Solidarity with all the parents of little kids who would be hitting their winter break stride right now if they had a moment of peace but won’t until school starts up again, ten of the longest days of the year from now, and oh btw it’s been raining the entire week
So hot on my wishlist I got it in fully modulated stereo
Figure 1. Two identical paperbacks of David Byrne’s “How Music Works”, which is bright orange with all caps grotesque title over author’s name, one word per line, with very simple sign for a speaker radiating music up at the title between the two.the books are both laying face up on my kitchen counter.HOWMUSICWORKSDAVIDBYRNE.
P funny going through bad twenty year old posts on my silly old website converting them to their fourth or fifth text markup language this holiday break and running into so many broken links and embeds.
onion-on-belt taboos against both hotlinking and mirroring completely made sense at the time, but, now, guess what silly, it’s all gone, we should have hard mirrored entire things we liked, if we liked them, even if only as time capsules
A 20-something tailgated me through one of the new door sized bart gates this week, clearly waiting for the right person to follow, and I knew exactly what to do, keep listening to my podcast, acknowledge nothing, even with the stupid new turnstile, which is slow and annoying, beeping behind me.
hell yeah, we’re doing the moves, fare dodging, and we’re walking down the stairs like nothing happened, gg
(fwiw the tone is a solid beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for idk how many seconds)
Oops, forgot to try for a shmoocon barcode one last time
might do lobbycon anyway, it being the last one and all that
I don’t go to security conferences much anymore but a friend not on here and I were both on sg-dc and lived in DC in 2004, so, when the CFP got posted there ( https://marc.info/?l=sg-dc&m=109509914217942&w=2). It got his attention.
Figure 1. a photograph of the right side of a concrete highway overpassthe top sevenths or so of the photo is crossed by the hand rail and concrete barrier over a smooth concrete wall probably 10 foot tall on the left diminishing along the bottom rising up to 6 feet on the rightthe entire bottom half of the photo is green scrubs, weeds, bushes, and other overgrowth wet from rainthe wall has been tagged in scrappy turquoise block spray-paint letters, the first line has been over-painted again in purple:GRAFFITI REMOVAL1-800-WET-PAINTTo the right is in the base turquoise is a tag of a simple cut gem, resting on one side.