My basic story about a no-money baseCamp and a no-money jeep and a no-money camper to pull behind it and no-money in general (“satisfying failure”) is all valid, and true enough until the solstice at least.

I’ll re-evaluate then.

The one place it doesn’t work is with the hard drive space, and the new fancy computer to house it; about the metaphorical red coat for Johnny boy.

Which is unsatisfying, logically, but …

I’m not going to let that stop me.

Maybe it’s a mistake. If it is, I plan to forgive myself for it in advance. Damn the semantic torpedoes.

There’s a soft rant to rant about technology and tools here.

After I gave away the two-dollar bill I turned on the radio and listened to the NPR all the way down to Prettytown to shop, but only for food and meds. I heard a story.

They want you to embrace their broken version of AI the same way you embraced their stupid smart phones, and their social media sites.

I reckon you’ll do it, too, most of you, because that’ll be much easier than listening to Ed Abbey or Ed Snowden or me for that matter.

LG TVs Caught Secretly Recording Users Even When Disconnected From the Internet

And of course, it’s not just LG TVs, and not just TVs at all.

LG responds to TV spying allegations

“The company did not address broader concerns about how much data it collects, who it shares it with, the potential for bad actors to exploit its features, or the misleading way in which its privacy options are presented.”

Of course it didn’t. Doing so wouldn’t be profitable.

And …

One more good reason to not stay in motel rooms, ennit? All of them have TVs, right?

Not that kind of remote …