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For the most part I've been down with working at home because most of my homes had an extra room that I used as an office. But my current tiny little apartment does not; my desk is in the living room. It's all too easy to get districted by some other activity one engages in at home.

My desk at NedSpace is in a proper office that I share with one other quite-experienced coder. I was able to focus all day long. Among other things I added all of Snap, Inc.'s locations to The Global Computer Industry Index:

$ find . -name index.html -exec fgrep -q snap.com {} \; -print
./www/computer/united-kingdom/england/london/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/illinois/cook/chicago/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/new-york/new-york/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/california/los-angeles/los-angeles/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/california/santa-clara/mountain-view/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/california/san-francisco/san-francisco/index.html
./www/computer/united-states/washington/king/seattle/index.html
./www/computer/telecommute/index.html
./www/computer/ukraine/kiev/index.html
./www/computer/ukraine/odessa/odessa/index.html
./www/computer/canada/ontario/toronto/index.html
./www/computer/australia/new-south-wales/sydney/index.html
./www/computer/france/paris/paris/index.html
./www/computer/switzerland/vaud/yverdon-les-bains/index.html
./www/computer/united-arab-emirates/dubai/index.html
./www/computer/china/shenzen/index.html

Tomorrow I'm not going to list any companies instead I'll start working on some - long overdue - automation.

To my great - and endlessly-repeated - dismay, every time I start to write a new Python program I soon realize that I've forgotten it all.

I long ago grew weary of the Python.org tutorial. Perhaps I can find a fresh, new tutorial that doesn't make my eyes glaze over.

Whereas she preferred to drink in such a way that she'd really get into her dance moves, on top of a table while wearing a lamp shade.

One of Nedspace tenants is trading an infinite supply of Kombucha for a hot desk. The guy's into marketing.

Kombucha is sad to be good for your dookies. Us old guys gotta be concerned about stuff like that.

While it's not labeled as an alcoholic beverage, the fermentation puts a little alcohol in it. Just a little.

But that "little" is big enough that I'm now drunk.

At work. ;-)

Meet the Team.

This particular draft of my bio is what I just submitted to Nedspace's members-only Google Group to introduce myself. For the Team page I'm going to go into more detail about my background in drivers and embedded systems development. Aside from OSX those have both been mostly storage and crypto.

Stylesheet.

Both the markup and the css are valid yet I'm fucked if I know why my photo isn't to the left of my bio.

And yes, Portland Custom Software Development really has always been a "we" and not just an "I". Rod Schmidt was a schoolmate at the Institute, Blacker House Engineering And Applied Science '83.

Oddly at least at the time Caltech did not offer a Computer Science major.

I have Rod's photo but haven't yet cropped and resized it. He'll write his bio after I'm done writing mine.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6433935/five-brits-arrested-in-magaluf-for-hate-crime-as-ex-pats-and-prostitutes-continue-to-clash-in-party-resort/
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/03/knife-wielding-prostitutes-british-tourists-in-violent-clashes-at-notorious-party-resort-in-spain.html
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/531866/magaluf-prostitutes-british-tourists-robbed-calvia-police
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/966432/Magaluf-prostitutes-mugging-robbing-tourists-majorca

Mallorca has been a wild, wild party place since before I joined the Navy. It had a reputation, even then, of "anything goes". If you have the cash, pretty much anything you desire can be yours, for a night at least. The stories allude to the fact that the authorities generally look the other way, and don't get involved.

But, the illegals are changing that:

Taxi drivers say they know of the women as they frequently give them lifts and believe they are raking in around 1,000 euros each a day.

"During the past weekend, 50 to 60 prostitutes approached visitors offering 'full' services for 40 pounds, that is, the standard price they have established. All this is an excuse," it is alleged.

"The real purpose is to approach drunken young people. Prostitutes are specialists in capturing the attention of tourists in the area, cajole them and lead them to some dark alley. Once there, several of the women beat and rob their victims."

British businesses fed-up with the situation have staged a demonstration in Calvia calling for urgent action.

One trader said: "We are fed up with a group of undesirables spoiling our activity season after season."

The organisers say the prostitutes stir up trouble which goes against the long list of "co-existence" rules drawn up by Calvia council. The authority has put up signs in Magaluf and the other nightlife areas warning of 200 euro fines for bad behaviour.

They haven't been able to get official residence papers and as some have children, the only work they can do is prostitution, they added.

Nigeria? I guess the Nigerian princes aren't getting enough action on the internet these days. They have to send their women to the outside world to hustle up some money.

Off-duty FBI agent doing backflip in a bar shoots man in the leg

FBI agent allegedly drops gun at Denver night club, shooting one person in the leg

You can find me in the club.

Ginger emoji will launch next week, along with bagels, superheroes, and toilet paper

A (very) small number of Soylentils may remember my Rag dog. A couple of the kids had spent the day working on their old POS vehicles. That evening, they came into the house, one of them holding a mostly dirty rag, and wiping his hands on that rag. It still had a couple white corners showing, the rest was a mottled brown and black. Kid asks me if I want a puppy. "No, I don't need a puppy, I'm not going to spend time house breaking and training a puppy, thank you very much." Asshole hands me that damned dirty rag. It wasn't a rag, it was the puppy he was trying to give away. He proceeds to brag up the Australian sheep dog, telling me how great they are, how smart they are, and how loyal, blah blah blah.

Needless to say, I ended up keeping the puppy, and named her Rags. She's a sweet dog. Very quiet, most of the time. She didn't bark for months - literally. It shocked me when she finally let out a deep throated bark at something in the yard, I didn't think she had it in her.

The thing about puppies is, they grow up. Just like kids, they grow up. Rags got out, met some guy she liked, and made some puppies of her own.

So recently, she's been pregnant, then finally had a litter of little rags. And, she's not been eating much. When she does eat, she prefers to snitch some cat food, rather than eat dog food. Or, she sits and begs while we are cooking or eating.

More recently, I've "inherited" a pack of dogs that are basically abandoned. I've sort of shopped for less expensive dog food. I'm not a Wal-Mart shopper, but I've even gone into Wal-Mart to see how expensive their dog food is.

Well, they had a fifty pound bag of Ol' Roy bacon flavored dog food for twenty bucks. Not a super great price, but not bad. I grabbed one. Brought it home, opened it up, and shared some out for all the dogs. Here comes Rags - she's escaped the yard, and run all the way up to where I have the other dogs penned up. And, she bulls her way in to the pack, scarfing up that Ol' Roy bacon flavored dog food.

I'm questioning - does she really like that dog food, or is she just socializing, dog style, and competing for the food like dogs do?

Brought some of that bacon flavor stuff back to the house, put it down for her, and she's still gobbling it up! Yes, the little Mama actually likes the Ol' Roy! She walked around the cat's bowl, and went to her own bowl, to eat it.

Her fat little puppies need lots of milk, so she needs to eat. Looks like I'll be buying WalMart brand dog food from now on.

Bacon. Everything is better with bacon!

Unlike some other brands of dog food, Wal-Mart branded dog food doesn't have a lot of nutritional information. The best analysis available seems to be here: https://www.dogfoodinsider.com/ol-roy-dog-food-review/ Rather low quality food, but if the silly dog eats it, then it's better than high dollar food that she won't eat!

And - BACON!

#include "Hello.hpp"

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int foo()
{
        kprintf( "Hello World!\n" );

        return 0;
}

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.