A long time ago, for whatever reason, I decided to do a port scan on my entire WAN subnet. That’s how I discovered that a certain brand of DSL modem (I don’t recall which) made the admin portal accessible from the WAN. And of course the credentials were admin/admin.

I think most hardware providers do better now but it was just mind boggling to me that it even happened in the first place.

Not going to lie, It took me a second.

Buying dirt cheap garbage made by slave labor has consequences. Who knew.

A while ago at the start of the whole thing, I tried to call it off because I felt it was way too risky and frankly the initial excitement worn off, but when I tried to tell her, she threw a chair. When I talked to her about it a few days later, she said “at least I didn’t bash my head into the wall” as her anxiety has let her to self harm before.

That’s a form of emotional blackmail. I put up with it in my first marriage. I will never repeat that mistake. Once it starts, it doesn’t stop.

With TP-Link, I would say the bigger concern is that they are reeaaaalllyyy slow to patch vulnerabilities, if they do it at all.

A lot of people simply do not understand what it’s like to have ADHD. I remember sitting at our dining room table for hours most evenings, staring at my math homework and wondering why I couldn’t wrap my brain around it when all the other kids seemed to find it so easy.

Turns out when you can’t visualize things in your head it makes doing math very hard. Give me 70mg of Vyvanse and I’m all over it. Without it, I can’t even recall a phone number that I literally just looked at. I have to punch the digits one at a time while constantly looking back at the number.

You can’t just will your brain into getting hormones and neurotransmitters to the right places. Who knew.

I had a Zune. It was a phenomenal product. It was just priced too high and trying to compete in a market flooded with cheap MP3 players.

I think the video player functionality wasn’t as big a selling point as they thought it would be to the average user since you either had to purchase films from the store …or acquire them in other ways and convert them to a supported file format.

I’m the older brother and have two younger siblings. I love both of them. Even when they piss me off, which fortunately is pretty rare. I have a much closer relationship with my youngest brother. Something that I didn’t realize growing up is that your younger siblings kind of look up to you, even if they don’t know how to say that. If I had known that I probably would have been a little nicer to them.

As an adult, I try to make sure they know they can come to me if they need help. Sometimes I need help too and I know I can lean on them for support.

But, there are lots of people who don’t get along with their siblings for one reason or another. If your brother is unhappy, that’s not your fault. If he’s throwing away an opportunity to have a good relationship with you, then he’s a fool.

Love, not blood, is the thing that makes families and holds them together.

🎶Baddum. Ts.🎶

He just had another kid so he’s probably busy at the moment. Newborns are hard work. Especially when you’re 70 years old.

I would call that an excellent wedding venue.

Thanks!

Pedaler’s Pub in Bentonville. Funny thing is we didn’t actually eat there on our first date. Well, I think we had salads and left. Too bad because the pizza was excellent. Only took us 7 years to figure that out.

Same one! Cooper Chapel, Bella Vista, AR.

And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it’s powered off.

I would not buy them here or there. I would not buy them anywhere. I do not like appliances with ads. I do not like them Sam-I-Am.

If you’re leading an organization that somehow managed to “overhire” 30k employees, then the first person to hit the bricks should be you because you really suck at your job.

My teachers in school: “JubilationTCornpone would perform a lot better and get better grades if he would just focus and apply himself.”

Me: “Ok detective. You caught me. Being shit at math is totally a conscious decision on my part. Case closed everybody. We can all go home now. Turns out I’m not a complete moron. I’m just lazy.”

He’s [Elon] not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy!