I see too many people wearing heavy backpacks with the straps loose so that they’re hanging low on their backs.
Don’t do this. This is how you mess up your back.
You want to carry weight high up on your back. It puts much less strain on all of you. Tighten the straps as much as possible so that the bulk of the weight is under your shoulder blades. You’ll be amazed how much easier it is to carry the same weight.
We’re fostering kittens again. This pair is only a week old and we have to bottle feed them. Their eyes are still closed. One of them snuggled against my hand after its dinner.
Today I learned that our $6000-per-month UnitedHealthcare “platinum” insurance doesn’t fully cover generic thyroid medication, so our monthly cost for them rose from $1 per month under Aetna to $59 per month under UHC.
This is what the Republicans’ “death panels” look like.
In honor of its new financial arrangement with Donald Trump, Intel announced its new flagship CPU: the Inanium.
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
By hiding the eyes, mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sunstaring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws.
This is now online for free reading. It’s a must for young cyberpunks who want to understand their history.
UnitedHealthcare sued by shareholders over reaction to CEO’s killing
The group, which seeks unspecified damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.
The investors actually said that. They demand UHC be more “aggressive, anti-consumer” to make more money for them, presumably by killing more Americans.
It’s time to start building the guillotines.
I’ve spent too much of this weekend writing Ansible to make all my Raspberry Pis similar.
This might say more than I’d wish about my nerd level, and about how many tiny computers I have laying around.
Trucking companies sue California, seeking a release from Clean Truck Partnership
They include Daimler, which manufactures about 40% of U.S. trucks, and Volvo, which makes about 15%, along with Paccar and Traton.
Those are among the companies suing California for the right to damage our air and our breathing. They are also among the companies whose vehicles I will never, ever consider buying. They can go rot for all I care.
Def Con was amazing and exhausting and fascinating and terrifying and just all around exhilarating and energizing. Thank you to everyone to helped make it possible, and also delightfully weird.
Time to pour some coffee, take a deep breath, exhale, and start working on next year’s project.
If you get on a plane, stick your carry-on at the very front, then walk to the very back so that there’s no room for the frontward peoples’ luggage when they board and everyone has to wait for them to trek to the back and stow it and return to the front, you are a bad person and should feel bad.
