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Only to the Boomers is this a Revelation

Posted: September 2, 2019 by datechguy in culture, Uncategorized
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A man’s got to die of something.

DaTechGuy

There are some pieces that just make one’s jaw drop this one dropped mine:

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

A few of these legends might manage to live into their 90s, despite all the … wear and tear to which they’ve subjected their bodies over the decades. But most of them will not.

This will force us not only to endure their passing, but to confront our own mortality as well.

Until the rise of the Boomers and the 60’s generation the idea that life is finite was a simple norm that was a steadying and centering influence in culture.

But in this post Christian era there is a half of the culture that this piece for whom this piece will be a revelation.

And it is that fact that drops my jaw to the floor.

 

Woman Kickers, James White, Sacrificial Bidens MSM Standards and Inept Parents Under the Fedora

Posted: September 1, 2019 by datechguy in News/opinion, under the fedora
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Next week the NFL begins their season and there is as there always seems to be talk about the possibility of signing a woman as a kicker.

My thought on this is simple. As long as she doesn’t complain about being flattened by a 300lb man trying to block a kick, doesn’t hesitate to try to tackling a 250 pound mass of muscle returning a punt or blocked field goal and doesn’t mind be bruised when knocked on her ass by someone blocking her why trying to make that tackle, then I’m good with it.

But I don’t want to hear a single person complain if or when that woman is carried off the field after this.

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On the subject of football is it just me or does nobody talk about James White?

I know that Edelman is spectacular, I know that Grok is well Gronk and I know that Gordon is a hell of a story but is there a player over the last few years who has been as consistent and as valuable as James White has been for the Patriots? Every time one or more of those other guys are gone White is still there and has come up big.

I think James White is the most underrated and underappreciated championship player on a championship team, not by Brady btw but by everyone else.

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Is it just me or have the powers on high on the left decided that Trump will be elected thus Biden needs to be the sacrificial nominee to him?

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I think we shouldn’t be surprised at the MSM reaching the point where they are just making things up about Trump.

When you have a culture that is no longer Christian and is expressly Marxist and utilitarian you’re not going to be restrained by the standards of truth and facts.

I’m just surprised that so many on the left keep falling for it.

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There was a time when we were still a Christian Society and not split into a Christian and a post christian society with media, academic and cultural elites ruling the latter that the mothers of the girls mentioned in Stacy McCain’s piece would have given the warning he did about doing porn:

Well, of course, the video was circulated all over the high school — and who knows where else? The sharing of obscene photos and videos has become shockingly commonplace among young people, who don’t seem to understand the potential consequences. Parents have to warn their teenagers explicitly against this kind of behavior: No nudes, ever.

Don’t send such pictures of yourself, and don’t solicit them from others. If someone offers to send you such photos, tell them “hell, no,” block their phone number and avoid associating with them. Otherwise, you might “live your life in sin and misery,” and that’s a sad song you don’t ever want to sing.

The two sentence that follow are both truth. The first is a hard and cruel

Oh, the unbearable shame of it all! You were whoring around and thought nobody would ever find out what a nasty whore you are? Oops

But the 2nd is sadder because if the 2nd had been true very the number of young ladies that the first sentence would have been true about would have been dramatically increased.

What is happening, obviously, is that the parents of these girls have failed to warn them of the dangers, and probably most parents would not believe how common such behavior has become.

Given the devastation wrought by communism and Nazism in the 20th century it’s likely inaccurate to think of the 60’s generation as the single biggest win of the last 100 years for the Devil, but it easily makes his top five.

Remember when you’re feeling bad, sad or lonely…

Posted: September 1, 2019 by datechguy in oddities, Uncategorized

..that as an American living in 2019 you are living better that 99% of all the humans that ever lived.

And that includes the poor.

Hey DaTechGuy Why the #*Y((@$@ haven’t you moved the blog yet?

Posted: August 31, 2019 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Glad you asked.

Yesterday I got a big surprise in the mail, it was a letter from the new company with a check for what I paid already for the move.

I was bluntly told that our database is so corrupted that there is simply no way to get it imported.  They tried multiple different methods and everything failed.

I suspect this corruption is one of the reasons why this is one of the slowest blogs in the blogosphere.

I decided to put this to the test and attempted to export the blog to the backup blog, every attempt failed.  Even when I attempted to import just a single month’s of posts everything blew up in a fashion that would have made Crazy Harry proud.

This gives me two options.

The 1st option was to move everything to wordpress on the theory that if anyone is an exert on WordPress, it would be wordpress.

I have rejected this option for a couple of reasons.

#1  Given the state of the database, even if they managed to import it odds are I would have a blog just as slow if not slower at the new site.  There is of course the possibility that they could repair the database but the cost of doing so would almost certainly be prohibitive.

This leaves option 2 which I have decided on.

The plan is to go with the hosting service I was originally doing to work with, and do a clean install.

this will mean a clean database and get the blogs speed back up to snuff.  The problem of course is what to do with data from Nov 2011 to date?  (everything up to Oct 2011 is on the old backup site already.

The answer is simple but tedious.

  1.  Take an old domain that I still own but aren’t using like datechguyondaradio.com and point it to the current blog.
  2.   Go into each blog post individually and using copy and paste from the HTML editor move said post to the current site, doubling checking to make sure the name of the post is correct because the name on the post is not necessarily the name in memory
  3.  Publish the post giving the date of publication as the original publishing date.

This means that eventually every thing will get moved over but the old blog posts will repopulate slowly, basically at the speed that I and maybe one other person can do this.

Most likely it will take several months but eventually everything will get to where it needs to be and most importantly the database problems will not be imported with it.  So the blog should load at a reasonable speed.

The process:

The 1st step will be to make sure that we can access the current site with the different host name, once that is done and I can confirm that I can access each old post via the editor rather than having to go to the wayback machine and copy and paste through there, then the new install can be made.  Once we are sure it is up then the DNS for datechguyblog.com can be changed and all new traffic will be going to the new spot while I can still access the old domain via the different host name.

What will be lost.

Every comment on every old post will be toast.  it’s going to be tedious and costly enough to move every single post by hand, to reproduce every single comment I can’t justify the cost and time.

The Drawbacks:

This means that every single link to an old post will become broken until said posts are moved.  This is going to wreak havoc with my stats for months but as each old post gets moved the havoc will be decreased.

Since we are talking 10,000+ posts my guess is it will take about 500 hours to get everything over, but the reality is that most old posts forgotten so I might just worry about moving over the last couple of months of posts and maybe the top 100 or thousands posts because they are still drawing traffic right away and then a few a day after that until it’s all done.

Either way I’m shooting for the end of next week for the clean install.  Once I confirm the ability to access the current sight after the DNS transfer then the moves will begin.

When things are more solid I’ll let you know.

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