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.