Running Doom Where It Should Not

Tonight on Twitter, dascho posted this image above with the following Tweet comment: "Look, I'm not saying ATMs are trivial to hack, just that lots of them seem to run Doom okay. Infer what you will 😏". This is both funny and disturbing as it cuts to the heart of an underlying anxiety I have for using ATM's and card payment terminals at gas stations. I always check payment terminals for card skimmers. Image courtesy of dascho (all rights reserved).

Picture of the Day - Reed Family Mass Grave

Today I partook in my first fire chase of this year's fire season. I heard CAL FIRE SLU North County ground and air resources dispatched to CAL FIRE BEU's adjacent South County in Indian Valley outside of San Miguel/Bradley near the intersection of Indian Valley Road and Hare Canyon Road. The fire burned about 3 acres and I only traveled as far north as San Miguel as I noted no header. To make the short jaunt north worth my while, I stopped at Mission San Miguel Arcángel and shot this image of the Reed Family mass grave. The Reed-Vallejo Clan who occupied the mission property were slaughtered by six men (5 whites recently arrived from the Gold Country and a local Indian) in an armed robbery resulting in 11 deaths. I had previously not understood the significance of this cross until an employee of the mission over at the mission event center told me about it the last time I worked there. I had previously looked for this grave marker expecting to see a name on it. For some reason this family is buried in an unmarked grave. Were they not good Catholics? The property was secularized and privately owned at the time of the Mission San Miguel Massacre/Reed Family Murders in 1848. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Picture of the Day - Atascabama Untermensch

I drove past this scene in the apartment complex part of Atascadero at the intersection of Pueblo and Santa Ysabel Avenues. Four carts stolen from the Vons parking lot a third of a mile north of here were brought down and unceremoniously deposited on the grass grounds of this apartment complex. Some aspects and elements of the town are changing for the worse, especially as it pertains to the homeless and other forms of rabble. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Keepin' It Real With Charles Ramsey

This interview has already gone viral. It features the neighbor who helped three missing Cleveland women and the child of one of them to escape their Puerto Rican jailers who used them as sexual slaves for a decade all the while impregnating at least one of them once.

Needless to say, Mr. Ramsey is an American original: no pretense here.

Rule #1 Of Burglary: Cardio!

Recently a small family-owned market and deli (Kent's Meats & Grocery) in Redding, CA, was attacked overnight by an obese would-be burglar wearing pajamas who was clearly not an apex-predator when it comes to burglary. Below is the raw CCTV security footage of the incident. Below that is the clever and hilarious television commercial created from that footage. Notice the perpetrator trip over a concrete tire block as he escapes following freaking out from the activation of the burglar alarm resulting from his throwing a rock at the front window. He actually seems surprised the alarm activated! 

Picture of the Day - Tagger Untermenschen

While out walking my dog late this afternoon on the western periphery of Paso Robles, CA, I encountered a rather egregious example of Mexican gang tagging at the entrance to the Paso Robles District Cemetery on Mountain Spring Road. I know how to make this problem go away but my fellow countrymen in the aggregate are a bunch of candy-assed, mealy-mouthed, politically-correct Pollyannas so such problems remain and continue to worsen over time. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).