The most intelligent comment I have read about Bitcoin is that it’s a perfect protest. Bitcoin went live in 2009 shortly after the 2008 financial crisis. The 2008 crisis was a defining moment. Prior to that date I believed that the US government, despite its obvious warts, short comings and long checkered history was still … Continue reading Bitcoin is a Perfect Protest
Category: Rants
The Great Verizon Data Famine
The other day I visited my local Verizon store for the fourth freaking time! My mission was simple: upgrade my goddamn phone and change our account from my wife’s name to mine. In sane retail environments long-standing customers with impeccable payment histories get treated like royalty. I know it will come as a shock to … Continue reading The Great Verizon Data Famine
Fifty Years of Nauseating Kennedy Nostalgia
It’s been fifty years since Michelle, a fifth grade childhood friend, interrupted me on the playground of Naples elementary and told me that ”President Kennedy has been shot.” The news did not impress me. I naively rooted for Kennedy in the 1960 election. Yes, I was suckered, but I was in the second grade! I … Continue reading Fifty Years of Nauseating Kennedy Nostalgia
Sorry PBS you already have my Money
PBS is begging for money again. PBS is a US public broadcasting network. Like all public English language broadcasters, (CBC Canada, ABC Australia, BBC UK), PBS is filled with tiresome left wingers that do not see themselves as left wingers. It's still easy to find disingenuous tools in these intuitions that publicly declare they're bias … Continue reading Sorry PBS you already have my Money
I write my Congresswoman about Syria
I just emailed this to my Congresswoman, Ann Wagner, 2nd district Missouri. I'm going to make sure I'm on the NSA's naughty malcontent list. Dear Ann, Your summer vacation from Congress is coming to an end. Soon you will be back in Washington dealing with little problems like: runaway deficit financing, relentless FED driven currency debasement, … Continue reading I write my Congresswoman about Syria
Corporate Social Media Policies
You probably work for a company that has a corporate social media policy (CSMP). I'm betting that your CSMP's preamble starts with words like, "we would never restrict the free speech rights of employees but blah, blah, blah, ... It's what follows the "but" that matters. For example my employer does not want anything I … Continue reading Corporate Social Media Policies
A Memo to the next Murdering Dorner
No doubt you've been following the breathless media swooning about Christopher Dorner and his Djangoistic, fight the power, murder spree and you’re wondering if you should take up arms against a sea of troubles and go off some bystanders. Before loading up your assault weapons, making suspiciously large purchases of plant food and diesel oil, or enrolling … Continue reading A Memo to the next Murdering Dorner
Let’s Trade Constitutional Amendments
I'm a big fan of stark choices. Stark choices push trivialities aside, expose underlying problems and bring hidden motivations to light. There is nothing more satisfying than watching well nursed notions self-destruct when reduced to stark choices. Here's a stark choice our corrupt ruling class will never put on ballots, or discuss, or dare mention. … Continue reading Let’s Trade Constitutional Amendments
King Hobbit Kong
The pre-Hobbit hum was not harmonious. It started with the interminable legal battle over who would direct the Hobbit and how to split any spoils. After Peter Jackson's cinematic Lord of the Rings triumph people assumed he would be The Hobbit guy but an envious and embittered clique of Tolkien's heirs felt the weren't getting … Continue reading King Hobbit Kong
Git me a Hub’bery
Sometime ago I crossed my machine synchronization threshold. I routinely work on four operating systems, three laptops, a few servers, a bunch of phones and so on. I synchronized the directories I cared about while forming deep and rewarding relationships with file sharing services like Dropbox. Dropbox is great but its success has attracted the … Continue reading Git me a Hub’bery
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 