Sum actual news here now!

A few weeks ago I had a fone meeting with Jim Babinski at Thomson about a ball nut design I'v been working on
for a few yirz. I wuz hoping to get a quick 20 to 30 million selling it to them, but it turnz out that its been
around for many decadez. Woud hav saved myself a few thouzand owrz uv work if I'd just thought up the fraze
'internal crossover' while Googling and searching the PTO. I thot uv it az compact kuz the ballz dont hav to
cross over each other to return to the beginning uv the thred, saving crucial radial spase, so had been
serching 'compact ball screw' and variationz on that.

Az a small consolation, Jim sed "don't feel too bad. It took the entire industry 70 yirz to come up with that."

Possibly not a total loss, tho. Therez still a humongous manufacturing
oportunity if I can get sum investorz interested.

Sunday, Disembr 28th, 2012 3rd entry.

Bad newz for regular bread & butter work. Barco got eaten by a bigger company in the same biz. I've been
subsisting on machining work for them since 2005. They made rotary joints and got a regular flow uv orderz
for low part count specialz that I could handle with my manual equipment.

Sad to see companyz disappear, especially wen theyv been around so long. Barco began around 1900, got medium
size, then began to fade in the 80z. It wuz a quiet, plezent bilding in a clean little suburban industrial
area wen I found them. My biz card landed on Larry DeLisle'z desk at the rite moment, saving me frum having
to move into a van down by the river.

RIP Barco. Good luck to Larry and the gang.

Munday, July 27th, 2015 4th entry.

Got hooked on Kick-Ass for sum reazon, so I'v watched the 2 moviez 5 timez each and lissened to the muzik on
Youtube a bunch uv timez over the last month. I'v seen them several timez befor and didnt go nuts, but now
I cant get enuff. THEY NEED TO MAKE MORE! At least make it a proper trilojy.

In Dave Lizewski'z narration at the beginning he wonderz why nobody ever tried to be a super hero befor. Good
question! Later at the Atomic Comics Cafe hiz palz Marty and Todd explain that sumwun woud get killed rite
away if they tried, wich iz a good explanation for why sensible ordinary people dont do it. But there are
alot uv not so sensible andor not so ordinary people out there, so you still haf to wonder why.

Az it turnz out, there realy are peeps out there putting on costumez, prowling around looking for criminalz!
So I got the idea that they mite need sum special equipment. Super Hero Stuff !

Sunday, Jan 3 2016 5th entry.

Got invited to start a channel on Disqus. Looks like a good format for prezenting and debating social issuez,
so I started Shaping The Future.(Its gon now) The frst article iz the Gun Incident Tax idea
I had several yirz ago. Read it & comment! Hopefully, you can put sum serious thot into it, wichever side
youre on, and keep the level uv debate abuv the simple minded NRA sloganz you find on the rite wing
propaganda blogz that cater to gun nuts.

Satrday, Okt 15 2016 6th entry.

HA! The Republican party iz finally getting wut it dezervz! They are reaping wut they sowed. The chickenz are
coming home to roost. The monster they created haz turned on them. The corner they painted themselvez
into iz... ? Hmm... thats not how that wun goez. Anyway -

They essentially became the Party uv Stoopid in reaction to a truly intellijent Democratic Prezident by opozing
absolutely everything Obama wuz for. Obama: "1 + 1 = 2". The GoP: "Its a lie! He'z rong! He iz ruining
America with hiz Godless arithmatic!" No matter how obvious or how much we needed sumthing, the assclown
GoPs went to war to stop it. Its a credit to Obama'z power & talent that America recovered from the mess Bush
made in spite uv their efforts.

