Author: Chris Johnson
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Networking, interrelationships
Part of the task of making a High Availability system is to make sure there is no single point of failure. To this end, everything is supposed to be redundant. So let’s take the office infrastructure as a starting point. We need to have multiple compute nodes and multiple data storage systems. Every compute node…
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OMG! They killed an innocent man!
This story showed up in my feeds. I took note of it because, of course, they blamed the death of this poor black man on the conservative Supreme Court justices. The three liberals, would have granted the stay, but the six justices that insist on following the law did not. So what is the actual…
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…this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation
Creating rules for anything, a game, a business, the interaction between parties, there can be negative rules, or there can be positive rules. You can have a set of negative rules. You cannot touch the ball with your hands. This is a rule in soccer. What was the original intention? We don’t know. What we…
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Tim Walz Throws his Support Behind Trump
“We can’t afford… We can’t afford… four more years of this” Every so often the masks slip and they tell the truth. Note, the ellipsis in the quote are him pausing. Not anything being cut out.
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Honor Culture
Or Cultures of Honor. Most people in western civilizations understand the concept of Honor. Or, at least, they think they do. Most understand, “do the honorable thing.” It is a question of right and wrong. It is a moral decision. The honorable thing to do is to return the wallet you find on the sidewalk.…
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Operation Grim Beeper
Years ago, my lady discovered that one of my co-workers was plagiarizing content. She brought it to my attention. I reported it to the owner of the company. I cc’ed my boss to keep her in the loop. When I arrived at work that day, my boss was waiting for me, took me to a…
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Pasta, again
There are three ways of making pasta shapes. You can extrude the dough through shaped holes, cutting the forms off as needed. You can roll the dough thin, then hand cut the dough to be shaped. The same can be done using a “pasta machine” which rules the dough to a known thickness. Or you…
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Lawyers are strange?
Barnett v. Raoul, 3:23-cv-00209, (S.D. Ill.) is one of the cases filed in response to the Illinois Bruen tantrum. It was opened January 24, 2023. It was decided at the district court level in favor of The People. It was part of the group of cases that went to the Seventh Circuit where Judge Easterbrook…
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Tuesday Tunes
From the YouTube description: The following are a series of war correspondence films from the Simba Rebellion in the Congo in 1964/65 set to the tune of “Roland the Thompson Gunner” by Warren Zevon. The film features a platoon of mercenaries from Europe conducting a platoon attack on the town of Boende in the Cong.…
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What was old is new again
Allyson had picked up a wooden box a few years ago to take to events. It was a plain wooden box with just a bit of decoration and a porcelain knob attached to the sliding top. The knob and screw holding it are not period. The rest was pretty period. Or more precisely, it was…