posts from 2025 / 01 / 10

1. walked past the place I lived 20+ years ago at Kalorama and Champlain: it’s still there, hell yeah. saw three different people slip on the same ice patch on 18th near Florida. that sucks.

   saw clusters of tents on the grass along the southern eastern side of the end of rock creek parkway near the bridge as you pass that gas station past the watergate which are both still there, on the taxi ride in. it is 20F and last weeks snow is still on the ground.

2. At ShmooCon for the weekend.

   

3. What a strange little book. Kinda a rehash and very abridged version of Levy’s Hackers that begins in WW1 and ends post-snowden. Especially strange to finish on hackers fighting back against the government and corporate attempts to run “the internet” as I was descending to land at DCA to attend the last ShmooCon in DC.

   I’m still team Evgeny Morozov re: “what’s the Internet?”