I started my blog because I realized that maintaining my opinion that Donald Trump Is a Fucking Idiot was going to be unyielding. You may have a different opinion from mine. But the only person that can convince me that Trump is not a fucking idiot is Donald Trump himself.
How?
- Tame your temper! Quit throwing Trumper Tantrums!
- Quit your pathological lying and tell the God-damned truth!
- Grow up and start treating people with respect. I.e., quit that childish behavior of calling people names.
- Be a true leader! A true leader recognizes team members, and subordinates for their accomplishment, and accepts the blame when things fail. A true leader does not use intimidation and fear.
- Accept the fact that the president lives under a microscope. You will be praised by some and condemned others.
Trump keeps boasting that he is a highly intelligent person. As Brad Pitt said in the movie, Moneyball, "Show me the money!". In Trump’s case, I say "Show me y9ur Mensa test score!". If you're short on cash, I'll pay the $99 for you to take take the Mensa Admission Test.
But you more than likely want own up to my challenge to you. It'll probably be for the same reason that you want reveal your Internal Revenue Service tax returns as presidents have done as past precedent. You're afraid that revealing that information will prove that you are a fraud.
I also think that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be impeached because he is ethically financial challenged.
I freeze time; I photograph. I have 50++ years of computer programming and software development; most recently using C# and .Net. Athough I am retired from software development as a vocation, I am still active for personal projects. I have witnessed two final space flights: the US half of the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project, and Space Shuttle STS-135 Atlantis with the Final Four [CDR Chris Ferguson, PLT Doug Hurley, MS1 Sandra Magnus, MS2 Rex Walheim], as well as the final landing next to the control tower of the Shuttle Landing Facility (200 yards from the runway).
Photography is another creative endeavor that I have enjoyed since 1980. My first camera was the Canon A-1 which was an innovative camera for the 80's, which I still use. I added one of my bucket list cameras in July 2013, a Canon New F-1 with the AE Finder FN and the AE Motor Drive FN. December 2013, I added a DSLR, the Canon 5D Mark III with the EF 24-105mm f4L. I enjoy photography period. It doesn't matter if I am shooting film or digital.
I have more information on my website: [ Ralph Hightower — Website ], as well as information that I want to use and that I am interested in.
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| Top Gun Call Sign | Lt. Ralph 'Tahoe' Hightower1 |
| Myers-Briggs Personality Test® | INTP2 |
| CliftonStrength 34™ | Ideation | Deliberative | Learner | Input | Strategic Leaders with great Strategic Thinking strengths are the ones who keep us all focused on what could be. They are constantly absorbing and analyzing information and helping the team make better decisions. People with strength in this domain continually stretch our thinking for the future. |
| Game of Thrones Personality Test3 | Primary Character: Mance Rayder4 Secondary Character: Ser Jaime Lannister5 Tertiary Character: Ygritte6 |
| Content | Website |
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| CodeProject | RalphHightower |
| RalphHightower (I spend more time on LinkedIn than I do on Facebook.) | |
| GitHub | RalphHightower (Ralph Hightower) |
| GitLab | RalphHightower |
| GitLab | Permanent Vacations |
| Google Dev | RalphHightower |
| Gravatar | RalphHightower |
| Hackster.io | ralph-hightower |
| IEEE Collabratec | RalphHightower |
| LinkedIn Profile | RalphHightower (LinkedIn is where I spend the majority of my time.) |
| Photography Portfolio (Flickr) | RalphHightower |
| Stack Overflow | ralph-hightower |
| YouTube | RalphHightower |
| RalphHightower | Description |
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| RalphHightower GitHub Repositories | Primary Website |
| Azure-Resources | Useful Documents for Azure |
| GM-Canada-OnStar-2G-Sunset | Canada sunsetted cellular CDMA 2G technology in 2015. GM Canada figured out how to retain OnStar functionality in affected vehicles without using a dongle like GM USA. Documents from NHTSA (US) nhtsa.gov. |
| Sushi | A place for sushi recipes and checklists for checking off menu items. |
| SpaceShuttleMissionSchedule8 | NASA Space Shuttle Mission Schedule Transfer to Outlook Calendar |
| RalphHightower/minimaUSCGamecockSandstorm | USC Gamecock Sandstorm theme derived from jekyll / minimaa, a one-size-fits-all Jekyll theme for USC Gamecock writers. [Production Ready] |
| USC — University of South Carolina |
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| USC — College of Engineering and Computing |
| USC Alumni Association |
| USC Gamecock Sports |
| WUSC-FM 90.5 FM9 |
| Carolina Band |
| University Band |
| Jazz Bands |
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People with INTP preferences are quiet, thoughtful, and analytical. They tend to put a great deal of consideration into everything they do. INTPs are generally easygoing and genuine. They might seem to “zone out” from time to time while they consider new concepts or explore how something works. They are often happiest laying low and working hard behind the scenes. While they may seem impersonal with people they don’t know well, they like to have a close group of people they open up to. They are naturally adept at building structural models or coming up with new concepts for solving problems. They tend to see the world as a system that can be analyzed, and this is how they approach just about everything in life.
