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From The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll: Someone at NSA had leaked word my research to the Department of Energy. In turn, they were pissed that they hadn't heard earlier--and more directly. Roy Kerth stopped me in the hallway. "DOE is going to reprimand us
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I mentioned in the previous post in this series that I was looking forward to working on this blog like it was a car, and that has turned out truer than even I expected. This website is barely two weeks old as I write this, and I'm already
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Scrolling through Instagram Stories today, I caught a live, impromptu Q&A by the drummer from Coheed & Cambria, a band which I enjoy quite a lot. Most of the questions were regular fare, about life on the road and what songs they are playing on the tour. As
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I found this 99% Invisible episode about The Automat enlightening, mostly because it is a reminder to be humble and not assume your knee-jerk reaction that something is being caused by technology when it actually may be that what you're seeing is a novel incarnation of something very
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Eric Hoffer: > "It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into the blood stream."
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Depending on how you count it, this is the fifth or sixth blog I've contributed to, and the first running on Ghost. The first was on Blogger (I never did have a LiveJournal), and the rest of them have been WordPress, which has been the reigning champ of
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I use my phone when I need what my phone does. I use my watch when I need the time. I like being on time, I like knowing where I stand in the hour, in the morning, in the afternoon, in the day. I look at my watch a lot,
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On a recent episode of Econtalk, the host interviewed Maurico Miller, who wrote a book called The Alternative: Most of What You Believe about Poverty Is Wrong.... based on his years of running social assistance programs. But what he learned is unique because his programs didn't directly help
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You think you can make good decisions for yourself because you know yourself better than anyone else knows you. But you also have the greatest conflict of interest. It is easy to convince yourself that what is easier is also better. But in the long run it rarely is. Thus,
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Brewing coffee this morning in the French Press and taking care to pour it while trying to keep the sediment in the bottom reminded me of last night, doing exactly the same thing with a Wicked Weed sour beer that Steph and I picked up on our trip to Asheville.
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We admire things that we can't do but think we could one day. If we can already do it, it's not that impressive. If we don't think we can ever do it, it's just depressing.