up and my son wasn’t aware of what was going on. He did have a knife on him and when they pulled up aggressively and demanded he get up against the car he took off running. Big mistake.

Anyway, he was arrested and charged with Disorderly Conduct and Escape. The police had him for bout 3-4 hours and were roughing him up. He was shook up when I got him. He doesn’t get it though. It’s all a mess and there is a lot more to say but now he is awake and talking to me about fighting charges. He really doesn’t get it.

I’ll write more later.

There’s always next weekend..

Regina and I rarely get to go out into the world without toting the little kids along with us. It’s okay, I mean, I do have two little babies and all, but going out alone is something we should be able to do sometimes.

I’ve thought about it and there were two times we left the house without both the boys: Once we got our nails and toes done (awesome!) and another time we went to the supermarket (not so awesome.)

Anyway after having enough of listening to Maddox scream his head off on a drive home from the mall two weekends ago I promised her we’d go out Christmas shopping without them. I demanded that asked Aidan to watch the boys yesterday and Regina and I headed out into the wild for some long overdue girl time.

First stop: Starbucks. I like to go to the one at my supermarket because after buying six drinks you get the seventh one free. Yesterday I got one for free :) Awesome!

Second stop: Plato’s Closet. Regina had some stuff to sell and it’s not far from the mall. She ended up making like 16$ and we were ready to head to the mall.

We didn’t get there.

The fucking new truck wouldn’t start.

We sat in the truck trying every trick possible and referring to the manual then searching the internet trying to troubleshoot, fix the problem and get to shopping.

Yeah. No. It was my battery and Aidan had to drive all the way to us after stopping for jumper cables and getting a new battery. The kids couldn’t go with him because I had the car seats so I had to put my foot down on Marshal and make him stay at the house with them.

Aidan was super fast and soon enough we were on the road again, but we couldn’t stop anywhere in the fear the battery would deplete again. Aidan couldn’t change the battery in the parking lot because a) he didn’t have the socket wrench and b) we don’t necessarily trust Marshal to watch Maddox and Logan for more than a few minutes.

So our glorious shopping trip never happened. Arrrugh!!

Now we have to try to go after Aidan gets home from work one night this week or next weekend.

Other things that didn’t happen this weekend:

  • I didn’t win the lottery as I had planned
  • We didn’t see Aidan’s mom for her birthday as planned
  • No painting was done anywhere in the house as planned
  • Our new rug wasn’t laid out yet as planned
  • My hair wasn’t cut as hoped for

Sometimes shit just happens and we can’t get done what we want. Right? I haven’t had such a bust of a weekend like this in a long time, but it’s okay. There’s always next weekend. I’m just glad nothing bad happened!

And now for this week in ridiculousness..

I had mentioned the other day that I swapped rooms around downstairs to make space for a Christmas tree. I put the furniture from the dining room into the living room and vice versa.

I didn’t take pictures of the rooms before and after and now I am wishing I had..

Why can’t I do it now? Well, because Aidan complained the loudest and won.

Not so ridiculous yet.

I’m going to jump back a little further in the week here and talk for a minute about our bedroom and it’s need for a rug.

Drafty Odd Shaped Rooms

I am sure that I mentioned before that my house is roughly 100 years old. Having such a mature home comes with it’s quirks. In this case it’s super fucking freezing in here due to a lack of insulation behind the plaster walls.

In our bedroom we have a “bump out” which I suppose was a feature back in the early 1900’s but for now it’s not because the floor in this space is above our porch. There is no insulation in the floor or walls so it makes the room super freaking cold.

I used to have my bed in the space of the bump out and it looked nice but it was just entirely too cold in the winter.

One random day last year I decided to rearrange the whole room and put the bed against an interior wall. (Are you noticing a theme here with me moving furniture?)

Unfortunately, this meant that I now had to put Aidan’s dresser and ridiculously over sized tv in front of the window but that’s a whole other story. I will say though that I HATE Aidan’s furniture and how I still don’t know why I ever let him move it in here.

Back to the cold room:

Even though moving the bed made it a little more comfortable to sleep, the room is still very cold and drafty. Seriously the floor on the bump out side of the room feels like an ice cube.

So Aidan said we would get a rug to keep the draft out and insulate the room a little better.

Yay! I love getting new things for the house :)

Rug Hunting

It took us no less than hours and hours spanned over 4 days (maybe it was 5 or 6?) to finally order a rug.

At first I wanted wool. They are the best. And it had to be grey. Because neutral’s the way to go.

But jeeze, wool rugs — they shed like mad and I’ve already been going wild battling mini-sheep as it were. And holy shit — I forgot how expensive they can be.

So we looked and looked.

  • Pottery Barn — Crazy expensive and nothing stood out.
  • Overstock — Nice selection, nothing standing out.
  • Wayfair — Nice choices, decent prices. One rug stood out but it ended up being machine made. It was pretty nice and a much better price than wool.

Finally after searching unsuccessfully for days I decided to broaden my horizons.

I stared looking at machine made rugs. At Home Depot of all places.

Within a half hour of looking at the rugs I found two that I liked and thought Aidan would like. I also found one that made my heart go pitter patter but it’s main color was hot pink so..

Aidan said he liked the first of the two I send him a picture of and I bravely showed him the rug of my dreams fully expecting to be laughed at all the way to China.

He said, “Fine. Send me the link. I’m ordering it today.”

“Really???!” I jumped for joy. I thought it was a joke.

At this point I know he was just so fucking sick of looking at rugs he’d agree to anything. History was made, ladies.