• 4.8% of the population • 5.8% of men • 4.0% of women •
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I had to Google the GOT Personality Test. Oh, I don't subscribe to HBO, so all I know of Game of Thrones is that's it's sorta like King Arthur set in medieval times.
I took the GOT Personality Test. I saw that reference in a LinkedIn news article about using personality tests to get the right balance of different personalities. I think using a personality test to determine employment is a form of discrimination and I use that rather strictly because there's race discrimination and gender discrimination. ↩ -
Primary Character: Mance Rayder
Nickname: King Beyond the Wall
Traits: Inspiring, Formidable, Pioneer
Your primary character is Mance Rayder. You are a charismatic, calm, and determined man with strong leadership qualities. You tend to rise quickly through the ranks of any organization you enter. You have good social and diplomatic skills, allowing you to collaborate with many different types of people. You have an honest yet stern persona which earns you respect and admiration of those around you. You are very trusting which can be your greatest weakness. You value freedom above all else. ↩ -
Secondary Character: Ser Jaime Lannister
Nickname: The Kingslayer
Traits: Arrogant, Sarcastic, Apathetic
Your secondary character is Ser Jaime Lannister. You are charming and capable of impeccable politeness in the right circumstances. In the wrong circumstances, others perceive you to be disdainful, sarcastic and arrogant. However your arrogance may just be confidence, as you excel in a number of areas, including intelligence. You don't mock others over minor failings but you are usually very blunt. You typically just say what you are thinking without regard to the feelings of those that you perceive as incompetent. You regard ruthlessness as a virtue and behave in an unapologetically amoral way. You're not politically ambitious and sly maneuvering is not your way. ↩ -
Tertiary Character: Ygritte
Nickname: Ygritte
Traits: Wild, Uncoventional, Determined
Your tertiary character is Ygritte. You are brave and unconventional. You have a mind of your own and prefer not to conform with the demands of societu're cunning and value freedom above all else. You're loyal, but also very passionate and you follow to your heart much more than your head. You live a very fulfilled life, chasing your dreams but this sometimes causes others to mistrust you although you have little enmity in your heart. ↩ -
As of April 27, 2023, I deactivated my Twitter account based on this Elon Musk tweet:
@ElonMusk: Anyone making materially false statements on this platform will get Community Noted, including you, me, Tucker, advertisers, head of state, etc. No exceptions.
Convince the people and let the chips fall where they may.
@RalphHightower: Seriously? Yet you welcomed back a pathological liar, Donald Trump, who incited and welcomed violence in an attempted coup d'état on January 6 in the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Twitter has gone to HELL! ↩ -
Support ended with wheelstop of Space Shuttle Atlantis on July 21, 2011 with the end of the Space Shuttle fleet. ↩
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WUSC-FM was an AM Radio 📻 broadcast station when I was a student. ↩
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South Carolina Department of Transportation DOT prefers that this massive revamp project to minimize the wrecks and traffic jams at the junctions of I-26, I-20, and I-126 be called "Carolina Crossroads". ↩
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Handy website to convert plain text for display in Italics, Bold, and Bold Italics ↩
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Very useful tool to get information on websites. I use this for gathering information on websites that SPAM me.
• GoDaddy has a strict policy that prohibits domain names registered with them from sending SPAM. Report domains registered with GoDaddy.
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google/libphonenumber: Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. ↩
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Geolocate IP Addresses and ownership. ↩
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Get the expanded URL of any shortened URL without clicking on the link. ↩