Hi, My name is Jim, and I’m an addict. No, not an alcohol or narcotics addict, but a technology addict. As much as I complain about all of this stuff(that I own), I can’t seem to put it away for long. Sure, I don’t stay awake 24/7 moving from device to device or ecanning the Internet on one of my various means. No, I do put it down. To sleep. For a while.
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Looking at some posts over on Linkedin, I came across a post by an. older Information Technology person (I guess)complaining the way he was interviewed by someone in HR at a prospective company. This had me angry one second and laughing the next because, well, as someone that has a long career in IT, I’ve been through the same situation multiple times. I’ve come to call it, The Runaround.
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In 2019, I wrote a piece here titled, We Need to Cancel Cancel Culture and showed (I believe) why this is bad for society in general. As a conservative, this really didn’t affect me directly, because the left, those that refer to themselves as progresive, mainly attacked others on the left that were not far enough left for them. As I’ve said before, many times, the left loves to eat their own. It’s a cannibalistic tribe. We still see it going on today, although less, as many on the left have realized that they are not the firefighters of society, but the arsonists, in this casem burning down their own house.
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I have been trying to not watch the news lately. It’s because I am frustrated by how our government is responding not only to international issues (yes, the WAR with Iran), but domestic problems as well.
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Every year, on or about this time of year, someone always asks me, “Where were you when the towers went down?”. My response is always the same. I was asleep. I lived in Colorado in 2001 and I had been up late the night (morning?) before the attack.
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