Jasonisms

Okay, so I have Windows 8.1 and have been using it like Windows 7 for the better part of the few months I've had the new OS. In other words, I've forgone the Metro UX and opted for the old fashioned Taskbar and Start Menu. However, I've been trying to use more of the Metro tiles. I had no idea what the People app was for, assuming it was some sort of contacts list, but as it turns out, it's more of an aggregated social media feed. Which sounds nice, but I have to wonder, does Facebook track this app? Will Facebook be adding little nuggets of software to my computer to track what I do, where I go, which browsers I use or my keystrokes? As you may have guessed, I don't trust Facebook one bit. I have my FB profile locked down and only visit it Incognito on those rare occasions when I do go there (unfortunately, most of my friends are still there and not here). So, does anyone know how intrusive Facebook is on Windows' People app? Will I be giving up any imaginary p

Reads like an infomercial. Anyone else wonder if +Walmart paid for this endorsement? Originally shared by Chrissy Morin #WalmartToGo  saved our Thanksgiving! http://www.clumsygourmet.com/walmart-go-saved-day/#sthash.VaHmifRe.hpvt

Costco sells modern timepieces! And at a fairly decent price, too. Get yours while the gettin's good.

Guess what goodie Google Play has for you today? https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKpf4FWfVTjP6io39iQkuP2tt3gpbQoLcYzZBIRiET8aSGQiJsk6MOIlttUBS8FGbgHcOb9EOJ_7bXuegmkqainCRcp7LNiQ0m8lpSZm777F5QC85_YvvEsadHmCMe-XeOzjJlvYcfHlXpyUnyV0TYqgb_T4n-k2aWnRJbB4FaFWqeNARx4%3D

No bueno! How in the world will I ever let the world know what I'm reading, what I'm intending to read or what I've read, Goodreads?

Just spent a little over an hour on Facebook. I feel dumber. Off to read a text book ...

Some good advice in here, or maybe just a good refresher on urban riding. Anyone have something to add? http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/news/top-15-motorcycle-tips-street-riding-safety?image=0

Saw this on a non-public share so I thought I'd share it publicly, since great men shouldn't be relegated to the shadows of history. American history is so much more than you thought you knew. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Bullard

I got bored. I wish I could say I've been to more states, but I haven't. Sadly, I've never been to the Pacific Northwest or New England. I have been to a number of countries, though. So that's good. Create Your Own Visited States Map

Since I don't watch football, I'm  here to see what all the fuss is about. http://youtu.be/zSWdZVtXT7E

What an awesome little chart demonstrating Obama's abuse of executive authority. /sarcasm http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/every-presidents-executive-actions-in-one-chart

I'm an embarrassment. Either I ate too much or a I failed to tackle the challenge.

For those of you who are cyber-stalking me, you know I've been busy this past month working a nigh ob in order to make some extra money. It was s short contract (ending last night, or this morning, rather) upgrading a restaurant chain's PCs and servers from WinXP to Win7. Don't get excited, it's not a fancy or fun restaurant, the chain is a national fast food one with less commercials than it's competitors. In fact, I can't recall seeing a commercial for this particular chain in a long time, maybe a decade. Sadly, I've put on a few pounds doing this contract. Nearly every restaurant offered me a free meal for being their vendor and not being one to turn down a free meal, I said, what the hell ? So, I rearranged my eating habits to account for the late meal, ate early in the evening so the food wouldn't be sitting in my belly when I went to bed in the mornings and tried to eat as light  as I could while on site. Aside from feeling like crap, I wasn&

One of the things that annoys me the most about Blogger is mobile. Not that the mobile app isn't great, but that drafts created on the mobile app don't show up in drafts on desktop. Many times I'm out and about and have an epiphany I want to share with the world. So, I open up the Android app, type out a rough draft, add some photos and then save it for review later. As we all know, typing on a mobile isn't as easy as typing on an actual true keyboard. However, the draft doesn't show up on blogger.com . With all Google's autobackups and save to clouds, one would think the Blogger app would save drafts to the cloud a little easier. Or, maybe it does and I just can't find the setting. I'm pretty, not smart.

