Tag: internet
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Bits of Nostalgia and Nature, Some World News, and a Really Big Wombat
Full day at the office followed by a full evening of more work on a freelance project I had hoped would be much further ahead than it is now. This whole “burning out” thing happens much more quickly than it did 20 years ago. What’s up with that? Oh, yeah… human… aging… right. Can’t run…
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The Doctor, The Terminator, The Panic, and The MacGuffin
The first thing I noted this morning as I scrolled through the first screen or so of my Facebook feed was the plethora of Doctor Who posts. I mean, I have a lot of friends who are fans of the good Doctor, so I regularly see a few posts mentioning him every day. But this…
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Lots of Questionable Government Decisions, VR for Chickens, Public Fiber, Vocal Range Ranked, Netflix Glitched, and Why I’m Amazed We Still Any Money in the Bank (Computer Security)
There’s a lot of stuff in this world that amazes me. Some of it in good ways, some of it in very bad ways. On the list of “bad ways” is how utterly broken our ideas (and implementations) of security are. There’s a good (and terrifying) article about that, focused on computer security, in the…
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Dad With A Gun: Some Thoughts on Parenting
If you haven’t seen it yet, this video has been making the rounds a lot in the last couple of days. I can understand the visceral “Hell, yeah!” reaction to this guy’s video. It’s the same rush of vicarious joy I get when watching Bruce Willis blow away the bad guys in Die Hard or…