home/public/blog/content/About/_index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "About George Jones"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 layout = "single"
-lastmod = 2022-10-30T05:01:54-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:46-05:00
 draft = false
 +++
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ systems administrator, network security engineer, open source
 software developer, Internet Standards author (RFC3871), security
 researcher, conference chair (Flocon 2013, 2014), security
 analytics developer and data scientist.  He has been employed
-variously by CompuServe, UUNET, MITRE, Carnegie-Mellon_CERT, Amazon,
-Redjack and Expanse_Palo Alto Networks.  See  <https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgemjones/>
+variously by CompuServe, UUNET, MITRE, Carnegie-Mellon/CERT, Amazon,
+Redjack and Expanse/Palo Alto Networks.  See  <https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgemjones/>
 
 He can be reached via email as gmj at pobox dot com

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-01.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "HOWTO: Using Pi-hole DNS to block ads.  The struggle continues…"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-01
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:59:03-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:17-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "DNS", "privacy", "networking", "HOWTO"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Day 03 and 04 of #100DaysToOffload.
 
 The war against ads continues. <https://pi-hole.net/> looks like a
 reasonable, good, new?, open source entry in the war against ads. Get
-'yer source_install for linux at https:/_github.com_pi-hole_pi-hole
+'yer source/install for linux at <https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole>
 
 Per Paul Vixie
 
@@ -66,9 +66,8 @@ Here's what I did to instlal
 [ ] basic install
 : On a Linux server, the **basic** install is
     simple:
-
     ```text
-                                         sudo bash basic-install.sh
+                          sudo bash basic-install.sh
     ```
 
 
@@ -156,7 +155,7 @@ gp1.wac.v2cdn.net.	3599	IN	A	152.195.32.39
     game anymore.
 
 
-## <span class="section-num">8</span> Tools you may want to use_learn_install {#tools-you-may-want-to-use-learn-install}
+## <span class="section-num">8</span> Tools you may want to use/learn/install {#tools-you-may-want-to-use-learn-install}
 
 dig
 : for making/testing queries by hand
@@ -171,7 +170,7 @@ dig
 -   pi-hole can apparently function as a DHCP server itself.
 
 -   You can choose your upstream DNS servers from a list with
-    options for IPv4, IPv6, DNSSEC_no DNSSEC, filtered_unfiltered.
+    options for IPv4, IPv6, DNSSEC/no DNSSEC, filtered/unfiltered.
 -   Quad9 is one of the choices.  It looks to be really useful for
     adding malware blocking to your domain.  See
     <https://www.quad9.net/faq/> for a useful bit of education.
@@ -182,45 +181,43 @@ dig
 
 -   Possibly use [Marcus Ranums's principal of "Artificial Ignorance"](http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/ai/)
     to grep out the known and see what's left:
-
     ```text
-                      $  cat pihole.log.1  | egrep -v microsoft.com\|google\|amazon\|in-addr\|linkedin\|dropbox\|facebook\|messenger\|ubuntu\|github\|brave\|basicattention\|yahoo\|disqus\|twitter\|akamai\ | sed 's/.*: //'  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
-                      334 reply min-api.cryptocompare.com is <CNAME>
-                      334 reply ccc-api.cloudapp.net is 40.115.22.134
-                      334 query[A] min-api.cryptocompare.com from 127.0.0.1
-                      238 forwarded min-api.cryptocompare.com to 8.8.4.4
-                      143 cached min-api.cryptocompare.com is <CNAME>
-                      101 query[A] no-thanks.invalid.lan from 127.0.0.1
-                      101 query[A] no-thanks.invalid from 127.0.0.1
-                      101 forwarded min-api.cryptocompare.com to 8.8.8.8
-                      100 reply hfq2h9152m63.statuspage.io is <CNAME>
-                      100 query[A] rpt.cedexis.com from 127.0.0.1
+                $  cat pihole.log.1  | egrep -v microsoft.com\|google\|amazon\|in-addr\|linkedin\|dropbox\|facebook\|messenger\|ubuntu\|github\|brave\|basicattention\|yahoo\|disqus\|twitter\|akamai\ | sed 's/.*: //'  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
+                334 reply min-api.cryptocompare.com is <CNAME>
+                334 reply ccc-api.cloudapp.net is 40.115.22.134
+                334 query[A] min-api.cryptocompare.com from 127.0.0.1
+                238 forwarded min-api.cryptocompare.com to 8.8.4.4
+                143 cached min-api.cryptocompare.com is <CNAME>
+                101 query[A] no-thanks.invalid.lan from 127.0.0.1
+                101 query[A] no-thanks.invalid from 127.0.0.1
+                101 forwarded min-api.cryptocompare.com to 8.8.8.8
+                100 reply hfq2h9152m63.statuspage.io is <CNAME>
+                100 query[A] rpt.cedexis.com from 127.0.0.1
     ```
 
     ```text
-                      $ cat pihole.log.1  | egrep -v microsoft.com\|google\|amazon\|in-addr\|linkedin\|dropbox\|facebook\|messenger\|ubuntu\|github\|brave\|basicattention\|yahoo\|disqus\|twitter\|akamai\|compuserve\|aol | sed 's/.*: //'  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | tail -20
-                      1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:400d:c0f::6d
-                      1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:400d:c07::6d
-                      1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:400d:c00::6d
-                      1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:4004:c08::6d
-                      1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:4004:c08::6c
-                      1 cached imap.gmail.com is 172.253.63.109
-                      1 cached imap.gmail.com is 172.253.63.108
-                      1 cached hosts-file.net is 3.234.198.254
-                      1 cached encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com is 172.217.13.78
-                      1 cached dig is NXDOMAIN
-                      1 cached content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net is <CNAME>
-                      1 cached beacons-handoff.gcp.gvt2.com is 172.217.15.99
-                      1 cached beacons.gvt2.com is 172.217.13.227
-                      1 cached beacons.gcp.gvt2.com is <CNAME>
-                      1 cached beacons4.gvt2.com is 216.239.32.116
-                      1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.38.117
-                      1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.36.117
-                      1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.34.117
-                      1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.32.117
-                      1 cached article.smartasset.com is <CNAME>
+                $ cat pihole.log.1  | egrep -v microsoft.com\|google\|amazon\|in-addr\|linkedin\|dropbox\|facebook\|messenger\|ubuntu\|github\|brave\|basicattention\|yahoo\|disqus\|twitter\|akamai\|compuserve\|aol | sed 's/.*: //'  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | tail -20
+                1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:400d:c0f::6d
+                1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:400d:c07::6d
+                1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:400d:c00::6d
+                1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:4004:c08::6d
+                1 cached imap.gmail.com is 2607:f8b0:4004:c08::6c
+                1 cached imap.gmail.com is 172.253.63.109
+                1 cached imap.gmail.com is 172.253.63.108
+                1 cached hosts-file.net is 3.234.198.254
+                1 cached encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com is 172.217.13.78
+                1 cached dig is NXDOMAIN
+                1 cached content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net is <CNAME>
+                1 cached beacons-handoff.gcp.gvt2.com is 172.217.15.99
+                1 cached beacons.gvt2.com is 172.217.13.227
+                1 cached beacons.gcp.gvt2.com is <CNAME>
+                1 cached beacons4.gvt2.com is 216.239.32.116
+                1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.38.117
+                1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.36.117
+                1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.34.117
+                1 cached beacons2.gvt2.com is 216.239.32.117
+                1 cached article.smartasset.com is <CNAME>
     ```
-
     What is this stuff?
 
