Computers IRL #10
The Athletic, the online sports section for the New York Times, posted a long article about John Harbaugh's first thirty days as the coach of the New York Giants. The…
Journalism Fuck-Up
From the Independent's article about the attempted robbery of Simone Biles' husband Milan Olympics: For those uninformed, Mikaela Shiffrin is a female skier, not a male ice skater. Obviously it's…
Unique Hotel
My wife and I visited Iowa City, Iowa last week to attend a University of Iowa women's basketball game, a rather bad loss to Minnesota. Our hotel was Graduate by…
Marching Band Nostalgia II
I've previously post my love of marching bands: the stories I could tell are trivial to most. Scattered across the country - likely world - are 112 people whose story…
Random Learnings #67
If we know anything about National Socialism, it's that for the first time in German politics human stupidity has been successfully and completely mobilized. -Kurt Schumacher, SPD member of Weimar…
Abolish ICE!
As seen on TNT during Unrivaled, someone sitting immediately behind the announcers wearing a very political t-shirt. Absolutely kick-ass. Presuming that TNT wanted to avoid this political maelstrom, I originally…
Computers IRL #9
From The Independent: United Airlines warns of a planned system outage. United is upgrading (upgraded?) their reservation system, which included (I believe) moving data centers, requiring an outage during which…
Backend Graph DB for Custom File System
This post is based on what I learned implementing Neo4Jfs, a customized Java file system built with a graph database (Neo4J) backend. In this post, I'll identify the challenges in…
Idiot Scammer
Receive a supposed Paypal Support email but amateur scammer doesn't bother to change his name? Newbie? Lazy? Stupid? All of the above? So Luay Khashan Abdul Hassan Abdul Hussein -…
Scary Times, Predicted
I'm still working my way through Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich, in which he gives a riveting account of Germany's inter-war history, from World…