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I could open a business checking account but that means I need business licenses with both the city and state. But my first paycheck is almost gone.

What did I spend it on? Might as well be hookers and blow, I'd have as much to show for it. Actually I spent most of it on restaurant meals. I'm fortunate that I spent some on items of lasting value, like my spiffy new Mac Mini, and some new clothes. Otherwise I would have spent the whole thing at restaurants.

Fortunately a close friend is willing to lend me the money for the business licenses. I will apply online later tonight. This friend of mine is well aware of my fondness for hookers and blow, but frankly I'm shocked.

I used to enjoy cooking at home. It's my depression that discourages it.

I could take sandwiches for lunch but every morning I feel too wiped to make my sandwich. Starting tonight I'm going to make my sandwiches the night before.

Rice and Beans. I like rice and beans, but my bean pot is dirty. I have two kitchen sinks. The left-hand one I actually use, and do a good job of keeping it empty. My bean pot is in the right-hand sink, and has been there for months, unwashed.

There is no excuse. Depression makes me lazy but even so I must not give into it. Among the best ways to overcome depression is to act as if one is not depressed. If I were to wash that damn bean pot I would be rewarded with wholesome nutritious hot meals each evening.

I don't really have any plans for this second paycheck. But that means I must be extra careful or I will spend the lot of it at the taqueria down the street.

MWC 2017: AGM Preparing IP68 Rated Snapdragon 835 Smartphone with 8GB DRAM

While the AGM X1 is positioned by the manufacturer as an affordable rugged phone for extreme sports and other outdoor activities, but it is definitely not a phone from the premier league. In the coming months (in mid-2017) AGM plans to introduce its X2, which will be positioned as a premium smartphone and will feature Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 SoC (10nm, eight new Kryo cores, Adreno 540, X16 LTE, LPDDR4X, etc.). This is along with 8 GB of DRAM, 256 GB of NAND, two cameras, a ~6000 mAh battery (there will also be the AGM X2 Pro with a 10,000 mAh battery) an omni-bearing ambient sensor and so on. Based on official images of the AGM X2 (originally published by AGM and AndroidHeadlines), it is possible that the phone has four antennae and thus supports 4x4 MIMO, one of the three features required for Gigabit LTE.

The AGM X2 will be one of the first IP68-rated Snapdragon 835-based smartphones with a rugged design. Meanwhile, for AGM, this will be a debut on the market of premium smartphones that compete against Apple’s iPhones or Samsung’s Galaxy S-series. The price of the AGM X2 is unknown, but it will likely vary significantly depending on the store and the region. For example, the AGM X1 can be bought for $260 in China or for over $480 in the U.S.

How 4Chan's Worst Trolls Pulled Off the Heist of the Century

The folks of 4Chan have, for some time now, been systematically fucking with Shia Labeouf for his "He Will Not Divide Us" art/protest project. The project first started with Labeouf setting up a webcam in New York. It was supposed to be a permanent live feed for the duration of Trumps presidency, one where people could look into the camera and chant the saying—this obviously did not end well.

[...] The non-stop bullshit surrounding his art project seemingly got to some people and it was shut down by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, where it was located. Shia, not to be deterred, then moved the exhibit to El Rey Theater in Albuquerque in mid-February, but the fuckery continued. The live stream was spray painted and it was eventually shut down when gunshots were reported in the area.

Still though, Shia, ever the trooper, carried on. This time the HWNDU project featured a livestream of a flag waving in the air. The stream contained only the sky and the flag as not to give away its location to the trolls. 'Yes,' Labeouf must have thought, 'there is no way they're shutting this one down. I, Big-Daddy Shia, did it.'

Big-Daddy Shia would be proven wrong once again—instead of vanquishing the trolls, he started the most intense game of capture the flag ever. The trolls using only the live stream of the flag, started, I shit you not, studying the flight patterns and contrails of the airplanes passing overhead. They mapped out what they saw and took their findings to flight radars to try and pinpoint a general area. Using the knowledge gleaned from the flight patterns they found that the location was near Greeneville, Tennessee.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170306154230.htm

Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the direction of the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as part of the Islamic prayer ritual, the Salat. The ritual is one of the five obligatory elements of the faith set forth by the holy book, the Qur'an.

According to research at Binghamton University, State University of New York, the complex physical movements of the ritual can reduce lower back pain if performed regularly and properly.

