Don't just sit there, mourning the US republic, do something

 There are an awful lot of problems facing the US that are too big for an individual to do something about. But there are an awful lot of problems small enough to fix by individual effort but still not being fixed. 

I think a lot of that is people feeling overwhelmed and giving up on doing something because what's the point? The big stuff is going to make things worse anyway. But even if the inevitability of a national divorce happens, the pothole on your street is still annoying, still needs fixing, and you can make that happen. 

Oh look at that dust

 Life's changed quite a bit since I wrote here last. Cancer (in remission) and losing my parents are the big ones. It all gives a changed perspective about life. 

I don't feel like starting a new blog, so here I am again. 

Monkeybread software filemaker plugin download coinmarketcap map using CURL

Download coinmarket cap list of all the coins and tokens it tracks using Monkeybread software's Filemaker plugin and FMPA 15. Here's the script text:

Set Variable [ $curl ; Value: MBS("CURL.New") ] 

Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "http://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/cryptocurrency/map") ] 

Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("curl.SetOptionHTTPHeader";$curl;"Limit: 6000";      "Postman-Token: <<No you don't get the postman token>>" ;      "X-CMC_PRO_API_KEY: <<No you don't get my API key>>" ;     "cache-control: no-cache" ;     "listing_status: active" ;     "start: 1") ] 

Set Field [ CURL Test::Result ; MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl) ] 

Set Field [ CURL Test::Content ; MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl) ] 

Set Field [ CURL Test::debug ; MBS("CURL.GetDebugAsText"; $curl) ] 

Set Field [ CURL Test::header ; MBS("CURL.GetHeaderAsText"; $curl) ] 

Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.Cleanup"; $curl) ] 

Blow the dust off this thing

Currently looking to document some FileMaker work that doesn't seem to be done anywhere else and this personal blog looks to be as good a place as any to do that. More later today. 

I do much of my writing on Quora these days but as I don't control that platform, I occasionally get content deleted. Here's the latest:

"You missed the turning point. You’re still missing it. President Trump pays to maintain his own private security as President. This decision happened prior to the election. Candidate Trump did it.

President Trump makes the Secret Service HQ outside of Trump Tower. His stated reason was that when Donald Trump was effectively bargaining on both sides of the table, the amount that the Trump Organization was charging the Secret Service was too much to justify the Secret Service footprint to guard President Donald Trump.

What a load of horse hockey pucks.

This is an administration that walked into the White House without the full confidence of the President that he was physically safe if he solely relied on the government to secure him.

That judgment has never changed. It’s not something that is even debated much as a serious issue.

It is *the* issue.

Is the government of the United States safe to trust with the life of the President of the United States? If the answer is no, no bit of horsetrading for favors or even venal corruption matters. We’ve functionally lost representative government and we’re not a republic and Donald Trump is going to get all the support he needs from the right to clean house.

If the President *is* safe but is so paranoid that he runs his own private security anyway, well, that’s actually the best 25th amendment replacement argument out there. But the Democrats, even the rabid ones on the far left who call Donald Trump an actual traitor, have never touched it."

An appeal is filed. 

Trump is being allowed to get away with a bunch of venal sins because he's right on the big issues and the biggest issue of all is the continuation of the US republic. 

Is it time for the internet plus one?

A question that is rolling around in my head:

Is the threat of internet censorship at a level where prudent people should diversify their 21st century communication and economy efforts to create personal and corporate Internet plus one strategies?

Weight loss practice

Let's see how disciplined I actually can be.

I am one overweight fellow.
I need to fix that.
Today I weighed in at 300.0 pounds

This is actually an improvement over my all time peak of 315.

Target weight is 195.
Weekly goal is 2 lbs loss per week.

Daily weigh ins start now.

The foreseeable challenge is when life happens and I get knocked off rhythm. Getting back into pattern always defeats me up to now.