+Walmart is a terrible company. http://m.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/walmart_employees_go_hungry_working_for_the_richest_family_in_america_20141

Worried some government agency is targeting you for illegal computer tapping? Amnesty International has a new program for you. LIterally, it's a new program to scan your (Windows) machine and discover once and for all if you're important to the powers-that-be. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/20/amnesty-nsa.html

Got a minute? Okay, 71 seconds? Originally shared by The Atlantic The Best 71-Second Animation You'll Watch Today http://trib.al/rWYtRqh http://trib.al/rWYtRqh

This was originally shared privately, but I wanted to share it with you all.  [ warning : make sure you have tissues handy] http://www.tickld.com/x/this-guy-just-changed-the-way-we-seecalvin-and-hobbes

I ahd no idea ... Yes, I'd heard if the show, but I'd never heard of Quiverfull before now. I just thought these people were crazy. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/more-than-70000-urge-tlc-to-cancel-duggar-family-show-over-anti-lgbt-fear-mongering/

Should the CIA be able to destroy troves of emails out there that, in some cases, might be pertinent in 10, 20 or 50 years? If it's a question of storage, didn't the government build a fancy new facility in Utah for the NSA? Couldn't they store those CIA and other .gov backups there? Hell, shouldn't the Archives have a better budget to build their own fancy new facility? http://www.npr.org/2014/11/20/365474273/the-cia-wants-to-delete-old-email-critics-say-not-so-fast?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

Would you pay to be Google ad free on your website? Your ads, the ones you sold, would still show up, but the ads AdSense displays would vanish, presumably, making your ads stuck out more. Of, thanks to Google and Facebook, have we trained our minds to skim over ads, treating them like irrelevant data? To be fair, I think Google would do better to sell and AdBlock type service that strips ads from the internet for the general public rather than selling a service that strips ads from your own website. But hey, that's me. http://gizmodo.com/youll-soon-be-able-to-pay-to-make-google-ads-disappear-1661257400

One of my largest complaints about social media is content created. More specifically, a lack of content creation. I can't remember who it was, but years ago a social media powerhouse once claimed that there are two kinds of social media users: (1) content creators and (2) content distributors. Now, most of us generally distribute content in one form or another, whether it's our own or someone else's, or whether it's just something we found on the interwebz and thought it was interesting enough to share to our collective streams.  However, I've noticed in the past few months that a vast majority of social media users aren't content creators, they're not even proper content distributors. What do I mean by that? Simply put, when you share something with a friend or colleague you usually preface it with comment or some other sort of introduction: Hey, check out this cool band. Awesome beats. I saw this on the internet and think it's hilarious, what do

Everything humans do is a drain on the environment. Why should let ownership be any different? I mean, this article might as well be telling us not to wash our dishes or flush the toilet. Hell, do you know how big a carbon footprint your clothes have? http://www.alternet.org/environment/surprisingly-large-carbon-paw-print-our-beloved-polluting-pets

A little light reading to get your blood boiling this morning. The tl;dr version is: there will be no more wine or chocolate. http://m.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/you_can_say_goodbye_to_your_favorite_foods_thanks_climate_change_20141118

Well, isn't that entirely racist? Originally shared by Trumanity Onsteemit america isn't ready for a black president - words of Tupac Shakur anyone who believes this house negro is a black man, needs their heads read - america would never allow a black president.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATQU2qh1m4&feature=share

Sometimes I hate Goolge+. I just had a few paragraphs typed out and one fat-finger moment later my screen/tab is gone and I've lost everything I was typing out.  Just so you know, it wasn't very good, it would have upset a lot of people and probably wouldn't have been shared. But still, it was my content, my thoughts and all of you had a right to read them.

Ever wondered if Republicans really hated science or if they were just giving lip service to their corporate overlords? Well, here you have it. The GOP is trying to stop scientific experts from advising on legislation so that corporate "experts" have a better chance of confusing the issues. ...experts would be forbidden from sharing their expertise in their own research — the bizarre assumption, apparently, being that having conducted peer-reviewed studies on a topic would constitute a conflict of interest. “In other words,” wrote Union of Concerned Scientists director Andrew A. Rosenberg in an editorial for RollCall, “academic scientists who know the most about a subject can’t weigh in, but experts paid by corporations who want to block regulations can. http://www.salon.com/2014/11/19/house_republicans_just_passed_a_bill_forbidding_scientists_from_advising_the_epa_on_their_own_research/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

This is good news for all the shutterbugs out there who just happen to treat the Earth as their most cooperative model. It seems someone in government t has a little common sense left. http://www.photoattorney.com/forest-service-chief-issues-directive-photography-permits/

I visit the library multiple times a week. Sometimes to pick something up, to drop something off or just for a quiet place to get some work done that doesn't smell like coffee. In fact, I'm off to the library right now... Originally shared by The Atlantic A Field Trip to America's Public Libraries http://trib.al/1PMVqRU http://trib.al/1PMVqRU

