Another meltdown
Someone is having another meltdown.
The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!
😂
Now, there is a [background](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/after-mccabe-fir … ⌘ Read more
Flowers will follow
To the untrained, this image will have little meaning. Who could imagine that those “ugly sticks,” as the child called them, will soon bloom into hundreds of beautiful yellow flowers? Yet, as it has happened each year, flowers will follow! ⌘ Read more
Searching for the car
A year ago, Kent got his learner’s permit. With the help of John, and a little from me, he practiced driving for over 250 hours. A year later — more or less — on 9 March, he got his driver’s license, passing the practical test with a 96, out of 100 points, score. And so the asking for a car began.
What car should we get for a 17 year old? New, or [used](https://www.consumerreports.org/used-cars/best-used-cars … ⌘ Read more
Pink Lexical Goop: The Dark Side of Autocorrect - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/01/17/pink-lexical-goop-dark-side-autocorrect/
On the design of distributed programming models | th… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/17/on-the-design-of-distributed-programming-models/
Festival 23 - Wonderism, Fake News… http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/12/17/discordian-festival-23-wonderism-fake-news-neo-discordian-revival/
Unlocking the commons: or, the psychoeconomics of patr… https://kottke.org/17/12/unlocking-the-commons-or-the-psychoeconomics-of-patronage
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/
The experience of time in Dante’s Inferno https://kottke.org/17/10/the-experience-of-time-in-dantes-inferno
Card catalogs and the secret history of modernity https://kottke.org/17/10/card-catalogs-and-the-secret-history-of-modernity
Planetary and the 1990s pulp comics revival https://kottke.org/17/10/planetary-and-the-1990s-pulp-comics-revival
When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines - Slashdot https://meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1714246/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines
Расследование РБК: как «фабрика троллей» поработала на выборах в США :: Технологии и медиа :: РБК http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/17/10/2017/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1
NixOS 17.09 released
NixOS 17.09 “Hummingbird” has been released, the eigth stable release
branch. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.09, check out the manual\
section on\
upgrading. ⌘ Read more
A metaphor for Summer 2017 http://kottke.org/17/09/a-metaphor-for-summer-2017
Mistrust, Efficacy and the New Civics – a whitepaper for the Knight Foundation | … My heart’s in Accra http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/17/mistrust-efficacy-and-the-new-civics-a-whitepaper-for-the-knight-foundation/
The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
Walkie Talkie History: From World War II to Nextel http://tedium.co/2017/08/17/walkie-talkie-history/
Why does U2 irk so many people? A look at their struggle for pop hits and social justice | America Magazine https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/07/17/why-does-u2-irk-so-many-people-look-their-struggle-pop-hits-and-social?curator=MusicREDEF
How work changed to make us all passionate quitters | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7f26aee3ac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-7f26aee3ac-68693017
How to tell a bad person from a person who did a bad thing | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-tell-a-bad-person-from-a-person-who-did-a-bad-thing?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=79140b7e03-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-79140b7e03-68693017
How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-cold-war-philosophy-permeates-us-society-to-this-day?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ba66c731ab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-ba66c731ab-68693017
Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/oliver-stone-deconstructs-putin-an-evil-genius-who-made-history-or-a-shrewd-but-small-minded-apparatchik-writ-large/?curator=MediaREDEF
Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie http://kottke.org/17/06/michael-lewis-and-the-parable-of-the-lucky-man-taking-the-extra-cookie
NixOS 17.03 released
NixOS 17.03 “Gorilla” has been released, the seventh stable release
branch. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.03, check out the manual\
section on\
upgrading. ⌘ Read more
The decline of GPL? ⌘ https://opensource.com/article/17/2/decline-gpl
Woah, what a day, 17 tweets by five users! :) #twtxt
We just started to watch The West Wing a week ago. No idea how I could have overlooked it for 17 years, it’s so good!
A dangerous precedent
The United States government demanded that Apple weakens the security on iOS. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, replied.
Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority.
The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allow … ⌘ Read more
Home alone
Just like I did on 18 July, 2014, this one is mostly for keeping a record of a first time activity or occasion. This time it was Kent’s first home alone day. He is almost 15 years old, and for the first time he spent eight hours home alone, while Kim and I were at work.
Happy “graduation” step, Kent! ⌘ Read more
Had to order the Bic Metal 25 pcs for $17.25 on eBay from Saint Petersburg because they are not sold in Sweden. Why @BICRazors Whyyyy?
See if you can beat my time of: 17:49 #DrWhoDoodle https://t.co/GB8sT2ZHZs
Many changes coming soon
Just very recently I wrote about me moving to Jekyll from WordPress:
After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old
or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker
with the awesome Jekyll.
I also wrote —fairly recently— about [living on a Linod … ⌘ Read more
Route 53, wish I could have used you
Ever since Amazon announced it’s Route 53 service I have been dreaming on using it, but since I dislike to have services too spread out (got Google Apps and Linode now), I held up. Two days ago or so, Amazon announced new features tha … ⌘ Read more
Forget Hyde, moved to Jekyll!
