David F

David F (2031)

I Just Lost The Game

As required by Rule #3 I am telling you. So now you just lost, too. The Game is a game that we are all playing. The object of The Game is not to remember that you are playing it. As soon as you regain awareness…

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A Classic of the Genre

There are train songs all over the modern popular and folk music landscape. Songs about trains, songs set on trains, songs that sound like trains. I am one of those who find that sound of a train supremely soothing. Whether I am on the train,…

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Horse Battery Staple is Correct After All

The password advice we all hate - upper and lower case, numerals and punctuation, change it frequently - is wrong. We knew this in our guts, but now Bill Burr, the original author of the NIST report that started it all in 2003, has recanted. So…

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A Follow-Up to that Memo

The author of the now-infamous Google "gender roles" memo, James Damore, has been fired. There will be a lot of right-wing pissing and moaning about "free speech." Well, until someone proposes that what Damore wrote was criminal and he should go to jail for it,…

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