The United Arab Emirates Computer Emergency Response Team (AECERT) invited me as a guest speaker at a conference in 2011. A quick search through my email database indicates that my talk was on: “Critical infrastructure protection: the relationship between terror, cybercrime, and espionage”
At Dragonfly Forge, when we made the habaki for our short-swords, Michael Bell made a little cardboard “mold” for the silver. It almost instantly turned to charcoal under the heat of the silver but it slowed it down just enough that the metal retained its shape.
If your opponent goes low, you should either respond in kind, or stake out a position from which you arguably look superior. Let’s get a case study from Joe Biden on how to do that wrong.
My dad put himself through college working as a short-order cook on the Great Northern Line. One of the things that he learned in that time was impeccable timing on assembling complete meals. He doesn’t bother to do it, anymore, but I used to ask him stuff like, “ham and eggs with muffins, eggs benedict, and 2 softboiled eggs with fruit” and he’d tell me what he’d make in what sequence. (get the 3 minute eggs on the fire first then use the heating water to melt the butter for the eggs benedict, then poach them) – the stove in the cook’s car was ridiculously small, so he had to gang things together a lot of the time.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a group of people in authority have a separate, secret, process for policing themselves.
Doing this as a “let’s all listen together and discuss” thread was tempting but I think the way they explain things is so solid that there’s not much left to say except “Wow, I didn’t know that.” Which is something I said a lot; perhaps a tribute to my ignorance.
Do you keep track (loosely) of nuclear proliferation? I feel sometimes that there’s something odd about me, the way I am constantly keeping my ear to the ground about the various governments that are building these horrible monstrous things designed to destroy us all in a bath of light and fire.
Mike P and I went through the wakizashi fittings-making class at Dragonfly Forge together and have been chatting about knife-making and techniques ever since. Mike’s also a serious cook. He’s from Brazil, though, and uses massive amounts of meat in everything, while I’m trying (and succeeding!) in cutting way back.
Gout is a form of arthritis that happens when your kidneys don’t do a good enough job getting the urea out of your blood and the stuff starts to crystalize in a joint. That triggers a cascading reaction as swelling brings more blood and urea.