Can you blame Donald J. Trump for taking advantaj uv the situation? He saw a distressed property and grabbed it.
Thats wut he duz! Usually its real estate, this time it wuz a political party. The party leadership had
desided they were going to corral and cultivate the lower left side uv the IQ bell curve, feeding them a
stedy diet uv antiObama gruel fortified with anythingdemocratssayizrong and richly flavored with
everythingyouwannahear. Too hell with facts! Lojik be dammed! Obama iz out to destroy America! He iznt
really the prezident! Democrats are giving away the country! etc etc etc. Youv herd it all a hundred timez.

This made it too eazy. All Trump had to do wuz sing louder & longer than the rest uv the kwire and the party
wuz hiz. He literaly got it for a song. "Obama wuznt born in the United States! Tralala la la!"
He kept it going long after the GoP 'leaderz' gave up on the lie. So wen the 2016 campain 'seazon' began,
he wuz the only real choise left for the True Believerz.

If he wuz at least uv normal intellijens and coud pretend to hav socially akseptabl mannerz & moralz wile
in public, maybe it woudnt be so bad for the GoP. But he iznt and he cant. He iz just a con man with all
the unrefined crudity uv a spoiled 10 yir old rich kid left to rot in hiz own stew for another 6 decadez.
Giv him credit for being the worldz greatest con man, but conning chumps iz not the only talent needed to run
anything bigger than a uzed car lot. He prooved that himself many timez with hiz failed bizness venturez.

And now its nearly sertain that he will looze the election AND take sum number uv down ticket GoPs with him.
He will be the hero uv the Democratic Party if they take the house or senate back.

The rate uv sewage spewing out uv Trump's past and mouth haz been stedily increasing. The GoPs cant run
away from him fast or far enuf to avoid getting splattered. Lets hope he can keep it up for another 3 weeks.

Thrzday, Des 15 2016 7th entry.

Az you no, Trump wun. I wuz flabbergasted, like most peepl who havent been infected with ODS
(Obama Deranjment Syndrome). Did you see Chuck Todd on NBC on election nite? Wen Florida wuz going Trump,
it looked like he wuz going to poop hiz pants! Even Trump wuz suprized!

Now we no how Romney & frendz felt in 2012.

So far, jujing by hiz many unprezidential actionz and stupid joke cabinet piks, I'd say Trump still duznt
expect to reeely be prezident. I'm 50/50 on him being inaugurated. And, even if, he wont last a yir.

To me, the really alarming thing iz that enuf uv the country iz stoopid enuf to elect an outrite con man to
the most powerful job on the planet. He may be the worldz greatest con man, but you'd think even
the dullest dimwits woud have finally gotten a clue after the Access Hollywood tape.

I am worried so much about this that I started a Wordpress blog: How Stupid Are We?
Hopefully the title will be Googly enuf to get hits. Peeps like their stoopidz! Look at Homer Simpson,
Peter Griffin, Stan Smith - proof that idiots are still popular. I plan on posting a new stoopid
every week or 2 and responding to every comment.

Munday, Jan 16 2017 8th entry.

OK, I'm really doing it. I'm Running for Prez!
More like strolling at this point, nearly 4 yirz befor the next election. If you dont got money, uze time.
And I'm betting Trump will not be prez very long, getting booted by the GoPs so they can hav a real conservative.
So I will be running agenst Pence az an independent or a quazi-Democrat like Bernie Sanderz. Alot can chanje
in 4 yirz. I'm 57 today! The middle uv the beginning uv the old fart faze uv life. Maybe thats part uv why I'm
doing this - dementia setting in.

Thrzday, May 4 2017 9th entry

My mom kikt the bukit this morning. She wuz out uv action for a long time, so no big shok. Seeing a luvd wun
hookt up to machinez and bagz uv liquid with little hope uv recovery can make you reconsider the idea that
a sudden violent deth iz a bad thing. I never gave up hope that she woud recover well enuf to return home, but
knew it wuznt realistic. The peepl at the hospital and the nursing home see this all the time and they warned
us that she coud pass away at any time.

Enya - Aniron A video mom liked.

