[{"content":"For the past 20(?!) years, I\u0026rsquo;ve run this blog on wordpress, which is overkill for what I need and something of a security risk. Maybe 10+ years ago, wordpress had a security hole where a bunch of spam was being inserted into all of the posts and while cleaning it up, a lot of strange unicode was injected into the site.\nAnyway, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how much blogging I\u0026rsquo;ll do (maybe some trip photos), but I\u0026rsquo;m cleaning things up and migrating to a static site that\u0026rsquo;s generated by Hugo. The general setup is:\nEverything uses Hugo Posts are written in Markdown I\u0026rsquo;m using the PaperMod theme + a image gallery theme Both themes are git submodules The whole site generation code is a private git repo stored on github I can check out the repo anywhere add a new page and regenerate the site for now, I\u0026rsquo;m rsyncing the generated site back to my hosting provider dreamhost i suppose I could try some sort of github action, but maybe call that phase 2 To create the initial version, I:\ndownloaded my wordpress content as an XML file wrote a quick python script that: read all 35,810 lines of the xml encoded the line as Windows-1252 (ignoring errors) re-encoded as UTF-8 (ignoring errors) wrote the updated line to a new file Ran the wp2hugo script over the updated file Now I\u0026rsquo;m spot checking for broken images / galleries. There are definitely a few and I\u0026rsquo;ll silently fix those. Dead links and other cruft may stay as an artifact of a website that\u0026rsquo;s older than my current intern ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/migrating-to-hugo/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor the past 20(?!) years, I\u0026rsquo;ve run this blog on wordpress, which is overkill for what I need and\nsomething of a security risk. Maybe 10+ years ago, wordpress had a security hole where a bunch of\nspam was being inserted into all of the posts and while cleaning it up, a lot of strange unicode\nwas injected into the site.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how much blogging I\u0026rsquo;ll do (maybe some trip photos), but I\u0026rsquo;m cleaning things up and\nmigrating to a static site that\u0026rsquo;s generated by Hugo. The general setup is:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Migrating to Hugo"},{"content":"In December of 2023, we went to Costa Rica! Here are some of my favorite photos from the trip\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/galleries/costa_rica_2023/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn December of 2023, we went to Costa Rica! 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The following is a regularized multinomial logistic regression model:\nfrom keras.models import Sequential from keras.layers.core import Dense, Activation from keras.regularizers import l2 model = Sequential() model.add(Dense(numClasses, input_shape=(numFeatures, ), \\ init=\u0026#39;zero\u0026#39;, W_regularizer=l2(0.01))) model.add(Activation(\u0026#39;softmax\u0026#39;)) model.compile(loss=\u0026#39;binary_crossentropy\u0026#39;, optimizer=\u0026#39;sgd\u0026#39;) As with the collaborative filter, you can easily modify the code to use multiple regularizers and different learning algorithms, say Adamax or adam instead of SGD.\nNeat.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2016/03/07/streaming-movie-pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA follow-up on the \u003ca href=\"/2016/03/07/collaborative-filtering-in-keras\"\u003ecollaborative filter\u003c/a\u003e, it occurs to me that it should be possible to add a logistic regression layer in Keras. The following is a regularized multinomial logistic regression model:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"highlight\"\u003e\u003cpre tabindex=\"0\" style=\"color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;\"\u003e\u003ccode class=\"language-fallback\" data-lang=\"fallback\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom keras.models import Sequential\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom keras.layers.core import Dense, Activation\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom keras.regularizers import l2\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003emodel = Sequential()\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003emodel.add(Dense(numClasses, input_shape=(numFeatures, ), \\\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    init=\u0026#39;zero\u0026#39;, W_regularizer=l2(0.01)))\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003emodel.add(Activation(\u0026#39;softmax\u0026#39;))\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:flex;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003emodel.compile(loss=\u0026#39;binary_crossentropy\u0026#39;, optimizer=\u0026#39;sgd\u0026#39;)\n\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with the collaborative filter, you can easily modify the code to use multiple regularizers and different learning algorithms, say Adamax or adam instead of SGD.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"... and logistic regression"},{"content":"Ten years ago, Netflix started the Netflix challenge. A contest to see if the community could come up with a movie recommendation approach that beat their own by 10%. One of the primary modeling techniques that came out of the contest was a set of sparse matrix factoring models whose earliest description can be found at Simon Funk\u0026rsquo;s website. The basic idea is that the actual ratings of movies for each user can be represented by a matrix, say of users on the rows and movies along the columns. We don\u0026rsquo;t have the full rating matrix, instead, we have a very sparse set of entries. But if we could factor the rating matrix into two separate matrices, say one that was Users by Latent Factors, and one that was Latent Factors by Movies, then we could find the user\u0026rsquo;s rating for any movie by taking the dot product of the User row and the Movie column.\nOne thing that is somewhat frustrating about coding Funk\u0026rsquo;s approach is that it uses Stochastic Gradient Descent as the learning mechanism and it uses L2 regularization which has to be coded up as well. Also, it\u0026rsquo;s fairly loop-heavy. In order to get any sort of performance, you need to implement it in C/C++. It would be great if we could use a machine learning framework that already has other learning algorithms, multiple types of regularization, and batch training built in. It would also be nice if the framework used Python on the front end, but implemented most of the tight loops in C/C++. Sort of like coding the algorithm in Python and compiling with Cython.\nMy current favorite framework is Keras. It uses the Theano tensor library for the heavy lifting which also allows the code to run on a GPU, if available. So, here\u0026rsquo;s a question, can we implement a sparse matrix factoring algorithm in Keras? It turns out that we can:\nfrom keras.layers import Embedding, Reshape, Merge from keras.models import Sequential, from keras.optimizers import Adamax from keras.callbacks import EarlyStopping, ModelCheckpoint factors = 20 left = Sequential() left.add(Embedding(numUsers, factors,input_length=1)) left.add(Reshape(dims=(factors,))) right = Sequential() right.add(Embedding(numMovies, factors, input_length=1)) right.add(Reshape(dims=(factors,))) model = Sequential() model.add(Merge([left, right], mode=\u0026#39;dot\u0026#39;)) model.compile(loss=\u0026#39;mse\u0026#39;, optimizer=\u0026#39;adamax\u0026#39;) callbacks = [EarlyStopping(\u0026#39;val_loss\u0026#39;, patience=2), \\ ModelCheckpoint(\u0026#39;movie_weights.h5\u0026#39;, save_best_only=True)] model.fit([Users, Movies], Ratings, batch_size=1000000, \\ validation_split=.1, callbacks=callbacks) Ta da! We\u0026rsquo;ve just created a left embedding layerthat creates a Users by Latent Factors matrix and a right embedding layer that creates a Movies by Latent Factors matrix. When the input to these is a user id and a movie id, then they return the latent factor vectors for the user and the movie, respectively. The Merge layer then takes the dot product of these two things to return rating. We compile the model using MSE as the loss function and the AdaMax learning algorithm (which is superior to Sparse Gradient Descent). Our callbacks monitor the validation loss and we save the model weights each time the validation loss has improved.\nThe really nice thing about this implementation is that we can model hundreds of latent factors quite quickly. In my particular case, I can train on nearly 100 million ratings, half a million users and almost 20,000 movies in roughly 5 minutes per epoch, 30 epochs - 2.5 hours. But if I use the GPU (GeForce GTX 960), the epoch time decreases to 90s for a total training time of 45 minutes.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2016/03/07/index-html/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTen years ago, Netflix started the Netflix challenge. A contest to see if the community could come up with a movie recommendation approach that beat their own by 10%. One of the primary modeling techniques that came out of the contest was a set of sparse matrix factoring models whose earliest description can be found at \u003ca href=\"http://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20061211.html\"\u003eSimon Funk\u0026rsquo;s website\u003c/a\u003e. The basic idea is that the actual ratings of movies for each user can be represented by a matrix, say of users on the rows and movies along the columns. We don\u0026rsquo;t have the full rating matrix, instead, we have a very sparse set of entries. But if we could factor the rating matrix into two separate matrices, say one that was Users by Latent Factors, and one that was Latent Factors by Movies, then we could find the user\u0026rsquo;s rating for any movie by taking the dot product of the User row and the Movie column.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Collaborative filtering in Keras"},{"content":"Let\u0026rsquo;s see, it\u0026rsquo;s been about 5 (?!) years since I\u0026rsquo;ve written anything here. Since then, I\u0026rsquo;ve gotten married and nowhave a two year old daughter. My old company was acquired by a large defense contractor, I left a few months ago and I\u0026rsquo;m now working on machine learning for a medical device company. This space may wind up being used to make machine learning notes to myself.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2016/03/07/is-this-thing-on-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026rsquo;s see, it\u0026rsquo;s been about 5 (?!) years since I\u0026rsquo;ve written anything here. Since then, I\u0026rsquo;ve gotten married and nowhave a two year old daughter. My old company was acquired by a large defense contractor, I left a few months ago and I\u0026rsquo;m now working on machine learning for a medical device company. This space may wind up being used to make machine learning notes to myself.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Is this thing on?"},{"content":"The past week has been a series of ups and downs, culminating in the saga for the last half of the week. My car. My Celica. The first new car I ever owned started making a noise on Wednesday. The noise was due to extremely low engine oil (hypothetical question - what\u0026rsquo;s the point of an oil pressure light if it doesn\u0026rsquo;t come on until after the car is making noise?). The good folks at Jiffy Lube wouldn\u0026rsquo;t actually work on the car, but were kind enough to fill up the oil and suggested that I take it to an automotive shop immediately. I called up Wasp Automotive and made an appointment for the next day. I had heard a lot of good things about Wasp and even had that confirmed after I made the appointment.\nAbout 2:30 on Thursday, Wasp calls up and says that my car, my baby, my constant companion for the past ten and a half years was dead. Dead. Dead! DEAD!! Well, actually, it\u0026rsquo;s not dead yet, but it had a terminal injury and would be dead in maybe 100 miles. PANIC! No, don\u0026rsquo;t panic. I was expecting the noise to be fatal all day on Thursday, so I had checked out a few car places and was contemplating buying a car that night.\nOne really shouldn\u0026rsquo;t impulse buy a car. Instead, I made an appointment to see a Prius over at Carmax on Friday. I had a recommendation for Auction Direct and I saw an interesting Prius at another used car dealership nearby. I called Bill Rankin who generously offered to loan me their truck for a few days. I picked up my car from Wasp, drove it to Bill\u0026rsquo;s, borrowed his truck and was set for the night.\nFriday, I left work early, picked up my title and spare key from K and drove in to Raleigh. The Prius at the used car dealership was okay. It seemed to be in mediocre shape, tires weren\u0026rsquo;t worn down, but they weren\u0026rsquo;t new either, however it was a 2009. I left there and drove down to Carmax for my appointment to see a 2008 Prius. This one was about $1k more, same mileage, but had more features. The problem was that I really hated the service at Carmax. It was everything I had been warned about. Even though I had an appointment, and had been called about it a half hour before, the salesperson I had spoken to was busy, so they had to track down someone else. They kept pushing their warranties. They wanted to use their financing which was about 3% higher than what I wound up with, etc. It turns out that Carmax salespeople work on commission, go figure. I asked if they could hold the car for a day or two so that I could get financing in order. They said, \u0026ldquo;no.\u0026rdquo; kthxbai\nFinally, I went over to Auction Direct. They didn\u0026rsquo;t have any Priuses, but did have a very nice 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid that was about $3k less than the Carmax Prius. I drove it for a bit, decided I liked it and went ahead with the purchase. The Civic Hybrid feels like more of a regular car than a prius. There isn\u0026rsquo;t a big center LCD display with a graphic showing you when you are charging and when you are draining the batteries. Instead, there are a couple of discrete extra guages that provide the exact same information. I like the fact that it uses regular tires, as opposed to the expensive, short-lived low-profile tires of my old Celica.\nThe only problem was that it still took forever to finish up. I didn\u0026rsquo;t get out of there until about a quarter to seven. After all of that, I was not very good company when I got a chance to see my friends. I hope y\u0026rsquo;all forgive me. I\u0026rsquo;m doing better this morning, but it has been a long week.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2011/02/19/what-a-week-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe past week has been a series of ups and downs, culminating in the saga for the last half of the week. My car. My Celica. The first new car I ever owned started making a noise on Wednesday. The noise was due to extremely low engine oil (hypothetical question - what\u0026rsquo;s the point of an oil pressure light if it doesn\u0026rsquo;t come on until after the car is making noise?). The good folks at Jiffy Lube wouldn\u0026rsquo;t actually work on the car, but were kind enough to fill up the oil and suggested that I take it to an automotive shop immediately. I called up Wasp Automotive and made an appointment for the next day. I had heard a lot of good things about Wasp and even had that confirmed after I made the appointment.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"What a week..."},{"content":"So, I\u0026rsquo;ve been in my apartment for an entire two weeks now. Sadly, it\u0026rsquo;s been a bit sparse. There\u0026rsquo;s a bedroom set, a recliner sitting in front of a television which is resting on my stereo. But fortunately, that should all start changing. Yesterday I placed a fairly large furniture order. For the first time in my life, I\u0026rsquo;m going to have new furniture! Not a hand me down, nothing 20 (30?) years old, but honest to god new furniture.\nMy brother (the architect) and his wife (the interior decorator designer [sorry nikki!]) have been incredibly helpful. I showed them some things that I liked and they made recommendations, for improvement. Perhaps the funniest part to me is that when I was showing them what I was thinking, they made the comment that they didn\u0026rsquo;t realize my furniture tastes were so contemporary. If they both weren\u0026rsquo;t so nice, and didn\u0026rsquo;t work in so many different styles, I would have sworn what they said was \u0026ldquo;we didn\u0026rsquo;t realize you had good taste.\u0026rdquo; :-)\nSo, in case anyone\u0026rsquo;s interested, here\u0026rsquo;s what I\u0026rsquo;ve picked out.\nFrom the first image, a sofa, love seat, coffee table and end tables. From the second, the dining room table, a bench and four chairs. From the third, just the entertainment center. Then the rug, a couple of lamps and a screen (no idea what I\u0026rsquo;ll use the screen for, but there it is :-) ).\nAll of it should look very nice in the loft apartment and isn\u0026rsquo;t unreasonable with respect to the art deco bedroom set. Now I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for it to arrive.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2011/01/18/navel-gazing-new-furniture/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo, I\u0026rsquo;ve been in my apartment for an entire two weeks now. Sadly, it\u0026rsquo;s been a bit sparse. There\u0026rsquo;s a bedroom set, a recliner sitting in front of a television which is resting on my stereo. But fortunately, that should all start changing. Yesterday I placed a fairly large furniture order. For the first time in my life, I\u0026rsquo;m going to have new furniture! Not a hand me down, nothing 20 (30?) years old, but honest to god new furniture.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Navel gazing - new furniture"},{"content":"My local paper kindly reminds me that tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s moon rise begins the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and that the associated fasting and prayers begin on Wednesday.\nRecently, I was talking to my neighbor, the very kind, interesting and extremely conservative Glenn Beck viewer. While we were talking, he brought up Muslims and his fear that they were trying to take over the country (apparently, religious appropriation of a country is only okay if it\u0026rsquo;s Christian - but that\u0026rsquo;s another story). According to my neighbor, no religious Muslim could ever possibly be up to any good. I don\u0026rsquo;t explicitly recall him calling Islam a false religion, but he very much believed that you couldn\u0026rsquo;t trust \u0026ldquo;them,\u0026rdquo; that they were all radicalized and out to destroy \u0026ldquo;our\u0026rdquo; way of life.\nAt the time, I countered by noting that while in graduate school, I knew several Muslims that were all very good people, moreover, I would be surprised if any of them have converted to a fundamentalist form of Islam. My advisor was a (I believe non-practising) Muslim. One of the best and kindest professors in my department was a practising Muslim - on his office wall, he had a discrete prayer calendar reminding him of the appropriate times to pray. Moreover, there were several Muslim graduate students in my research group, including a gentleman named Hakan.\nHakan was a great guy (presumably he still is, I just haven\u0026rsquo;t seen him in several years). At the time, K and I lived in a town house a couple of miles from my office, in a part of the city that was growing. Because of the population growth, the city decided to put in a new water pumping station just down the street. Unfortunately, we had plastic piping in and leading up to the town house. When they first started testing the new station, a pipe burst in the front yard. We had a plumber come out, dig it up and fix it. Shortly thereafter, a new spot went and I did the digging and repairing myself. Finally, after the third time, I had enough. I was going to (hand!) dig a trench between the water meter and the house and put in copper piping.\nWell, I mention this to my officemates, and Hakan volunteers to help dig the ditch. He came out on Saturday morning and we spent several hours in the sun, digging the trench and tunneling under the sidewalk. After a couple of hours, I asked him if he wanted some lunch or something to drink. He said that he couldn\u0026rsquo;t - it was Ramadan and therefore, forbidden. I was horrified that I had him out in the sun, digging a ditch while he couldn\u0026rsquo;t eat or drink. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t the middle of summer, but I recall it being hot enough that I was worried about his health. Regardless, he persevered and we got the copper piping installed. Thinking back on it, my understanding is that a part of Ramadan is service and in taking his beliefs more seriously than many people I know, he was both abiding by the fasting requirements of Ramadan and helping his officemate, even if it was physically taxing.\nI do understand why people would be concerned about fundamentalism in Islam, I\u0026rsquo;m concerned about it too. But I\u0026rsquo;m also concerned about fundamentalism in Christianity and most other religions for that matter. But those who think that all Muslims are radical or that all of Islam is somehow tainted by the radicals, need to spend some time with Hakan or any of the other Muslims that have positively affected by life.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/08/09/ramadan/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMy local paper kindly reminds me that tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s moon rise begins the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and that the associated fasting and prayers begin on Wednesday.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecently, I was talking to my neighbor, the very kind, interesting and extremely conservative Glenn Beck viewer. While we were talking, he brought up Muslims and his fear that they were trying to take over the country (apparently, religious appropriation of a country is only okay if it\u0026rsquo;s Christian - but that\u0026rsquo;s another story). According to my neighbor, no religious Muslim could ever possibly be up to any good. I don\u0026rsquo;t explicitly recall him calling Islam a false religion, but he very much believed that you couldn\u0026rsquo;t trust \u0026ldquo;them,\u0026rdquo; that they were all radicalized and out to destroy \u0026ldquo;our\u0026rdquo; way of life.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Ramadan"},{"content":"Last Friday, hsarik pointed out an interesting web site: Echo Nest. They provide a web service that allows you to analyze and remix music. The API also can provide information (meta-data) about music, artists, songs etc. and has Python bindings. If you\u0026rsquo;ve seen the \u0026ldquo;More Cowbell\u0026rdquo; website where you can upload an mp3 and have more cowbell (and more Christopher Walken) added to it, well that site uses Echo Nest and if you download the python bindings for their API, you can see the script that adds the sounds. Personally, I\u0026rsquo;m fond of \u0026ldquo;Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da\u0026rdquo; with 80% cowbell and 20% Christopher Walken.\nI started playing with the API and as a first cut thought it would be neat to use the \u0026ldquo;get_similar\u0026rdquo; function. So for each artist, you can get the top N similar artists. Now where can I get a list of artists I like? Well, I could type \u0026rsquo;em in, but that sucks. So I wrote a small program which:\nOpens the database on my iPod (or a directory of mp3 files) Finds each artist by either reading the iPod db or looking at the id3 tags in all of the files For each artist, add a node to a graph where the area of the node is proportional to the number of songs that artist has on the iPod (or in the music folder) For each artist, finds the top 50 similar artists For all of the similar artists that are in my collection of artists, add a graph edge between the two nodes Plot the graph What can I say, I\u0026rsquo;ve been working on a fair amount of graph-theory at work recently. So after processing my iPod, I came up with the following graph of my current music (click to embiggen):\nOkay, that\u0026rsquo;s pretty cool. Almost completely illegible, but cool. FWIW, the graph has 15 connected components, unfortunately, 13 of them are \u0026ldquo;singles\u0026rdquo; (not connected to anything), with one pair (Louis Armstrong paired with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington). Fortunately, the graphing tool I use (igraph), has built in tools for doing community analysis (using the leading eigenvector method), i.e., we can automatically find tightly coupled subgraphs. A few examples from the 25 or so communities:\nwhich arguably correspond to \u0026ldquo;Indie,\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Classic Rock,\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Jam Bands,\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Guitar Gods,\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Alternative.\u0026rdquo; If I processed my complete music database, I suspect we would wind up with several other communities, e.g., Blues. But since Robert Johnson is the only blues I\u0026rsquo;ve got on there right now\u0026hellip; he\u0026rsquo;s in a class by himself.\nI suppose it goes w/o saying, that my musical tastes aren\u0026rsquo;t everyone\u0026rsquo;s and that if you don\u0026rsquo;t like my musical tastes, you can keep it to yourself or go DIAF :-)\nSo, what\u0026rsquo;s next? I was talking with M from my office and we\u0026rsquo;ve come up with another interesting project for the Echo Nest API. This one a) uses the audio analysis functions, and b) if we do it right might cause someone to send us a cease and desist. So, win all the way around.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/06/16/the-sounds-of-science/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast Friday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.heathbar.org/weblog/\"\u003ehsarik\u003c/a\u003e pointed out an interesting web site: \u003ca href=\"http://echonest.com\"\u003eEcho Nest\u003c/a\u003e. They provide a web service that allows you to analyze and remix music. The API also can provide information (meta-data) about music, artists, songs etc. and has Python bindings. If you\u0026rsquo;ve seen the \u0026ldquo;\u003ca href=\"http://www.morecowbell.dj/\"\u003eMore Cowbell\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rdquo; website where you can upload an mp3 and have more cowbell (and more Christopher Walken) added to it, well that site uses Echo Nest and if you download the python bindings for their API, you can see the script that adds the sounds. Personally, I\u0026rsquo;m fond of \u0026ldquo;Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da\u0026rdquo; with 80% cowbell and 20% Christopher Walken.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The Sounds of Science"},{"content":"Four years ago, I made the switch to digital SLR photography. The primary reason was the workflow. When I shot slide film, I would have to get the film developed, look at each image, scan the ones I liked, correct the color balance and then manually remove the dust spots from the scanned images.\nWhen I first got the digital camera, the workflow became: auto-correct the color balance using the Nikon\u0026rsquo;s color profile, then select the images I liked. Great!\nUnfortunately, over the years, my SLR has gotten dust on the sensor, because I was doing what Nikon said and not mucking with the sensor to try to clean it. So, first thing is that I should ignore Nikon and actually clean the sensor. But the second thing is that this has really screwed with my workflow. Last year, after identifying the \u0026ldquo;good\u0026rdquo; images, I had to manually go through them and use the Heal tool in the GIMP in order to get rid of a few dust spots. Well, dust is cumulative and this year it was worse than ever. In particular, the dust was more noticeable because I was shooting a lot of waterfalls\u0026hellip; long exposures with a small aperture - dust city. Take a look at the following:\nTo some extent or another, that\u0026rsquo;s on every single image I took while K and I were on vacation.\nI could repeat my old workflow, but that would take days. New idea: there is a tool in the GIMP called the Smart Remove Selection. It takes a selected bit of the image and replaces it with textures from the surrounding area. It\u0026rsquo;s comparable to Photoshop\u0026rsquo;s content-aware fill. So, if I can select all of the visible dust, I can clean it at one time. But that\u0026rsquo;s still slow.\nInstead, I selected all of the dust from the image above. Grew the selection by 10 pixels, converted it to a path and then saved the path as an SVG file. Since the dust is at the same location in each image, a single dust file is relevant to all of my images.\nNow all I have to do is to open an image, import the path, convert the path to a selection and apply the smart remove. That\u0026rsquo;s a little better, but still means that I have to touch each file manually.\nEnter GIMP scripting. Last night, I wrote a script that takes a file glob, converts it to a list of files, and for each file automatically removes the dust and color corrects the image. It still takes about a minute per file, but it\u0026rsquo;s completely automated. Unfortunately, the first version of the script only handled horizontal images. But since I always turn the camera clockwise when I shoot vertically, I was able to modify it to rotate the image appropriately, apply the dust removal and then rotate the image back i the height of the image is greater than the width.\nThe results are pretty great:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/06/03/photography-workflow/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFour years ago, I made the switch to digital SLR photography. The primary reason was the \u003ca href=\"/2006/07/25/time-to-switch-to-digital\"\u003eworkflow\u003c/a\u003e. When I shot slide film, I would have to get the film developed, look at each image, scan the ones I liked, correct the color balance and then manually remove the dust spots from the scanned images.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I first got the digital camera, the workflow became: auto-correct the color balance using the Nikon\u0026rsquo;s color profile, then select the images I liked. Great!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Photography workflow"},{"content":"Presumably, most people have now heard that Arizona has passed a new law respecting immigration enforcement. Reactions, as one might expect, are mixed depending on one\u0026rsquo;s thoughts on immigration, and more specifically, the potential for illegal immigration. Mexico has issued a travel warning for its citizens, advising them not to visit the state. Various AZ mayors have decried the law. Some right wingers love it, while others hate it, and of course George Will is still an asshole. And finally, even though the law doesn\u0026rsquo;t go into effect for another three months or so, we can already see what the future will be like for Hispanics in Arizona.\nHonestly, I can\u0026rsquo;t believe that we\u0026rsquo;re talking about a state where you might expect law enforcement to request your papers.\nI did have a few questions, including what exactly does the law require? And how will it be enforced? In a nutshell, the law:\nRequires officials and agencies to reasonably attempt to determine the immigration status of a person involved in a lawful contact where reasonable suspicion exists regarding the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation.\nOkay, so, how does one form a reasonable suspicion? Well, good for Arizona, the law further:\nStipulates that a law enforcement official or agency cannot solely consider race, color or national origin when implementing these provisions, except as permitted by the U.S. or Arizona Constitution.\nSo, I don\u0026rsquo;t know what is permitted by the Arizona Constitution, maybe all of those forms of profiling, maybe none. But one final question, given that the mayor of Phoenix doesn\u0026rsquo;t support the law, how do you guarantee that it gets enforce? Well, a citizen can sue if there\u0026rsquo;s a policy that doesn\u0026rsquo;t support enforcement:\nAllows a person who is a legal resident of this state to bring an action in superior court to challenge officials and agencies of the state, counties, cities, towns or other political subdivisions that adopt or implement a policy that limits or restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.\nRequires the court to order any that a violating entity pays a civil penalty of at least $1,000 and not to exceed $5,000 for each day that the policy has remained in effect after it has been found to be violating these provisions.\nA few thoughts:\nIt\u0026rsquo;s not clear to me how one forms a reasonable suspicion about the immigration status of the person, except given their ethnic background It\u0026rsquo;s not clear to me that ethnic background is even restricted as a category for consideration in the law, based on Latinos being Caucasian and questions about what is permitted under Arizona\u0026rsquo;s constitution Given #1 and #2 above, I don\u0026rsquo;t think people realize how ineffective ethnicity is in determining legal status Fortunately, statistics gives us a good answer to #3. For the following, let\u0026rsquo;s consider that L indicates Latino, and I represents illegal.\nBayes rule tells us that the probability of being illegal given that you are Latino [ Pr(I | L) ] is the probability of being illegal (the prior, Pr(I)) times the probability of being Latino given that you are Illegal (likelihood, Pr(L|I)) divided by the evidence or the probability of being illegal given Latino and given not Latino [Pr(L|I)*P(I) + Pr(L| not I)*Pr(not I)]\nso, Pr(I|L) = Pr(L|I) * Pr(I) / (Pr(I|L) + Pr(I| not L))\nWe can quantify this somewhat, from StateMaster\nThe population of AZ = 5,939,292\nLegal Hispanic/Latino population of AZ = 1,803,377\nEstimated number of illegals in AZ = 283,000\nIf we assume that all illegals are Hispanic, then:\nP(I) = 283,000 / 5,939,292 = .04765\nP(L|I) = 1.0\nP(L| not I) = 1,803,377 / 5,939,292 = .30364\nSo, the probability of being illegal given that you are Latino is: .14147 or ~14%. Which in my mind is no reason to form a suspicion. Hell, more that 14% of the population are pot smokers, you wouldn\u0026rsquo;t want to give the police authority to stop and arrest everyone to find that subset who are.\nCAVEATS AND NOTES\nThe data above are from 2000 and may not be current; however, illegal immigration shows a strong economic correlation and the economy is down compared to the boom year of 2000, so the numbers are probably in the right ballpark I don\u0026rsquo;t believe that Pr(L | I) = 1.0. This says that all illegals are Latinos. That\u0026rsquo;s bull. There are plenty of Asian and European illegals. Adjusting this probability down will significantly decrease Pr(I | L). For example, assuming P(L|I) = 0.8 results in P(I|L) = ~.116. The above analysis assumes that Bayes\u0026rsquo; law is true, but if it isn\u0026rsquo;t then we\u0026rsquo;re all seriously screwed. Finally, I would be uncomfortable with racial profiling even if Pr(I|L) \u0026gt; 0.5. It\u0026rsquo;s just not America when the cops stop and ask you for your citizenship papers. I can think of a few places where that did occur, but won\u0026rsquo;t risk the Godwin retraction by invoking them. So, what to do? I was challenged a few years ago as to my solution to the illegal immigrant \u0026ldquo;problem.\u0026rdquo; My first response is that you are assuming it\u0026rsquo;s a problem. After all, studies have shown that low-wage legal and illegal immigrants actually grow an economy. Moreover, since many pay into Social Security and Medicare, without receiving benefits, that helps those programs. OTOH, it\u0026rsquo;s not fair to have them pay in without receiving services; moreover, the social safety net should be expanded to help all those in our community. So, in that sense illegal immigration is a problem. However, the solution is straight forward. Enforce current laws restricting a business\u0026rsquo;s ability to hire illegals. Illegals come here due to the draw of jobs. Businesses love \u0026rsquo;em because they often work below minimum wage, and don\u0026rsquo;t complain about things like OSHA requirements. Fine - regulate the businesses better and we\u0026rsquo;ll\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/04/27/what-ahem-wtf-is-wrong-with-arizona/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePresumably, most people have now heard that Arizona has \u003ca href=\"http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/2r/summary/h.sb1070_04-19-10_astransmittedtogovernor.doc.htm\"\u003epassed a new law respecting immigration enforcement\u003c/a\u003e. Reactions, as one might expect, are mixed depending on one\u0026rsquo;s thoughts on immigration, and more specifically, the potential for illegal immigration. Mexico has \u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36802460\"\u003eissued a travel warning for its citizens\u003c/a\u003e, advising them not to visit the state. Various \u003ca href=\"http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12386539\"\u003eAZ mayors have decried the law\u003c/a\u003e. Some right wingers love it, while \u003ca href=\"http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/arizona-immigration-law-so-bad-joe-scarbor\"\u003eothers hate it\u003c/a\u003e, and of course \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042702741.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\"\u003eGeorge Will is still an asshole\u003c/a\u003e. And finally, even though the law doesn\u0026rsquo;t go into effect for another three months or so, we can already see \u003ca href=\"http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/az-truck-driver-forced-show-birth-certifica\"\u003ewhat the future will be like for Hispanics in Arizona\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"What, ahem, WTF is wrong with Arizona?"},{"content":"“I’m the bearded lady! Who are you, one of the freaks?”\nThis explains everything. Apparently those of us that are blessed with beards are deemed to be more credible than our clean shaven brethren. At least that seems to be the case for neat, medium length beards. And unless we’re trying to sell underwear… go figure.\nI wonder if there’s trust-worthiness scale for beard-type? Inter-webz to the rescue:\nPlease note that my full beard is very trustworthy. My father’s “cop mustache” aka “The Burt Reynolds” is mildly trustworthy. And my brother’s, circa 2000, soul patch put him somewhere between threatening and dangerous.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/04/22/trust-me-im-bearded-or-4/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I’m the bearded lady! Who are you, one of the freaks?”\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Trustworthiness-of-Beards/22581/\"\u003eThis explains everything\u003c/a\u003e. Apparently those of us that are blessed with beards are deemed to be more credible than our clean shaven brethren. At least that seems to be the case for neat, medium length beards. And unless we’re trying to sell underwear… go figure.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wonder if there’s trust-worthiness scale for beard-type? \u003cstrong\u003eInter-webz\u003c/strong\u003e to the rescue:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://pixelspread.com/images/trust_beard.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://pixelspread.com/images/trust_beard.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlease note that my full beard is very trustworthy. My father’s “cop mustache” aka “The Burt Reynolds” is mildly trustworthy. And my brother’s, circa 2000, soul patch put him somewhere between threatening and dangerous.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Trust me, I'm bearded; or"},{"content":"and their elitist spelling and grammar\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/30/damn-liberals/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eand their \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/\"\u003eelitist spelling and grammar\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Damn liberals"},{"content":"I’ve long maintained that free will is an illusion. That the mind arises from the physicality of the brain and that there is no room for an active will separate from the physical processes of the brain. That’s not to say that I’m a fatalist. I don’t believe that thoughts are deterministic, let alone subject to perfect prediction. My position boils down to the brain as a (gigantic) black box containing an uncountable number of states. Input from the senses changes the state of the brain and occasionally results in actions.\nAssuming (which I don’t) that the processes of the brain were completely deterministic, chaos theory tells us that they would not be predictable (what’s the solution to the three-body problem? [other than a king-sized bed]). Moreover, the processes themselves are dependant on physicalities small enough that quantum effects are relevant and therefore the state changes contain a strong stochastic component.\nPhilosophically speaking, none of this affects the way we should live. Education, punishment, personal interaction all affect the state of the brain and are therefore worthwhile [and inform my position that the real purpose of the criminal code should be rehabilitation and not warehousing, punishment or societal retribution… but that’s a post for another time].\nYesterday, I heard the coolest story on NPR. In a nutshell, moral judgements are apparently influenced by the right temporoparietal junction so that a magnetic pulse disrupting that region of the brain affects those judgements. In the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the researchers told one of four stories to the participants. The stories addressed permutations of effect (neutral or negative) and intent (neutral or negative). So, one story described an unintentional (neutral intent) poisoning resulting in death (negative effect), another described an intentional (negative intention) failed poisoning (neutral effect), etc.\nWhen making moral judgements, adults generally consider intention. So if you didn’t intend to poison someone and did, it’s understandable; whereas if you intended to poison and failed, you are still morally culpable. This is exactly what the researchers found in their controls. However, after disrupting the right temporoparietal junction, participants started making moral judgements based on the effect. You intended to kill someone, but failed? No problem, the person is still alive. You didn’t mean to kill someone and did? You bad person, someone died. Apparently, this is common in children before they learn to make moral judgements based on intention.\nSo, in a nutshell, temporarily altering the physicality of the brain affects people’s thoughts with respect to moral judgements. I’ll consider that support for my position that the mind arises from the physicality of brain and any belief you have in a free will separate from those physical processes is an illusion.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/30/in-which-my-denial-of-free-will-receives-support-from-science-tm/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’ve long maintained that free will is an illusion. That the mind arises from the physicality of the brain and that there is no room for an active will separate from the physical processes of the brain. That’s not to say that I’m a fatalist. I don’t believe that thoughts are deterministic, let alone subject to perfect prediction. My position boils down to the brain as a (gigantic) black box containing an uncountable number of states. Input from the senses changes the state of the brain and occasionally results in actions.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"In which my denial of free will receives support from Science [tm]"},{"content":"Old bit of folk wisdom that has served me well over the years: never wrestle a pig; you both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. Keeping that in mind has kept me out of all sorts of trouble over the years. The only problem? I’m apparently the pig in debates about the new health reform law 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/25/crap-im-the-pig/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOld bit of folk wisdom that has served me well over the years: never wrestle a pig; you both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. Keeping that in mind has kept me out of all sorts of trouble over the years. The only problem? I’m apparently the pig in debates about the new health reform law 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Crap... I'm the pig"},{"content":"Earlier, I posted my current model for predicting the NCAA tournament. Since the whole thing is probabilistic, I figured that I would test it out against the current NCAA standings. I considered four models:\nThe one that I described A random selection of which team would win (50/50 chance) Always picking the top seeded team A model suggested by a colleague at work For each model, I ran 10,000 tests and compared them to the current NCAA tournament results, counting the scores for each test. Results are:\nThe X axis is the score (0-64 at this point), the Y axis is the number of test runs (out of 10k) that achieved that score. The number in the legend is the expected value (score) for each model. As you can see, my model had the [second] highest expected value. Choosing the top seeded team was the worst (guaranteed 10 points) best [see the 2nd update]. Choosing randomly was better than selecting the top seed the worst [see update] and my colleague\u0026rsquo;s model (cyan) was between my model and the random model. Not bad. I\u0026rsquo;ll update after the next two rounds of the tournament.\nUpdate: one interesting thing is that this suggests that there was still a lot of luck in my ESPN pick. Only about 0.5% of my model runs were as good as that one.\nUpdate 2: So, I\u0026rsquo;m lying in bed when it occurs to me that I\u0026rsquo;m an idiot\u0026hellip; the team with the *lowest* seed wins a game in Model 3. This is why I say I don\u0026rsquo;t really know basketball.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/22/model-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eEarlier, I posted my \u003ca href=\"/2010/03/22/they-laughed-at-my-theories\"\u003ecurrent model\u003c/a\u003e for predicting the NCAA tournament. Since the whole thing is probabilistic, I figured that I would test it out against the current NCAA standings. I considered four models:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe one that I described\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA random selection of which team would win (50/50 chance)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlways picking the top seeded team\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA model suggested by a colleague at work\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor each model, I ran 10,000 tests and compared them to the current NCAA tournament results, counting the scores for each test. Results are:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Model update (updated!, updated again)"},{"content":"They laughed at my theories. They threw tomatoes when I presented my paper at the academy! Tomatoes I tell you! My minions cower in terror, shrinking in fright from the very ideas contained herein! But I will show them! I will PROVE IT TO THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. The FOOLS, I WILL DESTROY THEM!! MWAHAHAHAAAA!(ask me how)\nOh, sorry. Where was I? Apparently, there’s this basketball thing going on. Some sort of NCAA tournament that will prove who has the best basketball team. But what if it doesn’t? What if it’s all just arbitrary? Could it be that the chances of any team winning a game are not deterministic, but rather stochastic? I’ll admit that I don’t know that much about basketball. I mean, I played the sport in junior high. I do know the rules. And I even think that it’s a pretty game. But I don’t follow the ins and outs of a particular season.\nSo what’s a guy to do when he doesn’t really follow basketball, but you live in NC where bball is life and it’s bracket time?\nYou model it. Which is exactly what I did.\nThe basic model:\nCompute a team’s wins minus their losses, I’m sure there’s a word for this, but let’s call it demonstrated strength (D) For a given match-up, take a draw from a Beta distribution parameterized by each team’s demonstrated strength (D1 and D2) The resulting draw is the probability that the team representing the first parameter wins Draw from a uniform random variable to predict if that team actually will win There are some flaws with the model, the two obvious ones:\nDifferent teams have different schedules, so one team with a 30-5 record might be a lot better than another with a 30-5 record in a different conference (I’m looking at you SEC) It’s not clear that you should parameterize directly on the demonstrated strengths. There should probably be a scaling factor in there. So that rather than drawing from Beta(D1, D2), you should draw from Beta(alpha*D1, alpha*D2) But this is close enough. The nice features of the model are:\nThe expected probability that a team will win is proportional to D1/(D1+D2). So, a team whose wins outnumber their losses by 10, will have an expected probability of winning of 50% when playing against another team with D2=10. And only a 33% chance of winning when playing against someone with a D2=20 The closer two teams’ demonstrated strength is to zero, the broader the probability distribution is. This reflects added uncertainty for two teams who win only slightly more often than they lose. The larger two team’s demonstrated strength is, the narrower the probability distribution is. For example, D1=20, D2=40 has the same expected probability as D1=10, D2=20; but because this is a more common pattern for the two teams, we don’t have the same variance. This is actually pretty rigorous in Bayesian terms. Throughout the season, we can update the posterior distribution of the probability of winning based on the prior distribution and the most recent game. So, how well does the model work? Good question. I used it on ESPN, and it’s currently ranked in the 92.9th percentile, i.e., better than almost 93% of all ESPN brackets. All of my final four teams are still alive, and in general, the model predicted several of the biggest upsets in the tournament (e.g., Murray State vs Vanderbilt!). That said, this is just one random draw from the model. To test it further, I would like to go through a whole season of games and figure out if the probabilities of winning correspond to the statistics of a Beta distribution for the game’s D1 and D2. Moreover, I would like to infer the alpha parameter that I mention above.\nIf the model appears accurate, and we can properly infer alpha, then we get a probabilistic assessment of how feasible it is to even pick tournament champions. It may just be that at the end of the day, it comes down to luck.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/22/they-laughed-at-my-theories/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThey laughed at my theories. They threw tomatoes when I presented my paper at the academy! Tomatoes I tell you! My minions cower in terror, shrinking in fright from the very ideas contained herein! But I will show them! I will PROVE IT TO THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. \u003cstrong\u003eThe FOOLS, I WILL DESTROY THEM!!\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMWAHAHAHAAAA!\u003c/strong\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http://www.offworlddesigns.com/p-291-fools-i-will-destroy-you-t-shirt.aspx\"\u003eask me how\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOh, sorry. Where was I? Apparently, there’s this basketball thing going on. Some sort of NCAA tournament that will prove who has the best basketball team. But what if it doesn’t? What if it’s all just arbitrary? Could it be that the chances of any team winning a game are not deterministic, but rather stochastic? I’ll admit that I don’t know that much about basketball. I mean, I played the sport in junior high. I do know the rules. And I even think that it’s a pretty game. But I don’t follow the ins and outs of a particular season.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"They laughed at my theories!"},{"content":"Almost three months ago to the day, I wrote about the senate health care reform (HCR) bill, how they had achieved cloture and would vote on Christmas eve. Since December, things haven\u0026rsquo;t looked all that good for HCR. A weak candidate in Massachusetts lost to a republican underwear model (not that there\u0026rsquo;s anything wrong with that), and the Democrats started doing the Democratic thing, which mostly consists of herding all of the cats into a circle and giving them guns to take shots at each other [1]. At one point in late January, the chances of any sort of HCR passing were very close to zero (Intrade was giving it around 22%).\nSince then, President Obama has gotten more involved, and Nancy Pelosi (who love her or hate her will go down in history as one of the most effective Speakers of the House in recent memory) started working on her colleagues and the odds went up significantly. In the past week, it looked almost certain that the House would pass the Senate\u0026rsquo;s bill and then fix the worst budgetary issues in reconciliation. It was looking so certain, that the ignorant cretins in the teaparty were out in force, spitting and hurling racist and homophobic comments at legislators.\nIn spite of all that happened, last night the House did vote to pass the Senate bill. Then came a Republican motion to recommit the reconciliation bill in an effort to spike the whole thing by driving a wedge between the pro-choice and anti-abortion wedges of the Democratic party. That failed after Bart Stupak gave an impassioned speech saying that he believed that the current senate language plus the president\u0026rsquo;s executive order did uphold the Hyde amendment and that the bill was pro-life. In his words, the bill was pro-life because it not only protected children before they were born, but it helped to ensure that their mothers received pre- and post-natal care, that the children would have insurance and that we know that children and families with insurance are healthier than those without.\nOver the past few months, I\u0026rsquo;ve called Stupak a wanker on more than one occasion, but last night he stepped up and helped to pass health care reform for everyone. After the vote to recommit, I went to bed (it was after 11pm and I was a bit tired), but the reconciliation bill was voted upon and also passed!\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s next? Well, the senate will probably pass the reconciliation bill today. That will clean up the crap that they had to stick into the bill in order to overcome a republican filibuster. The President will sign the bill Tuesday. Then we\u0026rsquo;ll start seeing some changes. The bill was begin to close the doughnut hole for drug coverage that the Republicans put into Medicare Part D. It will begin to limit the insurance companies\u0026rsquo; ability to shaft policy holders. And by 2014, we\u0026rsquo;ll see the mandate that everyone must have insurance coverage, even if it is subsidized for the poor. Sometime between now and 2014, Democrats will hopefully start to improve the bill. We still may not get to single payer any time soon, but we might get a public option.\nFrom my standpoint, not too much will change. I\u0026rsquo;ll continue to receive insurance through my company. The congressional budget office (CBO) projects that my company\u0026rsquo;s costs for insurance will go down about 3%. Best of all, I stop having to worry about losing insurance if I lose my job or decide to change jobs. Hell, this even gives me some freedom to consider starting my own business without worrying as much about how to afford health insurance. All in all, passing HCR was an amazing effort and I\u0026rsquo;m proud to have watched it happen.\n[1] FWIW, this is why I still consider myself to be an Independent, even though I almost always vote Democratic - the Democrats are just too fearful of the political consequences of their own popular platform planks?! Personally, I prefer a much more muscular liberal set of policies than the Democrats are usually willing to consider\u0026hellip; even if they agree that those policies would be better for the country.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/22/1146-revision/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAlmost three months ago to the day, I \u003ca href=\"/2009/12/23/heathcare-reform-a-festivus-miracle\"\u003ewrote about the senate health care reform (HCR) bill\u003c/a\u003e, how they had achieved cloture and would vote on Christmas eve. Since December, things haven\u0026rsquo;t looked all that good for HCR. A weak candidate in Massachusetts lost to a republican underwear model (not that there\u0026rsquo;s anything wrong with that), and the Democrats started doing the Democratic thing, which mostly consists of herding all of the cats into a circle and giving them guns to take shots at each other [1]. At one point in late January, the chances of any sort of HCR passing were very close to zero (Intrade was giving it around 22%).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Holy crap... yes we did!"},{"content":"The plumbers finally got out late Monday, in time to find out that the well pump needed replacing, and no they don’t keep a 3/4 hp pump on hand… why do you ask? After the supply store opened back up, they came by around 9:30 this morning and replaced the pump. The bad news? Ouch, replacing a well pump is expensive. The good news? It was $800 less than I was dreading. :-/\nLaundry and dishes are done, next up… showers for everyone!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/hooray-for-water/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe plumbers finally got out late Monday, in time to find out that the well pump needed replacing, and no they don’t keep a 3/4 hp pump on hand… why do you ask? After the supply store opened back up, they came by around 9:30 this morning and replaced the pump. The bad news? Ouch, replacing a well pump is expensive. The good news? It was $800 less than I was dreading. :-/\u003c/p\u003e","title":"hooray for water!"},{"content":"It started off as a good weekend. I swear it did. I was up late Friday (technically, early Saturday) talking to a friend from high school, catching up on this and that. Woke up late, played a bit with the dogs and went out to Celebrity Dairy\u0026rsquo;s open house. I got to pet the baby goats [note: need to add pictures here] and look around the inn. When I left, I had 3 logs of goat cheese, a pint of blueberry preserves and a half pint of hot pepper jelly.\nAfter leaving the dairy, I went to pick K up from the airport. We got home, took the dogs out for a long while, then had a nice simple spaghetti dinner. Sunday I (finally) put some seeds in the garden beds for spring veggies. The usually: spinach, arugula, mesclun, peas, onions and swiss chard. That\u0026rsquo;s when things started to go wrong.\nI turned the sprinkler on the plants and things looked fine. I went back into the house to clean up and noticed the water pressure dropping. Yep. It seemed like the water pump was off again. The breaker this time. I checked the easy places - no obvious signs of a short, so the problem is likely underground. Hopefully the plumber can fix it this afternoon when he comes by. He\u0026rsquo;ll probably have to replace the whole wire set\u0026hellip; all 300\u0026rsquo; of it.\nSo we didn\u0026rsquo;t get to clean up dinner dishes. Getting the polenta off of the pot is not going to be fun. Then I couldn\u0026rsquo;t sleep last night. When I did fall asleep, I was troubled by some very disturbing dreams that, uncharacteristically, I remembered when I woke up. Then to top it all off\u0026hellip; no shower this morning. *bleh*\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/and-the-weekend-started-off-so-well.../","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt started off as a good weekend. I swear it did. I was up late Friday (technically, early Saturday) talking to a friend from high school, catching up on this and that. Woke up late, played a bit with the dogs and went out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.celebritydairy.com/\"\u003eCelebrity Dairy\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rsquo;s open house. I got to pet the baby goats [note: need to add pictures here] and look around the inn. When I left, I had 3 logs of goat cheese, a pint of blueberry preserves and a half pint of hot pepper jelly.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"and the weekend started off so well..."},{"content":"So maybe in my last post, I was a bit hard on Louisiana because it\u0026rsquo;s the state I\u0026rsquo;ve left. It\u0026rsquo;s not like we don\u0026rsquo;t have our own wackos in NC. Two examples:\nOne of NC\u0026rsquo;s representatives, Patrick McHenry (R) has proposed that we put Reagan\u0026rsquo;s face on the $50 bill. Maybe for his work on voodootinkle on trickle down economics? Although there is some appropriate irony to giving Reagan the $50\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s a bill that most people don\u0026rsquo;t use. Personally, I\u0026rsquo;m not rich enough to deal in $50s, $20s maybe. Hey, if we\u0026rsquo;re redesigning money, why don\u0026rsquo;t we give more important presidents more prominent spots. Jefferson definitely outranks Reagan and he\u0026rsquo;s on the never used $2 bill. What about Madison? The dude practically wrote the Constitution. Shouldn\u0026rsquo;t those of who don\u0026rsquo;t use $5,000 bills get a chance to see him? And closer to home, the newly minted republican majority on the Wake county school board has succeeded in rolling back a nationally recognized program to improve educational outcomes by ensuring socio-economic diversity. Sure, I was bussed in elementary school. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t the most enjoyable experience of my life, but at the same time, I think that it was good for me as a person to be exposed to other socio-economic groups at school. Moreover, the program in Wake has demonstrated that it reduces the achievement gap between poor/minority students and rich/white students. That\u0026rsquo;s gotta be worth a little time on the bus. Music for the evening: Danger Mouse\u0026rsquo;s and Sparklehorse\u0026rsquo;s Dark Night of the Soul and Titus Andronicus\u0026rsquo;s The Airing of Grievances. They seem to capture the mood.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/03/turn-about-and-all-that/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo maybe in my \u003ca href=\"/2010/03/03/seriously-w-t-f\"\u003elast post\u003c/a\u003e, I was a bit hard on Louisiana because it\u0026rsquo;s the state I\u0026rsquo;ve left. It\u0026rsquo;s not like we don\u0026rsquo;t have our own wackos in NC. Two examples:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne of NC\u0026rsquo;s representatives, Patrick McHenry (R) has proposed that \u003ca href=\"http://mchenry.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=174295\"\u003ewe put Reagan\u0026rsquo;s face on the $50 bill\u003c/a\u003e. Maybe for his work on voodootinkle on trickle down economics? Although there is some appropriate irony to giving Reagan the $50\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s a bill that most people don\u0026rsquo;t use. Personally, I\u0026rsquo;m not rich enough to deal in $50s, $20s maybe. Hey, if we\u0026rsquo;re redesigning money, why don\u0026rsquo;t we give more important presidents more prominent spots. Jefferson definitely outranks Reagan and he\u0026rsquo;s on the never used $2 bill. What about Madison? The dude practically wrote the Constitution. Shouldn\u0026rsquo;t those of who don\u0026rsquo;t use $5,000 bills get a chance to see him?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd closer to home, the newly minted republican majority on the Wake county school board has succeeded in \u003ca href=\"http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A411916\"\u003erolling back a nationally recognized program to improve educational outcomes by ensuring socio-economic diversity\u003c/a\u003e. Sure, I was bussed in elementary school. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t the most enjoyable experience of my life, but at the same time, I think that it was good for me as a person to be exposed to other socio-economic groups at school. Moreover, the program in Wake has demonstrated that it reduces the achievement gap between poor/minority students and rich/white students. That\u0026rsquo;s gotta be worth a little time on the bus.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csigh\u003e Music for the evening: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse_and_Sparklehorse_Present:_Dark_Night_of_the_Soul\"\u003eDanger Mouse\u0026rsquo;s and Sparklehorse\u0026rsquo;s Dark Night of the Soul\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Airing_of_Grievances_%28album%29\"\u003eTitus Andronicus\u0026rsquo;s The Airing of Grievances\u003c/a\u003e. They seem to capture the mood.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Turn about and all that"},{"content":"Every once in a while, something from Louisiana will catch the national attention, or at least the political bits that I care about, and I\u0026rsquo;m once again reminded of why I\u0026rsquo;m happy to have left. The latest? Apparently, the Bossier Parish sheriff is creating himself a militia. No really. It\u0026rsquo;s called \u0026ldquo;Operation Exodus,\u0026rdquo; which according to the sheriff\u0026rsquo;s press release is an allusion to the biblical Book of Exodus. I\u0026rsquo;m not certain if that worries me or makes me happy that it\u0026rsquo;s not a reference to secession. I think I\u0026rsquo;ll go with worry since it\u0026rsquo;s a biblical reference to secession.\nNow, in fairness, the sheriff claims that the program is not a militia, but rather:\nThe plan, known as Operation Exodus, will provide for self-sufficiency in the event of a manmade or natural disaster or a terrorist attack. Exodus will take local volunteers, train them and use them in response to a catastrophic disaster in the area. These volunteers will work in conjunction with the Bossier Sheriff’s Office to secure and protect viable resources in such an event.\nFor the record, this is B.S. The sheriff wants the operation to sound like an adult version of the Boy Scouts where his parish will \u0026ldquo;always be prepared.\u0026rdquo; But I was a cub scout, I\u0026rsquo;m pretty certain that I would have stayed on for the Boy Scouts if we were going to have access to \u0026ldquo;the war wagon\u0026rdquo; with a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on top.\nApparently, the militia concerned citizens are mostly past middle age [no!] white [really?!] men [shocked!!]. Women will be given the support roles and apparently, the five black members of the militia operation will be in charge of stepping and fetching [okay, i made that last one up].\nThe sad part is that things seem worse in Louisiana than they were 16+ years ago when I left. But maybe I just hear the worst of it from here. Or maybe I wasn\u0026rsquo;t paying attention to the social and political environment until after I left. That last option has a lot of support: hell, I voted for Ross Perot in \u0026lsquo;92 :-)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/03/seriously-w-t-f/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eEvery once in a while, something from Louisiana will catch the national attention, or at least the political bits that I care about, and I\u0026rsquo;m once again reminded of why I\u0026rsquo;m happy to have left. The latest? Apparently, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100227/NEWS01/2270314/1060/NEWS01\"\u003eBossier Parish sheriff is creating himself a militia\u003c/a\u003e. No really. It\u0026rsquo;s called \u0026ldquo;Operation Exodus,\u0026rdquo; which according to the sheriff\u0026rsquo;s \u003ca href=\"http://www.bossiersheriff.com/public-view-news.cfm?id=781\"\u003epress release\u003c/a\u003e is an allusion to the biblical Book of Exodus. I\u0026rsquo;m not certain if that worries me or makes me happy that it\u0026rsquo;s not a reference to secession. I think I\u0026rsquo;ll go with worry since it\u0026rsquo;s a biblical reference to secession.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Seriously, W... T... F?"},{"content":"K\u0026rsquo;s out of town this week. IIRC, this is the first week since we\u0026rsquo;ve been married that she\u0026rsquo;s out of town and I\u0026rsquo;m still at the house. I figure that\u0026rsquo;s gotta give me a good sense of what I\u0026rsquo;m actually like without her, um, civilizing influences. Helpfully summarized in the table below:\nBehavior****ChangeTelevision watchingdecreasedComputer useincreasedWork while at homeincreasedBowling averagesway upMini-golf scoresway downAlcohol consumptionslightly increasedNews consumptiongreatly decreasedFood varietydecreasedFood qualityno changeFood healthinessno changeTime spent preparing food\ndecreased\nStereo/music listeningincreasedTime spent in bed/sleeping\ndecreasedQuality of sleepincreasedSexnon-existentExerciseincreased\nNo real observation here, certainly nothing that\u0026rsquo;s statistically significant (let\u0026rsquo;s see you construct a double blind study of a man\u0026rsquo;s activities when his wife is a thousand miles away). Just amusing myself really. Next up\u0026hellip; the amazing idiocy of George Bush photos captioned with \u0026ldquo;Miss me yet?\u0026rdquo; But right now, it\u0026rsquo;s Ghetto Pop Life\u0026hellip; go ahead, I\u0026rsquo;ll wait while you cue it up.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2010/03/01/distilled-essence-of-me/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK\u0026rsquo;s out of town this week. IIRC, this is the first week since we\u0026rsquo;ve been married that she\u0026rsquo;s out of town and I\u0026rsquo;m still at the house. I figure that\u0026rsquo;s gotta give me a good sense of what I\u0026rsquo;m actually like without her, um, civilizing influences. Helpfully summarized in the table below:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBehavior****Change\u003c/strong\u003eTelevision watchingdecreasedComputer useincreasedWork while at homeincreased\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/quotes?qt0532136\"\u003eBowling averages\u003c/a\u003eway up\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/quotes?qt0532136\"\u003eMini-golf scores\u003c/a\u003eway downAlcohol consumptionslightly increasedNews consumptiongreatly decreasedFood varietydecreasedFood qualityno changeFood healthinessno changeTime spent preparing food\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Distilled essence of me"},{"content":"Speaking of Festivus, I should note a recent sighting of a genuine Festivus miracle… they still had a quart of Maple View Farms eggnog at the grocery store!\nEr, actually, a better Festivus miracle is that today the senate democratic caucus reached the 60 votes needed for their final cloture vote and will vote on healthcare reform tomorrow. FWIW, the vote could have been held today, but Vitter (R-LA) objected. The bill also could have been held up until 8pm tomorrow, but republicans couldn’t quite bring themselves to wait that long to get out of town. So instead, the vote (needing only 50 ayes plus Biden) will happen at 7am tomorrow morning.\nA quick note on the bill. Put me in the camp with folks who wanted something better, but regard the senate bill as a significant step forward. Specifically, I would love to see something like a single payer system. People seem pretty happy with Medicare (wasn’t a common teabagger cry: “keep the government out of my Medicare!”?), so gradually expanding Medicare eligibility to younger people, eventually allowing a person of any age to buy into Medicare seems like a good idea. We would still need to fix the republican Medicare Part D prohibition on negotiation with drug companies, but that’s minor.\nFailing single payer, what I really would like to see are controls on how hard the insurance companies can screw you (currently hard enough to make you want to scream “ green balloons“), and then provide subsidies to allow more people to buy insurance. Well, that’s what we got. Sure, there’s a purchasing mandate – you must buy insurance, but that’s pretty reasonable.\nSo, it’s not a perfect bill, but it’s a good start and will help literally millions of people and will literally save tens of thousands of lives each year. That’s a good first step. There’s nothing that says that we can’t improve the bill over the next decade. That’s what has happened with every other expansion of the social safety net for the past 60+ years, from social security to medicare. There is no progressive rapture. We won’t pass a bill and then be taken up to liberal heaven or achieve social nirvana. There aren’t 72 hippie virgins waiting for us at the signing of any piece of legislation. And neither mankind nor its societies are perfectible. But both mankind and society is subject to continuous improvement. We can make things better and this bill is another step in that process.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/12/23/heathcare-reform-a-festivus-miracle/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSpeaking of Festivus, I should note a recent sighting of a genuine Festivus miracle… they still had a quart of Maple View Farms eggnog at the grocery store!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEr, actually, a better Festivus miracle is that today the senate democratic caucus reached the 60 votes needed for their final cloture vote and will vote on healthcare reform tomorrow. FWIW, the vote could have been held today, but Vitter (R-LA) objected. The bill also could have been held up until 8pm tomorrow, but republicans couldn’t quite bring themselves to wait that long to get out of town. So instead, the vote (needing only 50 ayes plus Biden) will happen at 7am tomorrow morning.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Heathcare reform: a Festivus miracle!"},{"content":"Just a reminder of that it\u0026rsquo;s the 23rd. Bring on the feast and the airing of grievances! After dinner, all of the pets in the house will have to try to pin me in the feats of strength :-)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/happy-festivus/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eJust a reminder of that it\u0026rsquo;s the 23rd. Bring on the feast and the airing of grievances! After dinner, all of the pets in the house will have to try to pin me in the feats of strength :-)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen\" loading=\"eager\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/dS7-jcsB_WQ?autoplay=0\u0026amp;controls=1\u0026amp;end=0\u0026amp;loop=0\u0026amp;mute=0\u0026amp;start=0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;\" title=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\t\t\u003c/div\u003e","title":"Happy Festivus!"},{"content":" Now I want to be professor Claus when I grow up. I wonder where you can find Nietzsche sweaters?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/all-the-old-favorites/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.bigfatwhale.com/archives/bfw_439.htm\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/xmas_traditions.jpeg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Now I want to be professor Claus when I grow up. I wonder where you can find Nietzsche sweaters?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"All the old favorites"},{"content":"42 ° and sunny, perfect for turning:\n10273\ninto:\n10270\ninto: 10276\nand then: 10267\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/42-and-sunny.../","summary":"\u003cp\u003e42 ° and sunny, perfect for turning:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10273\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003einto:\u003cbr\u003e\n10270\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003einto: 10276\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand then: 10267\u003c/p\u003e","title":"42 and sunny..."},{"content":"This just makes me sad. Two articles, one in the WSJ, the other on CNN, describing how insurgents in Iraq are hacking predator drones and receiving the video feeds that the drones are sending back to U.S. ground stations. First things first, let\u0026rsquo;s fix the headlines. Both are running something like \u0026ldquo;Iraqi insurgents hacked Predator drone feeds.\u0026rdquo; That should more clearly read: \u0026ldquo;Iraqi insurgents watching the videos that the Predator drone sends out unencrypted.\u0026rdquo; Or maybe \u0026ldquo;Iraqi insurgents watch Predator drone feeds on TV.\u0026rdquo;\nIf you look into the article, you find that insurgents are apparently using a $26 piece of software that let takes satellite data and saves parts of it that might not be intended for your computer. Essentially, it monitors the data that is sent and when it sees a file transferred will save it to your hard drive, regardless of whether or not your computer was the intended destination.\nNow, I\u0026rsquo;ve been doing computer security work for over a decade. I was the first person at my university to implement anti-virus in email, I was the first to require a department to use all-encrypted communication for transmitting passwords. I discovered one of the earliest IRC-based botnets. I\u0026rsquo;ve found vulnerabilities in financial systems. I\u0026rsquo;ve seen \u0026hellip; [a]ttack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I\u0026rsquo;ve watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. Er, some of that last bit may have been someone else, but you get the idea.\nThis stuff isn\u0026rsquo;t that hard. SSL is over 15 years old, we know how to do encryption. Hell, back in the 90s when we were developing the Predator, the U.S. was treating encryption as a munition - you had to get the government\u0026rsquo;s blessing to use decent encryption. Is it too much to ask that an actual weapon include the munition that was encryption? And this from the WSJ article strikes me as BS:\nPredator drones are built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. of San Diego. Some of its communications technology is proprietary, so widely used encryption systems aren\u0026rsquo;t readily compatible, said people familiar with the matter.\nIn an email, a spokeswoman said that for security reasons, the company couldn\u0026rsquo;t comment on \u0026ldquo;specific data link capabilities and limitations.\u0026rdquo;\nOr more to the point, entirely irrelevant. First, the communication system can\u0026rsquo;t be *that* proprietary, since the commercial (if somewhat sketchy) SkyGrabber software can read the transmissions. Second, you developed a proprietary communication system in the mid to late 90s and didn\u0026rsquo;t include encryption? That\u0026rsquo;s the sort of thing that makes the baby Bruce Schneier cry.\nOn the other hand, this from CNN seems far more likely:\nA senior defense official who was not authorized to speak about the security breach said, \u0026ldquo;This was an old issue for us and it has been taken care of,\u0026rdquo; but he would not elaborate on what specifically had been taken care of.\nThe official said that many of the UAV feeds need to be sent out live to numerous people at one time, and encryption was found to slow the real-time link. The encryption therefore was removed from many feeds.\nRemoving the encryption, however, allowed outsiders with the correct tools to gain unauthorized access to these feeds.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll buy that. There are certainly a few encryption schemes that will send encrypted data to multiple parties, hell at the very least, you could use symmetric encryption with shared keys. But that kinda sucks. Most commercial communication encryption technology assumes point to point transfers. If you wanted to send the same data to many people\u0026hellip; you send it multiple times.\nRegardless, this is just embarrassing. These days I\u0026rsquo;m doing security modelling work and if this is the sort of thing that we\u0026rsquo;ll have to consider, I\u0026rsquo;m going to sink into\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/12/18/hacking-predator-drones/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThis just makes me sad. Two articles, one in the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html\"\u003eWSJ\u003c/a\u003e, the other on \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.html\"\u003eCNN\u003c/a\u003e, describing how insurgents in Iraq are hacking predator drones and receiving the video feeds that the drones are sending back to U.S. ground stations. First things first, let\u0026rsquo;s fix the headlines. Both are running something like \u0026ldquo;Iraqi insurgents hacked Predator drone feeds.\u0026rdquo; That should more clearly read: \u0026ldquo;Iraqi insurgents watching the videos that the Predator drone sends out unencrypted.\u0026rdquo; Or maybe \u0026ldquo;Iraqi insurgents watch Predator drone feeds on TV.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\"Hacking\" predator drones"},{"content":"I’m officially boycotting any retailer using “ Santa Baby” in their commercials. Yeah, it’s an empty threat since I wasn’t going to the mall anyway, but there you are. Now to get the idiotic song out of my head. Maybe the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Failing that, a power drill may be my best bet.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/12/17/boycott/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’m officially boycotting any retailer using “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOMmSbxB_Sg\"\u003eSanta Baby\u003c/a\u003e” in their commercials. Yeah, it’s an empty threat since I wasn’t going to the mall anyway, but there you are. Now to get the idiotic song out of my head. Maybe the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Failing that, a power drill may be my best bet.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Boycott!"},{"content":"K and I received our copies of the Yellowstone calendar and they look great. I\u0026rsquo;m happy with both the images we selected and also the printing - which was great. As I mentioned earlier, we went with Zazzle for doing the printing and couldn\u0026rsquo;t be happier. My mom got the ones for the folks in Louisiana and she also thought they looked good. But hey, your mom is supposed to think everything you do looks good, so I was even happier to see that someone I don\u0026rsquo;t know in Illinois bought a copy on the Zazzle marketplace. I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect that, but it was nice to see :-)\n10261\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/12/09/calendar-update-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK and I received our copies of the Yellowstone calendar and they look great. I\u0026rsquo;m happy with both the images we selected and also the printing - which was great. As I \u003ca href=\"/2009/11/23/yellowstone-calendar-pictures\"\u003ementioned earlier\u003c/a\u003e, we went with Zazzle for doing the printing and couldn\u0026rsquo;t be happier. My mom got the ones for the folks in Louisiana and she also thought they looked good. But hey, your mom is supposed to think everything you do looks good, so I was even happier to see that someone I don\u0026rsquo;t know in Illinois bought a copy on the Zazzle marketplace. I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect that, but it was nice to see :-)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calendar update"},{"content":"Okay, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t really dead, I had the flu, but I was wishing that I was dead for a while there. Five days is too long for a massive headache and very high fever. I\u0026rsquo;m finally recovering and doing some self-imposed quarantine after getting on Tamaflu Monday. Tuesday afternoon was somewhat interesting. My doctor\u0026rsquo;s office had given me a little trick - you can take full doses of acetaminophen and full doses of ibuprofen. They\u0026rsquo;ll both contribute to lowering fever and reducing pain, but their side effects are different and you don\u0026rsquo;t risk ulcers or your liver as if you had doubled up on one.\nSo, Tuesday, I\u0026rsquo;m lying in bed doped up on acetaminophen, acid blockers, caffeine, ibuprofen, and tamaflu, feeling better than I had in quite some time. I was wishing there was a Phish album playing, but was too lazy to go put one on. Instead, I laid (diagonal :-) ) in my bed and daydreamed about Bill\u0026rsquo;s in-place, parallel sorting problem. I think I\u0026rsquo;ve got the solution and it seems to hold even now when I\u0026rsquo;m not so dippy.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/12/09/back-from-the-dead/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t really dead, I had the flu, but I was \u003cem\u003ewishing\u003c/em\u003e that I was dead for a while there. Five days is too long for a massive headache and very high fever. I\u0026rsquo;m finally recovering and doing some self-imposed quarantine after getting on Tamaflu Monday. Tuesday afternoon was somewhat interesting. My doctor\u0026rsquo;s office had given me a little trick - you can take full doses of acetaminophen and full doses of ibuprofen. They\u0026rsquo;ll both contribute to lowering fever and reducing pain, but their side effects are different and you don\u0026rsquo;t risk ulcers or your liver as if you had doubled up on one.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Back from the dead"},{"content":"When we put in the massive wall-eating bookcase, I thought that we had enough book space for the next 10,000 years! Or at least the next 10. Unfortunately, things were filling up a bit too fast, so I grabbed some of the books that I know I\u0026rsquo;ll never use again and will send them to recycling. Most are completely out of date (from bottom to top, these are from the mid-80s to the late 90s). Linux Application Development is probably still relevant, but a little too basic. Linux Device Drivers goes all the way through the 2.0 kernel series (and may be relevant for the experimental 2.1 series)! Switched LANs (snicker) and In Search of Clusters were given to me by vendors. And if I ever have to program native X-Windows again, I\u0026rsquo;ll kill myself. I kept the books on C/C++, Python, Perl and PHP - though I\u0026rsquo;ll probably never buy another programming book. Maybe Celeste is right, I should just get a Safari account\u0026hellip; Google works pretty well too. If there\u0026rsquo;s anything you want in here, let me know\u0026hellip; 10258\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/29/trash-heap-of-programming-history/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWhen we put in the massive wall-eating bookcase, I thought that we had enough book space for the next 10,000 years! Or at least the next 10. Unfortunately, things were filling up a bit too fast, so I grabbed some of the books that I know I\u0026rsquo;ll never use again and will send them to recycling. Most are completely out of date (from bottom to top, these are from the mid-80s to the late 90s). Linux Application Development is probably still relevant, but a little too basic. Linux Device Drivers goes all the way through the 2.0 kernel series (and may be relevant for the experimental 2.1 series)! Switched LANs (snicker) and In Search of Clusters were given to me by vendors. And if I ever have to program native X-Windows again, I\u0026rsquo;ll kill myself. I kept the books on C/C++, Python, Perl and PHP - though I\u0026rsquo;ll probably never buy another programming book. Maybe Celeste is right, I should just get a Safari account\u0026hellip; Google works pretty well too. If there\u0026rsquo;s anything you want in here, let me know\u0026hellip;\n10258\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Trash heap of programming history"},{"content":"10256 It\u0026rsquo;s a good day for the Allman Brothers. Great southern rock without the confederate overtones and segregationist dog whistles in Lynard Skynyrd.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/24/allman-brothers-band/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e10256 It\u0026rsquo;s a good day for the Allman Brothers. Great southern rock without the confederate overtones and segregationist dog whistles in Lynard Skynyrd.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Allman Brothers Band"},{"content":"Time to assemble the annual Yellowstone calendar. This year I had a bit of a deadline (and not the shipping deadline this year!). The company I ordered from (Zazzle) was having a 44% off deal, which expires around 3am. Unfortunately, because of my grandfather\u0026rsquo;s death, I never did get around to processing the pictures from this year\u0026rsquo;s trip, so I didn\u0026rsquo;t have anything ready to go. Fortunately, it didn\u0026rsquo;t take that long to find 10\u0026hellip; 18\u0026hellip; 26\u0026hellip; 28\u0026hellip; 29 pictures. It took a bit longer to color correct and prune them back down to the 13 below:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/23/yellowstone-calendar-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTime to assemble the \u003ca href=\"/2006/12/12/2007-yellowstone-calendar\"\u003eannual\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures\"\u003eYellowstone calendar\u003c/a\u003e. This year I had a bit of a deadline (and not the shipping deadline this year!). The company I ordered from (\u003ca href=\"http://zazzle.com/alkahest*\"\u003eZazzle\u003c/a\u003e) was having a 44% off deal, which expires around 3am. Unfortunately, because of my grandfather\u0026rsquo;s death, I never did get around to processing the pictures from this year\u0026rsquo;s trip, so I didn\u0026rsquo;t have anything ready to go. Fortunately, it didn\u0026rsquo;t take that long to find 10\u0026hellip; 18\u0026hellip; 26\u0026hellip; 28\u0026hellip; 29 pictures. It took a bit longer to color correct and prune them back down to the 13 below:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Yellowstone calendar pictures"},{"content":" and that\u0026rsquo;s the last of the summer veggies: pickled green (and unripe red) tomatoes (mostly cherry), bannana peppers, a couple of small eggplant (can you pickle eggplant?) and an okra that I hadn\u0026rsquo;t noticed. I\u0026rsquo;ll crack one of these open in a month or so and see how they taste. FWIW, the pickled bannana peppers from September are great.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/19/canning/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=10208\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"pickled-tomatoes\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=10210\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and that\u0026rsquo;s the last of the summer veggies: pickled green (and unripe red) tomatoes (mostly cherry), bannana peppers, a couple of small eggplant (can you pickle eggplant?) and an okra that I hadn\u0026rsquo;t noticed. I\u0026rsquo;ll crack one of these open in a month or so and see how they taste. FWIW, the \u003ca href=\"/2009/09/21/peter-piper-picked\"\u003epickled bannana peppers\u003c/a\u003e from September are great.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Canning"},{"content":"I thought about titling this \u0026ldquo;VD Day\u0026rdquo; for reasons explained below, but as K pointed out, my mom reads this blog. More to the point, as I noted, my mom has a dirty mind - which is where most of her children got our sense of humor, so she would absolutely get it. Anyway, I took today off work, because a) I recently had a birthday and wanted a three day weekend, and b) there were a number of little things around the house that needed doing. In rough chronological order, I\nfinished up the door that I installed in August (September?). There wasn\u0026rsquo;t much left, I just needed to bore out the hole for the doorbell without tearing up the doorbell wires, with a detour into making the stupid doorbell work again. I got that finished and put up all of the old screen door (in case we reinstall it) then piled up all the old door frame, etc. VD: Victory over the Door! built a new, larger, compost area. We used to have a reasonable sized plastic compost bin, but that has proved difficult to use (hard to turn the pile) and too small. The new one is much simpler, just a couple of stakes holding some 4 foot tall hardware cloth in place, but it\u0026rsquo;s much larger and should be easier to access. cleaned out the garden for the end of summer. Yeah, yeah, it\u0026rsquo;s the middle of the fall, but the plants were still producing. It was good that I had put the compost area together, because I definitely needed the space. I felt a little bad about pulling up the peppers and tomatoes which still had flowers on them, but since we don\u0026rsquo;t have the sun or the warm days left to ripen anything, it was probably for the best. The amazing thing was how much produce was still out there: a couple of small eggplants, some peppers, okra, a number of green onions, and a ton of tomatoes. started preserving what came out of the garden. Some of it went into tonight\u0026rsquo;s dinner: Orzo with Veggies. There were enough ripe tomatoes left to turn into roasted tomato sauce (roast tomatoes, garlic, italian seasoning, balsamic vinegar and olive oil for an hour, then puree and can). I need to get some quart-sized jars tomorrow so that I can pickle all of the green tomatoes\u0026hellip; unless someone someone has another good use for 2+ kg of green tomatoes. Update: I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t forget, I also\ncleaned, chopped and froze all of the green onions; and updated the \u0026ldquo;title font\u0026rdquo; on my blog from \u0026ldquo;renaisannce\u0026rdquo; to \u0026ldquo;english,\u0026rdquo; as well as updated TWRC\u0026rsquo;s events **\n**\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/16/cecs-day-off/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI thought about titling this \u0026ldquo;VD Day\u0026rdquo; for reasons explained below, but as K pointed out, my mom reads this blog. More to the point, as I noted, my mom has a dirty mind - which is where most of her children got our sense of humor, so she would absolutely get it. Anyway, I took today off work, because a) I recently had a birthday and wanted a three day weekend, and b) there were a number of little things around the house that needed doing. In rough chronological order, I\u003c/p\u003e","title":"cec's day off"},{"content":"Courtesy of xkcd:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/sounds-about-right-to-me/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eCourtesy of \u003ca href=\"http://xkcd.org\"\u003exkcd\u003c/a\u003e:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/iphone_or_droid.png\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Sounds about right to me"},{"content":"For all of your theological questions, the deity is now on YouTube. Two of my favorite questions are the problem of evil and how do you explain the trinity. Respectively answered in the \u0026ldquo;Mr. Deity and the Evil\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Mr. Deity and the Identity Crisis,\u0026rdquo; below:\nand\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/11/mr-deity/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor all of your theological questions, the deity is now on YouTube. Two of my favorite questions are the problem of evil and how do you explain the trinity. Respectively answered in the \u0026ldquo;Mr. Deity and the Evil\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Mr. Deity and the Identity Crisis,\u0026rdquo; below:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen\" loading=\"eager\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qzf8q9QHfhI?autoplay=0\u0026amp;controls=1\u0026amp;end=0\u0026amp;loop=0\u0026amp;mute=0\u0026amp;start=0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;\" title=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eand\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Mr. Deity"},{"content":"Minor notes, none worth their own post.\nTraffic management: I get a call from K around 5:30. She’s stuck behind an accident and the cops on the scene, a) don’t tell people to take a detour until they’ve been there for a half hour; and b) once the ambulance has left the scene, don’t direct traffic around the one remaining open lane. So, after waiting a half hour, K has to take a 20+ minute detour home. Memory: Once she gets in, K and I are fixing leftovers for dinner. C: “Hey, where are the mashed potatoes?” K: “Where did you put them?” “In the fridge, but I can’t find them.” “Maybe they’re in the freezer.” “Nope, not there either.” Ten minutes of looking for the potatoes. Did we throw them out on Sunday? Nope, not in the trash. Did C put them in the pantry? Nope. Can’t find ’em, can’t find ’em. Finally, K says, “wait, we fixed rice on Sunday.” There weren’t any potatoes. I would attribute it to getting old, but I’ve always been this way. FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt): we’re testing some things at the office – will our authentication system (active directory) honor password failure lockouts when using LDAP authentication? I ask our windows consultant to either a) answer the question, or b) enable an account lockout policy so we can test. He responds back that he can do that, but with the warning that “many Linux services aren’t well-designed for this, and repeatedly try a cached or user-provided password, so that users or service accounts may be mysteriously locked out after one attempt or at some future time when passwords change.” Which is complete and utter B.S. Signs that it’s BS? He references Linux services as opposed to open source, i.e. attempted linux dig. And I used to “own” identity management services, including authentication at a large university and if this was the case, things would have blown up within 10 minutes. I thanked him for the advice and noted that I’ve never seen this, but that it’s why we test. OS Performance: we’re looking into some new ideas at the office. Things that could be useful as a preprocessor for a host based intrusion detection system. As part of my testing, I told my laptop to audit all syscalls made to the kernel, by all processes on the system. CPU load spiked, system performance went through the floor, the windowing system became almost completely non-responsive. In the two minutes it took to get access to a terminal, I logged 150 MB of audit logs. On the plus side, all of the information we need can be collected. Now I just need to figure out how to keep a usable system. Self aggrandizement: talking to my technical manager, we need to write up two journal papers based on our recent work. Cool! I hope everyone had a good Veteran’s Day and remembered to thank the veterans in their lives.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/11/great-moments-in/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMinor notes, none worth their own post.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTraffic management:\u003c/strong\u003e I get a call from K around 5:30. She’s stuck behind an accident and the cops on the scene, a) don’t tell people to take a detour until they’ve been there for a half hour; and b) once the ambulance has left the scene, don’t direct traffic around the one remaining open lane. So, after waiting a half hour, K has to take a 20+ minute detour home.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMemory:\u003c/strong\u003e Once she gets in, K and I are fixing leftovers for dinner. C: “Hey, where are the mashed potatoes?” K: “Where did you put them?” “In the fridge, but I can’t find them.” “Maybe they’re in the freezer.” “Nope, not there either.” Ten minutes of looking for the potatoes. Did we throw them out on Sunday? Nope, not in the trash. Did C put them in the pantry? Nope. Can’t find ’em, can’t find ’em. Finally, K says, “wait, we fixed rice on Sunday.” There weren’t any potatoes. I would attribute it to getting old, but I’ve always been this way.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt):\u003c/strong\u003e we’re testing some things at the office – will our authentication system (active directory) honor password failure lockouts when using LDAP authentication? I ask our windows consultant to either a) answer the question, or b) enable an account lockout policy so we can test. He responds back that he can do that, but with the warning that “many Linux services aren’t well-designed for this, and repeatedly try a cached or user-provided password, so that users or service accounts may be mysteriously locked out after one attempt or at some future time when passwords change.” Which is complete and utter B.S. Signs that it’s BS? He references Linux services as opposed to open source, i.e. attempted linux dig. And I used to “own” identity management services, including authentication at a large university and if this was the case, things would have blown up within 10 minutes. I thanked him for the advice and noted that I’ve never seen this, but that it’s why we test.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOS Performance:\u003c/strong\u003e we’re looking into some new ideas at the office. Things that \u003cem\u003ecould\u003c/em\u003e be useful as a preprocessor for a host based intrusion detection system. As part of my testing, I told my laptop to audit \u003cstrong\u003eall\u003c/strong\u003e syscalls made to the kernel, by \u003cstrong\u003eall\u003c/strong\u003e processes on the system. CPU load spiked, system performance went through the floor, the windowing system became almost completely non-responsive. In the two minutes it took to get access to a terminal, I logged 150 MB of audit logs. On the plus side, all of the information we need can be collected. Now I just need to figure out how to keep a usable system.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelf aggrandizement:\u003c/strong\u003e talking to my technical manager, we need to write up two journal papers based on our recent work. Cool!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hope everyone had a good Veteran’s Day and remembered to thank the veterans in their lives.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Great moments in . . ."},{"content":"In the most awesome [1] display of legislative ineptitude since they presented a budget with no numbers on April Fool\u0026rsquo;s Day, the republicans have released their plan for health care reform. Now, keep in mind that as scored by the CBO, the democratic plan will increase coverage from 83% to 96% of the legal population in the U.S. by 2019 and will reduce the deficit by $104 billion over the same ten years. Of course, the republican plan was going to be \u0026ldquo;much better.\u0026rdquo; And was it? Not so much. Under the republican plan, coverage will increase from, wait for it, drum roll please 83% to a whopping, um, 83% by 2019. Well, hey, at least it\u0026rsquo;ll do more to improve the deficit, right? Well, not exactly. According to the CBO\u0026rsquo;s initial analysis, there would be a $68 billion dollar reduction in the deficit over the next ten years.\nWow! How do the republicans manage to achieve such amazing results? Simple, what they lack in sense, they make up for in strict adherence to ideology. Free market principles baby. Do they regulate insurance companies regarding rescission? Nope, instead they would create the same sort of race to the bottom that we have for credit cards. Ever wondered why most credit card companies are based in either Delaware or South Dakota? Simple, those states have passed laws that screw consumers. Since the credit card market is deregulated, Delaware and South Dakota can screw the whole country and not just their own citizens. Under the republican plan, you would be looking at the same thing for health insurance.\nAwesome!\n[1] In the 80s, lots of things were \u0026ldquo;awesome\u0026rdquo; to me, and I was very serious about it. Sometime in the past decade, I\u0026rsquo;ve taken to using the word again, but with 100% more sarcasm. Things are now \u0026ldquo;awesome\u0026rdquo; in the same sense as 80s hair metal bands are awesome: think Winger.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/05/gop-hcr-doa/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn the most awesome [1] display of legislative ineptitude since they presented a budget with no numbers on April Fool\u0026rsquo;s Day, the republicans have \u003ca href=\"http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/congressional_budget_office_th.html\"\u003ereleased their plan for health care reform\u003c/a\u003e. Now, keep in mind that as scored by the CBO, the democratic plan will increase coverage from 83% to 96% of the legal population in the U.S. by 2019 and will reduce the deficit by $104 billion over the same ten years. Of course, the republican plan was going to be \u0026ldquo;much better.\u0026rdquo; And was it? Not so much. Under the republican plan, coverage will increase from, wait for it, drum roll please 83% to a whopping, um, 83% by 2019. Well, hey, at least it\u0026rsquo;ll do more to improve the deficit, right? Well, not exactly. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10705\u0026amp;type=1\"\u003eCBO\u0026rsquo;s initial analysis\u003c/a\u003e, there would be a $68 billion dollar reduction in the deficit over the next ten years.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"gop hcr doa"},{"content":"and this is why I like cross-posting to facebook from my blog. It\u0026rsquo;s a healthy reminder that nothing on fb is actually private. If it\u0026rsquo;s online - it\u0026rsquo;ll be exposed eventually, whether through a new exploit, or just because you \u0026ldquo;friend\u0026rdquo; someone in the future that you had written about in the past.\nh/t hsarik\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/facebook-security-vulnerabilities/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eand \u003ca href=\"http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/05/massive-facebook-and-myspace-flash-vulnerability-exposes-user-data/\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e is why I like cross-posting to facebook from my blog. It\u0026rsquo;s a healthy reminder that nothing on fb is actually private. If it\u0026rsquo;s online - it\u0026rsquo;ll be exposed eventually, whether through a new exploit, or just because you \u0026ldquo;friend\u0026rdquo; someone in the future that you had written about in the past.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eh/t \u003ca href=\"http://www.heathbar.org/weblog/\"\u003ehsarik\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Facebook security vulnerabilities"},{"content":" One of our dogs, Darwin, likes sleeping on the floor. He\u0026rsquo;ll occasionally sleep on the couch or on his dog bed, but then he gets too hot and moves to the floor. The other dog, Sierra (named after either the Sierra Nevada Mountains as beautifully described by John Muir or the brewery named after the same mountains, depending on whom you ask), doesn\u0026rsquo;t get so hot and prefers sleeping on pillows or couches\u0026hellip; my spot in the bed if I\u0026rsquo;m not currently occupying it, etc. One of her sleeping spots is on an old pillow in the bedroom. But apparently, it\u0026rsquo;s not always that comfortable. When we went to bed last night, this was the scene that greeted us.\nI love my dogs. I love my dogs. Om mani padme hum. I love my dogs.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/04/streaming-full-movie-life-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=10170\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_7289\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=10180\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e One of our dogs, Darwin, likes sleeping on the floor. He\u0026rsquo;ll occasionally sleep on the couch or on his dog bed, but then he gets too hot and moves to the floor. The other dog, Sierra (named after either the Sierra Nevada Mountains as beautifully described by John Muir or the brewery named after the same mountains, depending on whom you ask), doesn\u0026rsquo;t get so hot and prefers sleeping on pillows or couches\u0026hellip; my spot in the bed if I\u0026rsquo;m not currently occupying it, etc. One of her sleeping spots is on an old pillow in the bedroom. But apparently, it\u0026rsquo;s not always that comfortable. When we went to bed last night, this was the scene that greeted us.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Sierra and the case of the uncomfortable pillow"},{"content":"For a guy who uses computers as much as I do, you would think that I would have better machines at home. But really, no. Our last desktop was eight years old before we replaced it. My laptop was an old Thinkpad X31 - maybe six or seven years old. So, for a combination birthday/Christmas present, I got a new (sort of) laptop. I picked up a refurbished thinkpad X200s from the Lenovo outlet. So far it\u0026rsquo;s a nice machine: good processor, lots of high speed memory, and a big LED backlit screen. Lenovo sent me notice that they were shipping the laptop today and the next thing I knew, it arrived at the office. The advantages of working 5 miles from the outlet. The only problem is that they didn\u0026rsquo;t ship all of the parts. I\u0026rsquo;ve contacted them and they\u0026rsquo;ll send the dock/dvd.\nWhen I got the machine home, I spent about a minute trying to decide if I would keep a partition with Windows on it. But then I remembered that I don\u0026rsquo;t play video games, so I didn\u0026rsquo;t really need Vista. I\u0026rsquo;ve installed Fedora 11 and moved all my files.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/03/toy/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor a guy who uses computers as much as I do, you would think that I would have better machines at home. But really, no. Our last desktop was eight years old before we replaced it. My laptop was an old Thinkpad X31 - maybe six or seven years old. So, for a combination birthday/Christmas present, I got a new (sort of) laptop. I picked up a refurbished thinkpad X200s from the Lenovo outlet. So far it\u0026rsquo;s a nice machine: good processor, lots of high speed memory, and a big LED backlit screen. Lenovo sent me notice that they were shipping the laptop today and the next thing I knew, it arrived at the office. The advantages of working 5 miles from the outlet. The only problem is that they didn\u0026rsquo;t ship all of the parts. I\u0026rsquo;ve contacted them and they\u0026rsquo;ll send the dock/dvd.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Toy!"},{"content":"Welcome to my Amish rural paradise, water problems are no extra charge.\nIn this month\u0026rsquo;s exciting installment, K and I note that we are lacking in water pressure on Saturday night before we go to bed. Sunday rolls around and sure enough, no water. My guess was that either the well pump or the pressure switch had gone bad. We weren\u0026rsquo;t going to be too happy if it was the pump, since we replaced it less than three years ago. I went out and bought some drinking water, checked the rain barrels to see if we had water for toilets and called the plumber.\nWhen the plumber arrived this (Monday) morning, the first thing he did was to check for problems with the pressure switch. No such luck, power was getting to the pump. That meant they had to crack the well and pull up the pump from three hundred feet underground. Once the pump saw the light of day, it was a simple matter to see if the pump was good - connect it straight to the power. Doing so provided the only bit of good news: the pump was working fine. Somewhere in the 300\u0026rsquo; of wire that provide power to the pump was the problem.\nSure enough, they found a number of places where the insulation had been chewed through, and others where the wire itself was either almost or entirely split. It turns out that every time the pump comes on, it torques a bit, and going through 300\u0026rsquo; of heavy clay and rock provides plenty of opportunity to tear at the wires.\nFortunately, it was all put together by noon and we\u0026rsquo;re back in business. I thought I would never want to get out of the shower :-)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/11/02/always-with-the-water/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to my \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrowbOGZJwg\"\u003eAmish rural paradise\u003c/a\u003e, water problems are no extra charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this month\u0026rsquo;s exciting installment, K and I note that we are lacking in water pressure on Saturday night before we go to bed. Sunday rolls around and sure enough, no water. My guess was that either the well pump or the pressure switch had gone bad. We weren\u0026rsquo;t going to be too happy if it was the pump, since we \u003ca href=\"/2007/03/15/no-water-for-you\"\u003ereplaced it less than three years ago\u003c/a\u003e. I went out and bought some drinking water, checked the rain barrels to see if we had water for toilets and called the plumber.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Always with the water"},{"content":"With apologies to Terry Prachett, I feel like I being dragged (dragging myself?) into the Century of the Fruitbat. As I mentioned a long time ago, I don\u0026rsquo;t care for Facebook. I prefer my blog. That said, many of my friends and most of my family use Facebook. So I\u0026rsquo;m going to start a bit of an experiment. I\u0026rsquo;ve downloaded and installed the Wordbook plugin for my blog software (wordpress). Starting with this post, in theory anything that\u0026rsquo;s published on the blog gets cross-posted to fb.\nKill me now.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/10/29/dragged-kicking-and-screaming-into-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWith apologies to Terry Prachett, I feel like I being dragged (dragging myself?) into the \u003ca href=\"http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Discworld_calendar#Years_and_centuries\"\u003eCentury of the Fruitbat\u003c/a\u003e. As I mentioned a long time ago, \u003ca href=\"/2009/04/21/vint-cerf-called\"\u003eI don\u0026rsquo;t care for Facebook\u003c/a\u003e. I prefer my blog. That said, many of my friends and most of my family use Facebook. So I\u0026rsquo;m going to start a bit of an experiment. I\u0026rsquo;ve downloaded and installed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook\"\u003eWordbook\u003c/a\u003e plugin for my blog software (wordpress). Starting with this post, in theory anything that\u0026rsquo;s published on the blog gets cross-posted to fb.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Dragged kicking and screaming into the century of the fruitbat"},{"content":"I need another hobby about like I need a(nother) hole in my head. But at the same time, ya gotta keep life interesting. Several times over the past few years, K and I have talked about keeping bees. I think that next year we\u0026rsquo;ll finally do it. We\u0026rsquo;re interested in the bees themselves (hive mind! hive mind!), the pollination and the honey, so why not. I\u0026rsquo;ve read a couple of books and was originally planning to take a class, but the one I wanted isn\u0026rsquo;t offered until 2011. But hey why let that stop us.\nThis afternoon, I took a trip up to our local apiary. Actually, the only apiary (to my knowledge) in a 150 mile radius: Busy Bee Apiary. There a very lovely woman, Betsy, whom I am certain had better things to do, talked to me for almost an hour about beekeeping. What is the equipment like? What would I need at first? What kind of clothing do I need? What\u0026rsquo;s an extruder look like? How much space does the hive need in NC? When should we feed bees in NC? Do you just feed sugar water or pollen too? When can I order bees? What kind of bees do they recommend and sell? You get the idea. The poor woman.\nThe upshot is that I seem to have a good head start, having read as much as I have and we\u0026rsquo;ll probably host two colonies come spring. After the grilling, I did pick up another book and a jar of their honey - it really is much better tasting than the clover honey you buy in stores. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll make the next batch of breakfast bars with this instead.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/10/21/bee-space/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI need another hobby about like I need a(nother) hole in my head. But at the same time, ya gotta keep life interesting. Several times over the past few years, K and I have talked about keeping bees. I think that next year we\u0026rsquo;ll finally do it. We\u0026rsquo;re interested in the bees themselves (hive mind! hive mind!), the pollination and the honey, so why not. I\u0026rsquo;ve read a couple of books and was originally planning to take a class, but the one I wanted isn\u0026rsquo;t offered until 2011. But hey why let that stop us.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Bee space"},{"content":"I went out to the garden on Sunday and took a look at how the okra was doing. Now I\u0026rsquo;m feeling somewhat, um, inadequate\u0026hellip;\nas a gardener.\nReally, who lets okra get that big. I should have been picking them every two or three days so that the maximum size was only 3-5 inches, not 8-12.\nIn other gardening news, I opened one jar of the pickled peppers early (they should still be pickling for another 3-4 weeks), and they are delicious.\nOh, and I am *so* jealous of these people. They also seem to have a great stuffed pepper recipe that I would bet even K would eat if I fixed them with sweet banana peppers (as opposed to jalapeños).\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/10/06/now-i-am-feeling-inadequate/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI went out to the garden on Sunday and took a look at how the okra was doing. Now I\u0026rsquo;m feeling somewhat, um, inadequate\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=10167\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_7278\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=10167\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eas a gardener.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReally, who lets okra get that big. I should have been picking them every two or three days so that the maximum size was only 3-5 inches, not 8-12.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn other gardening news, I opened one jar of the pickled peppers early (they should still be pickling for another 3-4 weeks), and they are delicious.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Now I am feeling inadequate"},{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned before that I (we? maybe it\u0026rsquo;s K\u0026rsquo;s fault!) seem to be cursed with water problems. Since we like our current house, and the well is drawing very acidic water, we\u0026rsquo;ll probably continue to have water problems. Two of the more recent ones:\nTwo months ago, we started noticing that the average daily water usage (as shown on the water softener) had gone from 60 gal/day to over 100 gal/day in a very short period of time, maybe two days. Needless to say, K and I were more than a little concerned with where all that water was going. So I ducked under the house and heard the water pump quick cycling: on, off, on, off\u0026hellip; Well that\u0026rsquo;s not supposed to happen. It\u0026rsquo;s supposed to kick on when the house pressure drops to 30psi, and turn off when it hits 40. We called a plumber, because I\u0026rsquo;ll do a lot of plumbing, but anything like the water pump that combines water, electricity and problems underground is way out of my league. Turned out that we needed a new pressure tank (my guess: the acidic water ate away at the inner lining of the air bladder). Joy. The next month, the power bill came in very high. Our first thought was, \u0026ldquo;well, the pump was on a lot last month, so maybe that\u0026rsquo;s the problem.\u0026rdquo; It came in high again the next month. We started looking for the source, keeping a log of power use and finally, on Sunday resorted to shutting off all power in the house and adding the breakers back one at a time. I should have guessed - the pump was using a lot of power. Went under the house, watched the pressure build to 40psi, the pump cut off and all the pressure drained back out of the lines until the pump came on again. The cycle repeated on maybe a 30 second period with a 50% duty cycle. Yay! my pump was running half the day. This time, the plumber found that there was a leak at the pump itself and all the water was being dumped back down the well. On the bright side, we weren\u0026rsquo;t wasting water - just power. :-( One fun thing did come out of all of this, we bought a digital, in-house electricity meter.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/09/30/always-with-the-water-problems/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve \u003ca href=\"/category/plumbing\"\u003ementioned before\u003c/a\u003e that I (we? maybe it\u0026rsquo;s K\u0026rsquo;s fault!) seem to be cursed with water problems. Since we like our current house, and the well is drawing very acidic water, we\u0026rsquo;ll probably continue to have water problems. Two of the more recent ones:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo months ago, we started noticing that the average daily water usage (as shown on the water softener) had gone from 60 gal/day to over 100 gal/day in a very short period of time, maybe two days. Needless to say, K and I were more than a little concerned with where all that water was going. So I ducked under the house and heard the water pump quick cycling: on, off, on, off\u0026hellip; Well that\u0026rsquo;s not supposed to happen. It\u0026rsquo;s supposed to kick on when the house pressure drops to 30psi, and turn off when it hits 40. We called a plumber, because I\u0026rsquo;ll do a lot of plumbing, but anything like the water pump that combines water, electricity and problems underground is way out of my league. Turned out that we needed a new pressure tank (my guess: the acidic water ate away at the inner lining of the air bladder). Joy.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe next month, the power bill came in very high. Our first thought was, \u0026ldquo;well, the pump was on a lot last month, so maybe that\u0026rsquo;s the problem.\u0026rdquo; It came in high again the next month. We started looking for the source, keeping a log of power use and finally, on Sunday resorted to shutting off all power in the house and adding the breakers back one at a time. I should have guessed - the pump was using a lot of power. Went under the house, watched the pressure build to 40psi, the pump cut off and all the pressure drained back out of the lines until the pump came on again. The cycle repeated on maybe a 30 second period with a 50% duty cycle. Yay! my pump was running half the day. This time, the plumber found that there was a leak at the pump itself and all the water was being dumped back down the well. On the bright side, we weren\u0026rsquo;t wasting water - just power. :-(\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne fun thing did come out of all of this, we bought a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theenergydetective.com/index.html\"\u003edigital, in-house electricity meter\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Always with the water problems"},{"content":" Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where\u0026rsquo;s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?\nWhen I planted the garden, I put in a couple of banana pepper plants. I seem to recall that my thinking was along the lines of, \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve got a great idea, I\u0026rsquo;ll plant some banana peppers - I love \u0026rsquo;em.\u0026rdquo; Great in abstract, but I don\u0026rsquo;t actually have any recipes that call for banana peppers. I only seem to eat them pickled.\nWell, I couldn\u0026rsquo;t let them rot, so yesterday I went out and picked, not a peck, but maybe a half gallon (0.25 peck) of peppers and spent part of the afternoon pickling them. I\u0026rsquo;ve got two pints of whole peppers and four pints of sliced. We\u0026rsquo;ll see how they taste in a few weeks.\nBefore and after:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/09/21/peter-piper-picked/","summary":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;\nA peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;\nIf Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,\nWhere\u0026rsquo;s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I planted the garden, I put in a couple of banana pepper plants. I seem to recall that my thinking was along the lines of, \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve got a great idea, I\u0026rsquo;ll plant some banana peppers - I love \u0026rsquo;em.\u0026rdquo; Great in abstract, but I don\u0026rsquo;t actually have any recipes that call for banana peppers. I only seem to eat them pickled.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Peter Piper picked . . ."