Brad Enslen

The good part about nasty Winter weather days is I have an excuse to stay indoors and do Web things

Ritz Crackers are made in Mexico. WTF? Can’t we even make our own crackers in the US?

Earth: planet, infested with humans and Baby Yoda dolls.

If you have a monopoly or a near monopoly you ought to be taxed like a monopoly. Without loopholes.

Last night I had a dream about ghosts. Today, I bought 2 ghost story anthologies.

#winterreading

Somebody should test all the paywall online newspapers for how easy it is to cancel a paid subscription online and make a list showing which papers are easy or hard. Because I’m not paying until I know.

#onceburnttwiceshy

I think all my posts are on 10 - 30 minute delay before they hit the MB timeline.

Tonight (Fri) Rain 1 - 2 inches.

Sat. Rain. Half inch. Wind 20 - 30 mph.

Sat. Night Rain turning to snow. Snow late. Snow accumulating 1 - 3 inches. Winds could gust to 40 mph.

Midwesterners: Yawn.

If you ate too much at First Breakfast, it’s okay to skip Second Breakfast. Right?

#hobbitlife #hobbitculture

After reading all the ugliness on your normal Twitter timeline you should be able to switch to an emergency timeline filled with nothing but cute cat pics, cute dog pics and unicorns farting glitter. So your brain can heal. Just saying.

I have a theory that #indieweb #webmentions like we see on Wordpress, help excite Googlebot. Webmentions, between blogs encourage longer, more frequesnt replies/comments to a post. Googlebot responds to that added activity and text. Sample is limited tho.

On Jan. 2nd Apple News app quit updating the news. An auspicious start for the new year.

There was a thread here on Micro.blog a few weeks ago about having group authored and or family authored blogs. While I don’t have a use for it myself I thought that was a great idea.

For 2020 I intend to use an infinite scroll of blockchain in order to higgs boson my deep state pythagorean theorem of marketing speak to the enterprise.

It got cold outside here, so this is a good night for using the oven to bake a frozen pizza! Pizza is a food group.

I hope everybody has a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas.

Worth repeating: from the archives

As someone in his 6th decade, I’m warming to the idea that the older generations need to step aside politically, and let the younger generations run with the ball. I’m not comfortable with this. There are some issues where I and the younger set completely disagree.

However, I also think our country needs some shaking up - a windstorm of reform - perhaps even a tornado. I no longer think we Boomers are up to the challenges that lie ahead. We, the Boomers have become The Establishment that we derided and distrusted in our youth and as that we have become an impediment to change and hence, a part of the problem of a status quo stuck in malise and suckage. And change, real change, is needed.

I think we need to sweep a new generation into Congress, state houses, Governorships, county buildings. We need a broad base of new blood, youth, vigor and idealism in all those places. Youth, that has not yet learned to kowtow to corporate masters.

And yet, at this moment, I find I’m not quite ready to completely let go when it comes to electing a President. There are still capable men and women within the Boomer generation that have real life, national and professional experience I find still lacking in the younger candidates. Therefore, I find myself leaning towards two of the elder Presidential candidates - because experiance lets them see those shades of gray where youth only sees black and white. We need change, but not quite all at once.