One viral videos of 2024 was a cut portion of a commencement speech about seeing people die and hearing what they have to ask for.
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When will the United States be a graveyard?
I woke up one morning with a thought about the quantity of ancestors I would have if I walk back to Jesus times. Assuming I go back 30 generations there should be close to 1 billion ancestors of mine. This has to be some kind of paradox since I’m certain 1 billion human souls weren’t alive in the yonder of 0-39AD. I decided to work the opposite way and ask myself “How many human beings would it take that, if all were buried in the ground at the end of their happy life it would make the United States a complete graveyard?”. I expanded this though to wonder at what year that would occur, too.
Read MoreKnickknacks, Swag, & Pieces of Flair
October 2, 2024 was my last day at my job as a Principal Software Engineer for Cloud ID at Synacor. Originally hired on September 3, 2013 as a Web Operations Engineer I was culled in the “Synapocalypse” in March, 2014. After re-applying for a Configuration Engineer position I was rehired on April 14, 2014 and kept increasing my position until it was finally obsoleted.
Over the 10+ years of corporate work I acquired a hefty lot of company bling. This posting is to go over all the captured “shinies” and reminisce about how awesome and excessive some things can really be.
Read MoreMary Jane Harter Heick, b.8/Sep/1930, d.5/Mar/2023
Mary J. Heick, 92, of Liverpool passed away on Sunday, March 5, 2023. Mary, the daughter of the late Ludwig and Elizabeth Harter, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 8, 1930. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Joseph T. Heick who died in 2004. Mrs. Heick retired from New York Telephone Company in Syracuse, New York following more than 20 years of service as a Billing Clerk.
She will be dearly missed and always remembered by her surviving family, a sister, Lillian Tokarz; sons, Tom, Bill (Brenda), James (Margie), Jerry (Michele) and John (Rosemarie) Heick; 16 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00am on Thursday, March 9, 2023 in St. Margaret’s Church, 200 Roxboro Road, Mattydale, New York. Entombment will be in Assumption Cemetery, Syracuse, New York. There will be no calling hours.
Sourced from https://www.traubfuneralhome.com/obituary/Mary-Heick
Findagrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/250239048/mary-heick
Double-Entendres “from” the 80s
Randomly, as youtube does, I came across the “80s breakdancing on us tv” video:
This goes through a series of dancers and in one specific scene there’s a dancer called “Glide Master”…
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