AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles: 2015

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Oh Jammit!

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Monday, December 28, 2015

ATF: Tri-Wall

Link: [Pink Floyd]

The Wall (Parts 1-3)

Pink Floyd

Daddy’s flown across the ocean

Leavin’ just a memory

A snapshot in the family album

Daddy what else did you leave for me

Daddy what’d’ja leave behind for me

All in all it was

Just a brick in the wall

All in all it was

All just bricks in the wall

When

When we grew up and went to school

There were certain teachers

Who would hurt the children

Anyway they could

By pouring their derision

Upon anything we did

Exposing every weakness

However carefully hidden by the kids

But in

But in the town it was well known

That when they got home at night

Their fat and psychopathic wives

Would thrash them within inches of their lives

We don’t need no education

We don’t need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teacher

Leave them kids alone

Hey

Teacher

Leave them kids alone

All in all it’s just a

Another brick in the wall

All in all you’re just a

Another brick in the wall

We don’t need no education

We don’t need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teacher

Leave us kids alone

Hey

Teacher

Leave us kids alone

All in all you’re just a

Another brick in the wall

All in all you’re just a

Another brick in the wall

I don’t need no arms around me

And I don’t need no drugs to calm me

I have seen the writing on the wall

Don’t think I need anything at all

Don’t think I’ll need anything at all

All in all it was

All just bricks in the wall

All in all you were

All just bricks in the wall

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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Sunday, December 27, 2015

A Sunday Drive

Back during our childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived. Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again. The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

Link: [Sane, Simple, Sacred]

Link: [Scriptor's Postcards]

Link: [Soli Deo Gloria Sisterhood]

Link: [The Beauty in His Grip]

Link: [The Cutter Rambles]

Link: [The Feral Turtle]

Link: [The View from Bag End]

Link: [The Vigil]

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

ATF: Scenic Routes

Link: [Supertramp]

Take the Long Way Home

Supertramp

So you think you're a Romeo

Playing a part in a picture show

Take the long way home

‘Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood

Why should you care if you're feeling good

Take the long way home

But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery

All the greenery

Is comin' down boy

And then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture

Oh it's peculiar

She used to be so nice

When lonely days turn to lonely nights

You take a trip to the city lights

And take the long way home

Take the long way home

You never see what you want to see

Forever playing to the gallery

You take the long way home

Take the long way home

And when you're up on the stage

It's so unbelievable

Unforgettable

How they adore you

But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity

Oh calamity

Is there no way out

Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe

Oh it has to be

For you to grow boy

When you look through the years

And see what you could have been

Oh what you might have been

If you'd had more time

So when the day comes to settle down

Who's to blame if you're not around

You took the long way home

You took the long way home…

Link: [Ozzy Osbourne]

Road to Nowhere

Ozzy Osbourne

I was looking back on my life

And all the things have come to me

I'm still looking for the answers

I'm still searching for the key

The wreckage of my past keeps haunting me

It just won't leave me alone

I still find it all a mystery

Could it be a dream

The road to nowhere

Leads to me

Through all the happiness and sorrow

I guess I'd do it all again

Live for today and die tomorrow

It's still the road that never ends

The wreckage of my past keeps haunting me

It just won't leave me alone

I still find it all a mystery

Could it be a dream

The road to nowhere

Leads to me

Ah Ah

The road to nowhere's gonna pass me by

Ah ah

I hope we never have to say goodbye

I never wanna live without you

Yeah

The wreckage of my past keeps haunting me

It just won't leave me alone

I still find it all a mystery

Could it be a dream

The road to nowhere

Leads to me

The road to nowhere

Leads to me

The road to nowhere

Leads to me

You got

To lead to me

The road to nowhere

Leads to me

You got

To lead to me

You got

To lead to me

The road to nowhere

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

***NOTE***

My Lord and Savior’s traditional 2,015^th birthday is tomorrow.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

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[Arlynda Lea]

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Koobface Fun

Part of working on my top-secret site project I have mentioned a time or two before involves compiling a database of sites. It was while checking the viability of some sites I had links to yesterday afternoon, when up popped a notice that Mediacom Cable had detected some suspicious activity, with further instructions to call a toll-free phone number to receive help.

Since I am now somewhat seasoned to the “fun” that can be had while surfing the net, I did not panic, but I did become a little concerned when I found that I could not simply close the pop-up and leave the site. My level of concern rose when I found that I could not even close my browser.

The next step would be to restart my computer, but before doing this, I read some more of the information provided on the pop-up. It said to not restart the computer or risk doing great harm.

So, I called the toll-free phone number, and on the other end of the line was a man with a distinct Indian (dot—not feather) accent. He identified himself as being a Windows 35 technician, who was there to help me with my problem. I told him what the problem was, and he asked me to give him remote access to my computer, which I did.

He saw the pop-up message, and then started checking all sorts of things that I could see him doing on my screen. Since my eyesight is still not all that good, I missed a lot, but he paused for me to see that my computer had been infected with the [Koobface] worm, which made my computer wide open for all sorts of no-goods to use in a network and steal my stuff.

Amazingly, I am still not in a panic. Considering all of the “stuff” that has been hitting my proverbial fan lately, an infected computer would be just some more, I suppose.

The technician went on to show me a system errors log that had over 1,000 entries, and he said that there was a solution. It involved taking my CPU to a repair center in St. Louis, and for a fee of $500, the worm would be removed and whatever was causing the system errors would be fixed. I told the technician that we could not take our computer anywhere (let alone over 200 miles away) because of our very poor health, and then he told me that all could be fixed remotely for $259, and if I wanted a three-year warranty, it would be $459.

Okay, I was starting to get a little down by then, and I acknowledged that I recognized the fact that it was his job to sell me the service. Nonetheless, I asked him if he could at least tell me if I could do a complete system wipe and Windows 10 reinstall. He told me that this would not fix anything because Koobface was due to internet hacking and there was nothing wrong on my computer to remove. He went to say that as soon as I fired up the computer again after the system reinstall, all of my problems would still be there.

Even though I was not about to okay anything until Arlynda told me I could, I let him transfer me to another company, who could remotely fix my problems. Much to my confusion, the man answering the phone sounded exactly like the guy I had been talking to before. Furthermore, the background noise on their end was exactly the same. I secured a phone number to call him back, and hung up the phone.

Well, I have been kidding about practicing having "senior moments," and after this experience, I need to take them more seriously. For it was not until later thinking about the conversation I had with the first technician that I realized he had already let the cat out of the bag (so to speak). For if there was no infection on my computer, what were they going to fix?

Studying-up on the Koobface worm revealed that any good antivirus program protects against it. I also found where there is a Koobface scam involving pop-up messages directing the unsuspecting to Indian call-centers trying to sell unneeded repairs. I also found some more interesting information on the [Windows 35] tech centers.

Yeah, go ahead and laugh at my gullibility, but I really can now say that I have experienced it all on the net. That is, at least until the next source of “fun” comes along, of course.

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