Watching this. Only a few minutes in. Has anyone else seen it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCUbvOwwfWM

Is it a motorcycle or a car? I don't know, I just know I want one. Zoom! Zoom! I'm fairly certain this wouldn't replace my SV in any way shape or form, but it might be a more comfortable long distance rider. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/11/18/texas-puts-three-wheeler-in-legal-limbo

Has the GOP walled itself into a corner? Was 2014 the final straw? http://blog.chron.com/goplifer/2014/11/the-missing-story-of-the-2014-election/

Your eye doctor as a general practioner? It might be worth it to catch things earlier rather than later. http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/140408-eyes-health-vin?utm_content=buffer6028f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Sadly, I don't have an artistic side to me whatsoever. I got Beethoven and van Gogh. http://mentalfloss.com/article/60058/find-out-what-famous-brains-are-most-yours

Whoa! It's all about perspective. At one point you think $7000 is a lit of money at another you drop it on dinner and drinks. http://factually.gizmodo.com/james-earl-jones-was-originally-paid-7-000-for-voicing-1659817892

I'm not going to lie, my balls are not this big.

I think this is the very definition if taking things a little too far. The name of the place is Illegal Pete's not Illegal Pedro's . Is illegal operation of a motor vehicle a racial slur, too? Oh, and let's not forget, "Mexican" isn't a race, it's a nationality. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/us/in-colorado-calls-to-change-a-restaurants-name-from-illegal-petes.html?referrer

I know I've been fairly absent these past few weeks, but I've been really really busy. Hell, let's throw in another really because it has been that kind of time. I just added a bunch of new people to community, so hopefully we'll have some new voices to the mix and not a lot of spam. Apparently, there are a shit-ton of spammers out there just trying to get in here and I can't be all knowing  and all fantabulous when screening for spammers. So, if you see someone spamming, go ahead and report them. If you're unsure, just tag me or one of the other moderators in so we can clean it up nice and tidy-like. Otherwise, if you're in the lower hemisphere, go for a ride. If you're in the upper hemisphere, well, dream about the spring. It will be here soon enough.

If you're into country music, this is Google's free album of the day. I'm not much of a country fan even when it does sound more like pop than traditional country music, but some of you may enjoy this freebie. https://market.android.com/details?id=album-Bhk5xr5dt5jpz666xntncmcxvxm

Just picked up this little gem. It's only a few songs, but I as far as I can tell, they're all pretty good. https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKrh6AtLz4GURKzJ4PkSOePrIcQfV0fh509LveG8yyOpZzrE-Y6vlU6rVndutgeQS0nKkAGucXBgfPsGNAdUKvPtx0t0PsiAgYioNWg44TKhS97HnIsZlARB7q6VbheiPjIxT58mTWGH699rBH9cP4YwzlpaZrI4Zeaeydfmi_wlo317ElY%3D

I was a little shocked go see my hometown, Palm Bay, FL, at the number 9 spot much less on the list at all and Denver not even breaking into the top 100. Color me stunned. How'd your hometown do? http://lifehacker.com/the-us-cities-with-the-best-mobile-performance-1658477277

Because, why not? http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watching-how-they-make-crayons-is-brain-ticklingly-sati-1658053481

Useless trivia is always fun. http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=59790

If you needed yet another reason to dislike the totalitarian hardliner Islamic republic, this is one. And in my opinion, it might be the worst. Okay, maybe not the worst, but I dare some hardliner Muslim to try and take my dog. #fidofriday http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/07/dogs-worst-nation-state-friend/

I dont think I feel comfortable with a church as a polling place. Let's discount the fact that I'm an atheist and believe this is a gross violation of church and state, but let's consider all the Jewish people, the Muslims and others out there who don't want Jesus looking over their shoulder while they perform a specifically secular function. I mean, is Jesus supposed to be guiding my hand to the most religious party/candidate? +Basit Mustafa​​, maybe you can offer some advice? Plus, the guy in line in front of me smells like he defacated himself. And, the man in charge just told someone that if she had a mailed ballot she should just go home and fill it out. When she said she already did but failed to sign the affidavit, failed to fill it out properly and messed up her voting he said "That's okay, we can fix that." So, its voter fraud to not have an ID on you to vote, but its not voter fraud to have a ballot mailed to you, not sign it or to FUBAR the bal