Eugene Glover

I am a retired government CIO. #Podcast host (Fusion Patrol.) Married, 25+years, kids grown and (mostly) adulting. Citizen #Potawatomi Nation member. #Ebike enthusiast. #Atheist. SciFi & Tokusatsu Fan (Trek, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Babylon 5, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and many more.). Love a good crossword or #KillerSudoku. Have an app in iOS App Store (Killer Sudoku Aide.) Probably other stuff but I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition. #Taiwan is a country.

Podcast: https://fusionpatrol.com
My Out-of-Date Blog: https://lonelocust.com

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2025-10-26 21:15:38 UTC

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Do you think they took the pictures, chandeliers, and furniture out before they tore it down?

2025-09-01 19:09:27 UTC

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I’ve always assumed that they are implying that they’re competent with technology; however, having overseen the department that does tech-support for businesses I can safely say that “digital natives” can be just as incompetent as old folk.

2025-07-25 16:01:55 UTC

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hythflujibuba?

2025-06-05 21:20:46 UTC

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But what about Alan and his diminutive?

2025-05-13 01:15:20 UTC

My wife is funny. She gets stressed at work. Comes home and she’s all keyed up. I suggest she try meditating, she shrugs it off.
I basically force her to do either a headspace meditation or an Apple Fitness meditation.
2 minutes in, she’s always sawing logs. I don’t think she’s EVER reached the point where they say, “in your own time, when you’re ready, you can slowly open your eyes.”

2025-04-19 11:07:29 UTC

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I’ve never figured out WHY I manage to check my watch at exactly half hour increments. I don’t believe there’s any psychic(or whatever) power. And the time on the clock is just arbitrary, defined by man, not based on any “real” so there must be something external. But what?
There are no clocks in the house, no ticking, no chimes, there are no church tower clocks in the area. It’s too far to hear Big Ben in London.

2025-04-19 11:02:32 UTC

Whenever I’m ill, I tend to sleep a lot, but not at night. Nights are endless misery. In the throes of the sickness because of how badly head congestion gives me earaches and headaches, and when I’m on the mend, just miserable insomnia.
Tonight, my uncanny ability to look at my watch only on the hour or half hour has been machines-like. 12, 1, 1:30,2, 2:30, 3:30…I’m actually on my 3:30 check, and just got up and ate some bologna.

2025-04-05 05:36:44 UTC

A “comedy” that isn’t very funny, consisting of disconnected scenes with no payoff that are just there to bounce the heroine between one sex scene and the next — except, because it’s a 1960s theatrical film, there are no sex scenes.
It’s also impossible to conceive, based on this performance, that Jane Fonda could ever win an Academy Award.
#Barbarella

2025-03-27 17:47:56 UTC

I’ve been futzing with a utility that allows me to create a top-down sequences of actions, and you can place blocks of actions within conditionals; however, you cannot nest them, and they have no “Else” condition.
Haven’t been this frustrated at program logic since I worked on GOSUB-less BASIC on a TRS-80.

2025-03-22 05:20:35 UTC

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I used to have one of those. An Alpine, as I recall.

2025-02-05 15:43:42 UTC

My question is this:
When their AI weapon murders you, no doubt it shows you unstoppable ads first.
Since you’ll be dead, do they count those ad impressions when billing their clients?
Because honestly, that feels a little morally questionable to me. https://mastodon.social/@verge/113951677064901380

2025-01-22 06:04:07 UTC

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Perhaps I should get a shirt that says, “I got burnt by phlogiston.”

2025-01-19 04:34:17 UTC

I certainly feel like Americans downloading 小红书 have failed an intelligence test.

2024-12-25 05:46:13 UTC

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Oh, Din Tai Fung, my favorite restaurant on the planet!

