I'm just pointing out, again (how many times do I have to do this?) that there was a football game last night in Ohio and right away our temperature here in New England dropped to 54º, and there is nothing in excess of 90º forecast for the rest of the week.
There will be more football next month and it will without a doubt get cooler still.
If they started playing football in early July the whole summer would be cooler and this global warming thing would be a thing of the past.
8.02.2019
Here's a headline you don't see often
(Good story, too)
Five goats honored for eating their way through Riverside Park
Five of the 24 goats brought in to spend the summer chewing their way through the poison ivy and weeds choking the Upper West Side's Riverside Park were feted Thursday in the first annual Goat Awards.
8.01.2019
Maybe the best game in town
Noted a couple of days ago by our Pacific Rim bureau (and almost lost in the bin), this story about a cool art installation in a section of southern border wall.
Artists installed seesaws at the border so kids in the US and Mexico could play together - CNN
H/T Lynn C Dot
Come on, it's not like she was putting their pictures on the internet
Judge wants new hearing for Garfield Heights woman given 10 days in Cuyahoga County Jail for feeding stray cats - cleveland.com
A Garfield Heights ordinance prohibits residents from feeding cats and dogs other than any animals they own.
It would have to be Garfield, right?
Training camp
Once again it's time to start working to build up your TV-watching stamina in preparation for football. The first game of the season is this very evening, the Hall of Fame Game. The first regular-season NFL game is still a month off but pre-season exercises will be provided.
Why you want to (please) use different passwords for each of your accounts
Cybercrooks attempted credential-stuffing banks 3.5 BEEELLION times in the last 18 months alone • The Register
"Credential stuffing is more or less a synonym for brute-forcing access into a passworded system, except using previously breached login credentials rather than a rainbow table or some other setup of commonly reused username/password combinations."
Lost in the political babble of the times
If you could forget the $125 from Equifax and just take the free credit monitoring, that would be great – FTC • The Register
Millions of people whose personal information was compromised by the hacking of Equifax, a credit rating company, two years ago were promised, in recompense, $125 each or, if they preferred — prepare to be delighted here — a year or two of free credit monitoring service from, well, Equifax. Said millions of people quite sensibly did not prefer. In fact so many did not prefer that the cash settlement imposed by the Federal Trade Commission, divided by said millions, is now worth not $125 each but $0.21.
That's right. Less than two bits.
"And so for all of you that heard about the $125 you could get from Equifax for splashing your personal details all over the internet, guess what? You've been screwed again."
Chicago
I ran across a quote from Carl Sandburg's Chicago recently in a book about, well, Chicago, and I hadn't read it for a while so I looked it up (yea, Internet).
It never fails to give me a boost.
https://poets.org/poem/chicago
7.30.2019
I can tell it's really summer when…
…air-conditioned places — the laundry, the grocery store, the drugstore — start feeling uncomfortably chilly. And regular places, like home, start feeling comfortable.
It's because I'm finally warmified.
It's because I'm finally warmified.
Keeping score at home?
Capital One targeted in massive data breach affecting more than 100 million people - Chicago Tribune
I hope so. You might now be good for life plus 100 years of free credit monitoring (surely they award that consecutively, right?). Free credit monitoring has become the go-to response whenever (and whenever again and again) some big corporation leaks your data on the network, that plus some standard disclaimer: Don't worry, it wasn't that bad, nothing important except, well…
The bank said the bulk of the hacked data consisted of information supplied by consumers and small businesses who applied for credit cards between 2005 and early 2019. In addition to data such as phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income, the hacker was also able to access credit scores, credit limits and balances, as well as fragments of transaction information from a total of 23 days in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
As long as that's not you, you're fine. Or might be.
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