 

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-04.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Vis tibi sit"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-04
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:56:41-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:23-05:00
 tags = ["latin", "rome"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-05.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Getting started in life is harder right now"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-05
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:33:13-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:10-05:00
 tags = ["life", "family", "covid"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-06.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Awesome online singing from Denmark to Australia, and social distancing too!"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-06
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:32:58-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:12-05:00
 tags = ["life", "choir", "music", "singing", "easter", "sacredharp", "harmoniasacra", "covid"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-07.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Life imitates…"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-07
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:32:35-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:12-05:00
 tags = ["life", "games", "civilization"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-08.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "9 days of #100DaysToOffload"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-08
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:53:41-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:38-05:00
 tags = ["blogging", "writing", "emacs", "100DaysToOffload", "text"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-14.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "WARNING: Extreme Social Distancing In The Rain"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-14
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:16:12-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:20-05:00
 tags = ["outdoors", "backpacking", "hiking", "REI"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-05-17.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Tuscarora Trek"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-17
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:59:28-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:20-05:00
 tags = ["backpacking", "hiking", "REI", "outdoors"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-06-09.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "#100DaysToOffload stalled, but that's OK"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-06-09
-lastmod = 2022-02-20T04:58:53-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:38-05:00
 tags = ["writing", "blogging", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2020-06-30.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Adding uncertainty in uncertain times"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-06-30
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:40:07-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:01-05:00
 tags = ["life", "work", "startups", "GTD"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/20200418.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Fixing GNU bash associative array insert speed"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-04-18T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-12-05T06:10:29-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:13-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "programming", "gnu", "linux"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2021-12-15-truth-in-internet.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Finding needles in the marketingstack"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2021-12-15
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:41:25-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:59-05:00
 tags = ["work", "truth", "marketing"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2021-12-16-emacs-enlightenment.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Emacs enlightenment"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2021-12-16
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T09:00:29-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:04-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "emacs", "life", "philosophy"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2021-12-18-privacy.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Privacy Technology"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2021-12-18
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:45:25-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:51-05:00
 tags = ["cybersecurity", "secuity", "privacy", "security", "perspective"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Professional life began for me at CompuServe in 1985.  In many
 ways CompuServe invented the online world.  Long stories there,
 told elsewhere.  The long strange trip has taken me through work
 with Usenet, UUNET, the IETF, SANS & The Center for Internet
-Security, the IETF, MITRE, CMU`/`CERT, AOL, Amazon`/`AWS, and
+Security, the IETF, MITRE, CMU=/=CERT, AOL, Amazon=/=AWS, and
 currently Palo Alto Networks.  Security and privacy have been a
 large part of my life for 25 years.
 

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2021-12-23-companies-I-once-admired.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Tech companies I once admired"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2021-12-23
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T09:00:44-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:04-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "life", "tech"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-01-23.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "But that would be too easy"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-01-23T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:53:50-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:37-05:00
 tags = ["writing"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ index 6700d4d7..06ab109f 100644
 
     -   see <https://curious.galthub.com/blog/hugo-org-github/>
         Short version: if you drop twitter_cards.html in
-        layouts_partials_ of your blog, you then just write your blog,
+        layouts/partials/ of your blog, you then just write your blog,
         publish it, and past the URL into the
         <https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator> to make sure it’s going
         to work when posted
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ index 6700d4d7..06ab109f 100644
 
 -  DONE Pair down to almost no content
 
-    -   e.g. content_posts (mine go to content_Blog)
+    -   e.g. content/posts (mine go to content/Blog)
 
 <!--list-separator-->
 
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ index 6700d4d7..06ab109f 100644
 -  DONE commit changes, possibly push branch
 
     -   Note taken on <span class="timestamp-wrapper"><span class="timestamp">[2022-01-22 Sat 11:10] </span></span> <br />
-        -   pushed to ssh://gitea@git.galthub.com_gmj_taonaw.git
+        -   pushed to ssh://gitea@git.galthub.com/gmj/taonaw.git
 
 
 #### <span class="section-num">2.2.2</span> DONE <code>[5/5]</code> Pair down my old blog (keeping same .git) {#done-pair-down-my-old-blog--keeping-same-dot-git}

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-01-24.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "social costs"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-01-24T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:36:53-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:08-05:00
 tags = ["life", "covid"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-01-27.md

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 +++
-title = "This train's got the disappearing railway blues"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+title = """
+  "This train's got the disappearing railway blues"
+  """
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-01-27T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:37:41-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:07-05:00
 tags = ["life", "trains", "history", "travel"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-01-29.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Learning Latin the wrong way, an argument against ignorance."
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:57:04-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:23-05:00
 tags = ["latin"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-03-O2.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Career counseling should not take itself too seriously."
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-03T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:41:38-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:59-05:00
 tags = ["work", "100DaysToOffload", "life"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-03.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "100DaysToOffload, Take 2"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-03T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:55:21-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:24-05:00
 tags = ["writing"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-04.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Adding years to your life, or life to your years?"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-04T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:38:11-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:07-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-05.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Conspiracy theories can be fun!"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-05T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:38:32-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:07-05:00
 tags = ["life", "games", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-06.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Doing Latin without thinking about it"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-06T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:57:38-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:23-05:00
 tags = ["latin", "100DaysToOffload", "duolingo"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-07.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Why I hike"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-07T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:17:44-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:20-05:00
 tags = ["outdoors", "100DaysToOffload", "hiking"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ Why I hike.   A picture is worth 1000 words
 
 {{< figure src="/ox-hugo/sun-behind-ice-on-tree.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"Sun behind ice on tree\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/sun-behind-ice-on-tree.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="600px" >}}
 
-<!--more-->
-
 I went hiking in Shenandoah national park Satuday.
 Pictures here <https://pixelfed.social/p/eludom/396268280449793695>
 