So he ordered the rug and I begin to get nervous. What if it’s a disaster? What if my vision for the room doesn’t come together?

Trust the process..

And now back to the downstairs..

The rug came in on Friday and even rolled up I was feeling really anxious. The piping along the edges is hot pink. WTF did I do?

I rolled it out into the then living room and hated it.

Hated it.

What was I thinking? It’s so bright and colorful and so different than my boring neutral taste. OMG.

Then something happened.. Logan woke up from his nap and loved the rug.

I started to look at it differently.

When Aidan asked how the rug looked I said “It certainly is colorful.”
His reply: “You don’t like it.”

I could see the smoke coming out of his ears. I sent this picture to him..

It was at this point I began to fall in love.Something about seeing it in the picture just settled my nerves.

“It looks good! Are you sure you don’t want to keep it down there?”

Aidan saying that made me feel even better about my sporadic choice.

All of my dreams were coming true!

I could finally have living space to stretch out in. I wouldn’t have to move every fucking thing around every fucking time I needed to get up in that crammed (front) living room!

I was on cloud 9 thinking of the possibilities of once again having a large living room complete with my brightly colored rug!

Marshal came home and gave the rug 2 thumbs up. My day was getting better and better!

Then my joy bubble was burst.

“I still don’t like the dining room in this space. It doesn’t fit.” Aidan said when he came home from work.

Mother fucker.

He won’t let up on it. He never spends time down here but yet he still won’t let up on it. Grrr.

The tree

Yesterday morning Aidan took Logan to pick out the tree.

Quite frankly I was sick of hearing how much he doesn’t like the rooms swapped. I decided to choose my battles (he did let me order a hot pink rug after all) and while they were gone I moved everything back to the way they were before.

I wasn’t happy about it but I knew Aidan would be, and well, I love him and want to make him happy. I tried to focus on the positives and got excited for the Christmas tree that would warm up the house soon.

This is my lovely view now:

Fucking awesome.

He decided to get the tree straight out of Christmas Vacation and now it is towering in the fucking house taking up more space than all of the furniture combined.

Seriously do you see the size of this tree?

I think he got it on purpose to piss me off because I switched the rooms around. He’s passive-aggressive like that.

I’ll give the tree a trimming on Monday and fix it as best as I can.

Also I will focus on the transformation of my bedroom and do breathing exersizes while I’m downstairs. My room’s going to look super fucking awesome when I am done with it. I am debating between 3 paint colors and stalking the web for a few other items.

Seriously, trust the process.

Oh and hopefully the rest of the living room will be painted this weekend, it’s now going on four months. Can we move on??


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During Wisconsin's long, bitterly cold winters, the only things that grow are snow banks. So to keep Lambeau Field's turf in game shape for Sunday, the Packers roll out these massive Friday night lights.

Built by Stadium Grow Lights (SGL), a Dutch firm that services a number of professional soccer pitches throughout Europe, these mobile grow lamps are designed to illuminate the sections of a field that receive little or no natural light due to the construction of the stadium. Packers Stadium was the first pro stadium in North America to use the system when trials began in October 2010. The lights worked so well that the Packers organization ordered another nine units ahead of the 2011 season. They now run nearly constantly from October to the first week in December.

The lighting rig itself is made from a grid of retractable metal, housing hundreds of 1000 watt light bulbs. And when combined with the stadium's sub-soil heating system—a network of antifreeze filled pipes running under the turf to keep it from freezing solid during Green Bay's wicked cold winters—the SGL lighting system is even more effective. “The grass is great looking, it’s thicker and healthier, mature, and fuller,” field manager Allen Johnson told the New York Times. “We try to get the grass as healthy as we can before the start of the season. The lights and heat from the coils underneath the field are a good combination and complement each other. By the start of December we have a pretty full canopy.” Ground crews monitor the light output and record a variety of data points on the field's condition daily.

The Packers' success has now led other professional franchises to look into the system as well, including the Houston Astros and the New York Red Bulls, whose stadium design prevents adequate sunlight from reaching one of the penalty boxes for nine months out of the year. “The year before, it was definitely brown and it didn’t look right,” said Dan Shemesh, director of grounds for the Red Bulls, told the Times. “You could always tell the south end: the air was colder, the soil was colder, the grass was thinner. It didn't need to be mowed much.” But now, boasts Shemesh, “This past year, actually, that end was better than the other end."

The system isn't perfect, of course. It's a bit cumbersome to set up, for one thing. “It takes about three full-time assistants to bring the lights out and then remove them from the field. Also when we mow or fertilize we move the lights from one half of the field to the other,” Johnson told the Times. And running an armada of 1000W bulbs 24/7 for months at a time certainly isn't going to help the stadium's electric bill. But when the NFL alone is making around $10 billion a year, spikes in the teams' electric bills is a small price to pay for a more luscious playing field. [NYT - The Municipal - MSU]


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The seven robots were designed to achieve seven different missions:

Brian Davis, Indiana, USA

Project: Little Joe

This robot will perform an automated free-fall in an attempt to set the record for the longest MINDSTORMS NXT free-fall. The robot will be detached from the main balloon near maximum altitude and will free-fall until the parachute deploys.

Project: Gypsy

The robot will be an automated camera platform that will take both video and still images. The MINDSTORMS NXT will control all image timing as well as pitch angle

FLL Team 90/David Levy (Coach), Virginia USA

Project: FLL Team Challenge: Climate Connections

A FIRST LEGO League Climate Connections team will build a robot to measure UV radiation as a function of altitude. The MINDSTORMS NXT will not only data log the UV sensor readings, but will also be used to rotate the UV filters in position as well as control the robot heater with a temperature sensor.

