You Should Know Them By Their Voices

This will be a random post so that I can keep writing on my own blog.

Lately, or rather every so often, the marketers call me to say that my website has been hacked. It’s just a sour link in my system that goes to nudes or bad sites that is flagged as a hack. Or that was what was told me the first time they called. I checked. It’s just those bad links which I put there myself. They keep calling me, yet I wonder if I do have a hacker in the system.

Another thing I feel is that I am not healthy both mentally and physically. Since COVID I have abdicated living. I not sure if it’s a death wish, but I feel I don’t like where I am. This is me being sad.

I buy too many books. I read not enough. I did go through a few books on some of classic hip-hop. Books on the Native Tongues and on Spotify. Music sucks nowadays, but it sucks in all eras. I still love that hip-hop though.

I think I need a new job.

That is all…

Quote of the Day [12.26.24]

“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

Luigi Mangione
Manifesto on United Health

Just An End Check In

Yo. I’m still alive here. Maybe writing a few things but this blog is still going. Strong? Not so. Weak? Yeah maybe. Most likely. Well even this post is weak sauce and just words on the blog.

So I am just telling you. I am a bit sad about not writing. Maybe sometime I’ll do something good.

Please, stick around.

Link of the Day [5.18.17]

Filipinos are a funny lot — queer in the original sense of the word. Lots of things to ponder about the culture. Things that have developed from years of colonialism. Things that have developed from years of Catholicism. Things that have developed from the inequality between the land owners and the workers.

It is like that. Sometimes we forget. We get reminded about it once in awhile.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/?utm_source=twb

Makes you go hmm. Take 23498

Why is it that the only vampire novels I have read are translated from Russian or Swedish? I hate vampires and vampire tales, so why did I/am I reading translated works of vampire lore? And is there a Japanese vampire novel that I should read?