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-11.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "IPv6 Day"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-11T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T09:00:55-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:02-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "100DaysToOffload", "Internet"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-13.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Ἰλιάς"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-13T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:38:53-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:07-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "history", "snark"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-14.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "The mighty Casey has struck out"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-14T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:39:06-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:06-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "sports", "poetry"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-15.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Oh, you gotta get a glory in the work you do"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-15T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:39:25-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:06-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "poetry", "work"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-18.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
-title = "Oh, Little Town of Harpers Ferry, How Still We See Thee Lie!"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+title = "Oh, Little Town of Harpers Ferry, How Still We See Thee Lie"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T09:04:22-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:06-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-23.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Hiking and Art"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-23T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T10:13:02-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:19-05:00
 tags = ["outdoors", "hiking", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "It seems like a good day for some Russian opera"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T11:19:05-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:06-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "history", "music"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-27.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "George Washington Slept Here"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-27T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-27T11:32:29-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:57-05:00
 tags = ["history", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-02-28.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 +++
 title = "When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-02-28T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-28T07:41:24-05:00
-tags = ["news"]
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:58-05:00
+tags = ["news", "philosophy", "history"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
 +++

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Present Duties"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-03-03T06:03:02-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:06-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "The lesson of history"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-03-03T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-03-03T06:03:34-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:57-05:00
 tags = ["history", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-03-05.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Peace be with you"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-03-05T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-03-05T08:13:50-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:57-05:00
 tags = ["news", "philosophy", "history", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ years by they way I asses things and how I've reacted.
 
 I wish you peace.
 
-\#17 of #100DaysToOffload take 2, <https://100daystooffload.com/>
+\#18 of #100DaysToOffload take 2, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "To self host or not to self host, that is the question?"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-03-22T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-03-22T21:08:03-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:51-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "100DaysToOffload", "blogging", "life"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "It will be done when it's done"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-03-24T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-03-26T07:45:26-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:05-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "history", "gif"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ knack for knocking out the right project at the right time, be it the
 3 DEC10 compilers in the 70s and early 80s, the "Host Micro Interface"
 (HMI) protocol that let the Information Service move away from
 text-only command line interfaces, to WinCIM (the CompuServe graphical
-Interface_UI_Information Manager on Windows).  I used capabilities
+Interface/UI/Information Manager on Windows).  I used capabilities
 provided in WinCIM to write FTP and Telenet gateways that allowed
 users to access the Internet.  Steve also wrote libraries included in
 WinCIM that provided enough functionality for me to write a web

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@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 +++
-title = "I close my eyes, only for a moment, but the moment's gone"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+title = """
+  "I close my eyes, only for a moment, but the moment's gone"
+  """
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-03-30T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-03-30T06:25:00-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:05-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "New Cars"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-03-31T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-01T07:35:33-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:05-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Hope springs eternal."
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-04-03T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-03T17:35:48-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:19-05:00
 tags = ["outdoors", "hiking", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ draft = false
 -   Your gear always works.
 -   Your physical conditioning is always good.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-lake_small.jpg" caption="Figure 1: [\"Sun on lake\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-lake%5Fsmall.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-lake_small.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"Sun on lake\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-lake_small.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
 
 <!--more-->
 
@@ -28,19 +28,19 @@ This is bloodroot.  I also saw a few early violets.  The
 daffodils are up. The forsythia are starting.  Red-buds soon.  Then
 dogwoods.  Spring in northern Virginia !
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-flower_small.jpg" caption="Figure 2: [\"Spring Flowers\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-flower%5Fsmall.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-flower_small.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 2: </span>[\"Spring Flowers\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-flower_small.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
 
 This is a nice flat stretch.  Somehow every time you start you think
 it will be like this.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-perfect-trail_rotated.jpg" caption="Figure 3: [\"Perfect trail\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-perfect-trail%5Frotated.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-perfect-trail_rotated.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 3: </span>[\"Perfect trail\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-perfect-trail_rotated.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
 
 This is a water-removal feature that was being installed by fellow
 trail maintainers as I hiked.  It is a textbook example that follows
 the "SET" principal where the features are Sustainable, Effective
 and Traversable.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-water_small.jpg" caption="Figure 4: [\"Water Removal - Textbook Example\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-water%5Fsmall.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-water_small.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 4: </span>[\"Water Removal - Textbook Example\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/2022-04-02-water_small.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="400px" >}}
 
 Somehow, getting out in nature in early spring renews hope.
 

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@@ -2,18 +2,18 @@
 title = "Life! Carpe diem! Carpe viam! Carpe vitam!"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-04-08T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-08T07:29:21-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:05-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
 +++
 
-I am listening to Jack Kerouac's [On the Road - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FRoad).  What a
+I am listening to Jack Kerouac's [On the Road - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road).  What a
 rant!  What a
 stream-of-consciousness-grab-life-by-the-horns-drink-until-it-kills-you
 peaan to not missing a single moment or experience in life !
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/upwared_and_onward.jpg" caption="Figure 1: [\"Upward and Onward\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/upwared%5Fand%5Fonward.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="300px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/upwared_and_onward.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"Upward and Onward\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/upwared_and_onward.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="300px" >}}
 
 <!--more-->
 

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Shared Experiences"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-04-12T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-14T07:31:21-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:04-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "TrailThoughts", "outdoors"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Shared experiences bring us together.
 This is some (possibly obvious) introspection involving the
 Appalachian Trail, the moon landing and the Beatles.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/earthrise.jpg" caption="Figure 1: [\"Archive: Apollo 11 Sees Earthrise (NASA, Marshall, 07/69)\" by by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0](https://live.staticflickr.com/8300/7974034982%5F5e581e9795.jpg)" width="400px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/earthrise.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"Archive: Apollo 11 Sees Earthrise (NASA, Marshall, 07/69)\" by by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0](https://live.staticflickr.com/8300/7974034982_5e581e9795.jpg)" width="400px" >}}
 
 <!--more-->
 

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Spring Creeping Up The Mountain"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-04-17T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-18T06:02:45-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:19-05:00
 tags = ["outdoors", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ the fall you can see the colors (leaves changing) creeping down the
 mountain because it’s colder as you go up. Here you can see spring
 creeping up the mountain.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/spring_creeping.jpg" caption="Figure 1: [\"Spring Creeping Up The Mountain\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/spring%5Fcreeping.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="600px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/spring_creeping.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"Spring Creeping Up The Mountain\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/spring_creeping.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="600px" >}}
 
 <!--more-->
 

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Marcus Aurelius was right"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-04-19T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-19T19:46:51-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:04-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ those lines from Longfellow, Bob Dylan, the Apostle Paul and Reinhold
 Neibuhr, some of classics of "Don't worry, be happy".  Now if I can
 just internalize some of this...
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/boom_small.jpg" caption="Figure 1: [\"The cannon thundered in the South,\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/boom%5Fsmall.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="600px" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/boom_small.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"The cannon thundered in the South,\" by George Jones](http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/boom_small.jpg) is licenced under [CC SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)" width="600px" >}}
 
