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die kunst der fugue

i will tell you right now and without reservation that bach’s “die kunst der fugue” is the highest musical achievement in all of human endeavor. it is really more than that, it is among the highest artistic achievements of all… Continue Reading →

cancer epidemiology conspiracy theory

one of the known effects of certain pollutants is to emulate the effects of estrogen. you could easily track this if certain data about the epidemiology of cancer were more widely available. its amazing in this era of the internet… Continue Reading →

cities on I-40

cities on I-40 (with intersecting and overlapping us highways…) wilmington raleigh greensboro, nc 74 knoxville nashville memphis 412 little rock 412 norman, ok. (412 veers north to tulsa) amarillo 70, 34 albequerque 84, 54 flagstaff 191 bakersfield 95, 93 I-40… Continue Reading →

another rumination on the art of fugue

today’s thought is that bach’s art of fugue was unfinished at his death, but was a massive bomb to future generations of musicians and even some philosophers. to me, one of its most interesting aspects, is that like many of… Continue Reading →

bruce springsteen is great

I think bruce springsteen is a great songwriter. but I always got the feeling he wanted to be more than he actually was. like he was always itchy and climbing, always a little uncomfortable in his own skin. if you… Continue Reading →

microsoft reverse engineered java, and creatively renamed it dotnet

just like everything else they’ve ever done, microsoft reverse engineered java, broke their contract with sun, threw them out of the house, renamed everything, and claimed they invented it. windows nt is clearly was an unholy comingling of windows, ibm… Continue Reading →

henry hudson

on this day in 1611, explorer henry hudson, his son john and seven others were cast adrift in a small open boat, abandoned by mutineers in the bay that would later bear hudson’s name.

a brief history of the saudi royal family

like many other countries in western asia and eastern europe, saudi arabia was formed from a province of the former ottoman empire after world war I. its outlines were drawn by the western powers at versailles on the same map… Continue Reading →

burnishing

you want to hear something funny? well, I guess you’re not actually going to “hear” it, but anyway… when I’m at work, sometimes I’m working alright, but I go down these side tracks and wind up working on my tools,… Continue Reading →

if you can't trust even one CA in your root trust list, you can't trust anybody

today’s fun fact: VeriSign runs the domain name system for the .com and the .net domains. VeriSign also sells about half of the net’s SSL certificates… VeriSign can issue a certificate for any one of their customers. It is claimed… Continue Reading →

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