Sysloggin' one day at a time.
By Jim
The article itself is interesting but I love the line I’ve excerpted below. Nothing sexist intended; I just find it humorous that “educated” people continue to view women as any less capable than men in any characteristic, psychopathic or otherwise.
Quiz: Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
…research suggests psychologists have underestimated the psychopathic propensity of women.
By Jim
I’ve been catching up on reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, Book One: Quicksilver the last few weeks. During last night’s reading session there was a conversation, between two of the characters, constructing an analogy between a heart pumping blood (both in and out of itself) and certain other characters’ excessive letter-writing with each other, the implication being that the act of writing, and the writing being read, is like pumping blood to and from the vital organs. All of which led me to construct this:
Writers are the heart pumping, circulating blood through the body; their writing is the blood being circulated; the readers are the vital organs and, for that matter, the entire body.
There’s a symbiotic relationship between the blood and the body it travels throughout, including the heart (don’t get too empirical on me here); there’s an identical connection between the writer and the reader. Neither can exist without the other. (I’m not including those who write privately without reading their own work as they write it. Minority that they must be; or, genetic anomaly, to stay within the metaphor.)
It occurs to me just now that this gives new meaning to the phrase “written in blood”.
What do you think?
By Jim
Updated April 30, 2024 to add YouTube channel, add book link, add link to 2024 performance schedule, and update the journal’s homepage link.
YouTube channel is here.
Tom’s 2024 Wawona Performance Schedule
And his new book is here.
Wawona Journal
WAWONA
JOURNAL
by TOM BOPP
These pages will include bits of history, news, local
ephemera, and my own musings, as there is time.
By Jim
“What’s the hottest thing you’ve ever seen?”
“Two people kissing, like they mean it.”
By Jim
From boingboing:
Cory Doctorow:
Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette has an amazing, balanced, in-depth profile on John Gilmore, the guy who Sun hired to write their first code, the guy who co-founded EFF, the guy who won’t show ID to get on an airplane:
In post 9/11 America, asking “Why?” when someone from an airline asks for identification can start some interesting arguments. Gilmore, who learned to argue on the debate team in his hometown of Bradford, McKean County, has started an argument that, should it reach its intended target, the U.S. Supreme Court, would turn the rules of national security on end, reach deep into the tug-of-war between private rights and public safety, and play havoc with the Department of Homeland Security.
At the heart of Gilmore’s stubbornness is the worry about the thin line between safety and tyranny.
“Are they just basically saying we just can’t travel without identity papers? If that’s true, then I’d rather see us go through a real debate that says we want to introduce required identity papers in our society rather than trying to legislate it through the back door through regulations that say there’s not any other way to get around,” Gilmore said. “Basically what they want is a show of obedience.”
(Thanks, Brad!)