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I don’t have personal experience with this, but I was thinking about the old topic of raising awareness and for some reason I made the connection with drunkenness.

Normally to have fun you go to an event and it’s a higher level than your normal activity, so you end up having fun.

Being drunk fools you into thinking you’re having fun. Instead of going to something that’s a higher level than your normal activity, what it does is bring your mental ability lower so whatever you’re doing seems fun. But if fun, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose that accomplishes its purpose.

This is somewhat related to the concept of raising awareness in that raising awareness becomes pointless when everything is raised. But it’s the opposite in that your current experience becomes better if you keep it the same but lower your brain functionality. I.e. you’re more easily impressed or amused.

Which might not seem to be a bad deal to some people, but you can’t sustain that. It’s like so many people these days – instead of aspiring to be someone better, they look to bring down the other people.

Today is a holiday, and I’m not posting anything today.

This post is a repeat – I’m phoning it in today because I’m enjoying the holiday.

Happy Birthday

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I took some photos of a small waterfall up at Dead River Falls last summer. Not even a waterfall, just a slight elevation change. But here it is, for your viewing pleasure.

It was a set of 10 photos taken in burst mode, I just strung them together into a GIF.

Based on the popularity existence of last year’s article predicting bowl games in haiku form, I present to you this year’s all-haiku bowl game predictions. Still America’s only all-haiku college football bowl game predictions.

These are listed in order of date (earliest first). Some picks are whom I think will win, and some picks are whom I want to win. I’ll leave it to you, the reader, to decide which is which.
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At the very end of Thanksgiving break, we got our first real snow of this winter. To celebrate that (or commiserate, your choice), here are some photos.

A number of sites and services are switching to 2-factor authentication, rather than just a simple username and password. So you’d login, but then have to enter a code sent to you by email or text before it will finish the login.

So far many of the places I use have that as an option, not mandatory. And I don’t opt in, but for a lot of the places I end up having to do the same steps anyway.

The reason: I forget passwords.

Here’s a typical login scenario from me. I enter my username and password, the site rejects it. I then enter my username and another password, and the site rejects it. At this point, I don’t want to enter a third bad password, in case they’re strict with their lockout protocol, so I select the forgot password link.

The site then sends me a reset link, I follow that and select a new password (usually the first password I tried), and then I’m good.

It’s about the same steps as standard 2-factor stuff, but in an unofficial manner.