Skipper everyone has darker vision in the center of their eye.

Skipper learns human anatomy

I recently requested a report on myself from lexis nexis and some people were interested in what kind of data I got back so ill post it here (not the report its self lol)
The report listed every data source but did not contain the submission date. the only way i could know the approximate submission time would be if the submission was an insurance claim that had a date of the event that spurred making a claim
1. every address ive ever lived at
this was several pages long because it contained duplicates of every address i lived at both for alternate spellings and for multiple sources
2. every phone number ive head
this list was woefully incomplete. in fact it only listed one number. the number was listed in duplicate so many times that it covered more than two full pages. also weirdly it was only reported by one faceless risk analysis company many times. this was the only strange thing in the report.
3. every insurance policy i have held or been on.
i may not have paid enough attention but there was one policy missing.
4. every name ive ever gone by on legal or government documents.
this list included misspellings of my legal name.
the list also was incomplete. no i will not elaborate.
5. characteristics of every house ive resided in
include whether the house was a single family home, apartment etc. as well as the estimated value of the home
6. education records
this was incomplete. it was missing one school and one of the schools listed was unnamed.
7. deeds
8. every insurance claim ive made or was made against me
9. inquiry records to my credit report
mostly prescreening for credit cards.
10. military service

things the report did not include
1. criminal records
2. tax records
3. vehicle activity records (onstar will track things like hard accelerations and hard stops and sell this info)
4. known social media accounts (thank goodness)
5. purchase records
6. firearm records
7. concealed handgun license records
8. records of any other license or identification (ex. passport number)
9. gps records
10. call records
11. known personal affiliates (friends and family)
12. known group affiliates (churches, militias)
13. employment

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my brain is too smooth to remember the font for the adult swim logo so heres a note for future me
its helvetica nue condensed bold, idiot

btw if you install this font on your windows computer it might break all your fonts. there is something about the helvetica in ttf format that causes the windows font renderer to kick its self in the face. uninstalling the font fixes it. google how to uninstall fonts before you install this.

i know the kneejerk reaction here is "hurdurr libtard cringe" but there is an important lesson here.
when i was a kid my dad said something incredibly important. "its really expensive to be poor."
when you have money you can choose to buy an 80$ pair of work boots that will last you 2 years or you can buy a 50$ pair of work boots that will last you 1 year. if you are poor you have no options other than to pay more for boots or go barefoot.
when you have money you can buy a reliable car that wont break down. if you can only afford an unreliable junker you get fired for missing work because youre in the side of the road desperately trying to diagnose a car with no tools one too many times.
when you have money you can buy things outright and avoid interest. when youre poor you not only take a loan, you take a loan with increased interest because your low income makes you a greater risk.

of all the great advice my dad gave me that rather short conversation shaped my future more than any other i think.

Recently someone asked that I write about the passage in the Bible where Peter walks on water with Jesus. Matt 14:22-33
This is a straight forward passage that is often taught to children to explain the importance of having faith in the Lord but I think it's also a good study of how a single passage can have multiple applications.

Faith: Jesus calls Peter out of the boat. By Peter's faith in Christ he steps out of the relatively safe boat into a stormy sea. Peter loses sight of Jesus when he looks towards the high waves and wind around him and begins to sink, but Jesus saves him. When they both get into the boat Jesus chastises Peter "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?" We must always keep our attention pointed towards the Lord's plan and know that he will keep and protect us in all things.

Salvation: When Peter was sinking Jesus did not save him immediately. It was not until after Peter cried out to Jesus to be saved that Jesus reached out and caught Peter. This shows the importance that we cannot simply believe that there is a god, or believe in the one true God and have salvation. We must actively repent and beg for salvation from the Lord.

Asking God for guidance: Peter didn't simply jump out of the boat. He first calls out "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water." and does not step out until after Jesus calls for him to come. In the same way we should ask the Lord for guidance in our decisions. "Lord, is this the right job for me to pursue? Lord, should this be the car for me to buy? Lord, is this the woman you've put in my life to marry?"

i just realized something kind of wild.
before smartphones got popular cellphones would last like 4 days on a single charge. most smartphones last like a day and a half now. people still sometimes reminisce about not having to charge their phone every day.
if you use your smart phone as much as you use an old flip phone you can get it to last close to a week. my work phone, which is a very old pixel 4xl, can still get like 4-5 days of battery because i use it like 1-2 time a day to call my boss and thats it.
phones dont have worse endurance, you just use yours too much.

people should stop bragging that "my phone can last 2 days" and should start bragging "i can make my phone go 4 days because im not a screen zombie"

i fixed the audio :)

today a large number of websites, airports, hospitals, etc had server failures. the root cause was that crowdstrike, a popular antivirus solution had an update and started crashing windows server hosted on microsoft azure. servers would crash and then while rebooting would BSOD.
microsoft's official fix for this is to reboot the servers and just keep doing that forever until it boots successfully

i am once again reminding you that windows is not a professional operating system. the vast majority of people using windows do not have real jobs and those that do get any work done do so in spite of using windows.