Wun uv the thingz mom NEVER liked wuz exersize. Just saying the word to her made her groan. I warned her for
yirz that if she didnt do at least a little she woud turn into a boneless immobile blob uv fat, but she stuk to her
22 owr pr day sleep skejyool. Not even the nagging uv doctorz, nursez, fizikl therapists or priests
coud motivate her.

The thing mom really liked to do wuz dream, and you do that while sleeping. So the fact that she wuz doing wut
she luvd for most uv the last 18 yirz uv her life haz to be chokt up az a win for her. How many peepl dont make
it to 86? Lots uv us helthy living regular exersizerz are going to do the Final Chest Grab befor 70.

Jean Mary Gaczol (nee, Birkinshaw) April 24 1931 to May 4 2017. May she be greeted at heavenz gate by her
resently deseased cat aNJeLENU (1998 - Aprl 13 2017) and all her other family and frendz who passed befor.

Sunday, Desembr 3 2017 10th entry

Rebilding the site. A few more daze till its online. The code in the old pajez wuz so bad its a wonder it worked
at all. Even now, I am sure that real website makerz will curl their lips in disgust at my louzy html.

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If you havent looked at my prezidential campane site yet, you shoud. The TrumPutin Conspirasy paje iz very popular
now that even the GoP faithful sheep are realizing that they got duped. The latest newz iz that Flynn took a
plea deal and iz cooperating. Altho he haz probably spilled all the beanz alredy, they need to give him a
security detail. Putin duznt play softball.

The site uv Mitch McConnell (the senator who looks like a turtle) smiling proudly yesterday for passing
a big tax break for rich peepl and corporationz strikes me az bizzar - like sumwun with their hed in a noos
smiling about it. During a press conferens afterward, az he'z passing out noosez to hiz fellow GoPs, he sez
"not a single Democrat thot this wuz a good idea"! I jiveth ye not. Look it up on Youtube.

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FRiDA, JaNYQeRE 13 2023 11th entry

WOW! Over 5 yirz sins I posted here!
Wuts been happening?

You know about running for Prez and the UVPK project alredy.

Lost the shop, along with the house. Had a few jobz - Cardinal Health, PeaPod, Smalley Steel Ring.

My main take away from being an employee agen iz that work still suks. The peepl doing the real work are still getting the
least pay. Even tho the machinez are doing 90%+ uv the work, sumhow, it duznt occur to the Powerz That Be to consentrate on
improving the machinez and other prosessez insted uv trying to squeez every penny'z worth out uv the workerz.

Thoze 3 plasez, az different az their biznessez are, hav 1 thing in common:
extreem inefficiensy. Obvious, bizzar, stupid inefficiensy. Sum stuff that you coud probably figure out in a few dayz
knowing diddly squat before you started.

And why are companyz so obsessed with attendans? It duznt matter how much truble it mite cauze employeez,
just be there on time every day, or else.

I joked during the orientation meeting at PeaPod that "you're going to cauze the zombie apocolypse with theze strict
attendans rulez." Everybody laffed. 2 months later the Covid19 pandemic started.

They hav this attitude that they own you!

Its all a side effect uv overpopulation. We are a commodity made cheap by being plentiful.

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MUNDA, Aprl 3 2023 12th entry

A fun nostoljic 5 minit read about the orijinz uv Birtherizm:

Politico: Birtherizm: Where it all Began,

Now, 12 yirz after this article, Birtherizm can be seen az the birth uv the
modern GoP party. Trump got hiz prezidential campane started way early
with it by providing the Gullibull herd wut they really wanted long
after serious* GoPs had given up on it. He stole the herd from them and Fox!

The final paragraf iz great:

Micheal Medved wrote:
“It makes us look weird. It makes us look crazy. It makes us look demented.
It makes us look sick, troubled, and not suitable for civilized company" one
of the first conservatives to turn against the birthers, talk show host
Michael Medved, said in 2009. “I’m not a conspiracist, but this could be
a very big conspiracy to make conservatives disgrace themselves.”

