Curious Musings

When my father was writing letters to faceless, nameless people stuck jobs answering IRS letters, he started with tiles like: PENALTY OR NO PLENALTY, THAT IS THE QUESTION Big, bold a the top, and IN CAPS.

Vulgate (Latin): Matthew Chapter 5 1 Videns autem Jesus turbas, ascendit in montem...

Latin flash cards are not what they were in 1983: https://latinlexicon.org.

I’ve been listening to “The History of Rome” podcast recently.

Here are some developments in late 70s and early 80s where I started to become aware/involved in “Online” things that eventually evolved into today’s Social Media: Modems1, BBS systems, TOPS-20 Bulletin Boards, Usenet News and the birth of CompuServe.

The opinions expressed in this [FOO] are mine, and not those of my employer.

This the first in a series of articles where I do a brain dump pf something like 40 years experience with “social media” of various forms: Dial-up BBSs, Fidonet, Usenet, IRC, CompuServe, AOL, Slashdot, Sourceforge, blogspot, Facebook, Jabber, Google+, Twi…

If you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, Emacs Org mode is a great outlining and authoring tool, and I wish there were a powerful and simple way use it to publish static websites on github or in S3 buckets, I wish my blog could look as slick ast http://curi…

I recently picked up reader of samples of important ancient texts that I’ve had for a LONG time and read excerpts from Socrates Apology.

You learn things when you read original sources for yourself.

So, when life turns uncertain you have two choices.

So my attempt at “just blogging something” for 100 straight days as part of #100DaysToOffload https://100daystooffload.com/ has stalled, but that’s OK.

Opening day [of baseball] in Cincinnati has always been a time of hope and optimism, a time to look forward to, a time to enjoy being with family and friends, a time to enjoy looking at the forsythia and daffodils heralding spring, to walk across the Ohio…

In my never ending quest for synthesis, this post combines thoughts on the OODA loop and falling out of a canoe twice this weekend in rapids on the Shenandoah river.

Figure 1: Bryan paddling on the Shenandoah 1 Intro This weekend my son Bryan, friends (former scouts from Philmont days) Sam and Preston and friend Jack went on an canoe trip down the Shenandoah river.

Figure 1: Things on our mantle 1 What is this and who is it for?

May 15-17, 2020 Son Bryan (“Music Man”), Jason Boyle (“Alaska”) and I (“Curious George”) hiked 30 miles on the Tuscarora trail.

I’ve got some extreme social distancing going on this weekend.

The windows desktop has (had?

One dark and stormy night I broke my DNS.

1 Experiences after 9 days of blogging About 3 weeks ago I decided to start blogging.

And to get away from it all tonight we played (well, continued) a game of Civilization: Famine, Strife, Civil War, Flood, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, but strangely no epidemic (yet).

There are some amazing online singing events happening now around the world: Denmark, Australia, Nashville, etc.

Getting started in life is harder right now.

On the occasion of the ancient Roman Festival Bella Stellaria, I wish you Vis tibi sit Lucas Skywalker magis de bella stellaria hic: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars et hic https://twitter.com/tutubuslatinus/status/1257065883614109696 Day 05 of #10…

I’ve section-hiked over 1000 miles on the Appalachian Trail.

This article is a work in progress.

Steve Wilhite is the most prolific programmer I’ve ever known.

A few years ago, my mother went through the effects of her cousin after she died.

Daniel Boone is quoted (via Hubert Humphrey) as saying when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

I find that when I stay glued to twitter (pick your social-media-of-doom-amplifier) I tend to get a rather gloomy view of life.

And on a happy note…my son Bryan has finished his Masters of Piano Performance at Duquesne University and will be headed to Penn State to pursue a Doctor of Musical Arts.

Bash uses linear search to insert values in to associative arrays.

I spend a good amount of time hiking in Shenandoah National Park and surrounding areas.

“I’m passionate about…” I’ve always hated that phrase.

I’m looking for repositories of “reproducible security analytics”.