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Dances with Gophers | |
Welcome to my gopher hole. When I was living in California, | |
I took the opportunity to learn how to skydive. One of the | |
places I used to jump regularly was at Hollister, way | |
south-east of San Jose, beyond the home of Garlic | |
(apparently). That DZ had a landing area a fair way from the | |
airport: a field, shared largely with gophers and a handful | |
of cows. | |
Landing in that field was a tricky business. It's quite easy | |
to get your foot stuck in a gopher hole and faceplant upon | |
contact. Sometimes you could see them running for cover as | |
you came in. | |
Not that I ever did, but if you were to hook turn in for a | |
fast landing the way to slow down on contact is to drag one | |
foot behind you, toe outstretched so your ankle doesn't have | |
to do any dangerous muscle work. Like a dance, if you will. | |
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I fired up a new gopherhole on a spare computer at home, | |
and have started putting some stuff from the past there. | |
I'm hoping to grow it, and it may supercede this one, though | |
if I move the phlog there I'll try to get it into the | |
gopher.club listings too. It depends, I'm not sure I want | |
to loosen the SDF connection... | |
A Hole In MHCat's Dot Space | |
Captain's Phlog | |
Latest entry: | |
Wed Jul 26 09:49 EDT; goldblum | |
I'm here. A bit lost in the mists of time at this very | |
moment, but generally, here. | |
I need to start writing down stuff again. It always rots | |
and feels awkward and embarrassing later when I come | |
across it and read it again, much like old code. I hate it | |
in the way I hate other people's work, only more because I | |
can't escape the implication. | |
Lots of folks out there trying to escape the implication. | |
But writing stuff down makes me less likely to try to hang | |
onto ideas long past the time they've become stubs with | |
any content lost to the wind. Writing makes thoughts | |
immediately forgettable, with happy impunity. | |
I've been working for the last few months, but it is doing | |
to me what it did before, if a little slower. I can't see | |
the horizon any more. More generally, after some note | |
taking finally (see?) I have concluded that I'm working on | |
the wrong problems. | |
I don't want to make it easier to implement remote | |
"trust", I want to make it harder. "Trust" is NOT | |
transitive, never was. Trust is a human concept, and one | |
which is established through relationships. Using math as | |
a proxy for that makes no sense at all. | |
Remote attestables, fair exchange protocols - these things | |
do not solve the problem they proport to solve. | |
So now I'm starting to feel excitable again, as the end of | |
my contract approaches. I'm pretty checked out already. I | |
think me and Dann, my friend who is one of the founders | |
I'm working for right now, are in good shape to stay | |
roughly the same amount of friends. I might even be able | |
to continue working with him in some limited way, but not | |
for the company per se. | |
So August, bring it. Gonna talk to Henry (gammaspace) | |
about some of the co-op stuff he's working on, and the | |
Weird Ghost org he's working with. I want to do games, but | |
my route to that might be through supporting indie game | |
co-op studios with tooling. | |
So here I am. Been on the slide for a while, and its time | |
to focus back on the smolnet. I might write a bit about | |
what I had hoped to realize thru this current work, even | |
if it might seem silly given the obviously financial | |
market it's aimed at. Nuff said, more later, when I've | |
figured out what is NDA and what is not. | |
Local bits: | |
Another Phlog Another Planet | |
20230201T083244 Response to Screwtape's ChatGPT Essay | |
20230130T164607 Five Questions Redux, Asylum Edition | |
20230103T193635 Five Questions | |
20221202T163240 Why the Guardian Sucks | |
20221122T175630 James Clark is a Sainsbury | |
20221121T070322 International Norm | |
first.txt | |
I started doing Advent of Code in Common Lisp because | |
screwtape is a zealot and I need to do more Common Lisp. | |
Advent of Code 2022 | |
I have some other stuff on the internets: | |
Jefferies Tube Network | |
Hi | |
I've been learning the colemak-dhm layout and practicing | |
using texts that are worth a closer reading. I'll add them | |
here as I complete them. | |
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco | |
I've started working on copy-typing the Communist Manifesto, | |
which I'll drop here once I'm done. Meanwhile, here's my great | |
grandfather. | |
Solomon | |
Public Key for Me | |
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