},{"content":"Last night, I realized that K had quite a few baby animals around the house and that I hadn\u0026rsquo;t posted any pictures. So, without further ado, may I present the cute ones:\nThe first picture is of a young opossum. He and his siblings were in one of our outdoor enclosures, but he didn\u0026rsquo;t seem to be doing too well, so he\u0026rsquo;s back inside for a bit.\nThe next set is a group of baby (week old) snapping turtles - note the remnants of the yolk sack. This is sort of an interesting story. The old non-profit had a snapper that died. However, we knew that the turtle had eggs. So we sent the body over to the vet school\u0026rsquo;s turtle team where they extracted and incubated her eggs until they hatched in August. These are the her babies.\nThe other mammal in the set is the baby (3-5 week old) flying squirrel. Some people called up K when their cat found the squirrel out of the nest. The little guy is doing well, in spite of the great Esbilac debacle.\nThe last set of pictures were taken last night. K has a friend who is also into turtles (let\u0026rsquo;s call her J). Between K \u0026amp; J, they probably have more turtle husbandry experience than any other two people in the area. J is heading out of town and wanted K turtle-sit for some of her more critical patients. When she came over Tuesday night, she also brought over an incubator with two turtle eggs. There had been 3 eggs, but one had just hatched (second picture in the group), so who knew when the others would hatch. Apparently yesterday. They were still working their way out of their shells when I got home, so there you have it - baby turtles emerging from their shells.\nToo cute.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/09/17/ph34r-t3h-cut3-0n3s/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast night, I realized that K had quite a few baby animals around the house and that I hadn\u0026rsquo;t posted any pictures. So, without further ado, may I present the cute ones:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first picture is of a young opossum. He and his siblings were in one of our outdoor enclosures, but he didn\u0026rsquo;t seem to be doing too well, so he\u0026rsquo;s back inside for a bit.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe next set is a group of baby (week old) snapping turtles - note the remnants of the yolk sack. This is sort of an interesting story. The old non-profit had a snapper that died. However, we knew that the turtle had eggs. So we sent the body over to the vet school\u0026rsquo;s turtle team where they extracted and incubated her eggs until they hatched in August. These are the her babies.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Ph34r t3h cut3 0n3s"},{"content":"I managed to get into the office a bit early this morning, which meant that I also got to leave a bit early (working as a federal contractor definitely has its perks). The only reason I mention this is because I beat K to the mail and when I reached into the mailbox, there was a rather thick envelope with the non-profit\u0026rsquo;s name (C/O me). It was from the IRS. Well, the only thing that we have out-standing with the feds is our non-profit status. So, I was a bit nervous in opening it. It felt a bit like opening a college application letter. I was really hoping that, like with the college letter, a thick envelop was a good sign. After all, if you\u0026rsquo;ve been turned down, they send you a one page letter. If you\u0026rsquo;ve been accepted, they send you a packet of information.\nI opened the envelop, and sure enough, it was a two page letter saying that the Triangle Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic is now an official non-profit and it included a lovely pamphlet with information on our responsibilities as such.\nAlso nice - our status is retroactive to the end of *last* year. So all of the donations that we\u0026rsquo;ve received are officially tax deductible. As are any future donations if anyone wants to donate :-)\nGo TWRC!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/09/16/its-official-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI managed to get into the office a bit early this morning, which meant that I also got to leave a bit early (working as a federal contractor definitely has its perks). The only reason I mention this is because I beat K to the mail and when I reached into the mailbox, there was a rather thick envelope with the \u003ca href=\"http://trianglewildlife.org\"\u003enon-profit\u0026rsquo;s name\u003c/a\u003e (C/O me). It was from the IRS. Well, the only thing that we have out-standing with the feds is our non-profit status. So, I was a bit nervous in opening it. It felt a bit like opening a college application letter. I was really hoping that, like with the college letter, a thick envelop was a good sign. After all, if you\u0026rsquo;ve been turned down, they send you a one page letter. If you\u0026rsquo;ve been accepted, they send you a packet of information.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"It's official!"},{"content":"A while back I mentioned that K, some associates and I had started up a new non-profit. Things are going reasonably well. People have been more supportive than I had thought. We\u0026rsquo;ve had about 70 patients so far and we\u0026rsquo;ve got the systems set up so that patients entered into the database post up to Twitter, along with any Facebook updates.\nOne thing that I have noticed in working with the others on the non-profit is that learning styles and communication styles seem to be closely related. You can divide learning styles (among other ways) into verbal vs visual learners. Verbal learners prefer to hear things explained to them. whereas visual learners prefer things to be written down. Based on some of our recent experiences, I think that this plays into communication styles. And it\u0026rsquo;s communication styles which are (occasionally) biting us.\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve got two people (including me) who have a strong visual preference - we like email for communication. We have one person who exhibits a strong verbal preference (prefers the phone or in-person communication) and one who has no strong preference either way. On a couple of recent occasions, we\u0026rsquo;ve had some missed communication. Our verbal communicator will say something or mention a project or deadline and expect that the rest of us have kept up. Our email/visual communicators don\u0026rsquo;t catch these verbal references and do the same thing with respect to email.\nI was talking to our verbal communicator (by phone, of course! - she called me after I emailed her) about this and mentioned that I don\u0026rsquo;t ever catch the details when she\u0026rsquo;s talking. At the last board meeting, she had mentioned a project and I *assumed* that if there were deadlines, they would be sent out in email. In fact, I don\u0026rsquo;t ever consider anything to be real until I see it written down. It\u0026rsquo;s just how I think. People might *talk* about a lot of things, but until I see them commit some details to something written (email, memo, etc.), I don\u0026rsquo;t think they mean it. After I described this to our verbal communicator, she confessed that she often never reads the details of the email that our visual communicators send. In other words, in the same way that I don\u0026rsquo;t give enough consideration to non-visual communication, she doesn\u0026rsquo;t give enough consideration to non-verbal communication.\nAll in all, this isn\u0026rsquo;t the worst problem that a group of people can have. I think the most important thing is to recognize these differences and to know that if you want to be certain that your message is received, you have to consider the expected medium for your audience. (shock!)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/09/09/communication-and-learning-styles/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA while back I \u003ca href=\"/2009/07/09/back-from-galts-gulch\"\u003ementioned\u003c/a\u003e that K, some associates and I had started up a \u003ca href=\"http://trianglewildlife.org\"\u003enew non-profit\u003c/a\u003e. Things are going reasonably well. People have been more supportive than I had thought. We\u0026rsquo;ve had about 70 patients so far and we\u0026rsquo;ve got the systems set up so that patients entered into the database post up to \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/twrclinic\"\u003eTwitter\u003c/a\u003e, along with any Facebook updates.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing that I have noticed in working with the others on the non-profit is that learning styles and communication styles seem to be closely related. You can divide learning styles (among other ways) into \u003ca href=\"http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.doiLanding\u0026amp;uid=2003-09576-015\"\u003everbal vs visual learners\u003c/a\u003e. Verbal learners prefer to hear things explained to them. whereas visual learners prefer things to be written down. Based on some of our recent experiences, I think that this plays into communication styles. And it\u0026rsquo;s communication styles which are (occasionally) biting us.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Communication and learning styles"},{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m not a big baseball fan. For that matter, there are few ball sports that interest me. But, this is important. If you recall, a few years ago (2004), there was a big furor over steroids in baseball. The government searched BALCO and found evidence of rampant steroid use by baseball players. Now I hadn\u0026rsquo;t been paying attention to this, but there has been an ongoing legal dispute over that search and how it was conducted.\nYesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 9-2 decision that restores a great portion of the 4th Amendment\u0026rsquo;s right to protection against unreasonable search and seizure in an electronic context.\nCaveat lector, I am not a lawyer and I\u0026rsquo;ve never played one on TV. Moreover, I haven\u0026rsquo;t finished reading the dissenting opinions and I\u0026rsquo;m almost certainly missing some of the nuances here. In a nutshell, the government had evidence, sufficient to obtain a warrant, against 10 players. Based on this evidence and the warrant, the prosecutors were able to search BALCO for information about those 10 players. BALCO maintains all records on their computers, of course.\nNow, I\u0026rsquo;ve had experience with these types of searches. The government never takes what\u0026rsquo;s just in their warrant. The defined search *process* always allows them to take the whole computer or the whole hard drive, or more often than not, an image of the whole hard drive. The reasoning is that information pertaining to the search could be hidden, or their could be some form of booby trap or the data could be encrypted or \u0026hellip;\nSo, the prosecutor in the steroids case took the whole directory in which there was a file containing drug tests of MLB players. The file itself contained information about far more than the 10 players named in the warrant. So, rather than taking the 10 rows of the spreadsheet, rather than taking just the one file, the prosecutor took a directory containing the results of thousands of drug tests.\nThe prosecutor then (as I understand it) went jurisdiction shopping until he found a judge willing to grant a new warrant for information about 104 players, based on the information found in the spreadsheet. The argument being that once they had access to the spreadsheet, or the directory, or even the computer, the additional information was in plain sight. Several judges believed that the prosecutor intentionally wrote the process for executing the search warrant in such a way that he could *expand* the scope of the investigation by introducing evidence based on this plain sight doctrine in order to find new players to prosecute.\nWhat\u0026rsquo;s interesting is that this seems fairly normal to many of us. Of course the prosecutor will search your whole hard drive, of course they will bring new charges, etc. The problem is that a) BALCO itself was not the subject of the prosecution, and b) this IS NOT the way things work in the tangible world. Prosecutors are exploiting the new(ish) electronic domain to gain access to information they wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have if files were stored on paper.\nApparently (I need to look into this), the relevant doctrine in the physical world is the United States vs Tamura, 1982. In this case, the object of a search was stored in a file cabinet. It was not feasible to search that file cabinet in the office, so the prosecutors obtained access to it, with the requirement that they only pull information relevant to their warrant - even if they stumbled across additional criminal information.\nThe majority in the 9th Circuit decision believe that a sensible application of Tamura to an electronic domain means that inform ation/documents stored in proximity to the information sought in the warrant is *not* in plain view. And they are correct. If information in adjacent files in a file cabinet are not in plain view, then neither is information stored electronically in adjacent files, folders or computers.\nExplicitly, the justices stated:\nIn general, we adopt Tamura’s solution to the problem of necessary over-seizing of evidence: When the government wishes to obtain a warrant to examine a computer hard drive or electronic storage medium in searching for certain incriminating files, or when a search for evidence could result in the seizure of a computer, see, e.g., United States v. Giberson, 527 F.3d 882 (9th Cir. 2008), magistrate judges must be vigilant in observing the guidance we have set out throughout our opinion, which can be summed up as follows:\n1. Magistrates should insist that the government waive reliance upon the plain view doctrine in digital evidence cases. See p. 11876 supra.\n2. Segregation and redaction must be either done by specialized personnel or an independent third party. See pp. 11880-81 supra. If the segregation is to be done by government computer personnel, it must agree in the warrant application that the computer personnel will not disclose to the investigators any information other than that which is the target of the warrant.\n3. Warrants and subpoenas must disclose the actual risks of destruction of information as well as prior efforts to seize that information in other judicial fora. See pp. 11877-78, 11886-87 supra.\n4. The government’s search protocol must be designed to uncover only the information for which it has probable cause, and only that information may be examined by the case agents. See pp. 11878, 11880-81 supra.\n5. The government must destroy or, if the recipient may lawfully possess it, return non-responsive data, keeping the issuing magistrate informed about when it has done so and what it has kept. See p. 11881-82 supra.\nAs someone who has participated in prosecutorial searches, these strike me as eminently sensible guidelines. The first states that there\u0026rsquo;s no such thing as plain view in computer cases - each piece of information is in its own separate space. To consider otherwise is to allow every piece of electronic equipment in the world to be searched since they are all connected via the Internet. The second states that the prosecutor shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be the one doing the search, b/c the searching personnel *will* wind up seeing information that isn\u0026rsquo;t related to the warrant. The problem is that since nothing is in plain view (can you tell what does a hard drive contain by looking at the physical device?), an in-depth search is required to fulfill the warrant, but that search will violate the terms of the warrant if all of the information is shared with the prosecutor. The third states that prosecutors can\u0026rsquo;t *overestimate* the risk of booby traps, deadfalls, etc. that would destroy data. There was no reason to think there were such in the BALCO computers and therefore, a full copy of their hard drives was not required. The fourth is pretty plain - the process/protocol must be restricted to what the government is allowed to find. And the fifth says that the prosecutor can\u0026rsquo;t keep things that it found that it wasn\u0026rsquo;t supposed to have.\nAll in all, a very reasonable balance of 4th Amendment rights in a digital context - no matter what Orin Kerr might say. Good news on the electronic privacy front\u0026hellip; for once.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/so-this-is-important/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m not a big baseball fan. For that matter, there are few ball sports that interest me. But, this is important. If you recall, a few years ago (2004), there was a big furor over steroids in baseball. The government searched BALCO and found evidence of rampant steroid use by baseball players. Now I hadn\u0026rsquo;t been paying attention to this, but there has been an ongoing legal dispute over that search and how it was conducted.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"So, this is important"},{"content":"In computer security, one of the most difficult and annoying problems is the distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The idea behind a DDoS attack is straight forward: the attacker tries to prevent legitimate use of the service by using a large number of other computers. Usually these other computers have been compromised (hacked) and are following the commands of the attacker. Such computers are usually called \u0026ldquo;zombies.\u0026rdquo;\nThere are a number of ways to conduct a DDoS attack, but they are typically variations on the following theme. The attacker instructs the zombies to request access to the service. But the zombies have no intention of actually using the service, instead, they often forge network traffic so that it\u0026rsquo;s impossible to tell who is making the request. Because the zombies don\u0026rsquo;t want to use the service, they can make thousands of requests without slowing down. The poor computer hosting the service then sees tens of thousands of requests for access, tries to fulfill the requests and eventually becomes overloaded and dies. The zombies win.\nWhat makes the DDoS attack so difficult to defend against is that each and every request coming in, looks like a legitimate request. The problems are: a) the core of the request is a lie (at the direction of the attacker, the zombie has forged the network traffic), and b) the sheer quantity of bogus requests - one or two could be handled easily, 10s of thousands not so much.\nUnfortunately, we\u0026rsquo;re seeing the exact same thing when it comes to creating good policies in the U.S.: a distributed denial of service attack.\nThe creation of good policies requires discussion. Ideally, arguments will be presented, the merits debated and evaluated with respect to a set of shared norms, and these discussions will shape the eventually enacted policy. But on every important issue, this is not occurring. Instead, we have a group of reactionaries (they\u0026rsquo;ll call themselves conservatives) who try to prevent the important discussions from ever occurring. Take two issues, global warming and health insurance.\nOn global warming, we could have a fairly important discussion about the expected costs of global warming, the probabilities of certain events occurring, the expected costs of limiting CO2 in order to limit the effects. We could discuss the moral issues involved, from the increased rates of disease due to higher temperatures, the possibility of spending more money now on certain social problems, and the moral worth of species that will go extinct because of a changing climate. There are even scientific questions that remain unresolved. But instead of having any of those discussions, conservatives persist in lying. Those lies are then redistributed on Fox News and in conservative publications. The purpose of the lies isn\u0026rsquo;t to have a real discussion with respect to a valid scientific point. The purpose is to attack the very idea that there can be a discussion. The purpose is to make people believe that instead of global warming being a policy issue, it\u0026rsquo;s a political one.\nA year ago, I was at a family reunion and sat down with my father and uncle who hold advanced degrees in physical sciences (masters and phd respectively). The topic came around to global warming - perhaps one of them made a derisive comment about it, I don\u0026rsquo;t recall. The next thing I knew, these two very intelligent men turned into DDoS zombies. They brought up a number of talking points that they had heard, but hadn\u0026rsquo;t actually verified:\n\u0026ldquo;Ice cores have shown that temperature rises before CO2 levels.\u0026rdquo; Historically true, but completely irrelevant. We know of the causal reason that an increase in CO2 will increase temperature. A doubling of CO2 will raise the temperature by roughly 3 degrees Celsius. However, no one has said that the only reason that the temperature can rise is due to CO2 - there are certainly other reasons. Why temperature rose in those cases is a legitimate scientific question, but rather than discussing that issue, the right uses a misinterpretation of the idea to attack the possibility of global warming. \u0026ldquo;CO2 only contributes 3% of the effects of greenhouse gases.\u0026rdquo; Alternatively, you\u0026rsquo;ll hear that water vapor is 97% or 98% of the total effect. Nope. This is a pure, flat out lie. I spent a few hours trying to track down the source. It turns out that it\u0026rsquo;s not a scientific result. 3% never appeared in a peer-reviewed paper. Instead, someone reviewing one of the IPCC reports decided that the report said 3% (it didn\u0026rsquo;t) and ever since, right-wing news has thrown around that number to dispute the very possibility that rising levels of CO2 could contribute to global warming. There were a few other talking points they had and there are dozens more to be found online. My favorites often come from a site called Watt\u0026rsquo;s Up With That. Favorites because they completely demonstrate that people are *actively* constructing lies to deceive the public on global warming. You read a post there and you go to the original sources that they cite and sure enough, they\u0026rsquo;ve either taken it out of context or they\u0026rsquo;ll take the worse of all possible predictions. My favorite is when the push what amount to linear rather than the actual (exponential) projections of climate change and then argue that because the actual temperatures don\u0026rsquo;t fall into their bogus projections, climate change is false.\nThe point is that none of those talking points are serious attempts to debate the science. They are merely an attempt to overwhelm the dialog with incorrect information in order to delay or kill good policy. Hell, they aren\u0026rsquo;t even arguments, at best they are arglets. Fragments of an argument with no real merit.\nThe arglets against health care reform are even worse. A handful of people literally make things up and rather than having a discussion about the very real ways our health care system is falling apart, the news media (Fox and others) goes off on these tangents for days. Consider:\n\u0026ldquo;death panels\u0026rdquo; What a load of crap. There\u0026rsquo;s no such thing in the health care bill. Which is of course, not to say that these things don\u0026rsquo;t exist. Every insurance company has a death panel. Or more accurately, insurance companies consider the amount of rescission activity when evaluating employees, i.e., you\u0026rsquo;ve paid your premiums for years and when you try to use the policy and the company drops your coverage. \u0026ldquo;in people have to wait weeks for .\u0026rdquo; We hear that one a lot. Usually, the country is England or Canada, the time is 6+ weeks and it\u0026rsquo;s a hip replacement. Of course, this arglet is also untrue, but is interesting in being untrue on multiple levels. First of course, is the basic lie - delays for surgery. A small nugget of truth - this was a small problem pre-2000, before the British started increasing the amount of money for the NHS. Then the larger lie - the implication that it\u0026rsquo;s better here in the U.S. under your insurance. Then finally, the mother of all lies - that anyone\u0026rsquo;s even proposing a single payer system like the NHS anyway. \u0026ldquo;Oh my god, some other system that no one here is seriously considering has wait times that are as bad as some of ours with insurance, but not nearly as bad as if you have no insurance and have to wait until you\u0026rsquo;re on medicare to obtain the surgery.\u0026rdquo; To borrow a line from a glibertarian idiot - give me a break. Perhaps my favorite recent arglet: \u0026ldquo;Stephen Hawking never would have survived to be a brilliant physicist under the British system.\u0026rdquo; Given that he is a British citizen and has always received his health care via the NHS, this is completely crazy, literally divorced from reality, batshit insane. I could go on and on. For any topic you can name, there are people promoting lies in order to prevent good policies from being enacted.\nNow here\u0026rsquo;s the part where I tell you the good news based on my DDoS analogy. Tough - there isn\u0026rsquo;t any. There are a few approaches to dealing with a computer DDoS:\nIgnore it. Build capacity so that all requests, legitimate and bogus can be serviced. This is unlikely to work. The media has a short attention span, hell they\u0026rsquo;ve got ADHD. While the majority of arglets are debunked within minutes of their creation, they continue to live on in the right-wing zombies and the media is incapable of ignoring that. Identify the source of the arglets and take \u0026rsquo;em out. In computer terms, this often means tracking down the source of the DDoS commands and arresting them. For dialog, this means identifying the source of the arglets and ignoring them and their zombies. But then we\u0026rsquo;re back to solution 1 and the media\u0026rsquo;s inability to call bullshit. Ensure that all potential zombie computers are patched, i.e, ensure that potential zombies are innoculated/education against the lies. Unfortunately, this doesn\u0026rsquo;t work in a computer context - too many lazy people with computers that they don\u0026rsquo;t want to take care of. And it\u0026rsquo;s unlikely to work in a political context - too many lazy people who can\u0026rsquo;t be bothered to conduct basic fact check (or even sanity checking) before propagating a lie. In short, there\u0026rsquo;s no way for the current political process to work properly while the right wing and various corporate interests are conducting a denial of service attack. Unfortunately, the only real solution is to circumvent the dialog and pass good legislation regardless of what\u0026rsquo;s in the press. For 16+ years, Bill Kristol has advised the right to prevent such a thing. \u0026ldquo;Don\u0026rsquo;t allow good legislation on health care.\u0026rdquo; People would like good legislation and would realize that the republicans were a bunch of lying con men who wanted to shovel government money (aka public funds, aka your money and mine) to corporate interests. The republicans have gotten good at this and now the only way to pass decent legislation is to ignore them, which is easier and easier given that they\u0026rsquo;ve flat out stated that they won\u0026rsquo;t vote for their own compromises. Screw \u0026rsquo;em. Health care is too important. Pass it, pass it now. If you won\u0026rsquo;t support a single payer option, then at least give people the choice of a public option that\u0026rsquo;ll be better, cheaper and more efficient than what we\u0026rsquo;ve got now.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/08/26/ddos-ing-good-policy/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn computer security, one of the most difficult and annoying problems is the distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The idea behind a DDoS attack is straight forward: the attacker tries to prevent legitimate use of the service by using a large number of other computers. Usually these other computers have been compromised (hacked) and are following the commands of the attacker. Such computers are usually called \u0026ldquo;zombies.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of ways to conduct a DDoS attack, but they are typically variations on the following theme. The attacker instructs the zombies to request access to the service. But the zombies have no intention of actually using the service, instead, they often forge network traffic so that it\u0026rsquo;s impossible to tell who is making the request. Because the zombies don\u0026rsquo;t want to use the service, they can make thousands of requests without slowing down. The poor computer hosting the service then sees tens of thousands of requests for access, tries to fulfill the requests and eventually becomes overloaded and dies. The zombies win.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"DDoS-ing good policy"},{"content":"if i ever do get around to filking the Pilgrim\u0026rsquo;s Progress, there\u0026rsquo;s a good chance it\u0026rsquo;ll feature a \u0026ldquo;Slough of Sake\u0026rdquo; and a \u0026ldquo;Carnival of Sangria.\u0026rdquo;\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/08/26/just-saying/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eif i ever do get around to filking the Pilgrim\u0026rsquo;s Progress, there\u0026rsquo;s a good chance it\u0026rsquo;ll feature a \u0026ldquo;Slough of Sake\u0026rdquo; and a \u0026ldquo;Carnival of Sangria.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e","title":"just saying. . ."},{"content":":-(\nalso, I\u0026rsquo;m glad I\u0026rsquo;m not the only one who went there\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e:-(\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ealso, I\u0026rsquo;m glad I\u0026rsquo;m not the only one who went \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/08/for_teddy_our_favorite_dead_ke.php\"\u003ethere\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Ted Kennedy"},{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned before that this is the first year that we\u0026rsquo;ve had a garden, and it\u0026rsquo;s been going great. In the early spring we had lots of spinach, arugula, turnips, lettuce, etc. Now that we\u0026rsquo;re in the summer, it\u0026rsquo;s time for a whole new type of produce. Last night, I went out to the garden and picked a bunch of tomatoes (yes, I prefer the cherry tomatoes), banana peppers and green beans. Later this week, I\u0026rsquo;ll pick some of the eggplant and we\u0026rsquo;ll do eggplant croquettes. Hopefully, we\u0026rsquo;ll also get some regular peppers, zucchini and maybe even a small watermelon or two.\nThe best part for me has been that we\u0026rsquo;ve gotten a good amount of produce with a fairly minimal amount of work. I planted densely, but in raised beds. I haven\u0026rsquo;t weeded and the whole thing looks like an overgrown mess, but it produces quite a bit:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/08/17/garden-produce/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned before that this is the first year that we\u0026rsquo;ve had a garden, and it\u0026rsquo;s been going great. In the early spring we had lots of spinach, arugula, turnips, lettuce, etc. Now that we\u0026rsquo;re in the summer, it\u0026rsquo;s time for a whole new type of produce. Last night, I went out to the garden and picked a bunch of tomatoes (yes, I prefer the cherry tomatoes), banana peppers and green beans. Later this week, I\u0026rsquo;ll pick some of the eggplant and we\u0026rsquo;ll do \u003ca href=\"http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Eggplant-Croquettes/Detail.aspx\"\u003eeggplant croquettes\u003c/a\u003e. Hopefully, we\u0026rsquo;ll also get some regular peppers, zucchini and maybe even a small watermelon or two.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Garden produce"},{"content":"or Adventures in Home Repair;\nor How I Spent My Sunday.\nFor reasons best left unspecified, I found myself in need of a new exterior door - a replacement for the one that keeps my utility room from being a part of the outdoors. Last weekend, I went out to the local home improvement store and after spending two hours, I realized that I couldn’t simply replace the door, but instead, had to replace the entire door, prehung in its frame.\nSo, I bought the door-in-frame, hauled it out to my car only to realize that I had forgotten a certain problem of logistics. While a door slab will fit in my hatchback, a whole door in its frame, most certainly will not. So, I haul the frame back into the Lowes and ask if they can hold it for me. Nope. Well, not currently. If I *returned* the frame and then re-purchased it, *then* they could hold it. Fine. Done.\nFast-forward to yesterday. I borrow a neighbor’s truck (noon) and make the 10+ mile drive back out to the Lowes. Pick up the door, drive back, unload and return the truck (1pm). I start removing the old door, pulling out the frame and leaving it as a rough cutout (2:30pm). Took a break to avoid completely dehydrating and got back to work (3pm). At this point, I realized that because of the thickness of the logs (or in the utility room, the log siding), the last door had actually been installed 2″ out of the rough and was actually sitting on the porch. Unfortunately, that means that there was actually extra header between the frame and the rough since the porch sits an inch lower than the subfloor. To fix that, I nailed down some extra board so the door would sit on the subfloor and be flush with the interior walls. Next step - find my caulk. Oops - none in the house. Run up to the nearest hardware store, about 8 miles, and buy some caulk (4:00pm).\nCaulked the rough and set the door up. Unfortunately, the door installation instructions were a little opaque and I couldn’t figure out where to go next. Everytime I opened the door or even stopped holding it, the door would start falling. Google to the rescue! Following the online instructions, I shimmed the door into place, leveled it and got everything nailed into place (5pm). Grab the old deadbolt and doorknob and installed them (5:30pm) and, with K’s help, cleaned up - 5:50pm.\nAll in all, a perfectly terrible way to spend a Sunday. And I still need to finish insulating the door, staining it and putting the moulding back together. Whee!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/08/10/the-universe-hates-me-part-37/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eor \u003cstrong\u003eAdventures in Home Repair\u003c/strong\u003e;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eor \u003cstrong\u003eHow I Spent My Sunday\u003c/strong\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor reasons best left unspecified, I found myself in need of a new exterior door - a replacement for the one that keeps my utility room from being a part of the outdoors. Last weekend, I went out to the local home improvement store and after spending two hours, I realized that I couldn’t simply replace the door, but instead, had to replace the entire door, prehung in its frame.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The universe hates me, part 37"},{"content":"I haven\u0026rsquo;t paid much attention to Sarah Palin in the year since I first heard of her. Okay, periodically I\u0026rsquo;ve laughed at her. And Palin As President was pretty funny. But last night I was commenting to K that this line from her resignation speech was pure Zen:\n\u0026ldquo;In the winter time it\u0026rsquo;s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn\u0026rsquo;t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?\u0026rdquo;\nApparently, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t the only one impressed by the end of the speech. This is just beautiful:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/07/28/palins-resignation-speech/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026rsquo;t paid much attention to Sarah Palin in the year since I first heard of her. Okay, periodically I\u0026rsquo;ve laughed at her. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.palinaspresident.us/\"\u003ePalin As President\u003c/a\u003e was pretty funny. But last night I was commenting to K that this line from her resignation speech was pure Zen:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;In the winter time it\u0026rsquo;s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn\u0026rsquo;t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Palins resignation speech"},{"content":"I was using my personal laptop at a meeting yesterday and grabbed about a gig of files from someone\u0026rsquo;s usb key. While I was taking minutes, I noticed a lovely new icon that popped up\u0026hellip; your hard disk drive is failing. Eeek! Not cool. So, last night I got home and started backing up my files. A few of the new files and a couple unimportant old files didn\u0026rsquo;t transfer properly. Fine, I could live without them.\nToday, I bought a replacement drive. When I got home, I wanted to record the diffs from last night to today (quite a few since I uncompressed a lot of that gig\u0026rsquo;s worth of files). As I started that up, I received a lot of notices about the *backup* disk failing. I tried fixing it, but no luck. Found a new backup disk. Re-backed up 30 gigabytes worth of data. Verified that and installed the new drive. Things worked pretty well. I installed Fedora 11 for the second time in two weeks, restored all my personal files and now I\u0026rsquo;m updating the system.\nI\u0026rsquo;m just glad I verified the backup prior to doing this - it would have been annoying\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/the-importance-of-verifying-backups/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI was using my personal laptop at a meeting yesterday and grabbed about a gig of files from someone\u0026rsquo;s usb key. While I was taking minutes, I noticed a lovely new icon that popped up\u0026hellip; your hard disk drive is failing. Eeek! Not cool. So, last night I got home and started backing up my files. A few of the new files and a couple unimportant old files didn\u0026rsquo;t transfer properly. Fine, I could live without them.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"the importance of verifying backups"},{"content":"Yes, because I\u0026rsquo;m a mighty industrialist (aka Ubermensch) and the world will fall down if I stop writing. ;-) Okay, enough picking on the Randians. Sorry for the radio silence. A quick update:\nI got back from Des Moines last month and the next day had a board meeting for the non-profit I work with. As treasurer, I went to review the financial situation based on the projections we finally received. Sure enough, the detailed projections were in line with the back-of-a-napkin ones that I had presented earlier, i.e., dire. The only real solution was to close a significant portion of our operations, which we did. Unfortunately, that was also the part of operations that K cares most about.\nSo for the past three weeks, I\u0026rsquo;ve been working with some other folks, including another board member who resigned after closing operations, to form a new non-profit. It\u0026rsquo;s been a little hush-hush, but we did go public today. We\u0026rsquo;ve sent out a press release, have a web site, are doing the twitter thing, and even have a facebook page. Yes, the last two make me feel dirty, but what the hell.\nMy part\u0026rsquo;s been largely working the administrative angles with K. I\u0026rsquo;m the Board Secretary, so I\u0026rsquo;ve filed the incorporation paperwork and will be sending off the IRS Form 1023 this weekend in order to get our official tax-exempt status. We got word yesterday that we were incorporated on July 7th! (BTW, it\u0026rsquo;s very cool that information goes online at the NC Secretary of State faster than it goes out in snail mail.)\nMy colleagues are working with their friends on the branding, etc. Hopefully we\u0026rsquo;ll be announcing a coming out party soon.\nSo, you see, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t really hangin\u0026rsquo; with Galt - I\u0026rsquo;ve just been working on things I couldn\u0026rsquo;t be public about until now :-)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/07/09/back-from-galts-gulch/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eYes, because I\u0026rsquo;m a mighty industrialist (aka Ubermensch) and the world will fall down if I stop writing. ;-) Okay, enough picking on the Randians. Sorry for the radio silence. A quick update:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI got back from Des Moines last month and the next day had a board meeting for the non-profit I work with. As treasurer, I went to review the financial situation based on the projections we finally received. Sure enough, the detailed projections were in line with the back-of-a-napkin ones that I had presented earlier, i.e., dire. The only real solution was to close a significant portion of our operations, which we did. Unfortunately, that was also the part of operations that K cares most about.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Back from Galts Gulch"},{"content":"Drafting out a few words for grandpa\u0026rsquo;s funeral tomorrow\u0026hellip; feel free to ignore.\nI never felt that I knew Dick very well. Of course, growing up, we didn\u0026rsquo;t call him that. We always called him Grandpa S. We saw him once every few years, but with a thousand miles between Baton Rouge and Des Moines, I suppose that wasn\u0026rsquo;t too surprising. While it came 20 years later than I would have liked, I have appreciated being here today and at the visitation yesterday, hearing everyone\u0026rsquo;s impressions of the man that my grandfather was.\nAs generous as you have all been, I would like to share a few stories of my own. They define how I remember Richard S.\nAbout ten years ago, shortly after I finished graduate school, grandpa drove down from Iowa for the graduation ceremony. While he was there, he hung several paintings that we had left sitting around the house for a few months; fixed an armoire with stripped screws using toothpicks and wood glue (a trick I\u0026rsquo;ve used ever since); and started talking with K and me about coming back down to build in some book cases (an offer that we regret not taking him up on). I\u0026rsquo;ve also seen work he\u0026rsquo;s done for others\u0026hellip; a cross at his church, a display cabinet at his retirement home, a \u0026hellip; well, I\u0026rsquo;m sure many of you have your own examples. From this I see Richard as a skilled man generous with his time. One of those examples of his sharing his talents is when he came down to Baton Rouge and helped my father convert the attic into a bedroom for my brother, Geoff, and me. When it came time to build the nooks for the beds, my father did the practical thing and measured the mattresses to figure out the proper length of the bed nooks. Grandpa came along and added an extra six inches. Later, he told us proudly that he did that so that as we grew to be as talk as he was, we would appreciate the space for our feet to hang off the bed. Now, I might be 5'10 on days when I feel like lying. Over the past, nearly, 40 years, my feet have never hung off of a bed\u0026hellip; unless, of course, my head is in the middle of it. That I wasn\u0026rsquo;t going to reach 6'4\u0026quot; was obvious at the time he was building the room; but yet, it struck me as beautifully optimistic. An optimism worthy of my grandfather. Another time, the family was visiting Des Moines. I don\u0026rsquo;t remember where, exactly, we were, perhaps either Irma\u0026rsquo;s or Norma\u0026rsquo;s house and we were making \u0026ldquo;lefse\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; thin, Norweigan potato pancakes that you spread butter and sugar on, roll up and eat. My mother had been teaching me and Geoff how to cook and so Dick was telling us how the lefse were made. Now, if you didn\u0026rsquo;t know (and I can\u0026rsquo;t imagine that you didn\u0026rsquo;t), Richard had a *terrible* sense of humor. There were puns and shaggy dog stories, all of which I\u0026rsquo;ll spare you. So as grandpa had talked us through making the lefse dough he tells us that you cook the lefse in an iron pan and that the iron pan is *very* important. Well, we were a couple of inquisitive, scientifically minded children. Geoff and I were learning to cook and I could imagine of a few reasons why an iron pan might be needed. So someone asked, \u0026lsquo;why an iron pan?\u0026rsquo; His face lit up. In hindsight, you could see it. He gave us the setup and we took the bait. Grinning broadly he said, \u0026ldquo;because Norwegians can\u0026rsquo;t say Aluminumunumum.\u0026rdquo; If anyone has other examples of Dick\u0026rsquo;s humor, please don\u0026rsquo;t tell me. Although in fairness, that might also be why grandpa\u0026rsquo;s lefse didn\u0026rsquo;t have cinamoniumum. I\u0026rsquo;ve covered his skills in woodworking, his generosity in sharing those skills, his optimism and his terrible sense of humor. In my mind, the last thing that defined my grandfather was his love of God. You could see this in his relationship to his church and his trips to the holy land. It was for that reason that K and I asked him to officiate at our wedding. As the groom, I honestly don\u0026rsquo;t remember that much about homily, although some time in the 3rd hour, it did occur to me that it might have been a bit long :-) . In all seriousness, I believe that having grandpa officiate at our wedding was one of the best decisions we\u0026rsquo;ve ever made. It made the ceremony that much more special to both K and me.\nAs I said earlier, I\u0026rsquo;ve never felt that I knew my grandfather as well as I would have liked; but I feel privileged to have known him as well as I did.\nSo, that\u0026rsquo;s roughly what I\u0026rsquo;m thinking. I\u0026rsquo;ll have to re-read it tomorrow to see if I still want to say it.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/06/16/eulogy-for-a-grandfather-never-well-known/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDrafting out a few words for grandpa\u0026rsquo;s funeral tomorrow\u0026hellip; feel free to ignore.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI never felt that I knew Dick very well. Of course, growing up, we didn\u0026rsquo;t call him that. We always called him Grandpa S. We saw him once every few years, but with a thousand miles between Baton Rouge and Des Moines, I suppose that wasn\u0026rsquo;t too surprising. While it came 20 years later than I would have liked, I have appreciated being here today and at the visitation yesterday, hearing everyone\u0026rsquo;s impressions of the man that my grandfather was.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Eulogy for a grandfather never well known"},{"content":"I heard from my mom today that my grandfather died this afternoon. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t a complete shock. He never fully recovered from a stroke a few years ago, was recently suffering bouts of ventricular tachycardia, had just this week been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (which recently claimed Randy Pausch - go watch his \u0026ldquo;last lecture\u0026rdquo;), and had signed a DNR order.\nI never did know my grandfather that well. Of my five grandparents, he was the one whom we visited least while growing up. There\u0026rsquo;s also the difficulty of understanding someone 50+ years older than you. And his general Norwegian disposition, a silent doer, made it difficult to know what was in his head. I suspect you got to know my grandfather more by working with him than talking to him.\nBy the time I was in my twenties, my family started to have more contact with my grandfather. He drove down to NC for the graduation ceremony. We talked some about having him down again to help build some bookshelves. (One of the things I know about him is that he was an excellent wood worker. He\u0026rsquo;s built all sorts of furniture, and I think even the cross that hangs in his church.) That was 11 years ago, and one of the last times I saw him before his stroke: a tall strong man in his early 70s. The last time I saw him, was three years ago on his 80th birthday. He was still mentally aware, and remained that way through this week. We still don\u0026rsquo;t have any details on his funeral. I\u0026rsquo;m hoping we get them soon enough to make plans to travel to Iowa.\nSorry for the rough stream of conciousness post. My head\u0026rsquo;s not all here.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/06/12/richard-s-rest-in-peace/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI heard from my mom today that my grandfather died this afternoon. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t a complete shock. He never fully recovered from a stroke a few years ago, was recently suffering bouts of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_tachycardia\"\u003eventricular tachycardia\u003c/a\u003e, had just this week been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (which recently claimed Randy Pausch - go watch his \u0026ldquo;\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo\"\u003elast lecture\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rdquo;), and had signed a DNR order.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI never did know my grandfather that well. Of my five grandparents, he was the one whom we visited least while growing up. There\u0026rsquo;s also the difficulty of understanding someone 50+ years older than you. And his general Norwegian disposition, a silent doer, made it difficult to know what was in his head. I suspect you got to know my grandfather more by working with him than talking to him.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Richard S., rest in peace"},{"content":" May 24: Memorial day weekend is in full swing and there are idiots everywhere. I swear that the older I get, the more I sympathize with my father\u0026rsquo;s dislike of crowds. We braved a bit of the crowd (keeping in mind that we\u0026rsquo;re already in the least crowded part of the park) and went up to Floating Island Lake to see if the sandhill cranes were nesting. When we got there, a coyote was crossing behind the lake and the cranes, who were on the shore at the time, were putting on quite a display: loud squawks (or whatever noise cranes make), spread wings, raised heads, etc. Basically, everything a crane can do to tell a coyote to go away\u0026hellip; which he did. There weren\u0026rsquo;t any eggs in the nest yet, so we left and decided to get away from everybody by hiking the Lamar Trail. That was a very nice hike, we only saw one other group of people, but we did see many hawks and bluebirds. We got down to Cache Creek and stayed for a while. The rain didn\u0026rsquo;t start until we were a mile and a half down the trail home. That would be great, except that it left us another 2 miles back. We did have rain gear, but it isn\u0026rsquo;t very good and doesn\u0026rsquo;t breathe well, so we didn\u0026rsquo;t put it on. Between the lack of rain gear and my putting my hat on the camera, we arrived back to the car tired and soaked, but happy. A wet day of hiking is still better than crowds.\nMay 25: Memorial Day itself. There\u0026rsquo;s no way I\u0026rsquo;m going anywhere potentially crowded. We did decide to do a few short hikes to get some pictures. I went a short distance down the Lamar Trail to get some shots from the foot bridge. We drove up to Tower Falls (saw a fox on the drive up there). Unfortunately, the trail down to the base of the falls is still closed, as it has been for 5 years now. You can hike down a half mile, but there\u0026rsquo;s not much to see. That\u0026rsquo;s a bit of a shame, since Tower Falls is one of the nicer falls in the park. Warning: don\u0026rsquo;t try this, it\u0026rsquo;s dangerous. So, getting fed up with the closure, I slipped over the barrier when no one was looking (for the record, this doesn\u0026rsquo;t appear to be illegal, just dumb) and hike the last tenth of a mile to the base. FWIW, I can see why the trail is closed. There are places where the trail is only 6 - 8\u0026quot; wide (on one side of the mountain road there was a mountain, and on the other side there was nothin\u0026rsquo; - there was a cliff in the air) and other places where there were trees down across what was left of the trail. That said, it was definitely worth it to see the base of the falls again. After that, we hiked up to Lost Creek Falls (behind Roosevelt Lodge). On the way back to the cabin, we stopped by Baronette Peak and spotted a few mountain goats. That evening, we went out into the park and saw two wolves in the valley. We must have watched them for over an hour - there was a great deal of very dog-like behavior. The subordinate licking the dominant one\u0026rsquo;s mouth. The dominant one standing over the subordinate, etc. We found it very interesting to watch - as did a coyote that was following the wolves in order to see when it would be safe to feed off of a nearby kill.\nMay 26: It\u0026rsquo;s the day after Memorial Day\u0026hellip; should be safe to go to Mammoth, right? Nope, trick question. There are always crowds at Mammoth. On the drive up, we ran across a fairly large bear-jam, so we found a place to pull off in order to see what the fuss was about. Turned out to be a young grizzly, maybe 40 yards from the road. He had been bathing (missed that) and was climbing on a rock to dry a bit. We stayed for a while, until the rangers had everyone leave since this bear had charged someone the other day. Mammoth seemed dry. More accurately, the water continually moves and has been moving away from the standard board walk areas for years now. While we were looking at one of the features, we saw some college student reach into his pocket and when he pulled his hand out, his keys went flying onto the thermal ground where he had to retrieve it. Probably my biggest impression from Mammoth was that it reminds me of one of the central themes from Gulliver\u0026rsquo;s Travels, that humans are comical when viewed from afar and grotesque when viewed up close. Both aspects were on display at Mammoth (and in fairness, pretty much anywhere that people gather in numbers). On the drive back, we watched a wolf crossing the road behind us. Nothing too exciting that evening, a bear and two (though I only saw one) cubs.\nMay 27: We went out and hiked Garnet Hill today. There wasn\u0026rsquo;t too much wildlife. We did see a day old wolf kill at the start of the trail, but there were only ravens on it. We saw lots of marmots, as always. Overall, the hike took longer than it should have. We\u0026rsquo;ll need to allocate more time next year. That evening, we saw a moose and her newborn (that day?) calf across from Trout Lake. People believe that the moose was attacked by wolves (or bear) and then had the calf shortly thereafter. The calf was fine, but the moose was a bit torn up, we hoped they would make it. In the valley we watched a grizzly for a while. It seemed that he was limping. We ran into a griz researcher who confirmed that the bear was injured. The researcher had a baited trap on the south side of the valley. He hoped that the bear would follow that so that they could provide some help.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/06/07/vacation-notes-3-of-n/","summary":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 24:\u003c/strong\u003e Memorial day weekend is in full swing and there are idiots everywhere. I swear that the older I get, the more I sympathize with my father\u0026rsquo;s dislike of crowds. We braved a bit of the crowd (keeping in mind that we\u0026rsquo;re already in the least crowded part of the park) and went up to Floating Island Lake to see if the sandhill cranes were nesting. When we got there, a coyote was crossing behind the lake and the cranes, who were on the shore at the time, were putting on quite a display: loud squawks (or whatever noise cranes make), spread wings, raised heads, etc. Basically, everything a crane can do to tell a coyote to go away\u0026hellip; which he did. There weren\u0026rsquo;t any eggs in the nest yet, so we left and decided to get away from everybody by hiking the Lamar Trail. That was a very nice hike, we only saw one other group of people, but we did see many hawks and bluebirds. We got down to Cache Creek and stayed for a while. The rain didn\u0026rsquo;t start until we were a mile and a half down the trail home. That would be great, except that it left us another 2 miles back. We did have rain gear, but it isn\u0026rsquo;t very good and doesn\u0026rsquo;t breathe well, so we didn\u0026rsquo;t put it on. Between the lack of rain gear and my putting my hat on the camera, we arrived back to the car tired and soaked, but happy. A wet day of hiking is still better than crowds.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Vacation notes (3 of N)"},{"content":" May 20: In the morning, we saw a small herd of bighorn sheep near the Yellowstone Picnic Area. Later on, we saw a grizzly bear hanging out in the Lamar Valley: sleeping, grazing and hanging out. Heading back into the cabin for dinner, we talk to our host. He\u0026rsquo;s going through a nasty divorce which may wind up causing them to lose their business (for reasons I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t get into). Helpful hint: if you\u0026rsquo;re going into business with someone, even a spouse, set up an LLC. You don\u0026rsquo;t want everything to be owned jointly. In the evening we see still more grizzly. It\u0026rsquo;s apparently a grizzly year - it looks like we\u0026rsquo;re going to have to cruise the Tower Junction area if we want to see any black bears. On the way home that evening, we saw three moose by the side of the road. I got out and took a few pictures which were (at best) okay given the lack of light. Neater than the pictures though, was hearing them tear off the plants and chewing them. That was very cool.\nMay 21: We saw quite a few pronghorn hanging out in the Lamar Valley. They\u0026rsquo;re very pretty animals, and hey\u0026hellip; they can run 60 miles an hour. As mentioned yesterday, we wanted to head up to the Tower area to scout for black bear and to check out some nests we\u0026rsquo;ve seen in year\u0026rsquo;s past. No perregrin falcon, no owl\u0026rsquo;s nest, but the osprey did have a nest again. After Tower, we headed back into the valley to go and hike Trout Lake. On the way, we ran across a wolf out in the middle of the day. He was trying to cross the Soda Butte creek. It took him a while, but he finally managed it. Anyway, Trout Lake is a pretty little lake up in the hills on the north-east side of valley. A short hike, maybe .6 miles to it, but it\u0026rsquo;s all vertical (not literally, but trust me\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s H for horrible, particularly at 7000 ft above sea level). Anyway, we hiked up to the lake and around a bit. There was still snow up there and several different ducks (Barrow\u0026rsquo;s Goldeneye and a Cinnamon Teal) as well as a Canada Goose (which became something of a trip joke since the geese were everywhere). We didn\u0026rsquo;t see any otter this year, but\u0026hellip; That evening, we headed back into the park\u0026hellip; more moose and bear (black and griz). We also got some good beaver shots near the Confluence. Someone told us about an owl\u0026rsquo;s nest in the canyons to the west of the valley. We headed over that way and found the nest. Couldn\u0026rsquo;t identify the owl species. Finally, as the sun was setting and we were losing the light, we watched a wolf chasing a coyote and then making a herd of elk nervous in the hills along the north of the valley.\nMay 22: Our anniversary! 16 years - it\u0026rsquo;s hard to believe (it\u0026rsquo;s also hard not to type the joke about having been happily married for 6 years now\u0026hellip; ;-) ). Given how warm it was, we thought a nice hike under the trees would be good, so we planned to hike Lost Lake. Along the way, we stopped at the \u0026ldquo;owl\u0026rsquo;s\u0026rdquo; nest. Turned out to be a red-tail hawk - still cool, but not really an owl. After the nest, we drove up to Tower Junction, crossed the barrier to the (closed) Roosevelt Lodge and started the hike. We took the trail up to the Lake and then over to the Petrified Tree. There weren\u0026rsquo;t too many animals on the hike, but it was still a lot of fun. On the drive back, we saw a young (yearling?) grizzly at the Confluence. As we were watching, he got spooked (by a pronghorn I think) and took off running - very odd. For our anniversary dinner, we went by the \u0026ldquo;fancy\u0026rdquo; restaurant in Cooke City - the Bistro. The food was excellent, but by the time we finished, it was a bit late to head back into the park.\nMay 23: Laundry day (/o See you there. Under things, tumbling. o/). We asked our cabin host if he knew of a public laundrymat (other than the one we usually use which is kinda nasty) and he let us use his washer/dryer. That freed us up to drive up to the Beartooth Pass, which had just opened for the season. There were way too many people up there - it turns out that it was some sort of festival(-ish). Oh well, it was still pretty. The evening was quiet, but we did watch a black bear sow and her two cubs rooting around in the valley.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/06/03/vacation-notes-2-of-n/","summary":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 20:\u003c/strong\u003e In the morning, we saw a small herd of bighorn sheep near the Yellowstone Picnic Area. Later on, we saw a grizzly bear hanging out in the Lamar Valley: sleeping, grazing and hanging out. Heading back into the cabin for dinner, we talk to our host. He\u0026rsquo;s going through a nasty divorce which may wind up causing them to lose their business (for reasons I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t get into). Helpful hint: if you\u0026rsquo;re going into business with someone, even a spouse, set up an LLC. You don\u0026rsquo;t want everything to be owned jointly. In the evening we see still more grizzly. It\u0026rsquo;s apparently a grizzly year - it looks like we\u0026rsquo;re going to have to cruise the Tower Junction area if we want to see any black bears. On the way home that evening, we saw three moose by the side of the road. I got out and took a few pictures which were (at best) okay given the lack of light. Neater than the pictures though, was hearing them tear off the plants and chewing them. That was very cool.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Vacation notes (2 of N)"},{"content":"As mentioned previously, K and I have been out on vacation for the past two weeks - no phone (okay, there was voicemail), no email, and really very little in the way of computers. I did take some notes, because, unfortunately, my memory is exactly what it used to be: bad.\nMay 16: An inauspicious start to a vacation. Neither K nor I were particularly in the mood for heading out of town. We were seriously contemplating not going next year and possibly even forgoing the plane fare this year and bailing. I had been putting in too many hours working on a project for work, and K was have some difficult times with her rehab. That said, we dropped of the dogs and headed out to RDU. Unfortunately, the Delta/Northwest merger meant that instead of taking RDU-\u0026gt;MSP-\u0026gt;BZN flights, we were taking RDU-\u0026gt;ATL-\u0026gt;MSP-\u0026gt;BZN (yes, 3 flights) and upon checking in, it seemed that we were going to be delayed in getting to Atlanta :-( Well, that worked out okay. We got into ATL at 5:30 and our MSP flight left at 6:35. Oh wait, no - it, too, was late and left at 8:00pm. That meant that in spite of the assurances of several Delta and Northwest agents, we landed at MSP at 9:30 - the same time the BZN flight left. Well, it turns out that we weren\u0026rsquo;t the only ones in that situation (\u0026lsquo;and if you ever find yourself in that situation, there\u0026rsquo;s only one thing you can do: sing a few bars of \u0026ldquo;Alice\u0026rsquo;s Restaurant\u0026rdquo;\u0026rsquo;). Delta left 17 of us stranded in MSP, while their computers showed that they were only stranding 3. Delta proposed routing many of us to Salt Lake City (SLC?) where we could catch a flight to BZN in the morning. Of course, unless we were flying first class, we would have to eat the costs of staying in SLC. One woman vociferously complained (though it later turned out that she had already been booked for a morning flight to SLC). When we arrived at SLC, they had hotel and meal vouchers waiting for us (score!). So a night at a very gracious Comfort Suites capped the day. FWIW, on the IT front, the Delta/NW merger has been pathetic - at every point where a user interacts with their computers, they have a front-end which redirects you to the appropriate computer system: Delta or Northwest. It\u0026rsquo;s no wonder they can\u0026rsquo;t figure out that they stranded 17 people, they can\u0026rsquo;t even make good sense of their different flight numbers! May 17: Relatively uneventful. We grabbed the shuttle to the airport. SLC is apparently one of the few airports now invading your privacy by looking at your privates through millimeter radar. They redirected our line through the system where they had you enter the scanner. They proceeded to use the Twister spinners to dictate how you place your hands above your head while performing a pelvic thrust for the sensors, then getting annoyed when you didn\u0026rsquo;t understand the first time that you should pretend to be flashing teenage school girls in order to get the posture correct. Once it was done, they had to fondle your pocket regions. No, that\u0026rsquo;s not a euphemism. The wavelength of the radar is apparently too short to penetrate the pockets on (men\u0026rsquo;s?) pants and they then have a pissy highschool educated TSA weenie with delusions of grandeur frisk your pockets. FWIW, I\u0026rsquo;m equally pissed at myself that I went through the damn thing. I should have insisted on a pat-down. If someone is going to violate my person, I want to get a good look at \u0026rsquo;em while they are doing it. Having the person sit in an anonymous room getting their jollies just isn\u0026rsquo;t cool. So, once we got through the faux-security checkpoint, we ran into the woman who complained in MSP (and got us free lodging)! We made it to BZN - though our luggage didn\u0026rsquo;t, rented a RAV4 and went to our hotel. The luggage showed up around 5pm. Lucky for Delta, otherwise, they could have had it delivered to our final destination, Cooke City - 3 hours away. May 18: bought supplies and headed into Yellowstone. We didn\u0026rsquo;t see much on the drive in and we didn\u0026rsquo;t go out to the park in the evening: too tired. The beds were great (pillowtop mattresses) and the kitchen was very nice. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t too sure about having a TV in the room, but having a phone that we could use after hours was nice. May 19: First real day in the Park. We did get a late start in the morning, but the viewing was great. We saw a wolf on the northern ridge above the Lamar valley. People were saying that he was a part of the same group that killed several coyote pups in the valley the night before. We saw a grizzly bear, a coyote, a bald eagle and a golden eagle (on a old kill). That evening we went out again, we saw two grizzly and lots of bison with their young calves, also a very nice scenic view, complete with DRAMATIC LIGHTING. (* all of the images in this series are original jpegs without the color correction, etc. that will be applied later) ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/06/01/vacation-notes-1-of-n/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs mentioned previously, K and I have been out on vacation for the past two weeks - no phone (okay, there was voicemail), no email, and really very little in the way of computers. I did take some notes, because, unfortunately, my memory is exactly what it used to be: bad.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 16:\u003c/strong\u003e An inauspicious start to a vacation. Neither K nor I were particularly in the mood for heading out of town. We were seriously contemplating not going next year and possibly even forgoing the plane fare this year and bailing. I had been putting in too many hours working on a project for work, and K was have some difficult times with her rehab. That said, we dropped of the dogs and headed out to RDU. Unfortunately, the Delta/Northwest merger meant that instead of taking RDU-\u0026gt;MSP-\u0026gt;BZN flights, we were taking RDU-\u0026gt;ATL-\u0026gt;MSP-\u0026gt;BZN (yes, 3 flights) and upon checking in, it seemed that we were going to be delayed in getting to Atlanta :-( Well, that worked out okay. We got into ATL at 5:30 and our MSP flight left at 6:35. Oh wait, no - it, too, was late and left at 8:00pm. That meant that in spite of the assurances of several Delta and Northwest agents, we landed at MSP at 9:30 - the same time the BZN flight left. Well, it turns out that we weren\u0026rsquo;t the only ones in that situation (\u0026lsquo;and if you ever find yourself in that situation, there\u0026rsquo;s only one thing you can do: sing a few bars of \u0026ldquo;Alice\u0026rsquo;s Restaurant\u0026rdquo;\u0026rsquo;). Delta left 17 of us stranded in MSP, while their computers showed that they were only stranding 3. Delta proposed routing many of us to Salt Lake City (SLC?) where we could catch a flight to BZN in the morning. Of course, unless we were flying first class, we would have to eat the costs of staying in SLC. One woman vociferously complained (though it later turned out that she had already been booked for a morning flight to SLC). When we arrived at SLC, they had hotel and meal vouchers waiting for us (score!). So a night at a very gracious Comfort Suites capped the day. FWIW, on the IT front, the Delta/NW merger has been pathetic - at every point where a user interacts with their computers, they have a front-end which redirects you to the appropriate computer system: Delta or Northwest. It\u0026rsquo;s no wonder they can\u0026rsquo;t figure out that they stranded 17 people, they can\u0026rsquo;t even make good sense of their different flight numbers!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 17:\u003c/strong\u003e Relatively uneventful. We grabbed the shuttle to the airport. SLC is apparently one of the few airports now invading your privacy by looking at your privates through millimeter radar. They redirected our line through the system where they had you enter the scanner. They proceeded to use the Twister spinners to dictate how you place your hands above your head while performing a pelvic thrust for the sensors, then getting annoyed when you didn\u0026rsquo;t understand the first time that you should pretend to be flashing teenage school girls in order to get the posture correct. Once it was done, they had to fondle your pocket regions. No, that\u0026rsquo;s not a euphemism. The wavelength of the radar is apparently too short to penetrate the pockets on (men\u0026rsquo;s?) pants and they then have a pissy highschool educated TSA weenie with delusions of grandeur frisk your pockets. FWIW, I\u0026rsquo;m equally pissed at myself that I went through the damn thing. I should have insisted on a pat-down. If someone is going to violate my person, I want to get a good look at \u0026rsquo;em while they are doing it. Having the person sit in an anonymous room getting their jollies just isn\u0026rsquo;t cool. So, once we got through the faux-security checkpoint, we ran into the woman who complained in MSP (and got us free lodging)! We made it to BZN - though our luggage didn\u0026rsquo;t, rented a RAV4 and went to our hotel. The luggage showed up around 5pm. Lucky for Delta, otherwise, they could have had it delivered to our final destination, Cooke City - 3 hours away.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 18:\u003c/strong\u003e bought supplies and headed into Yellowstone. We didn\u0026rsquo;t see much on the drive in and we didn\u0026rsquo;t go out to the park in the evening: too tired. The beds were great (pillowtop mattresses) and the kitchen was very nice. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t too sure about having a TV in the room, but having a phone that we could use after hours was nice.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay 19:\u003c/strong\u003e  \u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=9953\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4817\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=9955\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e First real day in the Park. We did get a late start in the morning, but the viewing was great. We saw a wolf on the northern ridge above the Lamar valley. People were saying that he was a part of the same group that killed several coyote pups in the valley the night before. We saw a grizzly bear, a coyote, a bald eagle and a golden eagle (on a old kill). That evening we went out again, we saw two grizzly and lots of bison with their young calves, also a very nice scenic view, complete with DRAMATIC LIGHTING. (* all of the images in this series are original jpegs without the color correction, etc. that will be applied later) \u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=9956\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4826\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=9958\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"Vacation notes (1 of N)"},{"content":"K and I just got back from vacation - your regular, intermitant blogging will resume shortly. I don\u0026rsquo;t think there has been anything new posted since late April. The first couple of weeks of May, I was tied up at work, getting ready for the last two weeks when we were to be in Yellowstone. So, having left Bozeman, MT this morning on a 6am flight, we\u0026rsquo;re back in NC. I\u0026rsquo;m sorry for the lack of warning up front, I just hate announcing to the world that I won\u0026rsquo;t be in town for two weeks. :-)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/05/30/weather-is-here-wish-you-were-beautiful/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK and I just got back from vacation - your regular, intermitant blogging will resume shortly. I don\u0026rsquo;t think there has been anything new posted since late April. The first couple of weeks of May, I was tied up at work, getting ready for the last two weeks when we were to be in Yellowstone. So, having left Bozeman, MT this morning on a 6am flight, we\u0026rsquo;re back in NC. I\u0026rsquo;m sorry for the lack of warning up front, I just hate announcing to the world that I won\u0026rsquo;t be in town for two weeks. :-)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Weather is here, wish you were beautiful"},{"content":" It\u0026rsquo;s definitive - we are having a 20th year high school reunion. I\u0026rsquo;m not entirely certain how I feel about the whole thing. Thinking back, I don\u0026rsquo;t have too many fond memories of high school. In fairness, I don\u0026rsquo;t do well with event-type recollection, so I don\u0026rsquo;t have too many memories in general from that period, but my overall sense is that the past 20 years have been much better than the 3 at CLA. I will admit to a certain morbid curiousity about the reunion and my high school classmates. General predictions: 1) the correlation of popularity to success is less than or equal to zero; 2) while we are all adults and more than twice our age at graduation, cliques will reform immediately at the reunion; 3) people who enjoyed high school will have a better time at the reunion than those who didn\u0026rsquo;t; and 4) I\u0026rsquo;m one of, if not the most, liberal members of our . :-)\nI still don\u0026rsquo;t know if I\u0026rsquo;ll try to go to the reunion or not, but either way, I\u0026rsquo;ve thought more about high school this past week than I have in a decade. If I hadn\u0026rsquo;t thrown out the year books (I think), I might go through them and see what all I\u0026rsquo;m forgetting.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/29/memento-mori/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=9947\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"StillLifeWithASkull\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=9949\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e It\u0026rsquo;s definitive - we are having a \u003ca href=\"/2009/04/03/eeek\"\u003e20th year high school reunion\u003c/a\u003e. I\u0026rsquo;m not entirely certain how I feel about the whole thing. Thinking back, I don\u0026rsquo;t have too many fond memories of high school. In fairness, I don\u0026rsquo;t do well with event-type recollection, so I don\u0026rsquo;t have too many memories in general from that period, but my overall sense is that the past 20 years have been much better than the 3 at CLA. I will admit to a certain morbid curiousity about the reunion and my high school classmates. General predictions: 1) the correlation of popularity to success is less than or equal to zero; 2) while we are all adults and more than twice our age at graduation, cliques will reform immediately at the reunion; 3) people who enjoyed high school will have a better time at the reunion than those who didn\u0026rsquo;t; and 4) I\u0026rsquo;m one of, if not the most, liberal members of our . :-)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Memento mori"},{"content":"It looks like the average IQ of democratic senators and the average IQ of republican senators have both declined today. Hopefully there will be a 2010 challenger in the PA democratic primaries.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/28/specter-d-pa/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt looks like the average IQ of democratic senators and the average IQ of republican senators have \u003ca href=\"http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/28/breaking-specter-to-switch-parties/\"\u003eboth declined today\u003c/a\u003e. Hopefully there will be a 2010 challenger in the PA democratic primaries.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Specter (D-Pa.)"},{"content":"If only we could get Carol Burnett to highlight the plight of the lonely possums on the muppet show. Of course, she would get all interupted by Gonzo\u0026rsquo;s dance marathon, but hey, rehabbers will take what they can get.\nK got in a solitary young opossum last night. Sad little girl (the possum, not K\u0026hellip; at least to my knowledge). Dehydrated (definitely the possum) and underweight (both actually!). Hopefully she\u0026rsquo;ll make it (both again):\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/21/the-lonely-possum-sketch/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIf only we could get Carol Burnett to highlight the plight of the lonely possums on the muppet show. Of course, she would get all interupted by Gonzo\u0026rsquo;s dance marathon, but hey, rehabbers will take what they can get.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eK got in a solitary young opossum last night. Sad little girl (the possum, not K\u0026hellip; at least to my knowledge). Dehydrated (definitely the possum) and underweight (both actually!). Hopefully she\u0026rsquo;ll make it (both again):\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The lonely possum sketch"},{"content":"\u0026hellip; and he and Tim Berners-Lee want you to stop breaking the Internet.\nOver the past couple of weeks I\u0026rsquo;ve had several occasions to be invited into someone\u0026rsquo;s walled garden on the internet. You know the places. Lovely little sites that are entirely self-contained and which you can\u0026rsquo;t access unless you are a member? In the old days, Compuserve and AOL were the big walled gardens. These days, it\u0026rsquo;s Facebook and Linked-In.\nThese two social networking sites provide easy access to various tools for maintaining a web presence, but also keep enough meta-data that it\u0026rsquo;s easy to track down other people that you are likely to know. FWIW, I have no problem with the meta-data aspects of the site. If you want to find people that you may know due to past associations, well more power to you. The concern I have is that once you go beyond those functions and start using the internals of the garden to maintain information, well, then the only people who can see that information are those who belong to that garden. Even that is fine with me if the information is private and should be restricted through some form of identity management and authorization; but what if you intend the information to be public, should everyone have to come into the garden to see what should be public? What does restricting the information to only those with (Facebook) accounts do for you? You aren\u0026rsquo;t controlling access, you are just making the owners of your walled garden a little richer by increasing the popularity of their sites.\nI mentioned that I\u0026rsquo;ve had several invitations respecting walled gardens recently. FWIW, two were on Facebook. A few of these are related to my upcoming 20th high school reunion (er, actually, that should be 20 year - technically it\u0026rsquo;ll be our 1st reunion and at this rate, our 20th will be in the year 2389) and seeing someone\u0026rsquo;s pictures, or viewing our class group or\u0026hellip;. The other was a friend who stopped blogging publically (for the most part) and is now (as I understand it) \u0026ldquo;writing on her wall\u0026rdquo; (which is a wonderfully ironic image for this post). The Linked-in request was to \u0026ldquo;recommend\u0026rdquo; someone professionally. Okay, it\u0026rsquo;s true that I do belong to Linked-in, but I use it as an online rolodex, not as a way to keep in touch with what former colleauges are doing. I don\u0026rsquo;t \u0026ldquo;recommend\u0026rdquo; people. I don\u0026rsquo;t ask to be \u0026ldquo;recommended\u0026rdquo; and I don\u0026rsquo;t really keep up with what happens. As far as Facebook? Not participating and not joining. Use the (free) tools that are available like flickr for images and blogger or wordpress for blogging. In the meantime, if Facebook and/or Linked-in ever open up to the rest of the Internet, then maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll look at your images and read your writing. But if they don\u0026rsquo;t, then you\u0026rsquo;re restricting yourself to only a subset of the people on the Internet.\n.\n.\n.\n.\noh, and You Kids Get Off My Lawn!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/21/vint-cerf-called/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026hellip; and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf\"\u003ehe\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee\"\u003eTim Berners-Lee\u003c/a\u003e want you to stop breaking the Internet.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the past couple of weeks I\u0026rsquo;ve had several occasions to be invited into someone\u0026rsquo;s walled garden on the internet. You know the places. Lovely little sites that are entirely self-contained and which you can\u0026rsquo;t access unless you are a member? In the old days, Compuserve and AOL were the big walled gardens. These days, it\u0026rsquo;s Facebook and Linked-In.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Vint Cerf called . . ."},{"content":"They may take our rehabilitation bins, but they\u0026rsquo;ll never take\u0026hellip; our FREEDOM!\nOn Sunday, K release some baby water turtles that she had been over-wintering. Fortunately, we\u0026rsquo;re all of a mile from a good place at which to release turtles, Jordan Lake, so we didn\u0026rsquo;t have to drive too far.\nThe big one in the image set is a male (note the long nails for better, um, gripping) slider and the other three are painted turtles (you can see the orange on the underside of the shells in the images in the gallery).\nLinks take you to the full set. Oh, and for those wanting to take pictures of fish or reptiles in water, circular polarizers rock. :-) I do wish I had a better depth of field on some of the images, but it was a cloudy day, I needed the speed and I don\u0026rsquo;t like using an ISO greater than 800.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/21/william-wallace-on-wildlife-releases/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThey may take our rehabilitation bins, but they\u0026rsquo;ll never take\u0026hellip; our FREEDOM!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Sunday, K release some baby water turtles that she had been over-wintering. Fortunately, we\u0026rsquo;re all of a mile from a good place at which to release turtles, Jordan Lake, so we didn\u0026rsquo;t have to drive too far.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe big one in the image set is a male (note the long nails for better, um, gripping) slider and the other three are painted turtles (you can see the orange on the underside of the shells in the images in the gallery).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"William Wallace on wildlife releases"},{"content":"For the first time in about 10 years I planted a garden. We are always drawn to shaded lots, so we\u0026rsquo;ve never had a place for one before. Even here we\u0026rsquo;ve got five acres\u0026hellip; and they are all wooded. Normally? Great. For a garden, it\u0026rsquo;s kinda the suck. This year, I decided to plant a garden in the right-of-way/frontage and the heck with what the neighbors think. So, raised beds to avoid the clay soil problems, fencing to keep the deer out (btw - know any bow hunters? I may be a vegetarian, but the deer are getting on my nerves), and we\u0026rsquo;re set to go.\nI started planting late winter/early spring crops back in February and they\u0026rsquo;re starting to come into harvest. The picture below is from a week ago and the plants have since grown significantly larger. Last week we did an arugula [1] and basil pesto, this week it\u0026rsquo;s been a salad and probably spinach quiche [2]. I think that by the time everything starts to bolt, it\u0026rsquo;ll be warm enough for summer vegetables.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s see, clockwise from the bottom right, the boxes are growing: 1) spinach, arugula and leeks; 2) kale, lettuce and a mesclun mix (not to be confused with mescaline - that\u0026rsquo;s a completely different plant :-) ); 3) broccoli, beets and fennel; and 4) peas, carrots and turnips. Yeah, I went a bit overboard. I figure that we\u0026rsquo;ve got about a month for harvest, the kale/lettuce/mesclun will wrap up first. Last will be the broccoli/fennel/beets plus the leeks which won\u0026rsquo;t finish developing until late summer.\nFootnotes:\n[1] It seems like every liberal type I know who has planted a garden is growing arugula. FWIW, I suspect there are two reasons for this: 1) it\u0026rsquo;s awesome, and 2) it\u0026rsquo;s a big FU to the republicans who thought that \u0026ldquo;arugula eater\u0026rdquo; was an insult. If it makes you happier, call it rocket - the southern corruption of roquette.\n[2] Yeah, don\u0026rsquo;t give me that \u0026ldquo;real men\u0026rdquo; b.s. We\u0026rsquo;re talking about a meal with a pie crust, cheese, cream and 3 or 4 eggs. It\u0026rsquo;s a heart attack waiting to happen, which as near as I can tell is what makes it something a \u0026ldquo;real man\u0026rdquo; would eat ;-)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/20/harvest-time/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in about 10 years I planted a garden. We are always drawn to shaded lots, so we\u0026rsquo;ve never had a place for one before. Even here we\u0026rsquo;ve got five acres\u0026hellip; and they are all wooded. Normally? Great. For a garden, it\u0026rsquo;s kinda the suck. This year, I decided to plant a garden in the right-of-way/frontage and the heck with what the neighbors think. So, raised beds to avoid the clay soil problems, fencing to keep the deer out (btw - know any bow hunters? I may be a vegetarian, but the deer are getting on my nerves), and we\u0026rsquo;re set to go.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Harvest time!"},{"content":"Tomorrow is April 15th, tax day. And in case you\u0026rsquo;ve missed it, republicans, flat taxers, gold fetishists, racists, defense nuts and other extreme conservatives are planning to host tea parties tomorrow. Tea parties? Yep. Protests, harkening back to the days of the Boston Tea Party when proto-American patriots dumped tea into Boston harbor to protest taxation without representation. Tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s tea parties appear to be a bit less principaled. Some protestors are objecting to the Bush tax cuts on the top 2% expiring in 2010\u0026hellip; as they were scheduled to do by republican law makers. Some protestors seem to object to having lost the election in 2008. Others object to bailouts of home owners\u0026hellip; or is it bailouts of banks\u0026hellip; or is it bailouts that don\u0026rsquo;t help their bottom line? Some seem to object to having a black president. Others are Ron Paulites who seek to restore the gold standard?!\nIn celebration of all you crazy right wing nuts out there, I threw my own tea party tonight:\nFrom left to right, Blue wants to restore the gold standard. Java (the cat) is upset that, while he only earns the median income of $35,000 or so right now, he might have to pay an extra $0.04 for every dollar he earns over $250,000\u0026hellip; assuming he ever earns that much. And Mr. Bun-bun? Well, he doesn\u0026rsquo;t really have a grievance. He\u0026rsquo;s just here for the tea-bagging. Note the carrot and apparent oral fixation. Now there\u0026rsquo;s a true republican for you!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/14/download-full-movie-why-him-2016/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTomorrow is April 15th, tax day. And in case you\u0026rsquo;ve missed it, republicans, flat taxers, gold fetishists, racists, defense nuts and other extreme conservatives are planning to host tea parties tomorrow. Tea parties? Yep. Protests, harkening back to the days of the Boston Tea Party when proto-American patriots dumped tea into Boston harbor to protest taxation without representation. Tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s tea parties appear to be a bit less principaled. Some protestors are objecting to the Bush tax cuts on the top 2% expiring in 2010\u0026hellip; as they were scheduled to do by republican law makers. Some protestors seem to object to having lost the election in 2008. Others object to bailouts of home owners\u0026hellip; or is it bailouts of banks\u0026hellip; or is it bailouts that don\u0026rsquo;t help their bottom line? Some seem to object to having a black president. Others are Ron Paulites who seek to restore the gold standard?!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Chatham tea party"},{"content":"Some of the more social people from my high school class in Louisiana are apparently putting together a reunion. They\u0026rsquo;ve managed to track down maybe 90+% of the class and have just sent out a (scanned?) copy of the senior class photo. I defy you to find more 80\u0026rsquo;s hair in a picture. The sad thing is that I can\u0026rsquo;t put names to the majority of people here. Maybe 10 at most. I guess that either means there\u0026rsquo;s no point in going to the reunion or that I really, really need to go.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/04/03/eeek/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSome of the more social people from my high school class in Louisiana are apparently putting together a reunion. They\u0026rsquo;ve managed to track down maybe 90+% of the class and have just sent out a (scanned?) copy of the senior class photo. I defy you to find more 80\u0026rsquo;s hair in a picture. The sad thing is that I can\u0026rsquo;t put names to the majority of people here. Maybe 10 at most. I guess that either means there\u0026rsquo;s no point in going to the reunion or that I really, really need to go.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Eeek!"},{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m never a big fan of April Fools day, mostly because I\u0026rsquo;m too guilible for my own good. That said, on occasion I get in the mood. This year, a colleague and I discussed sending out an email to the staff of our company, regarding the IT infrastructure. We got permission from the boss, because, well just because. Here\u0026rsquo;s the text that we sent out:\nApril 1, 2009\nDear Employees of XXX,\nWe have been tasked by XXX\u0026rsquo;s management to identify appropriate solutions for XXX\u0026rsquo;s computing needs. As you may know, Microsoft will be terminating it\u0026rsquo;s support for Windows XP. With complaints about Windows rising, and the looming lack of support for XP, we began considering a company-wide migration to Linux. However, Linux is based on the Unix (Posix) standard which is almost 40 years old. For that reason, we have settled on the latest operating system from the same inventors: Plan 9 from Bell Labs. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/\nPlan 9 is the latest in research operating systems and should be a great fit with the work we perform at XXX. That said, Plan 9 may not support all hardware that we own. In order to ensure a painless transition, we ask that all employees review the Plan 9 \u0026ldquo;Supported PC Hardware\u0026rdquo; page at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html\nFortunately, Plan 9 has a large supported software base. Common software such as Python, GCC and TeX are fully supported in Plan 9. Other POSIX programs can be compiled through the use of APE (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.html). Common desktop tasks such as word processing and web browsing can be accomplished through the pre-installed OpenOffice (a MS Office clone) and one of the Plan 9 web-browsers (Mothra, Abaco or Charon), respectively. Unfortunately, Mathworks, has not yet seen fit to port Matlab to Plan 9. We are confident that by using APE, we will be able to port Octave as an acceptable alternative. This transition will have the added benefit of drastically reducing our licensing costs.\nWe anticipate that this transition will benefit XXX greatly in the long run and that you will grow to love the Plan 9 experience. We look forward to working with you over the next twelve months and anticipate completing the migration by the next April Fool\u0026rsquo;s Day, April 1st 2010.\nInsincerely, Chris and Mark\nWe did have at least one person think we were serious and a couple of people that we had going until they finished the email. All in all, not too bad for a half hour\u0026rsquo;s work last night.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/april-fools-day/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m never a big fan of April Fools day, mostly because I\u0026rsquo;m too guilible for my own good. That said, on occasion I get in the mood. This year, a colleague and I discussed sending out an email to the staff of our company, regarding the IT infrastructure. We got permission from the boss, because, well just because. Here\u0026rsquo;s the text that we sent out:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApril 1, 2009\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Employees of XXX,\u003c/p\u003e","title":"April Fools Day"},{"content":"\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/03/10/just-sayin/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=2344\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"motivator1271825.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=2344\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/sarcasm\u003e","title":"just sayin"},{"content":"I wasn\u0026rsquo;t originally going to write about the Michael Gerson piece from the other week where he talks about the \u0026ldquo;hidden virtues\u0026rdquo; of a recession. Leaving aside the irony of a relatively well off speech writer for George W. Bush telling us how the recession caused by his boss\u0026rsquo;s policies will be good for us, I just assumed that the idea of a virtuous recession was self-obviously wrong and wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be taken seriously. But since then, I\u0026rsquo;ve heard other people, even more liberal people, make the same arguments. In several of those cases, the argument is that a recession will help (force?) Americans to lead simpler lives, to save more and to focus on what is really important. I\u0026rsquo;m offended by that sentiment because, while I have often thought, and said, that people need to focus on what\u0026rsquo;s important and that they should save more, there is a huge difference between doing so as a choice and being forced into it due to scarcity.\nDealing specifically with Gerson\u0026rsquo;s opinion piece, the facts are that he\u0026rsquo;s just wrong. He notes that Christopher Ruhm, a researcher at UNC-G, found that, while mental health problems increased (yay?), physical health improved during recessions. Of course, that\u0026rsquo;s not exactly a majority opinion in public health. Other researchers have noted that as many people start eating fast food as start cooking healthfully at home. Moreover, gym memberships decline and cheap vices increase. Health care is often pushed aside and in the U.S., those who lose their jobs often lose their insurance and therefore much of their preventative care. None of this suggests improved health. Moreover, Ruhm\u0026rsquo;s study was not longitudinal - he didn\u0026rsquo;t study people before and after suffering the effects of a recession.\nGerson also claims that it is a paradox even though crime is correlated to poverty, the Great Depression was a time of lower crime rates:\nThere is a parallel debate about the influence of economic hard times on the nation\u0026rsquo;s moral health. Without question, the most acute social problems \u0026ndash; crime, illegitimacy, etc. \u0026ndash; are concentrated in areas of highest poverty. But sociologists and criminologists have long pondered an apparent paradox. During the Great Depression \u0026ndash; with about a quarter of Americans out of work \u0026ndash; crime and divorce declined. During the relative prosperity of the 1960s and 1970s, crime rates shot up and families broke down.\nRecessions and depressions are brutal beasts that stalk the stragglers, especially retirees and the poor. There is too much inherent suffering during a recession to ever welcome it. But times of economic stress, it appears, can also be times of cultural renewal. \u0026ldquo;One reasonable hypothesis,\u0026rdquo; argues James Q. Wilson, \u0026ldquo;is that the Depression pulled families together, and this cohesion inhibited crime.\u0026rdquo; Many Americans who struggled through the Depression adopted a set of moral and economic habits such as thrift, family commitment, savings and modest consumption that lasted through their lifetimes \u0026ndash; and that have decayed in our own. The Depression generation controlled the things it could control \u0026ndash; including its own consumption and character.\nBut aparently, it\u0026rsquo;s not that great of a paradox. Social science researchers have demonstrated that the Roosevelt administration\u0026rsquo;s relief efforts, which were intended in part to reduce crime, did have that effect. The researcher\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;estimates suggest that a 10 percent increase in per capita relief spending lowered crime rates by roughly 5.6 to 10 percent at the margin.\u0026rdquo; In other words, while families may have pulled together during the Great Depression, the social spending that allowed people to feed their families was demonstrably useful in lowering the crime rate. The republican govenors should consider that before turning down extended unemployment benefits for their states.\nSo, what about savings? People definitely need to save more. So, why aren\u0026rsquo;t we? For a while, the U.S. had a savings rate close to 0%, sometimes it was even negative. Over the past couple of years, the savings rate has increased, and is now around 3%. But wait, during a recession, we need to increase spending, that\u0026rsquo;s part of the purpose of a stimulus bill. And given that personal spending drives the U.S. economy (roughly 65-70% of all spending), will increased savings doom us to a poor economy? Will we all just have to get used to less? Should we learn to enjoy the current economic levels, because that\u0026rsquo;s where we\u0026rsquo;ll always be? Nope. Or more accurately, hopefully no.\nA part of the problem is that over the past thirty years, *real* median income for men has been roughly flat. It\u0026rsquo;s been a little better for women, but that\u0026rsquo;s mostly because of a reduction in wage descrimination. Household income has increased, but that\u0026rsquo;s because there are more two income households. For thirty years, households have been improving their standard of living, first by having multiple earners, then in the nineties by investing in the stock market, then by borrowing from their homes during the real estate bubble. Savings were certainly eaten into over that period of time. So, the way to actually increase savings would be to allow people to improve their standard of living without borrowing - i.e., if wage gains rose at the levels of productivity gains, the median wage would be probably 50% higher. That would allow people the ability to improve their standard of living while still saving. Instead, we\u0026rsquo;ve seen companies hoard more cash, spend less and keep the benefits of productivity gains for the CEOs. In part, you can see this in the weakness of the last recovery. The recovery was weak, and took quite a long time, in part because companies refused to spend. Consumer spending had to pull us out of the recession, and it took borrowing to do so.\nSo what about the last idea, that the recession will help us to live a simpler and more enjoyable life? Unfortunately, it\u0026rsquo;s not true. More to the point, the amount of spending is not necessarily correlated to \u0026ldquo;simpleness.\u0026rdquo; You can have a robust economy wherein people are spending money on things that matter to them. For example, K and I don\u0026rsquo;t go to movies and we seldom eat out. However, we probably spend more each year on books than most people do on movies. We don\u0026rsquo;t eat out, but we do eat well. Other people I know whose lives I admire make an effort to eat at locally owned restaurants or spend money at the farmer\u0026rsquo;s markets or on their hobbies. All of these people are making a useful economic contribution while still living an enjoyable and \u0026ldquo;simple\u0026rdquo; life.\nOn the flip side, just because you have less to spend doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean that you will magically start saving more and leading a simpler life. Sure, there\u0026rsquo;s less money available, but that could just as easily mean that you stop visiting local restaurants and start eating fast food. It could mean that instead of telecommuting, you have to work multiple jobs at different locations around town in order to make ends meet. Simplicity is a lifestyle choice and is not well correlated with financial situation.\nEveryone has to live within their means, but as a society, our goal should be to increase those means. We shouldn\u0026rsquo;t have a country where 20% of the benefits of society go to the top 1%. We should work to ensure that all people have better access to the benefits of society. We shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be \u0026ldquo;rooting\u0026rdquo; for a recession to teach us moral values. If people choose to live a simple life and to save more, great. If not, that\u0026rsquo;s their choice too, regardless, a recession is good for no one.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/03/01/recessions-dont-have-hidden-virtues/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI wasn\u0026rsquo;t originally going to write about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021902577.html\"\u003eMichael Gerson piece\u003c/a\u003e from the other week where he talks about the \u0026ldquo;hidden virtues\u0026rdquo; of a recession. Leaving aside the irony of a relatively well off speech writer for George W. Bush telling us how the recession caused by his boss\u0026rsquo;s policies will be good for us, I just assumed that the idea of a virtuous recession was self-obviously wrong and wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be taken seriously. But since then, I\u0026rsquo;ve heard other people, even more liberal people, make the same arguments. In several of those cases, the argument is that a recession will help (force?) Americans to lead simpler lives, to save more and to focus on what is really important. I\u0026rsquo;m offended by that sentiment because, while I have often thought, and said, that people need to focus on what\u0026rsquo;s important and that they should save more, there is a huge difference between doing so as a choice and being forced into it due to scarcity.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Recessions don't have hidden virtues"},{"content":"I guess it\u0026rsquo;s a good thing that the Treasury department is releasing more details on the banking \u0026ldquo;stress tests.\u0026rdquo; That said, the engineer (or the circuits lab TA) in me can\u0026rsquo;t help but hear \u0026ldquo;smoke test\u0026rdquo; any time someone says stress test. In engineering, you wire up your design and power it up for the smoke test. If it doesn\u0026rsquo;t start smoking, there\u0026rsquo;s no guarantee that the design (or wiring) is right, but if you do release the magic smoke, then you\u0026rsquo;ve definitely done something wrong. Because, of course, the magic smoke is what makes all electronic components from resistors to microprocessors run. Maxwell with his electro-magnetic equations was full of it. Every thing runs on magic smoke. If you let the magic smoke out of a device, it\u0026rsquo;ll never run again. I do wonder what is the magic smoke analog that gets validated in a banking stress test. Do you wire up the bank and see how much money it leaks? Can you put the magic green stuff back in a bank which fails a stress test? Well, presumably some banks will survive, which is probably a good thing. If for no other reason than banking is a more diverse field than engineering. After spending a day with 200+ engineers I can tell you that, too a first approximation, we\u0026rsquo;ve only got one gender. The workshop was a giant sausagefest in all of three ethnicities: caucasian, asian and indian. As a profession we\u0026rsquo;ve got to do something about this.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/02/25/free-association-wednesday/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI guess it\u0026rsquo;s a good thing that the Treasury department is \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022502463.html?hpid=topnews\"\u003ereleasing more details\u003c/a\u003e on the banking \u0026ldquo;stress tests.\u0026rdquo; That said, the engineer (or the circuits lab TA) in me can\u0026rsquo;t help but hear \u0026ldquo;smoke test\u0026rdquo; any time someone says stress test. In engineering, you wire up your design and power it up for the smoke test. If it doesn\u0026rsquo;t start smoking, there\u0026rsquo;s no guarantee that the design (or wiring) is right, but if you do release the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke\"\u003emagic smoke\u003c/a\u003e, then you\u0026rsquo;ve definitely done something wrong. Because, of course, the magic smoke is what makes all electronic components from resistors to microprocessors run. Maxwell with his electro-magnetic equations was full of it. Every thing runs on magic smoke. If you let the magic smoke out of a device, it\u0026rsquo;ll never run again. I do wonder what is the magic smoke analog that gets validated in a banking stress test. Do you wire up the bank and see how much money it leaks? Can you put the magic green stuff back in a bank which fails a stress test? Well, presumably some banks will survive, which is probably a good thing. If for no other reason than banking is a more diverse field than engineering. After spending a day with 200+ engineers I can tell you that, too a first approximation, we\u0026rsquo;ve only got one gender. The workshop was a giant sausagefest in all of three ethnicities: caucasian, asian and indian. As a profession we\u0026rsquo;ve got to do something about this.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"free association Wednesday"},{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m over at the Compressive Sensing Workshop today. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t too sure about compressive sensing as a topic, but after reading the abstracts, it seems to have a lot of application to basic image processing. Or at least the same concepts are applicable.\nOne logistics note. Attention conference centers everywhere: speaking as a tea drinker, it would be very nice if you would reserve a carafe for hot water only. Never put coffee in this carafe - ever. No matter how well it is washed, coffee will leave an aftertaste that will sneak into the hot water and ruin even the best tea.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/notes-from-a-workshop/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m over at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ece.duke.edu/~lcarin/compressive-sensing-workshop.html\"\u003eCompressive Sensing Workshop\u003c/a\u003e today. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t too sure about compressive sensing as a topic, but after reading the abstracts, it seems to have a lot of application to basic image processing. Or at least the same concepts are applicable.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne logistics note. Attention conference centers everywhere: speaking as a tea drinker, it would be very nice if you would reserve a carafe for hot water only. Never put coffee in this carafe - ever. No matter how well it is washed, coffee will leave an aftertaste that will sneak into the hot water and ruin even the best tea.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"notes from a workshop"},{"content":"K and I don\u0026rsquo;t eat much meat - no red meat, no poultry, etc. Theoretically, we still eat fish, but since I won\u0026rsquo;t cook it\u0026hellip;\nThis weekend, we experimented with a couple of new recipes that, in hindsight, were even vegan:\nVegetarian Mac and Cheese. Like a lot of people (I suppose), I love macaroni and cheese. Not the Kraft, out of the box, kind, but one made with onion, garlic, mustard powder in a homemade cheese sauce. Unfortunately, K (okay, me too) isn\u0026rsquo;t supposed to eat that much high-fat cheese. I\u0026rsquo;ve been making it with low-fat cheese, but well, that\u0026rsquo;s a little lame. Last week, a guy at my office gave me a recipe that eliminated the cheese sauce and turned out to be (possibly) tastier than the original. Start by sautéing an onion in a little olive oil. Add a drained, rinsed can of cannellini (other beans work, but cannellini are wonderfully creamy), 1.75 cups of water (or vege broth), 1 tbsp of miso paste (I used soy sauce), a little dry mustard and a half cup of raw cashews. Puree, then add a package of cooked spinach and use as the cheese sauce. It\u0026rsquo;s wonderful. We also made seitan which, as near as I can figure, is pronounced satan. It\u0026rsquo;s wheat meat - wheat gluten (which means it\u0026rsquo;s also pronounced \u0026ldquo;death to etselec and hlf\u0026rdquo;) and water (or broth) which is cooked and then used as if it was regular meat. We made ours with water, soy sauce and some Italian seasonings. Once it was cooked, we sliced it up, braised it and served it with a wine/mushroom sauce. It was great and a *lot* easier than I thought it would be. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/02/23/download-full-movie-passengers-2016/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK and I don\u0026rsquo;t eat much meat - no red meat, no poultry, etc. Theoretically, we still eat fish, but since I won\u0026rsquo;t cook it\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis weekend, we experimented with a couple of new recipes that, in hindsight, were even vegan:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVegetarian Mac and Cheese. Like a lot of people (I suppose), I love macaroni and cheese. Not the Kraft, out of the box, kind, but one made with onion, garlic, mustard powder in a homemade cheese sauce. Unfortunately, K (okay, me too) isn\u0026rsquo;t supposed to eat that much high-fat cheese. I\u0026rsquo;ve been making it with low-fat cheese, but well, that\u0026rsquo;s a little lame. Last week, a guy at my office gave me a recipe that eliminated the cheese sauce and turned out to be (possibly) tastier than the original. Start by sautéing an onion in a little olive oil. Add a drained, rinsed can of cannellini (other beans work, but cannellini are wonderfully creamy), 1.75 cups of water (or vege broth), 1 tbsp of miso paste (I used soy sauce), a little dry mustard and a half cup of raw cashews. Puree, then add a package of cooked spinach and use as the cheese sauce. It\u0026rsquo;s wonderful.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe also made seitan which, as near as I can figure, is pronounced satan. It\u0026rsquo;s wheat meat - wheat gluten (which means it\u0026rsquo;s also pronounced \u0026ldquo;death to \u003ca href=\"http://etselec.livejournal.com/\"\u003eetselec\u003c/a\u003e and hlf\u0026rdquo;) and water (or broth) which is cooked and then used as if it was regular meat. We made ours with water, soy sauce and some Italian seasonings. Once it was cooked, we sliced it up, braised it and served it with a wine/mushroom sauce. It was great and a *lot* easier than I thought it would be.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"Adventures in vegetarian cooking"},{"content":"One of the phrases that bothered me the most during last year\u0026rsquo;s election (indeed, during all elections), is \u0026ldquo;small town values.\u0026rdquo; That elevation of the mores of small communities that make them better than the rest of us who, by virtue of living in larger metro areas, apparently don\u0026rsquo;t have any values.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve never lived in a small town. Currently, we live in a rural-ish area on the outskirts of a medium sized metropolitan area. Prior to that, I\u0026rsquo;ve lived in medium sized cities (maybe 150-300,000 people). That said, I\u0026rsquo;ve known people who lived in small towns and overall, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t too impressed by the values of those small towns. On an individual level, the people in small towns don\u0026rsquo;t really seem all that different from anyone else, they certainly aren\u0026rsquo;t bastions of moral virtue. That said, there is one thing that is different about small towns, and which is that they are small [ tautology for the win!].\nBeing small, most everyone in the town knows one another. As such, there is a pressure to conform to a set of norms. Those people that don\u0026rsquo;t find a way to fit within the norms are often looked down on, find few friends within the town, etc. After all, if you are a non-conformist, then you are going to have a hard time finding someone with your interests in a community with few people roughly your age.\nThe other concern that I have about small towns is the increased tendency to apply special rules to certain people, rather than a uniform rule of law. Certain pillars of the community can be considered above the law. \u0026ldquo;I can\u0026rsquo;t arrest Jack, he\u0026rsquo;s a deacon in my church.\u0026rdquo; In larger communities, there are fewer special cases and a greater tendency [yes, I\u0026rsquo;m generalizing like mad here] to apply the rule of law across the board.\nWhat got me thinking about all of this was a story I heard on NPR about sexual abuse scandals in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn. Several rabbis in that insular community (and yes, small communities in larger cities share tendencies with small towns), have recently been accused of molesting children. In that story, you can identify all of the problems that I have with small towns:\nThe children, and then their families, didn\u0026rsquo;t feel like they could say anything to anyone because they would be ostracized. When they said something, they weren\u0026rsquo;t believed After they were believed, at least one of the rabbis in question got away with a slap on the wrist. The school he taught at told the family he would be fired if they would agree not to press charges. Then just a few days after the statute of limitations ran out, the school reneged on that agreement and said that on a scale of 1-10, the molestation wasn\u0026rsquo;t that bad, so they would keep the rabbi on staff. You see this thing over and over in small communities. There was a story on 60 Minutes (iirc) about a similar issue in an Amish community, and the polygamous sects of fundamentalist Mormonism, etc.\nSpeaking of polygamy, one of the silliest arguments in the debate over gay marriage goes something like this: \u0026ldquo;if you let gay people marry, then you\u0026rsquo;ll have to allow polygamy or people to marry children.\u0026rdquo; On hearing this, my first thought is always, along the lines of, no - the marriage of two consenting adults says nothing about the marriage of three or more adults or an adult and a (by definition) unconsenting child (children can\u0026rsquo;t give consent). My second thought is often, wait, what\u0026rsquo;s wrong with polygamy per se. If three or more consenting adults want to live together as married, why does that hurt me - or them? Of course, on a practical level, every polygamy case we\u0026rsquo;ve heard of recently has horrified me. In large part because it\u0026rsquo;s not multiple consenting adults. It\u0026rsquo;s often young(ish) children, people who have never heard or known of alternatives, people that may (or may not) have given consent, but you couldn\u0026rsquo;t argue that it was informed consent.\nSo, as I was listening to the NPR story, it occurred to me that the biggest problem that I have with the stories of polygamy aren\u0026rsquo;t necessarily connected to the polygamy itself, but rather the \u0026ldquo;values\u0026rdquo; of the small communities which practice polygamy. The parochial views, the lack of a rule of law, the lack of consent, the forcing of people into the community norms and the ostracising of non-conformists. [Not that any of this should be taken to mean that I\u0026rsquo;m in the market for another wife - I think that K would refuse to consent to that ;-) ].\nDon\u0026rsquo;t get me wrong, big cities are hardly a panacea. They have their own sets of problems, but to suggest that small towns (communities) have cornered the market on values is just wrong. But perhaps the problems I see with small towns are exactly the virtues that others see in them. Perhaps small town values is really just code for \u0026ldquo;pressuring people to conform to a set of norms that I like.\u0026rdquo; Unfortunately, that seems far too likely. Either way, I think I\u0026rsquo;ll try to avoid small towns.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/02/04/small-town-values/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the phrases that bothered me the most during last year\u0026rsquo;s election (indeed, during all elections), is \u0026ldquo;small town values.\u0026rdquo; That elevation of the mores of small communities that make them better than the rest of us who, by virtue of living in larger metro areas, apparently don\u0026rsquo;t have any values.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve never lived in a small town. Currently, we live in a rural-ish area on the outskirts of a medium sized metropolitan area. Prior to that, I\u0026rsquo;ve lived in medium sized cities (maybe 150-300,000 people). That said, I\u0026rsquo;ve known people who lived in small towns and overall, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t too impressed by the values of those small towns. On an individual level, the people in small towns don\u0026rsquo;t really seem all that different from anyone else, they certainly aren\u0026rsquo;t bastions of \u003cem\u003emoral virtue\u003c/em\u003e. That said, there is one thing that is different about small towns, and which is that they are small [ \u003cem\u003etautology\u003c/em\u003e for the win!].\u003c/p\u003e","title":"small town values"},{"content":"So K just asks me if it\u0026rsquo;s raining. My response was to go online instead of going outside.\nI\u0026rsquo;m such a\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/such-a-dork/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo K just asks me if it\u0026rsquo;s raining. My response was to go online instead of going outside.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m such a\u003c/p\u003e","title":"such a dork"},{"content":"Last week (on Inauguration Day no less), we got about 7\u0026quot; of snow out at the house. I just uploaded the pictures this morning. Some of my favorites are below, the rest are in the gallery.\nIf nothing else, the dogs sure did seem to enjoy the snow. :-)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/01/26/snow-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast week (on Inauguration Day no less), we got about 7\u0026quot; of snow out at the house. I just uploaded the pictures this morning. Some of my favorites are below, the rest are in the \u003ca href=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1641\"\u003egallery\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=1659\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4115\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=1660\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=1671\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4119\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=1672\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=1719\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4135\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=1720\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=1722\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4136\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=1723\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=1779\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4155\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=1780\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=1797\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4161\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=1798\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/photography/gallery?g2_itemId=1887\u0026amp;g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_4197\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem\u0026g2_itemId=1888\u0026g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf nothing else, the dogs sure did seem to enjoy the snow. :-)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Snow pictures"},{"content":"Can anyone please explain to me, what the hell is John Boener doing on my TV and in my newspapers talking about the stimulus plan? For 8 years, we liberal types were told that \u0026ldquo;elections had consequences\u0026rdquo; and that we should STFU and clap louder. Fine, now that republicans have been repudiated in a full election cycle, suffering major losses in both 2006 and 2008 after running on the same policies that they now advocate will save us from the mess that their policies got us into, will they please STFU?\nI have no problems listening to republicans. Hell, if I want moral advice, who better to turn to than a bunch of public bathroom sex soliciting, diaper wearing, drug using pedophiles? At the very least, it\u0026rsquo;s good for a laugh. But policy? Why the hell would I listen to them about policy? \u0026ldquo;OMG, John McCain has said he opposes the stimulus plan.\u0026rdquo; Really?! Why do I care? He ran on a platform oppossing the types of stimulus being proposed. It would have been shocking if he didn\u0026rsquo;t oppose it - the mother of all flip-flops if you will.\nAt the end of the day, Obama won the election in large part by proposing to do exactly what he\u0026rsquo;s doing. Provide a massive stimulus plan to get the economy out of the mess that it\u0026rsquo;s in. Voters expected that the plan would be based in a reality (which means that the magical tax cutting fairy isn\u0026rsquo;t going to somehow increase government revenues). So what do we have? We\u0026rsquo;ve got a plan that emphasizes infrastructure building, money for states and extended unemployment benefits. Hrm, I wonder how that stacks up against tax cuts as a way of stimulating the economy?\nWell, as it so happens, we have a way of measuring these things. Mark Zandi at Moody\u0026rsquo;s Economy.com recently evaluated a number of different stimulus measures and determined their effectiveness in stimulating the economy per dollar spent. The EPI put this into a wonderful graph:\nWhat we see here is that the tax cuts most favored by republicans are also the least effective. There are some forms of tax cuts that provide moderate stimulus (i.e., greater than $1 of stimulus for each $1 spent), but that the best ways to stimulate the economy are food stamps, unemployment benefits, infrastructure spending and aid to states. Not surprisingly, these are the forms of stimulus that are most likely to be spent. If you gave me $500 in tax cuts, I\u0026rsquo;ll save it; net stimulus: $0. If you ensure that a family can eat by providing an additional $500 in food stamp aid, I guarantee that it will be spent at a grocery store and provide more economic stimulus than the original $500 expenditure.\nAll of which is a long winded way of telling the republicans to please shut up and let sane people clean up the mess they\u0026rsquo;ve made of the country.