Category Archives: Taboo

Jailbreak

by

0

I have to admit that while jailbreaks are becoming harder and harder for the community to come out with, I want to say that I really appreciate their efforts to jailbreak the iphone and hope that there will be one for the iphone 8 and ios 11. My phone again lost the semi-tether for several hours and it’s painful. My folders are set at 5×5 icons instead of the annoying 3×3 that apple restricts you to. I have six icons in the dock instead of the four apple also restricts you to. My productivity being jailbroken is so much more than the apple walled garden. I understand their reasoning for fighting the jailbreaks… security. But honestly, many apple ‘ideas’ were simply taken from the jailbreak community and pushed forth as some innovation from apple. I don’t see apple innovating much these days, just tweaking and changing as technology improves. *sigh*.

I’m just glad rejailbreaking is simple for what I have right now and my device is back to normal. I hope not to have a restart anytime soon. What a hassel.

-SFA

Bad joke

by

0

I was going to tell my new doctor a joke to explain why it isn’t always easy to remember to take medications everyday when I’m traveling but he didn’t seem like he was in a chatty mood…

“I want to take Ginko but I keep forgetting.”

Squirrel!

-SFA

Not equal yet

by

0

Unfortunately I’ve found myself sucked into the social media thing and tend to quick post something instead of taking the time to flesh out thoughts into my blog, including yet another book i started writing and will likely not finish. Today is supposed to be international women’s day. It was interesting to learn that women can also practice misogyny. I presumed it was just a male against female thing.

One of my dating apps was advocating women taking the first step. So, why don’t women? Belief in ‘traditional values’? Would they have to acknowledge the fear that men may face asking out women? What other motivators/demotivators play their role in this? As a male or is and probably will remain a mystery. 

#internationalwomensday

That Firkin Brewery

by

0

I did a beer flight at Firkin last night since it was my first time there. Each glass was 4 oz. Here’s my quick review. The IBU and ABV are are the end of each beer.
The Pomegranate Ale was lite tasting with only a hint of pomegranate flavor. It seems like it would be good for sipping. 18/4.5%
The 11th Hour White Ipa was as expected very bitter. It’s an IPA. Generally not my style for my taste buds. “a bunch”/8.1%
Damn of the Red. Medium bitterness and relatively smooth. I’ve found reds to be a hit and miss with me. I’d give this one a full pint of its own just for a second tasting. 49/7.7%
Mcfinnigan’s Scotch Ale. A little nutty even if it isn’t supposed to be. It got smoother as it went through the glass. 25/6.6%
Jailhouse Java Stout. Strong coffee flavor as expected but with other java stouts it hasn’t been this strong. It’s not bad. I like this coffee flavor and this is coming from someone that doesn’t really like coffee. Once the java flavor was gone I can taste more bitterness than I was expecting. 32/5.8%
Bootleggers Vanilla Nut Brown. Stronger nutty flavor and quite a good first taste. It stayed smooth and although it was last, it was my favorite for the night with a good taste. 20/5.2%
-SFA
p.s. They don’t have that much of a food selection if that’s what you’re also looking for.
#firkinbrewery

Lifegoals

by

0

Elementary school, middle school, high school, college, graduate school.

We push. We push. We keep pushing some more.

Higher education. More knowledge. More skills.

In academic school or in the real world school of hard knocks, the learning styles may be different and the end result may be profoundly different as well. Neither one necessarily the right choice. We are supposed to have goals and aspirations. “What do you want to do when you grow up?” And if you change your mind early, you are naive and foolish. It’s more forgiving in the future if you’re established as you’ve been “doing something with your life.” Like right now what you are doing truly matters. It might. It might not. If we don’t or can’t get out of our mental infancy, we won’t be around as a people when the sun peters out and the world goes dark, assuming the earth doesn’t get struck with another asteroid before then.

When looking at our lives, how can we make these judgement calls? “When I grow up I want to be…”

As a legal adult I get to play “What do I want to do with my life.” And it does feel like a game sometimes, like I should now know exactly where my life is, where it is headed and how it should get there. Any deviation and life seems like a gamble. Maybe I’m not mature enough to make a single choice and stay with it regardless of the consequences. Or maybe I’m mature enough to question what I am doing and I’m willing to accept the responsibility for a change. If you are in motion, any new direction or motion, including stopping, is a change. Stopping and not moving can lead to stagnation. Moving without change can lead to complacency. Even as I write I question if complacent is a good or bad thing, if it can even be given those qualifiers directly. An outside force of perspective helps to define this and usually it comes by watching others. Through these others we can choose to see if our place is where we want to be or not. For how else can we judge but through the eyes of others, unless we are just living my ourselves away from interactions with others. From there we have to accept the responsibility of our choice whether we change or not. The indecisiveness of choice is the act of staying complacent. Even with an external force we get to choose but in this case staying on the same path will require action and change while accepting the change is to stay complacent. Once again, forcing new thinking that complacent is neither good nor bad.

I’m facing choices and for now I’m complacent. I see the external forces coming up and I’m going to have to make some choices if I want to stay where I’m at or just go with the flow.

As U2 said, I’m “running to stand still.”

-SFA