Marty J. Wolf

November is very cheeky this year, taking up six lines in standard calendar notation, rather than the usual five.

And it's been going on for some 75 years and had loads of cash thrown at it and been addressed by some of the brightest people ...

It continues to be an amazing shit show.

Once again - there are things you can learn about the United States only by being outside the United States. This is one of them.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through the new Billy Joel documentary on HBO Max. It's been fascinating so far. He's got a great story and it has been so fun to relive the music from when I was a kid.

I wonder how many of the books at the book sale have been in your hands once upon a time.

You are the Tammy Bookseed of Bemidji.

The verb "dust" is curious. It means to both do a thing and to undo a thing. One can dust a cake with confectioner's sugar. One can dust the furniture to remove the powdered sugar that fell from the cake as it was eaten.

Are there other such verbs in English?

Nature's Pong

This is truly inside baseball.

Behold: my two most cited examples of why hyphens matter

Well someone really screwed that up. Carl's at 70 now.

Worst commencement speaker ever!

It really is that simple.

It's even worse when the kids are your grandkids. 😬

I think this, more than anything, is the biggest challenge those who care about student learning face. How do we change the system so that students' hyperfocus is "the knowledge"?

As a tech guy who started out in the ‘90s, I never thought I’d come to see Bill Gates as one of the “good guys” but here we are

Thanks, Jason. You might also check out Proactive CARE--a methodology to help computing professionals to become more intentional about considering the implications of the Code. www.acm.org/binaries/con...

Tomatoes and green beans, especially fresh, right out of the garden.

I'm sorry. These are design choices made by developers. It's their fault, not yours. 🥺🙄😥

Been to Lueken's, eh? Theirs are the worst.

Hmmm ... It doesn't take too much effort to turn that into a curiosity about people and the current chaos centered in Washington. 😬

You just love to read. It really doesn't matter what it is about.

Admit it.

There is no shame in loving to read.

Me, too. This was the best I got.

ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct has a thing or two to say here:
Principle 2.8 Access computing and communication resources only when authorized or when compelled by the public good.

Principle 2.9 Design and implement systems that are robustly and usably secure.

Well, this is interesting!

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It's easy being a hero when you are an arsonist *and* the only fire fighter in town.

Just when I was getting used to all that liberation.

Guess I'll wait 90 days like everyone else.

Spare a thought for the poor billionaires who backed Trump — and hate tariffs | Marina Hyde As the great American self-own rages on, the super-rich are beginning to break rank. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s gone suspiciously quiet, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Try the Guardian for a while. Some of their writers scratch that itch.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here's a great quote from Guardian columnist Marina Hyde: "Then again, of all the wanky things Trump’s mega-rich backers say about him, the most masturbatorial of all is surely 'take him seriously but not literally'."

Where there's a will, there's a way, Kai!
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