John's Junk Drawer - Day Today

My DNC List

nospam@example.com (John) — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:41:00 +0000

Originally dated: 2016-10-24 12:42

The Problem

Somewhere along the line, a lot of easy-money lenders and extended warranty providers have gotten my cell-phone number. They all use robo-callers to begin the "conversation." Worse, the predicative-dialed robo-calls are running nuisance rates of around 30-50% (there used to be laws against this).

Unfortunately, my reject list only holds 20 numbers.

So I'm doing a round-robin (FIFO ring buffer, for fellow programers) as new numbers come in.

I use a simple number scheme. When I get back to the top I change the name from DNC01 to DNC21 and count from 21. This lets me know where the head and the tail of the ring-buffer are on the list, so I know where to add new numbers.

But I want to save the old numbers too

Just in case they start using them again after having been on the reject-list for a while.

So here's the list of all numbers on my reject list
(except for the first few that I threw out before deciding to do this)

(newest numbers are added to the top) n=nuisance, d=dinner-time5-7pm, y=yes-scam

302 570-8948 [y] "would you like to speak with a warranty specialist?" (about your car)
601 228-8218 [y] "important message from the motor vehicle protection agency. Would you like to learn more"
502 617-1009 [n]
830 490-0103 [y]
831 353-2012 [n]
858 951-1750 [d]
407 530-0051 [n]
-------
530 744 2131 [n]
228 325-1202
385 218-3054
669 257-7018 [n]
321 234-5678
239 580-6026
239 541-6799
908 888-0277
361 317-3211
213 210-2506
609 759-2791
518 417-1707
717 724-9599
682 628-4628
786 209-0861
603 637-1878
657 202-5151
541 948-8494
570 491-8294
-------
801 742-5022
970 236-9187
832 241-3030
234 815-8186
323 593-7774
321 421-1092
817 363-5736
305 900-5941
954 826-1234
813 355-9252
281 410-8984
323 609-6006
540 628-8915
347 991-0619
609 456-7425
209 220-4187
928 224-7454
209 220-4187

= = = = = = =
[n] = nuisance
[y] = 'Yes' scam.
[d] = dinner-time 5-7pm

We Remember

nospam@example.com (John) — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:20:19 +0000

#WeRemember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajHb-UE2Mm0

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

nospam@example.com (John) — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:19:59 +0000

Did they think they could kill his dream?

No.

His dream lives on.

The American Declaration of Independence

nospam@example.com (John) — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 04:10:00 +0000

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
- For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
- For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
- For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
- For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
- For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
- For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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Signatories

Column 1
. . . .. . .
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton

Column 2
. . . .. . .
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
. . . .. . .
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton

Column 3
. . . .. . .
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
. . . .. . .
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
. . . .. . .
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
. . . .. . .
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean

Column 5
. . . .. . .
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
. . . .. . .
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark

Column 6
. . . .. . .
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
. . . .. . .
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
. . . .. . .
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
. . . .. . .
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
. . . .. . .
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton

Christmas: Little Drummer Boy

nospam@example.com (John) — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 11:37:53 +0000

A cappella version of Little Drummer Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc

Dennis Ritchie, Creator of the C programming language, dead at 70

nospam@example.com (John) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:51:16 +0000

main()
{
    printf("goodbye, world\n");
}

Robot Arm Inventor and Pioneer Dies

nospam@example.com (John) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:06:00 +0000

George Charles Devol
Inventor of Robot Arm

20 February 1912 — 11 August 2011

The self taught inventor of the robotic arm, which has become an icon of factory automation from Detroit to Asia, has died.

Story: Pioneer of the long arm of factory floor technology

Who's On First - Abbott and Costello - Phillies

nospam@example.com (John) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:57:48 +0000

In Memory

nospam@example.com (John) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:27:11 +0000

Sometimes people get a lot of style, sometimes people get a lot of class. It is very rare for one person to get a lot of both.

Rest in peace Elizabeth.

Today Is Martin Luther King Day

nospam@example.com (John) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:05:57 +0000

"We've learned to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters."

- Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Longwood Gardens Was Open Today

nospam@example.com (John) — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:09:38 +0000

Got it? People who garden love gardening, so they didn't mind the snow.

Note to the accountants and suits in the NFL: IF YOU DON'T LOVE FOOTBALL YOU'RE IN THE WRONG BUSINESS !

Perhaps you should try gardening.

-djr

Lunar Eclipse 21-Dec Totality starts at: 2:41 Eastern

nospam@example.com (John) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:04:17 +0000

Lunar eclipse (total from all of U.S.) Tuesday 21-Dec. Begins: 01:32 (am - EST). Totality is achieved at 02:41 and lasts for 72 minutes.

Best time to look?

At 03:17 am EST the Moon will be in deepest shadow, displaying the most fantastic shades of coppery red.

Why Red?

From the article at NASA:

" A quick trip to the Moon provides the answer: Imagine yourself standing on a dusty lunar plain looking up at the sky. Overhead hangs Earth, nightside [facing you], completely hiding the sun behind it. The eclipse is under way. You might expect Earth seen in this way to be utterly dark, but it's not. The rim of the planet is on fire! As you scan your eye around Earth's circumference, you're seeing every sunrise and every sunset in the world, all of them, all at once. This incredible light beams into the heart of Earth's shadow, filling it with a coppery glow and transforming the Moon into a great red orb. "

Last time a lunar coincided with solstice?

1638 DEC 21, Next time it will happen? 2094 DEC 21

Happy Thanksgiving

nospam@example.com (John) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:14:02 +0000

Amy Grant - Better Than a Hallelujah

nospam@example.com (John) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:57:15 +0000

Better than a church bell ringing. Better than a choir singing out.

Ahhh... Baseball...

nospam@example.com (John) — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:06:49 +0000

Nine innings of wholesome, regimented, fun.

And if you go a little crazy, and have a spontaneous moment, that's okay too...

...Our tazers are charged and ready.