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/rant/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eCan anyone please explain to me, what the hell is John Boener doing on my TV and in my newspapers talking about the stimulus plan? For 8 years, we liberal types were told that \u0026ldquo;elections had consequences\u0026rdquo; and that we should STFU and clap louder. Fine, now that republicans have been repudiated in a full election cycle, suffering major losses in both 2006 and 2008 after running on the same policies that they now advocate will save us from the mess that their policies got us into, will they please STFU?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Rant"},{"content":"It\u0026rsquo;s noon - congratulations to President Obama!!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/01/20/happy-inauguration-day/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s noon - congratulations to President Obama!!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Happy inauguration day!"},{"content":"It looks like we\u0026rsquo;re going to get our first real snowfall in about five years. \u0026ldquo;Real\u0026rdquo; if you count 2-4 inches, which I do since K and I are from Louisiana.\nUnfortunately, while I was grocery shopping this weekend, I forgot a few things and needed to go pick \u0026rsquo;em up on my way home from work. Even more unfortunately, among the things I forgot were a quart of milk for tea at the office and a dozen eggs. So there I am, the evening before the snow falls buying milk and eggs. Hell, if I had forgotten bread this weekend I would have hit the Southern snowfall French Toast\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/01/19/life-in-the-south/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt looks like we\u0026rsquo;re going to get our first real snowfall in about five years. \u0026ldquo;Real\u0026rdquo; if you count 2-4 inches, which I do since K and I are from Louisiana.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, while I was grocery shopping this weekend, I forgot a few things and needed to go pick \u0026rsquo;em up on my way home from work. Even more unfortunately, among the things I forgot were a quart of milk for tea at the office and a dozen eggs. So there I am, the evening before the snow falls buying milk and eggs. Hell, if I had forgotten bread this weekend I would have hit the Southern snowfall French Toast\u003c/p\u003e","title":"life in the south"},{"content":"A couple of weeks ago at a Geek Beer, we were discussing Roland Burris and the likelihood of him being seated by the senate. My take was that of course he would be seated. No one has ever paid a price for going against Harry Reid.\nTold ya so.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/01/12/told-ya-so/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA couple of weeks ago at a Geek Beer, we were discussing Roland Burris and the likelihood of him being seated by the senate. My take was that of course he would be seated. No one has ever paid a price for going against Harry Reid.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6631014\u0026amp;page=1\"\u003eTold ya so\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"told ya so"},{"content":"Using a bit of leftover birthday money, I bought some new camera equipment. Nothing particularly sexy like a big long lens (what do you mean by homoerotic?). I bought a set of carbon fiber tripod legs that weigh about 3 pounds instead of the 6 pounds of my old tripod legs - that should make hiking easier. They can also hold more weight which is good since my biggest lens tops out what you should put on the old legs. I also bought a new tripod head. Instead of a ball head (ahem), I got a gimbal head that balances the weight of the camera so that you can easily point it anywhere and it stays put. Moreover, the new head is far more stable than the old one when using long lenses.\nAll of the nerdiness aside, the real proof is in the pictures. I took the camera outside over the weekend and put it on the new tripod to try to get some interesting bird pictures. Thoughts?\n15921597160016031606160916121615\nThe first is a junco - I took the picture with a 500mm lens with a doubler. That combined with the camera\u0026rsquo;s internal 1.5x magnifier gives me 1500mm equivalent. I could not have gotten this shot with my old tripod.\nSecond - chickadee on the birdfeeder (900mm equivalent)\nThird/fourth - sh titmouse on the holly tree and flying off of the tree.\nFifth - unknown (at this time) bird [update: 1/13] immature yellow-throated warbler\nSixth - yellow-bellied sapsucker\nSeventh/eighth - gear :-)\nAll in all I\u0026rsquo;m very happy with the tripod and head. It\u0026rsquo;s much stabler than what I\u0026rsquo;ve been using and has already let me take some shots I couldn\u0026rsquo;t take before.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2009/01/12/front-yard-birding/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eUsing a bit of leftover birthday money, I bought some new camera equipment. Nothing particularly sexy like a big long lens (what do you mean by \u003cem\u003ehomoerotic\u003c/em\u003e?). I bought a set of carbon fiber tripod legs that weigh about 3 pounds instead of the 6 pounds of my old tripod legs - that should make hiking easier. They can also hold more weight which is good since my biggest lens tops out what you should put on the old legs. I also bought a new tripod head. Instead of a ball head (ahem), I got a gimbal head that balances the weight of the camera so that you can easily point it anywhere and it stays put. Moreover, the new head is far more stable than the old one when using long lenses.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"front yard birding"},{"content":"Okay, commenting on global finance is really not my usual shtick, but I\u0026rsquo;ve got to agree with Barry Ritholtz that there\u0026rsquo;s something odd in this NY Times article on China\u0026rsquo;s role in the U.S. housing bubble. The article describes Ben Bernanke\u0026rsquo;s 2005 theory that a savings \u0026ldquo;glut\u0026rdquo; is driving up the demand for American to borrow from foreign countries. The article extends the theory to suggest that the financial mess that we are currently in the middle of was, essentially, caused by the Chinese.\nOkay, it is true that as a country, we were essentially borrowing money from overseas in order to buy overseas products. Essentially, borrowing from the Chinese in order to buy their stuff. The mechanisms were somewhat complicated, home owners typically were borrowing from their homes. As home prices rose, due to low rates and bubble psychology, people found that they could refinance their homes or take out home equity lines of credit that could then be used, not for home improvements, but for general lifestyle expenses. Since median incomes have not risen in a decade, this isn\u0026rsquo;t too surprising. (As an aside, I was in a conversation last week with someone who claimed that the whole recession could be over if the news would act as a good propaganda arm and declare that it was. People would start spending and the economy would get moving. I pointed out that he was wrong because most of the capital financing the economy was borrowed from homes, etc., and that wages hadn\u0026rsquo;t increased. In other words, the consumer has no money to restart the economy. He had to agree that was true.)\nSo, I agree that China (and other foreign countries) were necessary to the bubble, but does that mean that their \u0026ldquo;excess\u0026rdquo; savings caused it as the article implies? No, there are more than a handful of things wrong with the article:\nIt takes an uncritical look at the idea there is a savings glut. I didn\u0026rsquo;t note any refutations of Bernakne\u0026rsquo;s thesis. The article\u0026rsquo;s URL ends in \u0026ldquo;26addiction.html\u0026rdquo; and in a single word, it sums up much of the article. But this is a sad sort of exculpation for the U.S. Sticking with the same metaphor, it\u0026rsquo;s arguing that the a drug dealer is responsible for all of the actions of a junkie and the junkie bears no responsibility. Switching from the \u0026ldquo;addiction\u0026rdquo; metaphore, it\u0026rsquo;s bad supply-side theory applied to credit. Okay, it\u0026rsquo;s true that lower rates will attract more demand from the pool of potential borrowers. And I\u0026rsquo;ll buy that having more creditors will drive down rates. But that\u0026rsquo;s not what happened here. In this case, Greenspan artificially held down lending rates through the Federal Reserve. In other words, it wasn\u0026rsquo;t a supply-side rate cut driving up demand, it was an artificial rate cut that drove up demand and the Chinese stepped in to meet that demand. Probably more than anything else, I find the idea that there is a savings \u0026ldquo;glut\u0026rdquo; in the rest of the world (particularly China) particularly annoying. It completely disregards recent history. Savings imbalance, I\u0026rsquo;ll believe. But to suggest that the Chinese are saving too much is completely loony. At the same time Bernanke was saying that others were saving too much, the U.S. savings rate fell to 0%. If there\u0026rsquo;s an imbalance, it\u0026rsquo;s more likely that the U.S. was to blame for increasing its borrowing. Finally, there are all sorts of little oddities in the facts and nuance of the article. For example, there\u0026rsquo;s a general feel of \u0026ldquo;red-baiting\u0026rdquo; to the article. Or that the article notes that the Chinese now hold $2 trillion in U.S. debt, out of the, what, $11 trillion in debt we\u0026rsquo;re in now? I do agree with the article that it would be good if China stopped pegging their currency to the dollar. But I\u0026rsquo;m not certain how much it would help the problem being discussed here. It might make us less likely to borrow from the Chinese, but at the same time, I don\u0026rsquo;t think it would have decreased overall U.S. borrowing.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/12/27/blaming-the-pushers/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, commenting on global finance is really not my usual shtick, but I\u0026rsquo;ve got to agree with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/blame-china\"\u003eBarry Ritholtz\u003c/a\u003e that there\u0026rsquo;s something odd in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/world/asia/26addiction.html?_r=1\"\u003eNY Times article\u003c/a\u003e on China\u0026rsquo;s role in the U.S. housing bubble. The article describes Ben Bernanke\u0026rsquo;s 2005 theory that a savings \u0026ldquo;glut\u0026rdquo; is driving up the demand for American to borrow from foreign countries. The article extends the theory to suggest that the financial mess that we are currently in the middle of was, essentially, caused by the Chinese.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Blaming the pushers?"},{"content":"I wonder if the N\u0026amp;O would print this?\nDear Editors,\nI have read with some alarm your recent stories describing a dramatic change to our way of life. Specifically, I refer to those stories of our poor benighted multi-millionaires and billionaires who are having to downgrade their lifestyle in response to the crash of the financial markets and the banking industry.\nAs we all know, what has made America great over the past 30 years is the increasing increasing income inequality whereby those at the top of the income ladder make an ever increasing amount of money while the median income has stagnated. Without these top income earners, all motivation and striving goes out of our populous; leaving us a nation of whiners. And yet, every day, we hear stories of high powered financiers, who had been making millions each year, now contemplating the need to sell that third vacation home in order to make ends meet.\nWhile I salute the republican administration\u0026rsquo;s efforts to save the wealth of the top 1/10th of a percent through the preservation of the salaries, benefits and bonuses of financial executives while beggaring retired auto workers, I believe that this effort has not been bold enough and that the situation calls for direct action.\nToward this end, I propose that the country establish a registry of multi-millionaires and billionaires in need. Those making less than $100,000 a year should then be encouraged (by force if need be!) to contribute 10% of their gross earning to support these beleaguered souls who are the backbone of our economy. This Adopt-a-Billionaire program would have the effect of immediately raising the standard of living for these poor souls, while reducing the incomes of more than 80% of Americans; thus ensuring that the salary inequities which have made this country great will remain in place for the benefit of the next generation.\nRespectfully,\n\u0026hellip;\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/12/25/a-simple-suggestion/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI wonder if the N\u0026amp;O would print this?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Editors,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have read with some alarm your recent stories describing a dramatic change to our way of life. Specifically, I refer to those stories of our poor benighted multi-millionaires and billionaires who are having to downgrade their lifestyle in response to the crash of the financial markets and the banking industry.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we all know, what has made America great over the past 30 years is the increasing increasing income inequality whereby those at the top of the income ladder make an ever increasing amount of money while the median income has stagnated. Without these top income earners, all motivation and striving goes out of our populous; leaving us a nation of whiners. And yet, every day, we hear stories of high powered financiers, who had been making millions each year, now contemplating the need to sell that third vacation home in order to make ends meet.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A simple suggestion"},{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m not certain if I\u0026rsquo;ve joked about it here or not, but recently I\u0026rsquo;ve taken to commenting that if academic politics are so petty because the stakes are so small, then what does that say about non-profit politics. The implication is that non-profit politics are even more petty because the stakes are even smaller. Well, after a rough couple of weeks with the non-profit I work with, I can confirm that the politics are definitely petty, I\u0026rsquo;m just no longer certain that the stakes are small. In one sense, sure - the budget for the non-profit I work with is smaller than any other budget I\u0026rsquo;ve dealt with in a work situation. But at the same time, the politics most often affects people\u0026rsquo;s livelihoods. It\u0026rsquo;s one thing to have a layoff due to lack of funds. It\u0026rsquo;s another thing for poor management and personal vendettas leading to a firing.\nThe moral of the story is this: never get involved in a land war in Asia the board of directors for a non-profit. It\u0026rsquo;ll steal all of your time, consume all of your money and break your heart in the end.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/so-the-stakes-arent-always-that-small/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m not certain if I\u0026rsquo;ve joked about it here or not, but recently I\u0026rsquo;ve taken to commenting that if academic politics are so petty because the stakes are so small, then what does that say about non-profit politics. The implication is that non-profit politics are even more petty because the stakes are even smaller. Well, after a rough couple of weeks with the non-profit I work with, I can confirm that the politics are definitely petty, I\u0026rsquo;m just no longer certain that the stakes are small. In one sense, sure - the budget for the non-profit I work with is smaller than any other budget I\u0026rsquo;ve dealt with in a work situation. But at the same time, the politics most often affects people\u0026rsquo;s livelihoods. It\u0026rsquo;s one thing to have a layoff due to lack of funds. It\u0026rsquo;s another thing for poor management and personal vendettas leading to a firing.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"so the stakes aren't always that small"},{"content":"This is neat. Typealyzer claims to examine a blog (or presumably any webpage) in order to identify the Myers-Briggs type of the author. It correctly identifies me as an INTP, but doesn\u0026rsquo;t seem to get etselec.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/21/blog-your-type/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/intp.gif\"\u003eThis is neat. \u003ca href=\"http://www.typealyzer.com/\"\u003eTypealyzer\u003c/a\u003e claims to examine a blog (or presumably any webpage) in order to identify the Myers-Briggs type of the author. It correctly identifies me as an INTP, but doesn\u0026rsquo;t seem to get \u003ca href=\"http://etselec.livejournal.com/\"\u003eetselec\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"blog your type?"},{"content":"Dear Amazon.com:\nAfter buying the collected works of Robert Johnson, blues guitarist from the 1930s, the man who was reputed to have sold his soul to the devil to become the greatest blues guitarist ever, I really don\u0026rsquo;t think I want albums by Robert Johnson the 70s power pop musician. I know they have the same name, but trust me, they aren\u0026rsquo;t the same person.\nkthxbai\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/20/robert-johnson/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear Amazon.com:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter buying the collected works of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/King-Delta-Blues-Singers/dp/B00138F8HI/ref=sr_f3_2?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=dmusic\u0026amp;qid=1227210879\u0026amp;sr=103-2\"\u003eRobert Johnson, blues guitarist from the 1930s\u003c/a\u003e, the man who was reputed to have sold his soul to the devil to become the greatest blues guitarist ever, I really don\u0026rsquo;t think I want albums by \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Close-Personal-Friend/dp/B001INJXNS/ref=sr_f3_5?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=dmusic\u0026amp;qid=1227210879\u0026amp;sr=103-5\"\u003eRobert Johnson the 70s power pop musician\u003c/a\u003e. I know they have the same name, but trust me, they aren\u0026rsquo;t the same person.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ekthxbai\u003c/p\u003e","title":"robert johnson"},{"content":"Some recent (somewhat) technical notes:\nA while back, I swapped the dead harddrive from my ipod with a compact flash card. Unfortunately, at the time, the biggest (affordable) compact flash was 16 GB, so I lost about half the capacity from my ipod. Not a huge problem, but it became more of one as I added more music. Yesterday, a shiny new 32 GB compact flash arrived and now I\u0026rsquo;m back to the nominal amount of space on my ipod, except that it\u0026rsquo;s all solid state and cool. From the technical standpoint, this was something of a PITA, since I didn\u0026rsquo;t have a windows or mac machine around to reinstall the firmware. My ultimate solution: 1) back up /dev/sdb (boot record and partition table) and /dev/sdb1 (firmware) from the ipod using dd; 2) put the CF in my laptop and format it (a camera would work just as well), this just normalizes the card; 3) put the CF in the ipod (or in the laptop); 4) write the patition table using dd; 5) edit the partition table using fdisk, set the size of sdb2 to be 32 rather than 16 GB; 6) write out the firmware to sdb1; 7) format sdb2 using mkfs.vfat. Voila - a 32 GB ipod CF If you haven\u0026rsquo;t seen it already, check out projecteuler.net. They\u0026rsquo;ve got a bunch of mathematically oriented programming problems online of varying difficulty. Good solutions should all run in 1 minute or less and generally take 100 lines of code or so. It\u0026rsquo;s a good way to get familiar with a new programming language and to exercise your brain. So far, I\u0026rsquo;ve done the first 70 or so problems - they don\u0026rsquo;t take too long, maybe a half hour each on average. Finally, I got the clutch in my car replaced yesterday. The mechanic said that it was in pretty bad shape and that the (plastic?) bearing the clutch uses had worn completely away. This probably explains why I\u0026rsquo;ve had no acceleration for the past year (or more?). I had forgotten what it was like to drive a decent car :-) ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/20/at-home-in-the-technical-universe/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSome recent (somewhat) technical notes:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA while back, I \u003ca href=\"/2007/12/04/it-lives\"\u003eswapped\u003c/a\u003e the dead harddrive from my ipod with a compact flash card. Unfortunately, at the time, the biggest (affordable) compact flash was 16 GB, so I lost about half the capacity from my ipod. Not a huge problem, but it became more of one as I added more music. Yesterday, a shiny new 32 GB compact flash arrived and now I\u0026rsquo;m back to the nominal amount of space on my ipod, except that it\u0026rsquo;s all solid state and cool. From the technical standpoint, this was something of a PITA, since I didn\u0026rsquo;t have a windows or mac machine around to reinstall the firmware. My ultimate solution: 1) back up /dev/sdb (boot record and partition table) and /dev/sdb1 (firmware) from the ipod using dd; 2) put the CF in my laptop and format it (a camera would work just as well), this just normalizes the card; 3) put the CF in the ipod (or in the laptop); 4) write the patition table using dd; 5) edit the partition table using fdisk, set the size of sdb2 to be 32 rather than 16 GB; 6) write out the firmware to sdb1; 7) format sdb2 using mkfs.vfat. Voila - a 32 GB ipod CF\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you haven\u0026rsquo;t seen it already, check out \u003ca href=\"http://projecteuler.net\"\u003eprojecteuler.net\u003c/a\u003e. They\u0026rsquo;ve got a bunch of mathematically oriented programming problems online of varying difficulty. Good solutions should all run in 1 minute or less and generally take 100 lines of code or so. It\u0026rsquo;s a good way to get familiar with a new programming language and to exercise your brain. So far, I\u0026rsquo;ve done the first 70 or so problems - they don\u0026rsquo;t take too long, maybe a half hour each on average.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinally, I got the clutch in my car replaced yesterday. The mechanic said that it was in pretty bad shape and that the (plastic?) bearing the clutch uses had worn completely away. This probably explains why I\u0026rsquo;ve had no acceleration for the past year (or more?). I had forgotten what it was like to drive a decent car :-)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"at home in the (technical) universe"},{"content":"Two weeks ago as Obama won a resounding victory both in the country as a whole and even more decisively in California, Californians also passed Proposition 8. Prop 8 was an amendment to the California constitution that defined marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. With the passage of Prop 8, 18,000 couples had their legal marriages dissolved.\nSupporters of Proposition 8 claim that the act was necessary to help defend the traditional institution of marriage. Specifically, they looked to the Bible and its condemnation of homosexuality. They claimed that recognizing homosexual marriage undermined the biblical concept of marriage.\nNow, I\u0026rsquo;ve read a good chunk of the Bible over the years, and I\u0026rsquo;m pretty certain that what\u0026rsquo;s represented therein is not really what Prop 8 supporters had in mind. Unless of course, they want to see the reinstatement of polygamy, at least for those that can afford it (hey, I could support two wives and it is traditional!), after all, Solomon had 700 wives and another 300 concubines. As a side note, I can just imagine how that conversation would go with K: honey, I think we can afford a concubine - how about it? So if Prop 8 doesn\u0026rsquo;t really do anything to promote the Biblical understanding of marriage, what about protecting heterosexual marriages? I can\u0026rsquo;t speak for everyone, but I\u0026rsquo;ve been married for over fifteen years now and I can\u0026rsquo;t see any way that the possibility of gay people, some of them friends, most of them that I\u0026rsquo;ve never met could possibly threaten my marriage. I can\u0026rsquo;t even see how the possibility of gay marriage could threaten potential marriages (i.e., the institution of marriage). What, Bristol Palin was going to get married to her baby\u0026rsquo;s father, but now because gay couples in Connecticut can get married, she won\u0026rsquo;t?\nMarriage in the U.S. is essentially a legal contract between two consenting people. That contract can optionally be sanctified (made holy) when blessed in a religious ceremony. But the religious ceremony itself is truely optional. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter which religion has sanctified your marriage, you can opt not to have it sanctified at all by having the contract witnessed and signed by a justice of the peace. In our case, K and I were married by my grandfather, a (Lutheran?) minister, in a non-denominational church. The wedding ceremony itself can be important in that it publicly recognizes the marriage and encourages the observers to assist the newlyweds as they start their lives together. That community support can be important when trying to adjust to married life.\nAgain, none of this is threatened by gay marriage. If anything, the institution of marriage is stronger for being more inclusive.\nBut here\u0026rsquo;s the thing. We did just witness one new threat to the institution of marriage - Proposition 8 itself. To my knowledge, this is the first time that marriages recognized by a state have been annulled by the state [1]. 18,000 couples had legal marriage contracts, signed and recognized by the state of California. Those 18,000 couples have now been unmarried. This establishes a precedent that should worry anyone who is married.\nImagine that we took the Bible\u0026rsquo;s admonishments about divorce or adultery seriously. The Bible traditionally doesn\u0026rsquo;t recognize divorce (which leads to the Catholic church\u0026rsquo;s crazy annulment system) and calls for the stoning of adulterers. What if those traditional concepts became enshrined in law or the California constitution? Malachi 2:16 - \u0026ldquo;I hate divorce, says the Lord God of Israel.\u0026rdquo; Matthew 19:6, \u0026ldquo;So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.\u0026rdquo;\nUnder the marriage threatening precedent of Prop 8, it would be entirely reasonable to further defend marriage by excluding anyone who had previously been divorced from remarrying. Moreover, we could go further and say that marriage is between one man and one woman, neither of whom has been previously married. All of the sudden, several million marriages could be dissolved.\nI suspect that such an amendment/law is unlikely, after all, there is a bigger constituency of divorced people than gay people. But on the merits, a no-divorcee amendment isn\u0026rsquo;t any crazier than Prop 8 and should serve as a reminder for why religious views of marriage should not impinge upon the legal contract that is a marriage.\n[1] The closest comparison I can come to would be the anti-polygamy laws aimed at the Mormon Church in the 19th century, but even there, I don\u0026rsquo;t think that the original polygamous marriages had been recognized by the states before the laws\u0026rsquo; passage explicitly stated that they wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be recognized. The comparison is also ironic in that it was the Mormon church that largely bankrolled the Yes on Prop 8 movement.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/posts/a-real-threat-to-marriage/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTwo weeks ago as Obama won a resounding victory both in the country as a whole and even more decisively in California, Californians also passed Proposition 8. Prop 8 was an amendment to the California constitution that defined marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. With the passage of Prop 8, 18,000 couples had their legal marriages dissolved.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupporters of Proposition 8 claim that the act was necessary to help defend the traditional institution of marriage. Specifically, they looked to the Bible and its condemnation of homosexuality. They claimed that recognizing homosexual marriage undermined the biblical concept of marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A real threat to marriage"},{"content":"I started taking photography more seriously about ten years ago. I put down my cheap point and shoot film camera and bought an SLR body, a few lenses and some slide film. The great thing about shooting film (slide or print) is that you aren\u0026rsquo;t constrained by the quality of your camera. My first SLR was a used Olympus OM-1n, circa 1975. The OM-1n was fully manual - no auto-focus, no auto-exposure. If you didn\u0026rsquo;t want to use the exposure meter then you didn\u0026rsquo;t even need a battery. It was a beautiful piece of equipment, but it was also about as basic as you could get outside of a pinhole camera. It was a dark box that held and advanced film with a mount to hold a lens open for a set period of time. That\u0026rsquo;s it.\nAt the time I bought the camera, the basic advice was to buy a camera body with the minimum features that you needed and use the savings to buy better lenses. It was the glass in front of the camera and the type of film in it that had the greatest affect on picture quality. Two photographers using the same lens, one having a fully manual and one having a fully automated camera could each take similar quality images. That\u0026rsquo;s not to say that auto-exposure doesn\u0026rsquo;t make it easier to get the right aperture settings or that auto-focus isn\u0026rsquo;t useful when your subject is moving. Both of those things are true. But at the end of the day, they just improved the odds of getting a good shot. Your only real constraints were glass and film.\nThese days, I\u0026rsquo;m using a Nikon D80 digital camera body. It\u0026rsquo;s also nice. Definitely a lot more electronics - auto focus, auto exposure, various program modes etc. You can still set it in a manual meter mode, but it\u0026rsquo;ll never be a manual camera. If you take out the batteries, it\u0026rsquo;s just an inert hunk of silicon and rubber.\nI was reminded of all of this when talking to Hunter a few days ago. He\u0026rsquo;s interested in getting a new camera body. I almost choked when I saw how much the body alone costs. My first thought was the old advice I heard when I bought my first SLR: buy a cheap body and good glass, your photography will be better for it. Then I realized that\u0026rsquo;s no longer always true.\nOne of the things that digital cameras have done is to turn the camera body into the equivalent of the camera body and the film. It is as if I had bought my Olympus OM-1n and had to always use Fuji Provia 400. Wait - what if I want a better film, say Velvia 50? Too bad - you should buy a better camera. Well, digital cameras are just like that. Different camera bodies have different sensors of varying quality. It\u0026rsquo;s not just a matter of megapixels, but also ISO equivalents and noise reduction. We\u0026rsquo;ve just entered a world where the quality of your pictures is constrained by both the lenses you have and the camera body you own. What\u0026rsquo;s worse is that the camera body itself will become obsolete. Unlike my OM-1n, there will never be a market for 25 year old camera bodies. Lenses, yes. Camera bodies, no.\nThis isn\u0026rsquo;t all terrible I suppose. The commoditization of the camera body is making better photographic equipment more affordable. Right now, affordable digital camera gear can produce better pictures than can be had on print film. High end cameras are better than slide film and in a few years, affordable cameras will also be better than slide film. I just find it a shame that digital photography has locked us into a world where the amount of money you have will determine the quality of your pictures.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/14/thinking-about-camera-equipment/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/om1n.jpg\"\u003eI started taking photography more seriously about ten years ago. I put down my cheap point and shoot film camera and bought an SLR body, a few lenses and some slide film. The great thing about shooting film (slide or print) is that you aren\u0026rsquo;t constrained by the quality of your camera. My first SLR was a used Olympus OM-1n, circa 1975. The OM-1n was fully manual - no auto-focus, no auto-exposure. If you didn\u0026rsquo;t want to use the exposure meter then you didn\u0026rsquo;t even need a battery. It was a beautiful piece of equipment, but it was also about as basic as you could get outside of a pinhole camera. It was a dark box that held and advanced film with a mount to hold a lens open for a set period of time. That\u0026rsquo;s it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Thinking about camera equipment"},{"content":"Over the past few months, I\u0026rsquo;ve been thinking about getting a new guitar. I\u0026rsquo;ve been heading up to High Strung in Durham and have played with maybe a dozen different models, but the one I kept coming back to was a Blueridge BR-243. It\u0026rsquo;s got a beautiful sound and it\u0026rsquo;s very comfortable for me to play. The body size is \u0026ldquo;000\u0026rdquo; as opposed to the more common dreadnought size (like my first guitar) which means it\u0026rsquo;s easier to get my arms around and the shorter neck makes it easier to reach all of the chords. The back and sides of the guitar are mahogany\nWell, I\u0026rsquo;ve got a birthday coming up and Christmas is around the corner, so last Friday I went ahead and bought the BR-243 as a combo present. Unfortunately, High Strung didn\u0026rsquo;t have the case which fits the guitar in stock, so they gave me a loaner while mine is being ordered. I believe the case fits a dreadnought sized guitar, so that might give you some sense of the size. I should also post a picture of my old guitar with the new one.\nAnyway, I\u0026rsquo;ve been playing with the guitar for a few days now and I love it even more now than I did in the store. I also finally went online to see what other people thought (I didn\u0026rsquo;t want to overly influence myself :-) ) and it got great reviews, particularly for the quality at its price point. At this point, I think the only problem is that I\u0026rsquo;m not much in the mood to work - I would rather go home and practice the guitar :-D\n[gallery]\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/11/new-guitar/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past few months, I\u0026rsquo;ve been thinking about getting a new guitar. I\u0026rsquo;ve been heading up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.highstrungdurham.com/\"\u003eHigh Strung\u003c/a\u003e in Durham and have played with maybe a dozen different models, but the one I kept coming back to was a Blueridge BR-243. It\u0026rsquo;s got a beautiful sound and it\u0026rsquo;s very comfortable for me to play. The body size is \u0026ldquo;000\u0026rdquo; as opposed to the more common dreadnought size (like my first guitar) which means it\u0026rsquo;s easier to get my arms around and the shorter neck makes it easier to reach all of the chords. The back and sides of the guitar are mahogany\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New guitar"},{"content":"\nStill not official from the Election Board, but the AP has canvased all of the counties and found that there aren\u0026rsquo;t enough provisional ballots for McCain to overcome Obama\u0026rsquo;s 13000+ vote lead.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/06/download-and-watch-movie-the-lego-batman-movie-2017/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bluenc-sm.png\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill not official from the Election Board, but the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1284654.html\"\u003eAP has canvased\u003c/a\u003e all of the counties and found that there aren\u0026rsquo;t enough provisional ballots for McCain to overcome Obama\u0026rsquo;s 13000+ vote lead.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Blue NC"},{"content":"My mother tells a story about my first day in first grade (and sadly, I\u0026rsquo;m more likely to remember stories of my childhood than the actual childhood). I go off to school, probably all 70s style - plaid pants, mop haircut, etc., and when I come home she asks me about school. In particular, how did I like my new teacher (Mrs. Smith?)? I told my mom that she would like the teacher, that Mrs. Smith was just like her.\nAt a certain point, the first parent-teacher conferences occur and my mother goes in expecting to meet someone just like her: a blonde haired, blue eyed woman in her late twenties or early thirties. So it\u0026rsquo;s a bit of a surprise when Mrs. Smith is a 50-ish black woman.\nThere are two morals to the story:\nI\u0026rsquo;m definitely a Myers-Briggs intuitive (N) type as opposed to sensing (S). ;-) As a child, race didn\u0026rsquo;t even enter my mind. A person\u0026rsquo;s race was so completely irrelevant that it\u0026rsquo;s not clear that I even noticed it. Over the years, I\u0026rsquo;ve tried to live up to the example set by my five year old self. I haven\u0026rsquo;t always succeeded, but I\u0026rsquo;ve always tried.\nIn spite of that, I never did expect that the U.S. would elect a black president - at least not this soon. I didn\u0026rsquo;t think that we would be able to look past race until, at least, the baby boomer generation died off. Not that the baby boomers are racists, they made enormous strides toward equality. But at the same time, they grew up in a world where there were segregated lunch counters, segregated water fountains, segregated bathrooms and schools. They grew up in a world where the lynching of a black man was considered acceptable to many people. That\u0026rsquo;s a kind of ingrained experience that\u0026rsquo;s hard to grow out of.\nBut yet, Obama did win. Sure, he didn\u0026rsquo;t win the majority of white voters, but he won more of them than did John Kerry four years ago. The electorate looked past Obama\u0026rsquo;s race and voted for the man they thought would take the country in the right direction.\nMy inner five year old wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have thought a black president was that surprising, but with thirty-plus years of experience, I\u0026rsquo;m amazed and thrilled that there might be some part of that five year old in everyone.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/05/president-obama-and-race/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMy mother tells a story about my first day in first grade (and sadly, I\u0026rsquo;m more likely to remember stories of my childhood than the actual childhood). I go off to school, probably all 70s style - plaid pants, mop haircut, etc., and when I come home she asks me about school. In particular, how did I like my new teacher (Mrs. Smith?)? I told my mom that she would like the teacher, that Mrs. Smith was just like her.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"President Obama and race"},{"content":"Polls just closed on the West coast. With that, everyone calls Washington, Oregon and California for Obama - Obama wins! And I\u0026rsquo;m heading to bed. I would still like to see who wins NC. It looks like it\u0026rsquo;ll be close, but we should know in the morning. If I\u0026rsquo;m doing really good, I might stay up for a McCain concession. We\u0026rsquo;ll see.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/04/president-obama/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePolls just closed on the West coast. With that, everyone calls Washington, Oregon and California for Obama - Obama wins! And I\u0026rsquo;m heading to bed. I would still like to see who wins NC. It looks like it\u0026rsquo;ll be close, but we should know in the morning. If I\u0026rsquo;m doing really good, I might stay up for a McCain concession. We\u0026rsquo;ll see.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"President Obama"},{"content":"I headed over to the polling place to vote this morning. As of 8:30am or so, there were no lines at our precinct. But then, that\u0026rsquo;s not too surprising for a small precinct in a non-populous county. Chronological observations:\nThere were a fair number of cars parked at the polling place. I took one of only about 4 or 5 free spots The Obama people were prepared for the rain - they had decent sized open sided tents set up to stand under while handing out literature and talking to voters There were about 10-15 people voting when I arrived The elections officials were prepared for crowds. Instead of the usual split of the alphabet into 3 or 4 lines, I think there were 6. They also seemed to have extra help on hand, including some high school students. The folks handing out the ballots mentioned that polling had been steady so far. When I left around 8:45/8:50, I was only the 161st voter :-) I suspect that across NC, things will be similar. We had such a huge number of people cast ballots early (some 35-40% of all registered voters) that I would imagine we won\u0026rsquo;t have too many problems with lines, etc.\nHere\u0026rsquo;s hoping.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/04/go-vote/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI headed over to the polling place to vote this morning. As of 8:30am or so, there were no lines at our precinct. But then, that\u0026rsquo;s not too surprising for a small precinct in a non-populous county. Chronological observations:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere were a fair number of cars parked at the polling place. I took one of only about 4 or 5 free spots\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Obama people were prepared for the rain - they had decent sized open sided tents set up to stand under while handing out literature and talking to voters\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere were about 10-15 people voting when I arrived\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe elections officials were prepared for crowds. Instead of the usual split of the alphabet into 3 or 4 lines, I think there were 6. They also seemed to have extra help on hand, including some high school students.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe folks handing out the ballots mentioned that polling had been steady so far.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen I left around 8:45/8:50, I was only the 161st voter :-)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI suspect that across NC, things will be similar. We had such a huge number of people cast ballots early (some 35-40% of all registered voters) that I would imagine we won\u0026rsquo;t have too many problems with lines, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Go vote!"},{"content":"I haven\u0026rsquo;t been in much of a writing mood recently. I blame it on a high state of anxiety: the economy, the stock market (and therefore my retirement accounts), the health of the small business I work for, and of course the election. As a good Democrat (actually, an independent with Democratic leanings), I\u0026rsquo;m constantly concerned that in spite of all the polling and all available evidence, Obama will lose. Not certain how, but\u0026hellip;\nWith all of that anxiety, it was good to hear NPR\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;You Must Read This\u0026rdquo; segment this evening. Tonight\u0026rsquo;s book was the Tao Te Ching which is a book I\u0026rsquo;ve read and re-read for about twenty years now (as an aside, I find the phrase \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve X for about twenty years\u0026rdquo; to be very depressing - I suspect that\u0026rsquo;ll continue until I start hearing myself say \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve X for about thirty years\u0026rdquo;). The Tao Te Ching is probably one of my favorite books of Chineese philosophy. It is largely a manual of political governence. In addition to discussing the Tao (the Way) and Te (\u0026ldquo;Integrity\u0026rdquo;), it describes the principle of wu-wei - action through non (or minimal) action. Wu-wei is something of a difficult concept. As I understand it, the concept conveys the idea of not forcing a result, but rather allowing events to progress in their own way - acting in a minimal manner to redirect, rather than directly confront circumstances. Obtaining a better understanding of wu-wei is also the main reason I took up Tai Chi ten years ago (see, that\u0026rsquo;s slightly less disturbing).\nI don\u0026rsquo;t practice Tai Chi as much as I used to, but given all of my recent anxieties, I may do a few forms this evening. It wouldn\u0026rsquo;t hurt to re-read the Tao Te Ching. Hell, at the very least I should hit the treadmill in the morning.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/11/03/anxiety/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026rsquo;t been in much of a writing mood recently. I blame it on a high state of anxiety: the economy, the stock market (and therefore my retirement accounts), the health of the small business I work for, and of course the election. As a good Democrat (actually, an independent with Democratic leanings), I\u0026rsquo;m constantly concerned that in spite of all the polling and all available evidence, Obama will lose. Not certain how, but\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Anxiety"},{"content":"A few years ago, K was taking some GIS (geographic information systems) classes. That was a lot of fun for me since GIS is something I\u0026rsquo;ve poked at on and off for quite some time. Back when I was first playing with GIS, GRASS was probably the best (and may still be) open-source GIS system out there, but it wasn\u0026rsquo;t too user friendly. So it was a lot of fun playing with ESRI\u0026rsquo;s ArcGIS.\nBut 99% of the time, the things that I would like to do with maps don\u0026rsquo;t require a full blown GIS system. The Python toolkit Matplotlib includes a Basemap package and that\u0026rsquo;s getting closer. Basemap can read GIS shapefiles, handle coordinate transformations, etc. But even that\u0026rsquo;s sometimes too much. What if I wanted a simple, dynamically computed heat map of the location of website visitors? Or for the PWC database - the counties from which we receive animals?\nWell, the Wikimedia Commons has a map of the U.S. where states are slightly separated to allow for easier coloring. But that\u0026rsquo;s again difficult to deal with programatically. So what I\u0026rsquo;ve done is to create an indexed PNG image where each state is a different index color. To color the map, you just load it up and change each state\u0026rsquo;s color triplet to the appropriate value.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not certain if that\u0026rsquo;s useful to anyone else, but at least I\u0026rsquo;ve got it documented here for when I need it.\nThe associated index of colors to states is here: state-colors\nAt some point in the future, I might do something similar with a NC county map and maybe a world country map.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/30/computer-maps/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, K was taking some GIS (geographic information systems) classes. That was a lot of fun for me since GIS is something I\u0026rsquo;ve poked at on and off for quite some time. Back when I was first playing with GIS, \u003ca href=\"http://grass.itc.it\"\u003eGRASS\u003c/a\u003e was probably the best (and may still be) open-source GIS system out there, but it wasn\u0026rsquo;t too user friendly. So it was a lot of fun playing with ESRI\u0026rsquo;s ArcGIS.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Computer maps"},{"content":"As I mentioned earlier, we were having problems with the water softener and when your well water is as hard as ours is (\u0026ldquo;how hard is it?\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;that\u0026rsquo;s a rather personal question sir\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;no you git, how hard is the water?\u0026rdquo;) the water softener is pretty important.\nSo the venturi gasket looked okay, but I ordered a new one since it\u0026rsquo;s a bit sensitive. I also ordered some new internal gaskets that go in the valve. The parts arrived on Saturday. Replacing the venturi gasket didn\u0026rsquo;t help, so I opened up the valve and found that I had the wrong sized internal gasket :-( . Turns out that all of the brand name softeners (GE, Sears, Kenmore, Home Depot, etc.) all use the same valve, but in two differrent sizes, a common smaller size and then the rarer large size. I\u0026rsquo;ll give you one guess as to which we own. Of course, if I had paid attention, I would have noticed that the gasket had two sizes, but oh no\u0026hellip; Anyway, so I figure I\u0026rsquo;ve got to return the gasket, but then I google around a bit and find that in addition to the gaskets (which ironically allow the softener to suck), sometimes the symptoms we were seeing are caused by a blocked drain plug or blocked rotor. I pull out the drain plug and sure enough - it\u0026rsquo;s blocked. But even after I clear the blockage it still doesn\u0026rsquo;t suck - but in an entirely different failure mode. I clean the rotor - now it works. I still had some issues with leaks, but reseating the rotor and the whole valve has fixed those. I think we\u0026rsquo;re back in business.\nOn a related note, skvidal sent me a link to an old bicycle catalog which included a short piece on building items so that they can be worked on and repaired. It\u0026rsquo;s fairly interesting and in a sense covers the problems I have with this softener. Part of me wants to junk it and get something not broken. This is actually fairly common. I think that the average lifespan of a name brand water softener is 5-10 years. Ours is seven. Online, I\u0026rsquo;ve seen discussions from plumbers about customers that just replace instead of fix their softeners. At this point, I have a fairly complete understanding of how ours works and a reasonable confidence that I can repair anything that goes wrong with it (assuming the parts are still available). So why should I still want to replace it? Because it\u0026rsquo;s a cheap piece of garbage. The valve is designed to break after 3 years or so. The rotor gets eaten away and can only be replaced. On the plus side, it\u0026rsquo;s also designed to be easily repaired - not from any sense of reduced consumption, but because if a Sears/GE/etc. repair guy can come out, easily diagnose the problem and quickly replace an expensive part, it\u0026rsquo;s a big win for the service department. They spend a short amount of time onsite, charge an X hour, minimum trip fee and then get to pass along a marked up price for the expensive part. They win all the way around.\nSo, I figure that by giving it some love every few years, I could keep it going indefinitely (20+ years), on the other hand, a better designed softener could last 20+ years without all the attention and specialized parts. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably keep repairing the water softener, but I wish that when the former owners had bought the thing, that they had spent a bit more and gotten something that was better built in the first place.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/22/another-successful-repair/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs I \u003ca href=\"/2008/10/15/too-good-to-last\"\u003ementioned earlier\u003c/a\u003e, we were having problems with the water softener and when your well water is as hard as ours is (\u0026ldquo;how hard is it?\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;that\u0026rsquo;s a rather personal question sir\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;no you git, how hard is the water?\u0026rdquo;) the water softener is pretty important.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo the venturi gasket looked okay, but I ordered a new one since it\u0026rsquo;s a bit sensitive. I also ordered some new internal gaskets that go in the valve. The parts arrived on Saturday. Replacing the venturi gasket didn\u0026rsquo;t help, so I opened up the valve and found that I had the wrong sized internal gasket :-( . Turns out that all of the brand name softeners (GE, Sears, Kenmore, Home Depot, etc.) all use the same valve, but in two differrent sizes, a common smaller size and then the rarer large size. I\u0026rsquo;ll give you one guess as to which we own. Of course, if I had paid attention, I would have noticed that the gasket had two sizes, but oh no\u0026hellip; Anyway, so I figure I\u0026rsquo;ve got to return the gasket, but then I google around a bit and find that in addition to the gaskets (which ironically allow the softener to suck), sometimes the symptoms we were seeing are caused by a blocked drain plug or blocked rotor. I pull out the drain plug and sure enough - it\u0026rsquo;s blocked. But even after I clear the blockage it still doesn\u0026rsquo;t suck - but in an entirely different failure mode. I clean the rotor - now it works. I still had some issues with leaks, but reseating the rotor and the whole valve has fixed those. I think we\u0026rsquo;re back in business.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Another successful repair"},{"content":"So Hunter is planning on being at GB tonight too. But as of last week, we thought this was his last GB and so of course, everyone brought cameras.\nSample pictures:\n151815471553156215651580\nMore in the gallery\nRequests to remove pictures will be honored.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/17/pictures-from-geek-beer/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo Hunter is planning on being at GB tonight too. But as of last week, we thought this was his last GB and so of course, everyone brought cameras.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSample pictures:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e151815471553156215651580\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore in the \u003ca href=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1514\u0026amp;g2_page=1\"\u003egallery\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRequests to remove pictures will be honored.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pictures from Geek Beer"},{"content":"It\u0026rsquo;s okay to look, I promise that there are no shots of me doing naked cage construction. *shudder*\nA couple of months ago, K got a call about a squirrel. When the folks brought it over, it turned out to be rather small, but pretty far along in its development. Well, that\u0026rsquo;s because it was a flying squirrel. They tend to be a lot smaller, a lot sweeter and just darn cute. Because they live in colonies, K found someone with another flying squirrel and has been raising them together. They just recently went outside, so hopefully they\u0026rsquo;ll be releasable before winter. Here are some of the pictures from when they were still inside.\n1455148814971503\nA few more pictures at the gallery site.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/16/wildlife-rehab-porn/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s okay to look, I promise that there are no shots of me doing naked cage construction. \u003cem\u003e*shudder*\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA couple of months ago, K got a call about a squirrel. When the folks brought it over, it turned out to be rather small, but pretty far along in its development. Well, that\u0026rsquo;s because it was a flying squirrel. They tend to be a lot smaller, a lot sweeter and just darn cute. Because they live in colonies, K found someone with another flying squirrel and has been raising them together. They just recently went outside, so hopefully they\u0026rsquo;ll be releasable before winter. Here are some of the pictures from when they were still inside.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Wildlife rehab porn"},{"content":"It\u0026rsquo;s been a while since we\u0026rsquo;ve had plumbing issues. Okay, sure, we replaced the RO faucet in the kitchen six months ago, but other than that\u0026hellip;\nSo I guess I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be surprised that yet another water oriented appliance has broken down. This time it\u0026rsquo;s the water softener, again. When we first moved into the house, five years ago, the water softener didn\u0026rsquo;t seem to work. The first problem was a salt bridge that kept it from operating correctly. Once we figured that one out, it was easy enough to fix. Then a year or so later, the tank filled up and wouldn\u0026rsquo;t drain. That one turned out to be the venturi gasket - part of a clever device that uses pressure differentials to move water around. That one was a bit more annoying since you can\u0026rsquo;t just order the 1.5\u0026quot; gasket, you have to replace both the nozzle and gasket which costs about $20 + shipping.\nThis time, the softener is again not draining. I\u0026rsquo;m guessing it\u0026rsquo;s the venturi gasket - if not, then it\u0026rsquo;s another gasket in the system. Part of my hopes it\u0026rsquo;s the venturi since that seems most likely, is the easiest to replace and will therefore be the first thing I try. But another part of me is annoyed that the thing hasn\u0026rsquo;t lasted 4 years. Am I going to have to replace the gasket every four years? The softener isn\u0026rsquo;t that old - maybe seven years? Of course, if it is that old then the first gasket only lasted 3, maybe 3.5, years. So I guess get almost 4 years out of the new one wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be that surprising.\nHopefully the gasket will fix it. I\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/15/too-good-to-last/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s been a while since we\u0026rsquo;ve had plumbing issues. Okay, sure, we replaced the RO faucet in the kitchen six months ago, but other than that\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo I guess I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be surprised that yet another water oriented appliance has broken down. This time it\u0026rsquo;s the water softener, again. When we first moved into the house, five years ago, the water softener didn\u0026rsquo;t seem to work. The first problem was a salt bridge that kept it from operating correctly. Once we figured that one out, it was easy enough to fix. Then a year or so later, the tank filled up and wouldn\u0026rsquo;t drain. That one turned out to be the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi_effect\"\u003eventuri\u003c/a\u003e gasket - part of a clever device that uses pressure differentials to move water around. That one was a bit more annoying since you can\u0026rsquo;t just order the 1.5\u0026quot; gasket, you have to replace both the nozzle and gasket which costs about $20 + shipping.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Too good to last"},{"content":"Like a lot of other people, I\u0026rsquo;ve been pretty stressed out recently. Nothing too terrible is going on for me personally, but I\u0026rsquo;m concerned about the U.S. financial situation, I\u0026rsquo;m concerned about how that will affect me and my company (if at all) and I\u0026rsquo;m concerned about the current political happenings in part since I think that they will have the biggest affect on the first two issues. I\u0026rsquo;ve been obsessing over politics and polls for the past few months when I would probably be better off \u0026ldquo;drink[ing] herb tea and play[ing] with [my] screensavers.\u0026rdquo; At this point, I\u0026rsquo;m fairly confident that Obama will win (yay!), but watching the McCain campaign\u0026rsquo;s negative attacks is annoying - in particular since the negative ads are aimed at Obama personally and not his policies (as opposed to Obama\u0026rsquo;s negative ads which appear to be aimed at McCain\u0026rsquo;s policies).\nThe irritating thing is that the political attacks on Obama, from both McCain\u0026rsquo;s campaign and conservatives in general, are constantly shifting. First you hear, \u0026ldquo;Obama\u0026rsquo;s a Muslim.\u0026rdquo; That gets debunked. Then it\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Obama\u0026rsquo;s preacher is a radical Christian.\u0026rdquo; Again, someone takes the time to put things into context and debunk the lies and the topic changes again. \u0026ldquo;Obama\u0026rsquo;s is a celebrity.\u0026rdquo; Er, never mind that this is based on the number of people that want to hear him speak on policy issues and not, say, on his television or movie career (try comparing the IMDB entries for McCain and Obama sometime). Turn around and then it\u0026rsquo;s - \u0026ldquo;well, no one goes to an Obama speech for anything but the rock concerts.\u0026rdquo;?! No, wait, we\u0026rsquo;re back to \u0026ldquo;celebrity.\u0026rdquo; Then he\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;inexperienced\u0026rdquo; except when compared to Palin. etc., etc.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s like the Obama attackers have the attention spans of squirrels on meth. For gods\u0026rsquo; sake, pick an attack and stick with it.\nOf course, you see this in other contexts too. Perhaps my (least?) favorite is climate change. \u0026ldquo;No, global warming is not real.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Okay, maybe global warming is happening, but it\u0026rsquo;s not caused by people.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Okay, it is caused by people, but isn\u0026rsquo;t anything we can stop.\u0026rdquo; Oh wait, then we turn back to, \u0026ldquo;98% of the green house effect is due to water vapor.\u0026quot;No it isn\u0026rsquo;t. \u0026ldquo;CO2 lags temperature in ice cores!\u0026quot;True, but irrelevant. It\u0026rsquo;s almost impossible for the lay person to debate the contrarians since they keep shifting their line of attack. It\u0026rsquo;s all still wrong, but unless you\u0026rsquo;re carrying an encyclopedia of climate change, you just aren\u0026rsquo;t going to be able to counter the crazy. It\u0026rsquo;s whack-a-mole with arguments. The sad part is that the skeptics aren\u0026rsquo;t stupid. Many are very intelligent people whose politics (for some reason) cause them to be intellectually lazy about this issue. Arguments that they wouldn\u0026rsquo;t accept from a high school student are suddenly too obvious to dispute.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve even heard from a few skeptics in scientific fields and they seem to assume that either a) climate science isn\u0026rsquo;t a real science, or b) climate scientists just aren\u0026rsquo;t as smart as the political talking heads you see on the television, or c) climate scientists are all in on a giant conspiracy to keep getting funded and so they are lying about the true state of the world. Just bizarre.\nBringing it back to politics, you see the same things in McCain\u0026rsquo;s actual campaign. He keeps changing his proposals. Let\u0026rsquo;s see, during last week\u0026rsquo;s debate, we heard about a new $300b bailout to help home owners. Then it turned out that the bulk of the money was yet another bad bank bailout plan (the govt would be buying the loans from the banks). That got dropped. Then this weekend, we heard that McCain was going to have a new policy proposal geared toward the middle class. It was going to include tax cuts on dividends and capital gains. Huh?! Now, I consider myself and K to be upper middle class, but I guarantee you that cutting taxes on capital gains and dividends will not help us to any significant degree. Then on Sunday night, the McCain campaign announced that it wasn\u0026rsquo;t going to announce any new policy proposals this week. But now today we learn that McCain is proposing a new plan that features those exact same tax cuts that we part of the non-plan from this weekend.\nSeriously.\nMcCain\u0026rsquo;s campaign is acting much in the same way I would in a boxing match. They are doing the political equivalent of screaming like a child and running around the ring, hoping that the punches will land where they were and not where they\u0026rsquo;ve currently shifted. It\u0026rsquo;s pathetic.\nAll of this makes me wonder what kind of brain rot has infected the republican party. Did it start with the appeals to anti-intellectualism and rot it\u0026rsquo;s way up to the policies? Did it start with crazy policies which attracted anti-intellectuals? David Brooks seems to think that the republicans just drove away all of their intellectuals and this is what\u0026rsquo;s left. I suppose I can buy that.\nAnyway, I think it\u0026rsquo;s time to make some red zinger and see if I can get that 3d fractal screensaver working.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/14/brief-political-interlude/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLike a lot of other people, I\u0026rsquo;ve been pretty stressed out recently. Nothing too terrible is going on for me personally, but I\u0026rsquo;m concerned about the U.S. financial situation, I\u0026rsquo;m concerned about how that will affect me and my company (if at all) and I\u0026rsquo;m concerned about the current political happenings in part since I think that they will have the biggest affect on the first two issues. I\u0026rsquo;ve been obsessing over politics and polls for the past few months when I would probably be better off \u003ca href=\"http://www.workpump.com/bugcount/bugcount.html\"\u003e\u0026ldquo;drink[ing] herb tea and play[ing] with [my] screensavers.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/a\u003e At this point, I\u0026rsquo;m fairly confident that Obama will win (yay!), but watching the McCain campaign\u0026rsquo;s \u003ca href=\"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5glxLRJGYXl2qCzirOL_o5HIuXamAD93MEJV80\"\u003enegative attacks\u003c/a\u003e is annoying - in particular since the negative ads are aimed at Obama personally and not his policies (as opposed to Obama\u0026rsquo;s negative ads which appear to be aimed at McCain\u0026rsquo;s policies).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Brief political interlude"},{"content":"A while back, Luis Villa asked about a script to add creative commons licensing information to an image. I just wrapped up a first cut at a GreaseMonkey script to do exactly that. Hopefully someone will find it useful.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/04/annotate-flickr/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA while back, Luis Villa \u003ca href=\"http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/09/03/creative-commons-picture-script-request/\"\u003easked\u003c/a\u003e about a script to add creative commons licensing information to an image. I just wrapped up a first cut at a \u003ca href=\"/projects/annotate-flickr/\"\u003eGreaseMonkey script\u003c/a\u003e to do exactly that. Hopefully someone will find it useful.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Annotate Flickr"},{"content":"A while back, Luis Villa asked about a script to add creative commons licensing information to an image. My first thought was to just use ImageMagick. That works pretty well, but assumes a command line, image magick, etc. My next thought was a piece of javascript that you could include on a webpage. The javascript would scan all tags and for each that were of the class “cc-license”, it would grab the “license” and “attrib” attributes. The img would be replaced with a canvas that had a transparent license image and the attribution in the corner. That worked pretty well, but again, didn’t really change the image, so if you were loading it into a presentation, etc., you were out of luck.\nOkay, thought the third. Why don’t we take the canvas idea (idea #2 for those keeping score at home) and wrap it in a GreaseMonkey script. The script would run on Flickr pages and, when triggered, would grab CC license information, along with the picture name and creator from the Flickr API and shove it into a canvas. That canvas could be downloaded as a png (don’t blame me, using png as opposed to something else is an HTML5 issue). Okay, this might work.\nBasic use:\ninstall and enable GreaseMonkey in firefox download the script – GreaseMonkey should pick up the fact that’s it’s a script go to Flickr follow the instructions for getting a Flickr API key install the key through the GreaseMonkey -\u0026gt; User Script Commands menu find an image you like – either the main page image or on the “All Sizes” screen click the “Click to Annotate with License Link” you should see the image with the embedded license info right click to save I wrapped up the first version tonight (October 4, 2008). New features should eventually include the ability to change colors, degree of transparency, location, etc., but for now it’ll work.\nVersion 1.0 – annotateflickr.user.js\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/04/annotate-flickr-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA while back, Luis Villa \u003ca href=\"http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/09/03/creative-commons-picture-script-request/\"\u003easked\u003c/a\u003e about a script to add creative commons licensing information to an image. My first thought was to just use ImageMagick. That works pretty well, but assumes a command line, image magick, etc. My next thought was a piece of javascript that you could include on a webpage. The javascript would scan all \u003cimg\u003e tags and for each that were of the class “cc-license”, it would grab the “license” and “attrib” attributes. The img would be replaced with a canvas that had a transparent license image and the attribution in the corner. That worked pretty well, but again, didn’t really change the image, so if you were loading it into a presentation, etc., you were out of luck.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Annotate Flickr"},{"content":"","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/10/04/projects/","summary":"","title":"Projects"},{"content":"Okay, this is probably the last of the foreseeable posts on the Wallstreet bailout – and probably the most serious.\nI spend the last week extremely pissed off about the bailout. Here were a bunch of idiots absurdly inflating the price of housing, with other idiots actually loaning them money to do so, more idiots treating the bad loans as assets and still more idiots insuring them against loss under ridiculous assumptions. It’s not really a surprise that the whole thing blew up. The only surprise is that it took as long as it did. Hell – 5 years ago in late 2003 when K and I bought our current place, we were worried that there was a housing bubble inflating prices beyond what the properties were really worth. And this was in North Carolina which didn’t have the hottest housing market.\nBut here we are, we’ve got banks going defunct left and right and we’ve got republicans arguing that they really, really have always supported more federal regulation. The latter is one of the signs of the apocalypse for those keeping score at home. So along comes Paulson saying that he needs $700 billion to keep this from truly going in the crapper. The reason I’m so pissed off is that I agree.\nLet’s put it this way – the U.S. economy (GDP) is on the order of $14 trillion. In other words, the bailout proposal was 5% of GDP. Now in real terms $700 billion or 5% of GDP are insanely huge amounts of money. Something like $7,000 per household. But if the economy collapses or if we go into a deeper recession than we otherwise would have, 5% of GDP is chump change. The economy could easily slow 5% in a year (or 2.5% each over two years, etc.). In other words, the proposed cure is cost effective compared to letting the disease run its course without intervention.\nGiven that we need some form of intervention to prevent a complete meltdown, there are a few questions that have to be addressed:\nWhat is the proper size of the intervention? How much do we need to spend? How will the plan work? How will assets be valued? Who has oversight? etc. Who pays for it? In all of these, the original (3 page) Paulson plan was completely inadequate. Paulson picked the $700 billion number out of thin air. Hell, for all I know he thought it should be 5% GDP and backed out the $700b from there. The original plan said nothing about how the assets would be valued – essentially, the govt would likely pay the original value of the assets regardless of their actual worth. Paulson was to have no oversight and all decisions were to be final with no appeal to judicial recourse. Finally, for the plan to have worked, taxpayers would have to lose money which means that the benefits would primarily go to those of us with money in the stock market (401k retirement funds, etc.) or to the financial institutions themselves and the burden would fall on our standard tax system which places only a slightly higher burden on the rich than it does the rest of us.\nSo that plan won’t/shouldn’t fly.\nWhat about the new plan? On Sunday, the congress and the whitehouse finalized a new proposal. Caveat lector – I haven’t read it yet, I’ve only looked at excerpts. But from what I’ve seen, it is better in almost every way to the original Paulson plan.\nThe new bill grants the Treasury $350b up front and the rest isn’t guaranteed. Congress will have significant oversight. There are two ways that Paulson can buy assets: 1) conducting a reverse auction to find the true worth of the assets; or 2) essentially buy equity in the company equal to the amount of money received for taking the assets. The former is likely to generate smaller amounts of money for the companies, but does allow them to get the bad assets off of their books. The latter may be useful for companies in worse financial shape. In either case, the govt is essentially getting something of value for the money it’s spending. Oh – and companies that participate in the bailout have to agree to reductions in executive compensation which is a good thing. I still wish they were required to participate in credit counseling – along the lines of that required for consumers under the 2005 bankruptcy law, but I might just be thinking punitively.\nSo, what’s not to like? Probably quite a bit – like I said, I haven’t had a chance to read the 110 page draft. One thing that’s probably not to like is that the bill allows the SEC to temporarily suspend Mark-to-Market accounting. This is just dumb. It would allow the SEC to look the other way while companies pretend that they are worth more than they really are. It’s a way to allow the companies to claim that their assets are worth more than the market would pay for them, allowing the companies to appear healthier than they really are. That’s not really helpful.\nSo, I’ll probably read through the full bill tonight, but for the most part I think I support it. It’s not perfect, but it seems to be both necessary and significantly better than the original Paulson bill (oh, and much better than the silly House Republican proposal, but we won’t get into that).\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/09/29/idle-bailout-thoughts/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, this is probably the last of the foreseeable posts on the Wallstreet bailout – and probably the most serious.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI spend the last week extremely pissed off about the bailout. Here were a bunch of idiots absurdly inflating the price of housing, with other idiots actually loaning them money to do so, more idiots treating the bad loans as assets and still more idiots insuring them against loss under ridiculous assumptions. It’s not really a surprise that the whole thing blew up. The only surprise is that it took as long as it did. Hell – 5 years ago in late 2003 when K and I bought our current place, we were worried that there was a housing bubble inflating prices beyond what the properties were really worth. And this was in North Carolina which didn’t have the hottest housing market.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Idle bailout thoughts"},{"content":"Welcome to the new socialist state… comrade.\nFrom Propublica, an inflation adjusted comparison of bailouts.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/09/23/we-are-all-socialists-now/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the new socialist state… comrade.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Propublica, an inflation adjusted comparison of bailouts.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bailout_history.gif\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bailout_history.gif\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/wallstreet-fail.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/wallstreet-fail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"We are all socialists now"},{"content":"As a public service announcement, I am hereby warning the people I know that in light of the bailouts of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, and the entire freaking banking system, all of which will cost tax payers about $1 trillion, the next person that tells me that deregulating markets will provide a solution to anything will be asked to STFU.\nthank you and good night\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/09/20/public-service-announcement/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs a public service announcement, I am hereby warning the people I know that in light of the bailouts of \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122088294934209997.html\"\u003eFannie Mae, Freddie Mac\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122156561931242905.html\"\u003eAIG\u003c/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122191819568460053.html\"\u003eentire freaking banking system\u003c/a\u003e, all of which will cost tax payers about $1 trillion, the next person that tells me that deregulating markets will provide a solution to anything will be asked to STFU.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethank you and good night\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Public service announcement"},{"content":"Oh, on an entirely unrelated note, the U.S. Constitution was signed 221 years ago today – happy birthday! Okay, it wasn’t ratified for a couple of years after that, but still…\nIf you’ve got some time, take a read. It’s still the most impressive government document I’ve ever read.\nA few years ago, I wanted to start a project that took the individual clauses of the constitution and traced the arguments for and against them back to the original sources or at least to the debates between the signing and ratification. The Federalist Papers, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison and many of the documents collected in the two volume Library of America’s Debate on the Consitution would have featured prominantly. Never did have the time to kick that off.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/09/17/happy-birthday-to-the-us-constitution/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOh, on an entirely unrelated note, the U.S. Constitution was signed 221 years ago today – happy birthday! Okay, it wasn’t ratified for a couple of years after that, but still…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you’ve got some time, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America#Preamble\"\u003etake a read\u003c/a\u003e. It’s still the most impressive government document I’ve ever read.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, I wanted to start a project that took the individual clauses of the constitution and traced the arguments for and against them back to the original sources or at least to the debates between the signing and ratification. \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Federalist-Papers-Alexander-Hamilton/dp/1596052473/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1221682781\u0026amp;sr=8-2\"\u003eThe Federalist Papers\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Debates-Federal-Convention-Reported-Madison/dp/0393304051/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1221682715\u0026amp;sr=8-2\"\u003eNotes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison\u003c/a\u003e and many of the documents collected in the two volume Library of America’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Federalist-Antifederalist-Ratification-1787-February/dp/0940450429/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1221682851\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003eDebate on the Consitution\u003c/a\u003e would have featured prominantly. Never did have the time to kick that off.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Happy birthday to the U.S. Constitution"},{"content":"So, one more update on Gustav in Baton Rouge and then I’ll return you to your regularly scheduled odd musings, rants and wildlife pictures.\nFirst, the good news – I got a text message from my mother last week. They got power back! Only 10 days without power. I suppose that’s not too bad. No word from K’s parents, but they had moved into K’s sister’s condo that did have power, so I’m guessing they’re still there.\nThe bad news is that my parent’s 100+ year old pecan tree that was struck by lightening a few years ago (and dying) just couldn’t take the hurricane. Too much concern that the root structure was loose and that it was going to fall on a house and completely crush it. So, they had to have it taken down. Three nice sized pecan trees in my parent’s yard – all gone, along with most of the limbs on an old magnolia and their Japanese magnolia.\nThe ironic news is that even though I knew they had power, I couldn’t get in touch with them on Monday to wish my father a happy birthday. So last night, I called my mom’s cell which was answered by my dad. Odd, but okay. I wished him a happy birthday and told him that I was sorry that I couldn’t reach him the day before. It turns out that I couldn’t reach him because their power was out again. Apparently the tree service accidentally dropped a limb on the power lines and took out power for them and the 3 or 4 nearest houses.\nSomehow I’m imagining that a self-inflicted power outage is not going to be too high on the power company’s list of priorities. Fortunately, they are down to a manageable number of outages in Baton Rouge, so even with the majority of the power assistance now going to Houston/Galveston for Ike, my parents might still get power back soon.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/09/17/baton-rouge-good-news-bad-news/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo, one more update on Gustav in Baton Rouge and then I’ll return you to your regularly scheduled odd musings, rants and wildlife pictures.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, the good news – I got a text message from my mother last week. They got power back! Only 10 days without power. I suppose that’s not too bad. No word from K’s parents, but they had moved into K’s sister’s condo that did have power, so I’m guessing they’re still there.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Baton Rouge - good news, bad news"},{"content":"I spoke to my mom for a little while this evening and got an update on where things stand in Baton Rouge or at least in her corner of it. A summery for those of you interested in Baton Rouge:\nThe news keeps talking about how mild things were in New Orleans, but the only time you hear about Baton Rouge is in passing. For example, I’ve heard at least two NO evacuees mention that things are better in NO than in the shelters in BR. That is, in part, what’s driving the exodus back south. While the winds weren’t as bad in BR as they were in NO, they were (near) record winds for the city. BR has more trees and they haven’t experienced winds like this, so there were a lot of trees that fell down. The local power company is estimating six to eight weeks before they get power to everywhere in the city. There are major grids in the city that don’t have power and then once those major sections are restored, they will still have to restore to the local homes/offices. My parents did find a plumber to get the water line fixed. They are on the waiting list for a tree guy that can cut up a tree trunk as large as the one that fell in their yard (3′?) – it’s not really a do it yourself job. Almost every yard in my parents’ neighbourhood has a tree down. Most of the houses have experienced some damage. Probably 20% of the houses have trees through the roofs. There are a large number of cars that were struck by falling trees. Many of the power poles on the main road outside of the neighbourhood are down. In the neighbourhood, there are few intact sections of power line more than 3 to 4 houses long. Entergy will probably have to replace many poles and string a lot of new line. There is a curfew in effect. The National Guard did fire shots (in the air?) when some people tried to break into a FEMA trailer full of tarps. Good news: there is fuel in many gas stations. Bad news: there’s no power to pump it with. Stations with fuel and power have long lines, in some cases backing up down the road. My parents underestimated the amount of gasoline their generator requires (about 5 gallons a day) and are trying to find more 5 gallon cans. It’s still raining and there’s little power, so some underpasses are flooding. The humidity is very high. To the point where my parents’ wood floors are damp and are occasionally collecting puddles. Oh, and the mosquitoes are breeding, so the health authorities are warning people about West Nile. There aren’t too many stores open, those that are open can’t accept credit cards (no phone lines) and so are requiring cash. Taken as a whole, it reminds you of a post-apocalyptic distopian movie with people stocking up on water, fuel, food, guns, cash and gold. Maybe Mad Max, The Stand or The Postman. I suppose a comparison to Water World would be in poor taste…\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/09/03/baton-rouge-disaster-area/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI spoke to my mom for a little while this evening and got an update on where things stand in Baton Rouge or at least in her corner of it. A summery for those of you interested in Baton Rouge:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe news keeps talking about how mild things were in New Orleans, but the only time you hear about Baton Rouge is in passing. For example, I’ve heard at least two NO evacuees mention that things are better in NO than in the shelters in BR. That is, in part, what’s driving the exodus back south.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhile the winds weren’t as bad in BR as they were in NO, they were (near) record winds for the city. BR has more trees and they haven’t experienced winds like this, so there were a lot of trees that fell down.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe local power company is estimating six to eight weeks before they get power to everywhere in the city. There are major grids in the city that don’t have power and then once those major sections are restored, they will still have to restore to the local homes/offices.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy parents did find a plumber to get the water line fixed. They are on the waiting list for a tree guy that can cut up a tree trunk as large as the one that fell in their yard (3′?) – it’s not really a do it yourself job.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlmost every yard in my parents’ neighbourhood has a tree down.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMost of the houses have experienced some damage.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProbably 20% of the houses have trees through the roofs.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere are a large number of cars that were struck by falling trees.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMany of the power poles on the main road outside of the neighbourhood are down. In the neighbourhood, there are few intact sections of power line more than 3 to 4 houses long. Entergy will probably have to replace many poles and string a lot of new line.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is a curfew in effect. The National Guard did fire shots (in the air?) when some people tried to break into a FEMA trailer full of tarps.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGood news: there is fuel in many gas stations. Bad news: there’s no power to pump it with. Stations with fuel and power have long lines, in some cases backing up down the road.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy parents underestimated the amount of gasoline their generator requires (about 5 gallons a day) and are trying to find more 5 gallon cans.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt’s still raining and there’s little power, so some underpasses are flooding.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe humidity is very high. To the point where my parents’ wood floors are damp and are occasionally collecting puddles. Oh, and the mosquitoes are breeding, so the health authorities are warning people about West Nile.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere aren’t too many stores open, those that are open can’t accept credit cards (no phone lines) and so are requiring cash.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken as a whole, it reminds you of a post-apocalyptic distopian movie with people stocking up on water, fuel, food, guns, cash and gold. Maybe \u003cem\u003eMad Max, The Stand\u003c/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eThe Postman\u003c/em\u003e. I suppose a comparison to \u003cem\u003eWater World\u003c/em\u003e would be in poor taste…\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Baton Rouge . . . disaster area"},{"content":"Both K’s and I are from Louisiana, Baton Rouge to be specific, so we kept a close eye on Hurricane Gustav over Labor Day weekend. Fortunately, it looks like the storm weakened and the damage wasn’t as bad as it could have been. There were a couple of levees in New Orleans that were topped (a good thing the storm surge wasn’t any higher or there would have been major flooding).\nBaton Rouge is about 90 miles inland, so we weren’t too worried about flooding, but the rain and high winds can cause a lot of damage. Since Gustav seemed to hold together pretty well, they did receive hurricane force winds in Baton Rouge, and online we saw the parish sheriff say that this was the worst storm damage he had seen in BR in his entire life.\nI heard from my parents yesterday. Everyone there is fine. They did lose one of the three large pecan trees in their yard. Fortunately, it wasn’t the oldest one which seems to be dying, but whose trunk is about 8′ in diameter and would have caused massive damage to anything on which it fell. Even more fortunately, the tree that did fall fell in the one way that wouldn’t cause significant damage to my parent’s house or the neighbor’s house (see picture below). It did take up a water line, so no water until they can get it capped off (assuming that the city pumps are working).\nWe still haven’t heard from K’s parents or sister. We don’t have any reason to think that they aren’t okay, but it would be good if we could get through to them sometime today.\nUpdate: We received a voice mail from K’s parents today around 2pm. Everyone’s fine. They had some carport damage and noted that there’s a lot of damage around the area. We still haven’t been able to get in touch with them, but it’s good to know that they are okay.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/09/02/gustav/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBoth K’s and I are from Louisiana, Baton Rouge to be specific, so we kept a close eye on Hurricane Gustav over Labor Day weekend. Fortunately, it looks like the storm weakened and the damage wasn’t as bad as it could have been. There were a couple of levees in New Orleans that were topped (a good thing the storm surge wasn’t any higher or there would have been major flooding).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Gustav (updated)"},{"content":"Just got back from a mini-reunion of Cramers in Tennessee. This was all of my uncles and cousins on my father’s side with the exception of my sister who has a three-week old baby at home. To answer the obvious question, no. No one lives in Tennessee, it’s just a more or less central place. We came in from Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Washington D.C. and New Jersey.\nA few notes:\nTell your friends before you leave town for a week. I forgot to do that and on Wednesday when we were driving home, I got a phone call asking if things were okay. Sorry about that folks, and I appreciate the concern. Never debate my uncles about anything. It’s not that you’ll necessarily lose – it just isn’t worth it. Example, on the first night we were there, we were sitting around talking and sampling some whiskey my cousin brought. At some point, we get on the topic of Woodrow Wilson. One uncle admits to being fond of Wilson, his twin says that he was the first fascist and a Nazi. Huh? After going around quite a bit, discussing Wilson’s flirting with eugenics (not too uncommon at the time), we get to the point where Wilson is also being accused of treason for undermining (iirc) Taft; which then gets to Nancy Pelosi being accused of treason for undermining Bush. At that point I noted that neither of these cases met the constitutional definition of treason. Uncle #2 (the one making fascist and treason accusations) didn’t realize that the constitution defined treason (sigh). He then further admitted that he didn’t really know that much about Wilson either, he hadn’t even read a book on Wilson; but he had read a review of a book on Wilson. This became the punchline of many jokes later in the trip. The family either a) drinks more or b) talks more about drinking than it did when Grandma Cramer was alive. Some of this may be that almost all of the cousins are over 21 now. Some of it may just be that Grandma Cramer didn’t approve of drinking alcohol and everyone kept it under wraps when she was around. Whitewater rafting is still a blast. We rafted the middle section of the Ocoee river which I haven’t done in maybe 20 years. Of course, it’s been about 13 years since we’ve done any rafting at all. We managed not to lose anyone from the boat this time, in spite of my father’s best efforts at drowning us while we were surfing a rapid 🙂 It was great to see all of the cousins again. I didn’t see Matthew since he was only there the first day and we didn’t get in until the second, but other than that, I saw folks that I haven’t seen in more than five years. It’s funny how people with so many different political and social views, located in entirely different parts of the country who haven’t seen each other in years can be so similar. Chalk up another win for nature as opposed to nurture. Finally, the drive each way was a little more than six hours for us. That was among the shorter drives, but I’m really getting too old for long car trips. Next time, maybe we’ll fly into Knoxville and drive the hour from there. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/08/01/notes-from-a-cramer-mini-reunion/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eJust got back from a mini-reunion of Cramers in Tennessee. This was all of my uncles and cousins on my father’s side with the exception of my sister who has a three-week old baby at home. To answer the obvious question, no. No one lives in Tennessee, it’s just a more or less central place. We came in from Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Washington D.C. and New Jersey.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few notes:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"notes from a Cramer mini-reunion"},{"content":"I knew that there were a lot of chemicals that when ingested could make you stupid. Drugs, sure. Lead and mercury, definitely. But apparently even thinking about oil makes people stupid. Consider the following:\nFor weeks, republicans have been pushing the idea that either a) the Cubans are drilling in Cuban waters off the coast of Florida; or b) that the Chinese are drilling for oil in Cuban waters off the coast of Florida. The only problem of course is that this is demonstrably false.\nMore recently, republicans have started talking up the idea that off shore drilling is much safer than it used to be, and that during hurricanes Rita and Katrina, there were no oil spills. Except, um, that’s not really true either.\nAnd then yesterday, Bush lifted the executive coastal drilling ban put in place by his father. According to the NY Times, he said:\n“With this action, the executive branch’s restrictions on this exploration have been cleared away, he said Monday. “This means that the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the U.S. Congress.\nAnd, yeah, in case you were wondering, this is also not true:\nOil companies already have drilling rights and leases on large amounts of land that they are not currently drilling under. Allowing them to drill off shore does not mean that they necessarily will Development of the drilling sites is 10 years away. So the soonest the oil would have an effect on supply is 2018. The amount of oil that we are talking about is relatively small. While there are a lot of estimates about the totals, the key is the daily amount. Putting this into perspective, the world uses about 74 million barrels a day of oil (about 84 million barrels of oil plus oil equivalents). The US uses a quarter of that – around 21 million barrels per day. At it’s peak, most estimates I’ve seen are that off shore drilling plus drilling in the ANWR would generate about 250,000 barrels per day – a mere drop in the bucket. If you consider the amount the US and the world are projected to use by 2018 (assuming unrestricted supply), you find that all of that drilling is estimated to reduce the price of oil by a few dollars per barrel. Finally, over the next 20 to 40 years, the US is (or more to the point, should be) committed to using less oil. The current G8 targets are to cut CO2 emissions by 50% over the next 40 years. That seems to imply that we need to be using much less oil than we are now – starting very soon. Far be it from me to suggest that the selection of CO2 targets was disingenuous, so taking these folks at their word, we should skip the drilling and start working on the alternatives. I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised that discussing oil brings out the stupid. It’s a very touchy subject in the US. I came across one good reason for this in Kevin Phillips’s two recent books: “American Theocracy and “Bad Money. Phillips notes that in the same way that knowledge and use of coal was the key to the British empire and knowledge and use of wind was the key to the Dutch empire before that, the key to US power is the knowledge and use of oil. So any discussion of using less oil or not having enough oil, strikes directly at the heart of US power.\nHowever, oil is a finite resource. If the US wants to retain its power in the second half of the 21st century, we need learn to use other, renewable sources of energy, and the continued focus on maintaining cheap oil supplies are not going to help.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/07/15/oil-makes-you-stupid-news-at-11/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI knew that there were a lot of chemicals that when ingested could make you stupid. Drugs, sure. Lead and mercury, definitely. But apparently even thinking about oil makes people stupid. Consider the following:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor weeks, \u003ca href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/chinacuba_oil_myth/\"\u003erepublicans have been pushing the idea\u003c/a\u003e that either a) the Cubans are drilling in Cuban waters off the coast of Florida; or b) that the Chinese are drilling for oil in Cuban waters off the coast of Florida. The only problem of course is that this is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/40776.html\"\u003edemonstrably false\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Oil makes you stupid. . . news at 11"},{"content":"I hope everyone’s having a great 4th of July (at least those of us in the States, folks from other countries can be forgiven for not thinking too much of it).\nJuly 4th, along with Thanksgiving, is one of my favourite holidays. That may surprise some folks. It’s not like the house is decorated in red, white and blue. I’m not wearing a flag pin, the Pledge of Allegiance makes me uncomfortable and I’m not that into fireworks. But external trappings aside, I consider myself to be a very patriotic person. I just don’t define patriotism as being synonymous with “flag waving.\nPatriotism to me is not about loving your flag, or thinking that your country can do no wrong. To me, patriotism is the love of the ideals that founded the country. Thinking that your country can do no wrong or that you should love the flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance is no more than nationalism. If you had been born in any other country, you would be equally “patriotic to that nation. The United States was not born from such nationalism, instead we were founded with a belief in 18th century enlightenment values. The first paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence are filled with such ideals:\nWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.\nThat to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.\nPrudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.\nAs a country, we have not always lived up to these ideals, but it is the ideals themselves and not the trappings that are important. This is the reason that the president is subject to the rule of law. This is the reason that criticism of the government is a patriotic act and that refraining from such criticism when justified is an act of cowardice. It is only when citizens criticize and elected officials act on such criticisms that the country can improve and come closer to the ideals that we were founded upon.\nHave a happy 4th of July.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI hope everyone’s having a great 4th of July (at least those of us in the States, folks from other countries can be forgiven for not thinking too much of it).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuly 4th, along with Thanksgiving, is one of my favourite holidays. That may surprise some folks. It’s not like the house is decorated in red, white and blue. I’m not wearing a flag pin, the Pledge of Allegiance makes me uncomfortable and I’m not that into fireworks. But external trappings aside, I consider myself to be a very patriotic person. I just don’t define patriotism as being synonymous with “flag waving.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Happy 4th of July"},{"content":"Things making this weekend more enjoyable:\nSeeing a “Republicans for Obama bumper sticker on the car in front of me Finding that 5th Season is starting to carry beer and wine making supplies Gardening (more or less) Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks Receiving ~1.5″ of rain Sunday night… after taking the dogs on a walk Getting TurboGears to work through fastcgi Knowing that it’s only a four day work week coming up Presumably there were other things, but these are the ones that come immediately to mind 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/30/weekend-enjoyment/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThings making this weekend more enjoyable:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeeing a “Republicans for Obama bumper sticker on the car in front of me\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinding that 5th Season is starting to carry beer and wine making supplies\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGardening (more or less)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReceiving ~1.5″ of rain Sunday night… after taking the dogs on a walk\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting TurboGears to work through fastcgi\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnowing that it’s only a four day work week coming up\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresumably there were other things, but these are the ones that come immediately to mind 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Weekend enjoyment"},{"content":"update: and for those that prefer a better interface, all of the pictures in gallery\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eupdate:\u003c/strong\u003e and for those that prefer a better interface, \u003ca href=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=927\"\u003eall of the pictures in gallery\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0539_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0539_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0542_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0542_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0544b_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0544b_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0544_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0544_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0545_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" 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href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0830_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0830_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0834_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0834_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0835_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0835_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0840_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0840_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0846_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0846_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0850_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0850_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0855_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0855_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0873_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0873_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0901_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0901_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0903_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0903_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0904_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0904_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0923_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0923_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0936_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0936_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0961_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0961_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0983_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0983_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_0991_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0991_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1011_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1011_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1026_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1026_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1040_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1040_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1092_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1092_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1100_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1100_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1102_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1102_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1103_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1103_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1129_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1129_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1140_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1140_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1141_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1141_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1150_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1150_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1154_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1154_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1162_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1162_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1164_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1164_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1171_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1171_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1183b_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1183b_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1183_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1183_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1186_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1186_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1190_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1190_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1197_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1197_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1198_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1198_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/22/yellowstone-pictures-part-2-of-2/yellowstone2008_1200_web\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_1200_web.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Yellowstone pictures - part 2 of 2 (updated)"},{"content":"\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/20/telecom-immunity-passes-sigh/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/19/telecom/index.html\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/congress.jpeg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Telecom immunity passes the House.  sigh . . ."},{"content":"I haven’t finished processing all of the Yellowstone pictures – it takes a bit of work to get the color balance set right. (THM – that’s why I always shoot raw on the D80. It gives me more freedom to get the image “right later.) But at least the first half is done. I’ll post the second half this weekend sometime.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI haven’t finished processing all of the Yellowstone pictures – it takes a bit of work to get the color balance set right. (THM – that’s why I always shoot raw on the D80. It gives me more freedom to get the image “right later.) But at least the first half is done. I’ll post the second half this weekend sometime.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0002_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0002_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0006_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0006_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0009_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0009_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0011_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0011_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0015_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0015_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0023_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0023_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0024_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0024_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0026_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0026_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0038_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0038_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0049_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0049_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0068_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0068_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0069_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0069_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0072_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0072_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0076_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0076_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0079_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0079_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0080_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0080_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0081_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0081_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0084_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0084_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0088_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0088_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0092_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0092_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0094_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0094_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0096_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0096_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0097_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0097_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0107_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0107_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0111_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0111_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0114_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0114_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0121_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0121_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0125_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0125_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0128_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0128_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0136_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0136_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0137_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0137_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0145_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0145_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0155_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0155_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0156_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0156_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0160_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0160_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0171_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0171_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0189_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0189_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0193_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0193_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0200_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0200_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0203_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0203_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0233_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0233_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0237_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0237_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0244_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0244_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0248_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0248_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0255_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" 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src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0421_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0435_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0435_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0443_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0443_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0448_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0448_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0450_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0450_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0454_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0454_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0465_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0465_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0471_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0471_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0473_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0473_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0493_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0493_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0494_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0494_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0497_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0497_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0513_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0513_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0516_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0516_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/2008/06/20/yellowstone-pictures-part-1-of-2/yellowstone2008_0534_web1\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/yellowstone2008_0534_web1.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Yellowstone pictures - part 1 of 2"},{"content":"It’s things like this that embarrass me when I tell someone I’m from Louisiana. The Louisiana House has voted overwhelmingly to pass the Louisiana Science Education Act which allows science teachers to use supplemental materials when teaching controversial subjects. For those who haven’t been there, in Louisiana, controversial subjects include: evolution, global warming, Keplerian astronomy and the round earth theory. Okay, I made the last one up – at least 85% of Louisiana households do believe that the earth is round.\nSupporters of the bill say that it will promote critical thinking in science classrooms. Well, hey, who couldn’t be against critical thinking? Well, since the bill is supported by creationist Discovery Institute, I guess me. But at least I’m in good company:\nAmericans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington-based advocacy group, said the bill would promote teaching creationism in public schools and said some teachers might use supplemental materials produced by fundamentalist Christian organizations.\n“It’s time for Louisiana to step into the 21st century and stop trying to teach religion in public schools, Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of the organization, said in a statement. “Laws like this are an embarrassment.\nIn essence, the bill allows science teachers to inflict their own opinions and beliefs on to students instead of teaching actual science.\nMaybe I’ll start claiming to be from a more respectable state, like Mississippi. :-/\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/13/louisiana-setting-the-standard-in-science-education/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s things like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-39/1213222164265360.xml\u0026amp;storylist=louisiana\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e that embarrass me when I tell someone I’m from Louisiana. The Louisiana House has voted overwhelmingly to pass the Louisiana Science Education Act which allows science teachers to use supplemental materials when teaching controversial subjects. For those who haven’t been there, in Louisiana, controversial subjects include: evolution, global warming, Keplerian astronomy and the round earth theory. Okay, I made the last one up – at least 85% of Louisiana households do believe that the earth is round.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Louisiana, setting the standard in science education . . ."},{"content":"A few years ago, I participated in a six month program to train leaders in information technology. I learned a fair amount, perhaps enough to be disillusioned, and ever since the program, I can’t help but look at organizations in terms of their leadership. Case in point, the grapevine of ex-employees from my former workplace says that three employee resignations were announced last week. One person only gave one week notice. By my rough count, that’s about 20 people leaving since January – or approximately 8-10% of the work force. Ouch!\nAs a benchmark, I tend to think that a business organization will see about 15% turnover in a year. An academic institution, maybe 5%. The last 12 months at the old job has seen something close to a 20% turnover, prompting me to suggest to friends that there needs to be a web-based application to stream line the process. You could have work flow, automatic announcement letter generation, employee exit reviews, etc. Someone’s suggested name… iQuit..edu. Perfect 🙂\nIronically, several months before I left the organization, I started getting concerned with turnover and was probably thought a troublemaker. But again, the leadership course I took, the books I’ve read, etc. All suggest that when your best people are leaving, it’s a bad sign. Even if they are nominally leaving for personal reasons, their happiness in their current job was factored in and found wanting. Turnover means that the organization faces a loss of productivity as a replacement is found and trained. Skills and institutional knowledge are lost. In my opinion, even a termination indicates a problem – i.e., what went wrong in the hiring process such that you hired a poor candidate? For a good explanation of why turnover in all its forms is a problem, read Peopleware – it focuses on software development, but can be applied to IT as well.\nIn contrast, I was reading Richard Clarke’s “Your Government Failed You: breaking the cycle of national security disasters on the plane ride home from vacation. Near the end, he describes how to build an effective organization, borrowing from Admiral Hyman G. Rickover’s 1981 speech to Columbia titled “ Doing a Job. In the speech, Rickover describes the management (“leadership wasn’t the in-fashion word at the time) style he used in building the first nuclear submarine. Clarke summarizes the Rickover’s points as follows:\nPeople, not organizations or management systems, get things done. Management is hard work. Subordinates must be given authority and responsibility early in their careers. Get rid of formal job descriptions and organizational charts. Define responsibilities, but define them in a general way so that people are not circumscribed. Complex jobs cannot be accomplished effectively with transients. Short rotations ensure inexperience and non-accountability. Don’t downplay problems to save face. Flatten management structures, but empower the remaining managers and hold them responsible. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates. Develop simple and direct means for finding out what subordinates are doing and what the status of projects is. Don’t let your inbox set your priorities. Unimportant but interesting trivia pass through every day. Check all work through independent and impartial review. In engineering and manufacturing, industry spends large sums on quality control but the concept of impartial reviews and oversight is important in other areas also. Important issues should be presented in writing. Nothing sharpens the thought process like writing down one’s arguments. Those seem like pretty good goals to me. I bet they reduce turnover too.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/10/management-leadership-and-information-technology/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, I participated in a six month program to train leaders in information technology. I learned a fair amount, perhaps enough to be disillusioned, and ever since the program, I can’t help but look at organizations in terms of their leadership. Case in point, the grapevine of ex-employees from my former workplace says that three employee resignations were announced last week. One person only gave one week notice. By my rough count, that’s about 20 people leaving since January – or approximately 8-10% of the work force. Ouch!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Management, leadership and information technology"},{"content":"Over vacation, I managed to convince K that we should get a new computer. Our old one was bought just after I started my last new job, so… February 2001? For most things, it worked pretty well: email, word processing and spreadsheets, etc were fine. It didn’t hurt that we were running Linux, so there was minimal pain for upgrading the OS (it originally came with Windows 98… can you imagine trying to run XP or god forbid Vista?). But given that it was reasonable for desktop use, it still had a few problems for some of the purposes I had. It was using USB 1.1, so a max of 12 Mb/s off to an external disk (instead of 480 Mb/s for USB 2). The hard drive was small and not mirrored, so if it died, we were in trouble. No DVD burner, only a 4x CDROM writer. Finally, you couldn’t do much photo editing because of the small amount of RAM and the slow speeds.