Robert Wilson

Thank you for making the one without the hammer and sickle. This is awesome.

Hmm, Russian / English forensic linguistics in the news again, you say?

Sherman statue

Annual pilgrimage.

Pretty sure the person at the Hyatt coffee place gave me uncut cold brew. Folding space and 90 bpm resting when it’s normally like 55. Ugh.

I love Cyberwarcon. It’s by far my favorite conference. I will say, though, that by the time the lightning rounds are done I’m burned.

On my way finally to Cyberwarcon. We’ve had a firewall P1, I had a flat tire before going on campus to do an exec briefing on observability, cloudflare doofed, and then like half our tenant lost m365 licensing in a group move. Fully expect IRGC to take out the power again tomorrow morning.

WTF. I was in a cabinet agency during “the trip” and it just keeps on coming back. A colleague was cover.

LinkedIn language in general is a scourge. I'm still mad about the shift in the word "ask." Around 2010 or so at the agency I was at we started getting memos from the executive with a space for "The Ask." Whut. "We need to know the ask." "Are you kidding me?"

One of my favorite movies by far. The pancake scene is good, too.

That's not just any dealership, that's NASCAR central. Also an emergency procurement, hmm.

I can’t imagine a FOIA of the selection process. (Actually I can)

“Well, if we did that chicken would get really expensive.”

Welp.

I don’t want to spoil it, but absolutely typical for our football team to lose stupid stuff and then play like today. Their SecOps uses elastic also so we can call it the kibana bowl.

Amen

Sometimes I’d like to go back to a time in my life when I didn’t know what the phrase “contract vehicle” meant.

Meanwhile, let’s check in on how CMMC is going.

I can remember going to the bookstore in high school in the late 80s to get MERP campaign books to get "new" Tolkien content even if I wasn't going to play it. I know that memory is biased, but there were tons of options at the Walden books for both novels and game stuff.

Orange cat curled up on a fleece blanket

Kitty Croissant

Captain B will not be going out this morning, thank you.

I know nothing

Alright, this is going to be exceedingly "inside baseball" but the t-shirt needs the slavonic multiocular O for the eye-guy to account for the LLCs language knowledge being primarily pre-revolutionary and slavonic oriented.

Should be considered an international flight risk

Hahahaha, etc.

One SC Fund: Emergency Food Response Central Carolina Community Foundation

To give you an issue of scale for the SNAP thing in a “red state,” the SC Gov activated the One SC fund which is typically used during natural disasters. It’s privately funded, but was established during the 2015 floods and was lasted activated for Helene.

As a ratf**k operation that social media thing has inverse power. Like people the dude needs to like him are going to like him even more.

middle grade illustrated novel aimed at boys called Mishima! My Crazy Middle School Life in Four Zany Whacked Out Chapters

Working SLED with a spouse in the arts in academia, it took until the 20 year mark to have anything approaching an emergency fund. The only "redeeming" difference between our RIFs is that they are slower than the Fed ones. Agency head at Thanksgiving: "Some of you won't be with us next year."

Thank the Phoenicians

We had a Days of Thunder ride at Carowinds after Paramount bought the park. Major early 90s Charlotte flashback.

Ugh

Fair number of cyberin' people flying to DCA around Nov 18, myself included.

Not doing Amtrak from SC, it takes 8 hours to DC at best, and not driving, the travel people would freak.

We will see.

The Coen brothers and orthodoxy is interesting and I’ve never heard them talk about it. Hail Caesar has the Kedrov Otche Nash during the credits, Big Lebowski has “Before Thy Cross” in a snippet, and Burn After Reading has the orthodox ex-priest.