14A
Published on 2021-09-24 17:22:31 UTC
The 14th amendment, written in the aftermath of the Civil War, is one complicated grab-bag. Can’t even understand sec. 2 to save my life.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
to boldly support the powerful against the weak
Published on 2021-09-23 11:21:23 UTC
Another day, another celebrity whining about cancel culture. Because in America, shame is dead.
Sure is hard to figure out why people elect not to hear your hateful, stupid words. Must be a conspiracy.
simple pager
Published on 2021-09-19 16:12:21 UTC
Totally hand-rolled a paging system for my son using a RPI +16x2 LCD + piezo buzzer.
Lego case.
Server built with mojo lite. client is python run from cron.
crimes against grammarity
Published on 2021-09-14 12:15:38 UTC
_dolly in; camera out_
me: Guys! It’s not Random Access Memory! The access is…
ARBITRARY!
_Police enters stage right to arrest computer science_
happy nine eleven
Published on 2021-09-11 12:11:16 UTC
So, I still think W, Rumsfeld, and Cheney should do jail time for lying to us and killing people for oil, but I am an old person, so whatevs.
all the young dudes carry the news
Published on 2021-09-10 12:07:04 UTC
The last time I expected to get information from TV news was in the few weeks following 9/11. However, TV news had stop providing that commodity by then and I have never expected anything factual from those talking heads since.
https://slate.com/business/2021/09/911-anchormen-nightly-news-rather-jennings-brokaw-legacy.html
shedcraft trademark
Published on 2021-09-03 18:33:36 UTC
Bushcraft, but it's near my backyard shed, so "shedcraft"?
https://www.taskboy.com/img/bushcraft-shanty.jpg
you can say booger
Published on 2021-08-23 23:51:51 UTC
No, I’m not crazy! I’m telling you rock and roll was considered to be dangerous, outsider music at one time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VH4yV3ich0
This is what leadership looks like
Published on 2021-08-17 12:06:05 UTC
Ripping the bandaid off is hard, but leaving Afghanistan now is the right move. It would have been a better move 11 years ago. The best move would have been not to invade at all.
Now, let’s practice some national building at home for a while.
imagine a beowulf cluster of cookie clickers
Published on 2021-08-15 20:49:29 UTC
Ricardo, when I play this again, I will dedicate a Raspberry PI to it, which seems both environmentally sensitive and delightfully absurd.
the only way to win is not to play
Published on 2021-08-15 20:39:51 UTC
I beat cookie clicker (hint: set the cookies to Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER).
I won cookie clicker when I closed the browser window.
Buy low sell high
Published on 2021-08-15 14:12:51 UTC
I literally have a spreadsheet open next to cookie clicker that computes the cost per cookie based on buying the next cookie generator. I’m a value investor.
I also have a row that computes the wait time to a target cookie amount based on my current production rate.
#fun
Cookies are life
Published on 2021-08-15 12:08:34 UTC
Just discovered cookie clicker:
http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
This game is as legit a game as simcity and I will fight anyone who gainsays me.
modeling relationships is literally SQL
Published on 2021-08-12 01:12:09 UTC
I was mostly skeptical of graph DBs and I am happy to learn I was right to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database
Just learn to manage your schemas, people. SQL is your friend.
calling c from python
Published on 2021-08-07 13:18:52 UTC
As a Perl hacker, the easy with which shared C libraries can be accessed directly from python code makes me insanely jealous:
https://github.com/tipam/pi3d/blob/master/pyxlib/xlib.py
making money with perl
Published on 2021-08-05 21:06:17 UTC
Since this makes me feel good about my questionable career choices, I choose now to believe in the insightfulness of this article:
https://qvault.io/misc/popular-coding-languages-2021/
#perl4eva
Linux is my hammer
Published on 2021-08-01 20:13:47 UTC
This is a project box with three raspberry PIs running webcam software so I can spy on critters eating my garden.
https://www.taskboy.com/img/dyi-garden-cam.jpg
Fear my opposable thumbs, varmints!
#privateeyes
BeerWorks Last Call
Published on 2021-07-29 11:58:10 UTC
BeerWorks is going out of business.
A staple brewpub of the Boston area, BW employed me in the mid-90s.
Great beer; better people.
summerttime summertime sumsum summertime
Published on 2021-07-25 22:48:37 UTC
1 2 3 1 2
Published on 2021-07-13 12:36:36 UTC
When your child asks “what is 5/4 time?”, play them Take Five followed by The Ocean or you’re parenting incorrectly.
epistemology for email
Published on 2021-07-08 12:28:00 UTC
Ransomware finally has me spooked.
Going to try out using gpg with gmail via a browser plugin today.
Blood Eagle
Published on 2021-07-03 22:04:19 UTC
Mitch outsources duty again
Published on 2021-06-27 13:56:53 UTC
“And so we [Congressional GOP] cannot be frontally attacking him [Tr**p] right now.”
Craven McConnell was never not craven.
https://www.axios.com/bill-barr-trump-election-8f6e5b4a-906f-4fb2-a20e-60d8f1e54b7b.html
Bay State is the Best State
Published on 2021-06-26 14:38:41 UTC
The New York Times is reporting that 71% of adults in Massachusetts are fully vaccinated.
Will this start a migration of people who want to live where government works and crazy people are the minority? It should.
I am Andy Ritcher
Published on 2021-06-24 17:53:30 UTC
“My ambition will be looking for situations in which to do my part. Not necessarily to grab the world by the throat and scream my name into its face.”
It turns out, I am Andy Ritcher.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/arts/television/andy-richter-conan-obrien.html
old school values
Published on 2021-06-17 12:33:11 UTC
“I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy with the last answer I gave.”
I love Joe Biden and I already know I will regret saying this in public.
Watching you
Published on 2021-06-07 22:35:41 UTC
I bought the Essential Hall & Oates this summer. It was a the right thing to do.
do you want to play a game
Published on 2021-05-16 02:16:50 UTC
My 16x4 LCD display works on my RPi3.
I still think digital watches are neat.
This is also my first tango with I2C.
when fiction becomes fact
Published on 2021-05-14 13:50:32 UTC
we can work it out
Published on 2021-05-12 15:55:04 UTC
Millennials, Gen Z, and even Boomers,
Happy Hump Day from your friends in Gen X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xScbIhNM6jc
yes my editor is ed
Published on 2021-05-10 14:33:29 UTC
I still use telnet for debugging ASCII network protocols like HTTP and I VOTE.
The choice of headlines is editorial bias
Published on 2021-05-06 16:09:13 UTC
Google news, which I browse in place of Twitter, has now become too outrage provoking.
I guess it’s just you and me, RSS reader.
Been a long time since I rock and rolled
Published on 2021-05-04 17:22:36 UTC
https://www.taskboy.com/img/super-slinky.jpg
It is come to this. Nines.
No one warned me this could happen.
Charlie calls it right
Published on 2021-05-02 14:15:57 UTC
When you have lost Berkshire Hathaway, you have lost the war.
#bitcoinisntcurrency
tiny giant
Published on 2021-04-27 20:49:36 UTC
I have an 8GB raspberry pi with the hostname 'tinygiant'.
True story.
sploded
Published on 2021-04-26 16:45:46 UTC
I had a little dropbox malfunction. Sorry about the spam.