\nOn Monday, I placed an order for a new computer. Nothing fancy, but still a significant improvement. Well, it showed up yesterday – 3 days later. Apparently Dell built it at their new Winston-Salem plant and between a quick build and a 3-5 day shipping that turned around over night, I got it much sooner than I hoped. Hrm, maybe the Dell incentives were worth my share of $250+ million dollars in taxes… probably not.\nSo far, the new machine is great. Mirrored 250 GB drives, fast DVD burner, 2 GB of RAM and actual USB 2. The last meant that while it took 6+ hours to write our old files to a temporary hard drive, it only took 10 minutes to write ’em to the new machine this morning. Progress!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/06/new-computer/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOver vacation, I managed to convince K that we should get a new computer. Our old one was bought just after I started my last new job, so… February 2001? For most things, it worked pretty well: email, word processing and spreadsheets, etc were fine. It didn’t hurt that we were running Linux, so there was minimal pain for upgrading the OS (it originally came with Windows 98… can you imagine trying to run XP or god forbid Vista?). But given that it was reasonable for desktop use, it still had a few problems for some of the purposes I had. It was using USB 1.1, so a max of 12 Mb/s off to an external disk (instead of 480 Mb/s for USB 2). The hard drive was small and not mirrored, so if it died, we were in trouble. No DVD burner, only a 4x CDROM writer. Finally, you couldn’t do much photo editing because of the small amount of RAM and the slow speeds.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"new computer"},{"content":"Testing, testing, is this thing on? “My fellow Americans. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes. Er, wait, sorry – wrong decade.\nSorry for the lack of posting for the past few weeks. K and I were out in Yellowstone and just got back last night (or was it this morning?). The advantage of Yellowstone is no news. No television, no computer, no phone. I suppose there was a newspaper, but we didn’t read it. So what’s been going on while we’ve been away? Has Clinton conceded yet? Have gas prices dropped yet? Is it still fashionable to conserve water in North Carolina? I guess I already know the answer about Clinton and gasoline. Since we’re on a well, I think water conservation is going to be a way of life for now on, so that doesn’t matter either.\nQuick recap of the trip, more later:\nSaturday night, we made it into Bozeman. The rental car company had given away our midsized care and wanted to put us in a mini-van. Lovely. After pitching a small fit, they told me to come back in the morning. We did that and they gave us a Prius – score! We wound up driving about 1300 miles over two weeks and the Prius must have saved us ~$200 over the car we had last year and maybe $300 over the mini-van. BTW – a Prius in the mountains is like a Prius in the city, but instead of stopping and starting you go up and down mountains. We were averaging over 57 mpg.\nIt was cold in Yellowstone. Really cold. The first few days we were there it snowed 15″. In fact, it had snowed so much recently that the cabin owners had to put us in a different cabin since the first was flooded (we’re not certain if the cabin flooded or the sceptic system, either way, those cabins didn’t open by the time we left – two weeks later).\nThe cold altered the timing of a lot of the animals in the park. Raptors (hawks, eagles and owls) were several weeks late in building their nests. There were more wolves and bears lower in the Lamar valley. The advantage of going to the same place at the same time of year is that you get a sense of that place. You know what’s normal, what’s abnormal. What belongs and what has changed. It lets us spot wildlife more quickly than the casual tourist, and in this case it helped us to know that this was an unusual year. Of course, K says that the reason you go back year over year is that it gets into your soul. I’m not too inclined to be metaphysical so you have my understanding of the advantages described above. If we are going to be metaphysical about it, I would say that the place does not get into your soul, instead, you leave a piece of your soul in the place and the only way to feel whole again is to go back to the place and find the missing part of your soul.\nThe first Thursday was our aniversary – 15 years if you can believe it. We couldn’t go out to dinner because none of the area restaurants were open for the season yet. Instead, we went out Friday which was the start of Memorial Day weekend and the official opening of the summer (did I mention it snowed/hailed almost every day we were there?) Yellowstone season.\nWe didn’t do too many hikes because of the weather. We did our first on that first Friday. When we got back to the cabin, it was empty with a note on the door saying that they had moved us to (yet another) cabin. Excuse me? I was really not happy with being moved, but you make the best of things. The new cabin was quieter and by the river. Unfortunately, it was also smaller, colder and less comfortable.\nWe continued with the occasional hiking and wildlife viewing (finally seeing and photographing the otter at Trout Lake). Saturday my Sony Reader stopped working. That hurt since I had only brought one other book and while the “Notes on the Constitutional Convention by Madison is interesting, it’s a bit rough as your only book for week. So we bought some books at Tower Falls and Mammoth – what can I say, I read a lot. As an addendum on the Reader issue, Borders book store (where I bought the reader) was great. I called ’em this afternoon and they said that they were happy to replace the Reader so long as I had the receipt. That just made my day – I can’t tell you how used to the Reader I’ve gotten in just the past month (minus the week it was broken).\nThe next week we goofed off for a bit. Thursday we went to look at a different cabin rented by some friends of ours in Cooke City (three miles up the road). Their cabin was gorgeous. They’ve just added a kitchen which makes it perfect. We’ll probably be reserving a spot next year. We also visited Dan who has been having a bit of a hard time this spring. All of the birds he wanted to photograph are either late or gone. He invited us on a hike to try to find a great grey owl in the area. We met at 5pm, drove to the site and must have hiked for two hours off trail through some beautiful meadows without seeing any more than pellets, whitewash and a single great grey feather – stupid bird. It was still a good time.\nFriday we watched the wolves for a bit (they had made two kills the night before with a grizzley taking one). We watched the few birds we knew of, including nesting sand-hill cranes, bald eagles and an osprey nest.\nSaturday, we took off for home, spent about 14 hours traveling, finally making it in an hour late. These days, I would call that a win.\nI’ll post some pictures later, but that was the trip in a nutshell. Now to readjust to the “real world.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/06/01/back-online/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTesting, testing, is this thing on? “My fellow Americans. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes. Er, wait, sorry – wrong decade.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSorry for the lack of posting for the past few weeks. K and I were out in Yellowstone and just got back last night (or was it this morning?). The advantage of Yellowstone is no news. No television, no computer, no phone. I suppose there was a newspaper, but we didn’t read it. So what’s been going on while we’ve been away? Has Clinton conceded yet? Have gas prices dropped yet? Is it still fashionable to conserve water in North Carolina? I guess I already know the answer about Clinton and gasoline. Since we’re on a well, I think water conservation is going to be a way of life for now on, so that doesn’t matter either.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Back online"},{"content":"Vice cop tells story in first person (think Mike Hammer), something of a diary interspesed with dialog\nTalks about guy getting busted for bringing in a bag of grass seed from south america\ngenetics labs are small and cheap\ncriminal south american geneticists work to increase strength and potency of grass\nbusts the guy in the airport. sends to jail. sends seeds off to lab for testing\nmentally talks about how grass has gotten stronger. destroys whole neighborhoods. ruins the lives of mothers, fathers and children. people become slave to the grass.\ngets report back. gets cigar - virginia tabacco laced w/ marijuana and a scotch. reads the report - genetically modified fescue. \u0026ldquo;never will understand the criminal element. always after the perfect grass. unfortunately, it takes over and destroys neighborhoods and ecosystems.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/notes-for-a-short-story/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eVice cop tells story in first person (think Mike Hammer), something of a diary interspesed with dialog\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTalks about guy getting busted for bringing in a bag of grass seed from south america\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003egenetics labs are small and cheap\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecriminal south american geneticists work to increase strength and potency of grass\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ebusts the guy in the airport. sends to jail. sends seeds off to lab for testing\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ementally talks about how grass has gotten stronger. destroys whole neighborhoods. ruins the lives of mothers, fathers and children. people become slave to the grass.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Notes for a short story"},{"content":"I’ve had the Sony Reader now for about a week. In that time, I’ve taken it on a plane trip, read three full books, multiple days worth of the NY Times and I’m in the middle of two books right now. Observations so far:\nThe electronic paper is very readable. On my plane trip, I must have read for several hours straight with no more eye strain than if I had been reading a paper book. The legibility is good regardless of font size. You might still want to increase the font size if your eyes are tired, but otherwise, there is no need. The menus and button layouts are pretty reasonable. You can page forward or back. There’s a up-down-left-right cursor that is used to move around on a page. Using the number buttons on the right, you can jump to an arbitrary page in the book. These buttons double as a quick jump to a menu item on the Reader’s standard menus. One gripe, you can only move to different links using up/down on the cursor, left/right don’t do anything. At GB, paideka mentioned that it would be interesting to see what Apple did with the layout and look and feel of a reader. Agreed Battery life appears to be as advertised: 7,500 page turns per charge. Keep in mind that a page on the reader contains only about half the content of a standard paper back (depending on page layout and font size). Still, around 3,500 pages of paper back text is still pretty good. Updating the screen is slow. It takes about .5 – .75 seconds to update the screen. A few ramifications: 1) this is almost un-noticeable while reading text; and 2) using the cursor keys is painful, you deal with the update time for each cursor pressed – where ever possible I use the numeric shortcuts. A third ramification of the slow update time is that the Reader, and almost certainly any other reader using this generation of e-paper, is unusable as a reference book. When I use a reference book, I flip around quite a bit. Forward to the index, back to the text, forward many pages to the next topic, etc. I suppose if the reference book had a really good index, it might be better, but for the most part, this is still not a good tool for referencing which is a real shame. The bookmarking system is good. Each book keeps your place in the book. The top level of the reader keeps up with the last book you’ve read and your place in that book. You can set any number of bookmarks in each book and then access the bookmarks on a global or a per book basis. It would be nice if the reader also kept a list of most recently read, rather than just the single most recently read book; but that’s a small issue. Typically, I’ll just set a bookmark when I pause in reading, then delete it when I pick the book back up. PDF conversion still leaves something to be desired. I’ve looked into this a bit. The converter I’m using converts PDF -\u0026gt; HTML -\u0026gt; LRF. The PDF -\u0026gt; HTML conversion uses pdftohtml (surprised?) which is good in some ways, but still leaves off certain things (like images!), at least as used by the reader’s converter. Part of this is due to conceptual differences between PDF and HTML. HTML marks up text, flagging paragraphs, noting images, etc. Ideally, all of this is passed to the browser which handles the layout. PDF will have none of that. PDF consists of a set of primitives that indicate what text (in which font and size) should go in which location on the page. There is no markup of paragraphs, instead, each line of text is described individually. There is no easy way to reconstruct paragraphs from a PDF file (as a research note, I wonder if you could use a partially observable markov decision process?). That said, minus the missing images, the LRF result is definitely readable. So overall, I’m pretty happy with the reader. The biggest issue is the refresh time on the electronic paper and I hope that will improve over the next couple of years.\np.s. If you’re curious, so far I’ve read: Free for All (a history of open source), The Authoritarians (a sociologist’s take on a personality type and how it affects politics) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (which I haven’t read in over 20 years). I’m currently reading Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ and Bruce Sterling’s Hacker Crackdown.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/05/06/e-book-blogging/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’ve had the Sony Reader now for about a week. In that time, I’ve taken it on a plane trip, read three full books, multiple days worth of the NY Times and I’m in the middle of two books right now. Observations so far:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe electronic paper is very readable. On my plane trip, I must have read for several hours straight with no more eye strain than if I had been reading a paper book. The legibility is good regardless of font size. You might still want to increase the font size if your eyes are tired, but otherwise, there is no need.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe menus and button layouts are pretty reasonable. You can page forward or back. There’s a up-down-left-right cursor that is used to move around on a page. Using the number buttons on the right, you can jump to an arbitrary page in the book. These buttons double as a quick jump to a menu item on the Reader’s standard menus. One gripe, you can only move to different links using up/down on the cursor, left/right don’t do anything. At GB, paideka mentioned that it would be interesting to see what Apple did with the layout and look and feel of a reader. Agreed\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBattery life appears to be as advertised: 7,500 page turns per charge. Keep in mind that a page on the reader contains only about half the content of a standard paper back (depending on page layout and font size). Still, around 3,500 pages of paper back text is still pretty good.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpdating the screen is slow. It takes about .5 – .75 seconds to update the screen. A few ramifications: 1) this is almost un-noticeable while reading text; and 2) using the cursor keys is painful, you deal with the update time for each cursor pressed – where ever possible I use the numeric shortcuts.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA third ramification of the slow update time is that the Reader, and almost certainly any other reader using this generation of e-paper, is unusable as a reference book. When I use a reference book, I flip around quite a bit. Forward to the index, back to the text, forward many pages to the next topic, etc. I suppose if the reference book had a really good index, it might be better, but for the most part, this is still not a good tool for referencing which is a real shame.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe bookmarking system is good. Each book keeps your place in the book. The top level of the reader keeps up with the last book you’ve read and your place in that book. You can set any number of bookmarks in each book and then access the bookmarks on a global or a per book basis. It would be nice if the reader also kept a list of most recently read, rather than just the single most recently read book; but that’s a small issue. Typically, I’ll just set a bookmark when I pause in reading, then delete it when I pick the book back up.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePDF conversion still leaves something to be desired. I’ve looked into this a bit. The converter I’m using converts PDF -\u0026gt; HTML -\u0026gt; LRF. The PDF -\u0026gt; HTML conversion uses pdftohtml (surprised?) which is good in some ways, but still leaves off certain things (like images!), at least as used by the reader’s converter. Part of this is due to conceptual differences between PDF and HTML. HTML marks up text, flagging paragraphs, noting images, etc. Ideally, all of this is passed to the browser which handles the layout. PDF will have none of that. PDF consists of a set of primitives that indicate what text (in which font and size) should go in which location on the page. There is no markup of paragraphs, instead, each line of text is described individually. There is no easy way to reconstruct paragraphs from a PDF file (as a research note, I wonder if you could use a partially observable markov decision process?). That said, minus the missing images, the LRF result is definitely readable.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo overall, I’m pretty happy with the reader. The biggest issue is the refresh time on the electronic paper and I hope that will improve over the next couple of years.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"E-book blogging"},{"content":"About a year and a half ago (November 2006), the wildlife clinic K volunteers with transfered a water turtle (yellow bellied slider) to her. A cute little guy, just over 7 grams and about the size of a quarter. Yesterday, weighing in at 125 g and with a shell about 4 inches long, we released her into the nearby lake. It’s easy to fall for a lot of the animals K rehabs. Their cute and tiny or just plain helpless and on the mend, but the turtles are particularly hard because K keeps them for so long. The following are a handful of the pictures we’ve taken of the turtle:\nthe first 6 pictures were taken in August 2007 when she was about 16 grams the second 9 were taken in January 2008 when she was 25g and we were trying to tempt her into eating by giving her meal worms the next 6 were taken yesterday before the release – 125g and big enough to defend herself the last 3 were taken at the release in Jordan Lake Good luck little turtle\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/05/05/if-you-love-something-set-it-free/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAbout a year and a half ago (November 2006), the wildlife clinic K volunteers with transfered a water turtle (yellow bellied slider) to her. A cute little guy, just over 7 grams and about the size of a quarter. Yesterday, weighing in at 125 g and with a shell about 4 inches long, we released her into the nearby lake. It’s easy to fall for a lot of the animals K rehabs. Their cute and tiny or just plain helpless and on the mend, but the turtles are particularly hard because K keeps them for so long. The following are a handful of the pictures we’ve taken of the turtle:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"If you love something, set it free . . ."},{"content":"Yesterday, I bought a Sony Reader – the electronic book reader that uses E Ink’s electronic paper. The electronic paper display on the reader is very nice. It uses encapsulated white and black pigments that can be brought to the surface of the page. The only power consumption involved happens when you make a change. Once the change is made, it requires no power to keep the image. The upshot is that you’ve got a very long battery life, a decent contrast ration and a display that can be read in any light – in fact, the more the better since it’s reflective (like paper) rather than backlit (like a monitor). Moreover, because it’s not backlit, it’s easier on the eyes when reading for a long time. I read for a couple of hours last night and it was no different than reading a paper book.\nThe Sony Reader hasn’t gotten quite the notoriety of Amazon’s Kindle, even though they both have the same display and the Sony came out a month earlier. I suspect that’s because Amazon hyped the Kindle and after all, it was tied to the largest (or is it second largest?) book seller in the world.\nSo, why did I go with the Sony and not the Kindle? A handful of reasons:\nPrice – the Sony is $100 cheaper. I’m hoping that this isn’t the last version of electronic paper to come out and that things will continue to improve. That being the case, why should I spend the extra money. Linux use – okay, technically, the Kindle doesn’t require any computer to use it, but I suspect that I would want to attach it to a computer anyway. If for no other reason than to save the transfer cost for anything I send to the device that isn’t purchased from Amazon. Beyond that, libprs500 is very nice software. It handles file conversions, can download RSS feeds and convert them to the reader’s format, etc. Books – I almost certainly won’t buy electronic books for the reader. Not that it’s not a good device for reading, but I’ve got two concerns: 1) I don’t want the books I buy (or music for that matter) to be locked up by DRM software, things change quickly and I want my books to follow; and 2) the price point for electronic books isn’t right. Why would I pay the paperback price for an electronic version that has essentially 0 duplication and distribution costs? Instead, I’ll probably start piping the newspaper to the reader and will catch up on a lot of the content of Project Gutenberg that I’ve been meaning to read. Last night, I added about 100 books and short stories to the reader. I think that’ll be enough to keep me for a while. 🙂\nHappy reading\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/29/book-lover-nerd-ebook/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eYesterday, I bought a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=10151\u0026amp;mpe_id=1908904905\u0026amp;identifier=S_BrandShowcase_Reader\"\u003eSony Reader\u003c/a\u003e – the electronic book reader that uses E Ink’s electronic paper. The electronic paper display on the reader is very nice. It uses encapsulated white and black pigments that can be brought to the surface of the page. The only power consumption involved happens when you make a change. Once the change is made, it requires no power to keep the image. The upshot is that you’ve got a very long battery life, a decent contrast ration and a display that can be read in any light – in fact, the more the better since it’s reflective (like paper) rather than backlit (like a monitor). Moreover, because it’s not backlit, it’s easier on the eyes when reading for a long time. I read for a couple of hours last night and it was no different than reading a paper book.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Book lover + nerd = ebook"},{"content":"From etselec and because it amused me, my fortune as told by a random selection of my music with interpretive accompaniment by yours truly:\n1. How does the world see me? Lightnin’ Hopkins – No Education\nOuch. Apparently the world sees me as an academic poseur. I guess I can live with that, but it’s a bit rough to see.\n2. Will I have a happy life? R.E.M. – Exhuming McCarthy\nHrm. I guess this means that I will be persecuted for my perceived communism by a raving lunatic. I’m not a big fan of persecution, but I suppose that being harassed by an idiot like McCarthy might be fun for a while. Of course, the downside is that I’ll be professionally ruined.\n3. What do my friends really think of me? Barenaked Ladies – Just a Toy\nIs this fortune done yet? I’m guessing this suggests a clown. That’s very sad.\n4. Do people secretly lust after me? Steppenwolf – For Ladies Only\nI think I’m going to take that as a “yes and move on.\n5. How can I make myself happy? Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – All My Lovin\nI guess that means to stay married, but with a punk beat. I can do that.\n6. What should I do with my life? John Lee Hooker – I Cover the Waterfront\nIs this saying that I should go to sea? Maybe I can work with rdc at MOTE 🙂\n7. Why must life be so full of pain? The Pogues – Dirty Old Town\nI think this says that life is full of pain because of the breakdown of community and the social safety net. We all have it in our capability to make other people happier and we choose not to.\n8. How can I maximize my pleasure during sex? They Might Be Giants – Which Describes How You’re Feeling All the Time\nBahahaaa! In Chasing Amy, there was a discussion of “constant information during sex. I think we’ll go with that and move on.\n9. Will I ever have children? Men Without Hats – Intro: Eloise\nYes – and at least the first will be a girl named Eloise, poor girl.\n10. Will I die happy? XTC – Miniature Sun\nInterpreting this involves knowing a little family history or maybe it’s family legend – those things are hard to keep straight. Shortly after the Civil War, the Union wanted someone to retrieve a load of dynamite from Pennsylvania in the winter. Since dynamite is unstable at cold temperatures, it would take an idiot. Enter a some of my great-uncles (or maybe great-great-uncles) who managed to get themselves blown up in the attempt. I take this to mean that I too will die in a ball of fire. So, does that mean happy? Probably, after all, I am an engineer 🙂\n11. What is some good advice for me? Blues Traveler – Gotta Get Mean\nBoo. Hiss. I demand a new fortune that’s less cynical.\n12. What is happiness? Blues Traveler – Lost me there\nHa – that sounds about right. I’m really better with contentment than happiness and after all, I’m entering that time in my life when people are supposed to be less happy. Check back in 15 years or so and I’m supposed to be on the upswing of that one.\n13. What’s my favourite fetish? Steppenwolf – Don’t Step on the Grass, Sam\nOkay, so not a pot smoker. Never been a drug taker. If I had to guess, it’s a reference to the promotion of civil liberties which is something of a fetish for me.\n14. How will I be remembered? Squirrel Nut Zippers – Low Down Man\nOuch. And we end the fortune the same way we began it with – insults to my character. I think I need a better (or maybe worse) random song selector, or maybe better music.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/25/musical-fortune-telling/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ca href=\"http://etselec.livejournal.com/62783.html\"\u003eetselec\u003c/a\u003e and because it amused me, my fortune as told by a random selection of my music with interpretive accompaniment by yours truly:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e1. How does the world see me?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eLightnin’ Hopkins – No Education\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOuch. Apparently the world sees me as an academic poseur. I guess I can live with that, but it’s a bit rough to see.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e2. Will I have a happy life?\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eR.E.M. – Exhuming McCarthy\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Musical fortune telling"},{"content":"Oh, and an ironic follow-up to the republican filibuster of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: apparently, the senate unanimously voted for a bill barring genetic discrimination in hiring and insurance. I wonder if anyone’s told them that your gender is based on your genes. Not that I would accuse senate republicans of being misogynistic in their concern over discrimination. Well, okay, yes I would.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/24/genetic-discrimination/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOh, and an ironic \u003ca href=\"/2008/04/24/workplace-discrimination/\"\u003efollow-up\u003c/a\u003e to the republican filibuster of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: apparently, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-genes25apr25,1,3713979.story\"\u003esenate unanimously voted for a bill barring genetic discrimination\u003c/a\u003e in hiring and insurance. I wonder if anyone’s told them that your gender is based on your genes. Not that I would accuse senate republicans of being misogynistic in their concern over discrimination. Well, okay, yes I would.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Genetic discrimination"},{"content":"Yesterday, the U.S. Senate took up the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which the House had already passed. The act was pretty reasonable. It essentially clarified the 1964 civil rights act to say that if you are being discriminated in terms of salary equity, you have 180 days from the date of each paycheck to file a claim. So, essentially it defines the act of discrimination as occurring with each short changed paycheck and not just with the initial salary setting.\nThe case stems from Lilly Ledbetter who was a manager at Goodyear. She was paid significantly less than her male counterparts for the same job. Everyone agrees that she was discriminated against on the basis of her gender. She was awarded $3.5 million in back pay and punitive damages. Goodyear appealed and the supreme court ruled that congress had written the law so that you had to file suit within 180 days from the first discriminatory paycheck not the most recent. Ledbetter, who didn’t know her colleagues’ salaries until years later was SOL.\nThe bill seems pretty simple, clarify that the clock resets with each discriminatory paycheck. But unfortunately, that didn’t work for the republicans who filibustered it on Wednesday. It was pretty much a straight party line vote. Both of the democratic candidates for president voted for the bill, most of the republicans voted to uphold the filibuster. One exception, that mavericky maverick John McCain. McCain believes that women should be paid equitably, but doesn’t want to encourage lawsuits, so rather than take a stand and vote for or against the bill… he dodged and didn’t vote at all. Way to take a stand!\nThe republicans claim that they too want to see equal pay for equal work, but that they don’t want to encourage lawsuits. Well, guess what – that’s just tough. There are two ways to deal with corporate bad behavior: regulations (where the executive branch can fine a company) and the your-on-your-own approach of allowing lawsuits. For as long as I can remember, republicans have been campaigning against both of these means to rein in bad business behavior. They campaign against regulations (“they make our businesses less competitive) and they campaign to limit your ability to sue when they break the law (“tort reform to keep money out of the hands of trial lawyers!). So apparently it’s the official position of the republican party that companies should be able to do what they want and if you don’t like it, you can go to Canada.\nMy hope is that the democrats use the republican’s opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to beat the snot out of the republicans in the general election.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/24/workplace-discrimination/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eYesterday, the U.S. Senate took up the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which the House had already passed. The act was pretty reasonable. It essentially clarified the 1964 civil rights act to say that if you are being discriminated in terms of salary equity, you have 180 days from the date of each paycheck to file a claim. So, essentially it defines the act of discrimination as occurring with each short changed paycheck and not just with the initial salary setting.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Workplace discrimination"},{"content":"When it rains it pours. A month into spring and K hadn’t received any calls about rehabilitating animals until today when she got two. The first was about baby bunnies. K doesn’t take baby rabbits because too many of the stories end with “and then they died. For example, “I was rehabbing some bunnies in the spare room, the dogs barked, the rabbits got scared and then they died; or “I successfully rehabbed the bunnies, but they got stressed out while I was releasing them, they stroked out and then they died. You get the idea. The other call was for a litter of opossums whose mother had died. She took those.\nSince the new version of WordPress has a gallery feature, I thought I would take some pictures at the most recent feeding and see how the gallery worked.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/21/baby-opossum-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWhen it rains it pours. A month into spring and K hadn’t received any calls about rehabilitating animals until today when she got two. The first was about baby bunnies. K doesn’t take baby rabbits because too many of the stories end with “and then they died. For example, “I was rehabbing some bunnies in the spare room, the dogs barked, the rabbits got scared and then they died; or “I successfully rehabbed the bunnies, but they got stressed out while I was releasing them, they stroked out and then they died. You get the idea. The other call was for a litter of opossums whose mother had died. She took those.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Baby opossum pictures"},{"content":"Thanks to Luis, I find out last week that Tracks 1.5 has been released. Tracks is the implementation of the “getting things done methodology which I prefer. 1.5 is pretty nice. In particular, I look forward to hiding actions until a particular date. In the past, I’ve wanted to track a todo some six months in the future. I put it on the list and had to watch it for 180+ days.\nThe only trouble I had with the upgrade is that there’s some new SQL instructions in the code of the form “SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT foo)… That syntax was bombing on my ISP which was causing the AJAX updates to not happen properly. It turned out that the sqlite3 driver uses this syntax and the sqlite2 driver has a fallback syntax since count-distinct isn’t supported. Unfortunately, Dreamhost’s sqlite3 is about three years old and also doesn’t support count-distinct. The solution was easy enough – copy the sqlite2 driver’s syntax into the sqlite3 driver. Once that was done, everything worked great.\nI suppose a better solution would be to get Dreamhost to upgrade sqlite, but somehow that seems like more effort.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/12/tracks-15/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/03/30/tracks-15-released/\"\u003eThanks to Luis\u003c/a\u003e, I find out last week that Tracks 1.5 has been released. Tracks is the implementation of the “getting things done methodology which I prefer. 1.5 is pretty nice. In particular, I look forward to hiding actions until a particular date. In the past, I’ve wanted to track a todo some six months in the future. I put it on the list and had to watch it for 180+ days.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"tracks 1.5"},{"content":"One advantage of being in IT is that you often at least hear of cool things before other people do. You may or may not choose to adopt them, but at least you’ve got a choice. Thanks to Mr. Icon, I got an early gmail account, firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Great, unfortunately, I don’t have an uncommon name. Starting about a year ago, I began receiving email for a moderately important newsman. Last week, for a pastor in Michigan. In both cases, people apparently know the person has a gmail account, but they can’t remember the permutation of the person’s name. I always let the sender know that they’ve got the wrong person, but now I’m starting to think that either: a) I need to create a disambiguation auto-response that goes out if I’ve never seen your email address before; or b) we should just give up and form our own knockoff of the Village People. We’ve got an engineer, a newsman and a minister. Now we just need a fireman and a cowboy. Any volunteers?\nSo far, the email to the pastor is from just one person. A woman, about my age who seems to work at the church. Even though I’ve let her know that she’s got the wrong person, I’m still getting emails from her. They aren’t personal, they seem to be generic inspirational messages, perhaps sent out one email at a time to a distribution list. The one I received Friday took me back to junior high church youth groups with it’s pop religious sentiment and included the following story:\nA man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.\nAs the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.\nThey talked about so many things and various subjects.\nWhen they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:\n“I don’t believe that God exists.\n“Why do you say that? asked the customer.\n“Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist. Well me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?\nIf God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.\nThe customer thought for a moment, but didn’t respond because he didn’t want to start an argument.\nThe barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.\nJust after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.\nHe looked dirty and unkept. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:\n“You know what? Barbers do not exist.\n“How can you say that? asked the surprised barber. “I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!\n“No! the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don’t exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.\n“Ah, but barbers DO exist! That’s what happens when people do not come to me.\n“Exactly! affirmed the customer. “That’s the point! God, too, DOES exist! That’s what happens when people do not go to Him and don’t look to Him for help.\nThat’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.\nNow, I don’t want to tar everyone with the same brush, but this is just silly. It’s the kind of argument that you would fool a 5 year old with. Normally, I would just ignore it, but it hits a bit of a nerve for me. The first part is the problem of evil, inelegantly expressed.\nThe problem of evil has interested me for about 20 years now. In fact, it has interested me since before I even knew what it was called. The typical formulation is how can an all knowing, all powerful and all good god allow evil to exist in the world (or more harshly, how could evil exist without having been created by god)? The fact that there is evil is proof that either god does not exist or that he is not all knowing, all powerful and all good – which essentially amounts to non-existence. There are several standard answers to the problem of evil, none of which are particularly convincing.\nOne answer is to suggest that the evil we perceive is not really evil at all, but is in fact a good that we can not perceive. This strikes me as a giant cop-out. It asks us to deny the evidence of our own minds as to the evil of some acts. Moreover, a plain reading of the Book of Job suggests that god did allow the devil to torment Job as a test. Job’s family and children were killed for no other reason than to see if Job would be true to god. That sounds more like some sort of bad, co-dependent relationship than a good deed in disguise.\nThe second answer is to suggest that a world without evil is impossible, even for an omnipotent god. This is also a cop-out in that it sets limits on the power of a being defined by his omnipotence.\nAnother answer was put forth by the Jesuits: evil is exists because of a) original sin; and b) free will. This is clever and at least has the advantage of not trying to suggest that there is no evil. There are some problems. Original sin is the sin committed by the first man and woman and pass on to all of their descendants. This bothers me in part because Adam and Eve are clearly allegorical and were not actual people. So in essence, eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and falling from grace is a metaphor for giving up the innocence of being an unthinking animal and becoming consciously aware of the world, our place in it and how we have a choice over our behaviors. As an allegory, it’s a good one. But it also means that original sin was not the sin of Adam and Eve as passed on to their descendants, but that original sin is a term given to the basic nature of mankind. As such, you can easily ask why did god create mankind with a sinful nature. The answer to that is typically free will. But that’s really no answer at all. Leave aside that I don’t think that free will can be proved to exist (another topic for another time), giving free will to a creature with a sinful nature ensures evil. Free will to a creature without a sinful nature would not guarantee evil.\nI could go on a lot more here, but suffice to say that the problem of evil is a rather interesting theological and philosophical question, so seeing it expressed in the first half of the email above interested me. And then I read the second half which is flat out demeaning to the brain god (or evolution) gave people. In particular:\nFirst, christians should be offended by the statement that there is pain and suffering in the world because people don’t go to god and look to him for help. There is an implication, but not a direct statement, that christians do not have pain and suffering and that if you went to god, nothing evil would happen to you. This is dangerously close to the doctrine of prosperity, which would be considered a heresy if christians concerned themselves with such things any more. Nowhere in the bible does it say that god materially helps people who believe in him. He may help them with acceptance, but then I suspect that belief in anything helps with acceptance so that’s not proof of god’s existance.\nSecond, the problem of evil is a theological problem because the postulated god is: a) all knowing, b) all powerful, c) all good, and d) the creator of everything. That evil exists is a direct challenge to the union of these attributes. In contrast, the author does not postulate the same attributes in her barber. I suppose you could do that. I suppose you could say that barbers are: a) all knowing, b) all powerful, c) entirely anal retentive when it comes to hair, and d) response for the grooming of creation. That being the case, an unkempt hippy (like myself?) would be a challenge to the existence of our super barber. So the author’s analogies are inexact and when corrected to allow for an omnipotent, anal-retentive barber, really don’t seem to help the god argument that much.\nFinally, the author of our story is making an argument by analogy which is bad logic. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some analogies. I tend to think in analogy. But it’s a bad practice to argue from analogy. In essence, the argument boils down to: you say that object A with attributes A1..An does not exist because of the evidence of X. But what if we said that object B with attributes B1..Bn does not exist because of the evidence of Y. We can see that object B exists. We can’t see object A, but because B exists, then A must exist. Nope. Logic doesn’t work that way.\nIt’s this kind of fuzzy thinking that used to drive me crazy when I was in those junior high church groups. I guess it still drives me a bit crazy or I wouldn’t have just spilled so many electrons over it. I don’t mean to suggest that everyone involved in religion is a muddled thinker. In fact, I know that is not the case. My one small request is that churches limit the sending of emails to those that can think logically. Probably too much to ask. Maybe I’ll just adjust my spam filters.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/12/the-problem-of-evil/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne advantage of being in IT is that you often at least hear of cool things before other people do. You may or may not choose to adopt them, but at least you’ve got a choice. Thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://blog.mricon.com/\"\u003eMr. Icon\u003c/a\u003e, I got an early gmail account, \u003ca href=\"mailto:firstname.lastname@gmail.com\"\u003efirstname.lastname@gmail.com\u003c/a\u003e. Great, unfortunately, I don’t have an uncommon name. Starting about a year ago, I began receiving email for a moderately important newsman. Last week, for a pastor in Michigan. In both cases, people apparently know the person has a gmail account, but they can’t remember the permutation of the person’s name. I always let the sender know that they’ve got the wrong person, but now I’m starting to think that either: a) I need to create a disambiguation auto-response that goes out if I’ve never seen your email address before; or b) we should just give up and form our own knockoff of the Village People. We’ve got an engineer, a newsman and a minister. Now we just need a fireman and a cowboy. Any volunteers?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The problem of evil"},{"content":"The CTO Project makes an interesting observation that faculty are a bit like some corporations. They feel obligated to use Web 2.0 technologies in order to engage student interest and actually make some token effort to be up to date. But that they only want these technologies if they can exert complete control.\nTrust me, I can relate. We’re currently contracting with a part of the government that wants to do something similar. They want to make use of the knowledge of a number of experts to produce an encyclopedia of a given technology. Of course, this has been dubbed the FOOpedia (where FOO is the technology).\nIn the first phase, they laid out an outline of the field. There were to be top level items that only they could edit, secondary items which would be owned by specific individuals and third level items which would be links to support documentation like powerpoint slides and papers. Control of the site was to be pretty restricted, but they did know that they wanted to use a wiki.\nKill me now.\nSo, in working with them for a bit, I think we’ve talked them out of the rigidly structured, top-down, hierarchical encyclopedia and have gotten them to embrace something a bit more organic. They’re still not comfortable with a completely open system. We’re looking at a model comparable to Scholarpedia or Citizendium where there’s a person responsible for each article and he or she will have the final editorial say over that topic. But at least we’re no longer trying to define all of the pages in advance. I’ll call it a win.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/11/web-20-and-trusting-the-users/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe CTO Project \u003ca href=\"http://ctoproject.com/?p=38\"\u003emakes an interesting observation\u003c/a\u003e that faculty are a bit like some corporations. They feel obligated to use Web 2.0 technologies in order to engage student interest and actually make some token effort to be up to date. But that they only want these technologies if they can exert complete control.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrust me, I can relate. We’re currently contracting with a part of the government that wants to do something similar. They want to make use of the knowledge of a number of experts to produce an encyclopedia of a given technology. Of course, this has been dubbed the FOOpedia (where FOO is the technology).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Web 2.0 and trusting the users"},{"content":"For as long as I can remember, any time I spent more than an hour or so walking (or hiking), my legs and feet have felt sore and tired. Never having been very athletic, I assumed that I was out of shape or needed to exercise more. But even with as much exercise as I’ve been getting recently, I’ve still have still had the same problem. I’ve tried various inserts and shoes for people who over pronate, but not much seemed to help. So finally, I went to see the podiatrist.\nI’m not certain whether or not I should be relieved. It seems that it’s not all in my head, these aren’t normal pains, I don’t need to lose weight (well, at least not because of my feet), and I’m not just out of shape. My feet really are screwed up.\nAt first the doctor wasn’t quite certain if the root cause was developmental or genetic, but essentially, I’ve got weak feet (arches, foot muscles, etc.) and an exceptionally strong calf muscles. The weak feet cause me to walk in a way that builds up the strength of my calves and the strong calves pull the foot in such a way as to keep it from building up it’s own strength. He asked if I’m a fast runner. Not that I run much any more, but when I did, I was more of a sprinter. Even as a non-athlete, I was still the second fastest person in junior high.\nAfter looking at the x-rays, the doctor found that apparently the bones in my ankle are part of the original problem. They don’t let the foot tilt up enough at the ankle and so the foot has to splay out. Before he saw that, he was thinking that surgery might solve the problem – essentially cut the tendons in the ankle so that they lengthened and were weakened. But seeing the x-ray made him realize that this would not work unless he also reshaped the bone. I’m just as happy not to be a good surgical candidate. A year to completely heal was a bit much.\nThe best solution may be to have some orthotics made that will hold the foot in the proper position and to buy shoes with an extra half to a whole inch of heel. The extra heel allows the calf to rest in its shorter position even while walking so that it won’t get tired so quickly. The doctor suggested cowboy boots. I’m not certain if I’m up for that, but we’ll find something that’ll work. Hey, now I have an excuse to wear lifts in my shoes and look taller! 🙂\nAn interesting conclusion to the day was when I spoke to my mother who said that my father seems to have the exact same problems. His feet splay out. Moreover, he used to run track in school. Not long distance – his feet/calves got too tired for that. Instead he ran sprints. Finally, my father has been wearing cowboy boots pretty exclusively for the past few years. My mother says that this is because he finds them more comfortable than other shoes, including what people traditionally think of as comfort shoes: sandals. I guess the morale is that if you already have your father’s physical build, don’t be surprised if you inherited his feet too.\nNow hopefully, I’ll be able to get some proper orthotics made before our next hiking trip!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/10/the-foolish-man-seeks-happiness-in-the-distance-the-wise-grows-it-under-his-feet/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor as long as I can remember, any time I spent more than an hour or so walking (or hiking), my legs and feet have felt sore and tired. Never having been very athletic, I assumed that I was out of shape or needed to exercise more. But even with as much exercise as I’ve been getting recently, I’ve still have still had the same problem. I’ve tried various inserts and shoes for people who over pronate, but not much seemed to help. So finally, I went to see the podiatrist.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."},{"content":"The roofers finally finished our new roof last week. They started on February 28th and finished on April 2nd – five weeks. I’m pretty certain they only expected it to take about three weeks, but between the rain and the level of detail on the roof, it didn’t quite work out that way. Everything seemed to take longer than expected. On the bright side, all of you in central North Carolina owe us for the rain. I’m convinced that March would not have been so rainy except for our roof. For example, the first major rains came right after they pulled off the old shingles; and the rains last Monday and Tuesday postponed the completion. Coincidence? I don’t think so. You might say I’m falling victim to the logical fallacy, post hoc, ergo propter hoc. I say, screw that, I’m still taking credit for the rain.\nThe roof itself looks great. They did a wonderful job. The hardest thing to adjust to is the color. We wanted something green. Dark green would have been better. But as we started looking at the options in metal roofing, we realized that the lighter colors were more energy efficient. The only color (as opposed to shades of white) that was both energy star and NC-LEED rated was the “aged copper. It’s a bit brighter than I would have preferred, but that extra reflectance should make the upstairs more comfortable and easier to cool.\nPictures:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/04/08/new-roof/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe roofers finally finished our new roof last week. They started on February 28th and finished on April 2nd – five weeks. I’m pretty certain they only expected it to take about three weeks, but between the rain and the level of detail on the roof, it didn’t quite work out that way. Everything seemed to take longer than expected. On the bright side, all of you in central North Carolina owe us for the rain. I’m convinced that March would not have been so rainy except for our roof. For example, the first major rains came right after they pulled off the old shingles; and the rains last Monday and Tuesday postponed the completion. Coincidence? I don’t think so. You might say I’m falling victim to the logical fallacy, \u003cem\u003epost hoc, ergo propter hoc\u003c/em\u003e. I say, screw that, I’m still taking credit for the rain.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New roof"},{"content":"A few years ago, I was accused of using the word “interesting in subtle ways. Sometimes it means a truly novel idea that I would like to learn more about, other times, it’s a novel idea of which I’m more than a little skeptical. In both cases, I stand by the description, to me, both are interesting – but it can make it a little hard to know what I’m really thinking. So take it with a grain of salt that I just read an interesting article in the February 2008 issue of IEEE Computer on how to turn music lovers (particularly teenagers) into music distributors.\nThe idea assumed a secure hardware architecture using digital certificates (for an idea of how this might work, read the novel “Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge). Customers would buy music directly from the industry and would have the option of buying redistribution rights (at say a 10% discount). The authors imagined that in addition to buying the song for personal use, customers could buy a 10 pack of redistribution licenses for maybe $8.99. This 10 pack could be resold either as an end user license or a redistribution license so that the customer’s customer could resell it too. Unsold licenses could be returned to the industry distributor for credit.\nHaving dealt with Microsoft Windows Server licensing at the office, I’m a little skeptical that any end user would want to get involved in such a scheme. But then again, the office is paying MS, so what do I know. The biggest problem that I see with the redistribution scheme is that customers have to pre-purchase redistribution licenses without knowing whether or not they could be resold. Here’s my suggestion (perhaps I should get it published in IEEE Computer 🙂 ), the redistribution should be in an Amway style. For example, person A purchases the song for full price (say $0.99). Person A can give a copy of the song to a friend, Person B, who can play the song for only a limited number of times. If they want to keep it, B does not go and buy it from the original retailer, they activate it instead. They pay the retailer the full amount ($0.99), but person A receives 10% maybe in credit, maybe in an account that pays out on occasion. If Person B distributes to Person C, then both A and B get paid (A gets less than B being one removed).\nThe industry would go along with this due to the significantly reduced bandwidth costs for distribution. Users (might) go along with it because it’s a more natural distribution method and there’s a direct payment with low effort ovehead.\nDon’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating this, I’m not a huge Digital Rights Management (DRM) fan – too much potential to restrict fair use; however, it does seem like a more natural approach to turning consumers into distributors.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/03/28/digital-amway/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, I was accused of using the word “interesting in subtle ways. Sometimes it means a truly novel idea that I would like to learn more about, other times, it’s a novel idea of which I’m more than a little skeptical. In both cases, I stand by the description, to me, both are interesting – but it can make it a little hard to know what I’m really thinking. So take it with a grain of salt that I just read an interesting article in the February 2008 issue of IEEE Computer on how to turn music lovers (particularly teenagers) into music distributors.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Digital Amway"},{"content":"It’s apparently “beat up the economists week and no one thought to tell me in advance. Over at Crooked Timber, Daniel Davies posts about Greg Mankiw’s recent NY Times editorial and suggests that the reason economists are so patronizing is bitterness over being stuck in a low paying academic job whose sole purpose is to justify the inequities in a capitalist system.\nIn Scientific American, we have Rober Nadeau’s editorial on the problems with the views of economists. Nadeau notes that economics is a social science that tried to pattern itself after physics. Unfortunately, a) it used 19th century physics and never updated itself as the physics changed; and b) economists never realized that they can’t treat people as elemental particles. Nadeau goes on to note some of the basic assumptions made in economics that don’t stand up.\nIn the interests of piling on, I’ll say that I agree with Nadeau, but think that he doesn’t go far enough. Social sciences are extremely valuable and in a certain sense are much more difficult than the so-called hard sciences like physics and chemistry. People don’t behave the same way, you can’t always re-run an experiment, etc., etc. However, in the academic world, the hard sciences have been able to claim greater status because they are more rigorous and because, in essence, they are simpler. So it’s not surprising that economists would want to claim the status of hard, reductionist, sciences. However, it’s worse than that. We expect physicists to explain the world. We expect economists to make predictions and tell us how to fix things. We’ve taken them out of the role of reductionist explainers and put them into the role of designers.\nIn other words, economists are social scientists with physics envy who are called upon to do the work of engineers. It’s amazing the economy isn’t in worse shape than it is. 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/03/22/beat-up-the-economists/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s apparently “beat up the economists week and no one thought to tell me in advance. Over at Crooked Timber, \u003ca href=\"http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/\"\u003eDaniel Davies\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"http://crookedtimber.org/2008/03/20/thank-you-mr-mankiw/\"\u003eposts about Greg Mankiw’s recent NY Times editorial\u003c/a\u003e and suggests that the reason economists are so patronizing is bitterness over being stuck in a low paying academic job whose sole purpose is to justify the inequities in a capitalist system.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Scientific American, we have Rober Nadeau’s editorial on the problems with the views of economists. Nadeau notes that economics is a social science that tried to pattern itself after physics. Unfortunately, a) it used 19th century physics and never updated itself as the physics changed; and b) economists never realized that they can’t treat people as elemental particles. Nadeau goes on to note some of the basic assumptions made in economics that don’t stand up.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Beat up the economists"},{"content":"We’ve got voice over IP phones at the office. For the most part, they are a very smart way to handle our communications. We’re too large to want to use individual analog lines through the local telephone company – their rates would be prohibitively expensive. We’re too small to make a private branch exchange (PBX) worthwhile. So sending our voice data over the internet is a good approach. When the phones work, the sound quality is excellent, the cost is relatively inexpensive and the system is fairly reliable. Unfortunately, when the phones don’t work the challenges begin.\nThe biggest problems with the VoIP system is that the people that sell them, the same company that supports them, don’t really understand them. Two recent examples of this:\nAll of the telephones connect to a regular networking switch. Yesterday, that switch (which we own) died. No lights, no power, no fan. It went to silicon heaven (where all the calculators go). Okay, no problem. I call our technical support folks and they find us a spare switch – a Cisco Catalyst 2924 which must be about 12 years old now. The tech brings it out, he and I rack mount it and move all the phones over. Most, but not all, of the phones refuse to work. The only phones that seem to work are those which were somewhat isolated from the original switch and didn’t notice it change. All of the other phones failed to get their software from the network and just sat there trying to connect.\nI tested my laptop in the switch. That worked just fine. So I punted and called the company that supports sells the phones. I explained the problems, explained that my laptop worked, etc. They had me take a phone and bypass the switch (arguably something I should have done myself) and when that worked, they said it was a switch problem and I should try a new switch. Odd, since my laptop worked, but okay.\nI called the other guy in the office who knows something about the phones, he was in Orlando for a conference, and he had seen a similar problem on another “smart switch. So we figured we should buy a dumb switch – maybe a netgear unmanaged switch that’s similar to the little 5 port version we had been testing with earlier. Before I did that, I borrowed the same smart switch we had tried before. Sure enough, it also didn’t work. Fortunately, unlike the Cisco, I could get at the management interface without a dumb terminal.\nIt occurred to me that maybe the problem was that we weren’t passing phone traffic because the phones were on a VLAN. I got into the interface, turned on the right VLAN on all of the ports and sure enough, phones plugged into the switch worked. Woo hoo! We were back online. Of course, after the fact, I was annoyed that our provider just said “switch problem without actually suggesting what it could be. If I had purchased a new switch and it still didn’t work, I’m not certain what they would have said. It’s like they don’t know how their own products work.\nThe second example of this has been ongoing for several months. On a call, you occasionally lose parts of what the other person is saying. Random half second parts of the conversation are completely lost. The other person can always hear what you are saying – no trouble there. It’s only a problem for voice traffic you are receiving.\nThe provider has been worse than no help on this one. They first tried blaming it on our using a lot of data. Well, sure, but we’ve got the quality of service QoS router they required – it limits the bandwidth for data to ensure that you’ve got enough for voice. So they tried lowering the absolute limit on data from just giving priority to voice to 2.5 Mb/s for data (out of the total of 3). That didn’t help. So then, without telling us, they lowered it to 2 Mb/s. Still didn’t help. Essentially, our provider can’t understand why the QoS router wasn’t working to prevent the voice loss.\nSo we started thinking about it and doing some testing. I spoke to a friend that does networking and he reminded me that the bottleneck for bandwidth is our 3 Mb/s connection to the internet. On our side of that we’ve got a gigabit on the internet side, the ISP’s router probably has gigabits. Moreover, our QoS router can only limit our *outbound* traffic with any certainty. It can *try* to limit inbound traffic by dropping packets and hoping that TCP/IP will negotiate the speed downward. But that negotiation takes time and is only good for 1 connection. What we really needed, according to my friend, was QoS on the ISP’s router in order to limit inbound traffic on our 3 Mb/s bottleneck. So we tried a few things. We tried saturating the inbound line, and sure enough, the voice got terrible. We monitored inbound traffic and saw that poor voice correlated to high inbound traffic and that the inbound traffic definitely “burst over the QoS limits. Then we tried the same things for outbound. Sure enough, for outbound traffic, the QoS router did exactly as it should. Even when we were uploading huge amounts of data, the QoS router ensured that we had enough available for voice.\nWe contacted the provider about QoS on the upstream router we’re connected to (since this would solve the problems). Unfortunately, the ISP won’t turn on QoS. Our VoIP provider suggested that we add a 3rd T1 to our data connection bringing out total bandwidth up to 4.5 Mb/s and that this would help. WRONG. The internet, heck CNN, is fully capable of saturating our link, be it 3 Mb/s or 4.5 Mb/s. What we need is a 3rd T1 that is dedicated to voice only. Our VoIP provider didn’t (and doesn’t) seem to understand this, and they’ve made it difficult to order, but we finally got through to them and it should be installed in a few weeks. At that time, we’ll finally have a pretty good, reasonably priced, phone service. Even if the provider doesn’t understand QoS, VLANs or for that matter VoIP and VoIP management. Why are we paying these guys again?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/03/19/pros-and-cons-of-voip/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWe’ve got voice over IP phones at the office. For the most part, they are a very smart way to handle our communications. We’re too large to want to use individual analog lines through the local telephone company – their rates would be prohibitively expensive. We’re too small to make a private branch exchange (PBX) worthwhile. So sending our voice data over the internet is a good approach. When the phones work, the sound quality is excellent, the cost is relatively inexpensive and the system is fairly reliable. Unfortunately, when the phones don’t work the challenges begin.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pros and Cons of VoIP"},{"content":"As mentioned last month, the North Carolina Utilities Commission has banned the expansion of Progress Energy’s Balanced Billing Plan and Duke Power’s Fixed Payment Plan. These are the plans that charge you roughly 11% in order to have a guaranteed power bill. Unfortunately, it’s not a full ban, it’s just a prohibition against enrolling any new participants. The reason for the ban? [drum roll please] The plans encourage participants to increase their power consumption.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/03/16/power-company-balanced-bill-plans-banned/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs \u003ca href=\"/2008/02/23/power-companies-update/\"\u003ementioned last month\u003c/a\u003e, the North Carolina Utilities Commission has \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1000991.html\"\u003ebanned the expansion\u003c/a\u003e of Progress Energy’s Balanced Billing Plan and Duke Power’s Fixed Payment Plan. These are the plans that charge you roughly 11% in order to have a guaranteed power bill. Unfortunately, it’s not a full ban, it’s just a prohibition against enrolling any new participants. The reason for the ban? [drum roll please] The plans encourage participants to increase their power consumption.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Power company balanced bill plans - banned"},{"content":"Last week I was having lunch with a colleague (of sorts) and we were on the topic of the economy, outsourcing of jobs, etc. I mentioned that we were living in, what I’ve taken to calling, a crappy low-rent future *. He pointed out, and I agree, that this is largely because corporations have broken the social contract. It turns out he had been reading Robert Reich’s “Super Capitalism while I had been reading “The Global Class War. In their own ways, each of these books tells the story of how corporations from the end of the WWII with the New Deal until the late 1970s were bound by something of a social contract. Corporations recognized that their customer base was their employee base and that while you might not want to pay your employees, not doing so would spiral out of control so that your own customers couldn’t afford your products. Corporations began to slip the social contract in the late 70s with the Regan Revolution. The trend continued in the 80s and 90s as companies began to achieve transnational status: i.e., their customer base and their employee base were no longer the same. NAFTA and the follow-up “free trade agreements accelerated this trend by allowing companies to shift labor and production to the places where it was cheapest without actually requiring labor or environmental standards that would level the playing field.\nThese “free trade agreements began a great race to the bottom. The factory farms of the U.S. put hundreds of thousands of Mexican farmers out of business. Seeking work, these former farmers immigrated to the U.S. to work our farms and to clean our hotels and build our houses. The glut of relatively cheap labor, accompanied by a disgraceful minimum wage in the U.S., led to an increasing large number of people whom have dropped out of the work force. As an aside, don’t be fooled by the unemployment rate. There are two ways to decrease the unemployment rate, you can either increase the number of working people or you can decrease the size of the labor force. Over the past 7 or 8 years, we have not increased the number of working people, but we have decreased the size of the labor force. One simple rule of thumb: every month when the number of new jobs created is less than 150,000 or so (the increase in working age population times the current participation rate), the unemployment rate *should* get worse. If it doesn’t, it’s because more people have stopped participating in the work force.\nPeople often talk about democracy and capitalism as if they were one and the same thing. News flash – they aren’t. For some time, the Chinese have been interested in capitalism as a way to raise living standards in order to keep democracy out of their government. To date they’ve been pretty effective at it, using the tools of capitalism to build instruments of oppression (e.g., the Great Firewall of China). In the U.S., we’ve had both democracy and capitalism for so long that we don’t recognize the differences. However, the founders of the country did recognize the differences. The founders were concerned that naked capitalism would evolve into aristocracy which would kill a new democracy. At times, that prediction has almost come true. That was certainly the case in the first gilded age. Fortunately, FDR’s New Deal pushed back the growth of that aristocracy up until the late 70s. Now we are once again seeing the results of raw capitalism and its ability to direct the efforts of the government to its own end – away from its founding purposes (protecting the rights of citizens).\nWhat bothers me most about this crappy low-rent future is not just that things are worse for people that work for a living; it is the opportunity cost of spending the past three decades increasing corporate profit at the expense of investment in the future. Some of that investment would just have been growing wages at the same rate as corporate productivity, instead of rolling the productivity gains into corporate profits. If we had done that for the past 30 years, you would probably be earning more than twice your current salary. I believe that a true wage increase (instead of just keeping up with inflation) would allow people to think about other important issues such as the environment.\nIf we had spent the past 30 years focusing on the environment, in particular, developing alternative fuels and higher efficiency cars (or better yet, high efficiency, convenient public transportation), we wouldn’t be seeing the record high oil prices of today. Considering how little (relatively speaking) we’ve put to nuclear, solar and wind power, we have made a lot of progress. I was reading where some engineers have found a way to use ink jet printing technology to print solar cells. If we had been working on this for 30 years, solar power would be cheaper than coal/oil power generation. In just the past 5 years or so, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in the efficiency of wind turbines. They are able to produce power in lower wind conditions reducing the overall cost per kilowatt hour. I also don’t have a major problem with nuclear power, but having sat on our hands for 30 years, it is the Europeans who have all of the experience with it; but if we had spent time and money developing nuclear, we could have had a nice bridge from fossil fuels to renewables. And of course, what can you say about cars. After the oil embargo of the early 70s, we passed the CAFE standards and achieved their goals. But after the crisis passed, we stopped paying attention and as people began to drive trucks and SUVs as personal vehicles, we saw the average fuel economy in the U.S. drop. As an example, K is the original owner of an ’87 Volvo which gets about 25 mpg and I own a 2000 Toyota that gets about 32 mpg. I’ve seen new cars advertised that are less fuel efficient than either of our cars! We developed hybrid technologies in the late 90s and ten years later, there is minimal penetration into the broader car market and about half of the hybrids out there are using the technology to boost horsepower, not efficiency. There is no reason we couldn’t have cars today that get 100 mpg. No reason except that it hasn’t been a concern for the past 30 years.\nThe world has a limited supply of fossil fuels. We can argue about how large that supply is, but if you don’t think it’s limited, then you haven’t thought it through. That supply of fossil fuels was not all bad. We would have never achieved a technological base without it – it is easy and cheap power. However, we should have used that limited supply and the technological base we built from it to develop new technologies that are unlimited (or at least only limited by the life of the sun). We should have developed nuclear power and hybrid cars in the 70s and 80s as a bridge to completely renewable power and electric cars. But instead we’ve squandered much of the “gift of fossil fuels and in the process are pumping enough CO2 into the atmosphere to significantly alter the temperature of the planet.\nI don’t have much of a point here except to vent about being stuck in this crappy low-rent future. I don’t want flying cars, I want fuel efficient cars. I don’t want billionaires, I want everyone to have enough to eat. I don’t want global warming, I want renewable fuels. And I don’t want trade deals than protect corporate profits, I want trade deals that protect the environment. My guess is that it’s probably too late to avoid many of the problems we can see on the horizon. We’ve got billions of third-world peoples looking for a first-world lifestyle. We don’t have “clean technologies for them, so we’re going to have billions more people burning coal and oil, making the global warming problem even harder to deal with. The U.S. economy is up to its eyeballs in credit card and mortgage debt, in part due to the lack of wage increases for 30 years. We’re starting to see the effects of this in the mortgage meltdown and the upcoming (ongoing?) recession. I’m sure we’ll muddle through, but that’s about all it’ll be.\nIn short, welcome to your crappy low-rent future. **\\* I blatantly stole the term low-rent future from Shaenon Garrity who was complaining about spam and the “Stupid low-rent world of the future in her Narbonic director’s cut commentary.\n\\\\ I’ll try to post some later on possible solutions. For right now I just needed to vent about the problems we’ve caused for ourselves.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/03/10/welcome-to-your-crappy-low-rent-future/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast week I was having lunch with a colleague (of sorts) and we were on the topic of the economy, outsourcing of jobs, etc. I mentioned that we were living in, what I’ve taken to calling, a crappy low-rent future \u003ca href=\"#low-rent\"\u003e*\u003c/a\u003e. He pointed out, and I agree, that this is largely because corporations have broken the social contract. It turns out he had been reading Robert Reich’s “Super Capitalism while I had been reading “The Global Class War. In their own ways, each of these books tells the story of how corporations from the end of the WWII with the New Deal until the late 1970s were bound by something of a social contract. Corporations recognized that their customer base was their employee base and that while you might not want to pay your employees, not doing so would spiral out of control so that your own customers couldn’t afford your products. Corporations began to slip the social contract in the late 70s with the Regan Revolution. The trend continued in the 80s and 90s as companies began to achieve transnational status: i.e., their customer base and their employee base were no longer the same. NAFTA and the follow-up “free trade agreements accelerated this trend by allowing companies to shift labor and production to the places where it was cheapest without actually requiring labor or environmental standards that would level the playing field.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Welcome to your crappy low-rent future"},{"content":"Gee, nobody could have predicted this I suppose:\nThe FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.\nAdmittedly, Mueller goes on to say that the reports were prior to new policies being put into place, but somehow that doesn’t make me feel much better. It’s things like this that have always made me very nervous about partnerships between law enforcement and industry. I’ll try to post something about InfraGard one of these days. It’s a little scary in its own right.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/03/06/who-could-have-guessed/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eGee, \u003ca href=\"/2008/02/25/fisa-extension-and-telecom-amnesty/\"\u003enobody\u003c/a\u003e could have predicted \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/05/senate.fbi.ap/index.html?iref=werecommend\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e I suppose:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdmittedly, Mueller goes on to say that the reports were prior to new policies being put into place, but somehow that doesn’t make me feel much better. It’s things like this that have always made me very nervous about partnerships between law enforcement and industry. I’ll try to post something about InfraGard one of these days. It’s a little scary in its own right.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Who could have guessed?"},{"content":"For the most part, the old roof has been ripped off and we’re looking to start laying down the new roofing on Thursday.\nSeveral lessons learned so far in getting the roof replaced:\nall contractors have different prices, shop around drought is bad for roofers (and for that matter gravel driveway repair folks) having your roof torn off is LOUD. Between the guys tearing shingles off to the dogs barking like crazy, I had a splitting headache when I stayed home metal ridge vent covers from 20 years ago suck the leak we had in the den actually had its own pool of standing water under the ridge vent cover Looks like it’s going to rain tonight. Hopefully we won’t be learning the lesson about the maximum wind speed that roofing underlayment can take before blowing off.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/03/04/lessons-learned-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor the most part, the old roof has been ripped off and we’re looking to start laying down the new roofing on Thursday.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral lessons learned so far in getting the roof replaced:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eall contractors have different prices, shop around\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edrought is bad for roofers (and for that matter gravel driveway repair folks)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehaving your roof torn off is \u003cstrong\u003eLOUD.\u003c/strong\u003e Between the guys tearing shingles off to the dogs barking like crazy, I had a splitting headache when I stayed home\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emetal ridge vent covers from 20 years ago suck\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe leak we had in the den actually had its own pool of standing water under the ridge vent cover\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooks like it’s going to rain tonight. Hopefully we won’t be learning the lesson about the maximum wind speed that roofing underlayment can take before blowing off.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Lessons learned"},{"content":"We moved into our current house a little over four years ago (already?!). Over the past few years, we’ve found that the people who built it made some interesting choices. Some things were done very nicely and they cheaped out on other things. One of the places they cheaped out was the roof. It wasn’t bad enough to force them to replace it when we moved in, but we did have to get them to do some minor work. Since then I’ve had to go up there a few times a year and add some roofing tar or replace a vent boot. We’ve known that we’ll have to replace it some day for a couple of years now.\nWell, some day is finally here. I guess we could patch it for another few years, but with my vacation payout from the last job and our tax refund, we had the money to do the replacement now. Looking at the different options, we were really hoping to go with a standing seam metal roof. It’s much more energy efficient and will probably not need replacing for quite some time.\nWe got some quotes and found that the roofers in the area are struggling due to the drought and one was willing to give us a great price (~22% below their normal cost and almost 40% below their competitor’s). I told them on Tuesday that we accepted their bid. Their started tear off today. So far, so good. Hopefully, by late next week, they’ll be done and we’ll have an Energy Star compliant metal roof in “ aged copper. (note: I think the color is less blue and more green than what that link seems to indicate)\nI’ll post pictures later.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/28/roof-replacement/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWe moved into our current house a little over four years ago (already?!). Over the past few years, we’ve found that the people who built it made some interesting choices. Some things were done very nicely and they cheaped out on other things. One of the places they cheaped out was the roof. It wasn’t bad enough to force them to replace it when we moved in, but we did have to get them to do some minor work. Since then I’ve had to go up there a few times a year and add some roofing tar or replace a vent boot. We’ve known that we’ll have to replace it some day for a couple of years now.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Roof replacement"},{"content":"Few people have been on top of the extension of FISA like Glenn Greenwald. As a quick overview for folks that haven’t been paying attention to the issue:\nLate last year a real potential problem with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (as written in the 70s and amended after Sept 11) was recognized. Namely, communication between two foreign entities that was routed through the US was subject to the law’s requirements for a court order. This was never the intent of the law and largely crept in due to the routing of Internet traffic through major US networking hubs In addition to correcting this, the Whitehouse and the Republican congress pushed for a change to FISA that went beyond correcting the oversight and significantly extended the ability of the government to spy on citizens. Congress couldn’t pass this permanently, but did pass a six month bill before the August recess, in large part because of scare tactics used by the FBI (releasing warnings of predicted attacks in DC) Six months was up last week and the Whitehouse was pushing to: a) correct the known oversight, b) extend its ability to spy on US citizens without court order, and now they’ve added c) grant retro-active immunity to the telecommunications companies for illegally helping the government spy both before and after Sept 11th. And of course, if they don’t get all of this, we’ll die in our sleep, murdered by terrorists. The Senate caved and gave the Whitehouse everything it asked for. Surprisingly, the House didn’t and we’re now seeing extra pressure claiming that we’ll all die and it’ll be their fault. This is of course BS, but that’s the state of discourse in the country. I don’t have much to add on the spying per se, but I will admit to being particularly offended and disturbed by the telecom immunity issue. Essentially, these companies started helping law enforcement to monitor calls, read emails, etc. well before September 11th. Their actions were not scared or patriotic, they were largely motivated by greed.\nEven if this were not the case. Even if they only started cooperating after September 11th, there is no excuse for allowing extra-legal monitoring by law enforcement in violation of the 4th Amendment. While much of the monitoring may have been intended to track down terrorists, we know that tools of this nature are never used only for their intended purposes. They are always used by someone trying to get a little extra edge in a non-terrorist case or by a cop wanting to spy on a girlfriend.\nConsider the following. I was the IT Security Officer for the university back in 2001. When September 11th occurred, everyone wanted to be as cooperative as possible with law enforcement within the bounds of the law. Within the bounds of the law was an important caveat. Late September of 2001, I received a phone call from an individual who identified himself as being an agent with the FBI (note, none of this is confidential – there were a few times that I was asked/instructed to sign the equivalent of an NDA; for reasons that will become obvious, this was not one).\nThe agent asked me for some information pertaining to an investigation on which he was working. I asked him to slow down a bit because I needed to confirm that he actually was with the FBI (and not some random caller) and then I would need a court order for the information (because, hey, I don’t want to be sued, he wasn’t asserting that this was an emergency situation, and my failure to follow reasonable procedure meant it might be me personally being sued, not the university).\nThe agent then starts to get very defensive and plays the terrorist card. “This person could be a terrorist, and if you don’t help me, who knows what could happen? Taking things one step at a time, I asked for his FBI identification number. He wouldn’t give it to me. He did give me his name and a phone number I could reach him at. I called the FBI. After a couple of false starts, I was finally able to confirm his identity.\nIt turns out that he was sort-of an agent. Actually, he was an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Ostensibly, he was on loan from the ATF to the FBI in order to assist them in their cases. Instead, he was working on an ATF case and trying to use his newfound FBI authority and the tragedy of September 11th to get information that he could not normally obtain. If I remember correctly, the FBI told me not to call him back and that they would handle it internally.\nGranted that all of this occurred before these agencies were pulled into the Department of Homeland Security and the processes may be better. However, any time someone claims they need new powers to keep us safe from terrorists, I remember this incident and become a little more wary. If there is a demonstrated need for a new law enforcement power, then it should be discussed, weighed against civil rights and the constitution, voted on and enacted if passed. The sum total of the argument for the power should not be, “we need it or you will die!\np.s. C\u0026amp;L and Mark Fiore have produced a good/amusing video illustrating this tactic.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/25/fisa-extension-and-telecom-amnesty/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFew people have been on top of the extension of FISA like \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/23/mcconell/index.html\"\u003eGlenn Greenwald\u003c/a\u003e. As a quick overview for folks that haven’t been paying attention to the issue:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLate last year a real potential problem with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (as written in the 70s and amended after Sept 11) was recognized. Namely, communication between two foreign entities that was routed through the US was subject to the law’s requirements for a court order. This was never the intent of the law and largely crept in due to the routing of Internet traffic through major US networking hubs\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn addition to correcting this, the Whitehouse and the Republican congress pushed for a change to FISA that went beyond correcting the oversight and significantly extended the ability of the government to spy on citizens.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCongress couldn’t pass this permanently, but did pass a six month bill before the August recess, in large part because of scare tactics used by the FBI (releasing warnings of predicted attacks in DC)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix months was up last week and the Whitehouse was pushing to: a) correct the known oversight, b) extend its ability to spy on US citizens without court order, and now they’ve added c) grant retro-active immunity to the telecommunications companies for illegally helping the government spy both before and after Sept 11th. And of course, if they don’t get all of this, we’ll die in our sleep, murdered by terrorists.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Senate caved and gave the Whitehouse everything it asked for.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSurprisingly, the House didn’t and we’re now seeing extra pressure claiming that we’ll all die and it’ll be their fault. This is of course BS, but that’s the state of discourse in the country.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI don’t have much to add on the spying per se, but I will admit to being particularly offended and disturbed by the telecom immunity issue. Essentially, these companies started helping law enforcement to monitor calls, read emails, etc. well before September 11th. Their actions were not scared or patriotic, they were largely motivated by greed.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"FISA extension and telecom amnesty"},{"content":"Interesting. Shortly after posting about power companies, I received a comment from Progress Energy correcting me about the plans. It seems [pure speculation here] that Progress has some sort of “blog response team up in Maryland or northern Virginia. Anyway, I misnamed the program that I had been offered, as the comment says, it was indeed the “Balanced Bill payment plan where you wind up spending some 11% more over the course of the year for the privilege of knowing that your bill will be 1/12th of a fixed amount. There is (apparently) a different equal payment plan which is comparable to what we had with Duke Power. However, it’s not the money maker that the Balanced Bill program is and so it is not heavily advertised. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find details of the plan online. The closest I can get is here, which seems to be lacking in specifics.\nInterestingly, the News and Observer ran an article this morning about the Balanced Bill plans and how the state might ban them. Not for the surcharge – how you want to waste money is your own business, but as I noted, they create no incentive to save energy. From the article:\n“This is the kind of thing that creates a disincentive for saving electricity, said NC WARN Director Jim Warren. “This is the old utility business model: maximum sales of electricity and talking green to the public.\nThe Utilities Commission could rule on the dispute within 30 days. The commission approved the billing programs for both utilities as recently as 2004, but last year the regulators re-opened the case because of the concerns about energy waste. Critics said customers who pay a fixed bill regardless of usage have no incentive to turn out the lights, turn down the thermostat or otherwise conserve, because they pay the same price, regardless.\nThose critics appear to be right. According to data from the utilities, customers who enroll in the program show a jump in electricity use that can approach 10 percent over three years.\n10% in three years. Considering that the programs aren’t that old (started in 2002 and 2004 for Duke Power and Progress Energy respectively), that’s a huge increase that could potentially sustained for a longer period of time. It’s good for the power companies – after all, if you use more this year, then next year’s bill will reflect that. And if you use well beyond what they’ve budgeted for you, well, they can always cancel your participation in the plan.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/23/power-companies-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eInteresting. Shortly after \u003ca href=\"/2008/02/19/power-companies\"\u003eposting about power companies\u003c/a\u003e, I received a \u003ca href=\"/2008/02/19/power-companies/#comments\"\u003ecomment\u003c/a\u003e from Progress Energy correcting me about the plans. It seems [pure speculation here] that Progress has some sort of “blog response team up in Maryland or northern Virginia. Anyway, I misnamed the program that I had been offered, as the comment says, it was indeed the “Balanced Bill payment plan where you wind up spending some 11% more over the course of the year for the privilege of knowing that your bill will be 1/12th of a fixed amount. There is (apparently) a different equal payment plan which is comparable to what we had with Duke Power. However, it’s not the money maker that the Balanced Bill program is and so it is not heavily advertised. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find details of the plan online. The closest I can get is \u003ca href=\"https://secure.progress-energy.com/sid/custservice/carres/payment/epp/index.asp?relatedlink=3\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e, which seems to be lacking in specifics.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Power companies - update"},{"content":"It was a rough night to try to get any pictures of last night’s total lunar eclipse. For long durations of the evening, you couldn’t even see the moon for all of the cloud cover. I did manage to get a few pictures. Most of them were slightly blurred because of the long exposure time and the 900 mm of focal length. However, some came out quite nice. The general process I used was:\nset the camera to manual focus, auto focus will only screw you up here play with the exposure compensation to get different effects. best results on exposure were about +1.0, however, that meant an exposure time of twice as long set the camera on a two second delay (maybe should have used 5 seconds) to allow the camera shaking to die down after I hit the shutter release wait until there was a break in the clouds shoot Probably the best shot I obtained is the one below:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/21/lunar-eclipse/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt was a rough night to try to get any pictures of last night’s total lunar eclipse. For long durations of the evening, you couldn’t even see the moon for all of the cloud cover. I did manage to get a few pictures. Most of them were slightly blurred because of the long exposure time and the 900 mm of focal length. However, some came out quite nice. The general process I used was:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Total eclipse of the heart, um moon"},{"content":"When K and I got home today, we had not one, but two different offers from the local power company (Progress Energy) to enroll in their equal payment plan program. The first was a generic flier touting the benefits of having a consistent power bill. You sign up and based on your past two years of power consumption, they compute your monthly bill and that’s what you’ll pay all year long. They’ll recompute a new amount 12 months later. We had something like that with Duke Power in Durham. They computed your recent average. You paid that for 11 months and then settled up on the 12th month, paying less or more depending on actual use.\nWe had liked the Duke Power plan. It equalized payments. You could track whether you were on target to have a higher or lower 12th month bill. And you only paid for what you used because in that 12th month you settled up . With that experience we looked into the Progress Energy version. That second mailer from Progress contained our actual numbers if we wanted to sign up. Unfortunately, it told us that our average monthly usage was $X and that they proposed to enroll us in the equal payment plan program at (something like) 120% of X per month. The claim of course is that if our use increases by more than 20%, we’ll be insulated from the increases of yearly fluctuations, etc. Of course, there are no refunds if you use less. So essentially, we have no incentive to conserve power and we’re likely to lose money. Wow, where can I sign!\nOf course, it’s not all shiny green conservation at Duke power either. I was flipping through the N\u0026amp;O today and ran across an interesting Point-of-View letter from Jim Rogers (president and CEO of Duke Power). The POV letter was promoting their Save-a-Watt program as a cheaper, better alternative to renewable power sources – a program to promote power conservation. If you read the letter, you should quickly note that it’s missing one thing: details on the actual program.\nFortunately, the details aren’t hard to dig up. The proposed program would add $15 per year to every customer’s power bill. This fee would be used to promote energy conservation and provide discounts on energy efficient appliances. Interesting. It does have the down side that those too poor to afford new appliances are subsidizing those who can afford it, but I’ve heard of worse ideas. That said, it seems a bit counter intuitive that a power company would want to cut into their profits by encouraging conservation. Silly me. I haven’t described the other half of the plan. The company would then take the projected conservation amounts and would increase rates to cover 90% of what it would have cost to produce the amount of conserved energy. Their claim is that consumers are now saving 10%! Everyone’s happy, we don’t have to produce power from renewable sources and we can still claim that we are green!\nHuh?!\nIt’s a shell game. It’s the old riddle of “ where’s the missing dollar? It only sounds reasonable if someone’s throwing out numbers fast enough that you don’t add up what they mean.\nWhat Duke Power is proposing to do is to make a projection for energy consumption over the next N years without the program. Essentially, it’s a table that says in each year, the area will consume so much energy. Then each year thereafter, they look at how much energy was actually used. For every kilowatt-hour that isn’t used, their rates will increase so that they earn 90% of that missing kilowatt-hour. Save 100 kwhs – pay Duke Power for 90 kwhs.\nHrm, perhaps a more specific example is in order. Let’s assume that I run a small power company for my house. K is currently using 1 kw of power I produced through a RAIHW: redundant array of inexpensive hamster wheels. To produce my 1 kw of power, I’ve got 100 hamster wheels connected in a serial and parallel configuration. Assume that each hamster costs me $10 plus another $5 for food each year. So my infrastructure costs are $1000 in hamsters, plus another $500 in food each year. If we used 1 kw in 2007, I’m going to predict 10% year over year growth: 1.1 kw in 2008, 1.21 kw in 2009, 1.33 kw in 2010, etc.\nAssume that on top of the amortized infrastructure costs plus the operational costs plus profit (call it $800 per year), I charge K a $10 fee (I’ll use the money to encourage her to change out an incandescent for a florescent bulb). According to my projections, I need to increase capacity by 10% in 2008 – or 10 new hamsters. Assuming the infrastructure costs are amortized, we might expect our power costs to go up 10% ($80) to $880 per year.\nBut what if my projections are wrong? K only uses 1 kw in 2008. Well, as a producer, I’m happy. I don’t have to buy 10 new hamsters (saving $100) and I don’t have to feed any new hamsters (saving $50). But wait! I’m missing out. I’m not getting the profit on that 0.1 kw of power. Under the Duke plan, I’ll still get 90% of that money. Even though I have no additional expenses, K’s power bill will be $872 per year. I get $72 free and clear; and K “saves $8 per year because without my charging a $10 fee, she never would have replaced that incandescent bulb, so she would have used 1.1 kw. See, we’re conserving hamsters, K’s power bills increased less than I projected they would have, even though she used no more power. Everyone should be happy.\nDuke Power claims that this is their incentive to increase conservation through education and programs to help purchase more energy efficient appliances. Of course, it’s also an incentive to game the system and make unreasonably large growth projections. Even if you assume that doesn’t happen, it’s a great deal for Duke Power. The program is funded by a fee. You earn enormous profit margins off of energy that you aren’t producing. You get to claim that you are a supporter of energy conservation. And you get to tell the environmentalists that want you to build renewable (or in some cases nuclear) power plants to go to hell, while building CO2-intensive coal fired plants when needed.\nWhat’s not to love?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/19/power-companies/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWhen K and I got home today, we had not one, but two different offers from the local power company (Progress Energy) to enroll in their \u003ca href=\"http://www.progress-energy.com/custservice/carres/payment/epp/index.asp\"\u003eequal payment plan\u003c/a\u003e program. The first was a generic flier touting the benefits of having a consistent power bill. You sign up and based on your past two years of power consumption, they compute your monthly bill and that’s what you’ll pay all year long. They’ll recompute a new amount 12 months later. We had something like that with Duke Power in Durham. They computed your recent average. You paid that for 11 months and then settled up on the 12th month, paying less or more depending on actual use.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Power companies"},{"content":"One of the things I dislike about blogs (and actually most webpages) is that the static content is formatted very nicely using different fonts, etc., but the dynamic content is all pure text. And since there are only a few fonts you will find on every computer, the text all looks pretty much the same: sans or serif. On my own blog, I find that particularly annoying. I’ve got, what I think, is a nice clean looking theme that reminds me of a Victorian-era journal (except perhaps not that fancy). But all of the titles and dynamic content are plain text.\nTo fix this, I’ve been experimenting with the creation of a new WordPress plugin. It’s fairly simple as these things go, but could be pretty nice. Basically, it hooks into the_title and automatically replaces the text with an image of that text in a font you’ve selected and sets the ALT tag to be the original text (allowing it to degrade cleanly). Unfortunately, at least with my theme, this screws up a number of things. So now I’ve made the hook an option and your other choice is to modify the theme itself to call the plugin function where appropriate. I’ve started modifying my theme along those lines so that all of the titles are rendered in the (free) Renaissance font.\nSince the ALT tags are set properly, I don’t think that this will cause any problems. But if you can think of a good reason why this is dumb, please let me know.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/13/wordpress-title-plugin/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the things I dislike about blogs (and actually most webpages) is that the static content is formatted very nicely using different fonts, etc., but the dynamic content is all pure text. And since there are only a few fonts you will find on every computer, the text all looks pretty much the same: sans or serif. On my own blog, I find that particularly annoying. I’ve got, what I think, is a nice clean looking theme that reminds me of a Victorian-era journal (except perhaps not that fancy). But all of the titles and dynamic content are plain text.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Wordpress title plugin"},{"content":"About eight months ago, a gentleman with the same first and last name as mine started using gmail. Not a big deal except that the difference between our gmail addresses is fairly small and hard to notice. So every once in a while, I receive email intended for him and I’ll point that person in the right direction. Beyond that, my only real contact with him has been some minimal email communication, usually after I’ve pointed someone new his way.\nOver the weekend, he lost his daughter in an accident and I am surprised at how much it’s affected me. Here is this person that I barely know, we have nothing in common but a name and yet, I am genuinely saddened by his grief. I’m sure it doesn’t help that a number of people have sent him misdirected condolence messages. At the same time, I am reminded that millions of people die every year around the world.\nThe grief that my namesake feels is felt by millions of people every day, but we are largely blind to it. A hundred thousand civilians die in Iraq each year and again, without a connection to the individuals, it’s just a number. A thousand US troops die each year and we start to feel a little connection to them and their families – a little compassion, a little vicarious sadness for their loss.\nDon’t get me wrong, I don’t want to feel personally saddened by every death that happens around the world – it would drive me crazy. At the same time, we should realize that every death causes someone, somewhere to be distraught. Every time we kill or allow someone to be killed, a family is devastated.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/12/vicarious-sadness/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAbout eight months ago, a gentleman with the same first and last name as mine started using gmail. Not a big deal except that the difference between our gmail addresses is fairly small and hard to notice. So every once in a while, I receive email intended for him and I’ll point that person in the right direction. Beyond that, my only real contact with him has been some minimal email communication, usually after I’ve pointed someone new his way.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Vicarious sadness"},{"content":"The ISP move went reasonably well. There were a couple of minor glitches. One was a character set problem when I tried to take the most recent database snapshot from Linksky. I’m not entirely certain what happened, but I wound up with extra characters after some punctuation marks. Rather than spend too much time with it, I just grabbed the latest post and dumped it into the Dreamhost site and changed the time.\nThe other was a cute problem with my email. I had done a major synchronization between the two mail systems a day or so before, so all I had to do on moving day was a periodic sync of the Inbox. Unfortunately, in playing on Dreamhost’s control panel, I managed to delete my mailbox. So I had to do another major synchronization and I lost any mail that arrived on Dreamhost only. Fortunately, there was only one thing that was important and I could ask the sender to resend.\nI think I’m all set now. We’ll see how things go over the next day or two now that DNS *should* have settled out.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/10/moving-day-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe ISP move went reasonably well. There were a couple of minor glitches. One was a character set problem when I tried to take the most recent database snapshot from Linksky. I’m not entirely certain what happened, but I wound up with extra characters after some punctuation marks. Rather than spend too much time with it, I just grabbed the latest post and dumped it into the Dreamhost site and changed the time.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Moving day update"},{"content":"Saturday is moving day. Nope, we haven’t bought a new house. We hope not to have to do that for a long time. It’s time to change ISPs. After only 10 months with Linksky, I’ve had enough. In the past year, between working on the non-profit’s website and my own, I’ve had the following issues:\narbitrary version changes with no notification random breakage due to “security upgrades – like the time w e couldn’t do anything with a friend’s account or email because his last name contained the letters “curl random lockouts of service insults from the security “guru because he thinks he knows more about Unix and IT security than anyone else around etc. The last straw for me came earlier this year when a gallery page broke. I tried to login to diagnose the problem and found that they had removed my SSH access. When I emailed, I was to ld there is a “security issue that makes sites with SSH more vulnerable and that they were looking for a workaround and would re-enable SSH by the weekend. Outside of dictionary attacks on passwords, this is really complete BS. Of course, the weekend came and nope, no SSH. Another week rolled around, no SSH. Forget this.\nI started looking around for alternatives. I’m using Pair Networks at the office and they are okay. Hunter pointed me to Dreamhost. Yeah, I know they had recent billing issues, but no one can touch their current hosting offer (500 GB of storage) + 5 TB of data transfer per month, unlimited domains, Python, PHP and RubyOnRails (I don’t want to develop in RoR, but my preferred todo list program, Tracks, requires RoR), etc. With all of that and $50 off of a one year contract, I had to go Dreamhost.\nWithin 10 minutes of signing up, I had Tracks running on a mirror domain. Yay!\nThen I started trying to migrate my current domains off of Linksky and onto Dreamhost. This turns out to be more than a little tricky without SSH access! I finally told it to create a backup. The backup turned out to contain all db, email and file data – great! That’s sort of easier than tar-gz directly. Unfortunately, the file was 1.5+ GB. I tried ftp-ing it from Linksky (ironically, the great security gurus have disallowed SSH, but allow/require unencrypted ftp with your main account and password). Unfortunately, ftp is apparently rate limited. At times, I was getting only 1 byte/second and it failed after downloading about 50 MB. Fine, I tried to use the web file interface to move the backup into webspace where I could wget it from Dreamhost. Oops – the web interface doesn’t move, it copies then deletes. After copying 420 MB, it failed. I couldn’t SSH into do a soft link or a move, the web interface had no softlink capability. I finally punted and wrote a 1 line php script that created the softlink into webspace. After all of that, I was able to download to DH (though it seemed to temporarily fail at 1.5 GB).\nYou start to see why I might be looking to change ISPs. The great irony to cap it all off: importing the gallery db, moving the files into place and updating the config to point to the new db completely resolved the gallery problems. There was nothing to diagnose, nothing to fix, on DH it worked, on Linksky it didn’t. It was probably another silent “upgrade or “security fix Linksky applied that broke it.\nHopefully I won’t have to change from DH any time soon. In the meantime, most everything seems to be up an running on the DH mirror domain. I’ll change the DNS servers on Saturday, so there may be a little weirdness until that settles out. If I can get GoDaddy to lower the TTL on the authoritative DNS servers for the domains, things may resolve even faster.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/06/moving-day/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSaturday is moving day. Nope, we haven’t bought a new house. We hope not to have to do that for a long time. It’s time to change ISPs. After only 10 months with Linksky, I’ve had enough. In the past year, between working on the non-profit’s website and my own, I’ve had the following issues:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003earbitrary version changes with no notification\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erandom breakage due to “security upgrades – like the time w e couldn’t do anything with a friend’s account or email because his last name contained the letters “curl\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erandom lockouts of service\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003einsults from the security “guru because he thinks he knows more about Unix and IT security than anyone else around\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eetc.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last straw for me came earlier this year when a \u003ca href=\"https://fenris.org%20/gallery\"\u003egallery page\u003c/a\u003e broke. I tried to login to diagnose the problem and found that they had removed my SSH access. When I emailed, I was to ld there is a “security issue that makes sites with SSH more vulnerable and that they were looking for a workaround and would re-enable SSH by the weekend. Outside of dictionary attacks on passwords, this is really complete BS. Of course, the weekend came and nope, no SSH. Another week rolled around, no SSH. Forget this.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Moving day"},{"content":"There’s something about the idea of global warming that seems to drive people of a certain mindset completely insane. You start seeing things like: “the planet’s not warming up! “Okay, maybe it is warming, but humans couldn’t possibly be causing it. “Fine. We are causing global warming, but we can’t do anything about it. “What, we can? Well it’ll destroy our economy. “You mean it won’t? Well, you must be French.\nAnd then you get guy’s like Andrew Longman whose argument runs something like, “I don’t believe in global warming, but you do. And congress’s ban on incandescent bulbs is going to put out more CO2 which in your mind means we’re baking the planet. Stupid liberals. Then, after derisively stating that liberals are not hard headed quantitative types, proceeds to lay out an argument that is so stupid, a 12th grade physics class could take it apart.\nUnfortunately, a 12th grade physics class isn’t here right now, so we’ll have to do it ourself.\nLongman’s argument is that incandescent bulbs replace some portion of the normal heating used in a house. An NPR story told him that electric heat is more efficient than burning natural gas – in terms of CO2 emissions per unit of heat, therefore, by converting to CF bulbs we are using less electricity to heat our homes and more natural gas therefore, we are putting out more CO2 than if we used the original incandescents. He then proceeds to describe liberals as soft headed and laughs that their silly utopian dreams are undone by lack of an engineering mindset.\nThat’s a challenge that’s hard to resist. So let’s take this apart. First, Longman doesn’t realize that he’s comparing three different kinds of heating. He’s simplified to two: gas and electric. But let’s be quantitative and list all three:\nnatural gas heaters electric resistive heaters heat pumps Natural gas heaters burn natural gas, heating air that is then circulated around the house. Pretty simple idea. Relatively efficient.\nOf course, very few people heat their homes with electric resistive heaters. This is the “emergency or “auxiliary heat setting on your heat pump. You run electricity through something resistive and generate heat. It’s a one to one conversion of heat for electricy. Every watt you put in, you get one watt of heat out. Run it for a length of time, and you can covert to watt-hours or BTUs. Now wait, I mentioned that you get electric resistive heaters by running electricity through a resistor – that’s a light bulb! Okay, we now know that light bulbs are electric resistive.\nIt’s very expensive to use electric resistive heat. So most people using electric heat use a heat pump. Think reverse air conditioner – you air condition the outside in winter extracting the heat and putting it into the house. A given heat pump, operating at a given temperature differential will have a specific coefficient of performance (CoP). Essentially, how much electricity does it take to extract a given amount of heat. Depending on circumstances, that CoP may be between 2 and 5. In other words, it takes 1 watt of electricity to extract between 2 and 5 watts of heat from the outdoors and move it inside. Hrm, now we’re starting to see how NPR got its numbers for pounds of CO2 created heating a house with electric vs natural gas.\nBut of course, Longman has challenged us to be quantitative and so we must preserve persevere. Let’s look at his example. Assume you have a house that contains 30, 100 watt bulbs that are always burning. In his example, a conversion to 20 watt compact fluorescents would mean that instead of getting 3000 watts of heat from the bulbs, you now get only 600 watts of heat from the bulbs and have to burn the equivalent of 2400 watts worth of natural gas. Using his soft, fuzzy, NPR numbers (that he’s misunderstood), Longman says that you emit less CO2 with the incandescents.\nBut he hasn’t really shown that. So let’s do the math. Basic numbers we’ll need:\nCO2 emissions per unit of heat from natural gas CO2 emissions per watt-hour of electricity watt-hours consumed using our 30, 100 watt bulbs over a period of time According to the Natural Gas Association, 1 billion (1,000,000,000) BTUs of heat from natural gas produces 117,000 pounds of CO2.\nAccording to the Department of Energy, we produced 1.341 pounds of CO2 per kilowatt hour of energy generated in 2000. (Note, this is generated, some power is lost in transmission, so this is an upper lower bound for [CO2 generated by] power energy used in a home).\nNow we’re getting somewhere. So 30 bulbs at 100 watts each, use 3000 watts of power or 72 kilowatt hours per day. That works out to 96.552 pounds of CO2 per day for heating your home with light bulbs.\nWhat about natural gas? Well, we don’t have a CO2 pounds per kwh for natural gas, but since the CoP of a light bulb is 1.0, we have a conversion from electricity to heat. Our 72 kwh of electricity converted directly to heat turns out to be 245800 BTUs. Which turns out to generate 28.7586 pounds of CO2 if produced by natural gas. Of course, we haven’t replaced100% of our light bulb heat by switching to CF bulbs, only 80%. The other 20% is still [comparable to] electric resistive. So if we take 80% of 28.7586 and add 20% of 96.552, we get 42.311 pounds of CO2 generated by using 30, 20 watt CF bulbs.\nNow, unless I’ve forgotten my basic math, 42.311 pounds is less than half of 96.552 pounds. So, I think that means that Longman was full of crap and is apparently a fuzzy headed conservative and not really a quantitative man at all.\nQ.E.D.\nUpdated:\nOh, so I forgot to look at summer when we’re trying to cool the house. Turns out that the difference is even greater. In the summer, all of the heat is waste heat – we don’t want it and we need to get it outside. Assuming we’ve got a high efficiency air conditioner, it takes about one watt-hour of power to remove five watts-hours of heat, i.e., let’s assume a CoP of 5.\nIn the summer, running Longman’s 30, 100 watt bulbs 24 hours a day still takes 72 kwh per day plus we’ll need to run the a/c for another 14.4 kwh per day. That gives us a total of 86.4 kwh creating at least 115.824 pounds of CO2.\nIf we assume that all of those bulbs are now 20 watt compact fluorescents, then we require 14.4 kwh for light, plus another 2.88 kwh for cooling. Total of 17.28 kwh per day for lighting and cooling the lighting. Those 17.28 kwh will create… 23.17 pounds of CO2. Or not surprisingly, one fifth the CO2, since the bulbs use one fifth the electricity.\nOf course, not everyone is going to use 30, 100 watt bulbs for lighting 24/7, but the relative proportions stay the same.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/02/02/co2-emissions-and-compact-florescent-bulbs/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThere’s something about the idea of global warming that seems to drive people of a certain mindset completely insane. You start seeing things like: “the planet’s not warming up! “Okay, maybe it is warming, but humans couldn’t possibly be causing it. “Fine. We are causing global warming, but we can’t do anything about it. “What, we can? Well it’ll destroy our economy. “You mean it won’t? Well, you must be French.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"CO2 emissions and compact fluorescent bulbs (updated)"},{"content":"So, John Edwards dropped out of the Democratic primaries today. It’s a shame. In one sense, I was more excited about Obama or Clinton as president(ial candidates). Their candidacies would be a) history making for their race/gender respectively; and b) about freaking time! Hell, Turkey and Pakistan have had female heads of state for well over a decade, it’s just embarrassing that the United States hasn’t had a viable black or female candidate until now.\nBut in spite of the history making potential of these two candidates, I’m just not as excited by the policies/rhetoric of either Clinton or Obama. Don’t get me wrong. In a coma, either would make a better president that any of the republican candidates; however, their positions are still very mainstream (I would use “conservative, but I don’t want to suggest Republican).\nThe fascinating thing about the Democratic primary this year is that the policy framing and the best ideas came from the two middle aged white guys: Chris Dodd and John Edwards – both of whom are out of the race. On issues from health care (Edwards), to care for the poor (again Edwards) to preventing illegal, warrantless surveillance (Dodd), these guys were leading the discussion on what it should mean to be a Democrat.\nSo both Edwards and Dodd are out of the race now. I just hope their ideas continue to influence the remaining candidates and the country as a whole.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/01/30/edwards/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo, John Edwards dropped out of the Democratic primaries today. It’s a shame. In one sense, I was more excited about Obama or Clinton as president(ial candidates). Their candidacies would be a) history making for their race/gender respectively; and b) about freaking time! Hell, Turkey and Pakistan have had female heads of state for well over a decade, it’s just embarrassing that the United States hasn’t had a viable black or female candidate until now.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Edwards"},{"content":"An interesting conversation at work today. I was talking with the guy, L (no – a different one), who has been responsible for our IT for the past 3.5 years. L isn’t the guy that always does the work, although he can. His real job is as an engineer in the company and that’s his primary focus. However, he does handle the technology strategy and monitors the folks that do the IT work. (He and I are talking quite a bit since I’m trying to take some of the load off in this area).