Barbara Bratzel & Chris Rogers, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA

Project: Fourth Graders

A group of 4th grade students will investigate the impact of flight conditions on yellow marshmallows (a.k.a peeps). The MINDSTORMS NXT will be recording temperature and pressure during the mission.

David Martinez, Jurgen Leitner, Sweden

Project: SpaceMasters

The robot will be measuring the change in G-forces as a function of altitude. The robot will repeatedly drop a tethered Wiimote at different altitudes to measure the acceleration experience.

Claude Baumann, Francis Massen, Jean Mootz, Luxembourg

Project : LUXPAK

The robot will be using an RCX to measure ozone concentration, air pressure, temperature (inside and outside) and reflected light from Earth during the descent.

Eugene Tsai, Taiwan

The robot will be using filtering papers to capture particles and/or chemicals in the air during the balloon ascent and descent periods. The LEGO Mindstorms NXT will be used to provide a mechanism to switch filtering papers to capture the materials in the air and then keep the papers in a secured compartment. The filtering papers will be retrieved and analyzed to see what chemicals and particles exist in different altitudes.

[More info will be posted soon at the Lego Mindstorms site]


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Way back in 2005, Samsung technically showed off a 40-inch OLED screen. We didn't want to be rude and say anything at the time, but it wasn't sporting HD resolution and the contrast ratio was a measly 5,000:1. Now Samsung is showing off their new 40-inch OLED (that's a mere 8.9mm thick), and needless to say, its specs are more than a little worth our attention.

The prototype runs at a full 1080p resolution and features an overkill contrast of 1,000,000:1. (Most scientists will tell you that the eye cannot distinguish such contrast, but marketers will disagree.)

Its color gamut is 107% of the NTSC standard and it features a luminance of 200cd/m2 (peaking at 600cd/m2).

Unfortunately, Samsung is quick to explain that their main assembly lines are not equipped to produce OLED screens beyond 31 inches (earlier roadmaps slated 40 inchers for 2010). Nevertheless, our home theater system is suddenly feeling extremely inadequate. [NYT and Tech-On]


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Kristen Stewart Dolled Up In Chanel Is Quite The Sight At The Cannes Festival

Kristen Stewart attended the 69th Annual Cannes Festival for the premiere of Woody Allen’s “Café Society”, a comedy-drama movie. For this occasion, she changed several outfits throughout the event and kept her hair loose or tied back. She changed lipsticks several times but kept the smokey eyes and I like how well that matched with the blond colour she’s been wearing recently.

Back to her wardrobe, despite her tomboy signature, she looks great when she gets dolled up, especially in Chanel, which she wore twice for the occasion.

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Supreme Ct: just say No to Obama; He's Communist

