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Cyberphreak.com My little corner of the internet. Home About Dorkulating Linux DVD ripping guide DVD 9 to DVD 5 guide No Apologies Chapter X Intelligent Design, a perspective from an Intelligent Designer Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 4 Photographs Decay Fall 2011 Flowers Heston Steam Museum Instagr.am Old Photos Section Parakeets Photos taken by Glenn Snow Quotes Twitter Feed RSS First Blog Post, 2021 January 22 Starting a new era in American history. As you may of noticed, I have not updated this site much in the last 4 years. This has been due to a plague upon the land known as Donald Trump. He is going down in history as the worst president of all time. During his tenure in office, we have seen 400,000 dead Americans, concentration camps at the border, a vast expansion of religious bigotry, codified into law, and more Americans out of work since the Great Depression. All of this was followed up by an attempted coup, let by the President, which resulted in his SECOND impeachment. The trial may begin next week and I can only hope he is banned from holding a federal office again. He is a horrible human being and almost certainly a sociopath. Even typing this now, my blood boils. That being said, we have a new President Joe Biden. A man with ambition, but with empathy and caring that the Trump cannot understand. After Biden was inaugurated, I slept better than I have in years. No worry about an insane tweet storm at 2 in the morning, not worried about an insane moron with his hand on the nuclear button. An actual, full gown adult is in the White House. I wish the best to you Joe, you are our president and even if you do half of what you promised, you will be a 100 times better president than the last. Let us not forget Harris, the first woman elected to the second highest office in the land! I was proud to vote for both of you and I am proud to be an American again. Posted by admin on January 22, 2021 in Political Leave a comment October Surprise 2020 October 02 October 2, 2020 Today is truly a turning point in American history. Early this morning it was announced the Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19. After battling a pandemic with bluster and lies, the virus has caught up with him. He refused to wear masks and encouraged others not to wear masks. You reap what you sow. I think he really is sick, it is not a hoax. I am concerned that with his advanced age, obesity, and almost certainly a heavy exposure due to traveling with Hope Hicks, his survival is not assured. I do not like the man and would never vote for him, but I would not want Baron to grow up without a father. Maybe now he will understand the terror we have all been facing since early March. Maybe his followers will finally wear a mask. 9 out of 10 people who have caught COVID-19 with symptoms have some sort of health problem following recovery. I hope the lies will finally end, but I don’t think so. If he can breathe, he will lie. Posted by admin on October 2, 2020 in COVID-19 , Political Leave a comment Covid, Week 5 April 20 Been over 5 weeks since the shelter in place has be in place in Illinois. I began working from home a week before then. It makes me sad that our son will not have an 8th grade graduation. He has been keeping up with school, but it is just not the same without all the real interactions with teachers and students. On the national front, the Trump and his merry band on cronies still have no plan, want to re-open the country with no testing in place and want to trade lives for money. Over 41,586 fatalities in the US. We are not over the peak, not even close and I think they are lying to us. 60,000 fatalities, my ass. If we keep it less than 500,000 I will be shocked. I expect the second wave in 2 to 3 weeks as states relax stay at home orders. Posted by admin on April 20, 2020 in COVID-19 Leave a comment Covid 4-3-2020 April 03 April 3, 2020 At 5 tomorrow evening, it will be 2 weeks since my home state of Illinois went to a, more or less, lock-down, due to the Novel Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. It has been three weeks now that I have been working from home. We are all getting used to it, but it works for most things. I am very grateful that I have a job, there have been 10 MILLION jobless claims in the last 2 weeks. I always knew Trump would be useless in a crisis, but I didn’t know he would the THIS bad in a crisis. There has been very little guidance at the national level, and what is coming out changes everyday and is sometimes contradicted minutes after it is said! So far over 6,000 people have died in the US alone and I expect the total to just keep rising every day until we get some sort of national mandate. There is not point to this piecemeal crap. All it will result in is more people killed needlessly. So far, the whole family is healthy. We have been taking every precaution and we have food in the house for weeks now, thankfully. No more going out to grocery stores, which are the only thing still left open. Every time we shop, we isolate food that can wait for days in the garage and what can’t gets wiped down with bleach to kill what we can. We have not ordered any kind of takeout, I wish they would shut that down as well, it worries me that it is still a large vector for contagion. I have not had any new orders in weeks, but I can’t fault anyone for being more concerned with safety and health than video games. This upcoming Monday my son goes back to ‘school’ which will be online, probably for the rest of the year. I feel really bad that he will probably miss his 8th grade graduation due to this madness. All of this could of been prevented. I can be stopped, we know it, from China and South Korea, this can be beat. It makes me so frustrated that hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people, in the country will die because of an incompetent fool. Posted by admin on April 3, 2020 in COVID-19 Leave a comment CoronaBlog #1 3/18/2020 March 18 CoronaVirus It is Wednesday, March 18, 2020, and COVID-19/CoronoVirus is spreading across the land. The rate of infection is a doubling of cases about every 3 days. The history books will record what is happening, but I wanted to put down what it has been like for one suburban dweller. Last Thursday were told to get ready to be able to work from home, test your VPN connection, etc. By the time Friday rolled around, we were told on Monday, to begin working from home. Also on that Friday, the governor of Illinois ordered all schools closed as of yesterday. My son has been home the past two days and is adapting pretty well, so far. Us adults are little freaked out. Yes, the stores have been emptied of toilet paper, paper towels, and many other cleaning supplies. I took today off, I just needed a mental break to get adjusted to this social distancing. We went out late last night for a few more supplies, and out again today to complete our gathering. We are pretty well stocked, thankfully. I know they say the grocery stores will stay open, but goodness knows how long that will be the case. All of the restaurants, bars, coffee shops, are all closed to inside customers. Just delivery and drive through. It is all just so surreal at this point. Today I sent out my last retro repair order, I had so many orders for the last few months, and now it has just dropped to nothing. I am sure it will stay like this a while. Writing this all down is therapeutic, I think I will try to post once a day to just keep this for posterity. One thing I did notice is the how uneven the hoarding was in the stores. Paper products, cleaning supplies, old fashioned oat meal, dried beans, and for some reason, breakfast sausages are hard to come by. Bacon is plentiful. Makes no sense at all. We do not know how long this will last, or even if there will be a shelter in place order will be commanded for our state. Speaking of that, there has been really poor co-ordination at the national level. I knew Trump would be bad in a crisis,...