I ran in the first ICANN board of directors election on a platform that ICANN should immediately dissolve itself. If I remember correctly, I came third. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Sun Oct 1st, 2000 at 11:05:43…
Presidential Fitness: I Will If You Will
So, Trump wants to bring back the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Fine, fine. That’s fine. Leaving aside the general inadequacy of one-size-fits-all standards and of how such fitness standards are constructed, physical fitness in general is a laudable goal for…
On Democrats: Are They Still Less-Evil Enough?
It may give you some idea how old I actually am to know that I canvassed for Jesse Jackson at the state Democratic convention when I was in high school. I’m old enough to know better than to expect much…
Archive: /dev/null/nethack Tournament Preparations
My brother and I first held a tournament for NetHack players in 1999. We co-hosted it for several years, then I ran it with various volunteers for the rest of its 17-year run. The tournament turns out to also be…
Hey, You: Stop Bitching About Jury Duty
I spent three days in jury selection over the past week. It wasn’t much fun. Especially since, after the various lawyers involved each gave their synopsis of the case, it was obvious that it was one of those situations where…
Archive: Help OpenNIC make its plans
OpenNIC is, I think, the only thing I’ve done that has a Wikipedia page? I haven’t been directly involved with it since I had kids, but I’m very happy that it still exists. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org,…
Private Equity: Parasites In The Capitalist Ecosystem
I was reading “Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed“, by Molly Osberg on The New Republic, this morning and it occurred to me that this is another problem that would be solved by a suggestion I…
Archive: Book Review: the conquest of cool
I still like Tom Frank’s work a lot, but these days I want more escapism in my long-form reading. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Mon Jul 3rd, 2000 at 11:31:12 PM EST”. I finished reading this book…
Getting Judgy With It: This Supreme Court Is Openly Un-American
I’m not talking about their dismantling of the modern idea of America that we grew up with on “Schoolhouse Rock”, either. Though that is bad enough. Most of that stuff is happening on the “shadow docket” where the Supreme Court…
Archive: Microsoft comics? (or: a look at the patently silly)
Ah, to be young and have the time to amuse myself browsing the patent database. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Sun Jun 18th, 2000 at 08:57:55 PM EST”. I was bored and clicking around the Net over…