Global Stocktake
De-carbonizing Fashion
Last week, even after Earth Day 2024 came and went, SOSV continued, like so many…
Happy Earth Day
Of course, everyone knows Earth Day is far more than one day. Like a birthday,…
Acumen
Hiding in Plain Site: My Little Pony and a New Theory on the Illuminati
What? It is the attention economy. An economy a truly advanced species should be well…
The Debby-cation Silver Lining
Nerding Out
Trekking Through Python’s “DLL Hell”: Versions, Packages, Virtual Environments
PYTHON DLL HELL On my local system (Ubuntu of some flavor), I had Python 2.7….
Overcome the Bitbucket Authentication Blues
TL;DR Although it was my fault, GitLab has been completely unhelpful getting me back into…
Finding Tomcat Version on Linux
OK, there are a bunch of different ways, but it depends how Tomcat was installed….
Amazon Week in DC
Well, I was going to write something introspective about my Labor Day weekend, but I…
From Sustainability to a Sustainabilist Economy
Dreams to Intentions They say time flies when you are having fun. In truth, I…
Parental Rambling: The Google Science Fair Competition
So, Google was sponsoring a science competition: https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/2013/?utm_medium=hpp&utm_source=en-hpp&utm_campaign=gsf2013 I sent an email to my son…
The Age of Misinformation
It’s funny how my mom would say, “You kids didn’t come with an instruction manual.”…
Courting Fullpack Trickster in the US (Part 2)
Technical support from Trickster didn’t respond. I guess I am not surprised, but then again,…
Challenging the Bubble
We all live in a bubble of our design… OK, maybe that is just another…