 <!--more-->
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ And mocks the song
 Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
 ```
 
-<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%5FHeard%5Fthe%5FBells%5Fon%5FChristmas%5FDay>
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heard_the_Bells_on_Christmas_Day>
 
 Marcus Aurelius is right.  Worry keeps you from doing the good you can
 do now, both for the benefit of yourself and those around you.  It

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-04-22.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Can I get the job done by doing nothing?"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-04-22T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-23T06:14:27-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:59-05:00
 tags = ["work", "100DaysToOffload", "GTD"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ already have will do the job.  Don't spend hours getting a slide deck
 to %100 perfection when what you really need to do is talk over some
 ideas and the existing material is sufficient to spark conversation.
 
-Thanks to Russell Leighton  for the mind-boggling obvious idea.
+Thanks to Russell Leighton (then) at AWS  for the mind-boggling obvious idea.
 
 \#26 of #100DaysToOffload take 2, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 +++
-title = "\"We\" are \"pleased\" to.."
+title = """
+  "We" are "pleased" to..
+  """
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-04-26T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-04-26T07:18:32-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:04-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Black Lives Matter … the 1852 version."
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-10-07T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-10-30T05:18:30-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:57-05:00
 tags = ["history", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -2,14 +2,12 @@
 title = "It's Manjaro !!!"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-10-19T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-10-19T19:49:31-04:00
-tags = ["geek", "linux"]
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:01-05:00
+tags = ["geek", "linux", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
 +++
 
-After something like 10 or 15 years on Ubuntu, I'm moving on to Arch/Manjaro.
-
 <!--more-->
 
 ```text

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@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 title = "Friends"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-10-23T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-10-23T04:25:14-04:00
-tags = ["life"]
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:04-05:00
+tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
 +++

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "The way to get something done is to not do everything else."
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-10-24T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-10-25T05:10:24-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:04-05:00
 tags = ["life"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Get going, go get go git going"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-10-30T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-10-30T05:16:15-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:45-05:00
 tags = ["short", "humor", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-10-30b.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Check Czech Check, Czech? Check!"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-10-30T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-10-30T05:19:26-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:45-05:00
 tags = ["short", "humor", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title = """
   """
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-11-06T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-11-06T05:40:40-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:03-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "reading", "politics"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-11-08.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "To publish my configs, or not, that is the question."
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-11-08T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-11-08T07:28:29-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:40-05:00
 tags = ["HOWTO", "100DaysToOffload", "linux"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Just a flu shot"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-11-18T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-11-18T02:49:12-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:03-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "EmacsConf 2022 - Day 1"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-12-04T06:19:55-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:51-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "100DaysToOffload", "emacs"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2022-12-04.md

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 title = "Why do we hack?"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-12-04T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-12-05T07:01:14-05:00
-tags = ["life", "geek", "100DaysToOffload", "emacs"]
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:03-05:00
+tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "emacs"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
 +++
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ I asked:
 >
 > A: I use it for reading and writing email; this is what I do most of the day.  (Sings)
 > "I've been answering my email,
-> all the g****-d**\******* day / .. / &lt;transcriber lost the thread about here [lyrics available at <https://stallman.org/doggerel.html#IveBeenAnsweringMyEmail>]
+> all the g\*\*-d\*\*\*\*\* day / .. / &lt;transcriber lost the thread about here [lyrics available at <https://stallman.org/doggerel.html#IveBeenAnsweringMyEmail>]
 
 Which confirmed my suspicion about non-use of the ecosystem.... but a
 live performance of his own parody song about email? Score one for touching

