Monday morning rolling start
Overall we kept it a fairly quiet weekend. Friday night was spent hanging out with friends, but after that Katie's cold reared up and so it was a fairly chill weekend. Saturday we were supposed to go to a Sounders game (which they ended up drawing) but with Katie not feeling well we decided to stay home. Sunday we mainly binged ABC's Will Trent, which features a dyslexic detective and I gave Elwood a much needed bath.
Now it's back to work for another week. This Monday morning is serenaded by the best of Led Zeppelin after I had Immigrant Song in my head.
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20 Years Since the US Invaded Iraq
I was wondering why my RSS feed was besieged by Iraq retrospectives and I finally learned it was because today is the 20th anniversary of the invasion.
We were sold lies in the name of national security. We toppled a tyrant under these falsehoods. And it was only the beginning of our prolonged presence in the middle east to secure our access to oil and in the name of freedom.
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Ken Thompson on his music box project
Ken Thompson is one of the creators of Unix and here he is giving a talk about a longterm project of his for making a music machine. It's a good journey through the evolution of technology through this ongoing project.
I had, back in college, the vision for a similar project which I had called 'Ainur' after the singing demigods of Tolkien mythology. At the time, the idea was a portable computer which I could take to parties or conventions and it would run a wifi mp3 streaming service entirely autonomously, and also be available as a file sharing FTP server. It's still an idea I have, and would probably be Raspberry Pi built these days - but in the era of music streaming, it feels like a less and less needed project.
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Automated Archives for March, 20th 2023
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Wallabag Additions
These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- Arresting Donald Trump Would Not Be Good for Donald Trump (newrepublic.com)
- A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left? (wired.com)
- Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out (newscientist.com)
- Overstimulation is Ruining Your life (thats-eli.medium.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-5
Net Elo Change: -10
Games Played
- crowndice - WIN
- Markgraf4 - LOSS
- BAMOONO - LOSS
- psvsb - LOSS
- joe121 - WIN
- eseminselim - LOSS
- Agaragimov1961 - WIN
- AshokTNchess - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2002-03-20 (2 posts)
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