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When you guys hear of Desiato you most likely think of the dead rock star at the restaurant at the end of the universe. I think of an old online friend from a couple decades back, Tim Poesch. I got an email from him a couple weeks ago, unfortunately when all my equipment was screwing up.
The March Win 7 update disaster hit both of my laptops. It just kept the big HP from seeing my other devices and vice versa, but the little Acer was crashing often. I reinstalled the Acer’s OS and apps, but for some reason I couldn’t get Thunderbird to get to my email account.
My nearly decade old Kyocera phone was likewise acting up, telling me its storage was full when it was actually nearly empty, then its apps started crashing. I’d been checking email with the phone until I could get Thunderbird working right.
I saw Tim’s email but couldn’t read it. I was finally able to read it a couple of days later. He said he’d run across Random Scribblings during a random Google search, and it made him nostalgic for the old days, so he ordered a copy from B&N.
Tim was part of a small world-wide group of us with popular web sites. His was a realaudio/shoutcast/podcast (why do they keep changing the neme?). Others in our group were Yello There and his hilarious parody of Blue’s News, Dopey Smurf who got slashdotted after he posted an explanation of how rail guns work (his site was down for a month), Flamethrower, who was actually a bunch of British college students pretending to be one guy, with another podcast of hilarious British vulgarity. We all had a LOT of fun!
As soon as I read Tim’s email and before I could reply the damned phone’s email crashed and it wouldn't come back up. A week later I discovered the stupid mistake that kept Thunderbird from connecting—I’d had Wi-Fi shut off.
Duh!
With Thunderbird working again I looked for Tim’s email so I could answer it; I’d gotten nostalgic myself putting Random Scribblings together.
It was gone. Apparently the phone’s email client had eaten it.
Tim, if you happen to run across this post, please email again!
The New Yorker Sees Dead 60 Minutes Sexecposé, Ups the Ante
Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
Six women tell The New Yorker that CBS chief Les Moonves sexually harassed them
Leslie Moonves, current CEO of CBS
You can't kill what has already gone full #MeToo. You can only cauterize the wound with a CEO-sized resignation.
Previously: Law Firm Kills WaPost Exposé of 60 Minutes Producer
Now we need the exposé of the Amazon Post to see why they caved and missed their chance for a big scoop. From The New Yorker's article:
Fager has tried to keep the allegations about the treatment of women at “60 Minutes” from surfacing publicly. According to the Times, in 2015 Fager took over the writing of a book about “60 Minutes” after the original author, Richard Zoglin, began asking people about the subject. In April, as two Washington Post reporters, Irin Carmon and Amy Brittain, were reporting an article about the allegations of harassment at CBS News, including complaints about Fager and Rosen, lawyers retained by Fager threatened to sue the Post, and presented testimonials about Fager’s good character. “There was this ham-handed effort to make women at the show say Jeff was a wonderful person,” one producer said. “It was so obvious we were doing it with a gun to our heads.” Fager’s lawyers also attacked the professionalism of the two reporters. In the end, the paper published a story that included complaints of harassment against Charlie Rose from dozens of women, but not allegations about Fager or Rosen. In a statement, the Post said, “The reporting throughout was vigorous and sustained and fully supported by Post editors. Nothing that met our longstanding standards for publication was left out. Nor did outside pressures, legal or otherwise, determine what was published.” CBS employees told me that they were alarmed by the attempts to kill the reporting. “The hypocrisy of an investigative news program shutting down an investigative print story is incredible,” one told me.
Just Doing My Job
I'm using Tor Browser to listen to YouTube.
Not "watch": "listen".
This because after I started The Seekers' 25-Year Reunion Concert, I minimized Tor Browser then came her to SN with Chrome.
Have A Nice Day! :-D
Future of Stargate
Stargate SG-1’s Christopher Judge wants to make a Jaffa spinoff series
There’s been no official momentum on anything Stargate-related since the end of Origins (which has since been compiled into a film-style cut, combining all the webisodes), but it's worth noting Judge is still actively involved with the franchise in an official capacity as host of the Stargate Command streaming service’s Dialing Home interview series. So he’s certainly in proximity to the ears that would need to be bent about a new web project. Judge also wrote several episodes of SG-1 over the years, helping craft the mythology of the Jaffa from behind and in front of the camera. So he certainly has the know-how and skill set.
GateWorld has been a lot more active lately.
"The new ayahuasca is kambo"
The Hell Are All These Coders Actually _Doing_?
No wonder they still can't make a profit.
The Mind Simply Reels
I will credit Twitter for this:
By listing every last one of their coding shops at Soggy Jobs, Twitter enabled me to identify Jakarta, Indonesia as a tech hub.
Next Up: Find some locally-owned Jakarta software or hardware firms.
R. Kelly Contracts Ligma
Laziest SpaceX Hit Job to Date
After Elon Musk called a rescue diver a "pedo", all sorts of people have been crawling out of the woodwork to bash him. But this bit takes the cake:
SpaceX — which Musk touts as replacing NASA and colonizing Mars — has been a literal failure to launch. So many of its rockets have burned up or crashed that Musk, for reasons unknown, has made a blooper reel.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Northrop Grumman's Faulty Payload Adapter Reportedly Responsible for "Zuma" Failure
SpaceX celebrates its many failures in hilarious new blooper reel
I'll let you judge whether the other attacks in the article (mostly about Tesla) are accurate.
They're Gonna String Me Up For This.
So as to ensure that both sides of this decades-old conflict put a price on my head, I have - as-yet uninitialized - West Bank directories for both of Israel and Palestine.
I've devoted two solid years to trying to figure out how to list technology companies in disputed territories.
For me to list Kashmir as a territory in Pakistan is quite a serious criminal offense in India. I don't have any Kashmiri listings yet so I don't know how it will go, but quite likely I will have separate "Find a Computer Industry Job in Kashmir" for both of those sovereign nations.
The solution I eventually settled on this very night is that I will locate each company in the political location where the majority of its own employees regard themselves as citizens of.
That's quite simple for the Gaza Strip but not so simple for the West Bank: SodaFizz is located in the West Bank, and has more or less equal numbers of Israelis and Palestinians working side-by-side in peace and harmony.
I also replaced my "Buy Me A Coffee" Call To Action with:
Please Tell Us Where Your Company Is Located!
Because Soggy Jobs is a geographical index, we can't list you unless your website tells us what city your office is in. If you have more than one location, please list all of them on your site.
It usually works well for me to find all your locations on your Jobs or Careers page - but not always: it's quite common for technology firms to hire through their own websites without telling their applicants where they'll be working!
THX!
-- Mike
I Am Absolutely Serious: I've found lots of companies that I cannot list because they provide potential applicants with no way of determining which continent they'd be working on, let alone which timezone. Help Me.
Man says horse gave him sexual consent by winking at him
A man has been jailed for having sex with a horse he claimed had given him consent.
Daniel Raymond Webb-Jackson broke into the stables and was caught on CCTV abusing the animal.
However, when questioned, the 31-year-old claimed the filly had agreed to sex because she smelt his crotch and winked at him.
