nomadic

On my way home from work yesterday, just at twilight, I thought I would get some air walking along the beach. Walked for awhile and came upon this. I think probably built by dreamy little girls. If you look close there are some interesting things here, a “couple” in a small enclosure, broken sand dollars in the “trees”, a feather sticking out of a root (oops, its there, trust me, but outside the frame of reference) ….

All washed away by now.

software giant passed away this past week

What is fascinating about reading a TechCrunch article about how this man came up with UNIX and C, is the history of how it came about.

Here, I hope, is a link to a PDF of the article:

What Can We Learn From Dennis Ritchie

In a nutshell, he and a colleague were playing an outer space GAME on an ancient batch computer and the thing cost $75 to play each time. By appropriating a Bell Labs alternate machine and creating a method of file organization for other scientists and tinkerers to share games came the germ of UNIX, C and the foundation of the open source ideal.

WOW

I read something somewhere that said that those in power should never take something from a group of people once they already had it. Apparently its better not to have given a taste freedom, fairness or economic fruits altogether.

When people are used to having  jobs, health insurance, the ability to send their children to college and to own a home and it all goes away — Look out.

This IS the stuff from which revolutions are made …. and I suspect the politicians and the “1%” know it.

I guess time flies when you’re having fun….

morning sunshine

Look at the last two recessions – they’re getting worse.

“As a kid, I had a dream–I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got
the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe in the
world. I lived for that bike.”

John Lennon

The Los Angeles Times (5/17, Banerjee) reports, “The Obama administration has decided to delay a rule that would cut emissions from power plants at major industrial facilities, the most recent in a series of decisions since the midterm election to postpone controversial environmental regulations and steer a more business-friendly course.” According to the article, “since December, the administration has slowed review and implementation of several closely watched regulations, including two affecting the powerful coal industry: ash disposal and mountaintop-removal mining.” The Times adds that the agency said late last week that “it would reconsider parts of a September 2010 rule to limit toxic emissions from cement plants that has been targeted by industry and members of Congress.”

This is what we call the “May Gray” season. Everyone thinks San Diego is sunny all the time but this time of year the marine layer drops over us. It’s still about 70F with no humidity so I ain’t complaining.

Need to pull out the Nikon, do some coastal hiking and make some images.

Can’t upload files right now — hmmmm – Now I can

Although, there ain’t much I command ……