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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Every time I drive through Houston I see something that makes you say “well that’s the weirdest thing I have ever seen.” The funniest one was back in the 80’s and I was driving home from a concert and a station wagon passed me that had to be doing over 100mph. It had about 18 or more people in it, and they were hanging out of every window including the back. This was a 70’s model wagon so it was literally the size of a barge but it was packed to the gills. Now that in and of itself isn’t too funny, but combine that with the fact that all 4 tires were those baby spares and you have pure gold right there. It was bumping along down the road at high speeds with those tiny little tires just hanging on for dear life along with most of the passengers. I am guessing they were trying to start a trend with the baby spares but it doesn’t seem like it took off. Recently it has been cars with swangers and ones that are absolutely plastered with small figurines or trophies. They just glue them on and hit the open road. Can’t wait to see what is next.


  • Wow. At the time of me posting this, the majority of people in this discussion might want to step back a little a do a little self introspection. There is a lot of bigotry and hate in these posts for a couple of people that they don’t even know. Which is a little comical as that’s what a lot of people are accusing them of. There is lots of name calling that they are morons and bad people. For all you know they could be someone who has saved one of your loved ones say from an accident, or taught a loved one of yours as a teacher. But because they have an opinion, which they are entitled to, and it doesn’t match yours, they are automatically morons? That’s not how this works. Reminds me of the George Carlin bit where everyone one driving slower than you is an idiot, and everyone driving faster than you is a maniac. OP didn’t do much to help this by setting up these kinds of responses with the initial question and comments. Instead of asking a bunch of random people on the internet who are all in an echo chamber how about sitting down with your parents and just having a conversation with them about it. They did raise you so they should at least get a little credit. But what do I know. My kids have no problem discussing anything with me, and we all know that we are never going to agree 100% on things and that’s ok. They are entitled to their opinion just like we all are. Just because it doesn’t match yours doesn’t make them idiots.
















  • It has ruined communication.

    I like this and want to add something I think will be significant as generations pass. The fact that it encourages or at least seems to normalize incorrect spelling and grammar. I see 'break/brake" being used incorrectly so many times I have started to question it when I am using it now. When things are published normally, there is someone checking for grammatical errors and such. With social media so much text is being “published” with no checking whatsoever and I have a feeling that it is going to start affecting people in ways we haven’t thought of. It also is a little telling in my opinion of how abhorrent our current education system is.



  • Just as a general rule, I would start checking log files. You can start by searching /var/log for files that have been modified in the last few mins with something like “sudo find /var/log -mmin -10 -ls 2>/dev/null”. That will get you all log files in /var/log changed within the last 10 mins. Then you can tail those or grep them looking for clues. I have done searches of the entire file system looking for log files that were recently modified to find clues. It might also help to send the output to a file so you can view that and scroll up and down rather than just trying to read the output of the find, tail or grep commands. Put a “1>/{path}/filenameyouwanttouse.out” at the end of the command or you can pipe it to the tee command and it will show on the screen and write to the file you specify.