Rondam Ramblings

I'm writing this at 9AM Pacific standard time on November 6, the morning after the election.  Not all the dust has quite settled yet, bu...

As long as I'm getting things on the record (while I still can without too much fear of reprisal) I want to endorse a video by Legal Eag...

 I'm too depressed to elaborate much on this, but I just wanted to go on the record with this prediction before the election.  Why do I ...

Yesterday we were treated to the sight of a major party nominee at what was supposed to be a town hall meeting suddenly stop taking question...

Introduction This post is ostensibly about an obscure technical issue in distributed systems, but it's really about human communications...

(This is part 10 in a series on the scientific method .) In 1966, well within living memory as I write this in 2024, Digital Equipment Corpo...

This is part of my series on the scientific method , but it's a bit of a tangent, an interlude if you will, so I'm not giving it a n...

(Part 9 in a series on the scientific method ) In the last installment of this series I addressed a philosophical question: what does it me...

It has been nearly two months since I last posted anything here.  This is far from my longest period of radio silence, but in this case it w...

My (not) Twitter (I refuse to refer to it by a single letter) account got hacked and so I got to see first-hand how utterly inadequate (not...

The question of whether or not Republicans will nominate a convicted felon to be their candidate for President of the United States is no lo...

(Part 8 in a series on the scientific method ) In the last installment I advanced a hypothesis about what truth is , which is to say, I sugg...