*wut passez for serious in the GoP

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I wanted to make that a How Stupid Are We article, but the Wordpress
platform haz bekum a total pain in the ass to work with. I am thinking
uv transfering all my content to this website, maybe just more pajez uv
this blog, or maybe a hole nuther section.

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xRZDA, MA 18 2023 13th entry

Opportunity Ignored

A leader haz to hav the ability to forsee and avoid risks.

Seemz obvious. I think most company'z leaderz are reazonably OK at it.
Not so much for leaderz in goverments. But in both casez, how far in the
future you are jujing frum makes a big differens. Wut coud be seen az
a good disijun at the time can later prove to be short sited expediensy.

A leader also haz to hav the ability to recognize opportunityz.

This iz wut most leaderz fail to do most uv the time.

The reazon for this iz a lack uv imajination. And the reazon there iz
such a derth uv imajination amongst bizness and goverment leaderz iz
bekuz imajination iz actively supressed by our educational system frum
preskool all the way to the hiyest levelz uv collej. Then it continuez
in every private and public institution. Conform or be cast out
iz part uv the very substans uv our society, so new ideaz, wich
are the essens uv opportunity, often get rejected automaticly bekuz they
usually do not conform to the established old wayz.

'Wut are you blathering about, JO?' youre asking. 'Wuts got your pantiez
in a bind today?'

Its a spesific situation thats a repeat uv sumthing I'v been experiensing
for decadez. Rather than trying to continue to frame it in filisofical
termz, I'll just tell it:

Last yir I worked at Smalley Steel Ring company setting up and running
their wave spring machinez. I wuz training to be a 'coiler'. Needed money.
Within a few weeks I wuz sure that the machinez were not well dezined.
Rube Goldberg mechanical comedy. Within 3 months I had a better dezine in
mind. At wun point I got to see wun uv their orijinal machinez from 40
yirz ago. It wuznt bad for a proof-uv-consept prototype, but clearly
(to me) not a good production dezine. They shoud hav dun at least a few
more R&D stajez. Insted, theyv just been copying the same thing all this
time! Even the brand new machinez they put to work wile I wuz there were
basicly copyz. Sure, theyv upgraded the motorz, electronics, computerz
and software over the yirz, but they are the same expediensy uv the
moment, lets see if it will work at all, grab that standard assembly off
the shelf, slap it together machine that enabled them to start the entire
wave spring industry. GREAT invention. Louzy R&D. Lazy, uncreativ
enjineering department.

I offered many timez to develop a next jeneration machine for them, az well
az make sorely need ansilary equipment, but wuz never taken seriously.
Over the months I realized that there wuz a seriously disfunctional
attitude in manajment there. The comments and complaints uv employeez
were ignored or delt with by punishing them. I ended up getting axed for
mentioning OSHA about a safety issue. Just trying to be helpful
and thats my reward - conform or be cast out.

'So much for Smalley!' I thot. 'If they dont want a new machine, surely
their competitors will be interested.'

So far, no. I'v been tokking with the 'leaderz' uv several companiez and
getting nowhere. Either they dont believe I have anything to sell or
they say they don't want to get sued by Smalley.

Its eazy to speculate about future problemz and why sum new idea coud fail.
Any idiot can do that. In our society, if you decorate that idiot with a
degree and a fansy job title, he can just say 'no' for hiz entire career
and retire with praize for hiz 'steady hand, piloting the company thru
thik & thin.' The lost opportunityz are often hard to see and eazily
excuzed. It can take decadez, if ever, that sumwun thinks up the same
possibly revolutionary idea. Or it can be very soon and the company
manajment iz skraching their hedz wondering how China iz taking over
the entire industry.

This iz also another example uv my X-man antisalez talent. Probably any
ordinary human woud hav been able to cash in on this and wok away with
5 or 10 million $.