Dr. Charles D. Hudson was integral part of my development as a cryptographic computer scientist. He signed my high school diploma and both of my degrees from LaGrange College. He may have also sought to connect me up with National Security Agency way back in my turbulent late 20s and early 30s way back in the 1980s. I was 26 when I first graduate from LaGrange College in 1979 and I was 40 when I received my second more significant degree in computer science.
Cheap ZTE smartphone pictures from March 17, 2018 and September 30, 2018. The Chinese had ZTE phones hacked for nefarious reasons. Note the first images are from the Thread down at the LaGrange High School track and the last three are of my favorite place Lafayette Park in beautiful downtown LaGrange, Georgia, my home sweet home. Molly Hale and Investigator Jacobson, along with the other Company spooks can’t tear me away from Troup County! “Give me liberty or give me death!” The previous quote is by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”. The last quote is a supposed statement by the first U.S. spy Nathan Hale just before the British Redcoats hanged him by the neck until he was dead!
Today, Thursday, January 16, 2020 in beautiful downtown LaGrange, Georgia is like Seattle, Washington which is a temperate rainforest location and ecology. At least it is not foggy and raining. Little wonder why Kurt Cobain committed suicide. It is now 04:38 AM and raining “cats and dogs”. I was going to walk to the local Summit gas station to loan an acquaintance of mine who works retail my backup copy of the first Allman Brothers Band eponymous CD. It is not the CD I promised but it is handy and no further work for me!
We are rapidly converging on the 79th Anniversary of the Battle of Denmark Strait which was a battle between the Royal Navy’s HMS Hood, a battlecruiser, and HMS Prince of Wales, a newly built battleship, and the Nazi Kriegsmarine’s Bismarck, a battleship, and Prinz Eugen, a heavy cruiser. The battle took place on Saturday, May 24, 1941 at approximately 5:52 AM to 6:02 AM local time. The Prince of Wales fired the first salvo at a range of 26,500 yards which is about 15.06 miles towards the lead Nazi ship which was the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. The Nazis held their fire until 5:55 AM. At 6:00 AM a 15 inch = 38 cm = 380 mm armor piercing shell from the Bismarck probably blew the HMS Hood to smithereens by hitting one of her magazines. Unfortunately, 1415 members of the HMS Hood’s crew died in the explosion. There were only three survivors from the doomed battlecruiser and pride of the Royal Navy. The HMS Prince of Wales was also badly damaged and forced to withdraw from the scene of the battle making smoke. The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a tactical victory for the Nazis. However, on the morning of Tuesday, May 27, 1941 the Royal Navy exacted its revenge for the loss of HMS Hood by forcing the sinking of the Bismarck. The Prinz Eugen survived the Battle of the Denmark Strait and World War II. The HMS Prince of Wales was sunk in the Pacific Theater of the War by Japanese aircraft on Wednesday, December 10, 1941.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Denmark_Strait
Thanks,
Pate
The two organizations, namely medical doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, who brought some breakthroughs in healthcare have also done some abysmally bad things to human beings including a rash of birth defects due to the potent sedative thalidomide. Thalidomide when used in males and/or females out of their childbearing years can be a wonder drug.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15536544
https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation
One of my good friends while I was growing up at 601 Hill Street, LaGrange, GA 30241 was a thalidomide birth defect victim. Ken D. was born with thumbs on both hands., however, that did not deter him from playing sports with me and the other neighborhood kids. We also went on BB gunning missions in the wee early morning hours without the knowledge of our parents.
I briefly saw my old friend John Joseph walking down Bull Street at the corner of Bull and Broome Streets. He was unkempt and probably suffering from medically addressable extrapyramidal effects from decades of anti-psychotic pharmaceuticals. He offered to shake my hand, but I refused since he may have any kind of cold or flu virus or some form of infectious bacteria. I guess his extended family who dole out his meager funds don’t really care about his day to day appearance.
I met John in 1973 at a dance sponsored jointly by Peachtree-Packwood Hospital and Peachford Hospital both of which are in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both too shy and emotionally reticent to ask any females to dance. Also, the females ignored us as the social outcasts the we were and remain in that state of constant rejection.
I don’t know John’s precise diagnosis, but he is treated as a completely worthless piece of human flotsam. I know my diagnoses and I am in the same social detritus realm as John. John has never been challenged by his family, psychiatrists, and social workers to try to make a positive impact on his milieu. He does know a lot of folks’ names in this area and he is well known and recognized by the businesspeople of LaGrange, but the local capitalists only want our money and the tips we leave our servers. I am more infamous as a curmudgeon or iconoclast.
Both John and I need to be more careful crossing the downtown streets. I notice that John does not always obey the crosswalk signals. That is certainly highly dangerous behavior in modern LaGrange. I am probably going to get killed for being overly aggressive at asserting my crosswalk rights. Also, I need to stop cussing and yelling at the motorists who violate my pedestrian rights.
Preface: I write from my experience of seventy-five (75) days in the Troup County Jail. Most of my jail-time was in Booking 704 then Booking 703. I was under a potential suicide watch for part of my time in the system.
The Troup County Jail staff puts the safety of all inmates at the top of their list of priorities. People who are vulnerable to physical abuse are kept out of the general population and usually isolated in either the Isolation suite of cells or Booking. I was fortunate enough to be able to observe the jail staff use what I term the “Group Hug” (from the PBS show the Teletubbies). The group hug is used to subdue a potentially violent inmate by three or more staff slowly converging on someone acting out with at least one with her/his Taser drawn and ready if necessary. The inmate usually submits peacefully to this combination of action and rational talk.
The food is limited to approximately 1800 calories per day. The nutrition is of acceptable quality and is pretty good but often server cool rather than warm or hot.
There are at least three females that have touched my heart, mind, and human essence that are currently missing in action. Namely, in alphabetical order by first name:
I would love to develop nontoxic close relationships with all three women. Currently, I believe I have a better chance of finding 1, but I hope to locate and see up close and personal 2 and 3. I realize that 2 and 3 are long shots, but I will not be satisfied until 2 and 3 reject me outright of their own mouths. The staff at Pathways Center both Second Season and the Pathways Center Troup Outpatient Mental Health Clinic are shielding Merry B. from me for some unknown ethical, legal, or moral reason.
I woke up at about 8:30 PM or so, looked at my email and called a client to see how to act on a business issue. We wound up talking far too long about confidential information I have no need to know. Anyway, after the conversation I went and worked out for a little over 30 minutes at Planet Fitness. I then came home changed pants and proceeded to the Main Street Pub. There I purchased a Blue Moon with orange slice which was $5.25 with generous tip. I need to stay out of bars, but I did get a buzz from one beer due to my daytime medication. On the way home I tried to get a dollar changed to four quarters to buy a Troup County News, but Summit on Greenwood Street was locked down due to a timid cashier. There have been robberies in the area so I can’t blame the employee’s caution. I was home before 12:15 AM on Friday, January 10, 2020. I am going to wait a while before taking my nighttime medication of a 25 mg generic Vistaril and 50 mg Trazadone.
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