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I did a year after high school on a tall ship and travelled around the South Pacific.
I came back and debated between chef & marine biologist (because I thought I could swim with dolphins as a job).
Chose university, failed 2nd year organic chem, switched to CompSci major, hired by Nortel.
Answering a prompt from The Recurse Center

Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary,
has advocated for a new travel ban on visitors from an unspecified number of countries
following the shooting death in Washington DC of a national guard member by an Afghan national.
Noem posted to X her proposal on Monday night after she said she had spoken with Donald Trump,
whose first term travel ban on seven Muslim countries faced widespread criticism and followed a rocky legal path before it was eventually upheld …

The Cowboys have struck back thanks to return of play-action pass -- and it could spell trouble for Detroit

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-vs-lions-play-…

Proud of my sister Gera, who developed a wonderful butterfly garden in the center of Tiel, the Netherlands, together with gardener Edwin Barendrecht and dozens of volunteers. On BBC2 tonight, 20:00 CET.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002px60

BBC Two - Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens, Series 1, Episode 3
Monty‘s travels take him to the Netherlands and the world's biggest display of tulips.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Strauss's Arabella
Richard Strauss's operatic depiction of the trials and tribulations of the landed gentry in 19th-century Vienna, as well as one noblewoman's search for authentic love.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgzb

We’re at a point where these sorts of simple genetic disorders are going to be falling to CRISPR-Cas9 treatments one after another in an accelerating fashion until we run out of targets.
They raise troubling questions about access to care and cost. Ask why we still have people with active Sickle Cell disease, years after the CURE was demonstrated.
The reason is that no one is stepping up with the megabuck per patient. @…

I think this may be the thing that truly kills the last embers of any passion I had for tech. I knew it was coming when I coined WYSIAYG (what you see is ALL you get) and here it is, only 40 some years later, and while services halting inexplicably is is a fact of computing, WYSIAYG means the software won't even try to explain, intelligent logging and troubleshooting wasn't in the Business Requirements because we all know software only ever works perfectly. If you really must know, use gdb.
It's like the old joke, spouse buys a parrot, leaves it as a surprise, arrives home to find it cooked for dinner; how could you, it spoke 12 languages! then it should have said something.

I read 47 books in 2025. Of my favorites:
“There are Rivers in the Sky” by Elif Shafak - such elegant prose.
“My Friends” by Fredrik Backman - a blend of great characters and nostalgia.
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad - a brilliantly brutal rebuke of atrocity and response.
“Of Monsters and Mainframes” by Barbara Truelove - very fun mashup.
“Owls of the Eastern Ice” by Jonathan C Slaight - immersive science and travel to remote Si…

For a decade, Donald Trump’s rallies were intertwined with his political identity.
His big crowds were how he first got the media and the Republican Party to take him seriously,
and they provided real-time feedback.
Those who followed him closely could watch his positions take shape from one rally to the next
—an offhand comment that got a strong reaction would become a talking point at the next rally,
and then a core part of his pitch.
And he took notic…

The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.

"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
is a stark, scientifically grounded "travelogue of the near future"
detailing the catastrophic, cascading effects of climate change beyond just rising seas and temperatures,
including widespread famine, refugee crises, disease, and extreme weather,
while also exploring how these changes will transform politics, culture, and technology,
serving as an urgent call for immediate…

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Book — Non-fiction. By David Wallace-Wells. 2019. 320 pages. This book raises the alarm over the Earth's climate crisis and demands radical action to save human civilization as we know it.