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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.