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Supercomputing Conference Day 2 And of course plotting the next geocache. Mobeen and Dr. S hard at work. The Gods of Supercomputing.

posted by Southern Man @ 8:43 AM 
Supercomputing Conference Day 1 A rack of pizza boxes. Southern Man hates vi. 

That actually took until dinner, and afterwards. Supercomputing Conference Day 0 A good turnout. 

posted by Southern Man @ 7:42 AM 

And not just any old Friday, but the end-of-the-summer-semester Friday! And it was a busy one.

After breakfast with Teen Daughter the Elder (who is slowly recovering from her bout of shingles) she headed out to yet another top-secret meeting with her military masters and Southern Man checked Craigslist, as is his habit, and saw an offer for twenty free cinderblocks. Now Southern Man is a building materials whore and will jump on something like that in a hot minute but the lister said they were just stacked up by the curb and he'd delete the post when they were gone. So there was not much chance of getting them but it was on the way to work so Southern Man leaped into The Titan to check it out. The address was strangely familiar and it turned out to be a guy from whom Southern Man had gotten a load of firewood a while back. The cinderblocks were still there, plus he had PVC pipe that he'd used to build a little greenhouse and some bricks. In fact the entire pile was from tearing down his greenhouse and since he's moving he gave it away. So Southern Man got a full truckload of goodies. There was no rush so he brought it all home and switched to The Hyundai for the rest of the day. A Titan load of goodies. The battered north roof of The Barn is the next major project.

Then it was off to work, to deal with paperwork (including the upcoming year's contract, which includes a nice raise, and final details for the upcoming supercomputer conference, and some travel-grant applications) and grading final exams and post grades for both summer classes (one at each school). That last required a trip to the community college on the south side - yes, it's 2012, but they still require a signature on a hard copy of the electronically-submitted grade form - so Southern Man printed off a list of geocaches to hit while he was on that side of town. These were all fairly challenging, many in wooded areas, and Southern Man had a lot of fun hunting them down. But at the very last cache The Hyundai wouldn't start.

Well, it did this once a while back and Southern Man suspects that he's gotten all he's going to get out of the factory battery so he put the hood up and stood by the road to flag down help. And now an observation: not a single woman stopped, but every guy stopped. Every single one. The third had cables and a quick jump had the car running again. Then, happy and tired and covered with burrs and scratches Southern Man headed home for a shower and dinner and rest.

But when he got out of the shower the phone's voice mail light was on - it was RCJ, and could I run over to his mom's house and help him fix an air conditioner? Of course, so Southern Man threw on some clothes and headed out in The Titan. We took care of the chores and had pizza with his mom and sister and brother-in-law (they all share a big house that's only a few blocks from the mini-mansion that Southern Man and his ex bought in '04) and then RCJ went to work (night shift) and Southern Man headed out to the land to unload his truckload of goodies.

And after unloading and stacking the goodies and clearing out a corner of The Barn Southern Man relaxed for a bit in The Trailer and finally solved the mystery of the occasional stabbing pain in his left foot - a rusty nail that had come through the sole of that boot, so there will be a tetanus booster in his immediate future - and relaxed for a bit. And then he came home for another dinner (cold chicken and hot veggies and cold beer) and to reflect on a busy and productive and fun day and plan tomorrow's activities with Teen Daughter the Younger, who is back from Teen Camp but was scooped up by her grandmother until tomorrow. Lord, I'm so lucky. Please continue to bless me and my family. Amen.

posted by Southern Man @ 9:10 PM 

Southern Man has been a busy fellow this week, thus the lack of posts. Teen Daughter The Elder continues to meet with her military contacts in preparation for shipping out to boot camp. However she is laid low with shingles (of all things!) which is quite painful. Teen Daughter The Younger headed off to Church Teen Camp on Monday so she won't be back until Friday, then she flies back to her mother on Sunday. Southern Man is busy prepping for the last week of summer school. He actually gave his last two lectures today: tomorrow and Thursday he will give exams. Next week he will be in a nearby city for a week-long conference on supercomputing and parallel computing. It's only an hour away but they're providing a hotel so Southern Man will probably stay up there most nights. And after that with both daughters gone he will start packing up as he plans to shut down the apartment and live out on The Land for a while. And that is the news from Southern Land!

posted by Southern Man @ 8:06 PM 
posted by Southern Man @ 7:35 AM 
In The Navy

After weeks of preliminaries Teen Daughter The Elder has enlisted in the United States Navy and having blown the lid off the ASVAB is promised work in cryptology. Boot camp is in early October.

Southern Man is very proud of her!
 

This article on how ordinary decent Americans are quietly revolting against the behemoth State has been making lots of appearances on blogs Southern Man follows. It's worth reading the whole thing, but here's a taste:

I bet you can think of a few dozen more examples [of how Americans skirt or circumvent the law] and increasingly we’re all in business and in personal life thinking of more and more ways to game a system which we have less and less faith in. It’s not civil disobedience that I’m talking about. It’s the opposite: Civil disobedience is meant to be noticed. It is a price paid in the hope of creating social change. What I’m talking about is not based on hope; in fact, it has given up much hope on social change. It thinks the government is a colossal amoeba twitching mindlessly in response to tiny pinpricks of pain from an endless army of micro-brained interest groups. The point is not to teach the amoeba nor to guide it, but simply to stay away from the lethal stupidity of its pseudopods.

