Satellite of Something

It’s day two of our Atlantic crossing and I’m getting the feel of the ship. It’s a really good thing I did all that setup work to enable offline coding, because the Internet is available mostly in a philosophical/mathematical sense. For example: % ping -c 5 nonbinaryreview.submittable.com ✹ PING e132729.b.akamaiedge.net (2.16.167.51): 56 data bytes RequestContinue reading “Satellite of Something”

What Globalization Means to Me

In 1995 I decided to stop eating animals. As I was living in San Francisco it really wasn’t hard to find good food made by someone else and which didn’t contain meat. Traveling inland even a couple of hours, though, was traveling to a world where “vegetarian” meant, “eats alfalfa sprouts and avocado and, um,Continue reading “What Globalization Means to Me”