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I finally looked at the addresses of linked list nodes that my recursive and wikipedia bottom-up) algorithms read and write.

We use incredibly weak language around smartphones and point-n-click computer interfaces. It’s embarrassing.

There’s a system admin saying: It’s always DNS

But weird problems aren’t always DNS problems. Better than 50% of the time, they’re cabling problems.

I went to see the Union Pacific No. 4014, a Big Boy locomotive, at a whistle stop in Greeley, CO, October 23, 2024.

I had to get my production server to clamp MSS (size of TCP data “segment” in bytes) to path MTU.

Model rocketry changed my life back in the 1970s. I built my first rocket, an Estes Big Bertha the summer between 3rd and 4th grade, which I think was the summer of 1970.

Ate at Cracovia Polish-American restaurant in Denver’s most-misspelled suburb, Westminster. It was delicious.

Got a couple of dumb fortunes from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai joint.

If you’ve driven the long way across Kansas on I-70, there are two things that you’ve seen and wondered about.

First and foremost, Wheat Jesus on a billboard in Colby, Kansas. I have no insights, artistic, theological or sociological, on Wheat Jesus, or “Wheatus” as some folks know him.

There’s also the big beige dome on the south side of I-70 in Hays, Kansas. That’s the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. You really should take an hour or two to visit it. Well worth your time.