The Evil Dr. Longshadow

If you think the stuff I write in here is wild and unbelievable, you should see this fiction sheet I just scribbled up. Of course, it won't go anywhere at least until I hand it in for a critique from somebody who actually knows the game. He'll either forward it or tell me I'm full of soup. Anyway, this might actually be more fun if I let some Ai compound the script and try to make it all seem a bit more mysterious. Make it a good cliff hanger, even.

That's what it was around here all night. Yet, I could still hear all of my neighbors' air conditioners clicking on and off as started dozing off with a nice cool breeze from an open window.

How many Congressmen are now using AI to draft legislation and putting it up for votes without reading any of it?

I'm probably the "odd man out" in here, partly because I appear to be the only one who shows any enthusiasm for hot weather. Notice that my cover was blown the in the very same minute that I expressed that enthusiasm and some bum decided to respond with the same, tired old meme that he's been using since Barnum met Bailey. Of course, If most of you in here prefer living in antarctic conditions, you should all just pack up your crap and go colonize that shit hole continent. Start your own nation there, even. You could have a Constitution that prohibits everything that produces carbon dioxide under panalty of death. Don't worry, it's not going melt for another three or four million years. It's just very sick and sad to see so many whining crybabies in one place who can't sleep in the summer time without turning their air conditioners down to forty seven degrees... when it's only a few decimals above seventy two outside.

Sometimes I think the world actually needs an asshole genie like that to pop out of his crystal for a few months every hundred years or so until some smart joker figures out how to put him back in. It would remind most of us humans that we're not really the bosses of anything. This is all somebody else's world and we're just some rude and obnoxious squatters on it.

I got a new attitude! Hoo hoo Hoo hoo hooooo... I'd have a new attitude as well, if I just sang one song for somebody else's album and spent forty years collecting royalties on it after the album sold two million copies.

I know that having a job could sometimes feel that way.

Nah... just some random Walmartian who wandered onto a city street. BTW, I'm not actually going to post it here because whatever you say about it could differ from what a mod or amin might think of it.

Is photographing a person who is turned away from the camera with no part of the face or any other specific identifiers showing and then posting the photo here still "doxing" that person?

Hmm... Now, let me get this straight. A few members of Congress have just introduced a controversial bill. Regardless of whether or not the bill is passed in both houses of Congress, Trump is already planning to veto it. Congress does not have the two thirds majority required to override the veto. So, is there any point at all to even mentioning the bill, let alone drafting it and introducing it for a vote? Or, is this nothing but some posturing and virtue signalling to a particular voting block for the mid terms and a lame attempt at onboarding a few extra people who are not actually in that voting block?

Wow... Since I'm a resident of New Jersey, I'm required by state law to be enrolled in a health insurance plan AND my current income disqualifies me from any government funded health insurance, I am not only required to purchase a plan from a private insurer, I am ALSO required to budget and lay aside the money that pays the premium. So, budgeting is what I do. Not budgeting? No insurance. No insurance? Not in compliance. Not in compliance? Not following requirements. Cause and effect, folks. You'll never see one without the other.

In other news, a vacated strip club in Atlantic City has been appraised at only $400k, which is peanuts for anybody who is really serious about buying commercial properties here. Delilah's Den. Yes, the same one that had private busses picking up patrons from all the casinos.

I went looking for the old 1980's American Dairy Association radio jingle that chirped out, "Milk's the soft soft drink. It doesn't shout about its flavor, always on its best behavior with the foods you want to savor..." Somehow, that was skipped over on Youtube in favor of better known TV spots such as, "Got milk?" and "Milk does a body good." Yes, the radio jingle I'm talking about said, "soft" twice. That's not a typo.

Only in what they called a "Hot Apple Pie", which at that time was brought in frozen and kept frozen until it was deep fried to some preposterously high temperature. And yes, milk is still served at McDonald's today... low fat milk. Sure, as though the "low fat" part is going to make a difference to a customer who just ate five Quarter Pounders and four large orders of fries.

I actually learned part of my distrust for management way back when I worked at McDonald's. The policy stated one free meal for an eight hour shift. It excluded milk. Sodas only. I asked a manager why milk was excluded. He said, "The American Dairy Association doesn't allow it." Now, what's wrong with that picture? I was only seventeen and knew what was wrong with it.

I'm on the way for a very big plate of chicken salad.

I lost some weight...

Yesterday: Rigatoni.

Didn't vandalize anything at the Santa Clara County Fair.

A failed product.

Charcoal grill.

Yesterday: A half pound cheeseburger

Management still had that right. When they don't use it, shame on them.

Everything is kept orderly at theaters. First, there's the front door. All patrons are expected to enter through the front door during business hours. Next, there's the ticket window. This is where patrons are expected to pay the admission fee. Then, there's the auditorium, where the show can be viewed. Patrons are expected to sit still and be quiet during the show. So, what do you think happens when patrons don't meet the expectations? Did anybody creep in through a back door, not buy a ticket, or exhibit loud or disruptive behavior? That's when the owner or manager can take action. Violators are pushed out, kicked out, batted out, and scooted out. Sound fair? Enjoy the show. I sure wish everything else wotked that way.