humorous interludes
A sequence of small amusements this evening:
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- For the last few days I've mixed up various late-October dates on the calendar in my head, including exactly when I'm to catsit. One possible outcome: certain cats become ecstatic when someone finally (FINALLY!) believes that they hadn't had any dinner. Which provides yet another example of . . .
- Cats are definitely Unreliable Narrators. Because, y'know, cats. Which led to reading about unreliable narrators on TV Tropes, and then I turned back to the f-list and found this recursion . . .
- Security expert Bruce Schneier's recent post, about Slashdot's asking whether Schneier himself can be trusted:
I'm a big fan of Bruce Schneier, but just to play devil's advocate, let's say, hypothetically, that Schneier is actually in cahoots with the NSA. Who better to reinstate public trust in weakened cryptosystems? As an exercise in security that Schneier himself may find interesting, what methods are available for proving (or at least affirming) that we can trust Bruce Schneier?
Schneier responds: So far, I haven't seen the good reasons why I might be untrustworthy. I'd help, but that seems unfair.
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