Technologists Notes

“And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’” – Bob Dylan (1964) tl;dr In these times, we must speak out everywhere…

tl;dr reboot it or shoot it Two mornings ago I discovered my ca 2015 Dell Optiplex 9010 was non-responsive, with the power button flashing amber.

Narcotics Anonymous has a pamphlet The Triangle of Self-Obsession which says, in part, “We never seem to outgrow the self centeredness of the child. … We become self-obsessed; our wants and needs become demands.

Before childhood amateur radio projects, before college freshman radio work, before sound engineering in San Francisco, at the Vulcan Gas Company, and the Armadillo World Headquarters, my mother taught me to repair lamp wiring when I was very young.

A Mastodon thread initiated by Erik Uden today unleashed discussion of two seemingly separate controversies: the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian crisis and the massive proliferation of Large Language Models (LLM) aka Machine Learning aka Artificial Intelligen…

It seems I am easily distracted.

I seem to be adding projects to my todo list faster then I’m finishing them.

May you stay, Forever Young – Bob Dylan (1973) Friday morning, an Austin impresario, typically loquacious, needed few words, mostly inflection and tone, to rouse me to realize I was ignorant of the importance of Stan Alexander.

“There never was another man who could inspire more love or hate if you were in the park and it was 1968.”

I didn’t use to pay much attention to Lee Oskar as a harmonica player, thinking of him as auxiliary to WAR and tunes such as Low Rider: That was before early this year when a Facebook post from Led Kaapana extolled: At first I was mystified as to how Lee…