\nAnyway, L made the observation that he is often frustrated by IT people in their approach to diagnosing a problem. His experience, both with our ISP and sometimes our desktop support, is that IT people will poke at a problem system in a non-systematic way, replacing components, etc., until the problem disappears. They may never identify the problem, but they did make it go away.\nIn my experience, this is not true across the board, there are many IT folks that do a post-mortem on problems, that diagnose issues methodically to pin-point the problem, etc. But he’s right – there are many that don’t.\nThe funny thing is that the methodical approach comes naturally to L, with his engineering background, but doesn’t come naturally to many other people and particularly people without any training in methodical testing. I recognized some of this back in high school. One thing that separated fair computer users from the great (and yes, this was back in the 80s) was diagnostic ability. My college roommate, for example, was lousy at diagnostics. He knew a fair amount about computers, but didn’t have a methodical approach for diagnosing problems.\nKL was suggesting that people should identify experiments, knowing in advance what the different results would indicate. As an engineer, he called them experiments. However, many people with natural diagnostic ability do this instinctively. For example, the symptoms of the problem are known and could be either hardware or software. Some people naturally recognize this and do tests to rule out one or the other. Okay, the problem is in the hardware. Can we tell if it’s system or network? etc.\nThe funny thing is that I don’t think universities ever teach this skill. Computer Science does in a sense. If you can’t diagnose problems in your program in a rapid, methodical way, then you’ll probably fail out. But this seems to be more weeding out than teaching. IS courses and Engineering courses aren’t any better to my knowledge. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “Debugging course offered. So we’re left with people that can either perform diagnostics instinctively or people that can’t and replace/test parts randomly.\nAm I missing something, are there courses in debugging? If not, should there be? I tend to think of debugging/diagnostics as a skill separate from coding or engineering. If that’s the case then it can and should be taught. Hell, there’s a whole television show (“House) based on medical diagnostics – the least we can do is to teach future programmers, engineers and IT people the same skills.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/01/30/diagnostics/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAn interesting conversation at work today. I was talking with the guy, L (no – a different one), who has been responsible for our IT for the past 3.5 years. L isn’t the guy that always does the work, although he can. His real job is as an engineer in the company and that’s his primary focus. However, he does handle the technology strategy and monitors the folks that do the IT work. (He and I are talking quite a bit since I’m trying to take some of the load off in this area).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Diagnostics"},{"content":"I was talking to hunter last Friday about macro photography and a great, relatively inexpensive, device to take macro pictures with almost any lens. Essentially, the ability of a lens to focus on a close object is related to the focal length and the distance between the inflection point of the lens (point inside the lens where the image flips) and the film plane. It’s something of a funny relationship for modern lenses with multiple internal pieces of glass. However, the important thing to remember is that your ability to close focus depends on those two factors.\nSo, the great little device to help with macro photography is an extension tube. It has no glass, all it does is to increase the distance between the lens’s inflection point and the film. Assuming that the focal length is constant, you can focus more closely on the subject.\nFor example, consider the picture below:\nThat’s about as close as my 18-135mm lens can focus on that quarter. If I attach a 25mm extension tube, I can get as close as:\nI could probably get a little closer, but only if I put the subject inside the lens!\nThere are some down sides. The biggest is that my flash can’t actually reach the object – the lens is in the way! What I need is either additional lighting or better yet a ring flash that sits around the end of the lens to light the object. Adorama seems to make one for about $140. I might check that out.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/01/28/macro-photography/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI was talking to \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/huntermatthews/sets/72157603792677617/\"\u003ehunter\u003c/a\u003e last Friday about macro photography and a great, relatively inexpensive, device to take macro pictures with almost any lens. Essentially, the ability of a lens to focus on a close object is related to the focal length and the distance between the inflection point of the lens (point inside the lens where the image flips) and the film plane. It’s something of a funny relationship for modern lenses with multiple internal pieces of glass. However, the important thing to remember is that your ability to close focus depends on those two factors.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Macro photography"},{"content":"Back in August I wrote about a rehab possum that K was taking care of – she was very much a cutie. I was looking through some pictures on the camera and realized that I had a few more of her. Now that she’s all grown up and has been released, I thought folks might like to see them:\nHere she was back in August:\nA month later, in September:\nAnd then after she had been outside and right before release in December:\nThe last two were from the night we started leaving the outdoor cage open so that she could leave when she wanted to. It took her a bit before she left. Hopefully she’s doing well.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/01/27/possum-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBack in August I \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/08/21/are-you-my-mommy/\"\u003ewrote about a rehab possum\u003c/a\u003e that K was taking care of – she was very much a cutie. I was looking through some pictures on the camera and realized that I had a few more of her. Now that she’s all grown up and has been released, I thought folks might like to see them:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere she was back in August:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/21966815@N08/2225130178/\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/2225130178_6dc442cb94_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA month later, in September:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Possum pictures"},{"content":"Last week at work was pretty interesting. On Tuesday, L and I flew up to Dayton for the day to meet with our sponsors. That meant a 6am flight out and originally a 11pm return flight. Fortunately, we wrapped it up a bit early and landed home back around 8:30pm. The meeting went well. We were presenting some ideas that I had to the sponsors and they seemed to like them. Strangely enough, in talking to L, he said that he hadn’t really understood what I was proposing until the meeting. Not bad for a guy who wrote a short paper for the sponsors that described what he didn’t understand! But then, I guess that’s why L’s a full professor 🙂\nWednesday was largely recovery. Thursday, I met with the other modeling guy on the team who was in from New York. We discussed what I wanted to do and he seemed to have a good handle on it which was good because later in the afternoon L came in and wanted to discuss it in more detail. He had been stuck in an airport and had time to think through some things. The bad news is that he didn’t think my proposed modeling would work. The good news is that he thought he had a fix.\nTurned out that I had forgotten that the underlying model we are using is a Markov model. The basic requirement of the model is that the software agent can only be in one state at a time. I was essentially proposing that the agent could be in multiple states simultaneously. As we talked more, I realized that L’s proposal was to generalize what I was getting at. Essentially, I described the special case of m=1. Before my proposal, we had been working with m=n. L’s proposal was to let m vary between 1 and n. This bugged me at first since I thought m\u0026gt;1 wasn’t necessary. I was also concerned since L and the other modeler, N, had theoretical objections to m=1. I pointed out that really for any m\u0026lt;n, their theoretical objections held true, so nothing was really more wrong with m=1. Everyone agreed with that and we further agreed that a varying m would still have some theoretical problems, but would be more effective, more realistic and more tractable than m=n or m=1.\nWrapping that up, I received a short email from L on Friday thanking me for the work, saying that was a good white board session and that he could see how my thinking was influencing his for the better. That was nice 🙂\np.s. if y’all are really nice, I promise not to write a blog post on Markov decision processes\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/01/27/work-blogging/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast week at work was pretty interesting. On Tuesday, L and I flew up to Dayton for the day to meet with our sponsors. That meant a 6am flight out and originally a 11pm return flight. Fortunately, we wrapped it up a bit early and landed home back around 8:30pm. The meeting went well. We were presenting some ideas that I had to the sponsors and they seemed to like them. Strangely enough, in talking to L, he said that he hadn’t really understood what I was proposing until the meeting. Not bad for a guy who wrote a short paper for the sponsors that described what he didn’t understand! But then, I guess that’s why L’s a full professor 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Work blogging"},{"content":"Okay, slight confession time. I’m something of a closet political junkie. Not so much the “who’s up, who’s down campaigning politics, but the questions of policy, who supports what, what makes sense kind of thing. If I were involved in politics directly, I suppose that would make me a wonk, not a hack.\nAnyway, K and I were having a discussion last week about the presidential primaries. K’s position was that if Huckabee wins the GOP primaries, we’re all in serious danger because the man holds positions that are bad for women, minorities, basically everyone that’s not a middle class white heterosexual male. I, on the other hand, maintained the position that a Huckabee win in the primaries would be hysterical. 🙂\nTo a large extent, our positions were based on different contexts. K is concerned that the republican would win the general election since, hey, it’s been a while since they haven’t – no matter how bad their candidates and policies are. I was thinking “hysterical since it would break wide open the GOP coalition of money, guns and religio and I have a hard time picturing any republican winning this time, since they are all so awful.\nSo, that said, I think K wins this one based on this short article:\n“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution,but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards, Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman\nI’m more than a little terrified that a presidential candidate would talk about amending the Constitution in order to suite his own religious beliefs. Where do you even start with this? This country was established to intentionally and explicitly keep religion from controlling the government. While the phrase “separation of church and state is not in the constitution, the concept is one of the founding principles of the constitution as a whole and of the first amendment in particular. The founders saw first hand the damage that could be done when a particular religion dictated to the government. This is why the establishment of religion was explicitly forbidden.\nBeyond the 200+ years of tradition, beyond the very heart of our government, there’s the whole other issue of which “word of the living God to you plan to establish? There are over a dozen major religions represented in this country. Even within the largest, there are literally hundreds of Christian denominations (side note, why are splits among Christian beliefs called denominations and those of non-Christian beliefs called sects?) each of which has there own special interpretation of the god’s word.\nPerhaps Huckabee was just pandering to republican christians, many of whom can be counted on to support certain positions. But to make the claim that these republicans speak for all christians, let alone for god or all religions is crazy.\nSo, yes – K wins: Huckabee winning the GOP primary would not be hysterical, it would in fact be scary.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/01/15/k-wins/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, slight confession time. I’m something of a closet political junkie. Not so much the “who’s up, who’s down campaigning politics, but the questions of policy, who supports what, what makes sense kind of thing. If I were involved in politics directly, I suppose that would make me a wonk, not a hack.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyway, K and I were having a discussion last week about the presidential primaries. K’s position was that if Huckabee wins the GOP primaries, we’re all in serious danger because the man holds positions that are bad for women, minorities, basically everyone that’s not a middle class white heterosexual male. I, on the other hand, maintained the position that a Huckabee win in the primaries would be hysterical. 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"K wins!"},{"content":" Is this thing still on?\nOkay, it’s been about three weeks since I’ve blogged anything. As I’ve stated before, this tends to happen when I’m too involved in living life to actually write about it. Fortunately (unfortunately?) it’s nothing terribly exciting. Let’s see:\nGuitar: my guitar playing has been scientifically shown to have 10% less suck than it did a month ago. However, with such a large amount of suck to begin with, we’re still not at anything that looks like good. I’m getting more fluent with the open chords and can switch between them reasonably well. I’m just starting to learn barre chords – the E barre chord to start with. There are still vast tracts of untouched suck in the barre chords. Also, I’m actually thinking of picking up some lessons – the ones at jamplay.com seem pretty good. Work: still going well. There’s enough to do. I’m still not entirely used to billing by the (tenth of an) hour. Also, not really looking forward to flying to Ohio next week. I’ll only be gone for a day, but, ugh – who wants a 6am flight to Dayton! Break-in update: nothing much new here. Still looking to make it harder for someone to break in. Had a neighborhood watch meeting last weekend – that’ll be good. Turns out this may be neither contractors nor kids. There are apparently some professional (stretching that word a bit) thieves working this area. There have been some eight different break-ins near by. Non-profit work: I’m convinced that whomever coined the phrase “academic politics are so sorted because the stakes are so small never worked with a non-profit. It’s just amazing the degree to which politics enters into the smallest damned thing. New year’s resolutions: didn’t make any – never do. That said, I am trying to exercise more and cut down on my use of vulgarities. Profanity and cursing can wait until another year 🙂 I think that’s about it for now.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2008/01/15/is-this-thing-on/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cthump\u003e \u003cthump\u003e Is this thing still on?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOkay, it’s been about three weeks since I’ve blogged anything. As I’ve stated before, this tends to happen when I’m too involved in living life to actually write about it. Fortunately (unfortunately?) it’s nothing terribly exciting. Let’s see:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuitar:\u003c/strong\u003e my guitar playing has been scientifically shown to have 10% less suck than it did a month ago. However, with such a large amount of suck to begin with, we’re still not at anything that looks like good. I’m getting more fluent with the open chords and can switch between them reasonably well. I’m just starting to learn barre chords – the E barre chord to start with. There are still vast tracts of untouched suck in the barre chords. Also, I’m actually thinking of picking up some lessons – the ones at \u003ca href=\"http://jamplay.com\"\u003ejamplay.com\u003c/a\u003e seem pretty good.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWork:\u003c/strong\u003e still going well. There’s enough to do. I’m still not entirely used to billing by the (tenth of an) hour. Also, not really looking forward to flying to Ohio next week. I’ll only be gone for a day, but, ugh – who wants a 6am flight to Dayton!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBreak-in update:\u003c/strong\u003e nothing much new here. Still looking to make it harder for someone to break in. Had a neighborhood watch meeting last weekend – that’ll be good. Turns out this may be neither contractors nor kids. There are apparently some professional (stretching that word a bit) thieves working this area. There have been some eight different break-ins near by.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNon-profit work:\u003c/strong\u003e I’m convinced that whomever coined the phrase “academic politics are so sorted because the stakes are so small never worked with a non-profit. It’s just amazing the degree to which politics enters into the smallest damned thing.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew year’s resolutions:\u003c/strong\u003e didn’t make any – never do. That said, I am trying to exercise more and cut down on my use of vulgarities. Profanity and cursing can wait until another year 🙂\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI think that’s about it for now.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Is this thing on?"},{"content":"“Before enlightenment, chop wood, haul water. After enlightenment, chop wood, haul water, is one of my favorite zen aphorisms. Okay, so no hauling water for me – at least not unless the drought gets worse, but there’s going to be a lot of wood chopping in my future.\nOn Saturday, margaretc’ s husband, ‘A’, came by and took out two of the trees that have been worrying me. They border our drivway and both had holes in their bases. Since they’re not small trees (40-50+ feet tall), I was worried that they would either come down on the house, the 500 gallon propane tank, the cars, the well, the power lines – you get the idea. It seemed better to take them out on our own terms.\nThe removal went well. It’s a great comfort to have a certified master arborist doing the work 🙂 . ‘A’ climbed the trees – rope climbing the one and spiking the other (impressive!) and sat up top cutting the major limbs. After that was done, he rigged a multi-pulley system so that we could pull the trunks down to a location that wouldn’t cause any harm. It went perfectly.\nNow I have to finish cutting up the two trees and chopping the rounds into firewood. Looks like we won’t need to buy wood for a year or two. Surprisingly, chopping wood isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I need to work on my technique, but it could wind up being fairly enjoyable.\nNext tree project – order and plant some replacement trees. I’m thinking a couple of walnuts might be nice.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/26/chop-wood-haul-water/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e“Before enlightenment, chop wood, haul water. After enlightenment, chop wood, haul water, is one of my favorite zen aphorisms. Okay, so no hauling water for me – at least not unless the drought gets worse, but there’s going to be a lot of wood chopping in my future.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Saturday, \u003ca href=\"http://margaretc.livejournal.com\"\u003emargaretc’\u003c/a\u003e s husband, ‘A’, came by and took out two of the trees that have been worrying me. They border our drivway and both had holes in their bases. Since they’re not small trees (40-50+ feet tall), I was worried that they would either come down on the house, the 500 gallon propane tank, the cars, the well, the power lines – you get the idea. It seemed better to take them out on our own terms.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Chop wood, haul water"},{"content":"One of my projects at work involves information markets: tools to extract aggregate knowledge from groups of people. For example, at Intrade, you can buy and sell contracts on questions like, “who will be the democratic nominee for president? or “how likely is it that the US economy will slip into recession? The market price reflects the cumulative belief that a given event has a certain probability.\nIEEE Spectrum also recently did a piece on information markets which talked about Microsoft’s use of a market in 2004 to predict the likelihood of an internal product meeting its production schedule. By opening the market to its employees, who presumably had knowledge of the issues with the product, Microsoft predicted that it would ship three months late – which it did.\nAll of that got me to thinking about how much fun (and subversive 😉 ) an employee operated information market would be. The questions are great: “how likely is it that we’ll be re-organized my March? “will the next good job go to the boss’s friend, neighbor or gardener? “which product will be selected in the next RFP? “how likely is this project to fail (or succeed)?\nIf anyone wants to set up something like that, I’ve got some code, or you can use Zocalo.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/23/information-markets/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne of my projects at work involves information markets: tools to extract aggregate knowledge from groups of people. For example, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.intrade.com\"\u003eIntrade\u003c/a\u003e, you can buy and sell contracts on questions like, “who will be the democratic nominee for president? or “how likely is it that the US economy will slip into recession? The market price reflects the cumulative belief that a given event has a certain probability.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIEEE Spectrum also recently did a \u003ca href=\"http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/5488\"\u003epiece on information markets\u003c/a\u003e which talked about Microsoft’s use of a market in 2004 to predict the likelihood of an internal product meeting its production schedule. By opening the market to its employees, who presumably had knowledge of the issues with the product, Microsoft predicted that it would ship three months late – which it did.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Information markets"},{"content":"It’s been about a week and a half since the attempted break-in.\nOn Tuesday, I replaced the window they broke out. I called around to a couple of different places and everyone said that they could send someone out to give an estimate, but it would take a few days and then the part would be on order for another 3-5 days. Fortunately, on local glass shop said that if I brought them the sill in the morning, they would be able to replace the glass that afternoon. So I spent the morning taking apart the window. It turned out to be easier than I thought, but I did have to take off the lower sill to get to the upper.\nI got the sill to the glass shop and they managed to replace the glass by the 5:15. I brought it hope and replaced the window in just a half hour or so. Yay!\nToday I found out that the same morning someone was broken into down the street on the same day as our attempted break-in and in the same way. For a variety of reasons, they suspect contractors at the two construction sites in the neighborhood. They’re chasing down the details of who was on site, etc. Hopefully they can track down enough information to identify the burglars.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/23/break-in-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s been about a week and a half since the attempted break-in.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Tuesday, I replaced the window they broke out. I called around to a couple of different places and everyone said that they could send someone out to give an estimate, but it would take a few days and then the part would be on order for another 3-5 days. Fortunately, on local glass shop said that if I brought them the sill in the morning, they would be able to replace the glass that afternoon. So I spent the morning taking apart the window. It turned out to be easier than I thought, but I did have to take off the lower sill to get to the upper.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Break-in Update"},{"content":"I picked up a new kitchen faucet at Lowe’s today. As usual with this sort of thing, removing the old faucet was the worst part. The nuts holding the old faucet on to the sink were standard plastic nuts – attached to badly rusted screws. After 30 minutes of trying: first by hand, then with a towel by hand, then with a wrench, then oiling the screw and trying the wrench, I gave up. Thinking about it for a few minutes I realized that I have a 1″ drill bit for putting holes into a sink. I got the drill and just drilled through the plastic nuts. Victory!\nOf course, in taking off the old faucet, I put a little pressure on the spigot and it completely broke off. I’m just glad it held off until now 🙂\nOnce the old faucet was out, installing the new one was pretty easy. I had remembered to buy new faucet connection lines which was good since I needed ’em. I also remembered to pick up some more teflon tape which was helpful. The only real mistake I made was testing the cold water tap after connecting it. Unfortunately, the hot water tape was open so all of the water headed that way and down under the sink. But at least I wasn’t under it. 🙂\nHopefully we’ll be set now.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/16/new-faucet/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI picked up a \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/12/13/time-for-a-new-kitchen-faucet/\"\u003enew kitchen faucet\u003c/a\u003e at Lowe’s today. As usual with this sort of thing, removing the old faucet was the worst part. The nuts holding the old faucet on to the sink were standard plastic nuts – attached to badly rusted screws. After 30 minutes of trying: first by hand, then with a towel by hand, then with a wrench, then oiling the screw and trying the wrench, I gave up. Thinking about it for a few minutes I realized that I have a 1″ drill bit for putting holes into a sink. I got the drill and just drilled through the plastic nuts. Victory!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New faucet"},{"content":"Some weeks it just doesn’t pay to leave the house. As K and I were getting ready for bed last night she noticed that the bathroom window was broken. Being a wildlife rehabilitator, her first thought was that some bird (maybe a hawk) had smashed into the window. I went out to check. Nope – someone had removed the screen and smashed the window with some junk they found on the deck.\nIt seems they broke the window in order to unlock it and sneak in to the house that way. Fortunately, they didn’t succeed. In breaking the window, they knocked the window lock latch off and couldn’t unlock the window. They tried prying it up (first?) but failed there too. I’m guessing between the frustration and the dogs barking like mad, they gave up.\nWe called the cops and filed a report.\nWhat I don’t understand is why the window. Sure, the doors have alarm company stickers on them since the house has an alarm system, but why would they assume the window wasn’t alarmed? If they had managed to open the window, it would have set off the alarm.\nThis is the second break-in or attempt in my neighborhood recently. With the number of gun owners out here, if the person(s?) keep it up, they’re going to wind up shot.\nWhile I’m happy they didn’t get in, I’m still pretty annoyed and upset by the whole thing.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/15/attempted-break-in/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSome weeks it just doesn’t pay to leave the house. As K and I were getting ready for bed last night she noticed that the bathroom window was broken. Being a wildlife rehabilitator, her first thought was that some bird (maybe a hawk) had smashed into the window. I went out to check. Nope – someone had removed the screen and smashed the window with some junk they found on the deck.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Attempted break-in"},{"content":"It’s been 7 months since we’ve done plumbing renovations, so we’re apparently due. This time I have to replace the kitchen faucet. It’s started leaking badly. “But wait, you say, “a leaking faucet doesn’t require replacement, you can just replace the gaskets. Unfortunately no.\nI’ve mentioned before that our water is acidic with a pH of about 5.5. We’ve got the acid neutralizer in place, but many things have corroded over the years. In the case of this faucet, the weld/join between the base of the faucet and the spigot itself has developed pinhole leaks. You turn on the faucet and you get shot in the eye with water.\nI’m just hoping it can wait until Saturday.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/13/time-for-a-new-kitchen-faucet/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s been 7 months since we’ve done plumbing renovations, so we’re apparently due. This time I have to replace the kitchen faucet. It’s started leaking badly. “But wait, you say, “a leaking faucet doesn’t require replacement, you can just replace the gaskets. Unfortunately no.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ve mentioned before that our water is acidic with a pH of about 5.5. We’ve got the acid neutralizer in place, but many things have corroded over the years. In the case of this faucet, the weld/join between the base of the faucet and the spigot itself has developed pinhole leaks. You turn on the faucet and you get shot in the eye with water.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Time for a new kitchen faucet"},{"content":"Okay, it’s only Monday, but it’s been about a week since wrote anything here. In that time:\nThe non-profit I work with and on whose board I serve has gone bat-shit crazy. They say that academic politics are so petty because the stakes are so small. Trust me, academic politics haven’t got anything on non-profit politics A friend at the university has announced her resignation to move on to a different job. This is probably good for her – she’ll be happier, but it means that half the people I know took it hard. I got a call last week from a lawyer representing my old employer, letting me know that I am a witness in a case against them. Go me! *grumble* The thing at my new job did go through and I now do people management for six staff members. Oh, and their performance evaluations were due in November, can we finish those soon? They’ll be done and signed tomorrow, but what a pain. Finally, I went to (sort of crashed) a holiday party for the school of arts and sciences at my former employer. That was a lot fun, but odd. Particularly when I ran into my old boss and then the woman who inherited part of my responsibilities when I left. Theoretically, she was doing the job until they hired my replacement. It’s been four months – I don’t think the position’s been posted yet. Regardless, I talked to a lot of people and confirmed my original statement – the thing I miss most is the people. Now if I can only get through this week: finish up the last part of a project and put the presentation together, I’ll be in good shape for taking some time off.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/10/what-a-week/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, it’s only Monday, but it’s been about a week since wrote anything here. In that time:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe non-profit I work with and on whose board I serve has gone bat-shit crazy. They say that academic politics are so petty because the stakes are so small. Trust me, academic politics haven’t got anything on non-profit politics\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA friend at the university has announced her resignation to move on to a different job. This is probably good for her – she’ll be happier, but it means that half the people I know took it hard.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI got a call last week from a lawyer representing my old employer, letting me know that I am a witness in a case against them. Go me! *grumble*\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe thing at my new job did go through and I now do people management for six staff members. Oh, and their performance evaluations were due in November, can we finish those soon? They’ll be done and signed tomorrow, but what a pain.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinally, I went to (sort of crashed) a holiday party for the school of arts and sciences at my former employer. That was a lot fun, but odd. Particularly when I ran into my old boss and then the woman who inherited part of my responsibilities when I left. Theoretically, she was doing the job until they hired my replacement. It’s been four months – I don’t think the position’s been posted yet. Regardless, I talked to a lot of people and confirmed my original statement – the thing I miss most is the people.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow if I can only get through this week: finish up the last part of a project and put the presentation together, I’ll be in good shape for taking some time off.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"What a week"},{"content":"Right before Thanksgiving my iPod went to that great electronics superstore in the sky. More specifically, the cute little 1.8″ hard drive died. Having looked around, I figured the best (or at least most interesting) fix was to replace the drive with a compact flash card. The connector part finally came in today and we had a lovely (and to spare you the suspense, successful) operation.\nWe started with a 30 GB 5th generation iPod video showing the unhappy ipod symbol:\nThe first step was to open it up. They make special tools for this, but I didn’t have any, so I used my old stand-by, a pocket knife to open it:\nI got the parts ready:\nand did the surgery. The result was the same iPod, no hard drive but with a 16 GB cf card instead:\nAt this point, I connected the power back up but did not completely reseal the iPod (in case I accidentally disconnected the audio out line. Total time for the surgery, 15 minutes. I turned the iPod on and saw:\nOkay, it knows that it’s got a new drive and wants me to connect it to iTunes. Hrm, problem. iTunes doesn’t seem to have a linux version. Okay, let’s boot the computer upstairs into windows mode – an ancient win2k install. Run an old version of iTunes. No go. I had removed QuickTime to make space for ArcGIS and now iTunes is unhappy. I tried to explain that I don’t really want to listen to the iPod on windows. It doesn’t care.\nI download iTunes. It claims to be a 47 MB download – it’s actually 57 MB. Fine. Run the installer. Nope – this version requires XP or Vista. Crap. Go back to Apple, find the older Win2k version. Claims to be a 47 MB download – seems to be 37MB. I don’t think Apple engineers understand file size.\nInstall iTunes, reboot the computer, run iTunes It won’t fix the iPod because it can’t find the network. Network is working, iTunes can’t find it. Search the web, find the solution and re-run iTunes. It downloads a new firmware and fixes the device. Time screwing with iTunes: 40 minutes. Result:\nOkay, now we’re in business. I take a break for dinner and fire up GtkPod. Too many mp3s to fit on the new system. Fine, I get it down to the right size and start the sync. Two and half hours later, we have music!\nnot much space left, but that’s okay:\nFirst impressions? It’s nice. There’s no disk noise, no disk vibration and best of all, no disk spin-up delay. You can jump between songs without waiting until the drive spins up and seeks. Overall, it was definitely worth it. Now when 32 GB flash drives are affordable I’ll have a good upgrade path 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/04/it-lives/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eRight before Thanksgiving my \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/21/tango-uniform/\"\u003eiPod went to that great electronics superstore in the sky\u003c/a\u003e. More specifically, the cute little 1.8″ hard drive died. Having looked around, I figured the best (or at least most interesting) fix was to \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/25/rebuilding-an-ipod/\"\u003ereplace the drive\u003c/a\u003e with a compact flash card. The connector part finally came in today and we had a lovely (and to spare you the suspense, successful) operation.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe started with a 30 GB 5th generation iPod video showing the unhappy ipod symbol:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"It lives"},{"content":"In response to the two comments on my last post about the calendar:\netselec: I’m not certain if you were kidding or not. FWIW, I don’t usually think of the calendar as something people outside of my family would be interested in. I think that’s a pretty usual INTP trait 🙂 If anyone is interested in the calendar, it’s available at Lulu at the baseline cost of $11.29 each. I didn’t put a markup on it, because it’s a fun thing rather than a plan to take over the world make money.\nMom: we just ordered them. It’ll be a few days to print and then another 3 or so to ship. Expect them by Friday the 14th at the latest.\nWorld: wrt to my mom, you see the kind of nagging reminders I put up with here 😉\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/03/calendar-update-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn response to the two comments on my last post about the calendar:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://etselec.livejournal.com/\"\u003eetselec\u003c/a\u003e: I’m not certain if you were kidding or not. FWIW, I don’t usually think of the calendar as something people outside of my family would be interested in. I think that’s a pretty usual \u003ca href=\"http://intp.org/intprofile.html\"\u003eINTP\u003c/a\u003e trait 🙂 If anyone is interested in the calendar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lulu.com/content/1517976\"\u003eit’s available at Lulu\u003c/a\u003e at the baseline cost of $11.29 each. I didn’t put a markup on it, because it’s a fun thing rather than a plan to take over the world make money.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calendar update update"},{"content":"As I mentioned earlier, I’m printing the Yellowstone calendar using Lulu instead of Kodak. I got back my sample and all in all, I’m happy with it. I like that the image is the full size of the page (no border). The print quality is pretty good – it’s not as good as Kodak’s but that’s not a big surprise. The paper is also a bit lighter weight than Kodak’s card stock. But hey, it’s about 45% cheaper! 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/12/02/calendar-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs I \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/\"\u003ementioned earlier\u003c/a\u003e, I’m printing the Yellowstone calendar using Lulu instead of Kodak. I got back my sample and all in all, I’m happy with it. I like that the image is the full size of the page (no border). The print quality is pretty good – it’s not as good as Kodak’s but that’s not a big surprise. The paper is also a bit lighter weight than Kodak’s card stock. But hey, it’s about 45% cheaper! 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calendar update"},{"content":"Cooking with the world’s most dangerous* additive; or How I stopped worrying and learned to love MSG.\nA few weeks ago, I heard Robert Krulwich on NPR talking about umami – the fifth taste. If you didn’t hear it, go to the link above. As always, Krulwich makes the story very engaging. He describes how the Greek philosopher Democritus hypothesized the existence of four tastes: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Everything you eat is made up of a combination of those four tastes (plus the 10,000 various smells your nose can sense).\nHe goes on to discuss the previously hypothesized, but recently confirmed, discovery of a fifth taste – umami. The taste of l-glutamate. The 200 year old discovery was finally confirmed with the identification of two different types of glutamate receptors on the tongue. Glutamate is common in meat and other protein-heavy foods, like certain cheeses. I suspect that the glutamate receptors evolved for the same reason as our ability to detect the other tastes: to help us decide what we should and shouldn’t eat. Sugar indicates a carbohydrate rich food, salt – salt (duh), sour – probably vitamin C, bitter – maybe something poisonous to avoid, and umami to detect protein rich foods.\nThat got me to thinking. With the exception of certain foods, e.g., cheeses, vegetarian cooking doesn’t have much umami in it. It may have plenty of protein, but the dishes often aren’t satisfying. Perhaps the lack of umami means that the actual protein in the food doesn’t register on the tongue and so, over time, you feel as if you were lacking for the protein itself.\nSome of my favorite vegetarian dishes have lots of cheese, particularly parmesan (e.g., hamburger bocca burger pie and barley with mushrooms). Of course, I can’t add parmesan or soy sauce to everything. So as an experiment, I bought some ‘Accent’ which is just a container of MSG. It’s not something I would add to all dishes, but I’ve been experimenting with adding it to dishes that are supposed to be savory: split pea soup that doesn’t have ham, store bought stuffing that should be made with beef broth, etc.\nSo far, the experiment seems to be a success. Used in the right dishes, adding MSG to certain foods seems to make them taste better.\nOf course, there are reasons why I shouldn’t use MSG; but fortunately health is not one of them. Numerous scientific studies have completely exonerated MSG from the anecdotal health scare from the 60s. There are no ill effects observed from the consumption of moderated amounts of MSG. After all, this is essentially the same compound as is found in meat and other natural glutamate sources.\nMy main concern for not relying on it too much is that it’s a cheat. It’s not a big cheat. It’s a little bit like adding vinegar or salt to something to improve it’s flavor. However, it is a cheat. Rather than using an artificial source of umami, I would prefer to find ways of using more ingredients that are naturally higher in umami. But in the meantime, I’m definitely going to keep the MSG around. It’s in a little container in the pantry, right next to the salt. 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/27/making-vegetarian-food-tastier-or/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCooking with the world’s most dangerous* additive; or\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHow I stopped worrying and learned to love MSG.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few weeks ago, I heard \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15819485\"\u003eRobert Krulwich on NPR talking about umami\u003c/a\u003e – the fifth taste. If you didn’t hear it, go to the link above. As always, Krulwich makes the story very engaging. He describes how the Greek philosopher Democritus hypothesized the existence of four tastes: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Everything you eat is made up of a combination of those four tastes (plus the 10,000 various smells your nose can sense).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Making vegetarian food tastier; or"},{"content":"To forestall my mother’s nagging polite and subtle reminders, I took some time yesterday to select pictures for a 2008 Yellowstone calendar. I tried to limit myself to pictures taken on this year’s trip and was happy to see that I could 🙂\nThe ones I finally selected are shown below. They start with the cover image and then go from January through December:\nTo print them, I’m going with Lulu instead of Kodak. There are a couple of reasons for that. One is price 🙂 The other is that Lulu will do a full 8.5″x11″ edge to edge print whereas Kodak always puts a border. The images above are all scaled/cropped to a 8.5×11 aspect ratio, so hopefully, I’ll end up with a pretty nice result.\nupdate: if anyone’s interested, the calendar is available from Lulu with no markup\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTo forestall my mother’s nagging polite and subtle reminders, I took some time yesterday to select pictures for a 2008 Yellowstone calendar. I tried to limit myself to pictures taken on this year’s trip and was happy to see that I could 🙂\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ones I finally selected are shown below. They start with the cover image and then go from January through December:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/cover/\" title=\"Cover\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Cover\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/0_cover_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/january/\" title=\"January\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"January\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/1_january_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/february/\" title=\"February\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"February\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/2_february_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/march/\" title=\"March\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"March\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/3_march_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/april/\" title=\"April\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"April\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/4_april_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/may/\" title=\"May\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"May\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/5_may_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/june/\" title=\"June\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"June\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/6_june_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/july/\" title=\"July\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"July\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/7_july_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/august/\" title=\"August\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"August\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/8_august_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/september/\" title=\"September\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"September\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/9_september_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/october/\" title=\"October\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"October\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/10_october_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/november/\" title=\"November\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"November\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/11_november_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/11/26/calendar-pictures/december/\" title=\"December\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"December\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/12_december_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo print them, I’m going with \u003ca href=\"http://lulu.com\"\u003eLulu\u003c/a\u003e instead of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kodakgallery.com\"\u003eKodak\u003c/a\u003e. There are a couple of reasons for that. One is price 🙂 The other is that Lulu will do a full 8.5″x11″ edge to edge print whereas Kodak always puts a border. The images above are all scaled/cropped to a 8.5×11 aspect ratio, so hopefully, I’ll end up with a pretty nice result.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Calendar pictures"},{"content":"Over the holiday (I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!) I spent some time figuring out what to do about my broken iPod hard drive. The simplest/cheapest thing is to replace the drive with another 30 GB 1.8″ drive. The problem is that this is boring. Okay, next thought – up the drive size. I can get a 40 GB drive that’s the same size and is a drop-in replacement. Only problem is that this isn’t very cost effective in terms of dollars per GB. Apparently the wide-spread use of 30 GB drives in iPods has lowered the price point here. What about a 60 GB? It looks like that’s doable too and at a good price point. Downside is that I need a new back to accommodate the thicker drive. Hrm, that’s no good either.\nIn looking around online, I ran across Tarkan Akdam’s website. He had the same issue with a dead ipod drive and resolved it with a very cool hack. He built a connector board that connects a compact flash card to the ZIF connector for an ipod. This let him connect a 4 GB CF card in place of the drive. As an electronics engineer he did this right – not a cheap connector with random wires (like I would do), but a custom connector board. He’s now selling these and I’ve ordered one, along with a 16 GB CF card. Hopefully by next weekend everything will be here and I can put it all back together.\nCons:\nless space slightly slower data transfer speed Pros:\nexceedingly cool hardier – no moving parts to break the next time I drop it no spin-up time when I change songs – i.e., better ipod response times better battery life (Tarkan’s done some tests and the results are impressive) I would have preferred not to have broken the ipod, but this will at least be interesting and cheaper than a replacement 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/25/rebuilding-an-ipod/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOver the holiday (I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!) I spent some time figuring out what to do about my broken iPod hard drive. The simplest/cheapest thing is to replace the drive with another 30 GB 1.8″ drive. The problem is that this is boring. Okay, next thought – up the drive size. I can get a 40 GB drive that’s the same size and is a drop-in replacement. Only problem is that this isn’t very cost effective in terms of dollars per GB. Apparently the wide-spread use of 30 GB drives in iPods has lowered the price point here. What about a 60 GB? It looks like that’s doable too and at a good price point. Downside is that I need a new back to accommodate the thicker drive. Hrm, that’s no good either.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Rebuilding an iPod"},{"content":"Looks like my ipod died today. As I was packing up to head home it slid off of my bag and onto the floor. Not a bad fall – it’s had worse. It seemed fine when I started it back up, played a couple of songs. But apparently, those were in the memory cache. Once it was done with those, it locked up and the hard drive started clicking\nI guess my options are to either replace the hard drive or buy a new one. I’ll probably replace the drive. I don’t think I care enough about the magical features of the new ipods. At least not enough to justify blowing three to four hundred dollars.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/21/tango-uniform/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLooks like my ipod died today. As I was packing up to head home it slid off of my bag and onto the floor. Not a bad fall – it’s had worse. It seemed fine when I started it back up, played a couple of songs. But apparently, those were in the memory cache. Once it was done with those, it locked up and the hard drive started clicking\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI guess my options are to either replace the hard drive or buy a new one. I’ll probably replace the drive. I don’t think I care enough about the magical features of the new ipods. At least not enough to justify blowing three to four hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Tango uniform"},{"content":"Five years ago, I did a lot of Tai Chi. My teacher at the time constantly related the encouraging (?) story of a tai chi student who went to his teacher and asked, “teacher, when will my knees stop hurting? The teacher told him that his knees would stop hurting, “when he stopped learning.\nIf the guitar is anything like tai chi, then I’m definitely still learning 🙂\nObservations after a week of practice:\nThe fingers on my fretting hand (pronounced, mah frettin’ hand) still hurt, but not as badly as they did after the first night. I can practice for a good hour without too much damage About.com has a very good set of beginner’s lessons Chords learned to date: G, C, D, E minor, A minor and D minor. If I remember correctly, all you need for rock music is 4 chords and a groupie – all I need is a groupie and I’m set! Scales are boring, but helpful. I’ve got the chromatic scale down and I’m working on the E phygian scale. I need for someone to explain to me why there is no B# or E# – going straight from B to C and E to F keeps screwing me up I like the mathematical progressions in music. You get a sense of why Pythagoras was both a mathematician and a mystic. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/19/progress-such-as-it-is/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFive years ago, I did a lot of Tai Chi. My teacher at the time constantly related the encouraging (?) story of a tai chi student who went to his teacher and asked, “teacher, when will my knees stop hurting? The teacher told him that his knees would stop hurting, “when he stopped learning.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf the guitar is anything like tai chi, then I’m definitely still learning 🙂\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObservations after a week of practice:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"progress - such as it is"},{"content":"I missed on Sunday, but under the theory of better late than never…\nDonald Kerr is the principal deputy director of national intelligence, so presumably he speaks with some authority regarding the government’s view of privacy. In a recent Associated Press article he made several remarks which I find exceedingly scary, misleading or both. First up:\nPrivacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.\nSo if I understand this, privacy, whose definition traditionally includes anonymity and the control over personal information, should now be defined to exclude both. Instead we should trust the government to safeguard the formerly private information. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we have a word for the protection of sensitive information – it’s called confidentiality. What Kerr is saying is that there is no such thing as privacy when it comes to government, all you really can hope for is confidentiality.\nI’m not certain it’s possible to express how abhorrent to the constitution the attitude conveyed in that statement really is. Kerr is essentially saying that there is no longer a fourth amendment providing against unreasonable search and seizure.\nBut wait, there’s more! Now for a limited time, in addition to an anti-constitutional perspective on government, Kerr gives us a bunch of crap to justify it:\nKerr said at an October intelligence conference in San Antonio that he finds concerns that the government may be listening in odd when people are “perfectly willing for a green-card holder at an (Internet service provider) who may or may have not have been an illegal entrant to the United States to handle their data.\nFirst, let’s get rid of the fear-mongering. Is Kerr suggesting that the U.S. government is giving green-cards to illegal immigrants? That seems exceedingly unlikely. Second, I’m fairly certain that a green-card holder is not going to be able to arrest me in the event that he or she a) monitors my internet traffic, and b) thinks something is a concern. Third, remember that privacy is about the control of personal information. It’s about having the ability to decide who gets to see what information. Having a government monitor all of the information from all ISPs completely strips away privacy. As to the ISP itself, I think that most of us are used to thinking of them as common carriers (like the telephone companies they are descended from). Their status as common carriers suggests that they are not monitoring all traffic. Moreover, there are laws that prevent them from turning over information to the government without having a court order. Of course, these are the same laws that the administration is pushing congress to overturn through retroactive immunity to the telecom companies.\nFinally, we have this:\nMillions of people in this country — particularly young people — already have surrendered anonymity to social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, and to Internet commerce. These sites reveal to the public, government and corporations what was once closely guarded information, like personal statistics and credit card numbers.\n“Those two generations younger than we are have a very different idea of what is essential privacy, what they would wish to protect about their lives and affairs. And so, it’s not for us to inflict one size fits all, said Kerr, 68. “Protecting anonymity isn’t a fight that can be won. Anyone that’s typed in their name on Google understands that.\nAgain, another lovely distortion. Kerr is suggesting that the intentional, willing dissemination of information is comparable to the government hoovering all of your communications off of the internet. This is complete and utter crap. Are there things about me on the internet? Of course. There are the public records from Durham and Chatham counties and bunch of emails that I sent to public mailing lists. Oh, and the information that I’ve purposefully posted. With the exception of the public records, all of this is information that I made public. Comparing this to the government monitoring all of my personal communications that I have not chosen to make public is an intentional distortion of the basic concepts of privacy. But then I guess we knew that from the beginning of the article.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/13/i-call-bs/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI missed on Sunday, but under the theory of better late than never…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonald Kerr is the principal deputy director of national intelligence, so presumably he speaks with some authority regarding the government’s view of privacy. In a recent Associated Press \u003ca href=\"http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/11/11/definition_changing_for_peoples_privacy/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News\"\u003earticle\u003c/a\u003e he made several remarks which I find exceedingly scary, misleading or both. First up:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrivacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"I call BS"},{"content":"Maybe random Monopuff songs aren’t the best blog post titles, but what the heck.\nK asked me what I wanted for my birthday (fwiw, I’m either very easy or very hard to shop for depending on whether or not you want to get me a gift certificate to a bookstore – thanks Mom!). From what I’m sure was out of the blue for her, I asked for a guitar – hey, I’ve always wanted to learn.\nI went out with a friend on Saturday and found a decent guitar to learn on (relatively inexpensive, but with a good sound). I’ve been practicing for the past couple of days. A few observations:\nit is possible to make your fingers bleed. I haven’t gotten this far, but it’s in sight it shouldn’t be that damn hard to hold the strings to the frets, but there you go if i could just keep my fingers from touching other strings, I would be set I’m working on tuning, scales, general fingering and a couple of chords. The chords only sound right about 1 in 10 times – I guess I’ll keep working on that 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/12/guitar-was-the-case/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMaybe random \u003ca href=\"http://www.monopuff.org/albs_unsup.html\"\u003eMonopuff\u003c/a\u003e songs aren’t the best blog post titles, but what the heck.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eK asked me what I wanted for my birthday (fwiw, I’m either very easy or very hard to shop for depending on whether or not you want to get me a gift certificate to a bookstore – thanks Mom!). From what I’m sure was out of the blue for her, I asked for a guitar – hey, I’ve always wanted to learn.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Guitar was the case"},{"content":"I started thinking through why I didn’t care for management at my last job and as is often the case, I wrote it down to help me think it through. It’s probably not worth posting the reasoning, but I did decide that most of the things I disliked about my most recent management job were due to the environment and not management itself. Don’t get me wrong, management’s not something I enjoy, mostly because it’s a lot of hard work – at least if you are conscientious about it.\nThat said, today, I did agree to give it a shot at the new place. There are quite a few reasons for this. Probably the biggest is that I inherited my father’s sense of responsibility – if you see a job that needs doing and you can do it, then get started. Other reasons are that it really will make the office a better place; it’s a small company and so diversifying my role makes sense; they were extremely flattering when asking; and finally, I’m grateful to the company, my boss and the president of the company for encouraging me to come work for them.\nThat last one sounds a bit silly, but they really did encourage me to join them, they had a lot of patience with my initial hesitance and I am significantly happier now than I was before. At least for now, there’s probably not much they could ask that I wouldn’t at least try.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/12/update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI started thinking through why I didn’t care for management at my last job and as is often the case, I wrote it down to help me think it through. It’s probably not worth posting the reasoning, but I did decide that most of the things I disliked about my most recent management job were due to the environment and not management itself. Don’t get me wrong, management’s not something I enjoy, mostly because it’s a lot of hard work – at least if you are conscientious about it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Update"},{"content":"I’m not Michael Corleone and the places I’ve worked at could hardly be compared to the mob; but I did have an interesting, brief discussion this afternoon with the president of the company for which I’m working. For the record, I don’t think that any discussion which begins, “you used to be management, right? can be characterized as anything but interesting.\nIt seems that the company (like the family, only smaller, legal and less profitable) might have a need for some management and there is some interest in me filling the role. Unfortunately, in taking this job, one of the big pluses for me was that it was not a management position. On the other hand, there are some good things about management and the company is much smaller than the university. I would still be expected to do technical work and the management is anticipated to be about 5-10% of my time (if I did it).\nI don’t have many details yet, mostly because the president wanted to get my initial reaction before we got into details (fwiw, my initial reaction was close to, but not quite, eek!). At the very least this means that I need to figure out what I didn’t like about management at the university so I know which questions to ask in this case. It’ll probably be a good thing, but I hadn’t been planning to do a systematic exploration of my feelings in this area any time soon.\nC’est la vie\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/07/just-when-i-thought-that-i-was-out-they-pull-me-back-in/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’m not Michael Corleone and the places I’ve worked at could hardly be compared to the mob; but I did have an interesting, brief discussion this afternoon with the president of the company for which I’m working. For the record, I don’t think that any discussion which begins, “you used to be management, right? can be characterized as anything but interesting.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt seems that the company (like the \u003cem\u003efamily,\u003c/em\u003e only smaller, legal and less profitable) might have a need for some management and there is some interest in me filling the role. Unfortunately, in taking this job, one of the big pluses for me was that it was not a management position. On the other hand, there are some good things about management and the company is much smaller than the university. I would still be expected to do technical work and the management is anticipated to be about 5-10% of my time (if I did it).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in."},{"content":"A couple of weeks ago, Hunter and I were talking about passwords. More to the point, the inadequacy of passwords and why we haven’t moved beyond them yet. This touches on several points that I made last year. Specifically, that a password that is secure enough starts to restrict its usability.\nIn a nutshell, authentication is proving that you are who you claim to be. The standard ways of authenticating yourself are through: something you know (e.g., a password), something you have (e.g., a token) or something you are (e.g., biometrics, facial recognition, etc.). So the claim here is that the human brain is not good enough at remembering things to make “something you know secure. Unfortunately, it’s cheap and easy to implement. Two things which are always important.\nOur other options are something you are or something you have. Something you are can be complicated and expensive. At the very least, it requires a something-you-are-reader anywhere you want to authenticate yourself. Want to use your computer at home to access the one at work? Make sure you have your trusted, secure something-you-are reader set up (finger print scanner, iris reader, etc.). Want to authenticate from an Internet cafe? Good luck. Besides that, there’s some argument that many of the approaches used to date are not secure; and there’s the creepiness factor.\nSo, something you have. This one can also get potentially expensive, but is potentially cheaper than the rest which is why you see it being used by banks to access online accounts. Here we have some sort of hardware “token. Most traditionally, these tokens have a simple processor, a clock and an LED display. The display shows a pseudo-random number. At a regular interval, the number changes. To log into a service, you key in the random number and maybe an a password. Since the service you access knows the pseudo-random number generating algorithm for your device and the time, it can validate the number you entered. Allow a little bit of logic to deal with clock skew and you are set. Several companies will sell you something like this. Of course, you pay for the devices, pay for the authentication server and then, in some cases, pay for each service.\nSo, what about an open source solution? This is in-part what Hunter and I were talking about. Imagine if you had an encrypted private certificate stored on a thumb drive. You could fairly easily write up a challenge-response protocol to validate the certificate. Since it’s certificate based, you could authenticate without a centralized authentication server – the ability of the certificate signed by your (private) certificate authority to participate in the response authenticates the certificate holder. You could create PAM modules for unix/linux and the equivalent for Windows and Mac. On the client side, stored on the same drive, you would have software to mediate the authentication.\nI could see two ways for the client to do this. 1) a separate process that connects to the service’s server and essentially allows access for this IP. The service then needs to talk to the server-side piece to see if a user is allowed to access from the IP. That plus a password and you’re in pretty good shape. No connection to the authentication service means that you can’t log in. 2) Try to create a service along the lines of stunnel that mediates all communication between the client and the service. This is extremely ugly and I wouldn’t recommend it.\nSo, what are the advantages/disadvantages?\nAdvantage: low hardware cost. Most every computer has a USB reader Advantage: relatively simple to implement Disadvantage: even the cheapest thumb drives are on the order of $5 each Advantage: many people already have one and they could be used for this purpose without wasting too much space Disadvantage: to a certain extent, this is not secure. Specifically, there’s no proof that the user actually has the key as opposed to a copy of the certificate and the algorithm required. #5 seems like the biggest problem. As an open source product, all one needs is the certificate to spoof the token. Okay, we could incorporate the USB serial number, but that can also be copied. Ideally, all the processing would occur on the thumb drive, but that takes us out of the realm of commodity. So, the risk here is that using your token on a compromised computer compromises the token in the same way that using your password on a compromised computer compromises your password.\nThis is definitely not a hypothetical problem, but I don’t know how to resolve it. Is it still worth implementing something like this? If folks have thoughts or suggestions, I would love to hear them.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/06/two-factor-authentication/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA couple of weeks ago, Hunter and I were talking about passwords. More to the point, the inadequacy of passwords and why we haven’t moved beyond them yet. This touches on \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/13/thinking-about-security-and-usability/\"\u003eseveral points that I made last year\u003c/a\u003e. Specifically, that a password that is secure enough starts to restrict its usability.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a nutshell, authentication is proving that you are who you claim to be. The standard ways of authenticating yourself are through: something you know (e.g., a password), something you have (e.g., a token) or something you are (e.g., biometrics, facial recognition, etc.). So the claim here is that the human brain is not good enough at remembering things to make “something you know secure. Unfortunately, it’s cheap and easy to implement. Two things which are always important.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Two factor authentication"},{"content":"Ok, maybe not as exciting as bicycle repair man, but we did spend some quality time this evening with light fixtures. For reasons that neither K nor I can fathom, the breakfast room had a fan attached to a nondescript light fixture. K found a new fixture in the pottery barn catalog and it fits pretty well with the house.\nSince I didn’t have much else to do this evening, I installed it. Pictures below. The first two are the original fixture: when we first moved in (3 years ago) and the fixture on the floor after removal. The next two are the new fixture.\nNow we just need to get rid of the popcorn ceiling…\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/11/05/its-bicyclewlight-fixture-repair-man/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOk, maybe not as exciting as \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCdIe0wdvU\"\u003ebicycle repair man\u003c/a\u003e, but we did spend some quality time this evening with light fixtures. For reasons that neither K nor I can fathom, the breakfast room had a fan attached to a nondescript light fixture. K found \u003ca href=\"http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p9659/toolbox.cfm?cm_lid=16\u0026amp;pgid=p9659\u0026amp;tool=vLarger\"\u003ea new fixture\u003c/a\u003e in the pottery barn catalog and it fits pretty well with the house.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince I didn’t have much else to do this evening, I installed it. Pictures below. The first two are the original fixture: when we first moved in (3 years ago) and the fixture on the floor after removal. The next two are the new fixture.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"It's bicycle^Wlight fixture repair man!"},{"content":"I’m up at the university yesterday, tying up some loose ends from my job there when I ran into the executive vice president. Essentially, this is the guy under the president who runs everything administrative for the campus. I used to see him every month or so as a part of my job responsibilities and we always got along reasonably well.\nSo, I’m talking to him and he tells me that whenever he sees someone who has left the university, he always tells them that he hopes they made the right decision… because they aren’t coming back (implying that he will prevent them from returning). He then goes on to say, but you are welcome back if you ever want to return and that this puts me in a very small group – three in twelve years.\nFor all I know he was blowing serious smoke up my ass. But that’s not really his style. Regardless, it was very kind and probably one of the nicest complements (in context) that I’ve received.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/10/25/well-that-was-nice/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’m up at the university yesterday, tying up some loose ends from my job there when I ran into the executive vice president. Essentially, this is the guy under the president who runs everything administrative for the campus. I used to see him every month or so as a part of my job responsibilities and we always got along reasonably well.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, I’m talking to him and he tells me that whenever he sees someone who has left the university, he always tells them that he hopes they made the right decision… because they aren’t coming back (implying that he will prevent them from returning). He then goes on to say, but you are welcome back if you ever want to return and that this puts me in a very small group – three in twelve years.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"well that was nice"},{"content":"(odd: i thought i had submitted this last night. i guess i just saved it in draft)\nIt’s been raining today which is good. The forecasters are predicting rain tomorrow and Friday which is even better. However, I’m still worried. It’s been over a month since the last real rain and close to six months since we’ve had normal rainfall. Raleigh i s down to about 3 months worth of water supply in the reservoirs – Atlanta’s not any better. What happens when cities actually run out of water? Do they evacuate?\nIn some sense’s, K and I are better and worse off. We’ve got a well, so unfortunately, we don’t have a clue as to how much water remains. For that matter, I don’t even know how deep the well is. The down side is that we could run out of water any day. The only positive is that we could always pay to have the well dug deeper. Talking to some neighbors, we’ve heard the rate is about $9/foot.\nWe’ve done a number of things over the past year or so (predating the drought) to reduce water usage. A year ago, our water softener recorded an average usage of ~150 gallons per day. We replaced our old toilets with newer low flow (current standard 1.6 gal) toilets and that got us down to around 100 gallons per day. We’ve started being more careful when washing dishes in the sink and I’ve started turning off the shower while soaping up or washing my hair. That gets us to a little over 80 gallons per day. I think my next trick might be to turn down the water pressure in our house – that would probably get us another 5-10 or so. After that, I start to think about low use appliances. I love this 2 drawer low water use dishwasher – each drawer takes ~2.4 gallons. Our washing machine is at least 14 years old, that could probably be replaced. I suppose we could also install a hot water recirculator to avoid wasting water letting faucets or showers heat up.\nHopefully, we’ll be okay. We sit near Jordan lake which is one of the collection points in the almost 10,000 sq mile Cape Fear River Basin. Hey, you may call it runoff, I call it ground water.\nY’all enjoy the rain.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/10/25/drought-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(odd: i thought i had submitted this last night. i guess i just saved it in draft)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s been raining today which is good. The forecasters are predicting rain tomorrow and Friday which is even better. However, I’m still worried. It’s been over a month since the last real rain and close to six months since we’ve had normal rainfall. Raleigh i s down to about 3 months worth of water supply in the reservoirs – Atlanta’s not any better. What happens when cities actually run out of water? Do they evacuate?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Drought update"},{"content":"About a year ago, I mentioned installing Tracks a “Getting Things Done application written in RubyOnRails. That was great when I had my always online desktop at the office. I could run a RoR app without a problem. Unfortunately, since I’ve left the university, I don’t have a computer I leave on all the time and my ISP doesn’t offer Rails. I started feeling the need for some sort of online task tracker, so I looked around for things that run on my ISP. Last night I found and installed gtd-php.\nUnfortunately, gtd-php doesn’t seem to be very actively developed (last release in 2006) and it’s overly complicated. Today I looked around and found TaskFreak! It seems to be actively under development and easy to use. I’ve installed it and it seems to be what I need.\nIf you’re looking for a GTD list keeping application written in php, check it out.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/10/15/taskfreak/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAbout a year ago, I \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/08/03/tracks-for-getting-things-done/\"\u003ementioned installing Tracks\u003c/a\u003e a “Getting Things Done application written in RubyOnRails. That was great when I had my always online desktop at the office. I could run a RoR app without a problem. Unfortunately, since I’ve left the university, I don’t have a computer I leave on all the time and my ISP doesn’t offer Rails. I started feeling the need for some sort of online task tracker, so I looked around for things that run on my ISP. Last night I found and installed \u003ca href=\"http://www.gtd-php.com/\"\u003egtd-php\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"TaskFreak!"},{"content":"etselec, suggested I take the Brainworks Left/Right Brain Test. Results below:\nAuditory : 23% Visual : 76% Left : 52% Right : 47%\nFull details:\nyou exhibit an even balance between left- and right- hemisphere dominance and a slight preference for visual over auditory processing. With a score this balanced, it is likely that you would have slightly different results each time you complete this self-assessment quiz. You are a well-rounded person, distinctly individualistic and artistic, an active and multidimensional learner. At the same time, you are logical and disciplined, can operate well within an organization, and are sensitive towards others without losing objectivity. You are organized and goal-directed. Although a “thinking individual, you “take in entire situations readily and can act on intuition. You sometimes tend to vacillate in your learning styles. Learning might take you longer than someone of equal intellect, but you will tend to be more thorough and retain the material longer than those other individuals. You will alternate between logic and impulse. This vacillation will not normally be intentional or deliberate, so you may experience anxiety in situations where you are not certain which aspect of yourself will be called on. With a slight preference for visual processing, you tend to be encompassing in your perceptions, process along multidimensional paths and be active in your attacking of situations or learning. Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself — and of others — while maintaining an “openness which tempers that tendency. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity may not be in keeping with your potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, obvious and the more functional.\nI was asked if I agreed with the results. It’s probably best to say that I don’t disagree. Overall, I think that it’s accurate, but there some things that it just can’t capture, like life history, overall intelligence, etc. But, yeah, I don’t disagree that I’m fairly evenly balanced between left and right brain and that I’m more of a visual than auditory thinker/learner.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/10/02/left-or-right-brain/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://http://etselec.livejournal.com/\"\u003eetselec\u003c/a\u003e, suggested I take the \u003ca href=\"http://mindmedia.com/braintest.html\"\u003eBrainworks Left/Right Brain Test\u003c/a\u003e. Results below:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuditory : 23%\nVisual : 76%\nLeft : 52%\nRight : 47%\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull details:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eyou exhibit an even balance between left- and right- hemisphere dominance and a slight preference for visual over auditory processing. With a score this balanced, it is likely that you would have slightly different results each time you complete this self-assessment quiz. You are a well-rounded person, distinctly individualistic and artistic, an active and multidimensional learner. At the same time, you are logical and disciplined, can operate well within an organization, and are sensitive towards others without losing objectivity. You are organized and goal-directed. Although a “thinking individual, you “take in entire situations readily and can act on intuition. You sometimes tend to vacillate in your learning styles. Learning might take you longer than someone of equal intellect, but you will tend to be more thorough and retain the material longer than those other individuals. You will alternate between logic and impulse. This vacillation will not normally be intentional or deliberate, so you may experience anxiety in situations where you are not certain which aspect of yourself will be called on. With a slight preference for visual processing, you tend to be encompassing in your perceptions, process along multidimensional paths and be active in your attacking of situations or learning. Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself — and of others — while maintaining an “openness which tempers that tendency. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity may not be in keeping with your potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, obvious and the more functional.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Left or right brain?"},{"content":"I’m starting to think that there aren’t any good Internet service providers. hsarik had troubles with Rimu Hosting. My own ISP seems to be far more focused on (their own version of) security than on usability. At work we’ve been using Pair. I’ve been pretty happy with them until this afternoon around 5pm when our project went dead while we had some 50 people using it.\nWhen we first developed the project, Pair was using php4 (yeah, I know – it’s my own fault for using php 🙂 ). Fortunately, they also provided phpwrap to allow cgi access. Okay, that’s not great, but it at least let our project which required php5 go live. Sometime recently, they made the default php5 without phpwrap. If I had known, well great – but I didn’t see any mention of it. Today, right after I went home they broke phpwrap. Easy enough to fix, but still irritating.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/09/17/are-there-no-good-isps/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’m starting to think that there aren’t any good Internet service providers. hsarik had troubles with Rimu Hosting. My own ISP seems to be far more focused on (their own version of) security than on usability. At work we’ve been using Pair. I’ve been pretty happy with them until this afternoon around 5pm when our project went dead while we had some 50 people using it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen we first developed the project, Pair was using php4 (yeah, I know – it’s my own fault for using php 🙂 ). Fortunately, they also provided phpwrap to allow cgi access. Okay, that’s not great, but it at least let our project which required php5 go live. Sometime recently, they made the default php5 without phpwrap. If I had known, well great – but I didn’t see any mention of it. Today, right after I went home they broke phpwrap. Easy enough to fix, but still irritating.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"are there no good ISPs?"},{"content":"you are my mommy\nThree or four weeks ago, K received a call about a baby possum. It seemed that the mother had died and the finders could only locate this one baby. They brought it to the house and K’s been raising it ever since. Apparently, she’s doing a good job. She (the possum, not K) started off at 23g and is now around 80g. The picture above is her clinging to K while sleeping. Note, this is not good rehab practice, but an individual baby possum is a lonely animal. Fortunately, the possum should “re-wild as it grows up.\nIn her more active times, she’s crawling around all over the place, including the top of her aquarium:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/08/21/are-you-my-mommy/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eyou \u003cstrong\u003eare\u003c/strong\u003e my mommy\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dsc_1943_m.jpg\" title=\"dsc_1943_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1943_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dsc_1943_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree or four weeks ago, K received a call about a baby possum. It seemed that the mother had died and the finders could only locate this one baby. They brought it to the house and K’s been raising it ever since. Apparently, she’s doing a good job. She (the possum, not K) started off at 23g and is now around 80g. The picture above is her clinging to K while sleeping. Note, this is not good rehab practice, but an individual baby possum is a lonely animal. Fortunately, the possum should “re-wild as it grows up.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"are you my mommy?"},{"content":"In the wake of the most recent recall of toys from China due to lead paint, we find that the administration has been fighting the regulation of lead in imports. According to McClatchy,\nConsumer advocates say the Bush administration has hindered regulation on two fronts. It stalled efforts to press for greater inspections of imported children’s products, and it altered the focus of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, moving it from aggressive protection of consumers to a more manufacturer-friendly approach.\nThe basic approach has been that the “market will ensure that the products people want (and are willing to pay for) are available. This implies that we have lead in children’s toys because people won’t spend money on higher quality toys.\nI certainly don’t believe that markets are panaceas, but it is foolish to deny that they have the potential to adequately capture information regarding supply and demand. In fact, some of the work that I’m doing right now involves the use of markets to capture information.\nHowever, there are a few key factors in ensuring effective markets. One of the most important is information. A market can only be efficient if the participants are making informed decisions.\nSo, here’s my proposal. Allow importers to bring in as many lead painted toys as they want. The only requirement is that the amount of lead as compared to a recommended amount be printed in large print on the box. The penalty for making false statements is for the manufacturer to be barred from the country and the importer’s/reseller’s CEO to be jailed for 5 years. Ensure that themarket participants have adequate information and, like the disappearing trans fats in processed foods, you’ll see lead paint go away.\nOkay, removing my tongue from my cheek, I do think that there needs to be limits/regulations on lead paint in toys. But expecting a miraculous market to solve all of the problems, in absence of adequate information is just silly.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/08/21/ill-take-a-doll-some-jacks-and-a-dose-of-lead-poisoning-please/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the most recent recall of toys from China due to lead paint, we find that \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/677399.html\"\u003ethe administration has been fighting the regulation of lead in imports.\u003c/a\u003e According to McClatchy,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsumer advocates say the Bush administration has hindered regulation on two fronts. It stalled efforts to press for greater inspections of imported children’s products, and it altered the focus of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, moving it from aggressive protection of consumers to a more manufacturer-friendly approach.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"I'll take a doll, some jacks and a dose of lead poisoning, please"},{"content":"From skvidal.\nIf you haven’t seen powertop yet, you’ve got to look into it. Arjan van de Ven, one of the linux kernel hackers and an employee of Intel, released powertop back in May. What is powertop? Think of the Unix “top, but monitoring power, not CPU, usage. It tells you how long you are spending in different CPU states, how long at different CPU frequencies, what is waking up the CPU most frequently, and best of all, it makes recommendations for saving power.\nPowertop has already identified a number of issues in various software packages and these problems are now being addressed. In my personal case, I found that powertop didn’t help much since I was running an old kernel on an old distribution (FC4 – I know, I know). So I upgraded my laptop to FC7. Before the upgrade, I got about 2 – 2.5 hours on battery. With the upgrade and following the recommendations, I can now get 3.5 hours!\nvery cool.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/08/16/power-management-and-linux/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ca href=\"http://skvidal.wordpress.com/\"\u003eskvidal\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you haven’t seen \u003ca href=\"http://www.linuxpowertop.org/\"\u003epowertop\u003c/a\u003e yet, you’ve got to look into it. Arjan van de Ven, one of the linux kernel hackers and an employee of Intel, released powertop back in May. What is powertop? Think of the Unix “top, but monitoring power, not CPU, usage. It tells you how long you are spending in different CPU states, how long at different CPU frequencies, what is waking up the CPU most frequently, and best of all, it makes recommendations for saving power.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"power management and Linux"},{"content":"It’s been a bit strange changing jobs. My former responsibilities as the security officer for a university are so different from what I’m doing now. A few idle thoughts:\nLife at the university, particularly for management, is entirely interrupt driven. Between the phone calls, urgent emails and meetings, I seldom had time to stop and think. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of work was done at home. At the new place, work is nowhere near as disruptive. I’m in the office for eight hours and I get eight hours worth of work done. No meetings. No phone calls. Few emails – none urgent. The change has been a little jarring. The biggest advantage is that I’m not trying to actually do all of my work at the end of the day, so I’m leaving and getting home at a reasonable time. The university structures its benefits to the advantage of the highest paid. Everyone has to pay for a share of their health insurance. The 403b, which is incredible, pays progressively more for people at the high end of the pay scale. IIRC, if you put in 3%, they put in ~8% for the first $50k of salary and then ~13% for anything above that – assuming that you are in the better paid category of staff. Hourly employees receive less contribution and have a 5 year vesting period. At the new place, they cap at 4% of your salary, so it’s nowhere near as much in retirement. However, they also pay full health and dental. The upshot is that everyone receives health benefits, regardless of income. Retirement benefits which are typically only used by people at the high end of the income scale are less generous. Overall, a far more equitable system. I’m finding that I’m much more relaxed. I am responsible for the implementation of a decent sized project, but because it’s only one project, there is much less stress and I’m not working in the evenings. Which gives me time to find great things online. Like the following from Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s: “via ovicipitum dura est or “the way of the eggheads is hard. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/08/16/notes-from-a-transition/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s been a bit strange changing jobs. My former responsibilities as the security officer for a university are so different from what I’m doing now. A few idle thoughts:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLife at the university, particularly for management, is entirely interrupt driven. Between the phone calls, urgent emails and meetings, I seldom had time to stop and think. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of work was done at home. At the new place, work is nowhere near as disruptive. I’m in the office for eight hours and I get eight hours worth of work done. No meetings. No phone calls. Few emails – none urgent. The change has been a little jarring. The biggest advantage is that I’m not trying to actually do all of my work at the end of the day, so I’m leaving and getting home at a reasonable time.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe university structures its benefits to the advantage of the highest paid. Everyone has to pay for a share of their health insurance. The 403b, which is incredible, pays progressively more for people at the high end of the pay scale. IIRC, if you put in 3%, they put in ~8% for the first $50k of salary and then ~13% for anything above that – assuming that you are in the better paid category of staff. Hourly employees receive less contribution and have a 5 year vesting period. At the new place, they cap at 4% of your salary, so it’s nowhere near as much in retirement. However, they also \u003cstrong\u003epay full health and dental\u003c/strong\u003e. The upshot is that everyone receives health benefits, regardless of income. Retirement benefits which are typically only used by people at the high end of the income scale are less generous. Overall, a far more equitable system.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’m finding that I’m much more relaxed. I am responsible for the implementation of a decent sized project, but because it’s only one project, there is much less stress and I’m not working in the evenings. Which gives me time to find great things online. Like the following from Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s: \u003cem\u003e“via ovicipitum dura est\u003c/em\u003e or “the way of the eggheads is hard.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"notes from a transition"},{"content":"Done. Finished. That’s all she wrote. Yesterday was my last day at the university.\nSometime before I left, I started thinking about what, if anything, I wanted to leave on my whiteboard. The obvious came to mind: “So long and thanks for all the fish. But that’s a little too obvious. My next thought was to crib a few lines from Jonathan Coulton:\nI fear nothing\nAnymore\nSee you all in hell\nBut I figured that wouldn’t be appreciated. Instead, I focused on finishing up some last minute projects and before I knew it, I had to leave to run an errand before the farewell party. I left the hard drive wipers erasing my laptop and desktop, grabbed my keys, procurement card, parking pass, prox card and id card. All of which I left with the finance and administrative folks. When the door closed behind me, I knew that I couldn’t get back in the building and that the lightness I felt came from more than the lack of a laptop in my bag.\nIt really didn’t matter what I put on the whiteboard – I’m done.\np.s. to everyone that could make it to the party, Thanks! it was great. to those that couldn’t, i’m sorry i missed you. folks can email me at (at) fenris (dot) org or at . (at) gmail (dot) com.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/08/11/fini/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDone. Finished. That’s all she wrote. Yesterday was my last day at the university.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometime before I left, I started thinking about what, if anything, I wanted to leave on my whiteboard. The obvious came to mind: “So long and thanks for all the fish. But that’s a little too obvious. My next thought was to crib \u003ca href=\"http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/See%20You%20All%20in%20Hell\"\u003ea few lines\u003c/a\u003e from \u003ca href=\"http://www.jonathancoulton.com\"\u003eJonathan Coulton\u003c/a\u003e:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI fear nothing\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnymore\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee you all in hell\u003c/p\u003e","title":"fini"},{"content":"One of my favorite things is really good bread. Back when I was in school, I bought a book on making bread. It started from a home made sourdough starter that had no commercial yeast. It was basically water and flour with a few grapes tied in a bag to give it some extra yeast. The bread itself also called for no commercial yeast. So the whole loaf was made using whatever yeasts happened to be in the air. A friend of mine, a German woman named Margrid Krueger, made similar bread a gave me a few of her tips on how to solve bread problems, etc.\nThe problem with this type of sourdough bread is that it takes about two days to make a loaf. You make up the bread dough, let it rise for about four hours, shape it, let it rise for another and then put it in the fridge overnight to develop. The next day, you pull it out and let it sit for another three hours before baking. Okay, so you’re sitting around waiting for most of the time, but that’s a heck of a long time to wait for bread.\nSo, I found a different bread book. I started using quick rise yeast and the microwave to help raise the dough’s temperature for a faster rise. I could make bread in about an hour or two – start to finish. But you lost out on the flavor. Last weekend I decided that it was time to get back to the sourdough. I got my starter going, fed it a few times and was ready to bake this weekend. After much kneeding, rising and waiting, I put the bread in the oven this morning. It turned out great. A nice crust, good flavor, a pretty interior, etc. Just the thing to serve with a pot of gumbo.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/29/home-made-sour-dough-bread/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne of my favorite things is really good bread. Back when I was in school, I bought a book on making bread. It started from a home made sourdough starter that had no commercial yeast. It was basically water and flour with a few grapes tied in a bag to give it some extra yeast. The bread itself also called for no commercial yeast. So the whole loaf was made using whatever yeasts happened to be in the air. A friend of mine, a German woman named Margrid Krueger, made similar bread a gave me a few of her tips on how to solve bread problems, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Home made sourdough bread"},{"content":"I’ve got about three weeks to go. Unfortunately, my list of projects or things to get done seems to be growing longer, not shorter and I’m losing my motivation :-/\nI think the hardest thing about leaving is resisting the urge to tell people the truth about what I think of their ideas, or their meetings, or the organization in general. Resisting that urge gets harder every day, even though I know that it would be entirely pointless. It might make me feel better to vent for a bit, but what would it accomplish? I would aggravate some people off, burn some bridges and no one would actually listen to what I was saying – no matter how well reasoned or explained.\nI guess I’ve always wanted to do the whole “speak truth to power thing. But in the end, speaking truth to power is vanity. Power is seldom interested in hearing truth. It is only interested in hearing statements supporting its ideas and positions. So, you wind up irritating a lot of people and nothing changes. Not exactly a win for anyone.\nDon’t get me wrong. I’m not saying I think it will be different or better elsewhere – this feels like a universal condition. I’m just justifying to myself why I haven’t called anyone out for idiocy.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/23/too-much-to-do-not-enough-time-or-motivation/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’ve got about three weeks to go. Unfortunately, my list of projects or things to get done seems to be growing longer, not shorter and I’m losing my motivation :-/\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI think the hardest thing about leaving is resisting the urge to tell people the truth about what I think of their ideas, or their meetings, or the organization in general. Resisting that urge gets harder every day, even though I know that it would be entirely pointless. It might make me feel better to vent for a bit, but what would it accomplish? I would aggravate some people off, burn some bridges and no one would actually listen to what I was saying – no matter how well reasoned or explained.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Too much to do, not enough time or motivation"},{"content":"When I was taking the dogs out last night, I noticed that we had a visitor. A bat had decided to hang out on the front porch. I’m guessing he was resting before going to work eating the insects in the area. I called K, let the dogs do their thing and came back in for the camera. Fortunately, he stayed put while I took a few pictures. From our field guide to mammals, I would guess that he’s the Little Brown Myotis, but it’s not clear that they live in this area. I guess we’ll look a bit more.\nInspired by the bat siting, I spent some time staking out our humming bird feeder (note to self, this is easier with a blind). I took a few shots, only two of which were any good. I particularly like the one where she’s perching on the branch.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/15/wildlife-from-the-front-porch/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWhen I was taking the dogs out last night, I noticed that we had a visitor. A bat had decided to hang out on the front porch. I’m guessing he was resting before going to work eating the insects in the area. I called K, let the dogs do their thing and came back in for the camera. Fortunately, he stayed put while I took a few pictures. From our field guide to mammals, I would guess that he’s the Little Brown Myotis, but it’s not clear that they live in this area. I guess we’ll look a bit more.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Wildlife from the front porch"},{"content":"Well, it’s official now. I’m leaving the university to go work for a private company – my last day will be August 10th which gives me all of a 4 day weekend before starting full time for the new place. FWIW, I’m definitely looking forward to the change. I’ve been in my current job for about 6.5 years and in the tradition of my family, that means that I’ve been doing the same thing a year and a half too long.\nThe work at the new place is completely different than the job I have now, but in a sense it’s a return to something familiar. The company does R\u0026amp;D work, well really more R than D on a number of grants, contracts, etc. It feels a lot like a big (and more productive) graduate office. It’s a good chance to put my PhD back to work. The new company is also pretty light on meetings (they are mostly impromptu and short) and as an engineer, not a director, I don’t have to manage people. 🙂\nI suppose that I should also say that this was a very hard decision for me. I’ve been here for almost 14 years, 6.5 in my current role – my entire adult life. The university feels like home. But more than anything else, I’ll miss working with the people I know there. A lot of folks are more like friends than colleagues.\nI’m going to cut this short before I get too sentimental – I still have over 4 weeks to go 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/10/new-job/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWell, it’s official now. I’m leaving the university to go work for a private company – my last day will be August 10th which gives me all of a 4 day weekend before starting full time for the new place. FWIW, I’m definitely looking forward to the change. I’ve been in my current job for about 6.5 years and in the tradition of my family, that means that I’ve been doing the same thing a year and a half too long.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New job"},{"content":"So K’s possums got a big brother recently:\nThe whole family. Note the little sores on the small one? That’s where their whiskers are coming in.\nHere’s the biggest one by himself. He needs a bit more enrichment, so he gets to hang out with us on occassion.\nI didn’t quite capture the possum tongue, but he was licking me. Very cute 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/09/more-possum-cuteness/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo K’s possums got a big brother recently:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dsc_1900.JPG\" title=\"dsc_1900.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1900.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dsc_1900.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e The whole family. Note the little sores on the small one? That’s where their whiskers are coming in.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dsc_1906.JPG\" title=\"dsc_1906.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1906.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dsc_1906.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Here’s the biggest one by himself. He needs a bit more enrichment, so he gets to hang out with us on occassion.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dsc_1904.JPG\" title=\"dsc_1904.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1904.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/dsc_1904.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e I didn’t quite capture the possum tongue, but he was licking me. Very cute 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"More possum cuteness"},{"content":"Browsing the New York Times website, I ran across the blog of Stanley Fish. Fish, if you’ve never heard of him (lucky you), is an academic star. He is an English professor specializing in deconstruction. In other words, he is not interested in truth; he is only interested in being right by proving that nothing is true.\nThe blog posts which caught my eye were a series describing Fish’s analysis of three recent books on atheism. Those of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchen. Sparing you the arguments, Fish concludes in his first post, The Three Atheists, that Harris, Dawkins and Hitchen are not contributing anything new. Unfortunately, he does not come to this conclusion by examining the what the books say, but only by applying some of the key principles of the books to religious arguments that he knows have already been made within the context of religion and then assuming he knows how the authors would respond. This is a neat trick that allows him to suggest that there is nothing new in the books without actually engaging in the arguments the books make.\nIn his second piece, Atheism and Evidence, Fish attempts to demonstrate that science has no grounds for examining religion, nor does religion have grounds for examining science. He performs this trick by blurring the lines between faith and reason; suggesting that both science and religion are based in faith and noting that religion also strives to sustain itself through reason.\nIn drawing that conclusion, Fish touches on a subject that has been of long standing interest to me: the phenomenon of morality. Harris and Dawkins both believe that morality is derived from natural selection – there is a genetic basis for our moral codes of conduct. To ridicule this idea that science can stand alone and that morality does not require religion, Fish notes that Harris and Dawkins believe:\nIt’s just a matter of time before so-called moral phenomena will be brought within the scientific ambit: “There will probably come a time, Harris declares, “when we achieve a detailed understanding of human happiness, and of ethical judgments themselves, at the level of the brain. And a bit later, “There is every reason to believe that sustained inquiry in the moral sphere will force convergence of our various belief systems in the way that it has in every other science.\nWhat gives Harris his confidence? Why does he have “every reason to believe (a nice turn of phrase)? What are his reasons? What is his evidence?…\nNote that Fish pulls a cute rhetorical trick here. He ignores the arguments about morality and genetics. Ignores the fact that there are detailed theories allowing one to predict the extent to which we extend our morality to others in our community. He ignores that these theories also predict non-human altruistic behaviors, which religious theories of morality can not. No, he turns away from behavioral discussions of morality and instead focuses on the area where there are still unknowns: how are these high-level genetic imperatives implemented in the structure of the brain. Where religion says to do good because God says to, and Dawkins says that we do good because our genes (though not necessarily ourselves) are likely to prosper, Fish demands that we tell him how doing good excites certain neurons in the brain to encourage doing good.\nFinally, Fish discusses objections raised in his first piece: that scientific theories are falsifiable whereas religions faith is constructed so as not to be. Fish states that systems can only be falsified within the context of the belief system in which they operate. So long as any object under discussion is internally self-consistent, it can not be falsified. Fish goes on to flesh out this argument in his third post.\nIn Is Religion Man-Made?, Fish describes how God is defined in the context of religion. Noting that God exceeds human understanding and is therefore not a subject for examination. Moreover, says Fish, within the context of religion, God is all-encompassing of creation and how can we examine something of which we are part? It seems to be a hobby of humanity to construct such internally consistent theories which can not be tested. Bishop Berkely constructed one regarding the non-existence of matter which no one believed to be true, but could not dispute the internal logic. Samuel Johnson, kicking a large stone, noted, “I refute it thus.\nJohnson is essentially asserting that while such theories are impossible to disprove, the ultimate judge of their reality is their tangible existence. It is all well and good to assert a pretty piece of logic as indisputable and therefore true, but that does not make it real. Reality is the physical universe in which we inhabit. God may exist as a philosophical construct because the logic of its existence is internally consistent, but that does not mean that there is such a being in reality. Of course, religions do assert that there is such a being in reality. Most that assert a God, with the exception of the Deists, believe that it plays an active role in the universe, i.e., God can alter the physical. Now Fish may think (or assert – I actually doubt that Fish believes any of this) that the existence of God cannot be tested because he is not tangible or because we exist within God, but that’s just silly. Anything which can affect reality can be tested. For example, there have been numerous studies that demonstrate that double-blind studies of prayer show no improvement in sick patients. Cases of healing occur with roughly the same frequency of spontaneous remission. In short, if miracles reflected in a change in reality are the proof of God, then they fall short. That is not to say that a belief in God may not change people. That is not to say that praying will not help you to come to grips with tragedy; only that you would be hard pressed to attribute these to a real, tangible God as opposed to an abstract, conceptual God.\nComing back around to the start of this post, I suppose that I should really just learn not to read deconstructionists. On the other hand, I did comply with the burden placed on me from the title of Fish’s blog, I did “Think Again – I just happened to think that Fish is full of it. 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/07/deconstructionists-atheism-and-religion/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBrowsing the New York Times website, I ran across the blog of Stanley Fish. Fish, if you’ve never heard of him (lucky you), is an academic star. He is an English professor specializing in deconstruction. In other words, he is not interested in truth; he is only interested in being right by proving that nothing is true.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe blog posts which caught my eye were a series describing Fish’s analysis of three recent books on atheism. Those of \u003ca href=\"http://www2.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall05/032765.htm\"\u003eSam Harris\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=689776\"\u003eRichard Dawkins\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://www.twelvebooks.com/books/god_not_great.asp\"\u003eChristopher Hitchen\u003c/a\u003e. Sparing you the arguments, Fish concludes in his first post, \u003ca href=\"http://screwsubwalls.blogspot.com/2007/06/stanley-fish-think-again_17.html\"\u003eThe Three Atheists\u003c/a\u003e, that Harris, Dawkins and Hitchen are not contributing anything new. Unfortunately, he does not come to this conclusion by examining the what the books say, but only by applying some of the key principles of the books to religious arguments that he knows have already been made within the context of religion and then assuming he knows how the authors would respond. This is a neat trick that allows him to suggest that there is nothing new in the books without actually engaging in the arguments the books make.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Deconstructionists, atheism and religion"},{"content":"you think LOL Possums is a good idea:\nI’ll take some more pictures tomorrow, including a few of their new-ish, big brother. All of these guys are going back to their regular care taker Monday. They’ve been cute to have around, but I don’t think K is looking for more.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/06/reason-27-for-staying-off-the-computer-after-gb/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eyou think LOL Possums is a good idea:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lol-possum.jpg\" title=\"lol-possum.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"lol-possum.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lol-possum.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lol-possum2.jpg\" title=\"lol-possum2.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"lol-possum2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lol-possum2.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ll take some more pictures tomorrow, including a few of their new-ish, big brother. All of these guys are going back to their regular care taker Monday. They’ve been cute to have around, but I don’t think K is looking for more.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"reason #27 for staying off the computer after GB..."},{"content":"I hope everyone had a good 4th of July and if you had the day off, you enjoyed it.\nI spent my day doing a little of this and a little of that. I picked up a low water use irrigation system that I’ve run to the flowers and the blueberry bushes. I’ll need a few hundred more feet of pipe to run it out to all of the trees, but this is a good start.\nInspired by hsarik, I made some beer and cheese bread. We used that to make veggie-sausage poboys. That, some onion rings and some fruit made for a great holiday dinner.\nFinally, I may have a new favorite song: “Future Soon by Jonathan Coulton. How can you not like a song featuring love, lasers and robot wars whose chorus contains the lines:\nAnd I won’t always be this way When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away\nOkay, I’m a bit of a nerd\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/07/04/happy-july-4th/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI hope everyone had a good 4th of July and if you had the day off, you enjoyed it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI spent my day doing a little of this and a little of that. I picked up a low water use irrigation system that I’ve run to the flowers and the blueberry bushes. I’ll need a few hundred more feet of pipe to run it out to all of the trees, but this is a good start.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Happy July 4th"},{"content":"K is taking care of some baby possums for the next week. They are about 16 grams (1/2 oz) each. Obligatory pictures included…\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/29/possum-husbandry/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK is taking care of some baby possums for the next week. They are about 16 grams (1/2 oz) each. Obligatory pictures included…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/06/29/possum-husbandry/dsc_1891jpg/\" title=\"dsc_1891.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1891.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dsc_1891.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/06/29/possum-husbandry/dsc_1892jpg/\" title=\"dsc_1892.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1892.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dsc_1892.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/06/29/possum-husbandry/dsc_1893jpg/\" title=\"dsc_1893.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1893.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dsc_1893.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/06/29/possum-husbandry/dsc_1894jpg/\" title=\"dsc_1894.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1894.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dsc_1894.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/06/29/possum-husbandry/dsc_1895jpg/\" title=\"dsc_1895.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_1895.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dsc_1895.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Possum husbandry..."},{"content":"Just a couple of minor updates:\nmy keyboard came in yesterday and it’s everything that I hoped it would be. I feel sorry for the folk in my office suite. It is a bit loud I cropped some of the photos using the original sized images, so all that’s left are captions and fixing the lens smudge ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/29/minor-updates/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eJust a couple of minor updates:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emy keyboard came in yesterday and it’s everything that I hoped it would be. I feel sorry for the folk in my office suite. It is a bit loud\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI cropped some of the photos using the original sized images, so all that’s left are captions and fixing the lens smudge\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e","title":"minor updates"},{"content":"Okay, I’ve made some updates to my Yellowstone pictures\nChangelog:\nI’ve added my favorites (which had been stuck in another directory and didn’t get in the first release) I’ve cleaned up the brightness on the first 8 shots (the camera had set itself to an exposure compensation of -0.7 for some reason) I’ve fixed the gallery problem that etselec noted To do:\nFix the stupid lens smudge in some of the wide angle shots near the end of the trip Add some minimal captions Go back to the original, larger shots and crop out tight images on some of the birds (like the sandhill cranes with their chicks and the peregrine falcons) ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/26/vacation-pictures-v02/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, I’ve made some updates to my \u003ca href=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=15\"\u003eYellowstone pictures\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChangelog:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ve added my favorites (which had been stuck in another directory and didn’t get in the first release)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ve cleaned up the brightness on the first 8 shots (the camera had set itself to an exposure compensation of -0.7 for some reason)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ve fixed the gallery problem that etselec noted\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo do:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFix the stupid lens smudge in some of the wide angle shots near the end of the trip\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdd some minimal captions\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGo back to the original, larger shots and crop out tight images on some of the birds (like the \u003ca href=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=579\"\u003esandhill cranes with their chicks\u003c/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=43\"\u003eperegrine falcons\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"Vacation pictures v0.2"},{"content":"I was in a longish meeting today when it occurred to me that it is a military truism that “no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Moreover, as Walt Kelly’s Pogo noted, “we have met the enemy and he is us. This suggests that no plan survives first contact with its creators.\nMost of my meetings bear this out.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/25/fun-with-aphorisms/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI was in a longish meeting today when it occurred to me that it is a military truism that “no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Moreover, as Walt Kelly’s Pogo noted, “we have met the enemy and he is us. This suggests that no plan survives first contact with its creators.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of my meetings bear this out.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Fun with aphorisms"},{"content":"When we came back from Yellowstone this year, I had about 1,800 pictures to go through. I’ve finally selected the best 200 or so. Some of them need a bit of cleanup in terms of brightness and in a few cases, getting rid of a mark that was on the back of a lens which shows up when the camera is stopped down. Using the open source principle of release early and often, I’ve put these images online in their current form. I’ve also got a few more that I put in my “best category that I haven’t done yet, but will tonight.\nEnjoy\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/25/yellowstone-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWhen we came back from Yellowstone this year, I had about 1,800 pictures to go through. I’ve finally selected the best 200 or so. Some of them need a bit of cleanup in terms of brightness and in a few cases, getting rid of a mark that was on the back of a lens which shows up when the camera is stopped down. Using the open source principle of release early and often, I’ve put these images \u003ca href=\"/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=15\"\u003eonline in their current form\u003c/a\u003e. I’ve also got a few more that I put in my “best category that I haven’t done yet, but will tonight.