Stanislaw Lem wrote some very witty and unusual science fiction. If you haven’t read Tales Of Pirx The Pilot [amazon] or Memoirs Found In A Bathtub [amazon] you might enjoy them if you like quirky and thoughtful fiction.
Tales of Pirx The Pilot has one of the most memorable scenes in science fiction: Pirx, an astronaut in a space mishap, has to spend a prolonged period in his space suit – and discovers that there is a fly in his helmet.
This is another example of credulous/bad reporting about my field. Whenever I see the press utterly fail to “get” something to do with computer security, I assume they’re equally lazy and wrong about every other field that requires more understanding than “who made Kim Kardashian’s shoes?” (because they are labelled)
I was annoyed at myself, earlier, for taking the easy way out and doing a half-hearted job with some iPhone video and bad lighting.
You’ve probably already heard or seen the video of the Baltimore police officer falsifying evidence.
It’s as if they read my mind, or something…
A guy in the audience yelled at one of the tennis players at Wimbledon, so she decided to let him see how hard a professional serve is delivered. He was well-served indeed!
Miyamoto Musashi (unknown artist)
To be in favor or disgrace
is to live in fear.
To take the body seriously
is to admit one can suffer.
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Last weekend my friend in Pittsburgh and I went to visit the Phipps Conservatory.
Pittsburgh’s a great town, with lots of cool museums and galleries (home to the Andy Warhol gallery, Carnegie Museum, Phipps Conservatory, Frick Art Collection, etc.) also there’s way too much great food to be found there, according to my expanding waist-line.
It’s a sign of my suspicion of government that I read everything they say at least twice. So, when I saw the headline: [bi] “Trump is reportedly ending the CIA’s covert program to arm Syrian rebels.” I thought, “good!”
HJ Hornbeck’s got some great perspective on knock-on damage from injustice, COINTELPRO, and social injustice warriors. Check it out.