2024-12-23 17:58:37 UTC

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Also, in one of those, "well, I didn't expect that department,” I had banged off an email (also in 2004) to the #TaipeiTimes in response to a letter to the editor.
I was surprised as all hell when it appeared on the editorial page. I can't say my hot take was particularly nuanced, and if there is one thing I can say looking back, Taiwan's public perception has certainly been raised since then, thanks to COVID, China, and TSMC.
#Taiwan
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2004/11/03/2003209579

2024-12-23 17:44:02 UTC

Good for the #TaipeiTimes! I was digging under a cedar chest and found a file folder of news articles I’ve printed about myself and/or family. Found two old articles from the Taipei Times and after 20 years, the URLs are still good!
Here’s an old article about Father Bob (a really nice guy, sadly deceased) who co-founded Operation De-Handicap in #Taipei with my Father-in-Law (Ignatius Huang) for polio rehabilitation. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/28/2003176830

2024-12-22 05:54:55 UTC

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As you say, it’s not the point, and they favor foods that give a suitable presentation, for example, Japanese Curry Rice.
On the trip with family, we just had ice cream. On a previous trip I had a curry.
It was alright, but nothing special. It’s just the novelty of it.

2024-12-22 05:22:24 UTC

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Yes, that's us

2024-12-22 05:17:52 UTC

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Found a few. From 2010.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/694/779/337/692/136/original/8ffdbf6a48709fa7.jpeg
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2024-12-12 14:05:44 UTC

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So the Epic App Store is bloatware?

2024-11-24 06:22:17 UTC

Ugh
https://www.space.com/entertainment/forbidden-planet-is-of-the-most-influential-sci-fi-films-of-all-time-and-its-getting-a-remake

2024-11-22 05:01:32 UTC

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Hypnotherapist. 🤦🏼‍♂️

2024-11-21 16:57:42 UTC

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That image is how I always imagined Android phones were shipped.

2024-11-17 01:25:24 UTC

Somebody got a haircut today.
#DogsOfMastodon
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2024-11-13 16:42:05 UTC

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“entry-level” you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.

2024-11-05 23:54:11 UTC

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“let” me or “torture” me?

2024-11-03 05:46:33 UTC

How do things like this happen? Is it just because people are boosting it?
Works for me.
#TrumpIsACunt https://mastodon.bot/@trending/113415731108987052

2024-10-28 22:17:07 UTC

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The only reason this is an issue to some people is because they’re holding it wrong.

2024-10-10 08:03:18 UTC

Wifey had a cold the week before our trip and hasn't shaken the cough. Sent her to see a doctor in #Taiwan today.
No appointment or health insurance. A few minutes wait. Diagnosed with bronchitis. Several medicines were prescribed and dispensed. Cost under $22 USD. 30 minutes.
Doctor said to her, “You had a cold and you didn't go to the doctor?”
"No, no one goes to a doctor for a cold in the US. With a $40 copay and having to schedule weeks in advance, what's the point?”

2024-09-24 00:45:38 UTC

How does this place not just stay in business, but always be packed with customers.
The absolute textbook definition of “average hamburger” and they don’t have bacon, FFS.
#InAndOutBurger
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2024-09-17 04:57:58 UTC

I feel like any day in the United States when a politician visits a classroom, that should be the day they do unannounced active shooter lockdown drills.

2024-09-16 18:56:20 UTC

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Here’s an article that screams for a photo.

2024-09-11 01:40:08 UTC

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“social media software” without likes and follows would just be “software.”

2024-08-27 21:47:33 UTC

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“The community of monkey torture lovers might be ‘little,’ but it's larger than you might expect…”
Yeah, a group of ONE is larger than I’d expect.
Thank you, once again for lowering my opinion of humans just that much more.

2024-08-26 13:32:39 UTC

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Does it play a cute little tune when it’s done, like my Zojirushi rice maker?

2024-08-24 16:12:10 UTC

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I agree that’s a fantastic thing, because sometimes, it just makes sense.
OTOH, it’s also virtually the only discovery mechanism that works on Masto.

2024-08-16 14:48:59 UTC

Just received email from the US Post Office touting their frickin’ PODCAST, called “Mailin’it.”
I’m expecting an announcement from my phone provider, Verizon, any day announcing their podcast, “Just Phonin’ it In.”

2024-08-16 14:21:05 UTC

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I thought that was why they told you to go out with clean underwear.

2024-08-10 00:02:58 UTC

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Oh, for fuck’s sake.

2024-08-01 17:38:08 UTC

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Because most people sing badly?

2024-07-30 14:04:59 UTC

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they’re probably screening people with accents.

2024-07-08 14:12:27 UTC

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$2-3 more on an $8 meal is still 25-38% more, which begins to add up for families.
Plus, there’s the 15-20% gratuity that’s still expected, since there hasn’t (yet) been legislation to eliminate wage exploitation of workers in tipping jobs.