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California Republicans hit rock bottom

The state that spawned the "Reagan Revolution’’ and Richard M. Nixon just experienced a watershed moment — the California Republican Party was officially relegated to third-party status.

In the culmination of the withered state GOP’s long slide toward near-political irrelevance here, new voter registration data released this week show the once-robust party trails behind both Democrats and “no party preference” in the nation's most populous state. The California Republican Party is now outnumbered by independent voters by 73,000, according to Political Data Inc., which tabulates voter file data from county registrars.

Not because I had to get up early but because I woke up hours before my alarm yet could not get back to sleep.

So I got to work real early.

A little over a month ago I kicked coffee cold-turkey. For a month I had really bad headaches, for two weeks I had really bad nausea.

Thursday of last week my witch doctor advised me to start drinking coffee again: "You don't have to tell me twice".

This because I often experience great weariness despite being well-resulted.

I just signed a one-year lease for a permanent - that is, personal, just for me - desk at a downtown Portland co-working facility.

Co-working is all the rage these days. We Work and this one other I happened upon are likely venture funded but the privately-held Nedspace is far better than we work.

It's on the eleventh floor of the Union Bank tower on Broadway - the main drag through downtown. I learned the hard way that I have yet to overcome my fear of heights. Not wanting to make my fear worse I carefully, very slowly reached my hand out then touched the lobby window yet remained unconvinced that its glass was really there.

I'll even have a receptionist.

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Take a swig of cockroach milk, the next great food trend

Roach crystal juice seems like something the Gates Foundation would promote.

If you want to live in space, you're going to learn to love roaches.

If you want to live on Earth as a non-(m|b|tr)illionaire, you're going to learn to love roaches.

If it's too difficult to extract the milk, you can simply eat the roach whole.

Before you howl with too much laughter, please understand that I feel far more comfortable writing device drivers than web applications.

I just now finished listing all ninety locations for Synopsis:

• Find a Computer Job in Enschede, The Netherlands

The first thing I want to do to automate this is to list a company on
just one page, with a form for all of its locations, then have a
computer program propagate those listings to all the local pages.

This has the complication that many of those local pages won't exit
yet; for example I created the page for Enschede as I was working on
Synopsis' listings in Holland.

But a good start would be to only propagate the listings to pages that
already exist, with manual work required to create the new local
pages.

This because I have to look up the state or province and possibly the
county for almost all over the new localities. I also have to create
folders for them. From time to time I even list an entirely new
country.

While I do plan to use some manner of database by the time I'm done, I don't plan on specifying its schema myself - I'd hire a DBA to do that. I've never really understood why so many people are so into SQL. If I did use SQL I would use PostgrSQL but most likely I won't use SQL.

I'm going to do all the automation in Python, for the simple reason
that I'm already good at coding Python. There are many web
application technologies, each with their own strengths and
weaknesses. I'm not religious about them.

I now have lots of free time to devote to The Global Computer Industry Index.

My friend Stefan Youngs asked me to volunteer for Aircrew Remembered but I've never really had the headspace for it until just tonight.

I'll tell you the bad news right after I hurl my thousand-dollar iPhone 7 in the Columbia River.

At Portland's 'reparations happy hour,' people of color get $10 and a place to meet

‘Reparations Happy Hour:’ Each minority attendee gets $10 from white Portland donors

People Aren't At All Impressed By This 'Reparations Happy Hour' Where White Donors Gave $10 To Attendees Of Color

‘Reparations Happy Hour’ Invites White People to Pay for Drinks

Event poster.

Alcohol is basically poison. So white people are paying to poison black, brown, and indigenous folks!

Internet Crime Complaint Center.

When I report the CP to anyone - not just the FBI but also deputies from Clark County in Washington and Multnomah County in Oregon - I use my real name, my real home address, my real phone number and my real email.

Both of the deputies were dismayed at what I reported but as we parted they both said "Keep up the good work". I expect lots of others do this kind of "Free Agent" work but I expect most others do so anonymously.

I need to get some ZZZzzzs to have any hope of writing coherently.

It's a dot-com. If nothing else the FBI could seize their domain. But I expect they'd let it continue to operate while they spend some time tracing it to its origins.

It's a large still photo site. Most of the photos are thumbnails from videos, others are "magazine covers" for bundles of sets. Typically each issue has 3000 photos.

Each image is a link to a page that enables one to "join". The actual videos and full issues are available only to members.

I've never registered as a member anywhere, nor have I ever paid for access.

Three or so years ago I reported a .com and a .org domain to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. From time to time I checked them then was dismayed that the sites were still operating. But I checked again just recently. The original sites were gone to be replaced by garden-variety nutritional supplement vendors.

Harvey Weinstein will be charged with rape, source says

Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to the NYPD on Friday morning on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex on him, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN.

The first-degree and third-degree rape charges are from one case and the first-degree sex act charge is from a second case, according to the source.

Harvey Weinstein to surrender, face criminal charges in N.Y. sexual assault case, sources say

Prosecutors in New York and L.A. have been developing cases against Weinstein, but sources have said for weeks that New York authorities were closest to bringing charges. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were not clear on the scope of the case New York prosecutors plan to file.

The charges would mark a major milestone in the #MeToo movement, which has sparked numerous accusations of misconduct by powerful men in the entertainment and other industries — and numerous criminal investigations, but few actual criminal charges.

[...] According to law enforcement sources, detectives believe that case is promising for prosecution because the woman told her story to three people, including a priest, relatively soon after the alleged attack. LAPD detectives also have obtained bills showing that the woman was a guest at the Beverly Hills hotel where she claims Weinstein attacked her, the sources said. The case does have flaws, they added. Detectives found little physical evidence of an attack and have been unable to secure proof that Weinstein was at the hotel when the woman says the rape occurred.

Cue the inevitable rage when he "gets off".

Updates:

Harvey Weinstein charged with rape following New York arrest

Rose McGowan and Other Harvey Weinstein Accusers React: ‘We Got You’

Harvey Weinstein's arrest is cathartic. But real victory won't be in court