After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker with the awesome Jekyll.
I am still getting a few things in place, like making sure all entries are properly converted to markdown, but overall I … ⌘ Read more
Drobo FW800
A Drobo FW800 (four bays) is all I want for Christmas. I will settle for one without drives, just the enclosure. I will buy the drives later. Slowly. One at a time.
Please Santa. I know Christmas is far away, I am just giving you time. The device will be used mainly for family photos and videos. It is a good use, for a good device. Could you… make it so?
Update 18 May 2010
Not sure if I still want it, based on [more](http://jan.rychter.co … ⌘ Read more
Only in Russia
Drunk Russian sleeps off knifing – A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six inch (15 cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.
Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back.
He was rushed to casualty but doctors found no vital organs damaged.
Amazing, isn’t it? ⌘ Read more
Ron Paul on War and Foreign Policy
Ron Paul: War and Foreign Policy
We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing America and bring the troops home. No war should ever be fought without a declaration of war voted upon by the Congress, as required by the Constitution.
Under no circumstances should the U.S. again go to war as the result of a resolution that comes from … ⌘ Read more
Honeymoon’s are over, honey
FL woman has 10 husbands, charges say - Yahoo News
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records search by the newspaper found seven additional marriages under the bride’s name and birth date.
Lopez arrived in South Florida from Cuba … ⌘ Read more
Write Articles, Not Blog Postings
Write Articles, Not Blog Postings – Jakob Nielsens Alertbox
Boy, do I agree with Nielsen on this one. I have been guilty of many of the things he points out. That is why I am scribbling less lately. And it will be much less in the future. Totally dislike the “tumbler” generation. Junk. ⌘ Read more
God is bad
“Papá, if you get close to a shark, what would he do to you?” –Kent asks one day. “Well –I replied–, if it is hungry he will most likely attack you, try to eat you. If not, he will be scared and swim away. Sharks are by nature afraid of humans and will only come close to them if they are very hungry.”
“God is bad. Why would he make sharks, if they could hurt us?” –he asks again. “Sharks have a very little brain, they can’t make a difference from what’s right or wrong. They can’ … ⌘ Read more
Blue Security has gone down
Blue Security has announced it has ceased their anti-spam operations. From their website (which could be down as I type this):
As we cannot build the Blue Security business on the foundation we originally envisioned, we are discontinuing all of our anti-spam activities on your behalf and are exploring other, non spam-related avenues for our technological developments. As much as it saddens us, we … ⌘ Read more
USA PATRIOT Act
A lot has been said and written about the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act”, commonly known as USA PATRIOT Act, but they are quite diverse interpretations —some biased—, mainly because the whole Act is written on 300 pages of legalese. Recently I found the Electronic Frontier Foundation page about such Act, which sums it up in the following points (as far as why should … ⌘ Read more
Downing Street Memo
I have known about this since it was released to the News media, but I haven’t comment about it here. I am providing a link to the contents of the Memo (pretty small read, I assure you) as they showed on the Times Online on May 1st, 2005. Draw your conclusions. I just want to quote a few parts of it. … ⌘ Read more
I am still here
It has been a while since I came to talk. I am afraid this time I will not talk much either. Between work, family, a game (I used not to play any game at all. Now the whole family has been playing Toon Town for almost 5 months. Give it a try, it is addictive! :-) ) and a few personal projects I had had little time to come here and chatter. But I am still here, I will come back. I want to upgrade to the latest Wordpress, I want to change a few things around. Davi … ⌘ Read more
Short and sweet
Just a quick post, short and sweet, while my wife and kid still sleep and I patiently wait for the ServerBeach people to fix the mess on my server (the other server). Can you believe that I lost connection last night, went to sleep and this morning I found that my IP goes to a Windows 2003 server? Boy, talk about some big time screw up!
I have 15 (fifteen, that is) invitations for Gmail that I am giving out for free. If anyone wants one, go ahead and [email … ⌘ Read more
Gmail is not for everyone
I have used Gmail now a little bit. Sometimes I am a lucky guy; I have experienced good luck several times: when I met Kim, when my child was born, when I first flew over the Atlantic. This time my luck came in the form of a Gmail account. Thanks to those who graciously offered me the chance to see with my own eyes what many other mortals have ambition.
I can’t say that much that is not already said, bu … ⌘ Read more
Gmail Hype
Everybody is talking about Google’s upcoming Gmail. Since I wasn’t choosen to beta test, I can not offer any [excellent insider view](http://jogin.com/weblog/arc … ⌘ Read more
Mid-Autumn Festival, Mooncake!
It is mooncake holiday again! Taken From Travel in Taiwan Festivals, the following “Legends of the Moon”:
Hhou Yi was a great archer and architect, who shot down nine extra suns that had suddenly appeared in the sky and thus kept the earth from being scorched. He also built a palace of jade for the goddess of the western heave … ⌘ Read more