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "Mark Twain quote on cryptocurrency (via ChatGPT)"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-12-10T00:00:00-05:00
-lastmod = 2022-12-10T08:00:32-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:57-05:00
 tags = ["news", "philosophy", "history", "100DaysToOffload", "geek", "latin"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "The unnumbered habits of a questionably effective person"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2022-12-25
-lastmod = 2022-12-26T06:48:59-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:01-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "orgmode", "emacs", "100DaysToOffload", "life"]
 categories = ["blog"]
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 title = "Successful?"
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 title = "Generation P"
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 title = "Death, Taxes, and Job"
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 title = "Try writing more, you'll worry less"
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 publishDate = 2023-02-04T00:00:00-05:00
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+title = "Making lists"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-02-07T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:02-05:00
+tags = ["life", "emacs", "100DaysToOffload", "orgmode"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+Dad made lists. Lots of them. I have Emacs org mode.
+
+Making lists is part of the story I tell myself about how I'm working
+on the right things and getting them done.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+Dad was an incurable list maker. He had to-do lists from Mom. He wrote
+detailed instructions (a list) of how to set up the camper. He posted
+lists of the date that each of my brothers and me would start paying for their
+own gas for the car and the milage rate. When he used computers he
+decided to save everything on USB drives. There was (is) a list indexing
+those USB drives. There were multiple phone lists updated regularly.
+There were (are) song lists in the harmonica case.
+
+I have [Emacs Org Mode](https://orgmode.org/) ("Your life in plain text"), the penultimate
+list making software.
+
+The lists I make on computers bear only tangential relationship to
+what I do.  They are never done.  In fact, computers make it all to
+easy to make lists of more things than I could every do.  So, why?
+
+The fantasy is that when I make lists, they are organized, complete,
+logical, right, drive all that I do (and don't do) and that I'm more
+effective, accomplish more and am happier as a result.  Or maybe I
+just need the illusion of order.
+
+The reality is, I do what I do.  I am time bounded.  Lists grow to
+infinity.  Lists are there more to make me feel good than to drive
+actual behavior, so that I can tell myself (and others) that I am
+ORGanized.  Lists are there for psychological reasons.  They are there
+because I like making lists.  It's enjoyment of the process and the
+illusions about what they help me accomplish, not, for the most part,
+because I get more done (but I _think_ I do...no, really....)
+
+True, it is better to have a plan than no plan.  "If you aim at
+nothing, you will hit it every time."  Got it.  But, in reality, lists
+are part of the story I tell myself about how I'm working on the right
+things and getting them done.
+
+Now,
+
+> `M-x org-agenda`
+
+what am I doing today? ...
+
+\#46 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+title = "Count Your Blessings"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-02-09T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:02-05:00
+tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+Do something radical.
+
+> Count your blessings, name them one by one
+
+Literally.  Do it.   Write them down.  Meditate on all the good stuff
+in your life.  Maybe even give thanks.
+
+<https://hymnary.org/text/when_upon_lifes_billows_you_are_tempest>
+
+(the fact that this follows yesterdays "[Making Lists](http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2023-02-07/)" musing is just
+coincidental ... he asserts ... our maybe it's the positive application)
+
+\#47 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+title = "Hikers, Volunteers, Hard Work and Relationships"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-03-11T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:18-05:00
+tags = ["outdoors", "snark"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+In your "Presidents Log Book Entry" [article in the monthly newsletter](https://www.patc.net/docs/PATC/Newsletters/2023/PA_2023_03.pdf), you
+talked about the need for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC)
+to build its "brand identity" to reach our target "consumers". About
+that...
+
+<!--more-->
+
+I'm involved in PATC as a trail maintainer and an avid hiker with 1700
+miles of an AT Section hike over 14 years. I'm in it to meet the likes
+of Tom Johnson, one of your predecessors as PATC president. I ran into
+him once in the middle of a long day-hike, corresponded a bit and devoured
+the copy of the [history of the PATC](https://www.patc.net/docs/About%20PATC/History-PATC-14Aug2020byTomJohnson.pdf) which he wrote and sent to me shortly
+before he passed on while leading a hike. I'm in it to work with
+Jon &amp; Katherine Rindt, Mosby district supervisors. I admire their non-ceasing
+selfless work to clear 100s of blow downs, corral the cats (volunteers
+like me), fix signage, work with the county/state/parks to get parking
+lots fixed, etc. I'm in it to take trail maintenance classes from the
+likes of Robert Fina and to, again, admire the dedication, learning
+and investment of time and resources he puts into it. I do my little
+bit, but there are giants out there. I'm in it to take walks with my
+family, to meet casual hikers and to talk to the steady stream of thru-hikers
+who are on a mission. I'm in it drag my daughter-in-law, a professional
+ornithologist, out with me to do maintenance and to be amazed as she
+identifies 30+ in species of birds around us on one outing without
+even seeing most of them. She then put together a display about the
+birds that is in the display case at the Tucker Lane parking lot (thanks
+to Jon, too).
+
+So, yeah, brand identity. I'd welcome the chance to get to know you
+and to talk to you about it, one-on-one. I could use some help cleaning
+out water bars and weed-wacking my section once the vegetation gets
+going later this spring.  Let me know if you'd like to help.
+
+\#48 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+title = "Who 'ya gonna trust?  CNN, Podcasts, ChatGPT…"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-05-14T00:00:00-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:58-05:00
+tags = ["news", "philosophy", "history", "100DaysToOffload", "life", "geek", "AI"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+On my [Mastadon feed](https://fosstodon.org/@saluki/110354524960932474%22) this week, the question was asked
+
+> "Why have #podcasts become so popular in the last few years? What's changed?"
+
+I think there are a lot of answers...
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/dorothy.png" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[ChatGPT rendering of \"Make an image of Dorothy Gale of Kanasas riding a bucking bronco with the wicked witch flying on her broom in the background and a tornado behind that\" by ChatGPT and George Jones is licensed under ????](https://foo.com/BAR/BAZ.JPG)" width="200px" >}}
+
+<!--more-->
+
+My answers include
+
+> No need for the overhead or editorial control of older media forms.
+> Lower production and distribution costs.  A wide range of presenters
+> and topics.
+
+I think there's going to be another HUGE
+reason to tune unto long-form talking-heads/analysis style podcasts:
+You can be pretty sure (at last for a while) that the people talking
+are people, not, e.g. ChatGPT spitting out articles.   If you want to
+hear what PEOPLE are saying and thinking, for the time being podcasts
+are it. When we get to the point that AI generation of TV anchors and White
+House press secretaries is common place, we will have arrived at an
+existential crisis of trust in all mass-market delivered content.
+
+At that point, your best bet will be to have live, in-person,
+one-on-one interactions with real people.   And, come to think of it,
+in any event, talking to people more might not be such a bad idea.
+
+\#49 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+title = "What matters in work?"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-12-02T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:58-05:00
+tags = ["work", "100DaysToOffload"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+The chart below is a mental framework I've used to evaluate my work
+situation over the span
+of may career.  The goal is to move as far up the pyramid as you can.
+Being at the top (interesting )is really a first or zeroth world
+problem.  Insert discussion of human flourishing/εὐδαιμονία here.
+If you're failing at a lower level, the upper layers really don't matter.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/maslow2023.png" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[Maslow's Heirarchy of Jobs ](http://git.galthub.com:3000/gmj/home.public.art/src/master/home/public/art/maslow2023.png)© 2023 George M. Jones, is is made available under the terms of the [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)" width="600px" >}}
+
+\#50 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+title = "Thanks Sacha !"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-12-09T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-09T06:39:47-05:00
+tags = ["geek", "100DaysToOffload", "emacs"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+<center>
+<pre>
+Ode to emacsconf 2023
+
+
+All the world’s a text,
+And all the men and women merely editors;
+They have their reads and their writes,
+And Emacs in its time plays many parts...
+</pre>
+With apologies to William Shakespeare and actual odes.
+</center>
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/emacsconf2015.png" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>\"2015-02-02 Making a virtual Emacs conference happen -- index card #emacs #organizing-people #conference #planning #questions\" by sachac is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse>." width="600px" >}}
+
+<!--more-->
+
+Emacs is a tangent to life.
+
+We use Emacs around the edges of life.
+It's adjacent to everything we do: our work, our finances, our art,
+and, oh yea, our code too.
+
+Our life is text.  Emacs is a text editor.  Emacs itself is text.  We
+edit Emacs with Emacs.  "All the world's a text...."
+
+Emacs gives us a (false?) sense of control. It's shiny object. Using
+it turns parts of our lives into encounters mediated by a shiny object.
+Or maybe it just leads us down rabbit-holes when we should be paying
+the bills.
+
+Emacs is a community. A worldwide diapora of isolated geeks. It is
+a form of existential self expression.  It can be cathartic.
+
+We share all this once a year at <https://emacsconf.org/> emacsconf,
+thanks to [Sacha Chua](https://sachachua.com/blog/) and friends.
+
+Thanks, Sacha.
+
+"Now wait, how was I planing to tweak that capture template? ...."
+
+\#51 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+title = "Changing the world, one side project at a time"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-22T09:58:01-05:00
+tags = ["work", "100DaysToOffload", "compuserve", "history"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+It is somehow fitting that the day I retire, the state of Ohio chose
+to unveil an historical marker outside the former headquarters of my
+first employer, CompuServe. I guess I'm history :-)
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/cs_history_marker.gif" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"CompuServe Historical Marker\"](https://foo.com/BAR/BAZ.JPG)" width="400px" >}}
+
+I started in June of 1985, and, looking back, what was going
+on there was world changing: the first commercial email, the first
+online banking, the first online shopping, the first electronic news
+wire feed, the first song released exclusively online (Arrowsmith 1994),
+online chat (CB), OS and compiler development, VPNs (X.25 !), data
+over cable in '82 ...
+
+In the course of my career, it turns out that many of the things that
+mattered wound up coming out of individual side projects, not grand
+corporate visions.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+
+## <span class="section-num">1</span> Side projects {#side-projects}
+
+
+### <span class="section-num">1.1</span> The Eternal September, sorry. {#the-eternal-september-sorry-dot}
+
+One of my earliest lasting contributions resulted from a side
+project that I put my good friend  [karl kleinpaste](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlkleinpaste/), up to:
+creating the first Compuserve `<->` Internet mail gateway
+as a skunk-works project while we were both working at Ohio State Computer
+Science. Karl followed up with a USENET `<->` CompuServe gateway,
+which was soon copied by AOL leading to the [eternal september](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
+Sorry.
+
+Eternal September seems to be about to repeat it self with
+facebook's "threads" [implementing a gateway to Mastadon](https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/mastodon-founder-touts-threads-federation-saying-it-makes-his-x-rival-a-far-more-attractive-option/).
+
+
+### <span class="section-num">1.2</span> The Web Browser that never was {#the-web-browser-that-never-was}
+
+Then there was this web browser I wrote at CompuServe that would have
+let the masses access the WWW before most people had even dial-up Internet.
+But the corporate powers-that-be we're not sure this web thing was
+going to catch on, so it was never released. Vision !!!
+
+It depended on a graphics library and the WinCIM interface
+developed by
+[Steve Wilhite](http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2022-03-24/)
+(of GIF fame)
+
+
+### <span class="section-num">1.3</span> The editor that created Linux {#the-editor-that-created-linux}
+
+In early CompuServe days, Wilhite  and I did
+    a little collaborative coding to to improve
+[MicroEmacs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS),
+    I posted the source code to the Usenet group comp.sources.amiga and it took on a life
+    of it's own thanks to Daniel Laurence, first being called
+    MicroGNUEmacs until RMS himself objected to the use of "GNU" in the
+    name.
+[Linus Torvalds (he of Linux fame) maintains a verison of MicroEmacs.](https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs)
+And
+[Carsten Dominik](https://sachachua.com/blog/2013/03/emacs-chat-carsten-dominik/),
+creator of
+[Org Mode ("Your life in plain text")](https://orgmode.org/)
+was an early user and was influenced by it.
+
+Org Mode is central to most parts of my life today.  What goes around,
+comes around.
+
+
+### <span class="section-num">1.4</span> SANS, IETF, Flocon, the White House {#sans-ietf-flocon-the-white-house}
+
+Along the way I wrote [The Router Audit Tool (RAT)](http://port111.com/george/talks/Jones-2002-SANS.pdf).
+Offshoots of this work
+fed indirectly (via XCCDF) into the creation of STIX and TAXII.
+[John Stewart](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-n-stewart/),
+the venture capitalist and former CISO and VP of Cisco and
+[Neil Ziring](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neal-ziring-779890a9/),
+    tech director at NSA, contributed code to the project while I was
+    leading it.  Alan Paller of SANS convinced me to release it through
+    the [Center for Internet Security](https://www.cisecurity.org/) as one of their benchmark tools.
+    RAT started as a side project at UUNET.
+
+Also at UUNET I started what became RFC3871:
+<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3871>.  The IETF OpSec working group
+continues to this day as an offshoot ("Many fine lunches"?).  This was
+a side project that spanned UUNET and MITRE.
+
+While at CERT (CERT/CC at Carnegie-Mellon, the original CERT, not
+US-CERT) I had the opportunity to chair <https://www.flocon.org/> twice.
+This was something of a side project for the organization, but one
+that got resources (my time).
+
+Also at CERT I had the opportunity to provide netflow analysis
+training to the White House SOC.
+
+
+### <span class="section-num">1.5</span> Side projects at Palo Alto {#side-projects-at-palo-alto}
+
+At Expanse/Palo Alto I spent a lot of time staring  at Internet scan
+data, trying to figure out what vulnerable devices were presenting
+themselves to us (and hackers). An irony here being that 15 years earlier we thought
+scanning was always bad, and there were PhD theses around how to detect
+it.
+[Mike Collins](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpcollins/)
+[is still cataloging scan traffic](https://gitlab.com/mcollins_at_isi/acknowledged_scanners)
+(give it up Mike, Internet traffic IS scan traffic :-))
+
+After Palo Alto acquired Expanse, I spent a fair bit of time understanding the
+vast array security-related data available for analysis in other parts
+of the company. In my judgment, Palo Alto may have the best overall
+collection of data for analyzing and addressing security threats, second,
+possibly, only to AWS. They actively work to use these data sources
+to protect customers, see
+[PanDB](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2014/10/web-security-tips-pan-db-works/),
+for instance. I presented on my findings
+at an annual internal meeting of researchers.  A side project.
+
+As part of that effort I met
+[Janos Szurdi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janos-szurdi-b40b3598/)
+and collaborated with him
+and other AMAZING researchers in that division, mostly on informal
+projects such as an internal "Hackathon", my role mostly being to
+advise on the use of Expanse datasets.  The result can be seen in
+[Janos' blog post about detecting stockpiled domains](https://janos.szurdi.com/blog/stockpiled-detector/)
+
+ At this year's internal research meeting
+[Tim Hofmockel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-hofmockel-a31437100/)
+ and I explored further
+ applications of combining data sources to support security analysis to solve
+ our customers challenges.
+Such meetings are side projects for everyone, but the in-person interactions
+that happen there are what gets the creative and collaborative juices
+flowing and are often the source of further outside-the-box projects.
+I think that's why I like them, and why companies fund them.
+
+There is a possible patent coming out of some side efforts (this would
+be the first of my career).
+
+
+## <span class="section-num">2</span> The Amazon Leadership Principals {#the-amazon-leadership-principals}
+
+There is one set of corporate mumbo-jumbo I actually believe in:
+the [Amazon Leadership Principals](https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles).  They stick with you.  They form a
+way of thinking about the world and getting things done: Dive Deep,
+Learn and Be Curious, Bias for Action, Earn Trust, Disagree and
+Commit, Deliver Results.  It's said that some Amazonians have to try
+hard to turn them off with family.
+
+I think one of the reason those struck such a cord with me is that
+I saw them modeled 10 years before Amazon was founded at an early,
+impressionable period in my carrer. You could not have found a better
+description of Steve Wilhite (but one would have to add laconic, curmudgeonly,
+self-assured, stubborn and a few other adjectives)
+
+I'm holding my Amazon stock despite Andy Jassey now being in charge
+and the FTC going on an anti-trust fishing expedition.  The company is
+solid. And the leadership principals and customer obsession are a
+large part of it.
+
+
+## <span class="section-num">3</span> People matter. {#people-matter-dot}
+
+Yes, you have to have corporate vision statements to keep investors
+happy and make HR VPs think they are relevant, but so often what matters
+are the side projects, the accidents, and things that fly under the
+radar.
+
+I have it from Wilhite (30+ years ago) that the first DEC10 was delivered
+to CompuServe by mistake. It was then the computing arm of Goden United
+Life Insurnace Compay. They had ordered a smaller machine from Digital
+Equiptment Corporation. When the DEC10 arrived, they kept it, eventually
+started selling extra cycles as time-sharing (Cloud Computing, 1975),
+built a packet switched network, c.a. 1972 (take that ARPANet), started
+the first online service, c.a. 1979, and much of the world as we know
+it today was born.
+
+Shortly thereafter, Dan Piskur had to invent "Cybersecurity" _ab initio_.
+
+Wilhite left Ohio State during the 1970 riots to go do fun work on a
+big computer at a startup down the road.  He never finished his
+degree. Too much to do.  Things worked out.  I think I can say the
+same.
+
+People matter. Individuals matter.  Side projects matter (again,
+see [Wilhite and GIF](http://curious.galthub.com/blog/steve/).).
+
+So make your strategic plans, track things in your kan-ban boards, have
+project managers run your agile sprints, but remember
+
+> "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
+>
+> --- John Lennon, 1980 in "Beautiful Boy"
+
+\#52 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+title = "Congress, Big Pharma and Kickbacks, Oh My !!!"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2023-12-30T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2024-01-08T10:47:16-05:00
+tags = ["life"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
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+
+GoodRX may save my son $3,500 or more on his prescription meds.  This
+is a large fraction of the income he's earning on his first job.
+
+Congress exempted "Big Phrama" from kickback rules in the 90s, the
+result seems to be that prices signals are allowed to work in the market
+to the benefit of people who would otherwise  be made poor buying
+medicine they need at artificially high prices.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+I was wondering how GoodRx gets such deep discounts.  From:
+<https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2022/02/24/dear-watchdog-how-does-goodrx-knock-down-the-price-so-steeply-for-many-drugs-at-the-pharmacy/>
+
+> GoodRx says it earns money when a customer uses her or his GoodRx code
+> to make a purchase. Even more money is made when the consumer becomes
+> a repeat customer.
+>
+> To be clear on this, when you use a GoodRx code, a PBM receives a portion
+> of that. GoodRx then receives a percentage or a fixed payment from
+> the PBM for directing the customer to that PBM's pricing and the pharmacy,
+> the company explains.
+>
+> In other industries, these payments could be called illegal kickbacks.
+> But in the early 1990s, Congress exempted drug companies' rebates from
+> federal anti-kickback laws. The thinking was that the payments could
+> serve as a negotiating tool, according to _Consumer Reports_.
+
+Reason has a series of podcats that shows how federal
+government myopia of a different sort (tariffs) cause baby-food shortages
+<https://reason.com/podcasts/nice-things/>
+
+\#53 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2024-01-08.md

