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Dances with Gophers
Welcome to my gopher hole. When I was living in California,
I took the opportunity to learn how to skydive. One of the
places I used to jump regularly was at Hollister, way
south-east of San Jose, beyond the home of Garlic
(apparently). That DZ had a landing area a fair way from the
airport: a field, shared largely with gophers and a handful
of cows.
Landing in that field was a tricky business. It's quite easy
to get your foot stuck in a gopher hole and faceplant upon
contact. Sometimes you could see them running for cover as
you came in.
Not that I ever did, but if you were to hook turn in for a
fast landing the way to slow down on contact is to drag one
foot behind you, toe outstretched so your ankle doesn't have
to do any dangerous muscle work. Like a dance, if you will.
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| '_ \ / _ \| '__| |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ _` | | '__| | | | |/ _ \
| | | | (_) | | | |/ / (_) | | | | || (_| | | | | |_| | | __/
|_| |_|\___/|_| |_/___\___/|_| |_|\__\__,_|_|_| \__,_|_|\___|
I fired up a new gopherhole on a spare computer at home,
and have started putting some stuff from the past there.
I'm hoping to grow it, and it may supercede this one, though
if I move the phlog there I'll try to get it into the
gopher.club listings too. It depends, I'm not sure I want
to loosen the SDF connection...
(DIR) A Hole In MHCat's Dot Space
(TXT) Captain's Phlog
Latest entry:
Wed Jul 26 09:49 EDT; goldblum
I'm here. A bit lost in the mists of time at this very
moment, but generally, here.
I need to start writing down stuff again. It always rots
and feels awkward and embarrassing later when I come
across it and read it again, much like old code. I hate it
in the way I hate other people's work, only more because I
can't escape the implication.
Lots of folks out there trying to escape the implication.
But writing stuff down makes me less likely to try to hang
onto ideas long past the time they've become stubs with
any content lost to the wind. Writing makes thoughts
immediately forgettable, with happy impunity.
I've been working for the last few months, but it is doing
to me what it did before, if a little slower. I can't see
the horizon any more. More generally, after some note
taking finally (see?) I have concluded that I'm working on
the wrong problems.
I don't want to make it easier to implement remote
"trust", I want to make it harder. "Trust" is NOT
transitive, never was. Trust is a human concept, and one
which is established through relationships. Using math as
a proxy for that makes no sense at all.
Remote attestables, fair exchange protocols - these things
do not solve the problem they proport to solve.
So now I'm starting to feel excitable again, as the end of
my contract approaches. I'm pretty checked out already. I
think me and Dann, my friend who is one of the founders
I'm working for right now, are in good shape to stay
roughly the same amount of friends. I might even be able
to continue working with him in some limited way, but not
for the company per se.
So August, bring it. Gonna talk to Henry (gammaspace)
about some of the co-op stuff he's working on, and the
Weird Ghost org he's working with. I want to do games, but
my route to that might be through supporting indie game
co-op studios with tooling.
So here I am. Been on the slide for a while, and its time
to focus back on the smolnet. I might write a bit about
what I had hoped to realize thru this current work, even
if it might seem silly given the obviously financial
market it's aimed at. Nuff said, more later, when I've
figured out what is NDA and what is not.
Local bits:
(DIR) Another Phlog Another Planet
(TXT) 20230201T083244 Response to Screwtape's ChatGPT Essay
(TXT) 20230130T164607 Five Questions Redux, Asylum Edition
(TXT) 20230103T193635 Five Questions
(TXT) 20221202T163240 Why the Guardian Sucks
(TXT) 20221122T175630 James Clark is a Sainsbury
(TXT) 20221121T070322 International Norm
(TXT) first.txt
I started doing Advent of Code in Common Lisp because
screwtape is a zealot and I need to do more Common Lisp.
(DIR) Advent of Code 2022
I have some other stuff on the internets:
(HTM) Jefferies Tube Network
(TXT) Hi
I've been learning the colemak-dhm layout and practicing
using texts that are worth a closer reading. I'll add them
here as I complete them.
(TXT) Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco
I've started working on copy-typing the Communist Manifesto,
which I'll drop here once I'm done. Meanwhile, here's my great
grandfather.
(TXT) Solomon
(TXT) Public Key for Me
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