There are several topics I want to discuss today with this entry. First, the fact that the unconstitutional usurpation of Constitutional authority by Obama in his fake 'reform' of health care payments. It reformed the delivery of health care to make sure that those who are elderly, sick,injured, traumatized don't get any real meaningful medical care; and that those who kill innocents in the womb do get paid from taxpayers' monies. It's a HORRIBLE set of rules and it is directly from the communist manifesto to force those not sick to contribute to a plan that won't pay for any real health care when they are sick UNLESS they happen to be a legislator in Congress. If you doubt that, then recall the events in Tucson, where a federal judge and about 8 other people were gunned down. The only two of the group that received LIFE sustaining treatments were the 2 from Congress: Congresswoman Giffords and her Aide. The others were allowed to die from their wounds. That is the euphemistically named "Obama care program" to save the 'elite' with unlimited medical dollars and write off the average citizens who need health care, and to shift the health care dollars to funneling massive amounts of money into hospitals by setting 'guidelines' that require that all medical doctors to prescribe tests for the healthy [mammagrams, blood tests of prostate glands, scans of bone density, colonoscopy] for those who have no symptoms of those diseases but have assets. While at the same time NOT prescribing antibiotics to those with pneumonia, ear infections, P.I.D., or any other bacterial disease ; and not admitting closed head injuries to any hospital, and not providing any meaningful service to trauma patients who are not willing to sacrifice their body parts for the hospitals to get rich on. {That one is in your favor--those of you with a closed head injury try to avoid the brain killing coma-inducing drugs of the "protocol" to collect body parts to give to others. ]
If you have not figured it out by now, as a Registered Nurse of years in a career [but not at present] I am opposed to "ObamaCare" by any name. It is a gross misrepresentation of health care, is intended to funnel money out of households into lawyers' accts, and into hospitals and courtrooms [trying the newly defined health care criminals] and away from medical doctors and true health care that sustains life. U S Supreme Court, I know you are considering this case. I plead with you for the lives of the innocents in the womb that they might not be appointed to death by "ObamaCare". And for the lives of the injured, traumatized, sick, handicapped, in the womb, tiny children [neonates] that they might not be appointed to destruction by Obama either. And in accordance with Proverbs 31:8, KJV as written " open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction."
And I plead with you to read the U S Constitution 's section 8 duties of Congress again and see that no where does any Congress have authority to force the citizens to buy anything. The duties of Congress are listed in the Sept 10th entry of this blog, fyi. And I plead with you to not allow Obama and his appointed AG to destroy the civil liberties of US citizens or usurp authority belonging to the citizens themselves.
And I also plead with you to rein in Obama who according to the news had 2 American citizens assassinated yesterday who had never been charged with crimes in the US, who never stood trial and who were known to the American public as men who made videos protesting with words the U S. Uphold the U S Constitution PLEASE, and the First Amendment and all rights of U S citizens including protest of government, right to a fair trial when charged with a crime including especially capital crimes, right to question their accusers, right to appeals, etc as defined in the Amendments, and the right to manage their own money including not buying a service they do not want [health insurance that funds assassins of tiny humans in wombs].
U S Supreme Court just say NO loud and clear to Obama.
Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri; 12:31pm;30-Sept-2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Obama's Atheist Plans for US Coming to Fruition????
w/ quote: ...'couple has been fined by the city of San Juan Capistrano for holding Bible studies and religious gatherings in their home"..."were fined $300 for the religious activities, which the city said violated a municipal code that prohibits "religious, fraternal or " ... [not for profit] organizations in residential neighborhoods without a conditional-use permit," as reported. The Capistrano Dispatch article is located at: Some quotes have brackets trying to prevent their links from copying along w/ quote.
This is awful and another indication of the direction Musim Obama is taking the nation, or trying too. If you study [via online and or written newspapers' reports of] his words and deeds you will realize he does not honor the Commandments of GOD in the Old Testament or the words of Jesus [GODHEAD in flesh] in the New Testament either. He is either atheist or Muslim. There is some reasonable degree of evidence to think he is Mulim: 1) because he was born in a predominately Muslim country in Africa; 2) he was raised in another predominately Muslim country in Indonesia; 3) he has stronger alliances with known to be Muslim nations than with Christian or Jewish nations; 4) he has pushed forward ungodly laws that are his attempt to defy GOD [i.e. his championing homosexuality what GOD called abomination in Leviticus 18:22, KJV, and in Romans ch 1; and abortion which is condemned in Exodus 20:13, and Revelations, KJV]; 5) he has done deeds to diminish Christianity in many ways by putting his cause of removing Christian websites and words from the internet.
Articles on the web :10:30am;24-Sept-2011;
Also, this news:
The Planned Parenthood vs human race fight has shifted to Idaho; w quote:
"Prosecutors said McCormack terminated her own pregnancy using abortion pills she obtained from an online distributor at between 20 and 21 weeks on December 24, 2010. Hearn has said she believed she was getting the pills from a legitimate medical provider." Since the Judge in Idaho cannot be trusted to discern the intent of the law of Idaho, the FDA should prosecute her for buying illegal drugs on the web. {in the US you cannot buy drugs from people off the street or without a pharmacy license or a Registered Pharmacist license/ permit. She violated federal law yet the Judge ruled in her favor??? Does this tell you how selective the Obama administration is in enforcing federal written laws??
If Obama stays in office, the US will be ruined. He is evil personified, and he is as subtle [subtil is spelling in KJV] as a serpent. Vote him out of office. Better yet, impeach him now for violating the US Constitution repeatedly.
Gloria Poole;@my apt in Missouri; 10:53am;24-Sept-2011
Update @ 11:22am ,and what seems at first off topic but isn't and I'll explain why after you read this:
And about Facebook:
a quote from article on today:
"The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves." and this one: "That's because on Facebook we're not the customers. We are the product." Read entire article please at:
And another article about how the changes to Facebook put every task you do on Facebook in the public realm:
" With every one of these "passive" shares, users are teaching Facebook a little more about themselves.
That's incredibly valuable to advertisers, who can use that data for target marketing.
It's also a potential invasion of privacy, " and ...""Since a one-time click will grant a persistent permission to any app to collect and disclose personal information on your behalf."
This is not off topic at all really. It puts into words the very concept that produced in this nation the false "right to abortion" spun by the US Supreme Court from the words in the 4th Amendment. Now if you read that amendment you will see that US citizens have a right to privacy; it no where mentions abortion.The same government that decided in the infamous and illegal decision named "Roe v Wade" that meant a right to kill tiny defenseless humans in the womb [what abortion is] also has decided to 'date" Mark Zuckerberg for the info his so-called 'users' [ I think a better word might be victims] have that can be used to create massive databases for the federal government just as they are used to create those for BIG INDUSTRY including Planned Parenthood killers-of-innocents. Why do you think Obama went "a-courting" to use a child's song's phrase to Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs who all own or control MASSIVE databases of human activity?? And the entire concept of Zuckerberg's that has made him a billionaire is selling the users' content as if it were his own. That would be illegal in most situations since users' words, photos, poems, comments, etc would normally be labeled as "intellectual property" covered by copyright laws. But in the case of Democrat Zuckerberg it is overlooked because otherwise how would he give mega bucks to Obama ?? They are two peas in the same evil pod. Selling humans one way or the other. I bet that Zuckerberg would have made a pact [agreement] with Hitler too to sell the flesh and blood of the Jews for money .

