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@emilymbender@dair-community.social i left ACM 20 years ago (after 25 years of membership … yes, i am that old) over their publication policies. i feel like maybe i should rejoin so that i can resign again!
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peter honeyman
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
mastodon 4.7.3red-diaper baby, draft dodger, professor emeritus, senior citizen
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i haven't wielded a soldering iron in anger for decades¹ but the frayed wire on the multimeter probe² finally gave way and i had to unscrew the barrel connector and apply heat and tin. it went really well!
¹ my first job out of college was electronic test technician at ann arbor terminals. picture me with a soldering iron in one hand, a heat gun in the other hand, and a solder sucker in the gripping hand.
² that i ahem borrowed from bell labs. i apologize truly for my youthful indiscretion.
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@wendynather@infosec.exchange @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange are we still blaming him for the dot com bubble?
i hit submit
#OldManYellingAtCloud
jesus christ i asked an LLM to write a poem about a smart bomb that refuses to take a human life and when i read it i cried
after almost four years of french instruction (on duolingo), i can usually comprendre macron's twitter posts, and can mostly read le monde
haltingly tbh, still, i'm pleased -- i (literally) flunked french in high school (drugs were way more interesting in the 60s ... way way more) and i abjured foreign language study in college
choices
but i wish i could "hear" french better. need to work on that.
national champions!
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@george@a2mi.social
ope you have snared a boomer in your millennial trap 🪤
when lynn and i consolidated our homes, we needed to make space on the bookshelf, which necessitated breaking up my collection. i responded by barricading the stairs so that she could do no further damage on the lower level.
i'm playing every cover of willow weep for me on spotify. wes montgomery winning so far.
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@jschauma I was amused when my former doctoral student texted me “I made those changes to OpenBSD. OMG.” lolol shoulda been working on his dissertation
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'cept claude and i ain't talking to claude at this hour, not for twenty bucks, not for nothing!
am i the only academic in the world who is too ... shy? ... to post their CV ?
(i'd post anything for love but i won't post that ha ha)
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@emilymbender ooh, i used to moonlight there. a lovely campus, right across the hudson from chelsea. keep an eye out for the awesome calder sculptures.
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@carlmalamud@official.resource.org are the new flu and covid vaxxes released? I was advised to wait a couple weeks ago.
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
at bell labs legend had it that if you needed $10,000 for a project there was no way, but a $100,000 project you had a good chance, and any request for $1,000,000 or more was certain to be approved.
i once submitted a request for $400,000. it was approved the same day. (i bought a vax 11/780,named vivace.)
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@SteveBellovin @cigitalgem @shriramk @mattblaze
i'm stuck at 3 by way of richard ladner and mihalis yannakakis
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Those at the top say:
This way to glory.
Those down below say:
This way to the grave.
— Bertolt Brecht, "A German War Primer"
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange please report — lynn has been trying to drag me there for years, and soon she’ll succeed
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When the leaders speak of peace
The common folk know
That war is coming.
When the leaders curse war
The mobilization order is already written out.
Those at the top say: peace
And war
Are of different substance.
But their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm.
War grows from their peace
Like son from his mother
He bears
Her frightful features.
Their war kills
Whatever their peace
Has left over.
— Bertolt Brecht, "A German War Primer"
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@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
wait a minute … the second 8 in the first row should be a 9
[edit: oh i see someone else caught this, too]
[further edit: the last digit in row 10 is also wrong 😑]
midnight and all's well
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@jajo@mastodon.nu @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social yeah, the box set has somehow survived for, like, sixty years
tomorrow is our 10th anniversary (can you believe it!?!) and we are headed to grand rapids (!) on our second honeymoon!
here we are in our wedding togs ten years ago. (I shoulda tucked in my shirt, and maybe even considered a tie. #alas)