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++++
+title = """
+  "I ain't no Senators son, no !"
+  """
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2024-01-20T10:17:16-05:00
+tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload", "retirement"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
++++
+
+Warning. First-world baby-boomer problem described here:
+
+```text
+So, I'm stitting here on the group-W bench, I'm just sitting here...
+```
+
+OK.  Really.  Not trying to get out of the Viet Nam draft, just having
+another surreal interaction with the US Federal government 50 years later
+along the lines of:
+
+```text
+Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
+Ah, they really help themselves
+But when the tax man comes to the door
+Lord, the house look a rummage sale, oh yeah
+
+John Fogerty/Credence Clearwater Revival
+https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catpower/fortunateson.html
+```
+
+<!--more-->
+
+I retired last month.  As a result of a lot of luck and about 38 years
+hard work, I have more money now than at any other point in my life,
+and thanks to the Obamacare (ACA) rules and the way my finances are
+structured I have strong incentives to arrange things so that I have
+very little "income" this year.   In fact, I'm flirting with having so
+little income that I would qualify for Medicaid and be at or near the
+federal poverty level.
+
+So, yeah, I'm trying to make the house (1040) look like a "rummage
+sale" all for benefit of the taxman.  And
+it's all legal and right there on the the government web sites, just a
+twisted bunch of incentives.
+
+It's just surreal.
+
+```text
+There's one for you, nineteen for me,
+should five percent appear to small,
+be thankful I don't take
+it all, 'case I'm the taxman
+
+George Harrison, the nascient neo-con
+```
+
+\#53 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2024-01-20.md

