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…
Figure 1: No, really, the Freemasons have been secretly runing America since it’s founding.
My great aunt took her first motorcycle ride at 100.
Figure 1: “Aunt Bess Takes Her First Motorcycle Ride at 100” by George Jones is licensed under cc by 2.0
Some thoughts on living in a small town, neuroscience and life.
What are you doing on your 100th birthday?
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.
These are some musings I sent to a friend who is a career counselor at a local community college.
Short version: I’m pretty sure I could not have planned my current career in “IT” and “Cybersecurity” when neither of those terms even existed until well into my career.
I’m doing some of the Duolingo Latin course. Who knew you could shop, converse and joke in Latin? Certainly not the classics professors I learned from. Quid pudor est.
There is no reason why learners should be made to treat every Latin text as puzzle to be deciphered into translation, rather than a specimen of normal human communication to be understood as such.
http://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignorantiam.html?m=1
I recently took an Amtrak trip form Pittsburgh to Tucson and back. My cousin asked me
How was the Amtrak ride? It went through Chillicothe for a few years maybe in the 1970’s. Then B&O/CSX abandoned the tracks.
and noted
in the 1920’… there were 5 passenger trains a day from Cincinnati to Columbus
Figure 1: “Trains” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0
I sent this to my son who is on the path to being a high school socials study teacher.
This article has me trying to project the impact today’s “social distancing” would have had on a very messed up introverted teenager of 45 years ago. It’s not a pretty picture.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/im-a-public-school-teacher-the-kids
I’m a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren’t Alright.
My students were taught to think of themselves as vectors of disease. This has fundamentally altered their understanding of themselves.
This is a navel-gazing simple desultory philippic about adventures in yak-shaving. It is dedicated JTR’s ox-hugo theme I’ve borrowed for the second time. Thanks!
“But you could just use wordpress”
he tells himself.
“Ahh, but then think of all the yak shaving you would miss.”
he responds to himself.
“Opportunity cost, he thinks…”.
“Yessss, preciousssss. The opportunity cost. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum.”
The dream is over,
what can I say?
The dream is over,
yesterday.
John Lennon, 1970
Figure 1: “Past their sell-by date.” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0, includes work by Nature Vectors by Vecteezy
Don't believe in Digital Equipment Corporation,
Don't believe in Sun Microsystems,
Don't believe in CompuServe,
Don't believe in Perl,
Don't believe in USENIX,
Don't believe in SourceForge,
Don't believe in GitHub,
Don't believe in Facebook,
Don't believe in Linked-in,
Don't believe in Google,
Don't believe in The SANS Institute,
Don't believe in The Center for Internet Security,
Don't believe in Google Plus,
Don't believe in Twitter,
Don't believe in Spotify,
Don't believe in Wikipedia,
...
I just believe in me,
human beings and me.
Me, 2021
This is a list of tech companies I once admired.
These are a few perspectives on privacy prompted by initial thoughts on the Usenix PEPR ‘22 Call for Participation. I may or may not flesh this out as a submission. If I do, it might take a totally different form, this being a first reaction.
Figure 1: “Privacy Technology for the 21st Centry” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0