Friday, September 16, 2011

FTC Seeking Input Whether to Change law about Minors

There is an important notice to public today online at:
about minor children being online, with this quote:
"The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on proposed revisions, including protections regarding geolocation data, to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).
COPPA requires operators of all online services or websites for children under 13 (or those who have knowledge that they are collecting personal info from children under 13) to obtain verifiable consent from parents before collecting, using or disclosing children’s personal information." and this quote:
"The commission also proposes a different definition of “collection” of data, which would allow children to participate in interactive communities without parental consent as long as the operators of those communities “take reasonable measures to delete all or virtually all children’s personal information before it is made public.”
Furthermore, parental notice must be given to parents as a “just-in-time” notice, and not just in a privacy policy. The FTC also proposes additional methods of obtaining parental consent, such as “electronic scans of signed parental consent forms, video-conferencing, and use of government-issued identification checked against a database.”
They are asking for comments from public on how to make web safer for minor children. These are my comments about this:
Remember that the entire point of cybercriminals breaking into accts is to steal information, and that nearly every Fortune 500 company with huge I.T. dept [information technology] and huge computer security depts have been broken into this yr by cybercriminals to get their customers' info [per multiple news reports since Jan]. Last week it was hundreds of thousands of patients' info from a hospital.  In view of that remember that in a unix based system there are NO secrets. A person who knows that computer language-coding well can get any information entered by any method even if it was deleted. [they raid the trash often called a 'cache', and often secretive put there by cookies that were put on computer immediately as browser open the page, for example Facebook does that, and so does Mashable and, and NY Times; and multitudes other companies,including esp many agencies of fed govt inc Pentagon, Dept of Defense, Homeland Security, etc,etc,etc, and then  undelete it to find out what you wrote, what u buy, where you shop, who you talk too, write too, send msgs too, etc]. So if children write anything on any thing they are PROBABLY tracked, and I think they should be for their safety, but the potential for abuse of spying every detail of your lives is great. This is my thinking on the topic of the FTC article asking for public input before changing laws about minor children being allowed to us online services. I suspect that Facebook is behind the push to change the law because there was a big article with photo of Mark Zuckerberg in BBC within past month saying he wants law changed so minors can use Facebook w/o parental consent. He's a jerk from h--- as far as I am concerned.
  So think about all the ramifications of this. If children allowed to use Facebook and or chat rooms [KNOWN to be the lairs of se-xu-al predators looking for kids] for instance after school or from school library where parents are not home or there, then bad people and probably good people [assuming many in fed govt are good] are probably tracking the children in real time, meaning as they write, draw,etc. That puts your children in the 'cross-hairs' of spying forces and that makes me very nervous for them because you don't want bad people to be able to pinpoint your children's every move, and identify them in a crowd [Facebook facial does this already] for perverts to stalk, track around town to a time they catch them alone. It is very dangerous I think.
Please give your opinions especially if you are a parent to minor children as you would be closer to the subject than I am. My only two "children' are grown daughters but I do have minor grandchildren, and I am very protective of them. And I know that their photos have been stolen right off my cell phone(s) gallery more than once by cybercriminals remote hacking into my phones; and from my 'family albums' in my email more than once. I have possession of my phones at all times and have never given my email passwords or account passwords to anyone. So I know those events happen from first-hand experience. Read the entire article please.
Online today 16-Sept-2011@8:29am via yahoo news.
Also, FYI. I updated my profile info. What was there before I updated it today was from when I added a photo that didn't match one that was known to be me, and there was a 'jet-lag' in uploading it. So after it did upload to the photo of me that you see on this blog, I had to change the words to match. Adding "copyright" to photos sometimes causes the need to verify and I understand that. The photo of me Gloria Poole that you see on this blog today is one I took of myself with a timed sequence on my camera this summer and it is not the best photo of me, but a recent one, and that was my goal, to remove/update the photo of me that was on this blog from 2003. Sorry if there was confusion.
Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri;9:57am;16-Sept-2011
Update at 11:04am,same day with this about online shopping:
This link to a article is one of the best expose articles about those so-called "free apps" on iTunes, and maybe other app stores also, that I have ever read. And I read voraciously most days. Here's a quote and please read the entire article as it seems to be a very accurate assessment of reality of iTunes ' apps. Quote:
"So, to sum up, these games are based on the following solid economic theories:
1. Millions of people will download so-called games that provide no challenge other than explaining to your boss why you’re harvesting radishes in the middle of a client meeting." My comment on that is: I have an itunes acct that has allowed persons unknown to me to get the apps I paid for, drained all funds off a prepaid card of mine { I learned my lesson about putting my real bank acct card info online the hard way}; and refused to authorize the app for me after taking the money from my card, but allowing strangers in some remote location to get/use the app I thought was downloading to my computer then to my ipod touch. Those apps that were involved in those events for me were: Beluga, National Geographic, NPR,Heywire, pinger [but I did eventually get control of my pinger app after writing them about what happened]; and a few more of not safe/secure apps but the names are not on tip my tongue. Some of these apps were stolen right off my ipod! And with MY information attached to them.
The article about the 'freemium" apps is a warning that those are tricks to get lots of your money. Read the article./s/ Gloria

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Added to my Ethnic Paintings; Copyright; updated sites

