The 1000 yard stare, this cat has seen some shit…

It was really bad timing for Carter as he was a truly nice guy and bad players on all sides took advantage of that.

If your in Atlanta its worth it, also there is a great walking path in that area thats really nice unless its August. Then it s a form of torture.

His Presidential library is the only one I have ever visited or would I want to visit. I’m a life time Republican, I saw he transcended that.

He wanted a better world and he was in a bad spot when Iran when sideways and the embassy fell. His other policies imo were for the greater good.

Chicken Marsala is my go to.

Dead on perspective.

I’ve worked for that company, it was all “we can react in a moments notice on our smart phones” and other BS.

Then we got a real customer, the first thing out of their mouth was "what happens if a bad player gets access to one of those “smart” phones?

*crickets

I was there for sales support. aka a data center monkey (engineer), I was there to answer “can we do that?” from sales.

So blank stares follow from sales, sales looks at me to answer. I have been bitching that this is YUGE security hole for the last 2 years and I can’t answer w/o making the company look bad.

Then I realize why I’m there, I’m the escape goat (scapegoat). I sputter we are all patched up to the latest, we follow the tech bulletins (aka we are reactionary NOT proactive, no TQL another thing I bitched about). I’m trying to defend the undefendable, I wanted a walled system. You have to VPN in to see anything, no smart devices, not “lets everyone have access system” party.

The sale tanked, I got blamed, I said GFY and quit. Got another gig but played dumb as it was easier day to day to let another chump like me learn a lesson. Take the pay check and go home.

Now I live by: “Not my monkeys, not my circus”

And don’t get me going on Grafana… Let “church” up and make pretty data w/ another layer of M&C I have to set parameters too for the bosses to “oh ahh” over for some stuff shirt middle manager in a corn blue tie…

So you can see why I hate “smart” anything.

Why do you need a web enabled fridge/freezer? I want a SNMP/Trap (one way, exit only) alarm when temp is getting near outside the “safe zone”. One way, I set the numbers local, can’t be changed otherwise.

Its simple (as am I), why does it need to be on the “cloud”??? AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS?