Job Question and Answer

 I saw this today off Twitter/X, and it relates to a job interview application question....you are given an Elephant, which you can't give away or sell it.  What do you do with the Elephant?

I sat for a while and pondered upon. 

I had two answers in mind.  

The non-Alabama-farm answer is to LOSE the Elephant as quickly as possible.  Leave the gate open....lead the Elephant over to some flea market and just let him wander off.

The Alabama-farm answer is to put up in the front-yard, and charge people $10 to pet 'Marvin' or $20 to ride 'Marvin'.  Put some 12-year old kid in charge, and split the 'loot' with the kid.  

But the thing is...from a Alabama prospective....there just ain't anyone who'd haul off and give you an Elephant.  It's like free cookies or free ice cream, or a free tattoo.  Things like this never occur freely.  

So my true answer is....this is a bogus question, and remark to the HR lady....what kind of dumbass are you....ain't no free Elephant-giving.  

The Thing About Papers

 This past weekend, I was reading over a analytical piece....covering monthly 'guests' of the top fifty newspapers in America.  

So from 2020 to now....the guest level (readership per month) has dropped around 40-percent (14 million to 8 million).

In simple terms?  The dinosaur-media of news....newspapers....are heading toward extinction. 

Reasons?  You can probably lay out dozens of reasons.

Personally, I think three of the big reasons are:

1.  People have been trained to limit themselves to hyped-up priorities by the bigger-media (social media) and the TV news media.  Local news is less important to a majority of people.

2.  People don't have time to gaze over a local paper.  You can figure most papers require 20 minutes to gaze over the front page, the local news section, and sports. 

3.  People tend not to believe what they read or hear....so you make decisions to either mute-hear or mute-read.  

What'll happen in a decade?  I suspect that about half of the newspapers that exist today....will drift down to six pages max, and half of that will be national news 'crap'.  

Three Things

 1.  I sat and was reading a news piece by KOMO (TV station out of Seattle).  There was a parking argument in town....where things got out of control, and one guy pulls a pistol to shoot a second guy.  So in describing this....KOMO notes that a "juvenile man" was the guy shot.

Normally, the minute you say juvenile....it's a kid or teenager.   So the term man going with juvenile?  Well...it doesn't make sense unless he was in Seattle.  

2.  People who have had Covid....say that even three years later....they still have some symptoms and have never gotten 100-percent well.  The number?  Well....it's close to 50-percent.  

A big deal?  If you were a roofer or construction worker?  Yeah.  But the story begs questions and why aren't the PhD doctors not really curious about why?

Just mentally thinking this?  Well.....you just don't know.

3.  I'm getting to a point where I think if you utter the word 'decade' and ask some gal/guy to define it....more than half would probably say it means a thousand years. I'm not saying people are stupid....it's just that they have lost a sense of reality. 

Three Things

 1.  About every week now, I read off five or six new VIP-folks who say if Trump wins in 2024....they will leave the US.

My question (figuring at least 100,000 Americans have made the 'threat')....where exactly are you moving to?

Canada?  After one single harsh winter....the majority would be all freaked out.

Some Caribbean isle?  After one hurricane....the majority would be all freaked out.

Columbia?  Between crime and infrastructure limits....the majority probably would leave after a year.

Australia?  They have that serious snake issue.

Japan?  They have serious rules about entry, and don't allow drug use.

UK?  Maybe.

This discussion is a bit silly because they depend on Trump winning, and some easy entry access....which in most cases....doesn't exist. 

2.  Watching a CNBC business piece.....one out of three American millionaires now consider themselves middle-class. 

Yeah.....two guys sitting at a bar.....one making $35,000 a year selling tires, and the other making $1.5-million a year running a sports bar....both having the same status....if you buy into this reality.

3.  If you attempt to divide something by zero.....you are wasting valuable time in a math calculation that can have no reasonable outcome.  So, when some idiot comes up and says we need to discuss 'math' and have a formula for dividing by ZERO....just knock the idiot in the head.  

Five Things I'd Like To Do....To Fix The House/Senate

 1.  On day one of your arrival....admit your wealth on paper.  Once you reach five times that amount (or $5-million)....you get 365 days of additional service, then 'leave'.  No arguments....no discussion about fairness.   

