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Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Linus & the Lunatics, cont'd 
Republican hackers wanted
| | Okay, so there's all this activity happening in the Dean and Clark campaigns. But what about the Republican side of this thing? I got an email a few weeks ago from a Republican hacker who said the Bush campaign is full of Linux stuff, but when I attempted to engage him in e-ologue, nothing happened. |
| | So I'm putting an appeal out there to anybody on the GOP side who wants to talk about the cool stuff they're doing. I'm working on election-related stories for Linux Journal and they need to be about more than what's happening on just one side of the two-party system. Thanks. |
St. Nick Danger
| | Everybody and everything at the State Fair is an exhibit of one kind or another and I'll explain what I mean by first pointing out that the opposite of exhibition has got to be inhibition. Inhibition wouldn't make for much of a Fair. I suspect you'd see a lot of people with glasses and books and cardigan sweaters milling uncertainly around the fairgrounds with nothing to look at, all of them nervous about each other, muttering clever comments to themselves about how stupid everyone else is. |
| | Phil posts there when he isn't busy being Nick Danger and other characters so memorable that countless fellow fools of my generation can't help lapsing into recitals of Firesign Theater bits when we hear them. |
| | "You see," he said, tapping the battered fedora back on his grizzled head, "I never, in the old days, had any visions of sugar fairies and reindeers and guys named Frosty, because all I knew was the seamy world of the police blotter, the rundown underside of what we called life, back then. Back in those days, if I saw some socks dangling from a mantle, I'd start looking for the rest of the body, see what I mean? There were no smiling faces upturned in their big wooly mufflers asking me for a free turkey." |
You want voice? Have some of this.
| | This post will make the most sense for those who have witnessed war and are not freaked out by the cold calculus of accepting death as a constant and the loss of buddies as gut-stirring but as inevitable as taxes. Most of the rest of the world has been forced to experience war first hand. Perhaps that's why the rest of the world is unimpressed with this administration's gung-ho attitude, so typical of raw recruits and so uncharacteristic of adults who've peered into the abyss and lived to describe it.. |
| | I hate to diss fellow bloggers, but the warbloggers seem to have a paucity of combat experience. We would never entertain the views of programmers who've never hacked code, or historians who've never read history. Why would we listen carefully to warbloggers who've never watched tracers arcing toward their position? |
| | Every warrior knows that perfect safety is a fool's paradise. The premise of the current war on terror is that we can entertain our way out of the terrorist threat. It's entertainment to feel an illusory omnipotence that will hunt down every evil-doer and infidela kind of adolescent road rage, really. The old heads in your squadron know to protect such greenhorns from their enthusiasms, at least until they learn or die. "There are old pilots and bold pilots. There are no old, bold pilots." |
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