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+title = "Digging through layers of obfuscation"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-01-20T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2024-01-20T10:15:15-05:00
+tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
++++
+
+This is a story about the similarity between finding good information
+to identify vulnerable devices on the Internet and finding the info
+one needs to sign up for US health care.
+
+Hint: in one of these domains it's possible to find facts. In the other
+there is a shifting maze of marketing, laws, partisan media coverage,
+and bureaucracies who's goal is to profit from making it impossible to
+find facts and make decisions on your own.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+In my last job at Palo Alto Networks/Cortex Expanse
+(<https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xpanse>), one of the
+things I did was dig through data that we generated by scanning the
+entire Internet regularly to identify devices and applications
+on the Internet so that we could inform our customers what potential
+attackers saw to allow them to fix it.
+
+One thing I learned pretty quickly was that you had to get past
+marketing and sales info to find useful information.   A first step
+was usually to search and exclude the companie's web site (ususally
+mostly marketing material) from the results.   Someitmes I went
+looking for technical manuals and installation guides, the "rubber
+meets the road" reality for making things work "Open up these firewall
+ports....".  Acquisuitions (company name changes) and product
+name changes (a favorite pass-time of marketing departments) where another source of confusion.   I generally found that
+the older the info was (tech startup's first engineer-written product
+description) was often the best source of infomation ... the longer
+the marketing people had their hands on it, the fuzzier and more
+confusing things got.   Once you see "The market leader in..." it's
+time to move on.   The acutal information content will approach zero.
+
+I tell you that story to tell you this one.
+
+Having just retired, I'm looking at health care, both ACA (ObamaCare)
+and Medicare for myself and may family.  It turns out the same
+marketing obfuscation applies here, and I've not yet figured out how
+to filter out the mis-information.
+
+But wait, there's more. In this space we're dealing with a political
+football (healtcare) where the laws and regulaitons change every year,
+where there is highly partisan coverage of the topic, and where mistakenly
+giving out your phone number can result in 30 robocalls a day for a
+week.
+
+I'm not sure I will be able to find digestable spin-free sources of
+truth in the health care space. There are too many vested interests
+with a stake in keeping things confusing allowing them to posture to
+appear to be "the solution". It's not about healthcare. It's about
+votes, maintaining bureaucracies, keeping things complicated so you
+need to pay people to help you and in general siphoning off as much
+money as possible at every step.
+
+I pay a physician friend directly, out-of-pocket, no insurance for
+basic primary care.  I get what I pay for, no more, no less, with none
+of the obfuscation or competing interests, no office manager or staff
+to deal with, no claims to file, no stupid one-size-fits-all policies
+that are actually a hazard to my health.  And I get good
+informatoion, unfiltered.
+
+\#55 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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++++
+title = "We've got to do better than this"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-01-25T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2024-01-25T08:11:00-05:00
+tags = ["cybersecurity", "secuity", "privacy", "perspective", "100DaysToOffload"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
++++
+
+We've got to do better than this ... <https://haveibeenpwned.com/>
+
+Not sure what the answer(s) is(are).  Decentralization?  Required 2FA?
+Returning to the offline world?
+
+<!--more-->
+
+Several of my accounts were in the list multiple times.  And then, our
+friends at the credit bureau lost it all 6 years ago,
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach>, and a large US
+federal agency that does backgournd clearance investigations a few
+years before that and Snowden a few years before that (and at the
+moment Congress does seems uninterested in FISA reform).
+
+Life goes on? We all seem to be conditioned to thinking that this is
+normal and OK.
+
+\#56 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2024-03-02.md

