In no particular order, organizations which have exposed varying degrees of my personal information [1], unwillingly given in the first place, to ill-willed people [2]: Anthem Target OPM NASA TMO These are just the ones they’ve told me about. Perhaps this is what Scott McNealy meant. [1] And who […]
I’ve been off climbing in one of my favorite places in the world. I might have some pix – I haven’t uploaded them yet to see, but given that it was pretty cloudy and wet and I was with someone who was completely and actively uninterested in my desire to make art, I didn’t take […]
Not putting tools away says: I don’t respect others’ work. You’re saying, “The work I’m doing is important. I know where the tool is for the next time I need it because I know where I left it. However, the work you’re doing is not important. Because it’s not important, it’s ok for you to […]
I installed a new car stereo this weekend [1], which has Bluetooth audio and phone and is in every way superior to the standard Toyota stereo [2]. Except that it looks like the sound system from a 1977 shag-carpeted pleather-lined van doubling as an on-call mobile cathouse. All the other ones in the Crutchfield catalog […]
I just went through a carton of a dozen TJ’s eggs, and 11 of them were double-yolked. There must be some folklore about that…
Cognitive dissonance
It's remarkable that it seems the same people who hold the view that, on Earth, self-driving cars will make the human driver obsolete are largely the same people who claim that, on Mars, self-driving science robots are so much worse than humans.
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