Harpers Ferry: a quaint little town, vegan restaurants, a national
park, Appalachian Trail headquarters, great place to hop a train to DC
or Pittsburgh, a Kansas album cover or a great place to start a civil
war? It’s all in how you look at it, who’s looking, and when.
This is a picture I took on a hike above the town on Loudoun Heights
Saturday and the painting of John Brown in the John Brown museum.
I’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately. A snatch of a poem my grandmother used to quote about finding meaning in work came to mind:
Oh, you gotta get a glory In the work you do; A hallelujah chorus In the heart of you. Paint, or tell a story, Sing, or shovel coal, But you gotta get a glory Or the job lacks soul. Berton Baley Even Google and Duck-Duck Go don’t know much about it, so here it is in my grandmothers handwriting.
I watched the Super Bowl last night, in which a second Ohio team just
missed a national championship in a year. There is no joy in
Porkopolis. I don’t know any good football poems, but…
The Iliad and Dr Seuss have nothing to say to us today. “One fish, two
fish”? Really. Recent translations of liner-A tablets reveal that it
was a faceBOOK post that launched 1000 ships.
Today was the day I made the choice to live for an entire work-day on
an IPv6-only network. And it worked. I’ve been watching this slow
train comin’ for 30 years. Now I’m holding my breath for CNLP :-)
This may be obvious to people who are fluent in several languages, but
communicating in different languages does not have to be like working a proof in
geometry. The Latin I learned focused on being able to consciously understand
all 144 different inflected forms (yes, 144) of any standard Latin
verb. Pretty sure most children in antiquity could not separate a
genitive geurnd from a supine from a plural perfect passive
participle. But they could talk.
Illuminati is a game that allows you indulge your inner conspiracy
theorist, hopefully in a self-aware tongue-in-cheek manner. My son
apparently made off with my copy. I think he’s in on it. He took it as part
of a secret communist conspiracy to keep me from suspecting the truth
about secret communist conspiracies…
I’m going to make another run #100DaysToOffload https://100daystooffload.com/
First attempt made it to about 40 posts. Interrupted for a year or so in part by a refusal to post anything else on github, which was where I was hosting my blog and the saga of getting a raspberry pi-based blog to my liking up-and running chronicled in part here http://curious.galthub.com/blog/no-marketing/ and here http://curious.galthub.com/blog/hugo-via-mysocket/
Pretty sure I won’t make it daily, but I’ve got a huge backlog of ideas (from my daily paper journal, email to friends, etc) and now, a place I feel good about to put them out.
