Advice to a dog 1

Posted on Wed 20 May 2020 in art • Tagged with survival, poetry

We must be able to navigate a variety of situations without biting anyone.

advice to a dog


History: Neolithic

Posted on Sun 17 May 2020 in dictionary

Neolithic refers to the era 10,000 BCE. In the Greek language neolithic translates as "new stone age."


The simple math behind the extraordinary benefit of 8 sided dice for diceware

Posted on Thu 14 May 2020 in tech • Tagged with unix, diceware, security, programming

Most diceware implementations use 6-sided dice or D6. It would be easy to knee jerk assume that the marginal difference between 6 and 8 sided dice is negligible. However, in that case, one would be forgetting that we are dealing with exponential counting here and small numbers really add up …


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Perceval Lowell

Posted on Mon 11 May 2020 in art • Tagged with science, poetry

PERCEVAL LOWELL

Your mercurial way,

Charmed us.

Your insight stunned us,

Here we are!

Release us from darkness.

J Cairns


History: Paleolithic

Posted on Sun 10 May 2020 in dictionary

Paleolithic refers to the era 2,500,00- 10,000 BCE. In the Greek language pleolithic translates as "old stone age."


To Go On

Posted on Wed 06 May 2020 in art • Tagged with survival, literal translation, poetry

TO GO ON! (Literal)

Do not give up, do not be beaten,

Do not feel like a slave, not even a slave;

Tremor of dread, think bravo,

And lash out fiercely, already badly wounded

Have the tenacity of the moldy nail,

That old and mean again becomes a nail;

Not …


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