The Nexus of 2024

Category: Personal

  • Scenarios for #topprog: your thoughts?

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    Last night’s #topprog Tweetup, discussing the next steps for the new progressive Twitter hashtag, had some excellent discussions.   Chris Cardinal (aka @cacardinal) has set up a skeleton web page on topprog.org and did a great job facilitating the tweetup; he’ll be writing up a summary later today.   Somehow, though, I wound up with an…

  • Hi, Mom! (I’m offline)

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    I’ll be offline for the next week or so, back visiting my Mom in Folly Beach, South Carolina.  Oh, I might go by a Starbucks at some point, but for the most part, don’t expect to see me ’round these parts.  You’ll have to make do with the Folly Surf Cam, Try to keep the…

  • Notes from underground: Beat University @ Supperclub

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    From Pyramind’s announcement: Beat University is a non-profit partnership between San Francisco institutions Pyramind, LoveFest and Supperclub to raise money for the only dedicated electronic music scholarship fund in the entire U.S. The quarterly series of electro, house, and trance parties at top dance venue Supperclub will donate all of its proceeds to help up-and-coming…

  • Notes from underground, 2008/2009

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    What a difference a year makes … the venue’s the same, another New Year’s Eve at SomArts in SF, and Liam’s playing again in the psytrance room.  The rest of the world, and my frame of mind?  Very different. I’ve been rereading a lot of my posts from the last year as we work on…

  • Notes from underground: Geo-solstice

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    Eight inches of snow in Seattle wreaked havoc with our travel plans but the good news is that I wound up getting to go to the Geo-solstice, at the Gingerbread House, geomagetic.tv’s party celebrating nine years with the Phoenix Family.  Solid sets from Saturnia and Witchdokta and then a great one from Dr. Spook.  Good…

  • FISA: How will the Obama administration respond on immunity?

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    Justice Department attorney Carl Nichols didn’t get through his first full sentence defending the constitutionality of retroactive immunity for spying telecom carriers before U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker interrupted to ask about President-elect Barack Obama. “We are going to have new attorney general,” Walker interjected in Tuesday morning’s hearing in a San Francisco courthouse. “Why…

  • Notes from underground: the weekend after

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    Psymbolic 4, at the Gingerbread House in SF.  Liam Shy, Dr. Spook, Predators (with their CD as a bonus) … it had been a long week so we left at about 3 a.m. and missed the last few DJs, but a fine night nonetheless.  As we said our goodbyes to Spook on the way out,…

  • Hope 1, Fear 0: YES WE DID!

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    From Eluminatus: A change is coming Why be shrunk by fear when you can choose hope? Why be manipulated by hate when you can choose desire? Why settle for singularity when you can have multiplicity? Control is an illusion and influence is possible. Look for meta-level solutions. Avoid false dualities. Change is performative. Worship the…

  • Why vote?

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    Why Vote? a Fib, by Gregory K. Vote. Why? Folks fight For this right. It’s not just a word: Vote! It’s how you make your voice heard. Originally published on Gottabook

  • Blog the vote!

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    Colleen Mondor, Lee Wind, and my brother Gregory K came up with a great idea for a cooperative blogging project at the recent Kid Lit ’08 conference in Portland: people writing about why they personally think that voting matters.  Over fifty people wound up participating, and since most of them are writers or reviewers as…

  • Notes from underground (Hallowe’en pre-election version)

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    Last year on Hallowe’en , right before my last day at Microsoft, I wrote Hallowe’en’s always been one of our favorite holidays, and of course our hood is one of the best places to celebrate it.  We’re both in a fairly low-key mood tonight, so rather than trick-or-treating, we’ll have a nice relaxing dinner, perhaps…

  • Notes from underground: HOTwired Seattle, tonight!

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    It’s the first Friday, so time for our favorite Seattle psytrance monthly, HOTwired at Noc Noc — nwtekno thread here. Osiris Indriya and Amanita are spinning, of course, along with Shadowvex and Philly G.  Be there or be square! It’s been a few months (and several activism campaigns) since the last time we made it…

  • Rant: I hate software

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    also posted on Pam’s House Blend. for a good time, compare and contrast how Soapblox (there) and WordPress (here) display the URLs in the quotes 🙂 As a “grand old man” of the software engineering field of defect detection, I sometimes take it personally when I run into bugs or usability problems.  My IM friends…

  • It’s the Fourth of July, and we’re fighting for our civil liberties

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    Originally sent to the Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right mailing list. I certainly don’t mean to trivialize the situation. There’s a huge amount at stake and the anger, frustration, and disappointment so many of us (including me) feel comes through in every post. Realistically, the odds are still against…

  • CFP08: trip report

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    Part 1 of a series Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008 ended with me presenting Dear Potus 08 and circulating the letter to the presidential candidates for signatures, and then a closing plenary by Clay Shirky (notes below). It was exhiliarating as always, and I’m now simultaneously exhausting, revved up, and suffering from jet lag. So…

  • Poetry friday!

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    Kelly Herrold has her weekly Poetry Friday post up on Big A little A , with tons of good links and more in the comments. My brother Gregory K’s posted (with permission of course) an original J. Patrick Lewis poem, A Sixth Grader Sees the Future … for those who don’t know the kids poetry…

  • Color me impressed …

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    Flying down to SF last Monday for RSA, I opened up my Macbook and got … nuthin’. Once I landed and plugged it in, and the little green light on the power supply connector didn’t even come on, I realized I was in trouble. So I headed down to the Mac store, conveniently right by…

  • A note to my many Muses

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    i woke up this morning thinking about Muses and realized that i should apologize for the focus of my writing over the last several months.

  • Strategy, security, and static analysis: what’s next for me

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    Fourteen years ago today was my last day at Digital Equipment Corporation before leaving to work on the technology today became PREfix and the company I started with a few friends that became Intrinsa, so it seems especially appropriate to post about this today … I’m delighted to announce that I’m starting a part-time strategy…

  • Best baseball movie ever? Don’t delay, vote today!

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    MLB.com says, “It’s March, time for madness and brackets and… baseball movies!” Fans can choose “the best baseball flick ever” from 64 possibilities in four categories — Comedy, Drama, Old School and Left Field. My brother’s movie, Little Big League, is in “Left Field”, up against The Hank Greenberg Story in the first round, and…