Surprisingly, I’ve had people defend Walmart’s business ethics and tactics in regular conversation before. I’ve heard people brush off egregious wrongs against society as being “the norm” or “acceptable, or even necessary business practice”. I’m here to tell you; those people are assholes.

Walmart destroys the working class. This is undeniable. Those who are forced into an employer/employee relationship with Walmart (usually due to a serious lack of options, as Walmart destroys small businesses), are always on the suffering end. Walmart profits greatly from employing people they have no intention of giving raises, insurance, or potential for advancement. What is also interesting, but not surprising, is that many female Walmart employees are beginning to discover that their male counterparts are making more money doing the same jobs that they are.

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been on a blogging spree since reviving this dead space. I fully intend to continue my spree so long as I’m able, even though it won’t be as easy as it has in the past. Right now I require physical access to my desktop machine in order to update, whereas previously I could update from my desktop, phone, or any other machine I deemed fit to remotely access my favorite machine.

Egypt Urges Push for Gaza Peace as Rockets Hit Israel via Businessweek

This is something I’ve felt strongly about for some time. I’ve been irritated that people seem to believe zionism is some God-given right to the jewish people. Bullshit. They have no more right to that land than early American settlers had to the plots they “purchased” from Native Americans for handfulls of beads.

Get over yourselves, you zionism peddling fascists. If anything, the holocaust was only brought about because fascists know their own. I realize how brutal of an assertion that is, but I stand by what I say.

Alright, I might’ve worked the kinks out of this new setup. Using “Unison”, syncing between my Debian VPS and home Win7 main station.

Keep your eyes peeled.

It would seem that the old blog has suffered a minor setback. A few, I suppose. One, I’m not exactly in a permanent residence at the moment, so I don’t have all my hardware at my disposal. Two, my VPS provider took a shit on my slice and lost all my data (thanks, gais). Three, the most recent backup I have to work with isn’t all that recent.

In any case, let me know if you have any difficulty with this freaking blog. I haven’t run jekyll on Windows before. This is my first go. It’s a pain to update without rsync. Makes me want to kick puppies.

We’ve taken the liberty of recording a tiny “thump thump” and are more than happy to share it with the world.

I’ll keep it short. Small post, lots of love.

Presenting… Bean and his or her heartbeat.

I’ve been working seven days a week. On top of that, two computers do very well to reverse the cooling effect offered by air conditioners, so I’ve had both systems turned off nearly every day since my last update.

They’re going to be left on, however, for the next fews days. I have a big announcement to make, and I’m going to put pieces of the blog post together (ie. pictures and the like) so that I can fully and formerly release this big news that some of the readership here may already know.

Sleepless, tired, sleepless, tired. I think I’ve managed to smash those words together rather well with my currently screwed up schedule. Alternating between the two is making me rather… Irritable. I’m unable to make good use of the time I’m capable of finding, mostly because I’m too exhausted just as soon as it floats my way.

Blogging aids and abets what little sanity that’s able to manage the minefield that is my brain. Cognition beyond the simplest thoughts- No, rarely may I ascend beyond my own plane. Instead, I’m forced to watch all manner of pig smash words together in faux-English and pretend he’s a higher order animal. Twitter is the favorite, these days, of such swine. Trolls, they like to call themselves. They pretend they know things about social engineering. Condemning works does not equate to engineering. Engineering requires thought, requires building things. Not burning bridges. Yet these condescending assholes burn bridges, taunt, provoke, and when all else fails they flail their arms and scream loudly, “Victim! I’m being victimized! People are harassing me and my children!” No.