It had just now occurred to me that Datomic is well suited to be the backend for things that guys like Nick Szabo - and others - are always going on about: smart contracts, digital property, secure titles.

You know: the stuff that will enable actually existing anarcho-capitalism ( Read more... )

It is big. Heavy. In the basement.  Just your average Hide-A-Bed.

It's gotta go. Next stop: the dump.

Getting it down there involved removing the door at the stop of the stairs and - if memory serves - a lot of energetic shoving down a narrow stair case.

Not looking forward to this.

Inspiration: courtesy of a dear friend, I have use of a ( Read more... )

Opportunity knocks once let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it,
We'll hitchhike, bus or yellow cab it!

Movin' Right Along (YouTube)

We're moving!  New home, state, new company.

Gonna be fun.

More, later.

or
Smells like rolling probable cause
or
Your Ma's gonna know what you been doin'

Visited Mom, back at the home place.  Brought a bottle of wine as a gift because I was raised right.

Was violently reminded of the perils of 'sun' [1] mixed with 'June' combined with 'Oklahoma' when I left the wine in the wagon for a few hours after arrival, and the ( Read more... )

From the Twitter:

A Guy: Robert E. Lee was excellent.
Me: Oh boy: there is a long ranty post about Lee's short comings, but not written. Yet.

And I sat down to right it tonight and thought 'Hey, I have written that.  And so I have and here it is;
Robert E. Lee was not a good general. He fiddle-fracked around on campaigns of no possible benefit, ( Read more... )

Gold was the light that shone in the towers of Ethras,

Green was the mountain where Protas stood, alone with his thoughts,

White were the clouds that cast shade on the nourishing plain.

Black is the sky this day.

The plain flashes red.

Red sparks as numerous as stars honed edges gleaming

The color of hills that are clothed in murmuring flame, ( Read more... )

As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek. Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space-a so-called "Wagon Train to the Stars" (like the popular Western TV series)[2]-he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, ( Read more... )

48. If you train a soldier to shoot a five year old without batting an eye, on the grounds the child might be concealing a grenade, you have to expect him to be somewhat callous when he returns to family life. He will think nothing of dashing his infant son against a wall or threatening his wife with a handgun if she fails to do the dishes.

Man ( Read more... )

I do not, not, not, like firearms for their own sake. They're tools, is all. Tools with a singular purpose, granted. But: tools.

But I got to hold an M1 Garand last weekend, ran through the manual of arms ...

• That is a well-made, solid, machine, brother.
• I want one.
• The difference between my M16 (7 pounds unloaded) and an M1 ( 9 1/2 pounds ( Read more... )