Good Morning Nostr, My lovely wife and I have retired, once again, to our Northern Hidewawy. The weather is awful -- foggy, slushy, rainy -- ugh. But life is good and I'm looking forward to relaxing with her and seeing friends. I just watched (re-watched) one of Rich Hickey's remarkable talks from 2018. The first half is all about the problems with "Maybe" and "Nilable". The second half if much more clojure specific; and makes a promise that I think he has yet to fulfill. So you can skip that if you are not a clojurian.

Good Morning Nostrs. Today on X someone said: Scientific consensus is well established on climate change issue: It is human made, and drastic reduction of emissions is required. To which I replied: “Consensus” is a political term that is used to obscure the actual science. It’s an argument from authority, with that authority being usurped by the arguer. The actual research indicates rising levels of CO2 and rising temperatures; but does not suggest “drastic” anything. In short, the research is interpreted, then summarized, then reinterpreted, then re-summarized, in a game of “telephone” that warps and obscures the actual results of the research to align with the goals of the politicians.

Do you know how to use a slide rule? This is my father’s from long, long ago.

This. Is. The. Way.

You can't make this stuff up.

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Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) on X

Is something wrong up there Canada? You guys ok? 🤡🌎

Damus is the most popular client for the iPhone, and is very useful. I will be sending @jb55 20K sats every month for using it. I suggest you send what you feel is fair.

It would be a good idea to list all the relays that are in physical locations as opposed to being “in the cloud”.

It may well be that 2024 will be the year of Nostr as the turmoil of geopolitics begins to roil.

I finished the first rough draft of part 2 of IProgrammer yesterday. This is the story, from my point of view, of the 1970s through the 2020s. The next part of the book is "The Future".

Anti-zionism is anti-semitism.

Good Morning Nostr Creatures. My wife and I have retired to our Northern Hideaway for the next few days. The weather up here is surprisingly pleasant. So I'm spending my time solving AdventOfCode2023, working on IProgrammer, and doing a little cold-weather bike riding.

I love this channel.

“What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil. Fuck them.” — Elon Musk. Based.

Good Morning Nostr, Back at home. We had a great Thanksgiving with our family up at our Northern Hideaway. Now back to work on IProgrammer. Today I'm writing about Alan Turing.

Good Morning Nostrzens. I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving and/or Thursday. Mine was spectacular! Now back to writing more history of programming...

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving Nostroids. I expect a lovely day today at our Northern Hideaway.

Good Morning Nostrides! Yesterday I flew a dog rescue mission. I was one of three pilots transporting rescued dogs from Texas to Wisconsin. My leg of the flight was the last. It was a gorgeous day to fly. I left KUGN (Waukegan IL) at 13:11 and landed at KIRK (Kirkville, MO) at 14:51. I was back in the air at 15:31 with my two passengers secured in 30" dog crates. Racing away from the Sun I landed at KBUU (Burlington, WI) just after sunset at 17:02. The pictures below show the two dogs leaving the plane. Then I was back in the air at 17:29 in full dark. The short flight back to KUGN took less than half an hour. The KUGN tower cleared me to land on runway 23, which I was just able to pick out of the clutter of lights on the ground. I swung around for my approach and overshot a bit; but corrected and landed safely at 17:43. That was one hell of a good day in the air.

Those who want a cease fire simply want to enable Hamas to come boiling out of Gaza to rape and kill some more. It's not like Hamas is going to honor that cease fire.

I stand with Israel. No cease fire.