Had a dream that the term “anticompetitive practices” was legally expanded to include “things that are free”. So everything offered without a fee, from comics to blogs to crossword puzzles, had to go behind a paywall. And the payment processors capitalized on this with fee structures that made sure nobody small made a profit. I’ve …
Author Archives: Shawn
On the Return of the Old Man
Saw Orion tonight for the first time this season. Hey, Old Man, it’s been a while. He and I used to walk the night fields north of campus and we’d talk about life. I’d unload all my concerns and toss them to the sky, and he’d do cartwheels over my head as my feet crunched …
Time in a Tunnel
For my phone service I use GoogleFi, which rents T-Mobile’s network in the US. I also use OpenVPN at home so I can tunnel traffic from wherever I happen to be to my house so I can either access internal services or to go outbound to the Internet. That’s all well and good. Or it …
Selectivity
Catching COVID is totally not a moral failing — as long as it’s you or someone you love. Otherwise it’s schadenfreude. Though, let’s be clear, the virus doesn’t care about your beliefs or who you are or where you live. But those stupid dumbasses totally had it coming, right?
Evitable
So the thinkable happened. I got COVID. 2nd time. Thankfully I got the latest vaccine a month ago, so it’s not as bad as it could’ve been. Fatigue set in on Thursday, then throat-sinus inflammation that night, and then by Friday morning, full blown aches, fever, swimming vision, and testing hot. Fever broke this morning, …