2.  At least 100 days out of each year must be spent in your home-state/district. If you fail that.....you lose voting privilege's for a month. 

3.  No one can be allowed to pay-off office employees for abuse or sex-stuff.

4.  Each January as you arrive....you have to show up in a test-room and take a 5-question 6th-grade math test.....the word type.    You have to get four of the five correct.  Failure?  You lose voting privilege's for two weeks, then another chance for the test.  Fail that 2nd one....another two weeks of privileges lost.

5.  In a full year (365 days), you can only be beyond the US border for seven days.  After the 7th day....you lose voting privileges for a month.  Absolutely no travel into a war-zone.   

Seven Things To Be Honest About

 1.  In all the years of use of Yahoo, Google, YouTube, and the one year of Twitter use....there's NOT a single product/service advertised....that I purchased.  Nothing.

I suspect if you asked a thousand people....more than 900 of them would say the same thing.

2.  If I walk into a hardware store (like Home Depot)....I'm there to buy something already in my mind, and needed to for a project.  I've never walked in, with intent of browsing.

3.  Based on the suggestion of cocaine/drug use....I'd say out of the past dozen years....for Hunter Biden, he probably doesn't remember much of anything for twelve months of that period.  It's not a bad thing, but 99-percent of people aren't of this type of memory 'loss'.

4.  If you review all of the J6 coverage, you come to this odd situation where 99-percent of the accused or convicted J6 people....are men.  The gals?  Either they stayed home, or were in some DC bar drinking while their guy was 'flag-waving'.  Just odd on the statistical average of this.

5.  My mute-button-finger is getting awful sore.  I seem to be hitting mute at least twenty times a day now.

6.  Is there really anything worthwhile on Disney-plus streaming video to have the service?  

I joined in the service back in the early part of Covid.  After about 30 hours of use....I came to the point where whatever remained (probably 3,000 hours of stuff)...wasn't of interest to me.  By the 7th month.....I quit.  Maybe they are adding new material every month or two, but it's of zero interest to me.

7.  Reviewing crappy behavior of House/Senate members.....there's probably two-dozen folks who need to be either expelled, or sent off to their district/state jail-house.  Both parties have issues.

Things That Offend Me

 I have to be truthful....in terms of offend-to-the-ninth-degree.....like I see with some folks at the airport situations or in some shopping situation....I'm not that way.

1.  It does offend me when I go to the Air Force clinic, and I have that questionnaire to fill out....asking me if I smoke or how much I drink.  Since the 1990s when they started this 'crap'....I've probably had the questionnaire or some verbal questions posed...at least thirty times.  I've often thought about admitting I smoke cannabis or that I drink a case of beer each evening....just to get the 12-minute lecture of good health.  Lately, they've added one....do I feel down-and-out or depressed?  

2.  It offends me when I'm at a bakery...buying coffee and one single pastry....to have the clerk remark that today is such-and-such, and that I can buy one pastry and get the second one free....when I really don't want to eat the second pastry.

3.  It offends me when I'm in a elevator with some woman who has dosed herself with six times the legit amount of perfume, and I feel like passing out from the fumes.

4.  It offends me when the wife has gone out and bought single-ply toilet paper, and then 'issues' it to me....saying that we save money by her effort.

5.  It offends me when I'm out on the German economy, and order a Coke (in a glass) and they bring the Coke out....with two single small ice cubes.  

6.  It offends me when I'm at the gym/fitness studio, and I observe four young lads (say 16 to 20 years old) who spend about eight minutes actually working out, and the other fifty-odd minutes BSing about some crappy date or reciting fitness BS they heard....while just standing there.  Either get serious about working out, or go back to the bad date gal and share your anger with her.

7.  It offends me at a beach when some fifty-year old gal is dressed as brief as you can imagine....while weighing 200 pounds, and I'm trying hard as heck not to observe or comment.

8.  It offends me while at a German restaurant where I might need ketchup, and they want to bring a packet out for me....at 50-Euro cents.   I suggested to the wife that we ought to carry a bottle of ketchup in her purse when we eat out....to which I was told it was a bad idea.