40 Years In The Desert: It's Ramones Time

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On Mar 21 Matthew Saroff commented on i was idiot when i was 16: “Like I said, almost everything about the movie was at or above what you would expect for a shlocky Sci-Fi movie from the late 19702, decent cast,…”

On Mar 17 Quasit commented on trump praises chuck schumer after his: “What's the point of an "opposition" party that never opposes?”

On Mar 17 Quasit commented on i was idiot when i was 16: “Strangely enough I desperately wanted to see it too, and yet for some reason I never did. I seem to recall reading an article about it in Starlog,…”

On Mar 17 Quasit commented on about february jobs report: “I'm expecting unemployment reports and all other government statistics to be even more blatantly falsified than they have been in the past.…”

On Mar 06 Anonymous commented on snark of day: “Not if China does it... ”

On Feb 13 Matthew Saroff commented on good move from georgia: “Data centers incur enormous infrastructure costs, large transmission lines, etc.As it currently stands, average rate payers are subsidizing this.”

On Feb 07 Anonymous commented on what you do when you are losing: “It's too late; once a hacker has physical access to a system, that system is forever compromised. The entire Treasury system needs to be scrapped…”

On Feb 07 Anonymous commented on its thursday: “Chin up; you're far from alone. Too many of us are waiting until Monday's court hearing to learn of our own fates.”

On Jan 31 Quasit commented on well shit: “I'm so sorry! I hope you find another one soon. ”

On Jan 30 Quasit commented on good move from georgia: “I imagine they'll make that illegal soon. Charging data centers more, I mean - not running them. Unfortunately.”

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Matthew Saroff, Mechanical Engineer, Owings Mills, Maryland, US

I reserve the right to reprint any email correspondence on my blog.

If you want to keep your correspondence private, please tell me.

A member of the Democratic wing of the Democratic party, and a fan of Bernie who thinks Neoliberal (DLC/New Dem) trickle down conomics sucks.

Mechanical Engineer with a background in defense, electronics packaging, medical & food equipment, transportation, and manufacturing.

In my spare time (Hah!), I am the developer of the Firefox addon, bbCode for Web Extensions (bbCodeWebEx).

I have two cats, a black cat, and a gray and white long hair cat, who keep me on my toes. (Because he keeps attacking my feet)

I am a Jew and a Zionist, who is married to a woman with exquisitely bad taste in men, and I have two remarkable children with her.

What is 40 Years in the Desert?

This blog is a place to put my stream of consciousness thoughts about life, politics, technology, and cats.

It's a posting ground for my more-or-less annual personal newsletter, 40 Years in the Desert.(PDF's available at link)

I find that if I wait until year's end I miss stuff from earlier in the year.

40 Years is put out the old fashioned way, it's printed out on ledger sized paper with 4 pages and mailed to people, total circulation of about 100.

I'm just not the holiday card kind of guy. A warning, if you comment here, I may use it in my paper publication.

You will get credit, and if I can get your postal adress, you will get at least the issue where you are quoted (probably a lot more, I rarely trim my list).

If someone actually wants to pay for an issue...I don't know, I guess a buck, but you can get the PDF's free.

I intend to post at least a couple of times a week,