» On 10/06/2024 05:10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Meet me at the cineplex! 

The "Saturday Night" movie will be released this coming Friday. Trailer below. Poster below that.

Favorite Actor (Finn Wolfhard as the NBC Page) ~ Book Chapter ~ Book.

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» On 10/01/2024 12:05:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Validation from FEMA/Homeland Security. 

FEMA sez I'm certified to save yo' stinky butt in "times of crisis" by using "Social Media."
Uh-huh, uh-huh. 😉 [see image below]

The story behind this certificate is sorta interesting: during the later stages of the pandemic, just as the vaccines were being released, I was surfing the net with my usual energy and panache when I found some teenaged kid's LinkedIn account, which included a FEMA card. So I looked up Homeland Security's education site, and discovered all these weird-a** FEMA courses. There were dozens, if not hundreds.

I scrolled through the boring-as-sh*t Independent Study list, until I saw IS-42.a: Social Media in Emergency Management. It was just as snoozeworthy as the other courses, but it had a catchy title. My eyes lit up. That's when I enrolled, and studied my little heinie off. After a couple of days of cramming, I took the dry-as-dust exam and earned a perfect score! I was so proud of myself!!

So I downloaded the certificate, and posted it on my Facebook timeline. Everybody was impressed. Or at least they pretended, very convincingly. But it was only after doing all that work that I realized there were several "cheat" sites on the interwebs which contained every answer to every FEMA test. Sh*t. 😉