Saturday, June 18, 2022

Instant Bullets Blog Jun 18, 2022

*How old were you when you realized being nice, working hard, and accepting additional responsibilities to be rewarded was total shit?

*Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced company employees are known as Metamates. Imagine a PowerPower animated slide changing from teammates to metamates.

*His Bitter Half From Merrie Melodies starring Daffy Duck. Watch the cartoon from Internet Archive. Daffy Duck ended the cartoon on a positive note when he married a rich single mother duck from a personal ad before personal ads became reality. There was too much political incorrectness today including toy gun violence, Indians, assaults, domestic violence, and spanking. The honeymoon phase is depicted accurately.

*Check Credit Card Readers. A Reddit post showed a video a Convenience store customer uncovers card skimmer device at 7-Eleven.

*You ever get so bored at work you start doing your job right.

*Common Job Interview Mistakes. The Onion published an article Common Mistakes Everyone Makes During Job Interviews. There's no faster way to ruin a job interview than to express your belief you deserve dignity and respect.

"You're overqualified. We're worried you get bored and leave after a few months" means you're confident and intelligent. You find another job at the first sign of crap, sketchiness, or abusive behavior. They want someone dumb and insecure to control.

*Tommy Lee Jones tells Will Smith A person is smart. People are dumb . . . Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. The bench scene after Jones selected Smith in the testing scene.

*Three Card Monte. The three card game also known as Find the Lady is a scam. The victims are tricked in betting money to find the money card among three face-down playing cards.

A dealer places three cards face down on a table. The dealer shows one of the cards is the money card while rearranging the cards quickly to confuse the player which of the three cards is the money card. The rearranging is when the dealer confuses the player to select the incorrect card. The player selects one of the three cards. If the player correctly identifies the money card, the player wins. Otherwise, the player loses.

*Things You Do Wrong Every Day. Watch the YouTube video to correct something done every day. My favorites are peal a banana on the bottom or the blossom end; apply a pea size toothpaste on the toothbrush; milk and eggs belong on the top rear of the refrigerator instead of the doors because the doors are the warmest; secure writing on paper by writing random letters over the original writing instead of striking out; peal sticky notes on its sides instead of its bottom; use the pizza saver to assist taking a slice of pizza by placing and holding the pizza saver on the adjacent slice; slide sleep on your left side down on the mattress for a more restful night sleep; and place a store purchased ice cream in a freezer bag.

*Online ASCII Tools. The website provides ASCII utilities on the browser. Convert ASCII to decimal and vice versa. Convert ASCII to hexadecimal and vice versa. Draw an ASCII table. Create random ASCII. Create an ASCII to an image. Create an ASCII to HTML. Convert text to ASCII art or ASCII image. Website ONLINEASCIITOOLS.

Another ASCII website is ASCII Art Generator.

*Jeff Bezos The Musical. Jimmy Kimmel Live did a spoof on former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos starring Jason Alexander with George Takei.

*The 2022 Los Angeles Chargers football schedule released as an anime The Chargers 2022 Schedule, But It's Anime | LA Chargers. In contrast, the 2022 Cleveland Browns football schedule is a PowerPoint slide presentation with music.

*Analysis include the letters a-n-a-l. We can't spell analysis without the letters a-n-a-l.

*"Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun." --Cassie Cartwright, Brokeback Mountain

*My Facebook timeline is 96% brainless posts, 2% life event posts, and 2% intelligent posts. I spend less time on Facebook and more time on my Twitter @ININ61. I follow 48 Twitter accounts.

*Wash Words And Their Definitions. whitewash: to gloss over or cover up an error, a fault, or some wrongdoing. In sports, it's to hold an opponent scoreless.

greenwash: a superficial or insincere display of concern for the environment by an organization; the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company's products are more environmentally sound.

sportswash: an individual, group, corporation, or government using sports to improve their tarnished reputation hosting a sporting event, the purchase a sports team, or by participation in the sport itself.

The Streisand effect is an attempt to hide or remove information resulting in an increase awareness of the information. People aware of withheld information are motivated to research deeper. The effect is named after actress and singer Barbra Streisand who tried to stop a coastal project from taking a picture of her house along the California coast in Malibu, CA. People became more interested in Streisand's house afterwards.

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