I have added a different [new to the public, I think] painting entitled "Bolivian Man" to my ethnic series on public display and you may see it at my tumblr blog : Also, I have updated other websites that concern my paintings I paint, my sketches I drew and or painted; my drawings in pen/inks,charcoals,pencils. I paint in all visual mediums including oils, acrylics, watercolors, powdered pastels which have a brand name, inks,gouche,tempera, but do not like "water soluble" oils [since there is no such thing].
Also, FYI, I added the FBI warning label to a blog of mine as a reference that the FBI gets involved when fine art is stolen or the images of it are stolen since those are copyrighted intellectual properties to my site at, and you should look-see the FBI warning there against piracy. The warning is for those who have in the past stolen my content right off blogs, repository sites, emails, US mail,my cell phone(s) "gallery", my online storage of that turned out to be a massive trick, my online Picasa photo albums, my Yahoo Flickr albums,my online cell phone albums since yr 2006 to a few days ago,my 2GB photos that were in my album embedded in what was my email once upon time of gloriapoole at inbox that were stolen from me along with the email gloriapoole at;and numerous emails that I paid for that were stolen from me by criminals who broke into my accts* to steal,plunder,destroy me while stealing my life [they thought],etc; and it is a warning for those who are trying to steal my very name and all of my copyrighted photos of my paintings,sketches,drawings, and of genre photography of flowers, landscapes, sunsets, skies, clouds, alien-spaceships,mountains, art objects, trees, architecture,etc [rated G] and of my blogs, domains, content,poems, essays as Registered Nurse, words on any method,format,medium. I Gloria Poole OWN ALL RIGHTS to everything I create, and have never sold them nor assigned them to anyone, and have never given anyone permission to use my real born with name of Gloria Poole or any variation of it on the web. This is a Copyright notice. Gloria Poole; gloriapoole; gloria0817;g-l-o-r-i-a; G-L-O-R-I-A; gloria-poole;gloria.poole. Missouri; 13-Sept-2011 extending previous copyrights from states of Georgia, Colorado, NY, Nebraska,Virginia, any place I lived for all paintings,sketches,drawings, words,poems,content on websites I own and or create,my original photographs, all orginal content of art, poems, words, essays whether on canvas, digital imagery, word processing, paper [sketches] , masonite, cardboard, graphics program { I did create an entire album of what is known as 'clip-art' with a graphics designer program and it is on the web also]; and on websites,blogs I own,pay for, and or create content on if a free site provided for me via professional courtesy; or a platform that offers free sites to any person; and whatever email address I own that is used by me and not by criminals who stole them, but copyright is not dependent upon my email address(s), and in any known- to- mankind method of creating original visual art or words; and incorporating the warning on my blog at with FBI seal on it. Take heed that you notice because my patience is wearing thin with cybercriminals breaking into my accounts to plunder, and with those who broke into my paid storage off coast of Georgia to steal original paintings of mine years ago. This copyright is on other sites of mine; and it is intended to cover all of my created, original works in any format, whether or not I photograph them, or hire someone to photograph them [which I have never done so far], and whether or not I add them to any publicly viewed online site of any sort. I have never given anyone else permission to add my content to anything online.
Also, I updated these blogs over the past few days: [Gloria's Art] [Children of The Father [GOD, in heaven; meaning I am Christian, believer] [G-L-O-R-I-A] [A New York Minute]. You might particularly like the memorial I put there to commemorate America and it's spirit, and NYC. It also has my inks sketch of "Golden Eagle" on that entry about 9/11.
Also, be aware, that those who tried to annihilate my very life, also tried to annihilate me on the web. I have endured repeated attacks against my online efforts; and those attacks were orchestrated by the prodeath industry of Planned Parenthood consortium of those who kill innocent babies in the womb, and by the sodomy-perverts of the world; and by one of those in particular, who is well-known to law enforcement in Colorado. But they have not won, and I have not quit.
You should also know that my main purpose in having a web presence is to promote,advocate,push everywhere the cause of continuation of human life INCLUDING ending abortion as a so-called "right" since it is a grievous wrong and a heinous crime against GOD and humanity, and ending legalized euthanasia [this generation has propaganda label of "mercy killing' or "assisted suicide' ] but it is genocide, homocide and a sin against GOD. Remember GOD wrote in stone, "thou shalt not kill" and that is recorded in the gospel in Exodus 20:13 and in Deuteronomy. My art began in high school when I took a year long class in mechanical drawing so it precedes my career as Registered Nurse.
Footnote: gloriapoole at was stolen from me. It is not mine for years and I notified of that at the time. Also there is a list somewhere on this blog in previous entries of the MANY emails that were solen FROM me by cybercriminals/criminals over the past 9 years.
Gloria Poole, gloriapoole; 13-Sept-2011;8:26am;@my apt in Missouri

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Public Warning on Health Care & internet Usage & DoE

