Current political climate.
We just need someone to be the hand.
HDWGH – Story 51 – Has Anyone Seen Grandpa?
-*From The How Did We Get Here Series*-
**Now**: A plethora of blue and red spinning lights, an incredibly loud siren, and the metal sounds of exit doors slamming shut were all that could be observed at the Franklin Davis Memorial Post Office #736 in Sutter’s Creek, North Carolina. Janet Wyatt was standing next to Gunther Johnson in the employee parking lot passing a flask back and forth as the postal employees were wildly speculating about the nature of the evacuation. Word soon got around that Cletus Culpepper discovered some powder on an envelope that passed through his sorter. Cletus acknowledged that “he was no expert” but he thought someone was fixin to kill someone named Grandpa Thomas with Anthrax or baby powder, he couldn’t be sure.
**Before**: Gillian Baker Thomas placed her moist finger tips on the adhesive on the envelope and proceeded to seal it shut. This was stupid. Her uncle Roy’s idea to pass around Grandpa Thomas’ cremated remains through the mail to his family members seemed like a bad idea. Her living room looked like a meth lab. Her family looking like meth lab workers as they took great care to place a small portion of Grandpa Thomas’ remains into several small envelopes.
Gillian’s son Paul has warned against sending the remains through the mail. He thought there could have been a law against it but he was no lawyer so what did he know?
Several family members were unable to attend the funeral. Sure, the family could have sent copies of the funeral program but it just wouldn’t be the same. Ashes of the person you love. Now, that was something that had meaning.
Paul shrugged his shoulders as he prepared the last envelope. The tape he was using had just run out. He could replace the roll but this had gone on for too long. His weekly D & D game would be starting in a half and hour and he had to get moving.
That last envelope was probably strong enough to make it through the U.S. mail. He was fairly certain of it.
Pearl Harbor – 80 Years Later
80 years ago today, Pearl Harbor was attacked and many people lost their lives.
I hope to never see that kind of violence perpetrated on another group of people as long as I live. That is asking for a lot because human beings love to kill each other. Our answer to all of the Pearl Harbor deaths? How about a couple of nuclear bombs?
The official Pearl Harbor tourism site can be found here.
Time has a site devoted to the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki here.
The human race needs to collectively grow up.
That is me. Quoting myself.
Photo credit: Wikipedia.
Big Ass Pumpkin
Now this, is a big ass Pumpkin.
I’d happily link to the website (this came out of the newspaper version) but the website is ass and I couldn’t find this article. If I can’t find it in under 10 seconds, your website sucks.
Change or Get Out of Way
From an article in Engadget…
Microsoft is trying to nudge more people toward newer Windows versions. As Thurott reports, Microsoft has warned that the OneDrive desktop app will stop syncing with personal Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 computers on March 1st, 2022. The software will no longer receive updates from January 1st onward. You can still use the web to manually transfer files, but that’s clearly a hassle if you routinely access cloud files from an older PC.
Microsoft wants to move people away from their older operating systems. I get that. Doing something like this isn’t a gentle persuasion or even a soft nudge if those folks rely on One Drive. This is a shove.
The basic human reaction when someone is “told” to do something is to rebel against it. People don’t like being forced to do anything.
I completely understand that users need to keep moving forward and Microsoft wants to get out of the business of supporting unsafe legacy applications.
Someone at Microsoft probably looked at how many users were on version 7 or 8 and using On Drive and thought this would be a significant chunk of users to “nudge.”
This could also backfire. There are other storage options out there and all one needs to do is to set up a Dropbox account. They don’t care what version of Windows you are running.
I applaud Microsoft for shedding the idea that “you must support legacy software until your dying breath.” This is a big step away from that position.
