RANDOMS 2026 #26

 Sometimes the cover makes the album. I bet this one totally smokes!

 

They are all working for Israel 

 
It's amazing what you can do with AI really

 

 

Mandonna is a hottie 

 

Always withhold the important bits 

Vegans are all stark raving mad. It's a side effect of their malnutrition...

 

And next thing your penis pops out 

 

Were the American's doing another retarded psyop last week? 

A good URL is the secret to a successful website

 No bloody weirdos please!

ALTERED CARBON

 

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (2008) 

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 14,201 ratings

 

  All science fiction tends to be tainted by suspicions of being programming, and this is certainly no exception. But despite being a story about AI later made into a TV series by Netflix, I still think it's a great book. Up there with the best sci-fi classics and certainly my pick of Richard Morgan's books.

 

 This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.

But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn't be surprised. 

 

Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Altered-Carbon

NO DOUBT

 THERE IS NO DOUBT GWEN STEFANI LOOKS LIKE A TRANNY

Gwen Stefani is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame in the 1990s as the lead singer for the band No Doubt, before starting a solo career.

 

Was she a MTF invert deceiving the masses and in particular young women, promoting body image and identity issues? Stefani sometimes seemed sad and tortured in her lyrics, which possibly alluded to her struggles with being an invert in disguise.

This is a hard call, and I'm on the fence about this. She was no Taylor Swift (an obvious MTF) but something does not look right here.

 

 

When "I'm Just a Girl" came out in 1995 I thought it was great, but the messages in the video went totally over my head. Watching it now, the lyrics, Gwen Stafani's mannish looks, and all those images of urinals and public toilets, are not lost on me! Still a good song though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzOOQfhPFg

 

“Cause I'm just a girl I'd rather not be

'Cause they won't let me drive late at night

Oh I'm just a girl, guess I'm some kind of freak

'Cause they all sit and stare with their eyes”

(excerpt from“Just a girl”)

 

 

“Can you tell I'm faking it?

But I want to be myself

A counterfeit disposition

Can't be good for my health

So many different faces

Depending on the different phases”

(excerpt from “Magic’s in the makeup”) 

 

 

Notable Details:

 

-large clavicle and shoulder skeletal structure

-angular mandible and large male skull

-large trachea and visible adam’s apple

-devil horn’s hand symbols to give allegiance to her god

-straight torso with no female hips

-666 hand sign showing who she worships

-adonis belt visible in various images

 And more recently, seen here on the right in 2023:

LINUX GEEKS

In this post I'll be referring to "GEEKS" quite a bit. This is not entirely disrespectful, I do appreciate all the work geeks put in, creating open source software. 

But like so many people who have transitioned from Windows to Linux I have come to view geeks as a bizarre sub-species of computer users who take a perverse pleasure in exerting their superiority over NEWBS (New Linux users - I was a newb)

Making the shift from Windows to Linux is neither massively difficult, nor is it entirely easy. It's a bit of both, but a lot of the information online is biased, or badly presented, or created by geeks who are sometimes making things harder than they need to be.

Possibly some computer geeks place a value on themselves that partly stems from being the only ones who understand the technology, so making them gatekeeper tech gods. Which they get a buzz out of. 

Unfortunately this tends to mean that rather than making things easier for newbs by giving them simple instructions, they often give out incomprehensible instructions like "Just enter this simple command in Terminal". Their condescending tone of "this is all really easy" is infuriating and one of the main reasons so many newbs give up.

Geeks seem to be unwilling to accept that about 90% of people using computers are not other geeks, but regular people who want to have most, or even everything they do accessible through buttons and menus that they can click on. 

Personally I like to do everything on my PC using my mouse, and am about as anti keyboard command as it's possible to be. The very word "type" totally turns me off. "Copy & paste" I can do when necessary, but not "type" What I actually want to see are the words "click on".

Life often plays out in strange ways, and I have brain damage to the left hemisphere of my brain, so am very right brain dominant, but I still use computers anyway, and even sometimes seem to end up trying to explain computer stuff to other non-geeks who just want some basic instructions. 

My perspective from being a right brain computer user is a bit different to most of the people who are usually commentating on this stuff, so I imagine any actual geeks who see my posts might view me as a clueless idiot. Which I sort of am.

During the process of transitioning from Windows 7 (Yes, I was still using Win 7 up until 2024) to Linux Mint, it struck me that a lot of the information online is confusing rather than helpful, and I wish I could have read (Yes READ, not viewed endless badly done videos) web-pages that explained things in a way that made sense to me.

Now I want to leave some notes for my friends who at some point will be wanting to escape the clutches of Microsoft. Windows 11 is likely to be the final straw for a lot of people with it's obvious and intrusive spyware, so the end of Windows for non sheeple is looming close on the horizon. 

Linux is the only real option for anyone who wants to continue using a computer without selling their soul to the deep state. (Yes, Apple & Google are spying too)

As I've found from sticking with Windows 7 and refusing to use Windows 8 or Windows 10, it is possible to soldier on for years with an unsupported operating system. 

But installing Windows 7 on more modern hardware is a pig of a job, mainly because sorting out drivers can be really tricky, and there are ever increasing problems with software no longer working properly. 

Linux is the future and I think everyone who wants to use a computer with some degree of privacy is going to have to get the hang of it. So I plan to do some more Linux posts attempting to clarify a few things.

ENGLISH TOURISTS

THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY "THOMAS COOK VACATIONS" FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS:

 

 

1. "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax."

 

2. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food."

 

3. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish."

 

4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price."

 

5. "The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room."

 

6. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow."

 

7. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time - this should be banned."

 

8. "No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared."

 

9. "Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers."

 

10. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

 

11. "The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun."

 

12. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair."

 

13. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends' three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller."

 

14. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the resort.' We're trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service."

 

15. "When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners."

 

16. "We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning."

 

17. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

 

18. "I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes."

 

19. "My fiancée and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."