I read an article in USA Today that said basically that the father of Amy Winehouse [ a singer who died at young age], thinks she died from a seizure. That is possible in some circumstances, but what I want to warn the public about is: that another article said she had Librium, a prescription tranquilizer, and alcohol in her blood stream when she died. The warning is NEVER mix tranquilizers or any mind-altering prescription [those with Rx on them prescribed by MD or P.A. or N.P.] with alcohol. That is often a lethal combination. Of course, if you have read much of my writings over 20 yr's time, you know I am generally opposed to alcohol on principle. It is also a drug, and it is very dangerous especially in some circumstances. The circumstances that could make alcohol lethal are: 1) when someone is not accustomed to it [has no built up over time tolerance to it]; 2) is in very cold climate without sufficient external warmth, 3) has other drugs in their blood stream, 4) has liver disease; 5) has certain other diseases that affect the body's ability to detoxify itself, 6) the obvious one, when a person drinks so much that their blood is part alcohol which causes unconsciousness and death.
So just do not ever mix drugs or take combinations of drugs without consulting a bona-fide, registered Pharmacist to see if dangerous. Medical Doctors, Physicians's assistant's, Nurse Practitioners do not know as much about pharmacology as Pharmacists do. Tranquilizers and alcohol are known to be a lethal combination. Lethal means deadly.
Also another public warning of a different sort, for those who use the internet and email:Very informative and scary article
about doppelganger domains that siphon off emails with typos:
"The e-mails they collected included one that listed the full configuration details for the external Cisco routers of a large IT consulting firm, along with passwords for accessing the devices. Another e-mail going to a company outside the U.S. that manages motorway toll systems provided information for obtaining full VPN access into the system that supports the road tollways. The e-mail included information about the VPN software, usernames, and passwords." +... "Company information wasn't the only data at risk of interception. The researchers were also able to gather a wealth of employee personal data, including credit card statements and information that would help someone access an employee's online bank accounts." +..."Some of the companies whose doppelganger domains have already been taken by entities in China included Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Yahoo and Manpower." ++++
Another quote from article about internet in Germany, about fining sites ' owners that add Facebook "like" buttons to their sites: "Officials in Schleswig-Holstein state took aim with a new initiative last month, when a regional data protection agency announced it would hit website owners who embed Facebook's "Like" button with a 50,000 euro ($70,000) fine. Authorities said the button allows companies to track personal data of Facebook users." That article at:
Also a bit off topic but of concern to me is this info about the US Post office:
about US post office at risk--cannot meet the 5.5 billion dollar payment into the fed treasury. Quotes:
"Yet one of the biggest problems isn't mail flow or labor or other costs. Rather, it's a requirement imposed by Congress five years ago that the post office set aside $55 billion in an account to cover future medical costs for retirees. The idea was to put $5.5 billion a year into the account for 10 years. That's $5.5 billion the post office doesn't have.
No other government agency is required to make such a payment for future medical benefits, so why not drop it for the post office." +
..."The Postal Service is not included in the federal budget, but the Treasury Department account that receives that payment is.
That means that when the post office deposits that money, it counts as income in the federal budget. So, if it doesn't make the payment, the federal budget deficit appears $5.5 billion bigger, something few members of Congress are likely to favor."
And on the topic of the Post office remember it is a duty of Congress as listed in Section 8 of the US Constitution which I am including here for you to read:Section 8of US Constitution with the enumerated duties of the US Congress, from constitution online at:
Section 8.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof."
And other significant information for all US citizens are these two quotes, from the book review in NY times today online about the book "That used to be us":
quoting the US federal Dept of Education Secretary :: “Currently about one-fourth of ninth graders fail to graduate high school within four years. Among the O.E.C.D. countries, only Mexico, Spain, Turkey and New Zealand have higher dropout rates than the United States.”...+
"Or this, from the Pentagon via Arne Duncan: “Seventy-five percent of young Americans, between the ages of 17 to 24, are unable to enlist in the military today because they have failed to graduate from high school, have a criminal record or are physically unfit.”

Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri; 9:48am;10-Sept-2011

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Dumb & Dumber Idea to throw injured under bus

I read in the BBC news today in the health section that England, Scotland & Wales are going to allow homosexuals to donate blood beginning in November. I have to go on record as saying that is the dumbest idea I have heard in a long time. Serving up trauma patients [those who usually need blood] with a dose of HIV is not only dumb, it is catastrophic! UK countries undo that decision before you ruin many lives, and before those you ruin sue you for putting political agendas before known medical facts. It is a known medical fact that MSM [men who have s-e-x-{hyphenated for reason} with men] are very high risk of contracting AIDS. HIV [human virus] and its result of AIDS is bloodborne--in their blood, so when they donate blood they donate the HIV and or the full blown AIDS also. That is NOT what what those injured need.
And people of those countries start writing in "no blood transfusions"on informed consents for surgery; and striking it out if pre-written on informed consent to protect yourself against contaminated blood, if those countries insist on contaminating their donated blood supply on purpose.
Also, off topic a bit, but a subject that affects all of nation in upcoming election. I have to ask this: Rick Perry of Texas were you purposely trying to make your opponent [Obama] look better than he is when you gave him what seemed to be an endorsement in last evening's debate ? Second question: what were you thinking? Obama is not to be congratulated for ordering an assault on a man who have never been formally accused of any crime in the US, nor allowed to present a defense, nor allowed a trial or to question witnesses etc. All of those are involved in "due process' of law in the Amendments to Constitution. I know that most of America thought Osama bin Ladin was guilty but in the US we as a nation do not try people in the court of public opinion. So I believe that according to the written laws of this United States Obama violated the US Constitution, the public law about declaration of war [no war declared on Pakistan where he was]; and the Amendments of the Constitution about those accused of a crime. He does NOT deserve the respect of the nation because of it. Even if Osama bin Ladin was guilty he should have had due process. The U S has never been the sort of nation that assassinates its enemies.
Gloria Poole,RN; @my apt in Missouri; 8_Sept-2011;8:35am

Friday, September 2, 2011

Explain it to me, please...

