I can’t believe how late I slept today. According to my fitbit, I got 8 hours and 4 minutes of sleep last night. That is unheard of.
This is the part that horrified me. The allegation is that he touched a woman’s back under her shirt. And that’s worth unpersoning someone. I don’t like the man on a personal basis, but that’s a giant shit sandwich.
Also everyone is still treating Corey Feldman like some unhinged freak.
I think it’s amazing how many of these people wearing black to events had to know something. There are at least a couple stories from women that Oprah was feeding young actresses to Weinstein, and Streep had to know something was up. And I’m OK with people being a moral coward, but don’t preach to me how I’m a sexual predator when you are throwing bodies into the tiger pit.
Every one of them who was in attendance stood and applauded for Roman Polanski when he was given Best Director or whatever it was. After he was convicted of raping a 13 year old girl.
Well, yeah, because that’s different or something.
Something I’ve realized for years is that an awful lot of the people I’m diametrically opposed to view this as a ends justify the means situation. They think they are pushing for nirvana, so squishing a few little people, or 13 year old girls, or feeding Weinstein, is acceptable as long as they believe they are advancing the goal. What’s a bit of individual pain, usually from other people, to rolling back the rising seas, and lowering the globes temperature and bringing back the polar bears, as well as total and complete equality enforced by them and others like them forever?
They believe they are creating heaven on earth, so what if some people (that aren’t them) have to go through hell.
In other news, my weather sense is still working after a couple years off.
Last Thursday I took my youngest to CVS to get feminine hygiene products. Sunday was her first period.
I wish I could find a way to monetize this ability. But living with multiple women in the house all on different cycles I think I just learned how to catch the signs.
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Yonkers ago I had a 10Gb IDE HDD full of bad sectors.
For shits and giggles I tried to install NT4 on it. Install would fail.
Then I’d install OS/2 on it, and it installed without a hiccup.
Ahhh, those were the good old days of Windows bashing… 
NPR had an article yesterday about the danger of suppressing sneezes. I’ve never tried pinching my nose shut and holding my mouth closed, but I developed a habit of stopping sneezes dead in their tracks that’s completely internal (and sometimes really hurts), because most of the time, it’s zero-to-sneeze in under two seconds, so there’s no time to find a tissue.
So I’ve been sick for a few days, and had a diagnostic CAT scan yesterday to make sure Mr. Lymphoma isn’t being a creeper, I was barely able to eat Tuesday, and yesterday all I could eat until late last night was that shitty iodine drink.
I had an OK breakfast this morning, but now it’s lunch, and while I feel mostly OK, I’m a bit nauseous at the thought of food. I think I’m going to have to force myself to eat, which for someone my size is a bit funny.
And I sure as hell haven’t been suppressing my sneezes this time, I’d have burst my brains yesterday.
I frighten people for blocks around when I sneeze. I don’t hold anything back. Never have.
I swear the guy in the office next to me amplifies and accentuates his sneezes. I’m not generally a quiet sneezer, but damn.
Dear I Can Has Cheezburger:
I have no interest in watching “The Four” tonight. The fact that almost every ad on your website is for this show has changed that lack of interest from a transitory condition to permanent. I do not plan on watching this show ever, simply because you spam-blasted their ads across your website.
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When we had CRT monitors, my sneezes would make the components ring inside.
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Plus, do cats really prefer cheez on their burgers? I was under the impression that they aren’t too keen on cheez. Dogs, on the other hand, luv cheez!
I don’t know. I see a lot of cat food at the pet store these days that has cheese in it. I haven’t tried feeding it to my cats because Mrs. Force10 is super picky about what they get fed. I’m sure my male cat would love it though, as he eats pretty much anything we feed him. The female is the picky one.
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ADP scares me.
My last 3 (technically) employers have all used ADP for payroll. $oldjob uses them, as do both the company I moved to last Spring and the company that acquired us in November.
I have an ADP website account for $oldjob and can access all my old pay stubs anomy W2 there. When I changed jobs in the Spring, I had to set up a new ADP account for that one. And…I was able to see $oldjob’s pay stubs from that account. As I’m pulling my tax paperwork together, I’m now realizing that regardless of which of these two accounts I log into, all of the pay stubs, W2s and related information is available to me.
This morning, I set up an ADP account for $currentjob_under_new_ownership. I entered the usual info, then it took me into a trio of questions to further authenticate me.
- Which of the follow cities (or none at all) most closely aligns to where you went to college?
- Which of the following cities (or none at all) is the location of $your_previous_home_street_address (note: I wasn’t shown my current address, but rather the house I sold five years ago)?
- Which of the below age ranges most closely matches the age of $your_father
Hold on. How and why the everloving fsck does ADP know who my father is?
Now, I get that because they’re processing payroll, they’re going to have an elevated amount of data about me. But how does this happen!? And how much of my identity is at risk if they get breached Equifax-style?
Technology is wonderful, but some people just get carried away with it, and then there’s a big “oops” at the end of the game later on.
It took about two months, but information has finally become available about what Garrison Keillor was said to have done. What’s being described still falls under the label of inappropriate behavior, yet the story isn’t finished.
The Minnesota Public Radio side of the story says they had more information that led them to the decision and it wasn’t provided to protect the privacy of Garrison and the other people. What’s being revealed now that they received a 12-page letter from the attorney of the woman, which justified the investigation and hiring a law firm. MPR News, a “firewalled” organization within MPR, says they did their own investigation and turned up other info that showed a pattern of inappropriate behavior, but they also note that it was nowhere near what Harvey Weinstein had done. The MPR company president says they worked with Garrison throughout the process, but he wouldn’t give them things like email and the current mediations weren’t progressing like they thought they should. They do want to reach an agreement to make the APHC programs available again.
The Garrison Keillor side of the story says that the person in question was a freelance researcher who worked mostly through email, was rarely in the office, MPR didn’t talk with him, and by releasing this info while the mediations are going on, they’re hurting the process. He also notes that the letter from the attorney was carefully crafted and that the woman still lists APHC on her Facebook page.
That’s an interesting point. If the person had been hurt enough to warrant getting an attorney, wouldn’t she remove from her Facebook page something that she previously liked that is at the heart of that hurt?
One of the articles I was reading had a point by Sue Scott, who has worked with Garrison for many years on APHC. She says that what’s been missing is talking with the people who have worked with him the most. They would be the ones that would see the kind of behavior.
I will need to update that blog I wrote, but I’m going to give it more time before I do. Either MPR is right about Garrison or they’re working really hard to find evidence to support their decision. My feeling is that they’ve mishandled it so far. They should have provided a lot more information faster to show it was more than the vague “Keillor did something wrong so he goes away” situation it was before.
I get the idea of not continuing to reward someone for bad behavior. But saying that everyone else who was involved in a project with that same person should have all evidence of that project removed? That was a bit much, and since we’re talking about artists and singers, any royalties and residuals from continued repeat performances were taken away from them.
Has Volkswagen been closed down and the Autobahn torn up because a certain German military leader is associated with them? No.
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So much WTF here…
And I thought the humps with botox was WTF-worthy… you win.
I fold.
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Damn. Just… damn.
That is a very strong second place entry, @Ook.