"One way to think about the movements is that they are similar to those of yoga or physical therapy intervention exercises used to treat low back pain," said Professor and Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department Chair Mohammad Khasawneh, who is one of the authors of "An ergonomic study of body motions during Muslim prayer using digital human modelling."

Islam: Relieving the Pain in Your Ass Adjacent to Your Rear

An ergonomic study of body motions during Muslim prayer using digital human modelling (DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2017.10002578) (DX)

This Doctor Would Rather You Take Weed Up the Butt Than Smoke It

It's even safer than vaping!

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Op-ed at War is Boring. Found at NBF.

It wasn't looking so good to start with. I was still awake at 3:45 this morning so I shut the alarm off. But I got up in mid-afternoon, ate breakfast, showered and shaved, then went to Starbucks. Here at Starbucks I read a few pages of Benjamin Lunt's "USB: the Universal Serial Bus". I'm reading about xHCI Host Bus Adapters in particular.

That book is so detailed you could kill a man with its register definitions. Even so I managed to read 11 pages before losing patience. If I do that each time I sit down to read it, I'll read the chapter on xHCI hardware in a total of four days. That's not so bad.

(xHCI is the register-level controller standard for USB 3. It also supports USB 2 and 1.)

I bought two new pairs of pants at the mall Saturday evening. I'm wearing one of them now. I feel good, wearing brand-new clothes. I'd been reduced to a raggedy pair of blue jeans. Now I regard it as acceptable to wear worn-out jeans specifically, but these were rapidly losing ground.

I had plans to meet a friend at a restaurant tonight, but he had to reschedule for Thursday. My plan was to ask one of the waitresses out to dinner. I don't know whether she's interested in me, but she liked it when I kissed her on her hand. If she's working Thursday I'll ask her then. I want to take her to a sushi bar in downtown Portland.

I was feeling dismayed at my cluelessness about the low-level driver knowledge required to complete my next project. But the Engineering VP and their regular programmer are confident I can do it. We got together to talk about it last thursday. "I want to set your mind at ease" said the VP.

I suppose I'll take on the project. That gives me at least three more months work and enough money to buy a car.

Now I don't really know that it's safe to drive, as I was having seizures for a while. I didn't have many but they were quite severe. A couple times I lost consciousness, yet was up and walking around talking to people, but not making any sense at all, as if I was completely out of touch with reality. The first seizure I had while I was driving. I found myself driving a strange car is a strange place with no memory of how I got there - but I didn't crash, which leads me to believe the seizure was very brief, but with a big loss of memory.

I eventually figured out that I set out the previous afternoon from my Mom's place just north of Vancouver Washington, that I got pulled over by a cop for a busted taillight during the night, and that I want to a restaurant in Medford, Oregon during the very early morning. But I don't remember anything else. I don't remember eating anything at that restaurant, just sitting at my table writing a journal on Kuro5hin.

Eventually I passed mount Shasta, and I realized I was driving back home to where I used to live in San Jose.

My psychiatrist and my regular doctor both think it's safe for me to drive, but both of them want me to get checked out by a neurologist. I have a referral but haven't made the appointment yet.

There is a total eclipse of the sun visible across the United States on August 21 of this year. If I understand the map correctly the totality will be visible in Salem, about an hour south of Portland. If I buy a car I'll drive down, otherwise I'll take the bus or train.

Burning Man may have to be cancelled this year. There has been record snowfall in the nearby mountains, with the result that the dry lake bed is no longer dry. The fear is that it won't dry out enough by labor day. It would be Muddy Man.

I don't have a ticket but was thinking of buying one during the sale during the summer, when those with extra tickets have active support for selling them. We shall see.

I've been there three times before. It was lots of fun.

Black Guns Matter activist brings message to Detroit

Black Guns Matter founder Maj Toure to speak in Springfield; says urban populations lacking info on gun rights

Maj Toure Takes his Message of Gun Rights into the Heart of Boston

Rumbling Against Tyranny

'Black Guns Matter' Focuses On Firearms Education To Decrease Violence

What could possibly go wrong? 'Black Guns Matter' campaigner claims he will cut violence in inner cities like Chicago by arming residents with more LEGAL firearms

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Tesla Owner Who Sacrificed His Model S To Save Another Driver Gets Surprise From Elon Musk

Mmmh, that sweet good publicity. It's even better than bad publicity.