I close my eyes, only for a moment, but the moment's gone
When you’re on a world tour following COVID lock-downs, nominated for 3 Grammys, scheduled to play at the Grammy’s this year … and your drummer dies….
It will be done when it's done
Steve Wilhite died last week. Yes, he created GIF, but that was just a side project among mountains of mostly single-handed coding projects that were a large part of what kept CompuServe going for years in the face of AOL and the Web.
…many times when asked about a delivery date Steve would answer “it will be done when it is done.”
I laughed when I read that. It was so Steve. It would have been said authoritatively, matter of factly, and any poor project manager involved would have to take that as the final word, because Steve was right … and consistently delivered.
Figure 1: “CompuServe Languages and Tools Group c.a. 2019” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
To self host or not to self host, that is the question?
Shelving the self hosting for a while. Just gonna push the static blog up to my 20 year old Hurricane Electric shell account. URL redirection is a marvelous thing. This is not your fathers CNAME record.
Peace be with you
I’ve been listening to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the stoic Roman emperor. The stoic philosopher Epictetus, who was an older contemporary of Marcus Aurelius said
Never say about anything, I have lost it,
but only I have given it back.
It might lower my blood pressure if I could get my mind around that.
The lesson of history
I think the lesson of history is that we don’t learn from the lessons of history.
Present Duties
This is framed quote that’s been hanging on my family’s walls since sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. It’s way more positive than the other things I was thinking of posting in these dark times…
Figure 1: “Present Duties” by William Penn paraphrasing Jesus is in fact not copyrightable, Charles Scribners’s Sons claims c.a. 1897 notwithstanding.
When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will
When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.
That is all.
George Washington Slept Here
Hiking yesterday in the Shenandoah Valley I discovered that I was on part of “Morgans Road”, which is a road George Washington had built into the hills to allow his army to retreat from the British in case things got really bad. “George Washington Planned To Sleep Here If Things Got Really Bad”. That was enough at the time of the bicentennial (1976) to put up another George Washington marker.
This includes a longish list of Washington sites I’ve run across, including a couple with family connections.
Figure 1: “George Washington Planned To Sleep Here” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
It seems like a good day for some Russian opera
Below is some text from Rimsky-Korsakov’s last opera, where the people mockingly pledge loyalty to the Russian King (Tsar)
King Dodon, a lazy and gluttonous ruler, is greatly worried by his warlike neighbors.
It seems the Kremlin’s website is having some issues right now…
Figure 1: “Kremlin Website, Nothing To See Here, Move Along” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0
Hiking and Art
From Eagles Rock you can look back east and see the Massanutten range and pretty much all of Shenandoah National Park. From Tibbets Knob there is a nice view of a valley and “Big Schloss” which is a rock formation and the destination of another popular local hike.
Figure 1: “But is it art?” by George Jones is licenced under CC SA 4.0