I have a serious question for someone in the manners and culture society. How in the world did a woman like Kim Kardashian who according to the news made a s-e-x-p-o-r-n videotape so men everywhere could watch it, get a 4 hr special on a TV program in the US, and how did the news that hyped it so much make peace with her wearing a white wedding gown ? White is supposed to represent purity, and in the US it is usually not worn by second brides and certainly not by p-o-r-n-people. So explain it to me. What happened in the US to the TV stations standards? And I want to state that the Christian cross seemed somewhat out of place in that scenario, [of "blessing" that mockery of Christianity in view of the facts on the web] though I know JESUS had favorable words to say about Mary Magdalene, I don't think the situations are similar.
I am sure some people will think this is mean of me, and it can't be helped BECAUSE children /minors read the news and see the videos and they have to wonder if she represents a chaste, pure woman? She is certainly entitled to wear any color or style she wants and to have her wedding wherever she wants. But I thought from the news story that she is catholic that she could not marry in the church probably for several reasons, but it all seemed a bit risque for standing in front of a christian cross; and on TV for minors to watch. Also, I have to wonder what sort of man wants his wife to display s-e-x-acts with another man for sale on the web?
OK, I know I am old-fashioned, but some events should be sacred, and standing in front of a Christian cross sort of puts the duty of those there to be humble, chaste, pure; I think.
I saw some of the video footage, and the photos, and being Christian, I want the world to know that p-o-r-n-people are not generally rewarded by the Christian faith with oohs and aahs and TV specials.
Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri; 4:41pm;2-Sept-2011.
Update and on the topic of Christianity. at 5:37 pm same day and place,same writer :
I just read a very mocking-of-Christianity op-ed piece written by James Moore for CNN about candidates Perry & Romney, and since CNN thinks that is such fun, I want to make public my op-ed piece about atheists in general similar to James Moore.
Atheists seem to believe, listed :
1) humans came from monkeys and probably atheists did;
2) that 2 identical body parts fit together sort of like 2 electrical plugs but no recepticle [why they are having their love affair in the news with perverted people];
3) that atheists never lived in the womb of a woman; and they could be right--maybe they hatched in the "outhouse";
4) that they can endure the eternal torment of hell described as the pit of burning flames forever by the book of Revelation in Bible;
5) that sticking their male member into the poop-contaminated backside of another male somehow equals the heterosexual sex of normal people;
6) that ridiculing about Christians will make them go away;
7) that believing in a power greater than themselves is absurd because they believe they are their own god; and think that whatever they think regardless of how ignorant they are, must be true because some pervert somewhere told them so.
8) that the U S is not worth fighting for ;
9) that medical facts that sodomy is a deadly lifestyle is not believable because they like doing perverted things;
10) that Christians have no civil liberties;
11) that perverts and atheists, a small minority in the US, make the rules;
12) that Christians would not dare sue atheists for religious discrimination because the perverts have Barney Frank on their team;
13) and that perverts [named as abomination, and reprobate by GOD in Leviticus 18:22 and Romans ch 1, KJV] are more fun than Christians because they have all male parties or all female parties and ruin each others' health and lives and live dangerously with specter of AIDS always around them.
Summing up atheists, I see clearly why they are a minority in the US.
Gloria Poole; @my apt in Missouri; 5:53pm;2-Sept-2011


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Tag Archives: Chairs

My Sweet New Table

9 Sep

So, in honor of my NO SPEND SEPTEMBER that I have currently Challenged myself on I am working on projects that I have already started or have all of the supplies I need to use up before the end of the month. A few months back I made new curtains for our Kitchen. They are a bit funky and fun! But we did not have a table for our Breakfast Nook area. So I went searching for furniture at my favorite place (beside Ikea) Estate Sales. I Found a nice table with 4 chairs that was a bit scratched and dirty for $30 dollars. Awesome!

I have always Loved simple white table with colored chairs, especially on Pinterest similar to:

Photo Credit Pinterest Via Red Hen Home

Photo Credit Pinterest Via Two Girls Being Crafty

I forgot to take pictures Before of the actual table.But it is just a basic Pine and white table.

Here is a picture of the Chairs Before:

Chair Before-Edits

The chair was really scratched on the Back and on the legs. The legs were all falling out and needed to be Gorilla Glued (love that stuff)  I went to Lowe’s and had them color match the the colors from our curtains to the chairs a while back and had everything all set to go for the transformation!

Here are the chairs After a few coats of paint and Polyurethane!

Painted ChairsAnd the Chairs with the table:

Refinished Table/Chairs

I love how the table/chairs turned out! It is so much more fun and really brightens up our Kitchen!

Note! When you are painting furniture white and want to polyurethane it use WATER BASED polyurethane. If you use Oil based your white will turn Yellowed and it stinks to have to sand that all back down and repaint and polyurethane!


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All About Tif

31 Aug

Hello All!

My name is Tiffanie, and I thought i should introduce myself to you.

The Basics:

  • I am 24 (almost 25 YIKES!) years old
  • I am married to my best friend and the most amazing husband ever, Jake!
  • I am an animal Lover, if I could I would probably have dozens of adorable puppies and kitties along with other random adorable animals.
  • Along the same lines as above, I have 3 fur babies: Landon – our regal tom cat, Kira – Our Prissy little kitty, and Winnie – our rambunctious Basset Hound (seriously? Seriously!)
  • I am ADDICTED to Pinterest, It is really bad. Nothing gets accomplished I just dream of being half as creative as everyone who posts their stuff on there!
  • I live in the Saint Paul, The better half of the Twin Cities if i may say so myself. But am originally from the heart of the Plains: South Dakota!
  • I currently work in the media industry. Love us or hate us we are here to stay, sorry.
  • I believe sometimes music is the only way to express how you feel is through music
  • I LOVE British TV, Especially Doctor Who & Torchwood
  • I am addicted to all things Harry Potter
  • I am a huge Nerd! ( if you couldn’t tell already)

My Husband and I just purchased a 1900’s Farm House in Saint Paul and are working to turn it from old Granny to Modern and Simple. Our house was originally owned by a 96 year old women and her sister. Every room was ONE Color,  No joke. Both bedrooms were Pink pink, the same shade of pink walls, drapes, and carpet.  Ugly!!

So enjoy watching us fix up our house, see all our different projects, and us just being huge nerds!