tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post7425311112911779384..comments2024-03-23T13:46:21.790-05:00Comments on Street Musician Daniel: Let Sleeping Dogs LieDaniel McKenna IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04157964564856145960noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post-62414835856645659642016-10-09T00:15:57.527-05:002016-10-09T00:15:57.527-05:00Well, we've got tons and tons of people who us...Well, we've got tons and tons of people who used to have good, or at least decent, jobs in tech 30 or more years ago and now that's all gone except for a tiny upper crust who tend to be from all over the world, having the one characteristic in common that they're upper-middle-class from birth. I don't care whether you're talking about Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, any of the most recent wunderkinder, they're all born and destined to be upper-middle-class to wealthy and it really doesn't matter what they do; they know the people, hire the peons to do the actual programming, and all's well as long as you're born into that class. <br /><br />Joke's on those who actually thought that if they studied hard and kept their noses clean they'd do any better than they did when mowing lawns over the summer in high school. <br /><br />That's obviously what's happened to this Croll fellow, just like it's happened to you and me and any of a number of people you or I know, who trained to be techs or engineers and are now homeless. <br /><br />Croll's just not handling it as gracefully as most. alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post-10749189303778197722016-10-08T20:35:18.439-05:002016-10-08T20:35:18.439-05:00Yeah, for the guy to be so cock-sure that I was a ...Yeah, for the guy to be so cock-sure that I was a troll; because he assumed that I was whomever was using the computer at the shelter as a proxy -and I couldn't tell him otherwise (as if it never occurred to him that that could be the case)- made him seem obtuse, despite his technical understanding.<br />A scary kind of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" person.<br />It would be like if someone found your phone lying somewhere and called in a bomb threat with it; and detective Chuck thought he had been so clever in tracing it to "you" that he just didn't want to hear of any other possibility, because it would mean that he had been wrong.<br /><br />You didn't mention Chuck's collection of rare fish that he actually had to get license to keep in a special aquarium, because they are on the endangered species list, all of which he named after silent movie stars...<br /><br />Funny how locations and status go hand in hand out there; I always gleaned that the line "She's got a flat in Encino," from Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl" had some kind of inside meaning...Daniel McKenna IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04157964564856145960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650160678722829210.post-16019718356800501522016-10-07T23:30:55.528-05:002016-10-07T23:30:55.528-05:00According to this:
http://www.peoplebyname.com/p...According to this: <br /><br />http://www.peoplebyname.com/people/Croll/Charles/Martinez/CA<br /><br />There are nine Charles Crolls's in Martinez, California, all of whom are the same one. <br /><br />I'm pretty certain he lives in Martinez, California because that is where his parents live and thus he must live, in his old bedroom with the Revell model planes hanging from the ceiling and that his parents have lovingly kept, not knowing that he actually started 'em but traded other toys to some other more skilled kid to finish and paint. <br /><br />My advice to you and to anyone reading this, is that if you are making a living in the real world doing something like busking, that any blabbering on the internet is a mere frill. The internet will not feed you, help you when you're down, or anything. I see endless posts on the "assistance" area of Reddit, a popular internet site, and all those people asking for gas money etc would get help much quicker, really get help at all, by simply getting out a marker and some cardboard and making a sign and appealing to the real world for the solution to their real world problem. <br /><br />This Croll character was probably a real whiz in the days of Windows 3.1x and keyboard macros, but the fact that he's hiding out in Martinez, one of the least fashionable places you can be in the Bay Area and still be (grudgingly) accepted as "yeah, OK, I guess you live in the Bay Area...." tells us a lot. alex carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458022111793552536noreply@blogger.com