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Yellowstone pictures"},{"content":"Last year, I mentioned High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, where you combine multiple pictures taken at different exposures to create a single picture where all of image is properly exposed. I didn’t do much with it at the time because, a) it’s not really possible when you shoot slide film, and b) there didn’t seem to be a good hdr program for linux.\na) was resolved when I went digital in November\nas to b), I just wasn’t paying attention. I was looking for something in the Gimp or a Gimp plugin. I should have looked for PFSTools, PFSTmo and Qtpfsgui. PFSTools is a command line tool for creating and manipulating HDR images in their high bit count format. PFSTmo is a package of command line tone-mapping algorithms that will take the HDR images and map them back to 8 bit per channel images. Finally, Qtpfsgui is a GUI front end for all of this.\nI’ve only just started playing with the tools, but take a look at the following 3 images, each with a different exposure (exposure compensation of -2, 0 and 2 EV):\nFrom these images, I created an HDR image which was then tonemapped using different algorithms to produce the following images (going from most to least realistic):\nPersonally, I like the middle one, although I do wonder why the trees directly behind the house look odd in all of the images. I’ll keep playing around and see I can get a better sense of the options.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/24/hdr/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast year, I \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/08/03/high-dynamic-range-photography/\"\u003ementioned\u003c/a\u003e High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, where you combine multiple pictures taken at different exposures to create a single picture where all of image is properly exposed. I didn’t do much with it at the time because, a) it’s not really possible when you shoot slide film, and b) there didn’t seem to be a good hdr program for linux.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ea) was resolved when I went digital in November\u003c/p\u003e","title":"HDR"},{"content":"K thinks I’m a freak. In her defense, I’m not certain that she would have ordered a $70 keyboard, so she may be right. In my defense, I bought my first IBM-clone in 1990 and have kept the keyboard I chose since then. The company I bought it from, Formosa Computing (for those of you in NC, think Intrex), assembled parts and sold white-box computers. The keyboard that they originally gave me was awful. I didn’t like the mushy keys, so I went back, tried a dozen different keyboards and finally exchanged it for something with a bit more tactile response. With every new computer I bought, I used this keyboard. At one point, it had an AT to PS/2 to USB adapter in order to get it working.\nUnfortunately, it finally died a couple of months ago. I bought a replacement, ergonomic, wireless keyboard that I promptly hated. I did try, I gave it a chance, but I kept mistyping. Tonight, I finally broke down and bought a new keyboard from Unicomp, the people that own the license to the original IBM buckling spring keyboard patent used on the Model M keyboards.\nDoes all of this make me a freak? Probably, but it could be worse. I could be as obsessive as these guys.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/24/its-official/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK thinks I’m a freak. In her defense, I’m not certain that she would have ordered a $70 keyboard, so she may be right. In my defense, I bought my first IBM-clone in 1990 and have kept the keyboard I chose since then. The company I bought it from, Formosa Computing (for those of you in NC, think Intrex), assembled parts and sold white-box computers. The keyboard that they originally gave me was awful. I didn’t like the mushy keys, so I went back, tried a dozen different keyboards and finally exchanged it for something with a bit more tactile response. With every new computer I bought, I used this keyboard. At one point, it had an AT to PS/2 to USB adapter in order to get it working.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"It's official..."},{"content":"As a member of the IEEE, I participate (loosely) in a a couple of societies: IEEE’s Computer Society and the Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). I was reading SSIT’s magazine this weekend and ran across an article on Amish technology (no jokes please). The article was particularly interesting to me because my grandmother’s mother was a Mennonite and her father was Amish.\nWhile reading the article, I ran into a sentence that caught my eye. The article noted that Issac Glick in Lancaster County Pennsylvania was the first Amish to use electricity in 1910. He hooked a generator up to an electric light. Shortly after that, all of the Amish communities banned the use of electricity except in certain controlled circumstances. What caught my eye was the name and the place. My great grandfather was named Glick – in fact, both my father and I have the “Glick nose (what can I say, it’s somewhat unique 🙂 ).\nWhen I called my parents last night, I spent some time talking to my mother about the Glicks. It seems that the family legend is that my great grandmother (Minnie Mae Miller) left the Mennonite community to marry my great grandfather who had been expelled from an Amish community in… Lancaster Pennsylvania. Now I’m wondering if and how I’m related to Issac Glick?\nApparently, there’s a biography about my great grandmother that was published a few years ago. I need to track down a copy and see if there’s a mention of her in-laws.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/18/amish-technology/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs a member of the IEEE, I participate (loosely) in a a couple of societies: IEEE’s Computer Society and the Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). I was reading SSIT’s magazine this weekend and ran across an article on Amish technology (no jokes please). The article was particularly interesting to me because my grandmother’s mother was a Mennonite and her father was Amish.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile reading the article, I ran into a sentence that caught my eye. The article noted that Issac Glick in Lancaster County Pennsylvania was the first Amish to use electricity in 1910. He hooked a generator up to an electric light. Shortly after that, all of the Amish communities banned the use of electricity except in certain controlled circumstances. What caught my eye was the name and the place. My great grandfather was named Glick – in fact, both my father and I have the “Glick nose (what can I say, it’s somewhat unique 🙂 ).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Amish Technology"},{"content":"Working in IT, one of the things that is often on my mind is backing up my data. It’s often on my mind, but I seldom do anything about it. A few years ago, K and I bought an external USB drive to which we occasionally sync our desktop. That made me a bit more comfortable, we’re now covered if the drive crashes. Of course, I then started worrying about a fire in the house. Since my external drive is sitting on top of the computer itself, anything that destroys the one will likely destroy the other.\nAt work, I was recently on the “storage advisory team. Sounds more grandiose than it was – we were basically a bunch of folks on a death march project to make recommendations for things dealing with data storage. One of the projects we were tasked with was data backup and recovery. None of the outsourced solutions we looked at were going to support linux, but the project did increase my backup anxiety.\nLast week, I finally did something about it. I signed up for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and downloaded a copy of s3sync. I took the USB drive up to the office (for the fast networking) and backed everything up to S3. This weekend, I tested the backup service by backing up the home computer – essentially, anything that had changed since last weekend. Overall, it went well. The original upload took maybe 8 hours for 17GB. The updates took about 1 hour, but that is in part because of all the deletion requests needed (I cleaned up quite a bit) and my slow desktop hard drive.\nThis isn’t something I would have recommended on the storage team, but it’s effective and cheap. Rather than being ~$20/month for 17GB, it cost ~$2.60 to upload the data and will cost ~$2.50/month to store it. Plus, I think I can stop worrying about backups 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/17/a-mental-sigh-of-relief/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWorking in IT, one of the things that is often on my mind is backing up my data. It’s often on my mind, but I seldom do anything about it. A few years ago, K and I bought an external USB drive to which we occasionally sync our desktop. That made me a bit more comfortable, we’re now covered if the drive crashes. Of course, I then started worrying about a fire in the house. Since my external drive is sitting on top of the computer itself, anything that destroys the one will likely destroy the other.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A mental sigh of relief"},{"content":"Okay, thanks to Jag, I’ve seen the coolest thing ever. The steampunk keyboard + monitor:\nNow all I need is a few dozen hours of free time to build my own.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/11/thats-too-cool/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://agrajag.livejournal.com/104837.html\"\u003eJag\u003c/a\u003e, I’ve seen the coolest thing ever. The steampunk keyboard + monitor:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"m19.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/m19.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow all I need is a few dozen hours of free time to build my own.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"That's too cool"},{"content":"I made a few things I’ve never made before for dinner last night, including lemon pizza and two kinds of ice cream.\nThe lemon pizza recipe is from the Wednesday Chef and was mentioned by someone on an IRC channel (etselec? I can’t remember – sorry). K and I don’t eat salmon roe, so I substituted finely chopped capers. Overall, it was pretty good, but we didn’t slice the lemons thin enough and they over powered the pizza. If you’re going to do this, try to get the lemon slices down to about 1mm.\nWe also made a couple of ice creams. In general, we like to do different types of ice cream and to try new things. Strangely enough, we had never made fruit ice creams (chai – yes, cinnamon – yes, fruit – no). Fortunately, I had picked up a pint of blueberries and a pound of cherries. So, two different flavors: blueberry and cherry! They both came out well in their vanilla ice cream base. Now if I was slightly more adventurous, I would have made the cherry in a chocolate base; and if I was really adventurous, I would have ignored the fruit and made rosemary ice cream as described by a friend last week 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/11/weekend-cooking/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI made a few things I’ve never made before for dinner last night, including lemon pizza and two kinds of ice cream.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lemon pizza recipe is from the \u003ca href=\"http://wednesdaychef.typepad.com/the_wednesday_chef/2006/03/christopher_ido.html\"\u003eWednesday Chef\u003c/a\u003e and was mentioned by someone on an IRC channel (etselec? I can’t remember – sorry). K and I don’t eat salmon roe, so I substituted finely chopped capers. Overall, it was pretty good, but we didn’t slice the lemons thin enough and they over powered the pizza. If you’re going to do this, try to get the lemon slices down to about 1mm.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Weekend cooking"},{"content":"Sorry I’ve been absent for a bit. I got sick the Sunday before we left on vacation and didn’t even start feeling better until Thursday morning. The we headed out to Yellowstone for two weeks on Saturday.\nThe vacation was great, although yesterday’s trip home was a nightmare. We got diverted from our connecting airport to Rochester, MN. That meant that we didn’t get to Minneapolis until an hour after our connection was supposed to leave. Fortunately, the connection itself had been diverted to Deluth, so we still beat it by an hour. We did make it home, but rather than the plane landing in NC at 10pm, it didn’t get in until 12:30am. We didn’t get home until after 2am. With getting the dogs from boarding and doing some shopping so that we would be able to eat, I haven’t had a chance to write up much about the vacation.\nFortunately, on the advice of a number of people, I took a digital SLR on the trip this year, so pictures shouldn’t be too long in coming. I just need to get rid of the bad shots and post the good. In the mean time, here’s a nice shot to hold folks over. It’s a pine marten, a relative of the weasel, but darn adorable. We were with a friend who photographs martens (and other wildlife) professionally, and his comment was that this, and a shot he took years ago, are the best marten shots he’s ever seen. 😀\n(oh, and for the record, I do want to be Dan Hartman when I grow up 🙂 )\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/06/03/back-home/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSorry I’ve been absent for a bit. I got sick the Sunday before we left on vacation and didn’t even start feeling better until Thursday morning. The we headed out to Yellowstone for two weeks on Saturday.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vacation was great, although yesterday’s trip home was a nightmare. We got diverted from our connecting airport to Rochester, MN. That meant that we didn’t get to Minneapolis until an hour after our connection was supposed to leave. Fortunately, the connection itself had been diverted to Deluth, so we still beat it by an hour. We did make it home, but rather than the plane landing in NC at 10pm, it didn’t get in until 12:30am. We didn’t get home until after 2am. With getting the dogs from boarding and doing some shopping so that we would be able to eat, I haven’t had a chance to write up much about the vacation.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Back home"},{"content":"K and I are going through the preparations for our trip out to Yellowstone and I was looking into the photography setup. I headed over to B\u0026amp;H, found the circular polarizer for the lens of my new digital camera, then went over to the film section. For a number of reasons, I still think that landscape shots should be taken using slide film, preferably slow slide film, ideally Velvia 50. It does things with greens and browns that make my heart all fluttery (yes, I know this makes me a big photography nerd). But when I got to the slide film section, I couldn’t find Velvia 50. Velvia 100, yes, but no Velvia 50 – it has been discontinued. Now, Velvia 100 is a nice film, but it’s really just not the same as Velvia 50. For landscapes, it’s too fast – I would rather have the slower speed. After all, my digital can imitate 100 speed film, I want something slower. I bought the 100 speed anyway – I still think that slide film is better than digital for landscapes.\nThere is a happy ending to this. Looking around, it seems that there were a number of other people complaining when Fuji discontinued Velvia 50. So they are planning to restart production. Unfortunately, they are not shipping until July. I guess the lesson for Fuji is that when you are catering to a niche market, you have to accommodate that niche’s strange preferences. 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/05/10/waaaaaa-i-want-my-velvia-50/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK and I are going through the preparations for our trip out to Yellowstone and I was looking into the photography setup. I headed over to B\u0026amp;H, found the circular polarizer for the lens of my new digital camera, then went over to the film section. For a number of reasons, I still think that landscape shots should be taken using slide film, preferably slow slide film, ideally Velvia 50. It does things with greens and browns that make my heart all fluttery (yes, I know this makes me a big photography nerd). But when I got to the slide film section, I couldn’t find Velvia 50. Velvia 100, yes, but no Velvia 50 – it has been discontinued. Now, Velvia 100 is a nice film, but it’s really just not the same as Velvia 50. For landscapes, it’s too fast – I would rather have the slower speed. After all, my digital can imitate 100 speed film, I want something slower. I bought the 100 speed anyway – I still think that slide film is better than digital for landscapes.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Waaaaaa... I want my Velvia 50"},{"content":"Technically, K and I are not vegetarians. We’re pesco-vegetarians: we’ll eat fish and I’ll eat shellfish (K just doesn’t like shellfish 🙂 ). We didn’t become pesco-vegetarians overnight. We started by getting rid of red meat, so no pork, beef, lamb, etc. More recently, we stopped making chicken at home (we seldom eat out) and then stopped eating it at all.\nOne of the more challenging things about changing your diet is finding food that is interesting and still meets your dietary requirements. While we’ll try new recipes when we find them, we’ve also done a lot with substitutions. This has gotten a lot easier with all of the new meat substitutes that are out there, but even without them, there are still some things you can do.\nTonight, we made Empanadas which are a type of Cuban pocket sandwich. We’ve done the a few ways over the years, including making the dough from scratch, but our basic recipe is even simpler than that. The original recipe was:\n8 large canned biscuits – flatened 1/2 # of ground beef or lamb, browned in oil 1/2 cup corn some tomato sauce some shredded cheddar cheese sliced olives (not in the original recipe, but i like them) You mix the browned beef with the corn, sauce, cheese and olives. Divide into 8 portions, put each portion in the center of a flattened biscuit, fold in half, press together to seal and then bake using the biscuit instructions.\nOur first shot at changing the recipe was to use ground chicken instead of turkey.\nWe later switched to ground fake meat or even veggie hamburgers diced; but tonight, I tried something very different that was quite tasty. Instead of using a meat-like filling, we used spinach:\n1 package of frozen spinach (for this recipe, the frozen may be easier than fresh, but not as tasty) defrosted with the extra water squeezed out 3 cloves of garlic 2 tbsp of butter (we use smart balance) 2-3 oz of (light) cream cheese To make the filling, you melt the butter over low heat and add the garlic. Saute for a minute or so. Add the spinach, mix thoroughly and heat. After a few minutes, turn off the stove and mix in the cream cheese. Once it cools enough, fill the flattened biscuits and bake.\nYum!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/05/07/vegetarianism/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTechnically, K and I are not vegetarians. We’re pesco-vegetarians: we’ll eat fish and I’ll eat shellfish (K just doesn’t like shellfish 🙂 ). We didn’t become pesco-vegetarians overnight. We started by getting rid of red meat, so no pork, beef, lamb, etc. More recently, we stopped making chicken at home (we seldom eat out) and then stopped eating it at all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the more challenging things about changing your diet is finding food that is interesting and still meets your dietary requirements. While we’ll try new recipes when we find them, we’ve also done a lot with substitutions. This has gotten a lot easier with all of the new meat substitutes that are out there, but even without them, there are still some things you can do.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Vegetarianism"},{"content":" We finished the protective boxes we are going to use for cage cameras. They are pretty basic with hinged tops (where the cameras are mounted) and plexiglass fronts to shoot through. We’ve mounted them in the cages and run the 300′ of wire back to the house. K will need to angle them so they point in the right direction, but other than that, we’re done! K also had someone call today who had a cat-mauled bunny. They’ve dropped it off and K has it set up in a cage upstairs with a heating pad. Assuming it makes it through the night, we’ll take it up to the clinic tomorrow for antibiotics, etc. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/05/06/a-couple-of-wildlife-rehab-notes/","summary":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe finished the protective boxes we are going to use for cage cameras. They are pretty basic with hinged tops (where the cameras are mounted) and plexiglass fronts to shoot through. We’ve mounted them in the cages and run the 300′ of wire back to the house. K will need to angle them so they point in the right direction, but other than that, we’re done!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eK also had someone call today who had a cat-mauled bunny. They’ve dropped it off and K has it set up in a cage upstairs with a heating pad. Assuming it makes it through the night, we’ll take it up to the clinic tomorrow for antibiotics, etc.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"A couple of wildlife rehab notes"},{"content":"As I mentioned a few weeks ago, a professor from my old department contacted me about some work. I went to the company, talked to them for a few hours and then later had lunch with the president of the company (whom I’ve known for a while). Last week we agreed that I would start as a part time consultant and see how it goes. Thursday and Friday we negotiated salary and tomorrow I’m heading over there.\nInteresting times 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/05/06/consulting/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs I \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/04/13/its-quiet-too-quiet/\"\u003ementioned a few weeks ago\u003c/a\u003e, a professor from my old department contacted me about some work. I went to the company, talked to them for a few hours and then later had lunch with the president of the company (whom I’ve known for a while). Last week we agreed that I would start as a part time consultant and see how it goes. Thursday and Friday we negotiated salary and tomorrow I’m heading over there.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Consulting"},{"content":"I was taking the dogs out last night and saw a periodical cicada emerging from it’s nymph stage. Kind of cool – definitely an interesting picture:\nNow I wonder if I have to worry about my fruit trees :-/\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/05/01/periodical-cicada/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI was taking the dogs out last night and saw a periodical cicada emerging from it’s nymph stage. Kind of cool – definitely an interesting picture:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/dsc_0636_m.JPG\" title=\"dsc_0636_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_0636_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/dsc_0636_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow I wonder if I have to worry about my fruit trees :-/\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Periodical cicada"},{"content":"The Chronicle of Higher Education (and others) are reporting the largest cheating incident ever at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. 34 students were caught having very similar answers on a take home exam. 33 were convicted of cheating, one of lying to the judicial board and four were exonerated.\nCheating by students always amazes me. Back when I started college, an old engineering professor explained to the class that the most benefit you were likely to receive from cheating was, maybe, an increase of one letter grade. However, if he caught you, and he was likely to catch you, you would receive an F and be suspended from school. He encouraged us to “do the math and understand that it wasn’t worth it. I think this may be the right approach. Rather than trying to drill an honor code into students, we need to do two things: 1) encourage them to think about it as a risk management exercise; and 2) have all students grade a set of 30 papers.\nThe second suggestion may need a little explanation. I have graded thousands of papers over the past 10 years. The basic process of grading is to sit down for a several hour block of time and work through them all. When you are focused on a set of papers for a relatively short period of time, you find that you almost always recognize an answer if you see it again. If the words are written in the same way, if the argument is the same. I’ve graded programs where the syntax of two programs was strangely similar and turned out to be a case of cheating – even though the variable names had changed. If students ever experienced grading, they would be more likely to realize how hard it is to get copied answers by the grader.\nOne final note. As bad as the cheating was, I have an even harder time with the following from the Chronicle article:\nJames R. Bailey, a professor of leadership at the George Washington University School of Business, said in an interview on Sunday that it is possible that business schools, by the nature of the material they teach, breed a certain amount of academic dishonesty. Mr. Bailey is editor of Academy of Management Learning \u0026amp; Education, which dedicated an issue last September to ethics in business education.\n“Business schools generally have a culture of competition and self-interest, he said. “In our theory classes, we’re teaching theories of advancing one’s self-interest.\n“All the formal mechanisms in the world — honor codes, having everybody read it during classes, an ethics class — can’t overcome culture, he said.\nBesides, he pointed out, if students are collaborating on a take-home test, they may be building useful skills — even if it is against the rules. (“The professor’s asking for it when you give a take-home exam, he said.)\n“They were enterprising, they took initiative, and they worked together, he said. “Aren’t those all the qualities we’re trying to encourage of business school students?\nProfessor Bailey’s response to the incident should embarrass him, the journal he edits and the entire business education community. To excuse, and even promote cheating, and to blame the professor for assuming the students were mature enough to handle a take home exam, is probably the best indictment I could find against our business culture. The “cheating is okay and expected attitude in school is the same one which encourages businesses to try to get around regulations and to promote the bottom line at all cost. It’s the same attitude that will kill people by ignoring product and environmental safety laws once these students are in positions of leadership at large companies.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/30/which-is-worse-the-cheating-or-the-commentary/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education (and others) are \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/04/2007043002n.htm\"\u003ereporting the largest cheating incident ever at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke\u003c/a\u003e. 34 students were caught having very similar answers on a take home exam. 33 were convicted of cheating, one of lying to the judicial board and four were exonerated.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheating by students always amazes me. Back when I started college, an old engineering professor explained to the class that the most benefit you were likely to receive from cheating was, maybe, an increase of one letter grade. However, if he caught you, and he was likely to catch you, you would receive an F and be suspended from school. He encouraged us to “do the math and understand that it wasn’t worth it. I think this may be the right approach. Rather than trying to drill an honor code into students, we need to do two things: 1) encourage them to think about it as a risk management exercise; and 2) have all students grade a set of 30 papers.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Which is worse - the cheating or the commentary?"},{"content":"Not a whole lot going on this weekend. A little shopping, a little work around the house, etc. Saturday, Bryn’s husband, Adam, came by and took a look at some trees that were worrying me. Having a master arborist tell you that, while they are dying, they won’t come down immediately was reassuring. I had this fear that they were going to come down any minute. We’ll probably still want to take them down this fall, but at least we get to pick the times 🙂\nAfter that, I went out to the Lowe’s and picked up the makings for a few new projects, including toilet replacement. Our toilets came with the house and are as old. So I’m guessing we’re talking somewhere between 5 and 6 gallons a flush, as opposed to modern toilets that only require 1.6 gallons. Since we’re on a well, I dislike wasting that much extra water, salt, etc. So, I picked up two new toilets and installed one last night. I’ll put the other one in tonight. Hopefully, we’ll save a good 50 gallons a day.\nHere is the installed, new toilet. I’ll spare you the old removed toilet. Oh, we also saw our friend the red-phase southern hog nosed snake in the yard. A few pictures of her while I’m at it:\nUpdate: 9:15pm finished the second toilet. The second install took only about 45 minutes – I’m getting faster 🙂 . I’m now the proud owner of two old-style, wasteful toilets. Before I haul them off to the Habitat for Humanity Home Store, does anyone want/need one? You’ll have to install it yourself.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/29/weekend-update-2/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNot a whole lot going on this weekend. A little shopping, a little work around the house, etc. Saturday, Bryn’s husband, Adam, came by and took a look at some trees that were worrying me. Having a master arborist tell you that, while they are dying, they won’t come down immediately was reassuring. I had this fear that they were going to come down any minute. We’ll probably still want to take them down this fall, but at least we get to pick the times 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Weekend update (updated)"},{"content":"After migrating two other sites off of my desktop, it was time to move the main site. I’ve now got fenris.org running on the LinkSky ISP. So far I’ve been very happy with them. I still need to turn on ssh access, but I am thrilled that they offer it. If anyone runs into any problems on fenris.org, please let me know.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/26/moving-to-an-isp/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAfter migrating two other sites off of my desktop, it was time to move the main site. I’ve now got fenris.org running on the LinkSky ISP. So far I’ve been very happy with them. I still need to turn on ssh access, but I am thrilled that they offer it. If anyone runs into any problems on fenris.org, please let me know.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Moving to an ISP"},{"content":"etselec has her dreams to help her figure out what’s going on in her subconscious. I don’t dream. Okay, for all of you pedants, I do dream – I just never remember my dreams. Instead I have music. I find that almost any time I ear worm myself with a song that I haven’t heard recently, it’s my subconscious trying to tell me something.\nSo what does it mean when you start thinking about a song where the protagonist is singing about her country turning into a war zone and being accidentally nuked by it’s ally, the U.S.? It probably means that I have reservations about forming a business relationship with a company that gets most a good chunk of its business from the DoD, DARPA and the Air Force.\nRegardless of how that pans out, here’s my own version of the Daily Eighties:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/24/99-luftballons/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://etselec.livejournal.com/\"\u003eetselec\u003c/a\u003e has her dreams to help her figure out what’s going on in her subconscious. I don’t dream. Okay, for all of you pedants, I \u003cstrong\u003edo\u003c/strong\u003e dream – I just never remember my dreams. Instead I have music. I find that almost any time I ear worm myself with a song that I haven’t heard recently, it’s my subconscious trying to tell me something.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo what does it mean when you start thinking about a song where the protagonist is singing about her country turning into a war zone and being accidentally nuked by it’s ally, the U.S.? It probably means that I have reservations about \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/04/13/its-quiet-too-quiet/\"\u003eforming a business relationship\u003c/a\u003e with a company that gets most a good chunk of its business from the DoD, DARPA and the Air Force.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"99 Luftballons"},{"content":"As I’ve been working on the web front end for the PWC database, we ran into an interesting problem. Our patient records are implemented w/ a “tab style for the display of different parts of the record. Unfortunately, the folks using the database kept tabbing over to a different part of the record which wound up not saving any of the changes they made. My original quick fix for this was to have the tab buttons also save. But that made me nervous. I worried that if someone accidentally changed things or if I was giving a demo, a change to a new tab would save bad data.\nI probably could have fixed this with some javascript so that all of the tabs were really part of the same webpage and they would be dynamically hidden or displayed using javascript to manipulate the CSS classes. But that didn’t occur to me until just now. Instead, I implemented a system to note changes in the form and alert if you navigated off the form without saving. Just as a reminder to myself, here’s what I did.\n1. Create a confirm_exit.js file with the following:\nvar needToConfirm = false; var fieldsChanged = “;\nwindow.onbeforeunload = confirmExit;\nfunction confirmExit() { if (needToConfirm) { return “The following fields have changed and are not saved:\\n + fieldsChanged; } }\nfunction fieldChanged(fieldName) { needToConfirm = true; fieldsChanged = fieldsChanged + + fieldName + “\\n; }\nWhen the script loads, it creates two new variables: needToConfirm and fieldsChanged. needToConfirm starts as false, meaning no need to prompt the user before leaving the page. fieldsChanged is empty since nothing has changed. I also set a trigger on the window: onBeforeUnload, which occurs any time the page is about to be unloaded. For example, close the browser, navigate to a new page, etc. This trigger sends you to the confirmExit function.\n2. This is loaded into any webpage that has a form I care about\n3. Each form element needs to have an onChange trigger: onChange=fieldChanged(‘descriptor’); When the form element changes, the function is called. We set needToConfirm to be true and update the list of fields changed in the form with the descriptor.\n4. Finally, we bless the save buttons on the form page by adding an onClick trigger: onClick=needToConfirm=false; Having needToConfirm as false prevents the confirmExit() function from prompting the user when they hit the save button.\nVoila! Forms that prompt you to save before leaving.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/18/javascript-and-form-saves/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs I’ve been working on the web front end for the \u003ca href=\"http://piedmontwildlifecenter.org/\"\u003ePWC\u003c/a\u003e database, we ran into an interesting problem. Our patient records are implemented w/ a “tab style for the display of different parts of the record. Unfortunately, the folks using the database kept tabbing over to a different part of the record which wound up not saving any of the changes they made. My original quick fix for this was to have the tab buttons also save. But that made me nervous. I worried that if someone accidentally changed things or if I was giving a demo, a change to a new tab would save bad data.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Javascript and Form Saves"},{"content":"I never planned to comment on the Duke Lacrosse rape case, but one observation keeps running through my head and it’s probably best to get it out.\nBack when I was in high school, I remember being told that, in a Shakespearean sense, tragedies were uplifting and comedies were depressing. That struck me as backwards for a while until I had watched/read more plays and understood that the tragedies, where the protagonist dies, often display the best elements of human character. There is nobility or love or honor in the characters as they face a universe that is, not hostile, but merely indifferent to the concerns of mankind. On the other hand, a comedy, where the main characters survive the play, often shows the pettiness of people: the bitterness, the backstabbing, the prejudice, the lying, etc.\nWith those two definitions in mind, I don’t think that you can call the Duke Lacrosse rape case anything but a comedy (again, in the Shakespearean sense). The key thing to remember when you see any of the coverage is that there were no good guys in the case. There were no heroes you could root for. The best you could do was to hope that justice would be served. Consider the participants:\nDuke Lacrosse team. These are not the good clean cut boys that show up on television every few months. On campus, they are among the rowdiest of the athletes. They believe that they own the campus. They are generally the privileged children of parents in the north east. They grew up expecting everything and often got it. On the night the alleged event occurred, they were having a loud party that involved strippers and, probably, under aged drinking. According to public records, after the party one of the athletes composed an email to the rest which, while not illegal, was crude and disgusting and gives you a sense of what they might consider humorous. The accuser. A woman who has been in and out (okay, mostly in) trouble with the law for well over a decade. Multiple arrests. Stolen property. False allegations in the past. Drug use. etc. The police. For the most part, the police have gotten a pass in this one, but they are among the worst offenders. The investigating officers held a grudge against Duke students. One or both had arrest rates of Duke students that were much higher than the average. They generally went in with an attitude that the students must be guilty. They created a photographic lineup that was guaranteed to identify one or more Duke students as the alleged rapists, in violation of their own procedures. They accused staff of the university of being willing to destroy evidence – at times, they refused to actually tell staff what they were looking for in fear of the staff willfully destroying evidence. The DA. The DA has gotten a lot of flack in the media and it is justly deserved. Nifong was running for re-election in a city with a large black population. He was running against a popular female attorney (whom had successfully prosecuted a very public murder trial) and a very well qualified black candidate. Nifong was concerned that if he didn’t score some points with the black community, he would lose the election. So he made horribly prejudiced statements to the media, he ignored exculpatory evidence and generally railroaded the students. Duke Athletics. Here are a bunch of folks that knew the lacrosse (and other teams) were a problem waiting to happen. They had heard reports of general “bad behavior. They knew about the drinking and the loud parties and never chose to do much about it. Duke Administration. There were a number of ways the administration could have gone. The smart one would have been to: remind the public that these are allegations and not facts; tackle the general issue of the behavior of athletes; take no disciplinary action against the students for the alleged rape until after the prosecution was finished. This would have upset a large number of people, but it would have been a principled stand. Instead, the administration chose a middle course and upset everyone. They suspended the students, essentially presuming guilt. That upset all of the supporters of the athletes, but didn’t go far enough for those that wanted them expelled. Group of 88. These were the faculty that came out against the students, assuming guilt based on the allegations. They endorsed a statement published as an ad in the Chronicle. These are faculty, they should know better than to presume guilt. Other Supporters of the Alleged Victim. While not in the same position of responsibility at Duke as the group of 88, a number of people in the local community and nationally treated the allegations as fact. They assumed that just because a woman made an allegation, it must be true. After all, why would she make something like that up. Never mind that from the beginning, it was clear that all of the facts didn’t add up. They seemed to say that she was an underprivileged black woman, they were overly privileged white boys, of course they raped her. Other supporters harassed the students. They put up web pages with their names, pictures, home addresses and parents. Another person or group of people sent forged email to the students, the police or NCCU, trying to get the students in more trouble. Supporters of the Lacrosse Players. If the supporters of the alleged victim and the group of 88 were bad, then you could at least hope that the supporters of the athletes were the good guys. You would be disappointed. While there were principled people saying that these are allegations and we should wait for the trial (if the case is brought forward), many of the supporters launched personal attacks against the accuser or the group of 88. Some of the more harassing and racist messages I’ve seen in a long time came from supporters of the players and was directed at the accuser and the group of 88. The Media. The media, of course, did what it has been doing for years now – not just in Durham, but all over the country. They were quite happy to report what the participants said, but seemed disinclined to actually investigate what happened. Since Nifong was the person making the most statements at the beginning, it was the Nifong show. When Nifong finally realized he should stop making speeches to the press, the defense attorneys had the press to themselves. I recall very little real investigation by the media. Certainly none by the local television stations. In short, the closest thing we got to a “good guy in the whole mess was attorney general Roy Cooper. After Nifong recused himself, the AG’s office took over the case. They did their jobs. They spent three months quietly looking into the evidence and came to the conclusion that there was nothing to prosecute. If this had been a Shakespearean comedy, Cooper would have played the beneficent king that comes in at the end and makes everything right. And, as with any comedy, I’m left a little more depressed with the nature of mankind.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/17/duke-lax/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI never planned to comment on the Duke Lacrosse rape case, but one observation keeps running through my head and it’s probably best to get it out.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack when I was in high school, I remember being told that, in a Shakespearean sense, tragedies were uplifting and comedies were depressing. That struck me as backwards for a while until I had watched/read more plays and understood that the tragedies, where the protagonist dies, often display the best elements of human character. There is nobility or love or honor in the characters as they face a universe that is, not hostile, but merely indifferent to the concerns of mankind. On the other hand, a comedy, where the main characters survive the play, often shows the pettiness of people: the bitterness, the backstabbing, the prejudice, the lying, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Duke LAX"},{"content":"I haven’t been so much with the blogging lately. For me, that is generally a sign that things are busy enough that I’m living life rather than blogging it [ed note: For all of you young readers, this is what is known as irony. When I have the most to say, I have the least time to say it in; conversely, when I write the most, I have the least to say].\nQuick highlights of things that are going on:\nI received an odd email two weeks ago. It was from a professor that I knew, but never worked closely with, in the ECE department. He has a research company that is gearing up for a project that is security related. He wanted to know if I knew of anyone that might be interested in either a full-time or a consulting position. There are two ways that kind of thing can go. He might be asking an honest question or he might be looking to see if I’m interested. As usual for me, it’s easier to play the straight man. I listed a few folks I knew that might be interested in positions, but included myself as one interested in consulting and maybe more. I spoke to the professor last week. The work sounds interesting. They have lots of money, so I agreed to come by in a couple of weeks to see the place, give a talk, meet some people. Or, as I put it to K, we agreed to go on a first date. Last night, K asked what happens after the first date? I told her that depending on how that goes, we might engage in heavy petting. At which point K decided that she had enough of my metaphors. 🙂 I think I mentioned that we were pulling wall paper off of the kitchen/breakfast room wall. The wall paper and the backing are now all off and we’ve picked a paint color. I just need to finish cleaning the paste residue off and do a skim coat of sheetrock mud and we’ll go ahead and get it painted. I’m still not certain about the color, but what the heck – paint is cheap. K used some birthday money and bought a couple of day/night mini-cameras designed to go in bird houses. The plan is to run them out to the cages out back. Unfortunately, the cameras only came with 100′ of cable. When we measured off the length last weekend, we realized we needed 300′ of cable each. I volunteered to buy some generic cable and splice it in, but K is risk averse and decided to just buy the extension cables. This weekend, I’ll try to build some small boxes to house the cameras and keep them out of the rain (and away from squirrel teeth). The Leadership Program I mentioned earlier did come to campus. I was planning on reviewing the 5 minute talk I was going to give on Wednesday night since we were asked to speak on Thursday. So, I’m sitting in my office working on the laptop when someone on my staff comes in with someone attending the program. They were wondering where we all were? It turns out that they (or maybe me) had the date wrong and they were hoping we could come speak to them right away. Fortunately, I had thought a bit about what I wanted to say – I just hadn’t polished it up. I went in and winged it from there. Overall, I think it went pretty well. I just wish I had the extra prep time. I’m moving all of my domains off of a desktop computer and on to an ISP. Hey, $8/month, unlimited bandwidth, multiple databases, etc. is definitely worth it. I moved a friend’s site that I was hosting first: www.boxturtleheadstart.org, then K’s domain and email. fenris.org hasn’t been moved yet, I’m hoping to move the pwc patient database off of it first and on to the pwc main site. Of course, that’ll mean getting an updated version of php from our ISP. Once that’s done, I’ll move fenris.org which will make me happier than leaving it on a desktop machine (is it still a desktop if it is under my desk?). Finally, I’ve spent a huge amount of time working on the Piedmont Wildlife Center’s patient database. I tried to get board members and staff to help me write the functional specifications right the first time so that the programmer we hired could actually implement what we wanted. Unfortunately, what they gave me wasn’t really what they wanted. So now I’m going back and reworking a lot of the database. Fortunately, the whole thing is written using a model/view/controller (MVC) method of programming and it’s very easy to make changes. I’m also taking this as an opportunity to learn a lot more about the w3’s document object model (DOM), how it can be manipulated with javascript, and ajax while I’m at it. So far, my favorite pieces are the ajax bit to remotely pull/post database stats on the pwc main website and the dynamic form that allows you to automatically create new rows using javascript 🙂 ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/13/its-quiet-too-quiet/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI haven’t been so much with the blogging lately. For me, that is generally a sign that things are busy enough that I’m living life rather than blogging it [ed note: For all of you young readers, this is what is known as \u003cem\u003eirony\u003c/em\u003e. When I have the most to say, I have the least time to say it in; conversely, when I write the most, I have the least to say].\u003c/p\u003e","title":"It's quiet, too quiet..."},{"content":"Okay, this is too cool. Icon has put together an audio clip of the old Sesame Street Martians listening/responding to the telephone. For the first time ever, I’ve actually put a ringtone on my phone instead of using the boring default!\nThanks Icon!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/04/icon-rules/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, this is too cool. Icon has put together an \u003ca href=\"http://mricon.livejournal.com/370934.html\"\u003eaudio clip of the old Sesame Street Martians listening/responding to the telephone\u003c/a\u003e. For the first time ever, I’ve actually put a ringtone on my phone instead of using the boring default!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThanks Icon!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Icon Rules!"},{"content":"I can’t turn around anymore without hearing something new about how colleges and universities are public enemy number 1 with the copyright industry. In early February, the Recording Industry Association of America released a top 25 list of the schools to which they have sent notices of alleged copyright infringement. Right after that, they started announced that they would start suing students and that they were going to send “pre-subpoena and “settlement notices to campuses.\nThe “pre-subpoena notices try to circumvent the normal process of data destruction that happens at any provider of internet services. The service provider only needs the information for a short period of time, so after that time has passed, the information is automatically destroyed. The pre-subpoena notices try to put a burden on universities to preserve data because they now know that the information is likely to be subpoenaed if there is a lawsuit. To my knowledge, these are, at best, questionably legal and even with recent changes to the Federal Rules for eDiscovery are not likely to place a real burden on colleges. You’ll notice that the RIAA hasn’t sent anything like a pre-subpoena notice to non-educational internet service providers such as Verizon and Time Warner.\nThe second new type of notice is a John-Doe settlement offer. It is sent to a university and references an IP address and a time and alleges that copyright infringement occurred from that computer at that time. No evidence is included. The notice asks the university to forward these settlement offers to the students whose computers are referenced. Students receiving these settlement offers can go to the referenced website, enter the case number, check the box that says they will sin no more and enter a credit card for absolution. It’s like the selling of indulgences by organized crime.\nSome schools have taken the position that they should not forward the notices, however, they are complying with the pre-subpoena notices above. This seems likely to put their students at even more risk because they won’t be able to settle before being sued, however, you are purposefully keeping the information that will allow them to be sued.\nWhile all of this has been going on, the copyright industry has been meeting with congress, decrying the evils of college campuses and what we aren’t doing (which incidentally is exactly what commercial ISPs aren’t doing). There have been two recent, interesting outcomes from these hearings. The first is that the copyright industry has been pushing campuses to install network devices that prevent copyright infringement, preferably by blocking all peer to peer programs. Most colleges have refused to do this for a number of reasons: cost, lack of reliability, the potential to damage our safe harbor for “conduit activities under the DMCA, and the fact that p2p programs have substantial non-infringing uses. Congress is trying to remove at least one of these with a bill that would allow schools to apply for grants to fund copyright compliance programs – code for devices to block p2p.\nThe second item of note is that congress requested the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) produce its own top 25 list using the same methodology as the RIAA. That list was released and we are on it. Of course, as with the RIAA’s list, the MPAA can send however many notices to schools that they want. Being on or off of the top 25 list doesn’t say anything about the amount of actual infringing going on, just how much you were notified about. Both industries tend to focus on recent content: new music, new movies, new television shows. Given the current state of music, it may actually be a complement to the taste of our students that we were on the MPAA’s list, but not the RIAA’s.\nI suppose at this point I should note that I am not in favor of copyright infringement. My main concerns are:\nWhy is Congress and the copyright industry singling out academic ISPs? Copyright law, as written, does not meet the needs of consumers. Colleges and universities should be treated like any other internet service provider. This is how we are defined under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Under the DMCA, as an ISP, we are given a number of safe harbors from liability, including a limitation of liability on any infringing activity for which we are a conduit. That is to say, any activity that we did not initiate nor interfere. If the RIAA or the MPAA or Congress wants to limit copyright infringement, then it should address the infringers themselves. If they don’t want to do that, then they should address all ISPs equally, commercial and academic. After all, the RIAA sued 18,000 people last year and only 1,000 of them were college students.\nFor years, copyright infringement was a subject that only conglomerations of copyright holders cared about. The industries met together, balanced each others needs, wrote the rules together and then had congress sign off on what they wrote. That worked pretty well up until the point that we had peer to peer filesharing. P2P as a general technology fulfills one of the great promises of the Internet. It breaks away from the old client-server model of computing allows all computers to become both client and server simultaneously. This allows an individual computer to be a peer to what required a server before and completely changes how we should approach copyright law.\nCopyright law was founded on the belief that you had to preserve the rights of an author in order to encourage progress. This was extended to preserving the purchased rights of producers and distributors. Now that all computers can be content distributors, copyright law needs to be updated. You can’t hold a 17 year old kid to the same level of responsibility that you would a large commercial operation designed to print CDs/DVDs and sell them on the streets of New York. We’re not talking about counterfeiters, we’re talking about average people.\nCopyright law has been written to protect the profits of multi-billion dollar corporations. It wasn’t written to protect the rights, or even the long-term interests, of citizens. That needs to change and until it does, we will continue to hear about lawsuits, extortion and questionable tactics from the RIAA and the MPAA.\nOh, and to answer my earlier question, the RIAA and the MPAA are going after colleges because that’s where the greatest bulk of young people are. They believe that if they can head it off there, then perhaps they can get a handle on the general p2p problem. They also believe that they will get more traction in congress by beating up on colleges. If the RIAA and MPAA went after all ISPs equally, then congress would see it as a question of the competing interests of two businesses and would probably decide that the DMCA struck a reasonable balance in terms of the limitations on liability. But colleges and universities are seen as in loco parenti (surrogate, as opposed to crazy, parents), so we are responsible for the actions of our students. However, we are also a business and can be compelled to install software or devices that would never be required of a student’s real parent.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/04/02/copyright-infringement-on-campus/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI can’t turn around anymore without hearing something new about how colleges and universities are public enemy number 1 with the copyright industry. In early February, the Recording Industry Association of America released a top 25 list of the schools to which they have sent notices of alleged copyright infringement. Right after that, they started announced that they would start suing students and that they were going to send “pre-subpoena and “settlement notices to campuses.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Copyright infringement on campus"},{"content":"er, sorry just a minor Red Dawn reference – it’s not my fault, I grew up in the 80s.\nNow that I’ve got that out of my system, a note on a new toy. As I mentioned before, I’m going to go (mostly) digital on my trip to Yellowstone. I bought 8 GB of memory cards which is only 800 or so pictures in raw format. For the past several years, I’ve shot around 800 pictures in film. On the one hand, I suspect I’ll take more pictures in digital since the marginal cost is basically zero. On the other hand, I’ll have the ability to prune out any bad shots. Still, I suspect that I’ll wind up wanting more memory cards.\nRather than trying to guess how many, I decided to buy the “Wolverine FlashPac 7060 (hey – I was getting there). The Wolverine is a pretty neat device. When I first started looking for a hard drive on which to temporarily store pictures, everything I found was a basic USB hard drive that required a computer to control. The FlashPac doesn’t. It’s a multi-type card reader and hard drive that has enough smarts in the firmware to know how to mount a memory card and copy all of the pictures from a card onto the internal drive. It preserves the contents of the card and you can manually erase the card in your camera. It comes in a variety of sizes, I bought the 60 GB version – enough for 6,000 pictures.\nI got the device in today from B\u0026amp;H (they seemed to have the best prices). Unfortunately, it had outdated firmware installed on it which wouldn’t read my SDHC cards. Fortunately, I was expecting that and I had downloaded the next release of the firmware which does support SDHC (although at the fairly slow, standard SD speeds). Of course, getting the firmware on a device while using a linux computer is always challenging. After screwing around with it for an hour or so, I punted and used the old Windows 2000 partition I have on the desktop. I felt dirty afterward, but at least the device works with my memory cards now :).\nOverall, it’s a very cool piece of hardware. It does what it says it does and seems to do it well. It’s not for archiving – that’s a whole different problem to tackle, but for short term storage, it’ll work.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/27/wolverines/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eer, sorry just a minor \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/\"\u003eRed Dawn\u003c/a\u003e reference – it’s not my fault, I grew up in the 80s.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow that I’ve got that out of my system, a note on a new toy. As I mentioned before, \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/12/07/going-digital/\"\u003eI’m going to go (mostly) digital on my trip to Yellowstone\u003c/a\u003e. I bought 8 GB of memory cards which is only 800 or so pictures in raw format. For the past several years, I’ve shot around 800 pictures in film. On the one hand, I suspect I’ll take more pictures in digital since the marginal cost is basically zero. On the other hand, I’ll have the ability to prune out any bad shots. Still, I suspect that I’ll wind up wanting more memory cards.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Wolverines!!"},{"content":"It felt like I was griping a lot about plumbing here, so I thought I would make it a new category and go back and classify old posts as “plumbing if they were water related. So far, I’ve found 14 posts on plumbing problems – more than I’ve written about photography :-(. That’s depressing.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/21/new-blog-category-plumbing/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt felt like I was griping a lot about plumbing here, so I thought I would make it a new category and go back and classify old posts as “plumbing if they were water related. So far, I’ve found \u003ca href=\"/index.php/category/plumbing/\"\u003e14 posts on plumbing problems\u003c/a\u003e – more than I’ve written about photography :-(. That’s depressing.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New blog category: plumbing"},{"content":"Back when I was a postdoc, I was studying FFTs. Okay, actually, I’m not enough of a mathematician to study FFTs, I was studying the efficient implementation of FFTs on parallel computational clusters. One of the graduate students I was working with on the project penned the following:\nIf there’s a working FFT That’s not in FORTRAN but in C Alas it twice as slow will go And that (as always) goes to show If speed is your greatest asset, Then what you C is what you get. -V.V. (Mony) Iyers\nFor years, Fortran was the programming language of choice for engineers. It’s name, a derivative of “Formula Translator, give you an impression of what it does: it makes it easy to represent matrix algebra formulas in a computer programming language. Because it is a compiled language and it has built in support for performing matrix algebra operations, it is extremely fast. I never did much Fortran programming and V.V. and I disagreed on the speed of Fortran vs C (I could always tweak C code to be as fast as Fortran), but it is a great programming language for engineers that has unfortunately, largely been replaced by Matlab.\nFortran was first released nearly 50 years ago and has been updated a few time since then. Given the age of the language, I hadn’t even thought about who invented it, and was saddened to learn that the creator (or at least the project lead) died last weekend. John Backus was apparently the project lead for the creation of Fortran back in the 50s and he died Saturday at the age of 82.\nIt’s hard to imagine what the engineering field would be like without Fortran and even though I hadn’t heard of him until this week, I think I’ll miss him.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/21/john-w-backus-dies/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBack when I was a postdoc, I was studying FFTs. Okay, actually, I’m not enough of a mathematician to study FFTs, I was studying the efficient implementation of FFTs on parallel computational clusters. One of the graduate students I was working with on the project penned the following:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf there’s a working FFT\nThat’s not in FORTRAN but in C\nAlas it twice as slow will go\nAnd that (as always) goes to show\nIf speed is your greatest asset,\nThen what you C is what you get.\n-V.V. (Mony) Iyers\u003c/p\u003e","title":"John W. Backus dies"},{"content":"It was K’s birthday today and I decided to take the day off. In part, I needed to because I had to work on her present. It’s hard these days knowing what to get each other. I could have gotten her jewelry – again. Instead, I decided to clear out one of the beds that the previous owners had planted (fancy) grass in, and plant flowers instead. I’ve never been a big flower person, so most of the things I’ve planted have been fruit trees or vegetables or herbs (big basil fan!), but this was for her, so flowers it was.\nWe went to the nursery on Sunday and then this morning, I cleaned out the bed and arranged and planted the bulbs. I can’t remember what all we got, but it included Callas, Dallias, Lillies, Columbine and a few other things.\nK’s not a big fan of eating out, so I gave her the choice of anything she wanted for dinner. We wound up with mushroom crepes, rice, lima beans, and for dessert, key lime cheesecake. The crepes turned out great – for the first time ever, I didn’t screw up the first couple of crepes. I didn’t have a key lime cheesecake recipe, so I made something up. The crust is ground, roasted hazelnuts mixed with melted butter and sugar. The cheesecake itself was fairly standard, cream cheese, eggs, condensed milk, a little extra sugar and key lime juice. We haven’t eaten it yet, but it seems like it turned out.\nK received some, more tangible, presents from family, including jewelry 🙂 . Overall, it’s been a good day. Hopefully, the rest of the week will go smoothly as well.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/20/ks-birthday/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt was K’s birthday today and I decided to take the day off. In part, I needed to because I had to work on her present. It’s hard these days knowing what to get each other. I could have gotten her jewelry – again. Instead, I decided to clear out one of the beds that the previous owners had planted (fancy) grass in, and plant flowers instead. I’ve never been a big flower person, so most of the things I’ve planted have been fruit trees or vegetables or herbs (big basil fan!), but this was for her, so flowers it was.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"K's birthday"},{"content":"Yep, it has been a few months since we’ve had major water issues, so we were due. We had water before dinner, but when I went to rinse the dishes, we had no water. It seemed like the pump wasn’t working. I checked the breaker box, the breaker was fine. I went under the house with a multimeter and found that the pump controller was working and was sending power to the pump. So either the power is not reaching the pump, e.g., a root grew through the power line; or more likely, the well pump itself died.\nI’ve got a plumber coming out tomorrow – I’m not screwing with the well pump. Now I’ve just got to rearrange my schedule to work from home :-/\nUpdate 3/16 @4:30pm: the water is back on. My checkbook it a good bit lighter, but what do you do? It turned out that the well pump was shot and needed replacing\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/15/no-water-for-you/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eYep, it has been a few months since we’ve had major water issues, so we were due. We had water before dinner, but when I went to rinse the dishes, we had no water. It seemed like the pump wasn’t working. I checked the breaker box, the breaker was fine. I went under the house with a multimeter and found that the pump controller was working and was sending power to the pump. So either the power is not reaching the pump, e.g., a root grew through the power line; or more likely, the well pump itself died.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"No water for you!"},{"content":"Created by “ the Robot Economist, and for hsarik, it’s Bob Ross and the Joy of Painting Missiles. Click the picture for the full sized image with rotating scenery. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/14/bob-ross/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eCreated by “ \u003ca href=\"http://roboteconomist.blogspot.com/\"\u003ethe Robot Economist\u003c/a\u003e, and for \u003ca href=\"http://heathbar.org/weblog/\"\u003ehsarik\u003c/a\u003e, it’s Bob Ross and the Joy of Painting Missiles. Click the picture for the full sized image with rotating scenery.\n\u003ca href=\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_dqlJY9gMOQk/RfTBPlkcu3I/AAAAAAAAAAg/rmBC-ORlnCo/s1600-h/Bob-Ross-Plus-Missiles.gif\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"bob-ross-plus-missiles.gif\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/bob-ross-plus-missiles.gif\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Bob Ross"},{"content":"Finished up a lot of little things this weekend. Nothing too terribly exciting:\nPlanted some herbs and covered them with hardware cloth to keep the squirrels out. Basil (lots of basil), thyme and rosemary. I was looking for sage, but couldn’t find any. Fixed the water softener – the backwash drain hose was so old that it was leaking onto the floor every time the water softener ran. Unfortunately, I can’t find where the new hose should connect under the hose, so for now it’s draining into the utility sink. Finished painting the upstairs hall. Back in October/November, K and I pulled off all of the 80’s-style wall paper. It’s been sitting bear for months, but for the past two weekends, I’ve been smoothing out the wall and painting. I’ve got the switch plates back up and it looks pretty nice. K’s already planning where she’ll start taking down wall paper next. I’ve discovered a Heisenberg-like principle of plumbing: you can accurately identify either the source or the effects of a water leak, but not both at the same time. This week, I identified a musty smell and the mold that was causing it. Unfortunately, I could only identify the dishwasher as the source of the water. After running the dishwasher without the sound proofing at the bottom, so I could see the leak, I found that it didn’t seem to be leaking. My new theory is that a small leak, not near the mold, was creating excess humidity due to the heat of the dishwasher that was trapped by the sound proofing – but how to test? It’s like Schrodinger’s Cat. Finally, I realized that my laptop hadn’t updated for DST, which is rather uncool. Poking at it a bit, I found out that yum was bombing out before completing the upgrade. The reason is that I did a ‘yum update’ instead of a ‘yum upgrade’ in order to go from FC5 to FC6. So I had a lot of FC5 packages lying around which then broke dependencies. After doing a bit of manual cleanup, I was able to run ‘yum update’ only to find that I had over 600 MB worth of packages that needed downloading. On the plus side, I went ahead and upgraded to the latest development version of yum which has a lot of the new optimizations. That at least made the 363 packages worth of dependencies saner to check. Work is also okay. I ran a proposal for a lightweight authentication mechanism by the technical team and nobody found any major holes in it. It’s nice to have your ideas validated by the experts 🙂 . Next week kicks off my month with internal audit. I’m not really looking forward to that one, but then I suppose somebody needs to keep us honest. Besides, anything they tell us can only help get support for the policies we know we need.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/11/weekend-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFinished up a lot of little things this weekend. Nothing too terribly exciting:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlanted some herbs and covered them with hardware cloth to keep the squirrels out. Basil (lots of basil), thyme and rosemary. I was looking for sage, but couldn’t find any.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFixed the water softener – the backwash drain hose was so old that it was leaking onto the floor every time the water softener ran. Unfortunately, I can’t find where the new hose should connect under the hose, so for now it’s draining into the utility sink.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished painting the upstairs hall. Back in October/November, K and I pulled off all of the 80’s-style wall paper. It’s been sitting bear for months, but for the past two weekends, I’ve been smoothing out the wall and painting. I’ve got the switch plates back up and it looks pretty nice. K’s already planning where she’ll start taking down wall paper next.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ve discovered a Heisenberg-like principle of plumbing: you can accurately identify either the source or the effects of a water leak, but not both at the same time. This week, I identified a musty smell and the mold that was causing it. Unfortunately, I could only identify the dishwasher as the source of the water. After running the dishwasher without the sound proofing at the bottom, so I could see the leak, I found that it didn’t seem to be leaking. My new theory is that a small leak, not near the mold, was creating excess humidity due to the heat of the dishwasher that was trapped by the sound proofing – but how to test? It’s like \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger%27s_Cat\" title=\"Schrodinger's Cat\"\u003eSchrodinger’s Cat\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinally, I realized that my laptop hadn’t updated for DST, which is rather uncool. Poking at it a bit, I found out that yum was bombing out before completing the upgrade. The reason is that I did a ‘yum update’ instead of a ‘yum upgrade’ in order to go from FC5 to FC6. So I had a lot of FC5 packages lying around which then broke dependencies. After doing a bit of manual cleanup, I was able to run ‘yum update’ only to find that I had over 600 MB worth of packages that needed downloading. On the plus side, I went ahead and upgraded to the latest development version of yum which has a lot of the new optimizations. That at least made the 363 packages worth of dependencies saner to check.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWork is also okay. I ran a proposal for a lightweight authentication mechanism by the technical team and nobody found any major holes in it. It’s nice to have your ideas validated by the experts 🙂 . Next week kicks off my month with internal audit. I’m not really looking forward to that one, but then I suppose somebody needs to keep us honest. Besides, anything they tell us can only help get support for the policies we know we need.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Weekend update"},{"content":"A few years ago, I participated in Group 1 of a new leadership program geared toward the IT profession. The program usually has four schools per group, each school sending a number of participants. The group meets four times over a six month period, each time at a different, participating school. Each meeting lasts about two and a half days, for a total of 80 hours of training. Our university is participating in Group 7 and they will be coming to campus in April. The Group 1 alumni (and a Group 2 alum) have been asked to attend a half hour session with Group 7 in order to share what the program taught us. I still need to work out the details of this, but as an exercise in working out my thoughts, I am inclined to go with something like the following:\nI sat down with the intention of identifying the three most important things that the leadership program taught me, so I pulled out my notes and started reviewing the different tools and techniques we had discussed. There were references to SWOT analysis, Myers-Briggs, the three lenses, etc. Some of these tools I’ve internalized, and some I’ve completely forgotten. My telling you which tools I found effective is pointless. You have to find which tools work for you, what makes sense, what you can work with.\nThat brings me to my first take-away: know thyself. Know who you are, know your strengths and your weaknesses. Once you’ve identified your strengths, you can play to them. Recognize your weaknesses and you can find strategies to cope with them: hire people whose strengths complement your weaknesses; pay more attention to the parts of projects where you are not naturally inclined; etc.\nMy second take-away is that the leadership program is one of the few places you will ever be able to discuss your strengths and weaknesses as a leader in a non-competitive environment. Brian and Jim are some of the only people you will find who will take an interest in your development and in helping you to recognize your role in your organization, without having an ulterior motive. Take advantage of that opportunity. Be open with them. Discuss the things that you couldn’t tell your boss. But don’t just rely on Brian and Jim, work with your fellow university team members.\nThis brings me to my last point, on graduating the program, your team members will have gone through the same experiences you have. Use the opportunity of the program and the time you spend together to get to know these people. Learn to trust them, learn to behave as a team. Share problems with each other, share solutions. Unfortunately, management presents very few opportunities to build trusting relationships. If you take advantage of this chance, you will find that you can build such a relationship with this group of people and that you will all become more effective leaders as a result.\nThis is at least where I’m leaning. I may completely change it if i re-read it tomorrow and it sounds too corny, but at the end of a long week, those points sound like the most important things I learned in the program\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/09/lessons-learned/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, I participated in Group 1 of a new leadership program geared toward the IT profession. The program usually has four schools per group, each school sending a number of participants. The group meets four times over a six month period, each time at a different, participating school. Each meeting lasts about two and a half days, for a total of 80 hours of training. Our university is participating in Group 7 and they will be coming to campus in April. The Group 1 alumni (and a Group 2 alum) have been asked to attend a half hour session with Group 7 in order to share what the program taught us. I still need to work out the details of this, but as an exercise in working out my thoughts, I am inclined to go with something like the following:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Lessons learned"},{"content":"Sometime in late September or early October of 2001, I received a call from an individual identifying himself as an agent of the FBI and asking for information about the owner of an email account from the place I worked. He stated that he believed the account was relevant to a terrorist investigation. Of course, this was in the immediate aftermath of September 11th and everyone had security concerns, but I was also certain that I didn’t want to give away information to someone who shouldn’t have it. Following a fairly standard procedure, I requested his phone number, badge number and locale so that I could contact the FBI to confirm his identity. The agent gave me a lot of grief about this, noted that I was putting lives at risk by not immediately complying, etc., but I assured him that I would call right back.\nI contacted the FBI and after quite a bit of checking, they confirmed he was an agent. The reason for the delay is that he was actually an ATF agent on loan to the FBI. So I called him back and asked what information he was looking for. It turned out that he was investigating an arms sale online. I was surprised that someone dealing in illegal weapons for terrorism would use their personal email account, but sure. I told the agent that if he would provide a subpoena or court order, I would be happy to respond. This generated another round of everyone’s favorite game, “do you want the terrorists to kill people?! I apologized, but explained that it was my job to do otherwise. I never heard from him again.\nGiven the nature of the crime he described, the fact that I never received any valid order, that this seemed like a small issue relative to the claim of terrorism, and that he was on loan from the ATF; I can only conclude that, with the tint not even dried on his shiny new FBI sun glasses, he was overstepping his authority, and claiming a terrorism investigation, in order to pursue a standard, probably pre-existing, case. With that in mind, today’s report by the Investigator General regarding errors in the FBI’s use of National Security Letters (NSLs) comes as no surprise.\nThe USA PATRIOT Act removed any judicial oversight required for NSLs in order to ensure that they could be executed in a timely fashion. The law then prevented anyone receiving a NSL from mentioning it to anyone. So you have a secret, self-issued warrant for information, creating a situation ripe for abuse. The IG’s report indicates that these abuses were errors and lack of internal oversight. That may be, but it is also clear that there were many cases of over-aggressive investigators issuing NSLs (which are intended for investigations into terrorism) in cases which had nothing to do with terrorism. I guarantee that if the USA PATRIOT Act had been law when I spoke to my ATF agent, I would have received an NSL, turned over the information, and been unable to discuss the demand with anyone.\nWhen the USA PATRIOT Act was passed, the administration basically asked the country to trust the executive branch by allowing it a surveillance tool that had no oversight, was self issued and would remain entirely secret. The IG’s report demonstrates that our trust was abused. However, I’ll go further and say that the concept of trusting the executive branch for activities undertaken without oversight (either judicial or congressional) is fundamentally un-American and a violation of constitutional principles as espoused in the Federalist Papers and other writings of the founders of this country. I hope that the IG’s report will encourage congress to rethink their blind trust in the executive branch under this, or any, administration.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/03/09/the-fbis-national-security-letters/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSometime in late September or early October of 2001, I received a call from an individual identifying himself as an agent of the FBI and asking for information about the owner of an email account from the place I worked. He stated that he believed the account was relevant to a terrorist investigation. Of course, this was in the immediate aftermath of September 11th and everyone had security concerns, but I was also certain that I didn’t want to give away information to someone who shouldn’t have it. Following a fairly standard procedure, I requested his phone number, badge number and locale so that I could contact the FBI to confirm his identity. The agent gave me a lot of grief about this, noted that I was putting lives at risk by not immediately complying, etc., but I assured him that I would call right back.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The FBI's national security letters"},{"content":"Back in August, I wrote a brief summary of a conversation I had with my mother on immigration as well as a longer summary of a great NY Times article on immigration. In general, I don’t have a problem with immigrants. I think that they add a lot to the country and they don’t cause nearly the harm to wages that people attribute to them. While I wouldn’t accuse anyone of racism, it wouldn’t surprise me if xenophobia is behind most of the opposition to immigrants. Interestingly, as this LA Times article discusses, two new California studies indicate a) that immigrants boost the wages of native born citizens by an average of 4%; and b) that immigrants have significantly lower incarceration rates than native born citizens.\nBoth studies should be considered when people advocate for a French-styled guest worker program. The U.S. economy can absorb and is helped by a growth in the working population; and moreover, many of these workers are good-citizens (except for the fact that they are, really, you know – citizens 🙂 ).\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/28/immigration-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBack in August, I wrote a brief \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/08/01/homework-on-the-question-of-immigration/\"\u003esummary of a conversation\u003c/a\u003e I had with my mother on immigration as well as a longer summary of a great NY Times article on immigration. In general, I don’t have a problem with immigrants. I think that they add a lot to the country and they don’t cause nearly the harm to wages that people attribute to them. While I wouldn’t accuse anyone of racism, it wouldn’t surprise me if xenophobia is behind most of the opposition to immigrants.\nInterestingly, as this \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-immigstudy28feb28,0,30276.story?coll=la-home-headlines\"\u003eLA Times article\u003c/a\u003e discusses, two new California studies indicate a) that immigrants boost the wages of native born citizens by an average of 4%; and b) that immigrants have significantly lower incarceration rates than native born citizens.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"immigration update"},{"content":"In 2005, congress mandated a change to daylight savings time, essentially, starting it three weeks earlier (March 11th, this year) and ending it three weeks later. Our local paper is requesting suggestions for what people will do with their 22 extra hours of daylight. Here’s my suggestion: spend the time fixing all of the computer problems caused by the DST change.\nEssentially, a change to DST is very similar to a self-inflicted Y2K problem. If you want to get a sense of how time/date issues can affect computer systems that aren’t prepared, take a look at this article regarding the new F-22 Raptor and it’s problems with the International Date Line. I wasn’t worried about Y2K because we knew about the issue for years and most modern operating systems and software had already addressed it. With the DST changes, we haven’t had nearly enough notice or preparation. Now, I’m not stocking up on canned goods, but I’m pretty certain that March 11th is going to bring about extra work.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/28/and-people-wonder-why-the-change-to-dst-worries-me/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2005, congress mandated a change to daylight savings time, essentially, starting it three weeks earlier (March 11th, this year) and ending it three weeks later. Our local paper is requesting suggestions for what people will do with their 22 extra hours of daylight. Here’s my suggestion: spend the time fixing all of the computer problems caused by the DST change.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssentially, a change to DST is very similar to a self-inflicted Y2K problem. If you want to get a sense of how time/date issues can affect computer systems that aren’t prepared, take a look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6225\"\u003ethis article regarding the new F-22 Raptor and it’s problems with the International Date Line\u003c/a\u003e. I wasn’t worried about Y2K because we knew about the issue for years and most modern operating systems and software had already addressed it. With the DST changes, we haven’t had nearly enough notice or preparation. Now, I’m not stocking up on canned goods, but I’m pretty certain that March 11th is going to bring about extra work.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"and people wonder why the change to DST worries me..."},{"content":"A few years ago, I was an assistant research professor in a department whose college was undergoing its accreditation process. This happened, I believe, every five years or so and was a generally grueling process. Faculty were asked to maintain student work and submit it, anonymously, to the accreditation committee. We were asked to keep track of a representative set of students considered to be good, middle and poor performers. Labs spaces were evaluated. The process for determining curriculum was examined, etc., etc.\nOf course, the college, and department, did pass its accreditation, but we had to put a significant amount of effort into it. I was on the outskirts of the process, but we had several associate and full professors dedicated to the process for pretty much the entire academic year.\nGiven all of that effort, I was interested to hear about the efforts by the Department of Education to revise the accreditation process. Their stated goal is to focus on student learning outcomes rather than proxies for university quality. I don’t think that anyone disagrees with an accreditation process focused on student learning. The problem is, how do you measure it? Consider the diversity of higher education. You have everything from community colleges with a two year program focused on specific, skills-based, knowledge to full blown research universities with four year, masters and doctoral programs. For many colleges and universities, the goal is less to educate to a specific set of skills and more to teach people how to think creatively and to expose them to new ideas about the world. It doesn’t matter how much businesses want colleges and universities to ensure a basic set of skills for their future employees, the goal of higher education is much broader than that.\nAll of which brings me to my proposal: stop accrediting colleges and universities and start accrediting the individual faculty members to teach specific courses.\nSuch a process change is probably impractical, but it would have an amazing effect. Students would could get approval for a specific curriculum, perhaps from someone accredited to design curricula, and could take classes from anyone accredited to teach the course. All it would take to start a new college or at least a new department would be a handful of accredited faculty working together. Alternatively, faculty could choose to go it alone. Students could take courses from any accredited faculty member and it would apply to their degree. Popular teachers could charge more for their classes. This might also solve a common problem in universities: no one wants to teach. With this accreditation system, faculty interested in teaching could work on that and be rewarded financially to the same degree that faculty currently interested in research are. Research faculty could focus on research without the hassle of teaching.\nI know that this would a) be highly impractical; and b) would never happen, but it’s an interesting thought nonetheless.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/26/a-subversive-proposal/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, I was an assistant research professor in a department whose college was undergoing its accreditation process. This happened, I believe, every five years or so and was a generally grueling process. Faculty were asked to maintain student work and submit it, anonymously, to the accreditation committee. We were asked to keep track of a representative set of students considered to be good, middle and poor performers. Labs spaces were evaluated. The process for determining curriculum was examined, etc., etc.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"A subversive proposal"},{"content":"If the subject of the email is “electronics question, then it’s extremely ironic spam or yet another question from an undergraduate looking for someone to do their homework:\nSubject: electronics question\nwith the aid of a clearly labelled diagram explain briefly the movement and type of charges involved in the formatiion of an unbaised pn junction. 2)draw the diagram of a self-bais circuit using the npn transistor. 3a) for what voltage will the reverse current in a pn junction silicon diode reach 95% of its saturation value at room temperature? b) what is the ratio of the current for a forward bais of 0.2v to the current for the same magnitude of reverse bais? c)if the reverse saturation current is 10pA, what are the forward currents for voltages of 0.5, 0.6 and 0.7v respectively. Looks like the later to me. Silly Swedish kids.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/20/subject-electronics-question/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIf the subject of the email is “electronics question, then it’s extremely ironic spam or yet another question from an undergraduate looking for someone to do their homework:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubject: electronics question\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewith the aid of a clearly labelled diagram explain briefly the movement and type of charges involved in the formatiion of an unbaised pn junction.\n2)draw the diagram of a self-bais circuit using the npn transistor.\n3a) for what voltage will the reverse current in a pn junction silicon diode reach 95% of its saturation value at room temperature?\nb) what is the ratio of the current for a forward bais of 0.2v to the current for the same magnitude of reverse bais?\nc)if the reverse saturation current is 10pA, what are the forward currents for voltages of 0.5, 0.6 and 0.7v respectively.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooks like the later to me. Silly Swedish kids.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"subject: \"electronics question\""},{"content":"I know he’s a professor of economics, but does that mean Russell Roberts gets to lie in nearly every paragraph of his editorial, “ Workers are fine with fewer unions? I guess it does. Okay, in fairness, he may not be lying, but an editorial this bad means it’s either that or the author is incompetent.\nI’m not going to tackle every single incorrect statement here, but there are a few that really stand out:\nCleaning people routinely earn $20 an hour, more than most cities’ so-called living wage.\nSeriously?! There’s no way he’s serious about that. Apparently, cleaning people routinely earn $40,000 a year. Which, if memory serves, is near the median salary for an employee with some college. Neat trick. I suppose it’s possible that a cleaning company will charge $40k per year for an FTE’s worth of cleaning, but that is no where near the same thing.\nMy other favorite comment is:\nA better way to increase wages is to make workers more productive. That lifts everyone’s standard of living.\nThat’s a lovely thought. Unfortunately, it’s complete BS. After WWII, until the early 70s, rising productivity did lead to increased wages. However, from the early 70s on, productivity has increased much faster than wages or even total compensation (wages plus benefits). During the past 30 years, productivity has nearly doubled and wages are, essentially, the same. Total compensation has only increased by about 40%. For a lot more information, see this post at Calculated Risk, in particular, this graph.\nAll of this brings me back to my original question. Is he lying or just incompetent?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/19/i-know-hes-a-professor-of-economics-but/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI know he’s a professor of economics, but does that mean Russell Roberts gets to lie in nearly every paragraph of his editorial, “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-roberts17feb17,0,3318291.story?coll=la-opinion-center\"\u003eWorkers are fine with fewer unions\u003c/a\u003e? I guess it does. Okay, in fairness, he may not be lying, but an editorial this bad means it’s either that or the author is incompetent.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m not going to tackle every single incorrect statement here, but there are a few that really stand out:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"I know he's a professor of economics, but..."},{"content":"I love email like this:\nsir/madam plz if u can send me aticles on image compression and neural networks for my thesis reserach work. thanks XXXXX\nI always want to respond back that I’ll jump right on it since I have nothing better to do.\nThis is in direct contrast to a very nice email I received from an instructor at an Indian university asking to get a pdf copy of a lab manual that one of my old professors and I wrote 10 years ago. That one, I’ll go to the archives and retrieve to send on.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/13/those-wacky-students/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI love email like this:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esir/madam\nplz if u can send me aticles on image compression and neural networks for\nmy thesis reserach work.\nthanks\nXXXXX\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI always want to respond back that I’ll jump right on it since I have nothing better to do.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is in direct contrast to a very nice email I received from an instructor at an Indian university asking to get a pdf copy of a lab manual that one of my old professors and I wrote 10 years ago. That one, I’ll go to the archives and retrieve to send on.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"those wacky students"},{"content":"Can someone tell me when our political experts decided that everyday is Talk Like a Pirate Day? I’m sure it’s just me, but if I hear the formulation that Iraq has cost us in “blood and treasure, one more time, I may have to make the cur walk the plank.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/13/pirate-culture/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eCan someone tell me when our political experts decided that everyday is \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day\"\u003eTalk Like a Pirate Day\u003c/a\u003e? I’m sure it’s just me, but if I hear the formulation that Iraq has cost us in “blood and treasure, one more time, I may have to make the cur walk the plank.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pirate culture"},{"content":" Last summer, while visiting my grandfather for his 80th birthday, I got into a discussion with my father about the state of the economy and the structural changes that had taken place which served to increase the gap between rich and poor. I noted that statistical measures of income inequality, such as the gini coefficient, were higher in the U.S. than in other industrialized countries; and that the there is less inter-generational class mobility now than there used to be. My father countered that there were several counter examples to that at the table where we were sitting – that all of his children were doing better than he had at our ages. That is true, but a cluster of data points does not make for a valid statistic and the facts are that mine is the first generation that is not likely to be significantly better off than its parents.\nThe thing that puzzled me most was that my father is living in the same economy I am, how could he not be experiencing the same economic anxiety and difficulty felt most people I know? At the time, I chalked it up to too much Fox News on his part, but now I may have a better answer. The book “Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead, by Tamara Draut, examines a number of changes in the economy over the past 30 years and shows why these changes disproportionately affect Gen X.\nDraut starts by examining the costs of education. She notes that over the past 30 years, the cost of college has increased faster than both the rate of inflation and wage increases. The result is that even though college is the “new high school in terms of the minimum level of education needed to obtain a middle class lifestyle, fewer people can afford it without taking on a large amount of student loan debt. This loan debt plagues many people I know, even fifteen years after they graduated. Furthermore, the high cost of education, even an associates degree, keeps many qualified students out of higher education.\nI mentioned that the cost of college has increased faster than wages. Draut takes this on as her second economic change that disproportionately affects Gen X. She cites a table from the National Center for Education Statistics (which used data from a variety of government sources) to show that almost regardless of sex and level of education (high school, some college, college degree), the median salary for people age 25 to 34 has fallen over the past 30 years. In some cases, e.g., college educated men, the decline has been minor; in others, e.g., high school educated men, it has been as large as 25%. The only group that has seen its wages increase are college educated women, for whom there are many more opportunities now than 30 years ago. Furthermore, there are fewer benefits including health care coverage or pensions.\nIncreased housing costs over the past 10 years have also disproportionately affected my generation. There are a number of changes in the housing market that are responsible. The most obvious is the dramatic rise in home prices and the corresponding increase in rents. However, other problems include the lack of “starter homes. Most new developments are for mid-range to high-end homes. Given their school loans, which reduce the amount of money available to save for a down payment, along with the debt itself, many people in my generation find that they can’t afford a home until much later in life than their parents. If they can afford a home, they often can’t afford enough of a down payment to avoid Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI), which can eat up a several thousand dollars a year that could be used for savings or paying off other bills.\nIncreasing costs for housing, etc., combined with larger debt (and money spent to pay off that debt), combined with stagnant wages have a number of consequences. These include a greater reliance on credit cards, just to pay simple bill; and an increasing number of families that require two incomes just to stay afloat. These coping techniques are strained when a couple decides to have children. Draut shows that while many people in my generation want to have children, financial reasons often make them wait until later in life, i.e., it’s no longer affordable to have children at the same age our parents did. Part of the problem is that policies have not kept up with the changes in the economy. Moreso than in the 70s, today’s families need two incomes. There is no paid time off in this country for maternity/paternity. Your company (assuming it is large enough) does have to give you up to three months off for FMLA, but you have to use your own sick leave and vacation – assuming your job gives you those benefits. And when that time is up (assuming you could afford to take it), you have to find child care, which apparently comes in two types: good, but expensive centers, and cheaper, unregulated home care.\nThroughout the book, Draut explains how various changes in the economy hurt young adults more than older. Along the way, she uses statistics to demonstrate that many of the insulting stereotypes that Gen X is labeled with are untrue (e.g., in spite of everything we save more than our parents did; we are more concerned with family than they were; etc.). For me personally, the book went a long way to explaining why my father does not feel the same level of stress about the economy that I do. It also explains my father’s point about my doing better than he did at my age – through dumb luck and supportive parents, I didn’t fall into any of the traps Draut describes. My parents ensured that I had no student loan debt; because I worked full time as a student, I never accumulated credit card debt; I majored in a field that is enough in demand that we don’t need two incomes to survive; K’s grandfather left her money that was enough to put a good down payment on a town home (i.e., one of the few starter homes still around); I have a job at a place known for good benefits; lack of debt has allowed me to take advantage of the retirement benefits available and to save extra on the side. Most of this was entirely out of our control and if even one of the above had not happened, we would be in the same boat as most other people in our generation: strapped.\nIn case you didn’t guess, I highly recommend the book.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/12/strapped/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/BookDB/showBook.php?ISBN=1400079977\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/BookDB/smallBookImage.php?ISBN=1400079977\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Last summer, while visiting my grandfather for his 80th birthday, I got into a discussion with my father about the state of the economy and the structural changes that had taken place which served to increase the gap between rich and poor. I noted that statistical measures of income inequality, such as the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient\"\u003egini coefficient\u003c/a\u003e, were higher in the U.S. than in other industrialized countries; and that the there is less inter-generational class mobility now than there used to be. My father countered that there were several counter examples to that at the table where we were sitting – that all of his children were doing better than he had at our ages. That is true, but a cluster of data points does not make for a valid statistic and the facts are that mine is the first generation that is not likely to be significantly better off than its parents.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\"Strapped\""},{"content":"A few weeks ago, K took over the outdoor rehab of a pair of possums from a friend who was heading out of town. One of the possums wasn’t doing so well and so they decided to split them up when her friend got back in town. The very next day, the animal K kept would barely wake up and was in terrible shape. K rushed her to the clinic where she died shortly of the “major ick. Don’t look at me, that’s apparently the technical term for it.\nSince no one really knows what the ick is and whether or not it is contagious (they’re sending the remains off for testing), K and the wildlife vet thought that it would be best to move the cage to a new spot and then clean it. The problem is that the cages (right) are fairly heavy 6′ cubes made of wood and steel mesh. Our first attempt to move it by picking it up would have taken between 4 and 6 people – we only had two. This meant that we would probably have to take the cage apart, move the pieces and reassemble: something I did not want to have to do.\nEmploying creative laziness, I realized that we had a set of wheels attached to boards lying around the house. By temporarily attaching them to the cage (left), I could construct a fully functional possum battle-cage!\nOnce the wheels were attached, we were easily able to move the cage (see below for a re-enactment) to a spot 20′ away, remove the wheels and reposition the cage on the guard mesh it sits on. All told, this only took 30 minutes: much less than the time needed to take down and reassemble it.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/11/life-as-the-handyman-for-a-wildlife-rehabber/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA few weeks ago, K took over the outdoor rehab of a pair of possums from a friend who was heading out of town. One of the possums wasn’t doing so well and so they decided to split them up when her friend got back in town. The very next day, the animal K kept would barely wake up and was in terrible shape. K rushed her to the clinic where she died shortly of the “major ick. Don’t look at me, that’s apparently the technical term for it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Life as the handyman for a wildlife rehabber"},{"content":"If you haven’t seen World Domination Battle yet, you really need to. I could try to write something profound about how nice it is to see the Internet as a platform for game delivery, but instead I’ll just say that it’s a lot of fun. No matter who your favorite (or least favorite) world leader is – they’re made fun of.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/07/world-domination-battle/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"wdb-800x600-white.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/wdb-800x600-white.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003eIf you haven’t seen \u003ca href=\"http://worlddominationbattle.com\"\u003eWorld Domination Battle\u003c/a\u003e yet, you really need to. I could try to write something profound about how nice it is to see the Internet as a platform for game delivery, but instead I’ll just say that it’s a lot of fun. No matter who your favorite (or least favorite) world leader is – they’re made fun of.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"World Domination Battle"},{"content":" K’s mom just sent us a King Cake for Mardi Gras. Okay, technically, Mardi Gras isn’t for a couple more weeks, but it’s definitely the King Cake season. It’s been a while since I’ve had a King Cake.\nThe last was a few years ago and I made it: a straight forward sweet bread with traditional almond cream frosting and colored sugar. For those who are interested, the colors mean different things: Purple for justice, Gold for power and Green for faith. The cake we just received from Gambino’s in Louisiana was much like the ones I’ve made. The only difference: praline filling. It’s not traditional, but it tastes great. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a sugar high to burn through. dsc_0453_m.JPG\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/06/laissez-les-bon-temps-rouler/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/02/06/laissez-les-bon-temps-rouler/dsc_0453_mjpg/\" title=\"dsc_0453_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_0453_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/dsc_0453_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e K’s mom just sent us a King Cake for Mardi Gras. Okay, technically, Mardi Gras isn’t for a couple more weeks, but it’s definitely the King Cake season. It’s been a while since I’ve had a King Cake.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last was a few years ago and I made it: a straight forward sweet bread with traditional almond cream frosting and colored sugar. For those who are interested, the colors mean different things: Purple for justice, Gold for power and Green for faith. The cake we just received from Gambino’s in Louisiana was much like the ones I’ve made. The only difference: praline filling. It’s not traditional, but it tastes great. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a sugar high to burn through.\n\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/02/06/laissez-les-bon-temps-rouler/dsc_0453_mjpg/\" title=\"dsc_0453_m.JPG\"\u003edsc_0453_m.JPG\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler"},{"content":"There’s a saying about education (I would call it a joke, but it hits too close to home for that), the process of education is learning more and more about less and less until finally, you know absolutely everything about absolutely nothing. This is pretty close to the truth. For a period of time in the 90s, I was one of the world’s foremost expert on the subject of using artificial neural networks for image and video compression – talk about your niche subjects. If you read the titles of dissertations, they are all extremely specific. For the most part, PhDs are specialists and generalists are few and far between. In fact, I was once approached to interview at Sandia National Labs because I was one of the few PhDs they had a resume for who was a generalist (I turned down the interview since I had just started in my current position).\nGiven the nature of PhDs, I was amused by this article in the Washington Post about officers in the military with PhDs, advising on the war in Iraq. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t doubt that these officers are all very intelligent and are well qualified. But one shouldn’t assume that because the advisers have PhDs, they will be independent or will give you new ideas. Petraeus has found a set of educated advisers that will almost certainly confirm the ideas he already has – that’s probably why they were picked. It doesn’t mean they are right. You could just as easily find other officers with PhDs having entirely different ideas. The PhD is a credential. It does demonstrate that the officers are intelligent, but it doesn’t mean that their specialty is necessarily relevant.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/05/the-limits-of-education/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThere’s a saying about education (I would call it a joke, but it hits too close to home for that), the process of education is learning more and more about less and less until finally, you know absolutely everything about absolutely nothing. This is pretty close to the truth. For a period of time in the 90s, I was one of the world’s foremost expert on the subject of using artificial neural networks for image and video compression – talk about your niche subjects. If you read the titles of dissertations, they are all extremely specific. For the most part, PhDs are specialists and generalists are few and far between. In fact, I was once approached to interview at Sandia National Labs because I was one of the few PhDs they had a resume for who was a generalist (I turned down the interview since I had just started in my current position).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The limits of education"},{"content":"Some folks I know were talking about puns today. I’ll admit to not getting puns or at best, getting them and not finding them funny. For example, a friend of mine who is a master punster once wrote on a white board “What’s in the monitoring wells? … Hg. I didn’t get it at all, I was thinking – well, sure they could easily be monitoring for mercury. The H.G. Wells connection just didn’t occur to me.\nSo, here’s my theory. As near as I can tell, puns are a confusion between the symbolic meaning(s) of a word (i.e. what the word represents) and its structural representation(s) (either verbal or written). The punster selects a structural representation that has multiple symbolic meanings. So, for example, Hg refers to both mercury and the initials of an author. One of these meanings is in-context for the issue being punned about. Other meanings for the same structural representation make sense in a different symbolic context that may or may not be relevant to the issue being punned about.\nOne theory of humor suggests that it is experienced when what is expected is different from what occurs. So, the confusion between symbolic and structural meanings is the unexpected that causes a pun to seem funny. It’s also the reason that I don’t generally find puns funny. For the most part, I don’t interact very well with words on a structural level. I don’t do well with crossword puzzles, K beats me in solving Wheel of Fortune puzzles 19 times out of 20. I can’t spell to save my life. In short, my interaction with words is almost entirely at the symbolic level. The specific meaning of a given word is then based on the context – the puns completely pass me by.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/05/puns/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSome folks I know were talking about puns today. I’ll admit to not getting puns or at best, getting them and not finding them funny. For example, a friend of mine who is a master punster once wrote on a white board “What’s in the monitoring wells? … Hg. I didn’t get it at all, I was thinking – well, sure they could easily be monitoring for mercury. The H.G. Wells connection just didn’t occur to me.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Puns"},{"content":" The acid neutralizer has been in place for over a week – no problems yet. That said, I did manage to break a holding clip on my water softener while trying to figure out why there was extra water in it. Not a big deal, new clips are on order and the broken clip holds for now. Spinach Quesadillas! My standard quesadilla recipe calls for shredded Mexican cheese with a filling stuffed into a folded over tortilla and pan fried. I just tried a new filling: I took frozen spinach, defrosted it in the microwave and squeezed the water out of it. I then took a few table spoons of butter (okay, smart balance) and lightly sauteed some garlic. Then I added the spinach and used the result as the quesidilla filling. Yum! I’ve got a couple of extra posts coming tonight: sorry for the drive by blogging. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/05/miscellany/","summary":"\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe acid neutralizer has been in place for over a week – no problems yet. That said, I did manage to break a holding clip on my water softener while trying to figure out why there was extra water in it. Not a big deal, new clips are on order and the broken clip holds for now.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpinach Quesadillas! My standard quesadilla recipe calls for shredded Mexican cheese with a filling stuffed into a folded over tortilla and pan fried. I just tried a new filling: I took frozen spinach, defrosted it in the microwave and squeezed the water out of it. I then took a few table spoons of butter (okay, smart balance) and lightly sauteed some garlic. Then I added the spinach and used the result as the quesidilla filling. Yum!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ve got a couple of extra posts coming tonight: sorry for the drive by blogging.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e","title":"Miscellany"},{"content":"I mentioned several months ago how academic journals were mostly a scam perpetrate by the publishers on universities. One of the things that I briefly discussed was how the entire editorial staff of the journal Topology had announced their resignation. Well, 2006 wrapped up and the former editors of Topology have announced that they will create a new journal called the Journal of Topology (not very creative, but what do you want, they’re mathematicians, not writers).\nThe new journal will be published by a mathematics society and not Elsevier. It’s cost? About 1/3 or Elsevier’s: $570 for an annual, university subscription.\nI like this – we need to see more stories like it.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/02/02/more-like-this-please/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/30/the-high-cost-of-academic-journals/\"\u003ementioned several months\u003c/a\u003e ago how academic journals were mostly a scam perpetrate by the publishers on universities. One of the things that I briefly discussed was how the entire editorial staff of the journal Topology had announced their resignation. Well, 2006 wrapped up and the former editors of Topology have announced that they will create a new journal called the Journal of Topology (not very creative, but what do you want, they’re mathematicians, not writers).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"more like this please..."},{"content":"Last week, the president signed an executive order that changes the way that regulations are made. The order establishes a new standard for creating regulations: the agency must show that the market has failed to correct the problem. Most consumer advocates are upset by the move which will make it harder to regulate business that harm the public.\nI agree that the order will end up harming the public; however, I also think that the president does have the right to issue the order. Our government is divided into three branches, two are relevant here: congress (the legislative branch) and the presidency (the executive branch). The executive is the only branch with a single outlook – that of the president. All of the executive agencies report to him through the cabinet.\nThe founders recognized that this singular position and outlook gave the executive branch much more vitality and an ability to act in a unified manner than any other branch. To guard against the president becoming king in all but name, they gave congress the power to legislate. The executive branch has the role of implementing or executing the policies of congress.\nWith the power to legislate, congress could craft very specific legislation that would require the executive to implement their policies in very specific ways. However, most legislation is not written that specifically, nor should we want it to be. In order to last for decades, legislation relies heavily on the executive rule making process. The rule making process within the executive branch dictates how the laws will be implemented. Rule making is much more flexible and can change more rapidly than could the original legislation. The rule making must still fill the original intent of the law (or the third branch gets involved); but within that context, it is very broad. In the IT area, we have found over the past 5 years or so, that rule making is more worrisome than legislation – after all, legislation is passed with ample representation. Rule making is largely at the whim of the executive in charge at the time.\nSo, the president, and therefore the executive branch, want to limit new regulations – in some cases, overriding the opinions of professionals in the departments that know the science, the economics and the facts better than the politicians. Should we be upset? Yes – good government depends on expert opinions and not political ideology. Is it improper? No. The fact is, elections do have consequences. If the country voted for a conservative who is more concerned with businesses than the public, then we shouldn’t be surprised when he puts limits on good government practices that favor the public.\nOf course, liberals should highlight that fact come election time. We should note that Bush’s own administration produced a report showing that regulations save the country more money than they cost businesses:\nA major feature of this report is the estimates of the total costs and benefits of regulations reviewed by OMB. Major Federal regulations reviewed by OMB from October 1, 1993, to September 30, 2003, were examined. The estimated annual benefits range from $63 billion to $169 billion, while the estimated annual costs range from $35 billion to $40 billion. A substantial portion of both benefits and costs is attributable to a handful of clean-air rules that reduce public exposure to fine particulate matter. Technical limitations in these estimates are significant and are discussed in the text of the Report.\nEven this report is limited and given the political process involved in producing it, I suspect that it under-represents the benefits and over-represents the costs of regulations.\nSo here’s my proposal. We accept the fact that the Bush administration is going to interpret and implement federal laws with an eye to making things cheap for businesses at a cost to the public. Between limits on new regulations and attempts to limit torts, the public is getting the short end of the stick, and that needs to change with the next president. When the next president is a Democrat, we need to revise the executive order so that an agency only has to show that a proposed regulation is minimally cost effective (i.e., the cost is less than or equal to the public benefit) before it gets implemented.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/30/regulation-vs-legislation/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast week, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2835916\"\u003epresident signed an executive order\u003c/a\u003e that changes the way that regulations are made. The order establishes a new standard for creating regulations: the agency must show that the market has failed to correct the problem. Most consumer advocates are upset by the move which will make it harder to regulate business that harm the public.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI agree that the order will end up harming the public; however, I also think that the president does have the right to issue the order. Our government is divided into three branches, two are relevant here: congress (the legislative branch) and the presidency (the executive branch). The executive is the only branch with a single outlook – that of the president. All of the executive agencies report to him through the cabinet.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Regulation vs Legislation"},{"content":"A memo to the world…\nI don’t care about your hierarchical BS. I know that hierarchy seems to be important to people because we have kept it around from the time we roamed as east African plains apes (h/t Brad DeLong) to today’s corporations, but frankly, I don’t care. The fact that a person occupies a higher position in the hierarchy does not mean that they are necessarily better, smarter or more deserving of respect than anyone else. Hierarchies may seem like a good idea if you want to keep people in their place; but they are based on intimidation and are undemocratic and destructive. If you feel differently, and are concerned, then it might be best if I was kept away from people you worry might take offense to my treating them like I treat everyone else. That is all.