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DeCrypting Directions

Every month or so I have to change my password on my day job Computer.  I use phrases instead of words.  Things like “What Am I Supposed To Do Now?” waIs2dn? or “Think Lottery Numbers Think Lottery Numbers” Tl#stlns.  The theory being I will... Read More

Response Time

In the early 80s there was much talk about the time it takes for your computer to respond to a request.  As I recall, the holy grail established by IBM was under 3 seconds.  If it takes your computer more than 3 seconds to respond, your brain loses focus and looks for... Read More

ReNunion

And it came to pass that they were called together after wandering for some 40 years.  Where, once, there were more than 400, less than one quarter made the trek back to the land where it is best to be from: Gary, Indiana. These Troopers of the once highly regarded... Read More

Aspirationale

“To long, aim, or seek ambitiously the fundamental reasons” Most of my thoughtful life has been spent on this quest. Most of my rational life has been spent on the quests of those who employ me to think. All of my emotional life can be found in the joy and... Read More

Returning? from the Radical Sabbatical

Using the mathematical rather than the political definition of radical, we discover that my “extended period of leave from one’s customary work” appears to have been in pursuit ” of the root or origin”.  Put another way by Inigo Montoya... Read More