Again, read the whole thing.

posted by Southern Man @ 8:49 PM posted by Southern Man @ 3:09 PM 
Personality Type Comment Of The Week

posted by Southern Man @ 8:35 PM 
A Comment On Marriage

Western women have been brainwashed their entire lives about what they’re supposed to want, and women don't hesitate to tell men what they think they want. It’s no surprise that men have come to believe what women are telling them. It’s in magazines, TV shows, movies, websites, romantic comedies - it's everywhere. The great tragedy of relationships today is that most men do not realize that what a woman says she wants, what a woman thinks she wants, and what a woman really needs are often three completely different things, and as a result has no idea what his woman actually needs from their relationship.

Now, what happens when such a woman obtains everything that she says and thinks she wants? Surprisingly (to men) she feels strangely unhappy and unfulfilled, and this confuses both herself and the others around her. After all, she has everything she (or any other woman) could have ever want, doesn't she?. However, when you recognize the effects of social programming on women, the unhappiness makes complete sense: she is completely out of touch with her own needs and, as a result, her man is focused on what she says she wants rather than what she really needs in their relationship. This is not the man’s fault, because she (and society at large) have constantly fed him well-intended misinformation, day after day, year after year, about his responsibilities and what her needs are supposed to be.

So what does the man do in the face of his woman’s unhappiness? He tries even harder to please his woman. He keeps doing what didn’t work before (because he thinks he's doing what she wants) and he does it with even more vigor. And what does this have the effect of doing? It renders him undesirable, even repugnant to her. She doesn’t understand it, so she chalks it up to "no longer being in love" or some other rationalization. The man becomes frustrated – he’s done everything in his power to make her happy, given her everything she’s ever wanted, and this is the result? And when the relationship ends he (and society, and in Southern Man's case even the Church) chastises him for "not giving her what she really needed." Sadly, none of the parties involved had any idea what that was.

But all is not lost because this can be a watershed moment – when he takes the red pill and is finally capable of seeing some truth about relationships in this world. And that is the bittersweet place in which Southern Man finds himself today; filled with regret for what might have been had he gained even the most elementary education in the proper maintenance of marriage relationships, with the knowledge and ability today to have far greater success in future relationships, but at an age where that is increasingly unlikely. Southern Man will probably wake up alone for the rest of his days, and that is a sad thought. But who knows what new adventures the next twenty or thirty years might bring? And that is an exciting speculation. To infinity, and beyond!

Inspired by this post at The Private Man.

posted by Southern Man @ 9:08 PM The War On Drugs

For new readers, Southern Man will again list the three pillars of his political/social belief system:>br /> In other words, Southern Man is an individualist / anti-nanny-statist and votes for candidates that promise to reduce the broad scope and overreaching authority of the State. That doesn't mean he's an anarchist; he simply wants the State to be smaller, less expensive, and less intrusive. It also means that you have a lot of freedom to do things that Southern Man would not approve. And he might elect to engage in activity that does not meet with your approval. This is the price of freedom.

However, when we do things that don't meet the approval of the State, they send us to prison. What, pray tell, are these un-approved actions that result in incarceration? Hat tip to Al Fin.

Now that is frightening stuff. Over half the prison population of the US is drug-related. And Southern Man would imagine that a fair portion of the rest (particularly burglary and homicide) are also obliquely connected to the drug trade.

Imagine a world in which Southern Man's views hold sway. Personal drug use would not be illegal. Drug sales between individuals would not be illegal. The manufacture of drugs would be a zoning issue at worst. Most of the risk in manufacturing and selling drugs would vanish, and prices would drop. Without large profits crime cartels would become less interested in drugs and individuals would commit fewer personal property crimes to obtain the money they need for drugs. We would need fewer police officers and those officers wouldn't need military-grade equipment, thus reducing the cost of law enforcement. And in Southern Man's world "sex crimes," which are contracts between consenting adults, wouldn't be crimes at all. Wow - we could stay home, do cheap drugs, and get laid. In Southern Man's view this would be a Good Thing.

Unfortunately, the State sees things a bit differently. The much-discussed War On Drugs is really a jobs program for increasingly militarized police forces. Drugs are the boogie-man that drive the size and scope of modern police departments. But Southern Man would be perfectly happy to see all those drug cops working on property crime cases instead, as he still has a number of unsolved ones on the books.

posted by Southern Man @ 8:47 PM 
Concert Review - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
 

With all three Southern Children about there's just no end to the fun and excitement.

First off, Southern Son has a very nasty spider bite on his thumb and it just got nastier and nastier. That would be the work of the Brown Recluse. You should YouTube "Brown Recluse Bite," some of them are pretty entertaining. We especially like this one.

He called and complained that much of his hand was going numb so rather than wait for Monday Teen Daughter the Elder and Southern Man picked him up and took him to a nearby urgent care facility where the doc looked it over and prescribed antibiotics and sent us on our way without even any dramatic draining. And all this rather detracts from Southern Man's own drama as he has his very own recluse bite as well, but all it did was leave a little crater scar on his leg. The elder children at Walgreens.

The Southern Man went to the local amusement park for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, who played to probably the largest crowd Southern Man has ever seen at that particular venue. He probably took a dozen pictures, none of which are worth posting but here's one anyway. This was the best of the lot, and you still can't see the big "Joan Jett and the Blackhearts" sign behind the stage.

The concert was followed by a terrific fireworks display. Southern Man loves fireworks. Turns out Teen Daughter the Younger (who has no interest in ancient rock and was riding rides during the concert) was near the launch site and got a little scared.

And that was a Southern Man Saturday. Hope yours was equally exciting!

posted by Southern Man @ 11:48 PM 
Fourth of July Fun

At the Ancestral Manor... Youngest Daughter with poppers... Youngest Daughter and Youngest Nephew... In the pool...
 

The summer semester is halfway over and it looks like July will be even busier than June. Two lovely young ladies in their Sunday best.