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/30/memo-to-the-world/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA memo to the world…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI don’t care about your hierarchical BS. I know that hierarchy seems to be important to people because we have kept it around from the time we roamed as east African plains apes (h/t Brad DeLong) to today’s corporations, but frankly, I don’t care. The fact that a person occupies a higher position in the hierarchy does not mean that they are necessarily better, smarter or more deserving of respect than anyone else. Hierarchies may seem like a good idea if you want to keep people in their place; but they are based on intimidation and are undemocratic and destructive. If you feel differently, and are concerned, then it might be best if I was kept away from people you worry might take offense to my treating them like I treat everyone else.\nThat is all.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Memo to the world..."},{"content":"So, I’m going to tempt fate here and follow up on a post I made a few weeks ago. Last week, I received the replacement tank for my acid neutralizer. It didn’t look quite like the same tank I had, so I emailed the company. Turns out they had upgraded the tank to the slightly better molded polyglass as opposed to the wrapped resin tank. The big advantage is that the threads are machined, not made by wrapping around a mold.\nOn Saturday, I installed the tank (see the first picture) and plumbed in a bypass (second picture). I plumbed the tank head backward, like they told me, even through it felt wrong (I need to document that somewhere 🙂 ). So far (knock on wood), it all seems to be working. The tank hasn’t exploded, the water’s pH is up to neutral. I think we may be done!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/29/tempting-fate/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo, I’m going to tempt fate here and follow up on a \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2007/01/01/bah/\"\u003epost I made a few weeks ago\u003c/a\u003e. Last week, I received the replacement tank for my acid neutralizer. It didn’t look quite like the same tank I had, so I emailed the company. Turns out they had upgraded the tank to the slightly better molded polyglass as opposed to the wrapped resin tank. The big advantage is that the threads are machined, not made by wrapping around a mold.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Tempting fate"},{"content":"Last week, I was having a discussion with someone who mentioned that a mutual acquaintance is an INTJ. I think she knew that I was familiar with Myers-Briggs, but regardless, it was one of the most helpful remarks she could have made. I’ve been interested in Myers-Briggs for quite some time. I find it to be a very helpful, descriptive (as opposed to predictive) tool for understanding how different people perceive the world.\nMyers-Briggs divides personalities along four axes: Introvert-Extrovert (I/E), Sensing-Intuition (S/N), Thinking-Feeling (T/F) and Judging-Perceiving (J/P). The I/E axis is probably the one that most closely reflects the standard definitions. S/N refers to how much one relies on facts and data-points (sensing) versus intuitive work. T/F is pretty close to standard definitions. J/P is the most confusing. Judging in this case is really “decisiveness, while Perceiving refers to adaptability, spontaneity, etc.\nWhat I’ve found is that the Myers-Briggs personality types are fairly good at describing a person. Not perfect, obviously, for example, there isn’t an honesty/dishonesty axis. But overall, a pretty good descriptor. For example, I’m an INTP (one of the more rare types, but well represented in IT) and one of the best descriptions of me was from someone who never met me – it was a generic INTP profile off of the INTP website (yes, we really all are nerds).\nWhat’s interesting, and harder to get a handle on, are the differences and the relationships between the different types. One of the things that I find interesting are the four types that are adjacent to mine (ENTPs, ISTPs, INFPs and INTJs). Each of them is like looking in a fun-house mirror. Their personalities are similar to, but not quite the same as mine. They reflect different aspects of my own personality.\nENTPs are, not surprisingly, outgoing and dynamic. They are smart and articulate. In a project, I love teaming up with an ENTP. They’re much better with working people and explaining the project to them.\nI don’t know many ISTPs (at least to my knowledge). Some of the Myers-Briggs sites suggest that we arrive at similar results, but with different approaches.\nINFPs seem very similar, but their intuition and perceiving manifest themselves in ways that often feel dreamy and silly. I was looking in on an INTP website one time and, apparently, every time an INFP would show up, it would wind up in (electronic) tears. We think in similar ways, but about completely different things. An unfair generalization is that INTPs think about computers, photography, philosophy, etc.; while INFPs think about ponies and unicorns. Hey, I admitted that it was unfair.\nINTJs scare me. INTPs tend to study or get involved with a broad number of topics. If you ask an INTP if s/he knows something about a topic, they might say, “some. When you talk to them, you find out that they know quite a bit; they just don’t realize what they know and they are often uncertain – we’re seldom willing to claim that we are absolutely right about anything. INTJs on the other hand know exactly what it is that they know and they know they are right. There’s little doubt in their minds. If an INTJ says s/he knows something, they do. If they don’t know it, they know they don’t. There’s no uncertainty and they are quite likely to think they are right.\nDon’t get me wrong, I admire the INTJs – they make much better IT leaders than INTPs; but their definitiveness scares me. When they’re wrong (and they occasionally are) it’s hard to argue with them and hard to convince them otherwise.\nAnyway, there wasn’t much of a point to this, just musing – as we INTPs are wont to do 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/29/myers-briggs/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast week, I was having a discussion with someone who mentioned that a mutual acquaintance is an INTJ. I think she knew that I was familiar with Myers-Briggs, but regardless, it was one of the most helpful remarks she could have made. I’ve been interested in Myers-Briggs for quite some time. I find it to be a very helpful, descriptive (as opposed to predictive) tool for understanding how different people perceive the world.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Myers-Briggs"},{"content":"It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, mostly because, for the first time in 5+ years, I’ve gotten somewhat addicted to a video game. Some friends are leaving for CA soon and they were giving away things they didn’t want to bring. This included a handful of games. I grabbed “Neverwinter Nights since I knew it would run under linux. Since I installed it, I’ve been spending way too much time playing (to K’s annoyance, I’m sure).\nI did manage to catch the State of the Union address last night, and for the first time ever, one of George Bush’s speeches did not infuriate me. I’m not certain what it was, there were certainly the usual lies, distortions and dangerous proposals, but they didn’t bother me as much. Perhaps it was the knowledge of a Democratic majority or maybe it was his tone, who knows.\nAs I said, there were still a number of inaccuracies in the SOTU:\n“7.2 million new jobs in 41 months. This is technically true. That said, a) it’s not that many jobs ~175k per month which barely keeps up with the increase in the working population; and b) this is Bush’s 60th month in office, in the first 19 months we lost ~5 million jobs. The net job gain is very small and is worse than any other post-recession period ever. “Met goal of halving the deficit. Sort of. Basically, for the past 4 or 5 years, this administration has overestimated budget deficits as compared to other, less biased projections. So, yes, they have halved the intentionally overestimated budget deficits, but they have not halved the actual budget deficits. Beyond that, if we hadn’t cut taxes on the rich, we would have a balanced budget today. Earmarks – Given that his party has increased earmarks by roughly a factor of 7, in the past 12 years, and that Democrats have already stated they would kill all earmarks this year and severely restrict them in the future, this seems like he’s coming a bit late to the party – after earmarks won’t help his party as much. Education and No Child Left Behind – NCLB seems to be intended to tear apart the public education system. Beyond that, it encourages teaching to the test; and even worse, while the president cited improvements in math and science, those are not across the board. He cherry picked the 4th grade results. Results in the 8th grade? Not so good. In addition to the inaccuracies, there were a number of dangerous, misguided or just impractical proposals. I’m not going into all of them, but one is interesting: health insurance. The president proposed a system whereby the tax deduction for health insurance would be capped at $7,500 for an individual, $15k for a family. However, purchasing any health insurance would allow you to claim that deduction ($7.5k or $15k). The thinking is that people without insurance could use the deduction to lower the cost or even pay entirely for the insurance.\nThere are a few problems with this. 1) Generally, the uninsured are less well of and don’t have a large tax burden. They pay at a lower tax bracket and with other deductions may not even pay taxes on the $15k (remember, this is a tax deduction, not a tax credit). This is not likely to be enough to encourage people to buy insurance. 2) The cap grows with inflation. However, health care costs grow much faster. Right now, only a few people exceed the cap, in 10 or 20 years, the number will be much larger (even with the increased cap). 3) The incentives here are likely to drive healthy people out of the larger risk pools that keep costs down for everyone. So this could push many plans into an insurance “death spiral: healthy people leave, increasing per person costs and the plan costs, so more people leave, etc.\nIn short, the proposal is damaging. Insurance plans needs as large a population as possible and this proposal will fragment the populations so that in the end, you’re on your own for your health care. In fact, that’s the short version of what Bush’s “ownership society is all about: you’re on your own.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/24/sotu/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s been a while since I’ve written anything, mostly because, for the first time in 5+ years, I’ve gotten somewhat addicted to a video game. Some friends are leaving for CA soon and they were giving away things they didn’t want to bring. This included a handful of games. I grabbed “Neverwinter Nights since I knew it would run under linux. Since I installed it, I’ve been spending way too much time playing (to K’s annoyance, I’m sure).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"SOTU"},{"content":"A few weeks ago, I was talking to some folks at lunch and mentioned that I had a recipe for cheese sausages. I meant to give it to them, but never wrote it up. Since others might find it interesting…\nFor the record, I got the recipe from “Classic Home Cooking which is a great cookbook, but since you can’t copyright facts (like instructions or a recipe), I think I’m pretty safe writing it up here.\nServes 4\nIngredients:\n6 slices of bread 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1/2 cup crumbled feta 1/4 cup toasted walnuts 2 tbsp fresh sage 1 tbsp lemon zest 6 green onions 1 tsp ground mustard 2 eggs (1 separated) 1 tbsp milk flour In a food processor (or by hand) chop walnuts, lemon zest, sage, green onions. Add ground mustard. Tear up the bread, toss it in the food processor and chop until you’ve got bread crumbs.\nMix bread mixture with cheese. Beat one egg and one egg yolk, add to bread mixture with milk. Mix thoroughly.\nLet sit for a half hour or so. Form into eight patties. Dip in egg white, then flour (fwiw, I usually skip the egg white and just flour them). Fry in a few tablespoons of olive oil.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/16/cheese-sausages/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA few weeks ago, I was talking to some folks at lunch and mentioned that I had a recipe for cheese sausages. I meant to give it to them, but never wrote it up. Since others might find it interesting…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the record, I got the recipe from “Classic Home Cooking which is a great cookbook, but since you can’t copyright facts (like instructions or a recipe), I think I’m pretty safe writing it up here.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Cheese sausages"},{"content":"","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/11/yellowstone-3/","summary":"","title":"Yellowstone 3"},{"content":"","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/11/yellowstone-2/","summary":"","title":"Yellowstone 2"},{"content":"","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/11/yellowstone-1/","summary":"","title":"Yellowstone 1"},{"content":"","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/11/photography/","summary":"","title":"Photography"},{"content":"I listened to the president’s speech tonight on the radio and then on the television when I got home. I don’t know why I do it. Listening to the president makes my ears want to explode, my eyes want to pop out of my head and my foot want to go through the television.\nAs near as I can tell, the “new way forward is essentially what we claim we’ve been trying to do all along. The only difference seems to be that this time we’ll succeed [insert eye roll here]. Why? Not because we’re doing anything different, only because we’ll be sending 20,000 more targets, er troops, to the region. Of course, 20,000 troops is no where near enough to help – we would need ten to twenty times that number. 20,000 is just enough to claim we’re trying something new, but likely not enough to actually accomplish anything.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/10/i-dont-know-why-i-do-it/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI listened to the president’s speech tonight on the radio and then on the television when I got home. I don’t know why I do it. Listening to the president makes my ears want to explode, my eyes want to pop out of my head and my foot want to go through the television.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs near as I can tell, the “new way forward is essentially what we claim we’ve been trying to do all along. The only difference seems to be that this time we’ll succeed [insert eye roll here]. Why? Not because we’re doing anything different, only because we’ll be sending 20,000 more targets, er troops, to the region. Of course, 20,000 troops is no where near enough to help – we would need ten to twenty times that number. 20,000 is just enough to claim we’re trying something new, but likely not enough to actually accomplish anything.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"I don't know why I do it"},{"content":"I had lunch yesterday with our scholarly communications officer – basically, copyright guru. We were meeting because I (and apparently a few other people in IT) had commented that we were looking for the scholarly communications officer to take the lead in positioning the university on different copyright issues. He thought that was interesting because that’s what he thought he had been doing.\nWe discussed a number of issues, only a few of which he had been working on. From memory, the following are the copyright concerns that I have and that I would like the university to take a position on:\nincreasingly longer copyright terms that damage the growth of the public domain, becoming, essentially, permanent the Library of Congress’s exemption process which only grants exemptions for three years at a time (iirc, we lost a few exemptions this year) A loss of the initial focus of the purpose of copyright (“to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by providing an incentive to create) the push to copyright databases and collections of facts the ratchet effect in copyright law where the U.S. tries to catch up with another country (e.g., the EU), but instead surpasses them; then they do the same to us meta-data: can it be copyrighted? should it? who should own it? is it a derivative work? etc. DMCA section 1201 on anti-circumvention may prevent the creation of software that would be legal to use the MPAA’s region codes (an example of the issue above) General problems with copyright law harming consumers (loss of fair-use). I’m sure there were other things; but what else am I missing? A question I used to ask students was, if you could rewrite copyright law, how would it look?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/09/copyright-advocacy/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI had lunch yesterday with our scholarly communications officer – basically, copyright guru. We were meeting because I (and apparently a few other people in IT) had commented that we were looking for the scholarly communications officer to take the lead in positioning the university on different copyright issues. He thought that was interesting because that’s what he thought he had been doing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe discussed a number of issues, only a few of which he had been working on. From memory, the following are the copyright concerns that I have and that I would like the university to take a position on:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Copyright advocacy"},{"content":"If you’ve read Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, it’ll be pretty obvious why Walmart’s continued quest for efficiency is bad for employees and workers. The latest example? High-tech scheduling software designed to dynamically tune employee schedules to meet real-time fluctuations in the number of customers. The result will be low wage workers on-call to meet customer surges and the possibility of being asked to go home during lulls. This will make paychecks even less stable. Add to that, dynamic checks on whether an employee is reaching full-time status or overtime so that their schedule can be scaled back, and you have the makings of an increasingly unfair workplace – regardless of value of the minimum wage.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/03/another-example-of-not-getting-by-in-america/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIf you’ve read Barbara Ehrenreich’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/0805063897\"\u003eNickel and Dimed\u003c/a\u003e, it’ll be pretty obvious why Walmart’s continued quest for efficiency is bad for employees and workers. The latest example? \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/01/post_2366.html\"\u003eHigh-tech scheduling software\u003c/a\u003e designed to dynamically tune employee schedules to meet real-time fluctuations in the number of customers. The result will be low wage workers on-call to meet customer surges and the possibility of being asked to go home during lulls. This will make paychecks even less stable. Add to that, dynamic checks on whether an employee is reaching full-time status or overtime so that their schedule can be scaled back, and you have the makings of an increasingly unfair workplace – regardless of value of the minimum wage.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"another example of not getting by in America"},{"content":"Pat Robertson’s almost 77 years old. Unfortunately, I don’t think the lord will call him home any time soon because it’s just too much fun to lie to him.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/03/pat-robertson/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePat Robertson’s almost 77 years old. Unfortunately, I don’t think the lord will call him home any time soon because it’s just too much fun to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/02/robertson.predictions.ap/index.html\"\u003elie to him\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pat Robertson"},{"content":"so Saturday night around 11:30pm, the acid neutralizer I just installed, exploded. Okay, it didn’t really explode, but the top popped off again. Spoke to the customer support, looked around a bit more and it seems that the threads on the tank were stripped. I’ll call tomorrow and see about getting a replacement tank\nUpdate: I just received a call from the folks that sold me the acid neutralizer (I didn’t even have to call them back). Two interesting things: 1) apparently, the tank head they sent is a down flow head and the system I’ve got is designed to be upflow. Not a big deal, except that I have to reverse the inlet and outlet plumb lines as compared to what’s labeled on the head. Normally they send a note along those lines – this time they didn’t. 2) Given that one of the threads is stripped, they’re going to send me a new tank and an RMA to return the old one.\nBelieve it or not, even after all of the difficulties, I’m still very happy with the company (CAI Technologies). They seem to sell good products and a reasonable cost (about half what I could find elsewhere). If you ever need specialty plumbing, check ’em out.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2007/01/01/bah/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eso Saturday night around 11:30pm, the acid neutralizer I just \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/12/29/the-right-tool-for-the-job/\"\u003einstalled\u003c/a\u003e, exploded. Okay, it didn’t really explode, but the top popped off again. Spoke to the customer support, looked around a bit more and it seems that the threads on the tank were stripped. I’ll call tomorrow and see about getting a replacement tank\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUpdate:\u003c/strong\u003e I just received a call from the folks that sold me the acid neutralizer (I didn’t even have to call them back). Two interesting things: 1) apparently, the tank head they sent is a down flow head and the system I’ve got is designed to be upflow. Not a big deal, except that I have to reverse the inlet and outlet plumb lines as compared to what’s labeled on the head. Normally they send a note along those lines – this time they didn’t. 2) Given that one of the threads is stripped, they’re going to send me a new tank and an RMA to return the old one.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"bah! - updated"},{"content":"Two web-related notes:\nI’ve just migrated the Piedmont Wildlife Center’s website from a bunch of php webpages (the only reason for the php was to include the template) to the Drupal content management system. I’ve also added in the Coppermine photo gallery to keep our pictures. I would have used gallery2, but it kept dying due to memory errors with the database. I’m guessing our ISP has the ulimit set to small. Overall, the updates went pretty well, the biggest headaches were taking us out of a table based layout into the (more) modern world of CSS. I kept the current look and feel, but the CMS should make it easier to change in the future. But for now, at least I can distribute the web updating responsibilities to others 🙂 Does anyone know how to get WordPress to do better detection/blocking of comment spam? It’s killing me. Fine, I’ll go google for it. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/30/web-related-notes/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTwo web-related notes:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ve just migrated the \u003ca href=\"http://www.piedmontwildlifecenter.org\"\u003ePiedmont Wildlife Center’s website\u003c/a\u003e from a bunch of php webpages (the only reason for the php was to include the template) to the Drupal content management system. I’ve also added in the Coppermine photo gallery to keep our pictures. I would have used gallery2, but it kept dying due to memory errors with the database. I’m guessing our ISP has the ulimit set to small. Overall, the updates went pretty well, the biggest headaches were taking us out of a table based layout into the (more) modern world of CSS. I kept the current look and feel, but the CMS should make it easier to change in the future. But for now, at least I can distribute the web updating responsibilities to others 🙂\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes anyone know how to get WordPress to do better detection/blocking of comment spam? It’s killing me. Fine, I’ll go google for it.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e","title":"Web related notes"},{"content":"I’m reading the collected writings of Ben Franklin from the Library of America (yes, all 1600 or so pages of it), and I ran across the following passage:\nIt is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extream [sic] necessity. While mere rhetoricians, tongue-pads and scribes, timid by nature, or from their little bodily exercise deficient in those spirits that give real courage, are ever bawling for war on the most trifling occasions, and seem the most blood-thirsty of mankind.\nThat was written almost 240 years ago and yet is a perfect description of the op-ed writers in today’s papers (e.g., George Will, Charles Krauthammer, etc.). I would say that Franklin’s prescient, but since people don’t ever change, I’ll settle for ‘keen observer.’\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/30/from-the-department-of-the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’m reading the collected writings of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Writings-Library-America-Benjamin/dp/0940450291/sr=8-1/qid=1167533354/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-2291101-0699844?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\"\u003eBen Franklin from the Library of America\u003c/a\u003e (yes, all 1600 or so pages of it), and I ran across the following passage:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extream [sic] necessity. While mere rhetoricians, tongue-pads and scribes, timid by nature, or from their little bodily exercise deficient in those spirits that give real courage, are ever bawling for war on the most trifling occasions, and seem the most blood-thirsty of mankind.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"From the department of \"the more things change, the more they stay the same\""},{"content":"Back in September, I was doing a fair amount of plumbing. I installed a water filter, new hot water heater and an acid neutralizer. I never mentioned it, mostly because I couldn’t bear to think about it, but the stupid neutralizer never did work right and I finally just bypassed it in the water line. The problem seemed to be that I couldn’t get the fittings right, so they leaked and filled the neutralizer completely up with water. The instantaneous pressure in the line caused by turning off faucets in the house would then create a huge amount of pressure in the neutralizer and the top would pop off.\nToday, I went out and bought a pressure tank to absorb that excess instantaneous pressure. But I couldn’t find my old standby for getting it installed: QEST fittings. Instead, I finally bought the PEX fittings: barbs, rings and the $100 crimping tool. That let me get the 1″ MPT to 3/4″ PEX fitting for the neutralizer instead of the crazy set up I mentioned here.\nI’ve got everything connected and so far, so good. There’s even a 3″ head of air in the neutralizer that should limit the effects of any instantaneous pressure that the pressurizer doesn’t take care of. The really nice thing was how easy the crimping tool is to use. The parts are also cheaper and given the amount of plumbing I seem to do, that’s a big help.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/29/the-right-tool-for-the-job/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBack in September, I was doing a fair amount of plumbing. I installed a water filter, new hot water heater and an \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/09/10/im-still-here-sort-of/\"\u003eacid neutralizer\u003c/a\u003e. I never mentioned it, mostly because I couldn’t bear to think about it, but the stupid neutralizer never did work right and I finally just bypassed it in the water line. The problem seemed to be that I couldn’t get the fittings right, so they leaked and filled the neutralizer completely up with water. The instantaneous pressure in the line caused by turning off faucets in the house would then create a huge amount of pressure in the neutralizer and the top would pop off.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"the right tool for the job"},{"content":"HR should be so proud\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/25/187/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.heathbar.org/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=364\"\u003eHR should be so proud\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"HR should be so proud"},{"content":"Wow – the 10 most dangerous toys of all time. If only I had known, I would have had Christmas presents for my nieces (just kidding mom).\nThe scary thing is that I remember most of these. The disappointing thing is that we never owned any of them.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/25/if-only-i-had-known/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWow – the \u003ca href=\"http://radaronline.com/features/2006/12/toys.php\"\u003e10 most dangerous toys of all time\u003c/a\u003e. If only I had known, I would have had Christmas presents for my nieces (just kidding mom).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scary thing is that I remember most of these. The disappointing thing is that we never owned any of them.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"if only I had known..."},{"content":"Some mornings I should just plan to be late for work. This morning was probably one of them. While driving in, I kept getting distracted by how beautiful everything looked. No, I wasn’t high, it’s just that the light was so gorgeous that the most mundane, and even ugly, objects looked beautiful.\nPerhaps I should explain. When you’re interested in photography, you quickly learn that it’s all about light. The amount, the color, the quality, the reaction of your film to it – it’s all about light. The ISO number for your film is all about light, go from ISO 50 to ISO 100 and you half the amount of light you need to make an image (aka, you can use a faster shutter or smaller aperture). Open your lens up one stop, e.g., from f/11 to f/8 and you’ve just doubled the amount of light reaching the film (f-stops go up by the square root of 2, but they related to the ration of lens diameter to focal length so the area of the lens doubles). Change the speed of the shutter and you affect how much light reaches the film. By working all of the doubles and halves, you can attempt to achieve the effect you want given the limits of the light you have. For example, when I shoot water, I often want a slow shutter speed which necessitates a small lens aperture. But sometimes when there is too much light, even the smallest aperture won’t get you a slow enough shutter.\nBeyond the technical aspects of recording the light, the light itself has qualities. Mid-day sun is usually awful. The angle of the sun means that it passes through a minimum of atmosphere and very bright and harsh. Beyond that, the light during most days is bluish. You usually don’t notice this for the same reason your office florescent lights don’t look green – your eyes have a white balance algorithm that makes my digital camera blush. Your eyes adjust and present a normal looking image to the brain.\nBut this morning, the light was special. This morning we had a front come through, so there were clouds in the west and above us while the sun was rising in the east. No blue reflected from the sky. Plenty of atmosphere for the sun to travel through. A nice dark gray sky as background to all objects. The result was gorgeous, golden light. I could have sat for hours watching it on the trees, the grass, the ugly warehouses downtown. Everything it touched lit up.\nYou can get a similar effect when the sun sets as a front moves out. Clouds in the east, low sun in the west. The colors are slightly different, there is more red (see the picture below), but it’s still beautiful. Even on days when I don’t have a camera with me, it’s enough just to enjoy the light.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/19/light/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSome mornings I should just plan to be late for work. This morning was probably one of them. While driving in, I kept getting distracted by how beautiful everything looked. No, I wasn’t high, it’s just that the light was so gorgeous that the most mundane, and even ugly, objects looked beautiful.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps I should explain. When you’re interested in photography, you quickly learn that it’s all about light. The amount, the color, the quality, the reaction of your film to it – it’s all about light. The ISO number for your film is all about light, go from ISO 50 to ISO 100 and you half the amount of light you need to make an image (aka, you can use a faster shutter or smaller aperture). Open your lens up one stop, e.g., from f/11 to f/8 and you’ve just doubled the amount of light reaching the film (f-stops go up by the square root of 2, but they related to the ration of lens diameter to focal length so the area of the lens doubles). Change the speed of the shutter and you affect how much light reaches the film. By working all of the doubles and halves, you can attempt to achieve the effect you want given the limits of the light you have. For example, when I shoot water, I often want a slow shutter speed which necessitates a small lens aperture. But sometimes when there is too much light, even the smallest aperture won’t get you a slow enough shutter.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Light"},{"content":" you get home from the office Christmas party and are in a mood to see the movie, Office Space you go to sleep and dream about co-workers gah – i really can’t wait to get through the next two days\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/19/two-signs-that-you-need-a-week-off-work/","summary":"\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eyou get home from the office Christmas party and are in a mood to see the movie, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/\"\u003eOffice Space\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eyou go to sleep and dream about co-workers\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003egah – i really can’t wait to get through the next two days\u003c/p\u003e","title":"two signs that you need a week off work"},{"content":"I had a chance last week to read a few books, all of which I would recommend in some fashion or another:\nNational Geographic’s “The Ultimate Field Guide to Photography This is a very good, basic field guide to photography. It covers a huge range of subjects and, not surprisingly, has some beautiful photographs. The book covers both film and digital photography, editing, archiving, composition, and has a great inspirational chapter describing Robert Clark’s photographic travelogue using only the camera in a cell phone. My only complaint about the book is that it covers too many topics, but not much in depth. It’s a great book for a beginner, but there wasn’t too much I hadn’t seen already.\n“Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. This is apparently a classic on productivity in an IT environment. It was written in 1987 and then revised in 1999. The book is an incredible look at projects, teams and what makes them successful. DeMarco and Lister worked in the software development industry, but their insights are applicable to any IT field. They start by describing IT and other knowledge based environments and how these are different than classical manufacturing environments, noting that we need to manage IT workers differently than we would in other environments. The remaining chapters are organized into parts: The Office Environment on how the environment affects productivity (hint: cubicles are not the way to go); The Right People on the need for good (and different people), how to cultivate them, and keep them (given the high costs of turnover); Growing Productive Teams which discusses how to get good people to jell into even better teams (unfortunately, there aren’t good ways to encourage this – other than to avoid killing teams); It’s Supposed To Be Fun to Work Here whose topic you can figure out. The last part is the update for 1999 – Son of Peopleware. In that last part, the authors note that they stand by everything they wrote 12 years ago, they reinforce certain topics and provide suggestions to implement some of their original ideas.\nThis really is a great book on management in IT and it actually quantitatively confirms many of my personal feelings about management. My plan at this point is to re-read it while taking notes. There are things in here that I think we need to address in my current job – keeping in mind that even the authors think that you can only tackle one of the problems.\n“The Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory Boyd. A while back, I wrote about the separation of church and state. In that post, I briefly mentioned that such separation was good for religions. Gregory Boyd takes this much further and discusses how keeping religion out of politics is good theology. While he never uses the phrase “separation of church and state, as a pastor, he presents an extremely compelling case for it. The book came out of a series of sermons Boyd gave in the run-up to the 2004 election. He and other pastors at his church were under significant pressure to promote certain candidates and positions. After he gave the sermons titled, “the Cross and the Sword, about 1,000 people (20%) left his congregation.\nThe book and the sermons dealt with two kingdoms, that of the cross and of the sword. The kingdom of the sword represents nations and political entities. That of the cross represents the community of Christians and what they are called to do, which is primarily service to others (as demonstrated by Jesus in the gospels). Boyd goes on to describe how the early church emphasized that conflating political power with Christianity was idolatry. This changed in the 4th century when the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity after winning an important battle. Since then, the church has often tried to grow through political power.\nBoyd then describes current efforts to “take America back for God, and proceeds to destroy the myth that the United States was ever founded as a Christian nation. He goes through the litany of beliefs from those whom state this and systematically refutes them. For example, he points out that the preamble to the Declaration of Independence is more indicative of deists and followers of the enlightenment (which the founders were) than it is of Christian thought.\nFinally, Boyd goes through a number of very difficult, current questions and discusses the, in his mind, appropriate kingdom of the cross perspective. Not surprisingly, the answer is never to legislate away that which you don’t think is moral or Christlike.\nAll in all, a very important perspective on the importance of the separation of church and state. I highly recommend it.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/17/new-books/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI had a chance last week to read a few books, all of which I would recommend in some fashion or another:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Geographic’s “The Ultimate Field Guide to Photography\u003c/strong\u003e This is a very good, basic field guide to photography. It covers a huge range of subjects and, not surprisingly, has some beautiful photographs. The book covers both film and digital photography, editing, archiving, composition, and has a great inspirational chapter describing Robert Clark’s photographic travelogue using only the camera in a cell phone. My only complaint about the book is that it covers too many topics, but not much in depth. It’s a great book for a beginner, but there wasn’t too much I hadn’t seen already.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"New books"},{"content":"The new dog (Sierra) seems to be fitting in well. She’s looking up to the older dog (Darwin) and learning all sorts of new things. The cutest is something we call “kicky foot, where she’ll periodically stretch all of her legs by kicking them back one at a time.\nThe one I didn’t expect to see was her lifting her leg to pee. I’ve never seen a female dog do that before. Dog owners – is that normal? or is it (as we suspect), just not right?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/12/thats-just-not-right/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe new dog (Sierra) seems to be fitting in well. She’s looking up to the older dog (Darwin) and learning all sorts of new things. The cutest is something we call “kicky foot, where she’ll periodically stretch all of her legs by kicking them back one at a time.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one I didn’t expect to see was her lifting her leg to pee. I’ve never seen a female dog do that before. Dog owners – is that normal? or is it (as we suspect), just not right?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"that's just not right"},{"content":"For the past few years, I’ve put together a calendar using pictures I took in Yellowstone. In 2004 (for the 2005 calendar), I was very excited about the project and used only photos I took that year. Last year, I had to raid prior years (it wasn’t the best Yellowstone trip for pictures). This year I think I can pull enough decent pictures from our 2006 trip.\nThe pictures I’m going to use for the 2007 calendar are posted here. I need to crop a couple of the bird pictures, but the rest should be okay.\nNow I just wish I had started earlier. 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/12/2007-yellowstone-calendar/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor the past few years, I’ve put together a calendar using pictures I took in Yellowstone. In 2004 (for the 2005 calendar), I was very excited about the project and used only photos I took that year. Last year, I had to raid prior years (it wasn’t the best Yellowstone trip for pictures). This year I think I can pull enough decent pictures from our 2006 trip.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures I’m going to use for the 2007 calendar are posted \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildcoyote.org/gallery/album18\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e. I need to crop a couple of the bird pictures, but the rest should be okay.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"2007 Yellowstone Calendar"},{"content":"it’s probably not fair to blame etselec, but i do. You scored as Friedrich Nietzsche. Well you’re an egotistical maniac, and you are so very iconoclastic that you probably are currently lost in a post-modern Jupiter, I mean jungle of self-definition. Don’t let it get you down though, someday, through a willful onslaught of reinterpretation of dated forms and ideas, you will strike on something that passes as remotely new, and people WILL be into it on the basis of how hip it is alone. Also, the average espresso drinker looks up to you. Friedrich Nietzsche83%Dante Alighieri75%Miyamoto Musashi67%Stephen Hawking58%Jesus Christ42%Sigmund Freud42%Elvis Presley42%O.J. Simpson33%Hugh Hefner25%Charles Manson17%C.G. Jung17%Mother Teresa17%Steven Morrissey17%Adolf Hitler0%What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You? created with QuizFarm.comYou Belong in San Francisco You crave an eclectic, urban environment. You’re half California, half NYC. You’re open minded, tolerant, and secretly think you’re the best. People may dismiss you as a hippie, but you’re also progressive, interesting, and rich!\nWhere Does Your Inner Californian Belong?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/11/i-blame-etselec/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eit’s probably not fair to blame \u003ca href=\"http://etselec.livejournal.com/\"\u003eetselec\u003c/a\u003e, but i do.\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://quizfarm.com/images/1133377320Nietzche.jpg\"\u003eYou scored as \u003cstrong\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche\u003c/strong\u003e. Well you’re an egotistical maniac, and you are so very iconoclastic that you probably are currently lost in a post-modern Jupiter, I mean jungle of self-definition. Don’t let it get you down though, someday, through a willful onslaught of reinterpretation of dated forms and ideas, you will strike on something that passes as remotely new, and people WILL be into it on the basis of how hip it is alone. Also, the average espresso drinker looks up to you.\nFriedrich Nietzsche83%Dante Alighieri75%Miyamoto Musashi67%Stephen Hawking58%Jesus Christ42%Sigmund Freud42%Elvis Presley42%O.J. Simpson33%Hugh Hefner25%Charles Manson17%C.G. Jung17%Mother Teresa17%Steven Morrissey17%Adolf Hitler0%\u003ca href=\"http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=111334\"\u003eWhat Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?\u003c/a\u003e created with \u003ca href=\"http://quizfarm.com/\"\u003eQuizFarm.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou Belong in San Francisco\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://images.blogthings.com/wheredoesyourinnercalifornianbelongquiz/sf.jpg\"\u003e You crave an eclectic, urban environment. You’re half California, half NYC.\nYou’re open minded, tolerant, and secretly think you’re the best.\nPeople may dismiss you as a hippie, but you’re also progressive, interesting, and rich!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"i blame etselec"},{"content":"One last comment on the day – K and I went out to get a Christmas tree this afternoon. The place we usually go was just about out of trees. In fact, they had run out, but spoke to another tree seller who hadn’t sold all of his trees yet and they bought a good chunk of his stock. Even still, there were only five 7 foot trees, a bunch of 6 foot trees and an 8 foot tree. Unfortunately, the only decent tree was the 8 foot one. Fortunately, we’ve got high ceilings 🙂\nNow, back when we used to get a Christmas tree at home, my father’s least favorite part of setting up was getting the tree in it’s stand and perpendicular. For the past two years, that’s been my least favorite part too. You climb under the tree, tighten some screws, have the tree fall over on you, stand it back up, loosen some screws, tighten others; repeat until it’s close enough and then have the tree fall over in the middle of the night.\nThis year, it finally (laugh all you want) occurred to me that the smart way to set the tree up is to leave it bound in it’s netting while putting it in the stand. This works great. No branches to climb under, it’s easy to tell if the tree is vertical, etc. When done, bring it in the house and cut off the netting – perfect!\nWe’ll post pictures once it’s decorated.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/10/setting-up-a-christmas-tree/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne last comment on the day – K and I went out to get a Christmas tree this afternoon. The place we usually go was just about out of trees. In fact, they had run out, but spoke to another tree seller who hadn’t sold all of his trees yet and they bought a good chunk of his stock. Even still, there were only five 7 foot trees, a bunch of 6 foot trees and an 8 foot tree. Unfortunately, the only decent tree was the 8 foot one. Fortunately, we’ve got high ceilings 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Setting up a Christmas tree"},{"content":"I haven’t posted any pictures from the new camera yet – mostly because they’ve been throw away shots where I’ve tried to get a sense of the new camera. But here are a handful. Only the picture of Luke (the snake) is full sized (3872 x 2592), the rest have been reduced. Oh, and the red bellied woodpecker was taken using my 300mm lens with the doubler and the 1.5x magnifying factor of the digital. He was probably 30 feet up in the tree, so I’m not too unhappy with the shot – now I need to get a shot of the pair of pileated woodpeckers that hang out in the back yard. hrm, having issues uploading the full sized image, let’s try this:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/10/pictures-from-the-new-camera/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI haven’t posted any pictures from the new camera yet – mostly because they’ve been throw away shots where I’ve tried to get a sense of the new camera. But here are a handful. Only the picture of Luke (the snake) is full sized (3872 x 2592), the rest have been reduced. Oh, and the red bellied woodpecker was taken using my 300mm lens with the doubler and the 1.5x magnifying factor of the digital. He was probably 30 feet up in the tree, so I’m not too unhappy with the shot – now I need to get a shot of the pair of pileated woodpeckers that hang out in the back yard.\n\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/12/10/pictures-from-the-new-camera/dsc_0181_mjpg/\" title=\"dsc_0181_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_0181_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/dsc_0181_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/12/10/pictures-from-the-new-camera/dsc_0155_mjpg/\" title=\"dsc_0155_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_0155_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/dsc_0155_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/12/10/pictures-from-the-new-camera/dsc_0104_mjpg/\" title=\"dsc_0104_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_0104_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/dsc_0104_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/12/10/pictures-from-the-new-camera/dsc_0094_mjpg/\" title=\"dsc_0094_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"dsc_0094_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/dsc_0094_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"pictures from the new camera"},{"content":"Turns out that there is at least one advantage of having constant plumbing problems – you often have the part you need. I had been noticing a leak under the kitchen sink. In checking it out, I found that the nut holding the drain in place was lose. As I tried to tighten it, the nut broke up in my hand.\nResigned to not having one of the dual kitchen sinks, I put a bucket under it and blocked it up. After dinner, we went on our walk and on the way back in, it occurred to me that I had a spare drain segment with a plastic nut. Installed the new nut and no more leak!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/10/looking-on-the-bright-side/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTurns out that there is at least one advantage of having constant plumbing problems – you often have the part you need. I had been noticing a leak under the kitchen sink. In checking it out, I found that the nut holding the drain in place was lose. As I tried to tighten it, the nut broke up in my hand.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResigned to not having one of the dual kitchen sinks, I put a bucket under it and blocked it up. After dinner, we went on our walk and on the way back in, it occurred to me that I had a spare drain segment with a plastic nut. Installed the new nut and no more leak!\u003c/p\u003e","title":"looking on the bright side"},{"content":"Okay, I’m taking the plunge. A Nikon D80 with 18-135mm lens and 8 GB worth of SDHC cards arrived on my doorstep yesterday. The D80 body was a Christmas present from K’s parents! I used extra birthday money to get the memory and the lens kit.\nI’ve got a number of reasons for going digital. There’s finally enough resolution in an affordable camera. The D80 is a 10.2 megapixel camera. That’s about 1/2 as much as I can pull off of a slide using a 4k dpi scanner, but about twice what I usually do scan – good compromise. The SLR body will use (almost) all of my current lenses. I tend to take more nature photography images than other types, the D80 gives you a 1.5X increase in focal length as compared to my film cameras. Last night I tested it with a doubler and a 300mm lens. That took me out to 600mm of glass, plus the 1.5X factor – 900mm equivalent in something I can hike with! The ISO adjustment means that even the 2 f-stop loss of light from using the doubler is manageable.\nInitial impressions – wow! Beautiful, large, sharp, vivid images. Light weight camera. VERY responsive. Nice ability to bracket shots. Great control over the color balance. One gripe, my SB-28 flash will not work in TTL mode, only automatic and manual (as an aside, TTL as an acronym is too overloaded: through the lens, transistor-transistor logic, time to live, etc.).\nI’ll still bring my F5 and some film with me to Yellowstone next year. Just not as much film and probably only Velvia 50 for landscape shots.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/07/going-digital/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, I’m taking the plunge. A Nikon D80 with 18-135mm lens and 8 GB worth of SDHC cards arrived on my doorstep yesterday. The D80 body was a Christmas present from K’s parents! I used extra birthday money to get the memory and the lens kit.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ve got a number of reasons for going digital. There’s finally enough resolution in an affordable camera. The D80 is a 10.2 megapixel camera. That’s about 1/2 as much as I can pull off of a slide using a 4k dpi scanner, but about twice what I usually do scan – good compromise. The SLR body will use (almost) all of my current lenses. I tend to take more nature photography images than other types, the D80 gives you a 1.5X increase in focal length as compared to my film cameras. Last night I tested it with a doubler and a 300mm lens. That took me out to 600mm of glass, plus the 1.5X factor – 900mm equivalent in something I can hike with! The ISO adjustment means that even the 2 f-stop loss of light from using the doubler is manageable.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"going digital"},{"content":"Why didn’t someone tell me about this sooner? Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and Stephin Merritt are the Gothic Archies who’s new CD is the Tragic Treasury: “Music for a Series of Unfortunate Events.\nFor a sample, see Funtime OK (a mp3 blog), or Youtube:\nMy favorite so far is “Shipwrecked.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/12/05/the-tragic-treasury/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWhy didn’t someone tell me about this sooner? Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and Stephin Merritt are the Gothic Archies who’s new CD is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Tragic-Treasury-Songs-Unfortunate-Events/dp/B000HDRAMG/sr=8-1/qid=1165377233/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-6728287-3329503?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=music\"\u003eTragic Treasury: “Music for a Series of Unfortunate Events.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a sample, see \u003ca href=\"http://www.funtimeok.com/?p=431\"\u003eFuntime OK (a mp3 blog)\u003c/a\u003e, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVOGgK8Csao\u0026amp;mode=related\u0026amp;search=\"\u003eYoutube\u003c/a\u003e:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen\" loading=\"eager\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/XVOGgK8Csao?autoplay=0\u0026amp;controls=1\u0026amp;end=0\u0026amp;loop=0\u0026amp;mute=0\u0026amp;start=0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;\" title=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy favorite so far is “Shipwrecked.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The Tragic Treasury"},{"content":"It’s nice to have one’s predictions shown to be right.\nBut perhaps the scariest paragraph stated:\nOverall, the study concluded that 37% of consumers were shopping in stores on Black Friday – and 41% of those were out between midnight and 8 am. 80% mentioned special as their motivation to go on a shopping tour, while 28% said that the “tradition of Black Friday was a factor in their decision to spend money that day. Despite long lines, 64% indicated that they enjoyed their Black Friday experience and said they would do it again next year.\nI’m disturbed that 28% cite shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving as a tradition. But I’m horrified that 64% enjoyed it and would do it again. shudder\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/29/follow-up-to-cyber-monday/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s nice to have one’s \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/11/27/predictions-cyber-monday/\"\u003epredictions\u003c/a\u003e shown to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/11/29/black_friday_2006/print.html\"\u003eright\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut perhaps the scariest paragraph stated:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverall, the study concluded that 37% of consumers were shopping in stores on Black Friday – and 41% of those were out between midnight and 8 am. 80% mentioned special as their motivation to go on a shopping tour, while 28% said that the “tradition of Black Friday was a factor in their decision to spend money that day. Despite long lines, 64% indicated that they enjoyed their Black Friday experience and said they would do it again next year.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"follow-up to \"cyber monday\""},{"content":"I hadn’t mentioned this, but it had been about 5 weeks since Luke (the boa) last ate. For the first three weeks, I didn’t worry. He had just shed, he’s a snake and it’s winter, etc. By week 5, I was getting concerned. Last Saturday, two days after finishing his cage, which upped the daytime temperature to ~80 degrees, he finally got interested in food. Now he’s prowling the cage, looking for another rat. 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/27/lukes-eating-again/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI hadn’t mentioned this, but it had been about 5 weeks since Luke (the boa) last ate. For the first three weeks, I didn’t worry. He had just shed, he’s a snake and it’s winter, etc. By week 5, I was getting concerned. Last Saturday, two days after finishing his cage, which upped the daytime temperature to ~80 degrees, he finally got interested in food. Now he’s prowling the cage, looking for another rat. 🙂\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Luke's eating again!"},{"content":"Let me get a prediction in here before the data come out tonight or tomorrow. “Cyber Monday will be a disappointment to retailers. They will do more electronic business than they did last year, but not significantly more than they did last Friday or next Monday. Any uptick is going to be small and due to people paying extra attention to online sales.\n“Cyber Monday (sorry, I can’t help but put it in quotes) is yet another marketing ploy. The theory is that when people go back to the office, they’ll use the high-speed connection to shop online. The problem is that the majority of people who shop online already have a high-speed connection at home. Add to that the companies that are cracking down on online shopping (and game playing and general web surfing) from the office and I’m guessing that it’ll be a non-event.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/27/predictions-cyber-monday/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLet me get a prediction in here before the data come out tonight or tomorrow. “Cyber Monday will be a disappointment to retailers. They will do more electronic business than they did last year, but not significantly more than they did last Friday or next Monday. Any uptick is going to be small and due to people paying extra attention to online sales.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Cyber Monday (sorry, I can’t help but put it in quotes) is yet another marketing ploy. The theory is that when people go back to the office, they’ll use the high-speed connection to shop online. The problem is that the majority of people who shop online already have a high-speed connection at home. Add to that the companies that are cracking down on online shopping (and game playing and general web surfing) from the office and I’m guessing that it’ll be a non-event.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"predictions... \"Cyber Monday\""},{"content":"It’s taken me a bit to write about Admiral Poindexter’s visit and the small group talk we had with him. Let me start by reminding folks that here’s a guy who was convicted of lying to congress. The conviction was later overturned on a technicality. He’s also very politically savvy. I once asked my father if he would ever pursue becoming a general in the army. He told me that he was hoping to make full colonel (he later retired as a lt. colonel), but that becoming a general required a literal act of congress and that you needed to become a politician. I would assume the same thing is the case with an admiral and doubly so in the case of Poindexter who managed to become the highest ranking geek in government. All of which is to say take my impressions with a grain of salt.\nWhen I met Poindexter, he came across as a very kind, gentle and grandfatherly figure. He smokes a pipe and was more than willing to tell stories about his career. It seems that he started in the Navy in college, finishing up with a degree in engineering (w00t!). This was around the time the soviets sent up Sputnik. The first Russian satellite caused something of a panic in the US and, arguably, did more to encourage investment in science and engineering than any other event. The military’s response was to select 5 men from the army and 5 from the navy to pursue graduate degrees in science or engineering, anywhere in the country. Poindexter chose physics at Cal-tech. After discussing he trials getting into and then through grad school, he notes that he’s never taught physics, never been in a lab, never really used his degree, but it did give him a solid understanding of the scientific method.\nAfter gradschool, he had several different positions and in each, he played the role of technology evangelist. One of the first to use computers in the Navy, set up the first video conferencing system among the nation security counsel offices, first to use email (on a mainframe!) in the whitehouse, etc. Like I said, the highest ranking geek in government.\nShortly after September 11, Poindexter was asked to head up the DARPA Office of Information Awareness (OIA) projects. In talking with him, I definitely have the sense of a man who loves his country and truly believes that terrorism is the greatest threat it has ever encountered. I disagree with him regarding the extent of the threat that terrorism presents, and so he and I may disagree on the appropriateness of the OIA, but unlike many politicians, I don’t think that he’s using the terrorism to advance other goals. I don’t believe that he’s hypocritical about his work.\nSo, what is his work? One of Poindexter’s chief complaints is that he (and TIA) were unfairly maligned in the media. If you recall, TIA was presented as a giant “Hoover of a database. The government would collect information from a number of private sources and perform data mining on it in order to identify (potential) terrorists amongst us. Lots of us whom are concerned with security and privacy were worried about this. The privacy angle is disturbing enough, but from the security stand point, you are creating an attractive nuisance. The first hacker that comes along and can get through the governments security measures is going to have a huge amount of data. Consolidating databases also increases the likelihood that the businesses involved will use the information. For example, can you be denied insurance if you are overweight, but grocery records indicate you buy junk food?\nBeyond the privacy and security concerns was the very real question of how this was going to work, i.e., would it really keep us safer? Traditional data mining techniques find statistically significant patterns in large data sets. Terrorists (one hopes) are not statistically significant – unless there are a lot more of them. This is actually one of Poindexter’s complaints – that his proposal should never be called data mining, data mining won’t work. He was working on a “data analysis system. In his presentation, Poindexter tells us that the media got it wrong. He never planned a single huge database. Instead, he planned to leave the data where it was and to build a distributed database on top. Each participating database would make use of a “privacy appliance. The privacy appliance would be connected to a query system and would anonymize the data before sending it to the query system.\nTo detect terrorists, he would have a “Red Team. This is the group that is intended to think like terrorists. Their job is to hatch plots and to determine what it would take to implement the plots. For example, blowing up a building might require large amounts of fertilizer and fuel oil. Purchasing these supplies would leave a footprint in “information space. The Red Team would pass this step along to the analysts who would then query the system with this pattern to find anonymous individuals matching it. Of course, purchasing fuel oil and fertilizer would flag every small farmer in the country. So the Red Team would go back and look at step two, perhaps renting a large van. New query pattern, new search. Repeat until you either don’t find anyone, or until you are specific enough to get a legally authorized search warrant.\nPoindexter also notes that this was a research and not an operational program. That the “total in TIA was meant to encourage researchers to think broadly. Finally, that the reason the privacy part did not get off the ground sooner is that none of the researchers were interested in this aspect – they only received two privacy proposals.\nInteresting idea. A few problems:\nI’ve gone back through the documentation available at the time and I see nothing about either red teams, distributed databases or privacy appliances. The early architecture diagrams all seem to indicate a monolithic database. It’s still not clear to me that this will work. The red teams will have to come up with millions of patterns and even then, you are not guaranteed to come up with everything. Regarding research vs. operational. This is a lovely thought, but at the time, iirc, there were reports of TIA receiving real data. In fact, even as a research project, it would need real data in order to test. Regarding the “total in TIA – that was a pretty scary logo if that was the case. So, it may be that this is a refinement of the original ideas. In which case, they seem like a good refinement. From the privacy and security standpoint, this seems to be better suited that the original ideas. However, I don’t think that Poindexter was being entirely forthcoming.\nAll in all, a very interesting data and a very interesting man.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/24/poindexter/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s taken me a bit to write about Admiral Poindexter’s visit and the small group talk we had with him. Let me start by reminding folks that here’s a guy who was convicted of lying to congress. The conviction was later overturned on a technicality. He’s also very politically savvy. I once asked my father if he would ever pursue becoming a general in the army. He told me that he was hoping to make full colonel (he later retired as a lt. colonel), but that becoming a general required a literal act of congress and that you needed to become a politician. I would assume the same thing is the case with an admiral and doubly so in the case of Poindexter who managed to become the highest ranking geek in government. All of which is to say take my impressions with a grain of salt.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Poindexter"},{"content":"I hope everyone’s having a good Thanksgiving. So far, ours has been great. K’s parents are in town which means: a) her father gets to see the house for the first time; b) we’ve got help cooking dinner; and c) we’ve got a reason to cook more food!\nI started off the morning by (finally!) finishing the snake cage. I put the frames around the vents and put glass in about 3/4 of each vent (losing too much heat otherwise). I installed track lighting in the top and put two 75 watt grow bulbs in it. After they were on for an hour or so, the temperature rose to 81 degrees. Just about perfect. Eventually, we’ll replace the grow bulbs with heat lamps that produce no light, only heat; but for now, these are great. Luke’s basking right now and seems to be enjoying it.\nWe just finished dinner (did I mention more people == more food?). The menu was:\nTurkey breast (for K’s father) and pecan crusted salmon for the rest of us Cornbread stuffing with mushroom gravy Walnut soup Avocado, tomato and olive salad (no lettuce!) with a balsamic vinaigrette Whole wheat rolls Green beans with walnuts Cranberry sauce Dessert will be pecan pie. I tried something new with the pie – rather than using corn syrup, I used maple syrup. I’ll update later regarding that experiment.\nI hope everyone’s enjoyed their Thanksgiving and have given a lot of thought to what they’re thankful for.\n[Update: Using maple syrup in the pecan pie rather than corn syrup is a winner. I’m glad K ran across that idea.]\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/23/happy-thanksgiving/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI hope everyone’s having a good Thanksgiving. So far, ours has been great. K’s parents are in town which means: a) her father gets to see the house for the first time; b) we’ve got help cooking dinner; and c) we’ve got a reason to cook more food!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI started off the morning by (finally!) finishing the snake cage. I put the frames around the vents and put glass in about 3/4 of each vent (losing too much heat otherwise). I installed track lighting in the top and put two 75 watt grow bulbs in it. After they were on for an hour or so, the temperature rose to 81 degrees. Just about perfect. Eventually, we’ll replace the grow bulbs with heat lamps that produce no light, only heat; but for now, these are great. Luke’s basking right now and seems to be enjoying it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Happy Thanksgiving!  [updated]"},{"content":"The snake’s been in the cage for a few months, but I’ve held off posting pictures until I finished the last little bit – the frames around the window. But as pointed out in this comment, it would be good to get some pictures with Luke in his cage. So, hopefully I’ll finish up the frames this week, while I’m away from the office, but in the meantime, here are some pictures:\nThe other thing I need to do to finish this is to work on the temperature problem. With the large vents (that I plan to shrink up a bit with plexiglass) and the big front, it loses heat faster than the small heaters we’ve put in there will add it. I think the next plan is to put in some track lighting along the back and then I can add several of the low heat lamps (that won’t burn the snake if he touches them).\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/21/still-need-to-finish-the-snake-cage/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe snake’s been in the cage for a few months, but I’ve held off posting pictures until I finished the last little bit – the frames around the window. But as pointed out in \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/08/12/get-your-woodworking-geek-on/#comment-295\"\u003ethis comment\u003c/a\u003e, it would be good to get some pictures with Luke in his cage. So, hopefully I’ll finish up the frames this week, while I’m away from the office, but in the meantime, here are some pictures:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Still need to finish the snake cage"},{"content":"K’s parents are in town and staying with us. Okay, that’s not a typical thing to be thankful for :-), but I like her parents and this gives me a great excuse to take most of this week off. I lost 54 minutes of vacation last month, I would like to avoid a repeat.\nHopefully, I can get caught up on a few things while I’m out of the office\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/21/things-to-be-thankful-for/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK’s parents are in town and staying with us. Okay, that’s not a typical thing to be thankful for :-), but I like her parents and this gives me a great excuse to take most of this week off. I lost 54 minutes of vacation last month, I would like to avoid a repeat.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHopefully, I can get caught up on a few things while I’m out of the office\u003c/p\u003e","title":"things to be thankful for"},{"content":"The Disney illustrated Communist Manifesto\u0026hellip;\np.s. fwiw, some of this is Warner Bros. and Hannah Barbara (but who’s keeping score)\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/17/why-i-love-the-internet-reason-768/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe Disney illustrated Communist Manifesto\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen\" loading=\"eager\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/0KUl4yfABE4?autoplay=0\u0026amp;controls=1\u0026amp;end=0\u0026amp;loop=0\u0026amp;mute=0\u0026amp;start=0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;\" title=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\t\t\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ep.s. fwiw, some of this is Warner Bros. and Hannah Barbara (but who’s keeping score)\u003c/p\u003e","title":"why i love the internet - reason 768"},{"content":"I took the day off for my birthday. I got to sleep in late and get some things done around the house. I managed, I think, to get rid of whatever was smelling up one of our air ducts, I tarred up part of the roof and repaired the fence where the dog kept getting out. After that, I headed up for the Poindexter small group meeting and then his talk (more on these later). On my way home, I picked up some take out from the local Mexican restaurant. We ate dinner, made a cheesecake and walked the dogs. I opened presents when I got back. K got me a hand full of things I had wanted: the Library of America Writings of Washington and the Writings of Thoreau, Jared Bernstein’s All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy, and the Pinky and the Brain DVD 🙂 Tim Powers’s On Stranger Tides is still being shipped.\nAll in all, a very good day. Oh, and the obligatory picture of the birthday cheesecake:\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/15/not-a-bad-birthday-at-all/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI took the day off for my birthday. I got to sleep in late and get some things done around the house. I managed, I think, to get rid of whatever was smelling up one of our air ducts, I tarred up part of the roof and repaired the fence where the dog kept getting out. After that, I headed up for the Poindexter small group meeting and then his talk (more on these later). On my way home, I picked up some take out from the local Mexican restaurant. We ate dinner, made a cheesecake and walked the dogs. I opened presents when I got back. K got me a hand full of things I had wanted: the Library of America Writings of Washington and the Writings of Thoreau, Jared Bernstein’s All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy, and the Pinky and the Brain DVD 🙂 Tim Powers’s On Stranger Tides is still being shipped.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Not a bad birthday at all..."},{"content":"bah – the past few nights, my website/blog keeps getting screwed up because all of the disk space on the drive is consumed. the first night, i freed up some space, but didn’t pay attention to how much was free. it happened last night and again i freed up space, noting that i had about 700 MB free. Tonight, it happened again and I finally tracked down what happened. I do an rsync backup to an external drive every day. A couple of days ago, I rebooted the machine and the external drive didn’t mount back up. So I wound up doing a backup of my home directory and root partition to the root partition. Of course the partition filled up. Oh well, problem solved now. I just need to be more careful in the future\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/15/me-grumbles/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ebah – the past few nights, my website/blog keeps getting screwed up because all of the disk space on the drive is consumed. the first night, i freed up some space, but didn’t pay attention to how much was free. it happened last night and again i freed up space, noting that i had about 700 MB free. Tonight, it happened again and I finally tracked down what happened. I do an rsync backup to an external drive every day. A couple of days ago, I rebooted the machine and the external drive didn’t mount back up. So I wound up doing a backup of my home directory and root partition \u003cstrong\u003eto the root partition\u003c/strong\u003e. Of course the partition filled up. Oh well, problem solved now. I just need to be more careful in the future\u003c/p\u003e","title":"/me grumbles"},{"content":"In case you are looking for something interesting to do next week, go to Love Auditorium at Duke University on November 15th at 5pm. Admiral John Poindexter will be giving a talk: “ A Vision for Countering Terrorism Through Information and Privacy Protection Technologies for the 21st Century. It should be an interesting and thought provoking discussion of where Poindexter draws the line between security and privacy.\nI’ll be meeting with Poindexter and a small group at 3pm – quite the birthday present.\nFinally, since I assume that TIA exists, I’m guessing that Poindexter is reading this as I’m posting it, so, “Hi! Looking forward to meeting you on Wednesday.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/13/admiral-john-poindexter-to-speak-at-duke-university/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn case you are looking for something interesting to do next week, go to Love Auditorium at Duke University on November 15th at 5pm. Admiral John Poindexter will be giving a talk: “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.provost.duke.edu/speaker_series/current_speakers.html\"\u003eA Vision for Countering Terrorism Through Information and Privacy Protection Technologies for the 21st Century\u003c/a\u003e. It should be an interesting and thought provoking discussion of where Poindexter draws the line between security and privacy.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ll be meeting with Poindexter and a small group at 3pm – quite the birthday present.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Admiral John Poindexter to speak at Duke University"},{"content":"Now that the Democratic Party has won congress, a result I am thrilled to see, there will be increasing cries for them to present “A Plan for Iraq. Leaving aside the constitutional issues, i.e., the executive branch is responsible for military operations, while congress controls the purse strings and provides oversight, asking for a plan at this point is a complete exercise in futility. There were a number of plans presented or endorse by Democrats over the past four years and all of them were ignored. At this point, Republicans are basically saying, “we’ve ignored you for years, but now that it’s completely fubar’d what do you intend to do about it?\nUnfortunately, there is probably nothing that can be done about Iraq – or at least very little that is palatable. We’ll see what the Baker commission comes back with, but in the meantime let’s review the things that we could have done:\nMost obvious, we could have avoided the whole war to begin with. As was known before and proved after the invasion, Saddam had no WMDs, was not a threat to us, was not involved in 9/11, and was cooperating with the IAEA. I remember the state of the union speech that Bush gave in the run-up to the war. I remember screaming at the television that the man was lying. Aluminum tubes? They were of insufficient strength to separate uranium. Uranium from Niger? Complete fabrication. I could go on and on about what was known before the SOTU address. The only question left in my mind is whether Bush was lying or completely ignorant.\nSufficient troops. General Eric Shinseki suggested that we needed several hundred thousand troops to pacify Iraq. For this, he had his authority ripped out from under him when a report was released that stated Rumsfeld had named Shinseki’s successor 14 months before his term expired. in any event, Shinseki’s estimate of several hundred thousand troops seems to have come straight out of the Army War Colleges journal, Parameters. As this article notes, necessary force ratios are proportional to population size and are affected by the level of violence. A peaceful country like the U.S. might maintain a police force with a force ratio of around 3 per thousand, but to pacify a country might take a force ratio between 10 and 20 per thousand. The article notes that the British had around 20 per thousand in Northern Ireland during the height of the unrest there. Right now, our force ratio in Iraq is in the neighborhood of 5 to 6 per thousand, and we’re in the midst of a civil war. Bringing order to Iraq could easily require 400-500,000 troops. As the 1995 article notes, “we must finally acknowledge that many countries are simply too big to be plausible candidates for stabilization by external forces. At 26 million people, some 6 million in Baghdad alone, Iraq may be one of them.\nOf course, at the outset, a lower force ratio could have worked and some of those troops could have been Iraqi. So, a third plan: maintain and don’t disband the army. Unfortunately, the administration through the CPA did disband the army, forming the nucleus of the insurgency. So, instead of having a stabilizing force, we gave a leg up to our enemies and gave them weapons with which to attack us.\nAlong the lines of disbanding the army, many of us opposed de-baathification. This policy essentially drove out of government anyone who had belonged to the Baath party, i.e., all of the people that actually knew how to work the government and to provide services. In order to have any position of responsibility in Iraq under Saddam, you had to belong to the Baath party. You didn’t have to kill people, you didn’t have to believe in it, you just had to officially sign up. A much smarter policy would have been to get rid of the killers and abusers and leave the engineers, military officers and teachers.\nAs the situation started to deteriorate, we needed to train up the Iraqis to get them in a position to stabilize their own country, i.e., get the overall, effective force ratio up around 20 per thousand. The problem is that the soldiers, police officers and recruits are a) afraid to leave their families; and b) getting killed before they can be trained to defend themselves – in many cases, killed before they join up. Addressing this problem, by either moving the recruits to another country for training or to a safer location within Iraq could have helped.\nI’m sure I’m missing other “plans from the past 4 years, these are just the ones I can come up with off the top of my head. At this point, there aren’t too many options left. Stabilizing the country will take a massive increase in troops – troops the U.S. doesn’t have. Most of our allies have either bailed out or are in the process of bailing. This leaves us with only a few other sources of troops, one could imagine that we would have to bribe provide incentives to the Egyptians or more distastefully to the Iranians and/or Syrians. None of these countries will willingly put forward the hundreds of thousands of troops needed and their price for doing so would be incredibly steep, but still cheaper than our participation in an ongoing civil war.\nThe moral is that preventing a problem is far easier than correcting it. The Republicans didn’t prevent the problem, but now they want someone else to take the responsibility for a lack of options for fixing it.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/12/a-plan-a-plan-my-kingdom-for-a-plan/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNow that the Democratic Party has won congress, a result I am thrilled to see, there will be increasing cries for them to present “A Plan for Iraq. Leaving aside the constitutional issues, i.e., the executive branch is responsible for military operations, while congress controls the purse strings and provides oversight, asking for a plan at this point is a complete exercise in futility. There were a number of plans presented or endorse by Democrats over the past four years and all of them were ignored. At this point, Republicans are basically saying, “we’ve ignored you for years, but now that it’s completely fubar’d what do you intend to do about it?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\"A plan, a plan, my kingdom for a plan!\""},{"content":"I just saw and took the American Accent online quiz and got a result that surprised me (sorry, i can’t get the results blob working in wordpress). It claims that my result is “The Inland North:\nYou may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin? or “Are you from Chicago? Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.\nfrankly, I had a hard time buying this at first. I’ve *never* been asked if I’m from Chicago. The closest anyone’s ever come to guessing my accent is “somewhere in the south. Then I realized that the top bar is at 85% for the Inland North, the Midland is 80% and the South is 77%. Since my parents are from Rhode Island and Iowa, they went to college in Illinois and I was born and raised in Louisiana, I suppose this makes sense.\nOh, and for the record, I’ve never called a soft drink a “pop, they go by the generic term “coke.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/11/accents/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI just saw and took the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_american_accent_do_you_have\"\u003eAmerican Accent online quiz\u003c/a\u003e and got a result that surprised me (sorry, i can’t get the results blob working in wordpress). It claims that my result is “The Inland North:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin? or “Are you from Chicago? Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Accents"},{"content":"The votes are cast, the results are coming in. There’s not much more to do on the political front, other than wait for the final results. While I’m waiting for that to happen, a few remarks on a conversation that I recently saw too late to comment on.\nThe question was why is it so hard to get third party candidates on the ballot (e.g., libertarians, greens, etc.)? One person noted that even the Iraqis and Afghanis have more choices than we do in the U.S. where you have to decide between the Democratic and Republican parties.\nI think that the major issue is structural. Iraq and Afghanistan are parliamentary systems. In a parliamentary system, people vote for a party. The party is given a number of seats in parliament based on the percentage of the vote they received in the election. Once the seats are assigned, the different parties have to create a majority coalition. This coalition then goes on to select the prime minister and govern the country.\nIn the U.S., we don’t have a parliamentary system. The constitution gives each state two senate seats and apportions the house seats every ten years based on the census population data. What the constitution does not stipulate is how the representatives or senators will be elected.\nIn most states, representatives and senators are elected by either majority or plurality of the vote. The result is that it is difficult for a third party to be elected. In a parliamentary system, all issues can have their own political party and still have a reasonable expectation of being represented in the government. In our system, we have to work out our coalition of issues in advance and all of these issues run as a party.\nThere is no, necessary, reason that all of the issues that are currently bundled under the Democratic or Republican parties need to be there. For example, Republicans currently comprise three main groups: religious voters, free market/big business supporters, and defense/nationalist voters. There is no natural reason that these constituencies need to be a part of the same party. Likewise, the Democratic party includes: environmentalists, social safety net supporters, women’s rights supporters, labor supporters, etc.\nArguably, there are segments of each party that have more affinity for each other than for the others in their own party. For example, you could imagine a religious, social safety net and environmental party. The key is that the party needs to have roughly have the electorate in order to be viable. A coalition that only has 30% of the vote will never be elected.\nReading the federalist papers and other early documents gives you the strong impression that the founders never imagined such collective parties. They primarily thought that people would vote for candidates and not for parties. However, political parties coalesced by the first real election between Adams and Jefferson. As far as I can tell, having two (and only two) viable parties a structural artifact of our political system.\nGiven a choice between our system and a parliamentary system, I would have to go with ours. We just have to deal with the fact that there will always only be two real choices. If you want to affect the choices, change the platform of the parties – but not too far or your party will be out of power.\nas always, just a few thoughts, take ’em with a large grain of salt – preferably wrapped around a lime and taken with tequila.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/08/why-only-two-political-parties/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe votes are cast, the results are coming in. There’s not much more to do on the political front, other than wait for the final results. While I’m waiting for that to happen, a few remarks on a conversation that I recently saw too late to comment on.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question was why is it so hard to get third party candidates on the ballot (e.g., libertarians, greens, etc.)? One person noted that even the Iraqis and Afghanis have more choices than we do in the U.S. where you have to decide between the Democratic and Republican parties.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"why only two political parties"},{"content":"Well, it seems that we finally know what happened with the North Korean nuclear test that fizzled. They apparently mistranslated the Arabic documents the U.S. posted online.\nOkay, so neither of those is really very funny. On the one hand, the U.S. posted a whole host of Arabic documents from Iraq that had never been examined before in the vague hope that someone would be able to find evidence that Iraq had a WMD program before we invaded. This was idiotic. It’s equivalent to my posting an entire database of personal information in the hopes that someone online could determine if there were social security numbers in it.\nOn the other hand, we’ve got a foreign policy failure under this administration that resulted in one of the most unstable countries in the world building a nuclear device. I know that it’s been said that the weapon was a dud, but I haven’t seen any recent analysis on this. Determining destructive yield from seismic data depends on the magnitude of the quake, the depth of the explosion and the matrix it was contained in. Last I heard, the sub-kiloton results were based on hard rock and a magnitude of ~3.8. The USGS says the magnitude was 4.2. If the matrix was softer, this could easily be a 5 kiloton weapon. But then, I’m not a nuclear proliferation expert, so I could easily be missing new data.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/06/north-korean-nuclear-test/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWell, it seems that we finally know what happened with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1763160.htm\"\u003eNorth Korean nuclear test that fizzled\u003c/a\u003e. They apparently mistranslated the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/03/AR2006110300019.html\"\u003eArabic documents the U.S. posted online\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOkay, so neither of those is really very funny. On the one hand, the U.S. posted a whole host of Arabic documents from Iraq that had never been examined before in the vague hope that someone would be able to find evidence that Iraq had a WMD program before we invaded. This was idiotic. It’s equivalent to my posting an entire database of personal information in the hopes that someone online could determine if there were social security numbers in it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"North Korean nuclear test"},{"content":"I keep meaning to try National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), but once again forget to do the prep work. I suppose that’s the whole point, give yourself a deadline and just do it. Well, maybe next year.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/05/nanowrimo-oops-missed-it-again/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI keep meaning to try National Novel Writing Month (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nanowrimo.org\"\u003eNaNoWriMo\u003c/a\u003e), but once again forget to do the prep work. I suppose that’s the whole point, give yourself a deadline and just do it. Well, maybe next year.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"NaNoWriMo - oops, missed it again"},{"content":"I haven’t done much blogging recently, mostly, and somewhat ironically, it’s because things have been too busy to actually write about them.\nSierra’s doing well. She and Darwin are getting along great. They’ll run around the yard, the house or even the couch, if given the chance. There is much mouth fencing. She’s still very curious about the cats – poor cats. Our house has turned in to baby/puppy-gate central. Sierra went to the vet on Saturday. She’s in great health, although it seems that she’s about 50 pounds (from her size, I had guessed 30 – 40). Right now she’s sound asleep, snoring on the couch. Work is busier than usual. I did manage to interview a couple of candidates for an open position. One did very well, so I’m hoping to get approval to extend an offer next week.\nFinally, I spent part of today working on the outdoor turtle enclosure for K. The problem with a turtle enclosure is that it needs to have a mesh bottom, *and* it needs to be buried about 4-6 inches deep in order to allow the turtles to hibernate. I dug out the area a few weeks ago and then built a 16 inch tall enclosure. The enclosure’s about 24 square feet, so I figure I dug up about 12 cubic feet of dirt. This weekend, I picked up a center brace and some 1/2″ mesh and stapled the mesh to the bottom of the enclosure. I had to dig out the pit a little more, but was able to drop the enclosure in place fairly easily. I then had to put 12 cubic feet of dirt back into the enclosure. Now I just need to build and install the top.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/11/05/a-quick-update/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI haven’t done much blogging recently, mostly, and somewhat ironically, it’s because things have been too busy to actually write about them.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSierra’s doing well. She and Darwin are getting along great. They’ll run around the yard, the house or even the couch, if given the chance. There is much mouth fencing. She’s still very curious about the cats – poor cats. Our house has turned in to baby/puppy-gate central. Sierra went to the vet on Saturday. She’s in great health, although it seems that she’s about 50 pounds (from her size, I had guessed 30 – 40). Right now she’s sound asleep, snoring on the couch.\nWork is busier than usual. I did manage to interview a couple of candidates for an open position. One did very well, so I’m hoping to get approval to extend an offer next week.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"a quick update"},{"content":"Publishers of academic journals have a sweet deal going. The content is written by researchers. The publisher hires a few academics to edit the journal. The editors then identify reviewers in the academic community. The reviewers cull the wheat from the chaff and make suggestions to help turn the later into the former. For the papers that are finally selected, the researchers/authors sign over the copyright to the publisher, so they now own the intellectual property. The publisher solicits ads and then prints the whole thing. Once printed, the publisher sells the journal to everyone involved and their schools.\nThe cost to buy a journal is extremely high. For an individual, it could be $15 – $20 per issue. For a university, the cost can be several thousand dollars a year per journal. As a researcher, it’s important to have access to the key journals in your field. It’s also important to publish in these key journals. Because of this dependence on peer reviewed journals, academics often feel locked into this cycle and have to pressure their university to buy the journals. Publishers are the middle-men raking in the money.\nFor a long time, this situation has been getting worse. However, the Internet may be finally bringing things to a head. If the physical costs of publishing go to zero, then it’s hard to justify the middle men. This question of what is it that the publishers add that’s worth the prices they charge seems to be what caused the entire editorial board of the mathematics journal Topology to announce their resignation effective the end of the year.\nHopefully their resignation will result in either the recognition by the publisher that they can’t keep raising their rates; or the broader recognition by the academic community that the services of the publishers is not worth their costs and that with the Internet, we no longer need the publishers. If that doesn’t happen, then universities are going to have to start making hard choices about which journals they’ll subscribe to and which they won’t.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/30/the-high-cost-of-academic-journals/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ePublishers of academic journals have a sweet deal going. The content is written by researchers. The publisher hires a few academics to edit the journal. The editors then identify reviewers in the academic community. The reviewers cull the wheat from the chaff and make suggestions to help turn the later into the former. For the papers that are finally selected, the researchers/authors sign over the copyright to the publisher, so they now own the intellectual property. The publisher solicits ads and then prints the whole thing. Once printed, the publisher sells the journal to everyone involved and their schools.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"the high cost of academic journals"},{"content":"K’s mom suggested “Sierra as a name for the new dog. That works for both of us, so Sierra it is.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/30/and-we-have-a-winner/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eK’s mom suggested “Sierra as a name for the new dog. That works for both of us, so Sierra it is.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"and we have a winner"},{"content":"We’ve been needing to get another dog as a friend for Darwin. Today we drove out to Wake Forrest to meet a rescue dog that needed a home. She and Darwin hit it off and so we’ve brought her home with us. Her name is currently Holloway, but she doesn’t know it and we don’t really care for it. We need to come up with something different. We thought about “Goodall, but it doesn’t really roll of the tongue. I’m sure we’ll come up with something, but we’re open to suggestions if anyone has any. ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/28/yad-yet-another-dog/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWe’ve been needing to get another dog as a friend for Darwin. Today we drove out to Wake Forrest to meet a rescue dog that needed a home. She and Darwin hit it off and so we’ve brought her home with us. Her name is currently Holloway, but she doesn’t know it and we don’t really care for it. We need to come up with something different. We thought about “Goodall, but it doesn’t really roll of the tongue. I’m sure we’ll come up with something, but we’re open to suggestions if anyone has any.\n\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/28/yad-yet-another-dog/img_1995_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1995_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1995_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/img_1995_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/28/yad-yet-another-dog/img_1997_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1997_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1997_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/img_1997_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"YAD - yet another dog"},{"content":"I haven’t posted pictures of the squirrels in quite a while. Here are some from mid-September when they got big enough to move out of the aquarium and into a wire cage…\nTwo or three weeks ago, we put them in the outside cage. Today we opened up the release door, we’ll see if they’re there in the morning.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/28/release-the-squirrels/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI haven’t posted pictures of the squirrels in quite a while. Here are some from mid-September when they got big enough to move out of the aquarium and into a wire cage…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/28/release-the-squirrels/img_1971_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1971_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1971_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/img_1971_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/28/release-the-squirrels/img_1972_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1972_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1972_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/img_1972_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo or three weeks ago, we put them in the outside cage. Today we opened up the release door, we’ll see if they’re there in the morning.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/28/release-the-squirrels/img_1992_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1992_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1992_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/img_1992_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/28/release-the-squirrels/img_1993_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1993_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1993_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/img_1993_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/28/release-the-squirrels/img_1994_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1994_m.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1994_m.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/img_1994_m.thumbnail.JPG\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Release the squirrels!"},{"content":"The Chronicle of Higher Education today notes a report from Harvard regarding the number of women being offered tenure track faculty positions and the number accepting. In 2005-2006, women were offered 39% of the tenure track faculty positions. Unfortunately, only 20% of those accepting positions were female. This compares to 2004-2005 when 40% of those accepting tenure track faculty positions were female.\nThere are two conclusions you can draw from this:\nThe sky is falling, women are no longer accepting faculty positions at one of the most prestigious insitutions of higher education in the country world. We need to examine the factors involved and take immediate action; or Recognize that the sample size is likely to be exceedingly small and therefore the percentages don’t mean much unless there is a much longer term trend. A simple t-test would tell you how likely it is that these two percentages (20% and 40%) are drawn from the same pool. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t tell us the sample size or the standard deviation. I tend to expect that it’s the second, but confirmation will require more data. In either case, I think that the lesson we should draw from this is that it is time for a televison show that’s a cross between the movie Real Genius and 80s sitcom Bosom Buddies. Kip/Buffy Wilson and Henry/Hildegard Desmond could go back for their PhDs in engineering, only to find that geeky white guys are over represented in the faculty of their field. They could then cross dress in order to land tenure track positions at Harvard. They would work to earn the respect of their peers while being under paid, looked down upon, and hit on by male grad students and other faculty.\nHrm, on second thought, maybe we should just encourage more women to pursue degrees in science and engineering by making the environment less hostile.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/24/women-faculty-at-harvard/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education today notes a report from Harvard regarding the number of women being offered tenure track faculty positions and the number accepting. In 2005-2006, women were offered 39% of the tenure track faculty positions. Unfortunately, only 20% of those accepting positions were female. This compares to 2004-2005 when 40% of those accepting tenure track faculty positions were female.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are two conclusions you can draw from this:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Women faculty at Harvard"},{"content":"I recently had a small argument with a vendor selling biometric fingerprint scanners tied to your credit card number. He said that they were the greatest and most secure thing ever; I said that there weren’t any standards and that the security of the devices was questionable.\nI wish I had seen this earlier.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/23/biometrics-fingerprint-scanners/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI recently had a small argument with a vendor selling biometric fingerprint scanners tied to your credit card number. He said that they were the greatest and most secure thing ever; I said that there weren’t any standards and that the security of the devices was questionable.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wish I had seen \u003ca href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=zEXGetKk0Gg\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e earlier.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen\" loading=\"eager\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/zEXGetKk0Gg?autoplay=0\u0026amp;controls=1\u0026amp;end=0\u0026amp;loop=0\u0026amp;mute=0\u0026amp;start=0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;\" title=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\t\t\u003c/div\u003e","title":"Biometrics - fingerprint scanners"},{"content":"last week saw the 300 millionth American. I happened to be online about that time and saw the U.S. census office’s population clock hit 3×10^8:\nI don’t have too much to say about hitting 300 million people. It seems like something of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, population growth helps increase the level productivity in the economy. On the other hand, it already seems like we’ve got too many people, particularly at the U.S. level of per capita consumption.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/21/and-speaking-of-population-statistics/","summary":"\u003cp\u003elast week saw the 300 millionth American. I happened to be online about that time and saw the U.S. census office’s population clock hit 3×10^8:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/10/21/and-speaking-of-population-statistics/pop-300mjpg/\" title=\"pop-300m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"pop-300m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/pop-300m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI don’t have too much to say about hitting 300 million people. It seems like something of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, population growth helps increase the level productivity in the economy. On the other hand, it already seems like we’ve got too many people, particularly at the U.S. level of per capita consumption.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"and speaking of population statistics"},{"content":"Statistically speaking, there are apparently 171 people with my name:\nHowManyOfMe.comThere are:171people with my name in the U.S.A.How many have your name?\nThat sounds like 170 too many to me. On the other hand, K statistically doesn’t seem to exist. Once again demonstrating the problem with statistics:\nHowManyOfMe.comThere are:0people with my name in the U.S.A.How many have your name?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/21/170-too-many/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eStatistically speaking, there are apparently 171 people with my name:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowManyOfMe.com\u003ca href=\"http://howmanyofme.com\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Logo\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://extimg.howmanyofme.com/extimages/howmany-logo.png\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003eThere are:171people with my name\nin the U.S.A.\u003ca href=\"http://howmanyofme.com\"\u003eHow many have your name?\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat sounds like 170 too many to me. On the other hand, K statistically doesn’t seem to exist. Once again demonstrating the problem with statistics:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowManyOfMe.com\u003ca href=\"http://howmanyofme.com\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Logo\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://extimg.howmanyofme.com/extimages/howmany-logo.png\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003eThere are:0people with my name\nin the U.S.A.\u003ca href=\"http://howmanyofme.com\"\u003eHow many have your name?\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"170 too many"},{"content":"No, not that – Programming.\nI need to do some statistical work to test a theory. The best approach in order to compare my results is to do the work in R. But it looks like I’ll need to extend a package. I download the package from CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network), unpack it and start trying to figure out how it all works. Unfortunately, it is written in Fortran, C and R. Untangling it will take forever.\nMaybe I’m better off just trying to extend it within R itself – which is of course how the original package writer got into this mess in the first place.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/17/things-that-make-you-go-blind/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNo, not that – Programming.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI need to do some statistical work to test a theory. The best approach in order to compare my results is to do the work in \u003ca href=\"http://www.r-project.org/\"\u003eR\u003c/a\u003e. But it looks like I’ll need to extend a package. I download the package from CRAN (the Comprehensive R Archive Network), unpack it and start trying to figure out how it all works. Unfortunately, it is written in Fortran, C and R. Untangling it will take forever.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Things that make you go blind"},{"content":"IT security (and for that matter, other security concerns too) are often seen as conflicting with usability. There is something to that. If you take any given technology and turn up the level of security it provides, you will almost always decrease the usability of the system.\nConsider passwords. If people are allowed to choose their own passwords, they will typically choose something very usable for them. They’ll pick their dog’s name, their wife’s name, their userid, etc. These passwords don’t provide much security. To compensate, we often turn up the security knob and require “stronger passwords, e.g., minimum of six characters with no dictionary words and multiple “character classes.\nAdjusting the password strength knob is reasonable to an extent. I’ve recently heard security officers consider requiring fifteen character passwords with multiple character classes. Such a password is unusable. Any system that requires that level of security should not be protected by user chosen passwords and possibly not by passwords at all. To maintain usability, while increasing security, you have to use a new technology.\nConsider the graph to the right (click for a larger view). The graph illustrates this principle. The blue line represents a given security technology. As you increase the security, you decrease the usability. In such a security-usability graph, we really want to be in the upper right corner of the graph. But our blue line can’t get us there. When we make the passwords more complicated (secure), they become less usable. To get further up in the graph, we need to change the technology and shift the security curve to the right (the green line). For example, we might allow weaker passwords but require two factor authentication with a smart card.\nUnfortunately, many proposed security technologies might even shift the graph to the left (the red line). These technologies provide less security for the same degree of usability. Think of the prohibition on liquids while flying. This provides no increase in security, while greatly decreasing the usability (or at least the enjoyability) of flying\nIf we’re lucky, our security curves don’t look like the graph above and instead look more like the one to the left (click for a larger view). The advantage to a curve like this one is that there’s a fairly natural optimal point. We can increase the security while barely affecting the usability – at least up to a point.\nI don’t know what the security curves for most technologies look like. But security technologists need to consider this and determine both the level of security and the level of usability needed in a given system. If you can’t achieve both, then you might need to think about a different approach or a different security technology. Trying to achieve a desired level of security without considering usability will result in the users ignoring or bypassing security in the future.\nJust some thoughts.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/13/thinking-about-security-and-usability/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIT security (and for that matter, other security concerns too) are often seen as conflicting with usability. There is something to that. If you take any given technology and turn up the level of security it provides, you will almost always decrease the usability of the system.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsider passwords. If people are allowed to choose their own passwords, they will typically choose something very usable for them. They’ll pick their dog’s name, their wife’s name, their userid, etc. These passwords don’t provide much security. To compensate, we often turn up the security knob and require “stronger passwords, e.g., minimum of six characters with no dictionary words and multiple “character classes.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Thinking about security and usability"},{"content":"I’ve never understood why the separation of church and state is still debated in this country. I have an even harder time understanding why people would try to undermine the separation of church and state, but as this article in the New York Times shows, they do.\nKeeping religion out of politics and politics out of religion has a long history in this country. Our first amendment has a clause which states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This clearly states that congress may not create a national religion. But, may congress write laws with respect to a religion? Can congress financially support or encourage a religion? Supporters of the separation of church and state say, “no, while many religious advocates say “yes.\nThe only way to really answer the question is to look at the debate surrounding the first amendment and its prohibition of laws repecting an establishment of religion. This clause in the first amendment was strongly supported by Thomas Jefferson, who considered it a flaw that the consititution did not include such a statement. He had strongly argued for such language in the constitution of Virginia (where it was adopted) and in the US consititution (where it was not initially). Inaddition to coining the phrase “a wall of separation between church and state, his subsequent actions tell us that he was clearly against the support of religion by the government.\nJefferson, as president, refused to declare national days of prayer or thanksgiving regarding them as unconsititutional under the Bill of Rights. Moreover, he argued against the use of public funds to pay for divinity professors at state supported schools. He was strongly supportive of the right to the freedom of conscious and regarded monetary payments to one religion as a quasi-endorsement by the government which penalized other religions.\nBeyond the founder’s intent, we can also look at the pragmatic benefits of keeping the church and the state apart. de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America that he was amazed by the religious vitality in the US – far greater than what he observed in Europe in the 19th century. In conversations with a number of religious leaders, de Tocqueville was repeatedly told that the success of religion in the US was due to the separation of religion and government.\nIn Europe, most countries had established, national religions. As governments rose and fell, the established religions would change. Churches began to equate the survival of the state with their own survival and participated in attrocities that were not in accordance with their goal of caring for men’s souls. This resulted in the people becoming disillusioned with religious leaders and then disillusioned with religion itself. Such disillusionment resulted in the largely secular Europe we have today.\nIn contrast, the US pursued a model of keeping religion out of politics. In fact, de Tocqueville points out that many of the original 13 states had consitutions which barred religious leaders from holding public office. Separating the rights of concious from the laws of man inspired the people to maintain faith in their religions allowing religion to thrive.\nFinally, de Tocqueville cautioned that as governments became more stable, religious leaders would forget the benefits of maintaining a distance from political power and would seek to establish special privileges for their churches. The New York Times article linked above shows exactly that trend. Where are the limits if we have laws and regulations that govern enterprise, but have exemptions carved out for religions engaged in such enterprises? We have obviously established some limits – after all, churches have to pay social security taxes for their employees. But why is the line drawn there? Why should a church have more benefits under the law than any other non-profit?\nCould I establish the “Church of Christ the Consumer? We could declare Walmarts and Targets to be holy sites for our communion and thereby earn tax exempt status for these businesses. That sounds far fetched, but given the role of churches in creating day cares, and other businesses, it is not entirely implausible.\nUpdate: turns out I was somewhat wrong. Churches don’t pay social security taxes for pastors (not certain about other employees), they are considered self-employed and have to pay the full amount themselves. However, as this article discusses, pastors may opt out of social security entirely. The problem being that when they retire in poverty, someone has to provide a social safety net for them and their former churches often seem to decline.\nOne last point brought up in today’s NY Times article is that any legal exemption for a church or other religious organization requires that the state make a determination of what is a valid religion (see my question about the Church of Christ the Consumer). Making this determination is an establishment of religion by the very fact that it has to identify criteria for recognizing an organization as a religion.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/11/separation-of-church-and-state/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’ve never understood why the separation of church and state is still debated in this country. I have an even harder time understanding why people would try to undermine the separation of church and state, but as \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/business/08religious.html?_r=1\u0026amp;ei=5094\u0026amp;en=354628e21c97b341\u0026amp;hp=\u0026amp;ex=1160366400\u0026amp;partner=homepage\u0026amp;pagewanted=print\u0026amp;oref=slogin\"\u003ethis article in the New York Times\u003c/a\u003e shows, they do.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeeping religion out of politics and politics out of religion has a long history in this country. Our first amendment has a clause which states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This clearly states that congress may not create a national religion. But, may congress write laws with respect to a religion? Can congress financially support or encourage a religion? Supporters of the separation of church and state say, “no, while many religious advocates say “yes.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Separation of church and state (updated below ~4:30pm)"},{"content":"and if you haven’t seen this, you should – it’s very good.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/09/free-hugs/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eand if you haven’t seen \u003ca href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e, you should – it’s very good.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen\" loading=\"eager\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/vr3x_RRJdd4?autoplay=0\u0026amp;controls=1\u0026amp;end=0\u0026amp;loop=0\u0026amp;mute=0\u0026amp;start=0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;\" title=\"YouTube video\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\t\t\u003c/div\u003e","title":"Free hugs!"},{"content":"Time Magazine publishes a letter from a Marine officer in Iraq – read it.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/08/a-letter-from-iraq/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTime Magazine publishes a letter from a Marine officer in Iraq – \u003ca href=\"http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658,00.html\"\u003eread it\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"a letter from Iraq"},{"content":"When your day is lacking surrealism, visit the Nietzsche Family Circus ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/05/daily-dose-of-the-surreal/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWhen your day is lacking surrealism, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/\"\u003eNietzsche Family Circus\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/nietzche-family-circus-2.jpg\" title=\"nietzche-family-circus-2.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"nietzche-family-circus-2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/nietzche-family-circus-2.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/nietzche-family-circus.jpg\" title=\"nietzche-family-circus.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"nietzche-family-circus.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/nietzche-family-circus.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"daily dose of the surreal..."},{"content":"Brad DeLong discussing why we like diversity and identitity notes that in addition to prefering to discuss diversity because it is easier than tackling the hard problem of a lack of equality in opportunity, we like identity and diversity because they are inherently a good thing:\nNow normally–in my usual mind–I am an enthusiastic supporter of what I take to be Walter Benn Michaels’s central point: that we have collectively gotten ourselves off balance because we are responding to the fact that celebrating diversity is easy and doing something about upward mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of economic and social inequality is hard.\nWhen I am in my usual mind I grumble that the $400,000 a year that we at Berkeley are about to start spending on an Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity would be better spent hiring ten full-time outreach coordinators and on-campus tutors to make the idea of equality of opportunity less of a joke, and to make the population that does attend Berkeley a little bit more like the population that could benefit from attending Berkeley–if only things had broken right for them before they reached college age.\nBut I must be outside my usual mind. Because my reaction right now is that we love identity not just because we don’t like to think about economic and social class, but because loving identity is a genuinely good thing in a diverse world, especially for America and Americans if we are to become who we are.\nI don’t necessarily disagree with that, but I think that it’s also important to note that we like diversity and identity because we’ve evolved as a tribal species. Before we developed civilization, we lived in family bands. We then developed from families to tribes to cities to states to nations. In a modern society, we have to work with people from a variety of nations, backgrounds, cultures, etc. However, not too deep down, just under the veneer of civilization, we are still very tribal. We still prefer to interact with people that are “like us. I suspect that this is why we like to discuss identity and diversity.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/03/identity-vs-equality-of-opportunity/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/10/teaching_califo.html\"\u003eBrad DeLong discussing why we like diversity and identitity\u003c/a\u003e notes that in addition to prefering to discuss diversity because it is easier than tackling the hard problem of a lack of equality in opportunity, we like identity and diversity because they are inherently a good thing:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow normally–in my usual mind–I am an enthusiastic supporter of what I take to be Walter Benn Michaels’s central point: that we have collectively gotten ourselves off balance because we are responding to the fact that celebrating diversity is easy and doing something about upward mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of economic and social inequality is hard.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Identity vs. Equality of Opportunity"},{"content":"For HeatherS…\nFirst you make a roux [1]:\n~1/2 cup oil ~1/2 cup flour Mix the flour and oil into a large pot and turn the heat on low to medium, depending on how often you want to stir. Stir while on heat until a dark brown.\nWhile the roux is browning, finely chop:\none onion a couple of stalks of celery 1/2 bell pepper You can use a cuisinart, but don’t puree the trinity (inside Louisiana joke). Once the roux is dark brown, add the vegetable mixture and stir for about a minute. Then add:\n~6 cups of stock (vegetable, chicken, turkey, beef, etc.) While bringing stock and vegetables to a boil, slice (1/4 inch width):\n1-2 cups of okra (to taste) Add okra to stock and prepare meat (or meat substitute 🙂 ). Cut into bite size chunks, 3 or 4 cups of:\nChicken; or Quorn; or Turkey; *and* Suasage; or Boca Suasage You can also add shrimp or crawfish or crab or pretty much whatever you want (nutria anyone?). If necessary, mix the meat in flour to prevent sticking. Brown the meat in a separate skillet and season – we tend to use SeasonAll, but anything else will work.\nAdd the browned meat to the stock. Add a little worcheshire sauce and if you have it some browning sauce. Simmer for a couple of hours and serve over rice.\n[1] I read a cookbook once that advised using a half a cup of peanut butter instead of making a roux. This is evil and wrong. If you ever see this, please leave a note for the next person warning him/her not to trust the cookbook.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/02/gumbo-recipe/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eFor HeatherS…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst you make a roux [1]:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e~1/2 cup oil\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e~1/2 cup flour\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMix the flour and oil into a large pot and turn the heat on low to medium, depending on how often you want to stir. Stir while on heat until a dark brown.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the roux is browning, finely chop:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eone onion\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea couple of stalks of celery\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1/2 bell pepper\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can use a cuisinart, but don’t puree the trinity (inside Louisiana joke). Once the roux is dark brown, add the vegetable mixture and stir for about a minute. Then add:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Gumbo Recipe"},{"content":"My father once told me about a military training exercise that took place for a month in Egypt. The only available food was early generation MREs. Everyone lost weight except for the cajuns – who all put on 10-15 pounds. Their secret was combining their MREs into a communal pot, add the seasonings they brought from home and produce something that you wanted to eat. Since MREs have 4000-6000 calories, eating the whole thing could easily make you gain weight.\nI’m always reminded of this story when I make gumbo which I learned from my mother-in-law, one of the best gumbo cooks I’ve known. My family was transplanted to Louisiana and so we don’t have a traditional gumbo recipe, but my mother-in-laws works pretty well. Unfortunately, when K and I first started leaning vegetarian, gumbo got harder to make. At first, we would still eat chicken and turkey, so a chicken and turkey-sausage gumbo was okay. Unfortunately, turkey sausage is pretty bland. When we stopped eating chicken, it looked like our gumbo days were over (K doesn’t like seafood gumbo).\nTwo (relatively) new meatless products saved the gumbo. “Quorn is a very passable chicken substitute made from mycoprotein (fungus) and Boca now has a meatless Italian sausage that works very well. With those two meat substitutes we made a very nice vegetarian gumbo tonight, that may have been close to healthy.\nIf folks want the recipe (meatless or with meat), just let me know.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/01/vegetarian-gumbo/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMy father once told me about a military training exercise that took place for a month in Egypt. The only available food was early generation MREs. Everyone lost weight except for the cajuns – who all put on 10-15 pounds. Their secret was combining their MREs into a communal pot, add the seasonings they brought from home and produce something that you wanted to eat. Since MREs have 4000-6000 calories, eating the whole thing could easily make you gain weight.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Vegetarian gumbo"},{"content":"Caveat lector – this is not a fully formed thought, I’m just trying to get some ideas down.\nI worked with a guy (not a friend) who was obsessed by workplace culture. As near as I could tell, he came from an environment with an entirely different culture and didn’t care for the one we had. At one point, he and another person (a friend) gave a talk on culture. They described different aspects of culture, including appearance and behavior.\nWorkplace culture is important. Studies have shown that companies with a “positive culture are more productive. What I don’t have a good sense of is whether the culture causes productivity, productivity causes positive culture or if the two are correlated but not causally determined.\nI tend to think that workplace culture is an evolved group response to circumstances. Changing the external manifestations of culture, without changing the circumstances that the culture evolved in response to, is pointless. Cultures (workplace and other) seem to be “evolutionarily stable strategies (ESS). In evolutionary biology, an ESS is a strategy that *if* adopted by all members of the population can not be beaten by adopting another strategy. Essentially, deviations from the norm are penalized, driving the population back to the norm.\nI suspect that what makes cultures so difficult to change is that they are ESSs. Trying to change culture by changing specific behaviors or by bringing in a new employee exhibiting the desire behavior, is destined to fail, because success within the culture depends on behaving with the cultural norms. I think that the only way to change cultures is to identify the underlying issues that caused the culture to evolve and to address those issues.\nFor example, I know of people that would like to see their work environment be more innovative – like (they perceive) Apple’s or Google’s. To get there, they try to encourage people to be more creative in their jobs or they propose that we all dress in a cool, hip way, like the Apple “geniuses (seriously, I’m not making this up). The problem is that if you perceive that the culture is not creative, it is likely the case that the work place does not reward creativity. For example, as I understand it, Google allows employees to spend up to one day a week working on a personally chosen, pie-in-the-sky project. But to do that, they’ve had to overstaff. If they didn’t overstaff, then people spending time on random projects would cause other things to break.\nSo, if you want your culture to be more like Google’s, then you may have to consider overstaffing in order to get there. You can’t just expect that encouraging people to change their behavior and to be innovative will work\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/01/workplace-culture/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eCaveat lector – this is not a fully formed thought, I’m just trying to get some ideas down.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI worked with a guy (not a friend) who was obsessed by workplace culture. As near as I could tell, he came from an environment with an entirely different culture and didn’t care for the one we had. At one point, he and another person (a friend) gave a talk on culture. They described different aspects of culture, including appearance and behavior.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"workplace culture"},{"content":"I missed this when it came out last week, but apparently, a gentleman named Ryan Bird was detained at the airport last week for writing “ Kip Hawley is an idiot on his plastic baggie filled with toiletries. Apparently, the security trolls highly educated and diligent TSA employees took the statement to be a threat or at least behavior that they didn’t approve of and detained Mr. Bird – while telling him that he didn’t have 1st Amendment Rights at the TSA checkpoint.\nKip Hawley is the current director of the TSA and, yes, he is an idiot. This is the guy whose organization seems to watch more bad action movies than they read real risk assessments. If you recall, a month or so ago we had a complete ban on liquids in planes due to the fear of binary explosives the ban was later lightened to allow small amounts of toiletries on the plane *if* they were put into clear baggies so that they could be viewed. The problem with this is that it was not based on any science or chemical engineering knowledge. The feared binary explosives are notoriously difficult to produce, would require hours of work and produce noxious smells which would (one hopes) be noticed.\nUnfortunately, this is characteristic of the way we are handling transportation security these days. Rather than assessing the risks and taking reasonable actions based on the assessments, we are running around trying to look like we’re doing something. This goes for removing shoes to limiting liquids to arming pilots – none if it makes sense in a security context.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/10/01/for-the-record-kip-hawley-is-an-idiot/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI missed this when it came out last week, but apparently, a gentleman named \u003ca href=\"http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=606142\"\u003eRyan Bird\u003c/a\u003e was detained at the airport last week for writing “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiphawleyisanidiot.com/\"\u003eKip Hawley is an idiot\u003c/a\u003e on his plastic baggie filled with toiletries. Apparently, the security trolls highly educated and diligent TSA employees took the statement to be a threat or at least behavior that they didn’t approve of and detained Mr. Bird – while telling him that he didn’t have 1st Amendment Rights at the TSA checkpoint.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"for the record, Kip Hawley is an idiot"},{"content":"\nHow White and Nerdy Are You?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/28/this-is-so-wrong/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/09/white-and-nerdy-quiz.php\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"You are 54% white and nerdy.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2006/09/nerdy/54.jpg\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHow White and Nerdy Are You?\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"this is *so* wrong"},{"content":"Last week a friend pointed me to a comic that accurately described my life for four and a half years. Piled Higher and Deeper is a PhD comic strip. After reading just a few, I couldn’t help but think, “how did I miss this for all these years? It turns out that the comic started publishing just before I graduated and by the time it became (relatively) popular I was out of grad school. Anyway, a few of my favorite strips from the archives so far:\nA spoof on Kurt Vonnegut’s graduation speech Programming A Janis Joplin spoof A series on grad students as an anthropology reseach subject Newton’s Three Laws of Graduation Young Nicholas as a grad student\nI’m only through mid-2002, so another four years to go!\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/27/piled-higher-and-deeper/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast week a friend pointed me to a comic that accurately described my life for four and a half years. Piled Higher and Deeper is a PhD comic strip. After reading just a few, I couldn’t help but think, “how did I miss this for all these years? It turns out that the comic started publishing just before I graduated and by the time it became (relatively) popular I was out of grad school. Anyway, a few of my favorite strips from the archives so far:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Piled higher and deeper"},{"content":"I survived giving my presentation today – in spite of the fact that I showed up to the wrong hotel, in the wrong part of the city. I blame my boss. I mentioned that the talk was at the Sheraton Imperial (although I hadn’t looked to see where that was yet) and he said, oh yeah, the one down on Campus Walk road. Get to the hotel on Campus Walk – oops, that’s the Millenium. Call my administrative assistant, she looks up the location and it’s 15 miles away.\nI still made it on time. Had a room of 25 people or so. I asked, no one wanted to do the more interesting version of the talk (the one with volunteers, paper airplanes and silly hats). I’m not sure why. Maybe because I didn’t have any silly hats on me.\nThere was a reception at the end of the day (about a half hour from when I finished). As usual, I didn’t stay. It’s funny – this is the real difference between introverts and extroverts. I am fairly introverted, but at the spur of the moment can still give a dynamic, well received talk to a room full of people. I’m not self conscious about being goofy or making jokes. What makes me introverted is that after that, I’m done. I’m just out. I want to go home, have a drink, relax. If I had gone to the reception, I would have sat in the corner with my drink ignoring everyone. Introversion and extroversion have nothing to do with presentation anxiety. The difference is that extroverts get energized and are ready for more. For introverts, not so much.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/25/presentation/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI survived giving my presentation today – in spite of the fact that I showed up to the wrong hotel, in the wrong part of the city. I blame my boss. I mentioned that the talk was at the Sheraton Imperial (although I hadn’t looked to see where that was yet) and he said, oh yeah, the one down on Campus Walk road. Get to the hotel on Campus Walk – oops, that’s the Millenium. Call my administrative assistant, she looks up the location and it’s 15 miles away.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Presentation"},{"content":"Checking my schedule for tomorrow, I realized that I have to give a talk at a major “human studies conference about security risks in web-based surveys. Unfortunately, I haven’t actually prepared anything. I’ve got my slides from the last time I did the talk, but I really wanted to do something more interesting and interactive this time – preferably with audience volunteers wearing silly hats. I may still try to put something together in the morning. I have an idea – but no sense of the feasibility.\nUnfortunately, I don’t have the silly hats.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/24/oops/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eChecking my schedule for tomorrow, I realized that I have to give a talk at a major “human studies conference about security risks in web-based surveys. Unfortunately, I haven’t actually prepared anything. I’ve got my slides from the last time I did the talk, but I really wanted to do something more interesting and interactive this time – preferably with audience volunteers wearing silly hats. I may still try to put something together in the morning. I have an idea – but no sense of the feasibility.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Oops..."},{"content":"One of the disadvantages of having so many email accounts is the number of spam you get. Recently, I’ve been noticing an increase in stock spam making it through my spam filters. I’ve been wondering how effective the spam is and whether or not one could make money shorting these stocks.\nApparently, I’m not the only one. The local paper carried a NYT article titled “ Many people fall for stock spam. In the article, the author describes the work of Frieder and Zittrain. Frieder and Zittrain found that pink sheet stocks that were heavily touted in spam were significantly more likely to be traded than non-touted stocks. Purchasing these stocks would lead a 5.25% loss within two days. For the most heavily touted stocks, the average loss was almost 8% in two days.\nTo get a sense of what these look like, I read through the 700+ spam messages collected in my spam folder over the past week. I feel like I’ve been dumpster diving. However, amid the emails claiming that I can enlarge body parts, get cheap watches and drugs, improve my sex life and buy human growth hormone, I found a few dozen messages touting 10 different stocks.\nLooking at the stocks online shows that, sure enough, in the day or two around the time I got the spam, there was a substantial increase in the trading volume and in several cases, there was noticable increase in the share price. Now if I really wanted to test this, I would start selling these stocks short any time I received stock spam. Figure maybe a thousand dollars per stock. A 5% drop on a shorted stock in two days is nothing to ignore 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/24/stock-spam/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the disadvantages of having so many email accounts is the number of spam you get. Recently, I’ve been noticing an increase in stock spam making it through my spam filters. I’ve been wondering how effective the spam is and whether or not one could make money shorting these stocks.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApparently, I’m not the only one. The local paper carried a NYT article titled “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/490154.html\"\u003eMany people fall for stock spam\u003c/a\u003e. In the article, the author describes the work of \u003ca href=\"http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract-id=920553\"\u003eFrieder and Zittrain\u003c/a\u003e. Frieder and Zittrain found that pink sheet stocks that were heavily touted in spam were significantly more likely to be traded than non-touted stocks. Purchasing these stocks would lead a 5.25% loss within two days. For the most heavily touted stocks, the average loss was almost 8% in two days.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Stock spam"},{"content":"Just picked up our cat Whisper from the vet today. She’s been over at the Carrboro Animal Hospital in their RadCats facility for the past two weeks getting her thyroid treated. It seems that cats are prone to tumors on their thyroids. The tumors produce excess hormones which cause them problems.\nThe treatment is a dose of radioactive iodine (I-131) injected under the skin. She then had to stay in isolation for three days and at the vet’s facility for another week and a half. Technically, we brought her home early and we still need to take precautions, but it’s good to have her home.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/23/rad-cat/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eJust picked up our cat Whisper from the vet today. She’s been over at the Carrboro Animal Hospital in their RadCats facility for the past two weeks getting her thyroid treated. It seems that cats are prone to tumors on their thyroids. The tumors produce excess hormones which cause them problems.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe treatment is a dose of radioactive iodine (I-131) injected under the skin. She then had to stay in isolation for three days and at the vet’s facility for another week and a half. Technically, we brought her home early and we still need to take precautions, but it’s good to have her home.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Rad cat"},{"content":"just heard from K – the flying squirrel didn’t make it through the night. She’s guessing that the impact of the truck caused internal bleeding. unfortunately, there wasn’t much she could do\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/19/103/","summary":"\u003cp\u003ejust heard from K – the flying squirrel didn’t make it through the night. She’s guessing that the impact of the truck caused internal bleeding. unfortunately, there wasn’t much she could do\u003c/p\u003e","title":":-("},{"content":" I haven’t put up the baby squirrels’ seven week pictures yet – I’ll do that tomorrow. They’re getting huge (~150g each, up another 40g from last week) Just had a guy drop off a flying squirrel to K. Apparently, it swooped down on him at the intersection of 15-501 and Europa and he (not his fault) hit it with his truck. Fortunately, he wasn’t going that fast. Assuming the squirrel makes it through the night, I’ll post some pictures. Since s/he’s a full grown adult and still only about 4″ long – he’s adorable. Just registered a new site for K and a friend. They’re planning on posting box turtle rehabilitation information there as well as information about a box turtle re-establishment project for which they are seeking approval. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you www.boxturtleheadstart.org ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/18/wildlife-rehab-notes/","summary":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI haven’t put up the baby squirrels’ seven week pictures yet – I’ll do that tomorrow. They’re getting huge (~150g each, up another 40g from last week)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust had a guy drop off a flying squirrel to K. Apparently, it swooped down on him at the intersection of 15-501 and Europa and he (not his fault) hit it with his truck. Fortunately, he wasn’t going that fast. Assuming the squirrel makes it through the night, I’ll post some pictures. Since s/he’s a full grown adult and still only about 4″ long – he’s adorable.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust registered a new site for K and a friend. They’re planning on posting box turtle rehabilitation information there as well as information about a box turtle re-establishment project for which they are seeking approval. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you \u003ca href=\"http://www.boxturtleheadstart.org\"\u003ewww.boxturtleheadstart.org\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","title":"Wildlife rehab notes"},{"content":"You can bet that any article written by a conservative that starts with “Liberals don’t value a college education? will be full of crap. The only relevant question is “what kind of crap will it be full of? In the September 22nd issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Chronicle Review, Anthony P. Carnevale writes an opinion piece titled “ Discounting Education’s Value. The first couple of paragraphs give you a flavor of his arguments:\nLiberals don’t value a college education? Since when? Since a growing chorus of pundits, all with elite-college credentials, decided to prove that a college education may no longer be what’s best for other people’s children. While their predecessors fought to open college doors to members of minority groups and working families, influential voices on the left today allege that a college education may no longer be a pathway to equal opportunity. Such claims deny decades of evidence.\nLast winter The New York Times pundit Paul Krugman, a Princeton University professor with a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proclaimed that “a college degree has hardly been a ticket to big income gains. The notion that education provides increased income is comforting to politicians, Krugman said, but improving our educational system is not the most important way to mitigate inequality.\nfollowed by:\nThe problem is not that those who discount the value of college in providing economic opportunity are wrong to press for more direct measures of economic inequalities. The problem is that their argument has the unintended effect of validating an elitist view that “not everybody needs to go to college — with dire consequences for “everybody who doesn’t. In America, “everybody usually means the children of poor and minority families.\nDiscounting the value of college in order to make room for more direct interventions into the economy also creates a moral hazard. I’ll bet the farm that those elite-college men don’t tolerate talk of dropping out around their own kitchen tables or counsel their own children to forget about college and get a trade. Until they do, their public pronouncements just add up to a lot of bad advice for other people’s children.\nCarnevale’s argument is that Krugman and the other liberals are claiming that a college degree is not worthwhile. He then goes on to show how census statistics indicate that increased education leads to a higher salary. Therefore, liberal economists are either wrong or lying. Q.E.D.\nUnfortunately, this is a strawman argument. Nobody, literally nobody, is claiming that education is not positively correlated to salary. What Krugman and others are claiming is that education is not a sufficient explanation for wage inequality. The problem these economists are trying to address is why is the mean income rising, while the median income is falling? When you dig into the problem, you find that unless you are in the top 5% or higher of wage earners, your income has been falling with respect to inflation over the past several years.\nHaving a college degree is (almost) a necessary condition for being in the top 5%; however, it is not sufficient. A college degree is no guarantee that your salary increases will keep pace with inflation. A quick show of hands – how many of you with college degrees received a raise of at least 4.1% last year? If your raise was less than 4.1%, you are making less money this year than last due to the effects of inflation.\nOf course, you are still better off with a college degree than without; but that has nothing to do with the wage inequality issues being addressed by most economists.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/18/dr-strange-opinions-or-how-i-stopped-thinking-and-learned-to-attack-the-straw/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eYou can bet that any article written by a conservative that starts with “Liberals don’t value a college education? will be full of crap. The only relevant question is “what kind of crap will it be full of? In the September 22nd issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Chronicle Review, Anthony P. Carnevale writes an opinion piece titled “ \u003ca href=\"http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i05/05b00601.htm\"\u003eDiscounting Education’s Value\u003c/a\u003e. The first couple of paragraphs give you a flavor of his arguments:\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Dr. Strange-Opinions: or how I stopped thinking and learned to attack the straw"},{"content":"As I read the newspaper this morning, I came across Charles Krauthammer’s latest piece on how Iran is in the crosshairs of a U.S. decision. In the opinion piece, he lays out the costs of action and the costs of inaction and concludes that the U.S. has less than a year to decide how to handle Iran.\nLeave aside the callousness of someone whose costs do not include tens or hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. The thing that struck me most is why do we let this man write a column at all?! He been wrong about everything he’s written in the past five years. He’s been wrong about how to fight terrorism, he’s been wrong about the war in Iraq. He hasn’t gotten a thing right in all the years I’ve seen him in the paper.\nIf I was that wrong and that incompetent in my own job, my boss would have fired me by now. I know I work at a university, but we have this little thing called accountability and people who are consistantly wrong or consistantly fail to do their jobs properly get fired. Why can’t someone fire Krauthammer?\nAll credible sources tell us that Iran is a decade away from a nuclear weapon – assuming that it is pursuing one. It also doesn’t have a missile that can reach outside of the local region. Finally, it has not been demonstrated that Iran is in violtation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty which allows for the peaceful use of nuclear technology.\nGiven all of this, does Krauthammer have any reason for thinking that Iran is a serious threat in the next year? Only that he’s a warmongering loon. But apparently, if you are a columnist, that’s okay. Unlike those of us who work for a living, there is no accountability.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/17/i-apparently-picked-the-wrong-profession/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAs I read the newspaper this morning, I came across Charles Krauthammer’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/487132.html\"\u003elatest\u003c/a\u003e piece on how Iran is in the crosshairs of a U.S. decision. In the opinion piece, he lays out the costs of action and the costs of inaction and concludes that the U.S. has less than a year to decide how to handle Iran.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeave aside the callousness of someone whose costs do not include tens or hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. The thing that struck me most is why do we let this man write a column at all?! He been wrong about everything he’s written in the past five years. He’s been wrong about how to fight terrorism, he’s been wrong about the war in Iraq. He hasn’t gotten a thing right in all the years I’ve seen him in the paper.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"i apparently picked the wrong profession"},{"content":"According to Manolo’s critique Ahmadinejad dresses like a high school chemistry teacher:\nBriefly and remarkably, the President of the Iran wears the same khaki windbreaker, wrinkled trousers, cheap oxford shirts, scruffy beard and wild eyes favored by the aging high school chemistry teachers everywhere.\nYes, in his youth he was the firebrand who would shake the very foundations of the society, but today he is content to expound upon his paranoid conspiracy theories while exercising his petty autocratic powers over the dull kids who sit in the back of the class.\nSilly me – I had been thinking used car salesman. I defer to the Manolo’s superior fashion sense.\np.s. be sure to check out the comparison between Ahmadinejad and Qaddafi\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/15/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-chemistry-teacher/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAccording to \u003ca href=\"http://politicscentral.com/2006/09/07/the_chics_of_the_dictators.php\"\u003eManolo’s critique Ahmadinejad\u003c/a\u003e dresses like a high school chemistry teacher:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBriefly and remarkably, the President of the Iran wears the same \u003ca href=\"http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2005/11/ahmadinejads-jackets-on-sale-for-only.html\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ekhaki windbreaker\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, wrinkled trousers, cheap oxford shirts, scruffy beard and wild eyes favored by the aging high school chemistry teachers everywhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes, in his youth he was the firebrand who would shake the very foundations of the society, but today he is content to expound upon his paranoid conspiracy theories while exercising his petty autocratic powers over the dull kids who sit in the back of the class.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - chemistry teacher?"},{"content":"Dear K,\nIn the 13 years that we’ve been married, there has been one constant in our life – plumbing problems. Last night’s 3am catastrophic water heater failure coupled with the emergency reinstallation I had to perform this morning was the final straw. This memo is to inform you that if we ever buy another house, it is my intention to find a structure without indoor plumbing.\nI recognize that this may limit our choices and may not be preferable from your perspective, however, after 13 years of water troubles, I see no alternative.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/12/memo-to-k/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eDear K,\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 13 years that we’ve been married, there has been one constant in our life – plumbing problems. Last night’s 3am catastrophic water heater failure coupled with the emergency reinstallation I had to perform this morning was the final straw. This memo is to inform you that if we ever buy another house, it is my intention to find a structure without indoor plumbing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI recognize that this may limit our choices and may not be preferable from your perspective, however, after 13 years of water troubles, I see no alternative.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"memo to K"},{"content":"\nyou just gotta love weird al. not sure who made the video piece, but that’s pretty cute too.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/12/i-may-have-a-new-theme-song/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um59IJEYCbU\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://img.youtube.com/vi/Um59IJEYCbU/0.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eyou just gotta love weird al. not sure who made the video piece, but that’s pretty cute too.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"i may have a new theme song"},{"content":"1 week later, 30g heavier.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/10/baby-squirrel-pictures-6-weeks/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e1 week later, 30g heavier.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/09/10/baby-squirrel-pictures-6-weeks/img_1959_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1959_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1959_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1959_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/09/10/baby-squirrel-pictures-6-weeks/img_1960_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1960_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1960_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1960_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/09/10/baby-squirrel-pictures-6-weeks/img_1961_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1961_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1961_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1961_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/09/10/baby-squirrel-pictures-6-weeks/img_1962_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1962_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1962_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1962_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/09/10/baby-squirrel-pictures-6-weeks/img_1966_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1966_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1966_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1966_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"baby squirrel pictures - 6 weeks"},{"content":"Not much blogging over the past week. Mostly because I’m still dealing with slight water issues\nAfter I hooked up the pH neutralizer, I found that it leaked. I had a 1 drip per 5 second leak where I connected the QEST gray connectors to the neutralizer. I tried tightening it. That didn’t work. I shut off the water in order to re-tape it and disaster. When I turned off the water, the transient increase in preasure blew a seal on the neutralizer. Not happy. How the heck do you return something w/ 150# of rock in it.\nCalled up the company, they told me that the seal on top was actually just an O-ring and that the top valve screwed down onto the O-ring. Apparently, the top valve was screwed on too tight and the slight increase in preasure caused it to unseat itself. No big deal, just screw it back down.\nAfter that, I’ve been shutting off the well pump first, draining a bit of water from the lines and then cutting off the water. But I still had the leak. I tried more teflon tape. No luck. I tried even MORE teflon tape – still no luck. I even tried plumbers putty – that was even worse. Finally, I called the company and they said that you can’t connect the 1″ male threads on QEST connectors – they aren’t MPT (standard male pipe thread).\nWent back to the store today, found a bushing that’ll take 1″ female pipe thread and drop it to 3/4″ pipe thread. Then I used 3/4″ MPT to copper compression fittings. A short piece of copper pipe, then the QEST connector to connect to PEX plastic pipe. The first one worked, but when I went to do the 2nd, I found that I had the wrong sized bushing! Some idiot (not me) put the wong bushing in the 1″-\u0026gt;3/4″ spot. Another idiot (me) didn’t check first. went back, bought the right sized bushing and I’m in business. I’m sure there’s a better way, but it does work.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/10/im-still-here-sort-of/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eNot much blogging over the past week. Mostly because I’m still dealing with slight water issues\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter I hooked up the pH neutralizer, I found that it leaked. I had a 1 drip per 5 second leak where I connected the QEST gray connectors to the neutralizer. I tried tightening it. That didn’t work. I shut off the water in order to re-tape it and \u003cstrong\u003edisaster\u003c/strong\u003e. When I turned off the water, the transient increase in preasure blew a seal on the neutralizer. Not happy. How the heck do you return something w/ 150# of rock in it.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"i'm still here - sort of"},{"content":" food coma – from 4 hours ago feeding Oh, and one very sad dog – feeling left out because he doesn’t get to play with the squirrels. Darwin, say “cheese ","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/04/the-promised-baby-rat-er-squirrel-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1953_m.jpg\" title=\"img_1953_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1953_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1953_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e food coma – from 4 hours ago\n\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1954_m.jpg\" title=\"img_1954_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1954_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1954_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e feeding \u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1955_m.jpg\" title=\"img_1955_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1955_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1955_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1956_m.jpg\" title=\"img_1956_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1956_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1956_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/09/04/the-promised-baby-rat-er-squirrel-pictures/img_1957_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1957_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1957_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1957_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\nOh, and one very sad dog – feeling left out because he doesn’t get to play with the squirrels. Darwin, say “cheese\n\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1958_m.jpg\" title=\"img_1958_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1958_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1958_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"the promised baby rat, er, squirrel pictures"},{"content":" It actually worked. I mmanaged to install a shutoff valve, sediment filter and pH neutralizer without too many trips to the hardware store (only 2). So far it seems to be working, the pH is somewhere between 7 and 7.5. Now maybe I can replace the hot water heater and have it last for more than a year or two.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/03/mmmm-ph-neutral-water-and-its-filtered/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1952_m.jpg\" title=\"img_1952_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1952_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/img_1952_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e It actually worked. I mmanaged to install a shutoff valve, sediment filter and pH neutralizer without too many trips to the hardware store (only 2). So far it seems to be working, the pH is somewhere between 7 and 7.5. Now maybe I can replace the hot water heater and have it last for more than a year or two.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"mmmm, pH neutral water (and it's filtered)"},{"content":"A: baby squirrels blown out of their nest.\nWe’ve got two here that were brought to us yesterday. They’re just now opening their eyes, so they are probably 5 or 6 weeks old. I know squirrels are tree rats. I know they aren’t threatened or endangered. I know that there are a host of animals that could use the extra protein. But let’s face it. Baby squirrels are adorable.\nPictures later.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/03/q-what-do-you-get-when-you-add-high-winds-to-a-late-summer-day/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eA: baby squirrels blown out of their nest.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’ve got two here that were brought to us yesterday. They’re just now opening their eyes, so they are probably 5 or 6 weeks old. I know squirrels are tree rats. I know they aren’t threatened or endangered. I know that there are a host of animals that could use the extra protein. But let’s face it. Baby squirrels are adorable.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePictures later.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Q: what do you get when you add high winds to a late summer day?"},{"content":"I think I need a whole new blog category for water troubles.\nThe pH neutralizer arrived today, along with 150# of premium chalk and 25 pounds of “clean gravel. I guess I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow – first stop Lowe’s, then home to install it. Fortunately, it doesn’t look too bad.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/01/water-world/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI think I need a whole new blog category for water troubles.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pH neutralizer arrived today, along with 150# of premium chalk and 25 pounds of “clean gravel. I guess I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow – first stop Lowe’s, then home to install it. Fortunately, it doesn’t look too bad.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"water world"},{"content":"Okay, I’m a bigger nerd than I thought. The latest book that I’m dying to get when it comes out on Monday… “The State of Working America from the Economic Policy Institute. 350+ pages of analysis on wages, health care, wealth and productivity in America. How can you resist.\nIf that doesn’t sound appealing, at least read the executive summary. It’s only 14 pages, it’s online, and it’s free.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/09/01/i-am-such-a-nerd/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, I’m a bigger nerd than I thought. The latest book that I’m dying to get when it comes out on Monday… \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/\"\u003e“The State of Working America\u003c/a\u003e from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/\"\u003eEconomic Policy Institute\u003c/a\u003e. 350+ pages of analysis on wages, health care, wealth and productivity in America. How can you resist.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf that doesn’t sound appealing, at least read the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/swa06-00-toc-exec-intro.pdf\"\u003eexecutive summary\u003c/a\u003e. It’s only 14 pages, it’s online, and it’s free.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"i am such a nerd..."},{"content":"Since we’re on the subject of water (again), had yet another fun experience. Earlier this week, K noticed a couple of inches of water in the pan under our hot water heater. Yep, it seems to be leaking. This is the water heater that I installed one year ago. It was a replacement for a water heater installed 4 years before by the previous owner.\nThe tendency of our appliances to rust, particularly the water heaters led me to test the pH. Ideally, it should be between 7.0 and 8.0 (or just neutral to slightly basic). Ours was around 5.5 or somewhat acidic. This is a reasonably common problem for people with well water and it causes all of the symptoms we’ve seen (including the degredation of all brass plumbing fittings).\nFortunately, they make a “pH neutralizer which is really just a fancy name for a tank filled with calcium carbonate (which is just a fancy name for chalk) that water flows through. I’ve got one on order, it should be here tomorrow. Once I get it installed, I’ll see if I can get the store to honor the warranty on our current water heater and replace that too.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/31/too-much-water-in-my-name-part-3-too-much-acid-in-my-water/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSince we’re on the subject of water (again), had yet another fun experience. Earlier this week, K noticed a couple of inches of water in the pan under our hot water heater. Yep, it seems to be leaking. This is the water heater that I installed one year ago. It was a replacement for a water heater installed 4 years before by the previous owner.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tendency of our appliances to rust, particularly the water heaters led me to test the pH. Ideally, it should be between 7.0 and 8.0 (or just neutral to slightly basic). Ours was around 5.5 or somewhat acidic. This is a reasonably common problem for people with well water and it causes all of the symptoms we’ve seen (including the degredation of all brass plumbing fittings).\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Too much water in my name, part 3: too much acid in my water"},{"content":"We had a batch of thunder showers come through last night. We got about 2, maybe 3, inches here. Sometime during the evening, K and I ask each other, “what’s that noise? Turns out we had a leak in the roof that was dripping down (and through) the second story wall, onto one of the logs making up the first story and into the breakfast room. From there it was splashing onto the door to the deck and making the noise we heard.\nAll of which led me to climb the 45 degree pitch of a wet/slippery roof this morning, right before heading into a meeting at the office, with a tube of roofing caulk, patching up a couple of cracked shingles. We’re getting more rain now – we’ll see how well this holds.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/31/too-much-water-in-my-name-part-deux/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWe had a batch of thunder showers come through last night. We got about 2, maybe 3, inches here. Sometime during the evening, K and I ask each other, “what’s that noise? Turns out we had a leak in the roof that was dripping down (and through) the second story wall, onto one of the logs making up the first story and into the breakfast room. From there it was splashing onto the door to the deck and making the noise we heard.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Too much water in my name - part deux"},{"content":"Matt Yglesias sees the recent Washington Post article describing the fall in SAT scores after the most recent test changes and asks what’s the big deal. On the face of it, Matt makes some good points. Scores are only down 7 points (5 in reading and 2 in math) and for any given student, that really isn’t a big deal. The Washington Post article, while suggesting that there may be some underlying causes (e.g. the test changes or students not learning enough) also notes that it could be a one year blip.\nI did a quick look at some of the data for the SAT. It turns out that in 2005, the mean reading score was 508 (N=1,475,623 SD=113). In 2006, it was 503 (N=1,465,744 SD=113). For math in 2005, we have a mean of 520 (N=1475623 SD=115) and in 2006, mean of 518 (SD = 115 N=1465744).\nArmed with this information, and the reasonable assumption that the data are normal, we can compute the likelihood that the difference between these two years is due to random sampling of students. Let’s do a student’s t-test. For reading, we get a t-value of 37.94; for math, 14.91. The probability that the reading scores could happen by chance is 0, as in less than the epsilon of my stats package (R). For math, it’s on the order of 10^-50.\nGiven that, we know that there is a difference here. It’s not a statistical blip. If we look further at the data, we see that SATs are remarkably consistent as long as the test isn’t changed. Essentially, we are dealing with such a huge number of students (1.5 million per year) that blips don’t show up. So that leaves us with two possibilities:\ngraduating seniors have gotten dumber over the past year; or the change in the test is significant I can’t definitively disprove hypothesis 1, but given the large number of students and the general SAT consistency, I think that it is not likely to be the issue. That leaves us with hypothesis 2 – the change in the test is likely to be significant. I don’t see a way to avoid saying this is the case.\nOf course, on a per student basis, the change isn’t that large, but it is real and not a statistical artifact; and it means that you can’t compare SATs for students from 2005 to students from 2006.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/31/dropping-sat-scores/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009597.php\"\u003eMatt Yglesias\u003c/a\u003e sees the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901307.html\"\u003eWashington Post article\u003c/a\u003e describing the fall in SAT scores after the most recent test changes and asks what’s the big deal. On the face of it, Matt makes some good points. Scores are only down 7 points (5 in reading and 2 in math) and for any given student, that really isn’t a big deal. The Washington Post article, while suggesting that there may be some underlying causes (e.g. the test changes or students not learning enough) also notes that it could be a one year blip.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Dropping SAT Scores"},{"content":"An article today in the New York Times titled “Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity takes a look at how wages have risen, or more to the point failed to rise, during the most recent economic expansion. At a time when productivity (the monetary value of an hour of labor) has risen dramatically, increasing corporate profits, employee wages are basically falling. If you include benefits such as health insurance, they are rising – but nowhere near as fast as productivity.\nThe most compelling paragraph in my opinion:\nAverage family income, adjusted for inflation, has continued to advance at a good clip, a fact Mr. Bush has cited when speaking about the economy. But these gains are a result mainly of increases at the top of the income spectrum that pull up the overall numbers. Even for workers at the 90th percentile of earners — making about $80,000 a year — inflation has outpaced their pay increases over the last three years, according to the Labor Department.\nThink about it. If the average wage is rising, but the wages for the bottom 90+% of workers are decreasing, then that top earners are doing quite well for themselves. But even looking at the 90th percentile doesn’t fully explain what’s going on. Wage increases are similarly skewed within the top 10% with the top 1% having dramatically higher wage increases than do the 90th to 99th percentiles.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/28/real-wages-fail-to-match-a-rise-in-productivity/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAn article today in the New York Times titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/business/28wages.html?ei=5088\u0026amp;en=c60dea87527e4510\u0026amp;ex=1314417600\u0026amp;partner=rssnyt\u0026amp;emc=rss\u0026amp;pagewanted=print\"\u003e“Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity\u003c/a\u003e takes a look at how wages have risen, or more to the point failed to rise, during the most recent economic expansion. At a time when productivity (the monetary value of an hour of labor) has risen dramatically, increasing corporate profits, employee wages are basically falling. If you include benefits such as health insurance, they are rising – but nowhere near as fast as productivity.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\"Real wages fail to match a rise in productivity\""},{"content":"Last week there was a minor uproar in the academic world when the government presented the list of majors that qualified for money under the National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant program. The problem was that evolutionary biology was left off of the list. The feds claim that this was an oversight and on Friday added evolutionary biology back to the list of qualifying majors.\nSo, even I am not so paranoid as to think that this was a conspiracy to keep students from studying evolution. But at the same time, I am not so dumb as to think this was accidental. The list of majors comes straight from the Classification of Instructional Programs codes. In the biology section, there are ten biology related programs. Of those ten, only one was missing – evolutionary biology.\nLike I said, I don’t think it was conspiracy. Instead, I suspect that a low to mid ranked staffer assembling the list thought that s/he would make the boss happy by leaving off that nasty “e word.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/28/its-official-the-government-does-consider-evoluntionary-biology-to-be-a-science/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eLast week there was a minor uproar in the academic world when the government presented the list of majors that qualified for money under the National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant program. The problem was that evolutionary biology was left off of the list. The feds claim that this was an oversight and on Friday \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/Gen0615.html\"\u003eadded evolutionary biology\u003c/a\u003e back to the list of qualifying majors.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, even I am not so paranoid as to think that this was a conspiracy to keep students from studying evolution. But at the same time, I am not so dumb as to think this was accidental. The list of majors comes straight from the Classification of Instructional Programs codes. In the biology section, there are ten biology related programs. Of those ten, only one was missing – evolutionary biology.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"It's official - the government *does* consider evolutionary biology to be a science"},{"content":"The Dallas Morning News recently published an editorial by Thomas Hibbs entitled “ College Kids Get Brain, No Soul. In the editorial, Hibbs references the exceedingly disturbing article in Rolling Stone called “ Sex \u0026amp; Scandal at Duke.\nThe Rolling Stone article discusses the social scene at Duke where “work hard, play hard has always been a motto. According to the article, in recent years, the “work hard portion has morphed into an obsessive desire to please faculty, working to produce high quality papers which will be accepted by professors in order to get good grades, graduate with honors and get a good job. The “play hard portion of the motto has turned into an obsession with alcohol and casual sex, bleeding back into “working hard to maintain the perfect body, social connections, etc.\nHibbs read the article and concludes that Duke (like other prestigious universities) is not doing its job in teaching students. That it teaches the mind, but not the soul and that this failing leads to the behavior describe by Rolling Stone. He concludes by saying that parents and students should be more selective in choosing schools and professors, selecting those that feed the soul as well as the mind. I am sure that his role as dean of the Honors College at Baylor is entirely coincidental.\nBeyond the, admittedly minor, conflict of interest, Hibbs commits a logical fallacy by confusing cause and effect. He implies that Duke and other prestigious universities are failing students by either allowing or encouraging them to ignore their spiritual/emotional health. My personal belief is that the students who exhibit the behaviors described in the article are more likely to attend a school like Duke. I believe that these behaviors are characteristic of “generation Y and that Duke and similar schools attract the cream of the crop of students (i.e., the most successful) who are most likely to exhibit the traits of their generation.\nThat’s a big claim to make without providing a bit of elaboration, so what exactly do I mean? The first thing to note is that the Rolling Stone article draws a very sweeping picture of Duke students, but in places notes that it is being descriptive of the “Top 500 or the most popular subset of the undergraduates out of a population of 6,500. I’ve known several Duke undergraduates and the article does not describe them at all. Instead, this is “the beautiful people.\nAs the RS article makes clear, a driving factor in the students’ behavior is a desire for acceptance or approval. From what I’ve seen, this desire for acceptance is particularly strong in gen-Y. They desire to be accepted by peers (as do all teenagers), but they also seek acceptance by parents and teachers. This drive for parental and teacher acceptance easily turn into academic success, at least at the high school level. You regurgitate material, you don’t need to think for yourself about it, and you make your parents and teachers happy.\nStudents whom are strongly motivated by this type of acceptance are likely to perform best in schools. They may be likely to participate in many extracuricular activities (acceptance by peers and society) and are likely to study hard to ace their SATs (again to please their parents). All of this means that the student motivated by acceptance is more likely to get into a prestigious university. Once they get into the university environment, they find that the quest for acceptance leads to engaging in different behaviors of the kind described by Rolling Stone.\nThere may be things that universities can do to curb such destructive behavior, but my belief is that the root causes start at home, well before the students go to college.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/27/the-social-life-of-the-a-duke-undergraduate-as-seen-in-the-press/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe Dallas Morning News recently published an editorial by Thomas Hibbs entitled “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-hibbs_20edi.ART0.State.Edition1.3e4888b.html\"\u003eCollege Kids Get Brain, No Soul\u003c/a\u003e. In the editorial, Hibbs references the exceedingly disturbing article in Rolling Stone called “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10464110/sexscandal_at_duke/1\"\u003eSex \u0026amp; Scandal at Duke.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Rolling Stone article discusses the social scene at Duke where “work hard, play hard has always been a motto. According to the article, in recent years, the “work hard portion has morphed into an obsessive desire to please faculty, working to produce high quality papers which will be accepted by professors in order to get good grades, graduate with honors and get a good job. The “play hard portion of the motto has turned into an obsession with alcohol and casual sex, bleeding back into “working hard to maintain the perfect body, social connections, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"The social life of the a Duke undergraduate (as seen in the press)"},{"content":"In reference to my previous comments on the plagiarism scandal in the school of engineering at Ohio Universtity, yesterday the university announced a set of “ comprehensive strategies to address academic honesty. Among the steps being taken is to examine 55 theses for signs of plagiarism. From these, they have found 35 incidents that will require a hearing. Punishments handed out could include the revocation of the former student’s degree. Furthermore, the two professors whom have been implicated have been relieved of their advising duties.\nThis is actually quite amazing. Now, from what I’ve read of the case, Ohio University was more or less forced into these actions. But it is still surprising to see a university take these kinds of steps. Now, I still suspect that this was largely the result of not understanding american academic cultural norms and was not intended as cheating. However, it is good to see some accountability, particularly for faculty members who should have known better.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/24/update-on-the-ohio-university-plagiarism/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn reference to my previous \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/08/10/plagiarism-in-engineering/\"\u003ecomments on the plagiarism scandal\u003c/a\u003e in the school of engineering at Ohio Universtity, yesterday the university announced a set of “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/05-06/August/627n-056.cfm\"\u003ecomprehensive strategies to address academic honesty.\u003c/a\u003e Among the steps being taken is to examine 55 theses for signs of plagiarism. From these, they have found 35 incidents that will require a hearing. Punishments handed out could include the revocation of the former student’s degree. Furthermore, the two professors whom have been implicated have been relieved of their advising duties.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Update on the Ohio University plagiarism"},{"content":" There’s nothing I love more than a good book, unless it’s a free good book. Last week I was sent “The Body Hunters by Sonia Shah. I’ve been sent free books based on my job before (either as a research professor or as security officer), but I’ve never been sent a book on the ethics of the pharmacutical industry before. It took me a bit to figure out, then I realized that I’m presenting at a Human Subjects conference. I’m sure they sent the book to all of the presenters.\nAnyway, I read the book over the weekend and it’s very interesting. Shah takes a close look at the history of drug development and the factors which have let to US companies outsourcing the majority of clinical trials overseas to poor countries. The basic ethical problem comes about from two factors. First, the majority of new drugs are copy-cats trying to cash in on the drug market. They do not attack problems in new ways, they simply attack a problem in a way that’s similar to other drugs currently on the market. For example, all of the proton pump inhibitors for preventing heartburn. Once you know to shut down the acid pumps in the stomach, one way is as good as another. This is also true for anti-AIDS drugs, various anti-parasitics, etc.\nThe second factor is that statistically demonstrating a new drug is effective is easier in a placebo trial – a trial where the control is no treatment at all. You can still demonstrate effectiveness when the control is active, however, it requires a larger trial that takes more time, money and volunteers.\nThe ethical problem is that once a safe and effective treatment is known, a doctor has a moral obligation under the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki to ensure that a patient in a clinical trial is receiving that treatment. Moreover, in the U.S., which is by far the biggest drug consumer, patients won’t sign up for a placebo trial once there is a known, effective treatment.\nTo address the practical problem of not having enough test subjects, clinical trials are increasingly conducted in poor countries where patients often have no choice and grasp at any straw to possibly receive treatment. Shah also provides evidence that the lack of a regulatory structure in many of these countries leads to researchers ignoring the idea of informed consent and lying to get test subjects.\nShah argues that the best way to resolve the ethical problem is to require researchers to prove that their new drug out performs the best available treatments. This would involve testing not against a placebo, but against other, known effective, drugs. It may require larger trials, but it is definitely more ethical.\nIn addition to addressing the ethical issues, Shah presents a very disturbing look at the financial side of the drug industry. I need to talk to a few friends in the medical industry (one runs medical trials, the other is a phd/md focusing on oncology) to get their impressions, but at the very least I can recommend that folks read the book – it’s a well documented and clearly presented examination of an industry that many of us depend on.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/23/the-body-hunters-by-sonia-shah/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/shah.jpg\" title=\"shah.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"shah.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/shah.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e There’s nothing I love more than a good book, unless it’s a free good book. Last week I was sent “The Body Hunters by Sonia Shah. I’ve been sent free books based on my job before (either as a research professor or as security officer), but I’ve never been sent a book on the ethics of the pharmacutical industry before. It took me a bit to figure out, then I realized that I’m presenting at a Human Subjects conference. I’m sure they sent the book to all of the presenters.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"\"The Body Hunters\" by Sonia Shah"},{"content":"Back when I was a grad student and just about to finish up, the school of engineering turned a class of 60 freshman over to me to teach intro to numerical methods for engineers. I tried to liven things up by emailing the occassional engineering funny to my students who even reciprocated. The following is a brief excerpt from an engineer identification test that was sent to me by a student.\nTo the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you’ve had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don’t understand this concept; they believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.\nThat brings me to an issue I’ve been having. A couple of years ago, we put in a new heatpump with humidifier, it came with a new thermidistat which didn’t seem to work too well. When the A/C cut on, the temperature on the thermostat rose several degrees, at one point jumping from 78 to 86, while the temperature in the area remained constant. I realized that the problem was the relays. The A/C kicks on, the relays heat up and the thermister gets hot. We called the installer, got a new thermidistat. It did the same thing.\nWe discovered that we could use a small fan to blow air on the thermidistat. That worked well, but was irritating. So we moved the thermostat to a place with more airflow. Same problem, but to a lesser degree – the A/C cuts on and the system jumps from 78 to 79. Of course, to get it back down to where it would shut off, the thermostat ran the A/C until the house had cooled to about 75. Bah.\nFinally, this weekend, I opened up the thermostat and added some redneck engineering to it. I insulated the relays using cotton balls and tape. So far so good. If this didn’t work, the next step was to just buy a different model of thermidistat. But let’s face it, do-it-yourself insulation is more fun. So, for the record, we can officially put the design of the carrier thermidistat in the category of things that need to be fixed.\nUPDATE: let’s spell carrier correctly, shall we?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/22/carriar-thermidistat-design-lets-put-it-in-the-category-of-needs-to-be-fixed/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eBack when I was a grad student and just about to finish up, the school of engineering turned a class of 60 freshman over to me to teach intro to numerical methods for engineers. I tried to liven things up by emailing the occassional engineering funny to my students who even reciprocated. The following is a brief excerpt from an engineer identification test that was sent to me by a student.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"carrier thermidistat design - let's put it in the category of needs to be fixed"},{"content":"I’ve heard and read a number of people saying “political correctness be damned, we should use racial profiling to identify terrorists. The problem I’ve always had with this is that it makes no sense. Try the following test, identify the terrorist:\nyoung muslim male young muslim female asian male or female caucasian male or female black male or female hispanic male or female If you said that 1 and 2 have been terrorists and therefore we should profile them, you are partially right. However, what about all of the asian terrorists (e.g. Fillipinos)? Caucasians? Hmm, the IRA, David Koresh, Timmothy McVeigh, etc. As near as I can guess, the only racial groups that shouldn’t be profiled would be blacks and hispanics. This can’t work.\nNBC Nightly News just had an interesting story on behavioral profiling being done at the airport in Orlando. Essentially, the police have been trained to look for suspicious behaviors, not suspicious racial characteristics. This is a much sane approach from the security perspective and can be much more effective with a lower rate of false positives.\nPOSTSCRIPT: from the security standpoint, any action needs to be considered from the risk mitigation standpoint. What’s the risk? What is the rate of false positives (FP) of the action? What are the costs of the FP? What is the rate of false negatives (FN)? Costs of the FN? etc, etc. Racial profiling fails under a risk mitigation analysis. Behavioral profiling may make sense.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/22/racial-profiling-for-terrorism/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI’ve heard and read a number of people saying “political correctness be damned, we should use racial profiling to identify terrorists. The problem I’ve always had with this is that it makes no sense. Try the following test, identify the terrorist:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eyoung muslim male\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eyoung muslim female\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003easian male or female\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecaucasian male or female\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eblack male or female\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehispanic male or female\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you said that 1 and 2 have been terrorists and therefore we should profile them, you are partially right. However, what about all of the asian terrorists (e.g. Fillipinos)? Caucasians? Hmm, the IRA, David Koresh, Timmothy McVeigh, etc. As near as I can guess, the only racial groups that shouldn’t be profiled would be blacks and hispanics. This can’t work.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"racial profiling for terrorism"},{"content":"I have a small request to make of the NC-DOT, if there are accidents on the interstate at I-40 and I-540 which backs traffic up 10 miles to NC-751, can we please, please make use of the expensive electronic information signs on the interstate to warn people? There’s a difference between a small traffic slowdown that you will soon get past and one that means you’ll be driving 5-10 miles at an average speed of 10-15 mph.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/22/a-small-request-of-the-nc-dot/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI have a small request to make of the NC-DOT, if there are accidents on the interstate at I-40 and I-540 which backs traffic up 10 miles to NC-751, can we please, please make use of the expensive electronic information signs on the interstate to warn people? There’s a difference between a small traffic slowdown that you will soon get past and one that means you’ll be driving 5-10 miles at an average speed of 10-15 mph.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"a small request of the NC-DOT"},{"content":"Hmm, someone should go check the “ rapture index, I’m about to link to an article at Cato Unbound – the Cato Institute’s Blog. Richard Rodriguez write’s a beautiful article regarding Mexican Immigrants, their coming to America and what the clash of cultures means to second and third generation Mexican-American immigrants.\nThe response article by Victor Davis Hanson, restores my belief in the general silliness of the Cato Institute. For example, Hanson notes:\nOnly six out of ten second-generation Mexican Americans on average graduate from high school in four years; and less than ten percent have a BA degree—the legacy not of racism or America’s “cold heart,?? but of millions arriving from Mexico without English, education, and legality.\nOf course, this is not something of which to be ashamed. When put it context, it is actually an amazing achievement and a sign of incredible assimilation. It is difficult to get precise numbers on the average high school graduation rate in the U.S., however, studies range from 70% to 80%, with those on the high side showing greater than 6 in 10 graduation rates for hispanics. Likewise, only about 20-25% of americans have a bachelor’s degree.\nGo read Richard Rodriguez’s article, feel free to avoid the other.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/19/a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eHmm, someone should go check the “ \u003ca href=\"http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html\"\u003erapture index\u003c/a\u003e, I’m about to link to an article at Cato Unbound – the Cato Institute’s Blog. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/richard-rodriguez/\"\u003eRichard Rodriguez\u003c/a\u003e write’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/08/14/richard-rodriguez/mexicans-in-america/\"\u003ebeautiful article\u003c/a\u003e regarding Mexican Immigrants, their coming to America and what the clash of cultures means to second and third generation Mexican-American immigrants.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe response \u003ca href=\"http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/08/16/victor-davis-hanson/rodriguezs-stream-of-consciousness/\"\u003earticle\u003c/a\u003e by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/victor-davis-hanson/\"\u003eVictor Davis Hanson\u003c/a\u003e, restores my belief in the general silliness of the Cato Institute. For example, Hanson notes:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly six out of ten second-generation Mexican Americans on average graduate from high school in four years; and less than ten percent have a BA degree—the legacy not of racism or America’s “cold heart,?? but of millions arriving from Mexico without English, education, and legality.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"a sign of the apocalypse?"},{"content":" Took the day off and spent most of it working on the snake terrarium. Watching him pace (hmm, that doesn’t seem like the right word for a snake) his cage today made me particularly sad and motivated me to get about 95% finished. He could actually move in now – the only things missing are the decorative frames around the side vents. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the terrarium. There are a number of things that I would do differently next time, but some things will definitely stay the same. For example, I used plexiglass for the front which made the whole thing significantly lighter. The plexiglass was about $20 more expensive but definitely worth it. And here’s the (near) finished terrarium. Next time I post about this, we’ll be completely done and have the snake moved in.\nIn other snake news, K caught a picture of an eastern hog nose in its red phase in our front yard last week. S/he’s an absolutely beautiful snake. In case you can’t quite tell from the picture, the snake is extremely red at the front and it gradually fades to yeallow at the tail. Your science tidbit for the day: the eastern hog nose eats the occassional small mammal, but is particularly well adapted to eating frogs and toads. As you can imagine, the amphibians don’t like being eaten and have a tendency to inflate to prevent a snake from swallowing them. The eastern hog nose has its fangs in the upper back of its mouth. These fangs are used to paralyze and “deflate a swollen frog to enable swallowing. The eastern hog nose apparently also plays dead if it can’t drive off predators. When it plays dead, it goes limp and sticks its tongue out – which, IIRC, is how I played dead when I was five.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/17/friday-er-thursday-snake-blogging/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/img_1936_m.jpg\" title=\"img_1936_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1936_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/img_1936_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Took the day off and spent most of it working on the snake terrarium. Watching him pace (hmm, that doesn’t seem like the right word for a snake) his cage today made me particularly sad and motivated me to get about 95% finished. He could actually move in now – the only things missing are the decorative frames around the side vents. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the terrarium. There are a number of things that I would do differently next time, but some things will definitely stay the same. For example, I used plexiglass for the front which made the whole thing significantly lighter. The plexiglass was about $20 more expensive but definitely worth it. And here’s the (near) finished terrarium. Next time I post about this, we’ll be completely done and have the snake moved in.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Friday, er, Thursday Snake Blogging"},{"content":"Some days, I just can’t write about work frustrations. Not that I don’t want to or that I don’t think they’re interesting, just that it’s part and parcel of the whole confidentiality thing.\nOn days like today, it’s important to write about other frustrations (trust me on this). Today’s topic: scare tactics in government funded letters. I received my social security statement the other day and it has a lovely section on the front page entitled “About Social Security’s future…\nSocial Security is a compact between generations. For more than 60 years, America has kept the promise of security for its workers and their families. But now, the Social Security system is facing serious future financial problems, and action is needed soon to make sure that the system is sound when today’s younger workers are ready for retirement.\nToday there are almost 36 million Americans age 65 or older. Their Social Security retirement benefits are funded by today’s workers and their employers who jointly pay Social Security taxes – just as the money they paid into Social Security was used to pay benefits to those who retired before them. Unless action is taken soon to strengthen Social Security, in just 11 years we will begin paying more in benefits than we collect in taxes. Without changes, by 2040 the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. By then, the number of Americans 65 or older is expected to have doubled. There won’t be enough younger people working to pay all of the benefits owed to those who are retiring. At that point, there will be enough money to pay only about 75 cents for each dollar of scheduled benefits. We will need to resolve these issues soon to make sure Social Security continues to provide a foundation of protection for future generations as it has done in the past.\nThere are no lies as pernicious as half truthes. And the statement above is full of them. I fully predict that we’ll see a new round of Social Security privatizationer, personal accounts, er reform this spring. Not that much foresight is needed since the president and the republicans have already said as much. So just as an exercise in identifying half truthes, let’s take a look at the above. Here are the things I find:\n“Unless action is taken – actually, it was. A group led by Greenspan in the 80s under Reagan took action to create the trust fund. Essentially, we are all paying in more to Social Security right now in order to get us past the baby boomers “in just 11 years we will begin paying more in benefits than we collect in taxes – possibly true. The specific year depends on the growth in the US economy, but yes, we will eventually begin spending more than we take in. This is BY DESIGN – see above “by 2040 the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. Keep in mind that every year, the Social Security Trustees produce a report to congress. The report presents 3 scenarios using pessimistic, reasonable and optimistic assumptions. The pessimistic scenario results in exhaustion by 2040. The reasonable and optimistic scenarios have the trust fund lasting INDEFINITELY. It takes very little economic growth (1.9% as compared to our historical 3.1+%) to make the trust fund last indefinitely. “only about 74 cents for each dollar – This could be true, but keep in mind that most of the proposed solutions involve paying LESS than 74% of scheduled benefits. So even in the worst case, we still might be better off under the current system. finally, and not captured here, most privatization schemes require a robust stock market to pay benefits. *IF* we have a problem (i.e., less than 1.9% economic growth) then the stock market will be in the tank and won’t be able to make up the difference. You can’t get a poor economy and a strong stock market. Do you see others?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/15/frustrations/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSome days, I just can’t write about work frustrations. Not that I don’t want to or that I don’t think they’re interesting, just that it’s part and parcel of the whole confidentiality thing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn days like today, it’s important to write about other frustrations (trust me on this). Today’s topic: scare tactics in government funded letters. I received my social security statement the other day and it has a lovely section on the front page entitled “About Social Security’s future…\u003c/p\u003e","title":"frustrations (social security, not work)"},{"content":"I spent a lot of time last week looking at an application in order to assess its security. The thing that was troubling me was that this is a web application and the primary form for data entry was defined like:\nform name=foo method=post action=\nThis means that the nothing happens when you hit submit on the form – at least not in the html world. So, I took a closer look and found that each of the buttons (submit and clear) actually had a field “onclick=’doSomething();\u0026rsquo; attribute.\nOkay, so we’re dealing with javascript. I can handle that. I grab the included javascript file and realize that I’m dealing with something exceedingly strange. The whole script is one line long and contains very little valid javascript. Instead it contains what looks like a brief function, a ton of line noise and a bunch of words at the end that are delimited with pipes (|).\nSince it’s my job to be paranoid, I think, “ah ha! someone has something they’re trying to hide. It takes me a bit, but I realize that the java script is actually an eval function with a number of arguments. Poking at the arguments, I realize that one is the line noise, one is 62, one is an array of words and one is the number of items in that array. The code at the beginning basically unparses the whole thing. It breaks the line noise into tokens. The tokens are indicies into the array in base 62! Base 62 b/c you can use numbers and upper and lower case letters for each digit.\nThe code takes all of the tokens and replaces them with the word in the right position. It then runs an eval() of the whole thing. Armed with this, I alert() on the final command, only to find that the whole thing is a fairly simple client side validation and Ajax based POST. There’s absolutely nothing sensitive there!\n*sigh*\nUpdate: spoke to the developer. This wasn’t an attempt at obfuscation, it was actually a test of a program he downloaded that is supposed to be a javascript accelerator. It accelerates by creating a smaller version of your javascript so it downloads faster! Never mind that it then takes 5 seconds to unpack the stupid thing.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/14/things-that-make-a-security-officer-cry/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI spent a lot of time last week looking at an application in order to assess its security. The thing that was troubling me was that this is a web application and the primary form for data entry was defined like:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eform name=foo method=post action=\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis means that the nothing happens when you hit submit on the form – at least not in the html world. So, I took a closer look and found that each of the buttons (submit and clear) actually had a field “onclick=’doSomething();\u0026rsquo; attribute.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"things that make a security officer cry"},{"content":"To the left hand: It is clear that you no longer know what the right hand is doing. This weekend’s “accidental dremeling was eerily similar to the wood carving incident in grade school where a supposed “art project resulted in losing a chunk of left index finger. Combined with the great butcher knife massacre where we almost lost left thumb’s nail when it “supposedly looked like a carrot, we have a pattern that can not be ignored.\nThese incidents will likely continue until we become the dominant hand and end the right hand reign of tyranny. That is all.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/13/memo-to-the-left-hand/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTo the left hand: It is clear that you no longer know what the right hand is doing. This weekend’s “accidental dremeling was eerily similar to the wood carving incident in grade school where a supposed “art project resulted in losing a chunk of left index finger. Combined with the great butcher knife massacre where we almost lost left thumb’s nail when it “supposedly looked like a carrot, we have a pattern that can not be ignored.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Memo to the left hand"},{"content":"Just so you don’t think that I’m just a computer and photography geek, I wanted to update folks on another project. As I’ve said before, my wife does wildlife rehabilitation and managed to get conned talked into taking home a boa constrictor. Since they’re not native, he couldn’t be released once he was patched up.\nFor the past eight months, he’s been living in a smallish (75 gallon?) aquarium. Okay, that’s not really small unless you’re a 6.5′ snake whose looking to get to be 8’+. This presented a great chance to do some woodworking. For the past couple of weekends, I’ve been building a 5.5′ x 2′ x 3′ terrarium for the snake. I’ve got the main walls, floor and top cut, stained and coated with many layers of polyurethane. Today, I put the cabinet together, caulked it (the caulk is still fresh, it will dry clear) and started working on the door.\nOverall, I’m happy with how it is turning out. Hopefully by next weekend, the door will be complete and mounted and the snake’s furniture (water and food bowls, hide box and heating pad) will be here and we can move him in.\nOh, and for those whom know our family history with tools, I managed not to injure myself until tonight when I dremeled my fingernail and gouged the finger. I don’t think it’ll need stitches.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/12/get-your-woodworking-geek-on/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eJust so you don’t think that I’m just a computer and photography geek, I wanted to update folks on another project. As I’ve said before, my wife does wildlife rehabilitation and managed to get conned talked into taking home a boa constrictor. Since they’re not native, he couldn’t be released once he was patched up.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/08/12/get-your-woodworking-geek-on/img_1930_mjpg/\" title=\"img_1930_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"img_1930_m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/img_1930_m.thumbnail.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e For the past eight months, he’s been living in a smallish (75 gallon?) aquarium. Okay, that’s not really small unless you’re a 6.5′ snake whose looking to get to be 8’+. This presented a great chance to do some woodworking. For the past couple of weekends, I’ve been building a 5.5′ x 2′ x 3′ terrarium for the snake. I’ve got the main walls, floor and top cut, stained and coated with many layers of polyurethane. Today, I put the cabinet together, caulked it (the caulk is still fresh, it will dry clear) and started working on the door.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Get your woodworking geek on"},{"content":"There’s an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (sorry, the link is behind the subscription firewall), about a mechanical engineering graduate student at Ohio University. After being invited to stay on after his masters and persue a Ph.D., he started having difficulty with his advisor. To help resolve his difficulties, he went to speak with the university ombudsman who advised him to examine disertations in the university library so that he might see where he was going wrong and what his advisor might want.\nAfter reading through a couple of theses, he realized that he was starting to see the same material over and over again. Not just the same material, but the same words. In some cases, the same figures. My favorite example is that two of his advisor’s former students had an identical 50 pages in their theses. This has caused a huge scandal at the university which is now even requiring that some former students either explain why this isn’t plagiarism, rework those pages of their thesis, or forfeit their degrees. What is interesting is that similar investigations of other departments don’t turn up the same evidence. It seems to primarily be an issue with some international students in the school of engineering.\nThis reminds me of a situation from my own days in grad school. I had finished my masters and was working on my PhD when a faculty member asked me to help one of his masters students. He and I talked for a bit, he asked if he could borrow my copy of my masters thesis. A few months later, he asks if I would help proof his thesis. Reading through the material, I suddenly realize that I’m reading my own writing. Several pages of my literature survey, including some of the figures I constructed were sitting there in the middle of this other student’s thesis.\nI spoke to his advisor and we resolved the issue, but I continue to wonder how common it is for graduate students to plagiarize former students. Moreover, if this is a common practice, not frowned upon by other cultures (as in my case, the student’s advisor suggested), then why isn’t this covered in the international student orientation?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/10/plagiarism-in-engineering/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThere’s an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (sorry, the link is behind the subscription firewall), about a mechanical engineering graduate student at Ohio University. After being invited to stay on after his masters and persue a Ph.D., he started having difficulty with his advisor. To help resolve his difficulties, he went to speak with the university ombudsman who advised him to examine disertations in the university library so that he might see where he was going wrong and what his advisor might want.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Plagiarism in engineering"},{"content":"The vacation pictures checklist from earlier:\nGet 22 rolls of slide film back from the developer [Check – received mid June] Put 800 slides into transparancy holders so they are easy to look at on the light box [Check – took two nights] Go through 800 slides to determine which are worth scanning [Check – took another two days] Scan 120 or so “good slides [Check – finished tonight after three nights of scanning] Color correct the images in the GIMP [done] Remove dust from scans because my slide scanner doesn’t have an infrared channel [done] Upload the results and put ’em online [finished today] Everything is done! Pictures online finally. For the record, I’m not thrilled with them. My biggest complaint is that there aren’t really any good animal shots. This is different from prior years. I blame oversleeping.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/08/vacation-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eThe vacation pictures checklist from \u003ca href=\"/index.php/2006/07/25/time-to-switch-to-digital/\"\u003eearlier:\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet 22 rolls of slide film back from the developer [Check – received mid June]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePut 800 slides into transparancy holders so they are easy to look at on the light box [Check – took two nights]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGo through 800 slides to determine which are worth scanning [Check – took another two days]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScan 120 or so “good slides [Check – finished tonight after three nights of scanning]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColor correct the images in the GIMP [done]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemove dust from scans because my slide scanner doesn’t have an infrared channel [done]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpload the results and put ’em online [finished today]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything is done! Pictures \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildcoyote.org/gallery/album17\"\u003eonline\u003c/a\u003e finally. For the record, I’m not thrilled with them. My biggest complaint is that there aren’t really any good animal shots. This is different from prior years. I blame oversleeping.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Vacation pictures"},{"content":"given that the vulnerability and the patches haven’t yet been released, does this constitute a “-1 day exploit?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/08/a-nomenclature-question/","summary":"\u003cp\u003egiven that the vulnerability and the patches haven’t yet been released, does \u003ca href=\"http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#msvuls\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e constitute a “-1 day exploit?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"a nomenclature question"},{"content":"Okay, now I’m just embarassed. I just heard about high dynamic range (HDR) photography from a NY Times article. I plead that it’s mostly just a trick and, hey, I primarily shoot slide film anyway.\nSo for others who haven’t heard of HDR photography, it’s a technical work around for one of the more difficult photographic problems – the problem of the dynamic range of film vs that of the eye. In a nutshell, the human eye has an enormous dynamic range. It can distinguish between two different very bright shades while simultaneously distinguishing between two very dark shades. It’s dynamic range, IIRC, is somewhere around 10. On the other hand, slide film and prints from print film have a dynamic range of 5, maybe 6. That doesn’t sound like much difference, except that this is a logarithmic scale.\nThis leads to the photography problem. The gorgeous scene that you photographed may not show up in your image unless the scene has a small dynamic range. Enter HDR. With HDR, you take multiple exposures. This ensures that you have a “good exposure for each part of the scene. You then algorithmically combine the images to produce a meta-image which is well exposed across the entire scene.\nThe biggest problem I see with these images is that they wind up looking like Thomas Kincaid paintings. That said, I’ll probably play with this technique soon using CinePaint (a fork of the GIMP).\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/03/high-dynamic-range-photography/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eOkay, now I’m just embarassed. I just heard about high dynamic range (HDR) photography from a NY Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/technology/03basics.html?ex=1154750400\u0026amp;en=112b21c6d06bf538\u0026amp;ei=5087%0A\"\u003earticle\u003c/a\u003e. I plead that it’s mostly just a trick and, hey, I primarily shoot slide film anyway.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo for others who haven’t heard of HDR photography, it’s a technical work around for one of the more difficult photographic problems – the problem of the dynamic range of film vs that of the eye. In a nutshell, the human eye has an enormous dynamic range. It can distinguish between two different very bright shades while simultaneously distinguishing between two very dark shades. It’s dynamic range, IIRC, is somewhere around 10. On the other hand, slide film and prints from print film have a dynamic range of 5, maybe 6. That doesn’t sound like much difference, except that this is a logarithmic scale.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"High dynamic range photography"},{"content":"I read Getting Things Done about a year and a half ago. There’s a lot of good information in there, but frankly keeping all of the lists got to be too much. So I backed off a bit and started keeping lists for some things that came in via email, but that’s about it. Then luis posts about Tracks – a GTD web application. It looked fairly nifty, so I installed it and will give it a shot for awhile.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/03/tracks-for-getting-things-done/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI read Getting Things Done about a year and a half ago. There’s a lot of good information in there, but frankly keeping all of the lists got to be too much. So I backed off a bit and started keeping lists for some things that came in via email, but that’s about it. Then luis \u003ca href=\"http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/07/27/from-trac-to-tracks-for-gtd/\"\u003eposts\u003c/a\u003e about Tracks – a GTD web application. It looked fairly nifty, so I installed it and will give it a shot for awhile.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Tracks for getting things done"},{"content":"About a month ago, I was in Des Moines and talking with my mother. She asked me what I thought about immigration and I noted that I didn’t consider it a particular problem because immigration is natural and pretty much unstoppable. Due to my poor recollection, I can’t recall if I also noted that the U.S. has historically had a fairly decent view of immigration, much better than the proposals being floated around in congress. These proposals, ironically, are similar to the policies in Europe that recently led to rioting in France.\nA few weeks after I got back, the NY Times published a lengthy article on the economics of immigration which fairly summarized my views and even brought up some great information I hadn’t heard before. I sent it to my mother, and being the former English teacher that she is, she asked me to summarize it (aka, write a book report). So, here we go – a bit out of order from the original in order to better present the material, but basically a summary of “The Immigration Equation by Roger Lowenstein.\nThe article begins by noting the views of one economist who believes that increased immigration hurts the groups with whom the immigrants compete. Currently, many of our immigrants our low wage workers with little to no education and therefore they harm low wage U.S. workers.\nMany economists disagree with this view and note that there are no economic reasons to oppose immigration. An assumption that immigration harms U.S. workers is based on the fallacy that there is a fixed number of jobs and so traditional supply and demand analysis suggests harm to other workers. The most obvious rebuttal of the fallacy is that there are currently 21 million immigrants holding jobs in the U.S. and yet there are only 7 million people unemployed [cec: I partially dispute this figure in that our traditional methods of computing unemployment miss a large population; however, this doesn’t change the analysis]. This means that immigrants are not only filling jobs, but they must be creating new ones too.\nAnother fallacy is that immigrants burden facilities and consume government resources. While this is true in some border towns, for the most part, immigrants subsidize services. They pay into social security, but don’t receive benefits. They pay taxes, but can’t receive food stamps, etc.\nAn analysis indicates that, overall, immigrants help the economy by a small amount. However, this benefit is not evenly distributed in our population. Immigrants help the highly paid and may harm the lower paid. But only high school dropouts appear to be negatively affected and there is some question as to the magnitude of the effect.\nThe article notes that the average male salary is: $73k for college graduates, $41k for those with some college, $32k for high school graduates, and only $24.8k for high school dropouts. Over the past few decades, only the dropouts have had falling incomes. However, this may not be caused by immigrants, the minimum wage has also stagnated and there are other potential factors.\nImmigrants are providing skills that are in demand at a given wage, for example hotel maids, farm workers, etc. However, even with the immigrants, unskilled workers are scarcer than in the 1980s. If supply and demand were in play, then their salaries should have risen.\nIt is also worth noting that perhaps immigrants create their own jobs. For example, more Americans have maids than Europeans. There are also more “complementary jobs caused by immigrants. For example, more dish washers supporting restaurants, allowing more chefs and waiters. Without immigrants, farms might use more automation.\nIn order to test theories regarding immigration, economists are looking for natural experiments. One such experiment was the 1980 Mariel boat lift where 125,000 Cubans emigrated to the U.S., landing in southern Florida. Economists observed job creation, wages, etc. in Miami, using Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles as controls. They found that other low-income workers in Miami fared better in terms of wages and levels of employment than in the control cities. In 5 years, even the Cuban unemployment rate (including the immigrants) was comparable to pre-boat lift levels. Other natural experiments have found similar results.\nThe overall economic message is that the U.S. needs immigrants. There do need to be some limits, but we probably have not seen them yet. If anything, we need to expand the number of slots for skilled/educated workers looking to emigrate to the U.S.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/08/01/homework-on-the-question-of-immigration/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAbout a month ago, I was in Des Moines and talking with my mother. She asked me what I thought about immigration and I noted that I didn’t consider it a particular problem because immigration is natural and pretty much unstoppable. Due to my poor recollection, I can’t recall if I also noted that the U.S. has historically had a fairly decent view of immigration, much better than the proposals being floated around in congress. These proposals, ironically, are similar to the policies in Europe that recently led to rioting in France.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few weeks after I got back, the NY Times published a lengthy article on the economics of immigration which fairly summarized my views and even brought up some great information I hadn’t heard before. I sent it to my mother, and being the former English teacher that she is, she asked me to summarize it (aka, write a book report). So, here we go – a bit out of order from the original in order to better present the material, but basically a summary of “The Immigration Equation by Roger Lowenstein.\u003c/p\u003e\n","title":"homework on the question of immigration"},{"content":"Went to the hardware store, couldn’t find the precisely the right single plumbing connector and had to get three separate pieces instead. Meaning, of course, that I now have twice as many joins and twice as many opportunities to leak. I put the pieces together, connected them to the filter, and no leaks!\nApparently, plumbing is like my day job. The solution to most problems is a hardware upgrade.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/30/plumbing-issues-resolved/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eWent to the hardware store, couldn’t find the precisely the right single plumbing connector and had to get three separate pieces instead. Meaning, of course, that I now have twice as many joins and twice as many opportunities to leak. I put the pieces together, connected them to the filter, and no leaks!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApparently, plumbing is like my day job. The solution to most problems is a hardware upgrade.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Plumbing issues resolved"},{"content":"In graduate school, I had a Chinese friend who used to say that he was destined to have plumbing problems because there was too much water in his name. Both his family name and his given name referenced water. This excess of water meant that he would always have plumbing problems.\nI sympathize with this notion. A few years ago, when I moved into my house, I installed a reverse osmosis filter in our kitchen for drinking water. When we came back from vacation, we found that the connection to the water tank was leaking. I spent a bit of time tightening up the connection, but it still leaked. This weekend, I got back to trying to fix it. So far, I’ve been to the hardware store twice, replaced the compression fitting three times and still it leaks. I’m heading to a larger hardware store this afternoon to find a replacement for the entire fitting – we’ll see if that works. If it doesn’t, then I may have to replace the entire tank.\nConsidering the number of plumbing issues we’ve had in this house so far, I’m starting to wonder if I have too much water in my name too.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/30/too-much-water-in-my-name/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eIn graduate school, I had a Chinese friend who used to say that he was destined to have plumbing problems because there was too much water in his name. Both his family name and his given name referenced water. This excess of water meant that he would always have plumbing problems.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI sympathize with this notion. A few years ago, when I moved into my house, I installed a reverse osmosis filter in our kitchen for drinking water. When we came back from vacation, we found that the connection to the water tank was leaking. I spent a bit of time tightening up the connection, but it still leaked. This weekend, I got back to trying to fix it. So far, I’ve been to the hardware store twice, replaced the compression fitting three times and still it leaks. I’m heading to a larger hardware store this afternoon to find a replacement for the entire fitting – we’ll see if that works. If it doesn’t, then I may have to replace the entire tank.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Too much water in my name?"},{"content":"Run for your lives! This is not a drill. My mother is loose in the blogosphere (hi mom!). To friends of mine noticing random, anonymous comments in their blogs, it’s not my fault – I swear.\nThat is all. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Internet slack.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/25/run-for-your-lives/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eRun for your lives! This is not a drill. My mother is loose in the blogosphere (hi mom!). To friends of mine noticing random, anonymous comments in their blogs, it’s not my fault – I swear.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is all. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Internet slack.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Run for your lives!"},{"content":"I like taking pictures. When it comes to outdoor/wildlife photography, I like taking lots of pictures. K and I went on vacation to Yellowstone for two weeks, getting back at the beginning of June. I wound up with 22 rolls of 36 exposure slide film. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s almost 800 slides. Considering the number of “37 exposure rolls I took, I feel safe calling it 800.\nNow, unless you want to come to my house where I can show some of the better slides, the majority of people won’t see these pictures in their current form. To make them more accessible, I needed to get the good shots scanned. So, a short check list:\nGet 22 rolls of slide film back from the developer [Check – received mid June] Put 800 slides into transparancy holders so they are easy to look at on the light box [Check – took two nights] Go through 800 slides to determine which are worth scanning [Check – took another two days] Scan 120 or so “good slides [Check – finished tonight after three nights of scanning] Color correct the images in the GIMP [ ] Remove dust from scans because my slide scanner doesn’t have an infrared channel [ ] Upload the results and put ’em online [ ] After all of that, I can’t help but wonder if it is worth the time and money to shoot slides as opposed to digital. On the other hand, everyone needs a hobby to keep them out of trouble.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/25/time-to-switch-to-digital/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI like taking pictures. When it comes to outdoor/wildlife photography, I like taking lots of pictures. K and I went on vacation to Yellowstone for two weeks, getting back at the beginning of June. I wound up with 22 rolls of 36 exposure slide film. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s almost 800 slides. Considering the number of “37 exposure rolls I took, I feel safe calling it 800.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Time to switch to digital?"},{"content":"After 5+ years of doing image compression research back in the 90s, I get the strangest email requests. These usually come from students who are trying to get out of doing their own homework. Today’s example came with the subject line “plz help me. I almost deleted it as spam, but decided to take a look.\nhi respected sir, i am ******** **** and i am student of final year of electronics engineering i have given a project of image compression using JPEG and DCT in MATLAB if u can help me plz help me in this matter i shall be very thankful to u in this regard ihave just given very short time i have just left 3 days for it.if u can plz help me if u have code of the image compression plz give me i shall be very thankful to u.my email address is ********@gmail.com. if u know abt or u have than plz help me.plz.me will wait 4 ur response.plz help me.if u have some report on it plz do forward to me.i shall be very thankful to u in this regad. i realy need the code and REPORT or some documentation abt it plz do forward me.plz help me.plz\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/24/i-get-the-strangest-email/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAfter 5+ years of doing image compression research back in the 90s, I get the strangest email requests. These usually come from students who are trying to get out of doing their own homework. Today’s example came with the subject line “plz help me. I almost deleted it as spam, but decided to take a look.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehi\nrespected sir,\ni am ******** **** and i am student of final year of\nelectronics engineering i have given a project of image compression\nusing JPEG and DCT in MATLAB if u can help me plz help me in this matter i\nshall be very thankful to u in this regard ihave just given very short\ntime i have just left 3 days for it.if u can plz help me if u have code of the image compression plz give me i shall be very thankful to u.my email\naddress is ********@gmail.com.\nif u know abt or u have than\nplz help me.plz.me will wait 4 ur response.plz help me.if u have some report\non it plz do forward to me.i shall be very thankful to u in this regad.\ni realy need the code and REPORT or some documentation abt it plz do\nforward me.plz help me.plz\u003c/p\u003e","title":"I get the strangest email..."},{"content":"I wonder if these folks have read the recent article in the NY Times regarding prosopagnosia?\nThe company Passfaces has a password replacement technology that uses the brain’s ability to recognize faces. The idea is that the user selects a set of faces. They are then presented with a series of options where each of their faces is hidden in a group of other faces. By correctly selecting their faces, they authenticate themselves. The company says that using Passfaces will reduce calls to a help desk because people can remember faces for years without seeing them. There’s a demo which allows you to test how easy the system is.\nI have some general concerns with the amount of entropy in such a solution, but the article presents a different challenge. Prosopagnosia is a disorder (or perhaps just a condition) where the person is unable to recognize faces. The NY Times article notes that researchers have found that as much as 2.5% of the population has prosopagnosia. This suggests to me that they would be unable to use Passfaces.\nOh, and the demo? I went back to Passfaces about 6 months after I first set up their demo – easily within the 2 year timeframe they note. I didn’t recognize a single face. I wonder if I have prosopagnosia? 🙂\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/19/password-security-question/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI wonder if \u003ca href=\"/index.php/www.realuser.com\"\u003ethese folks\u003c/a\u003e have read the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/health/psychology/18face.html?_r=1\u0026amp;8dpc\u0026amp;oref=slogin\"\u003earticle\u003c/a\u003e in the NY Times regarding prosopagnosia?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe company Passfaces has a password replacement technology that uses the brain’s ability to recognize faces. The idea is that the user selects a set of faces. They are then presented with a series of options where each of their faces is hidden in a group of other faces. By correctly selecting their faces, they authenticate themselves. The company says that using Passfaces will reduce calls to a help desk because people can remember faces for years without seeing them. There’s a demo which allows you to test how easy the system is.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Password security question"},{"content":"So, a “Which Tarot card are you quiz isn’t my usual thing. I blame labrownThe magician You scored 59 change, 74 wellbeing, 71 wisdom, and 87 truthThe magician represents the conscious mind. With focus on an idea or goal, the conscious mind sets into action these ideas and brings them forth to the material world. The magicians hands are stretched forth, one to the sky holding a wand, and the other pointing to the ground below. This is suggestive that as is “as above, so below. The table in front of him has all the tools to make this possible. The wand, cup, sword, and pentacle, which are representative of all the suits to the tarot cards. The mage has an undergarment of pure white, showing his pure wisdom and is held shut by the serpent around his waist. The outer garment is red, symbolic of desire and passion, which has no belt holding it shut so it can be removed if necessary. The flowers in the garden represent things as well. The red roses are symbolic of desires, and the white lilies represent pure thought, untainted by desire. This card is under the vibration of the number 1.\nsome extra words:\ntaking action doing what needs to be done realizing your potential making what’s possible real practicing what you preach carrying out plans producing magical results using your talents\nacting consciously knowing what you are doing and why acknowledging your motivations understanding your intentions examining the known situation concentrating\nhaving singleness of purpose being totally committed applying the force of your will feeling centered setting aside distractions focusing on a goal\nexperiencing power making a strong impact having vitality creating miracles becoming energized feeling vigorous being creativeMy test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:\nYou scored higher than 99% on changeYou scored higher than 99% on wellbeingYou scored higher than 99% on wisdomYou scored higher than 99% on truth\nLink: The What tarot card resembles you Test written by KamikazeParrot on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/18/somehow-im-not-surprised/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eSo, a “Which Tarot card are you quiz isn’t my usual thing. I blame \u003ca href=\"http://labrown.livejournal.com/154211.html\"\u003elabrown\u003c/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe magician\u003c/strong\u003e\nYou scored 59 change, 74 wellbeing, 71 wisdom, and 87 truth\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.crystalinks.com/magiciantarot.gif\"\u003eThe magician represents the conscious mind. With focus on an idea or goal, the conscious mind sets into action these ideas and brings them forth to the material world. The magicians hands are stretched forth, one to the sky holding a wand, and the other pointing to the ground below. This is suggestive that as is “as above, so below. The table in front of him has all the tools to make this possible. The wand, cup, sword, and pentacle, which are representative of all the suits to the tarot cards. The mage has an undergarment of pure white, showing his pure wisdom and is held shut by the serpent around his waist. The outer garment is red, symbolic of desire and passion, which has no belt holding it shut so it can be removed if necessary. The flowers in the garden represent things as well. The red roses are symbolic of desires, and the white lilies represent pure thought, untainted by desire. This card is under the vibration of the number 1.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"somehow i'm not surprised..."},{"content":"Took the morning off and went blueberry picking. An hour and a half later and we had about 8 pounds. Perfect for making blueberry pancakes, muffins, etc. Now the only question: “are 5 quarts of blueberries enough?\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/18/blueberries/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eTook the morning off and went blueberry picking. An hour and a half later and we had about 8 pounds. Perfect for making blueberry pancakes, muffins, etc. Now the only question: “are 5 quarts of blueberries enough?\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Blueberries!"},{"content":"My life as the husband of a wildlife rehabilitator… A client…\nA client turned pet (don’t ask)…\nPyramid of baby turtles (no, this isn’t posed)…\nA recent delivery – I wonder what the poor driver thought…\nbut at least it had dry ice in it…\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/2006/07/13/random-recent-pictures/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eMy life as the husband of a wildlife rehabilitator…\nA client…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blogpics/img_1816_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"baby possum\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/blogpics/img_1816_t.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA client turned pet (don’t ask)…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blogpics/img_1905_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Luke the boa constrictor\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/blogpics/img_1905_t.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePyramid of baby turtles (no, this isn’t posed)…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blogpics/img_1907_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"baby turtle pyramid\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/blogpics/img_1907_t.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA recent delivery – I wonder what the poor driver thought…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blogpics/img_1913_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"rats - the new frozen meat\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/blogpics/img_1913_t.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ebut at least it had dry ice in it…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blogpics/img_1910_m.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"fun with dry ice\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/blogpics/img_1910_t.jpg\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Random recent pictures"},{"content":"Why Alkahest?\nIt’s mainly a joke, but on a couple of different levels. Alkahest is a mythical substance, thought by alchemists to be the universal solvent. The universal solvent was the one substance that could dissolve anything (which leads of course to the obvious question about what you keep it in). It was also thought to either be or be useful in making the philosopher’s stone. Calling a blog Alkahest implies at least that you are willing to take on a large number of different subjects as opposed to specializing. In modern chemistry, water is known as the universal solvent. Given the number of water/plumbing related problems (and therefore posts) I have, this amuses me. Finally, a blog really needs some title other than its URL.\nWho am I?\nI’m not attempting to be anonymous, but also tend not to use my name on this blog. I used to be the IT Security Officer at a major university, but in August of 2007, I left to join an engineering company where I am a Senior Research Engineer. Don’t know what that means? Join the club – I’ll tell you when I find out. I tend not to refer to my former university or my current employer too often, mostly because it’s a personal blog. That said, it’s trivially easy to find out who I am and where I work. [cec: is this still true? I’m not certain it’s still easy to find out where I work.]\nI have a doctorate in computer engineering and have studied topics including: neural networks, video compression, biological modeling, micro-electromechanical systems, computational chemistry, parallel computing and Internet security. Currently, I’m interested in social issues such as wage growth, social security and social equality; as well as photography and learning to play the guitar.\nMy wife, K, is currently a wildlife rehabilitator which means that I’m also a general handy man, cage builder, and computer support person.\n","permalink":"https://fenris.org/about/","summary":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy Alkahest?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s mainly a joke, but on a couple of different levels. Alkahest is a mythical substance, thought by alchemists to be the universal solvent. The universal solvent was the one substance that could dissolve anything (which leads of course to the obvious question about what you keep it in). It was also thought to either be or be useful in making the philosopher’s stone. Calling a blog Alkahest implies at least that you are willing to take on a large number of different subjects as opposed to specializing. In modern chemistry, water is known as the universal solvent. Given the number of water/plumbing related problems (and therefore posts) I have, this amuses me. Finally, a blog really needs some title other than its URL.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"About Alkahest"}]