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++++
+title = "Be kind to your call center friends"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2024-03-02T08:37:43-05:00
+tags = ["news", "philosophy", "history", "100DaysToOffload", "life"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
++++
+
+I'm going to subvert the system and try to connect with humans I talk
+to in call centers as humans ... at least until they are all replaced
+by AI.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/brazil.gif" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>[\"No good deed unpunished, from Brazil\"](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72844/13-fascinating-facts-about-brazil) courtesy of MENTAL FLOSS may be copyrighted." width="200px" >}}
+
+<!--more-->
+
+My life has taken a turn where it looks like I will be talking to lots of
+customer service people on the phone: medical stuff, tax stuff,
+insurance stuff.  Oh joy.
+
+It's no fun for me, but even less fun for them. They are likely working
+an 8-5 job (at best), dealing with angry frustrated people for low
+pay, having their calls recorded by "the man", fed to AI for analysis,
+graded on how quickly they get people off the phone, with often no
+knowledge of the big picture, and no empowerment (or encouragement)
+to actually understand and solve problems that are not on their call
+script....generally a bad place to be.
+
+I'm going to try to subvert the system with each call.   My goal
+(beyond getting insurance bills corrected, etc) will be to connect
+with the human on the line.  To get their name, to read their mood,
+to connect on some human topic, likely small.
+
+Some will likely be annoyed or threatened by anything that takes them
+off script or out of their role or adds 3 seconds to their measured
+time on phone per call, but I think it's important to acknowledge the
+humans in the system when we do manage to get past the AI chatbots.
+
+I/they may be rewarded with Winston Smith (1984)/Sam Lowry (Brazil)
+torture in the end (or just having the system refuse to fucntion in
+mindless fashion), but I think the small act of humane rebellion will
+be it's own reward.
+
+\#57 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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++++
+title = "Insurance companies are using AI.  People will die."
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-03-19T00:00:00-04:00
+lastmod = 2024-03-19T11:43:21-04:00
+tags = ["news", "philosophy", "history", "100DaysToOffload"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
++++
+
+So, life.  Death.  Taxes.  Insurance companies and AI.
+
+This is one very real, present way AI is going to kill people.
+Not by HAL-9000 or Borg malevolence, but with a heavy dose of
+group-think by insurance companies.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+Life has brought me rather suddenly to the place that I'm interacting
+heavily with insurance companies about a medical issue for a loved
+one.
+
+The customer web site has a chat bot, and of course the
+"cut-every-direct-costs-ignore-the-consequences" insurance company
+pushes you hard to use it.   I did.   The output was semi-coherent,
+non-resposnive and tended to just spit out canned responses that you
+would find on the customer service web site (because, to be sure,
+that's what was trained on).
+
+I can read the web site.   When I call in, it's because I've already
+done that and can't get my question answered.   I need a person who
+understands things, can explain what I'm missing, and help me resolve
+non-standard problems.    But generally the people you get only know how to
+run a call script and maybe transfer you to other people who know how
+to run different call scripts.
+
+I got one of those who I think was a real human being, but, going
+foward with text to speach/speech to text all tied to AI on the back end,
+I'm pretty sure it's going to get to the point that you can ONLY
+interact with AI.  Yay, Turning test.
+
+So the person seemed to help me, seemed concerned, and promised to
+follow up on the issue I raised.   We even got into an email exchange.
+3 weeks later, no follow-up.   No resolution.
+
+I emailed back. The emails were all answered quickly, suspiciously
+quickly. It seemed to have no reference to the email exchange 3 weeks
+earlier, even though I had replied to the earlier message. It seemed
+unable to link ideas, reason or apply any common sense. I started getting
+the same snippits-from-web-site-docs replies. It told me that they
+both had and had not received something the doctor had sent them. Yup.
+AI again.
+
+It also helpfully recommended that I set up a 3 way call with their
+billing people and the doctor involved to resolve the billing issue.
+So, the doctor is asked to sit on hold for the benefit of the
+insurance company, not spending time helping patients with medical
+issues and, not billing valuable hours while waiting on hold with the
+insurance company.   Who's running this show?   For who's benefit?
+
+It would be interesting to see the results of some blind tests, A/B
+testing, etc. where customers got access to competent people to help
+them vs. only AI. I think we could measure the results in terms of
+mortality. That sort of testing would raise ethical issues (the value
+of a human life in terms of $).
+
+Aside from raising my blood pressure (stroke anyone?), it's going to
+delay needed care, give wrong/inconsistent answers (hallucinations
+etc), and cause caregivers, patients and medical professionals alike
+to waste time and figure out how to work around it.
+
+But I'm pretty sure what's going on is mid-to-upper level people inside
+insurance companies are just on the AI-hype bandwagon, driving it all
+the way down in their organizations, further dehumanizing customer
+service people before they lay them all off, and congratulating
+themselves on how forward looking they are and what good service they
+are providing.
+
+People are going to die.
+
+\#58 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

home/public/blog/content/Blog/2024-04-02.md

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
++++
+title = "The TNI is dead, long live the TNI"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-04-02T00:00:00-04:00
+lastmod = 2024-04-03T10:20:00-04:00
+tags = ["geek", "100DaysToOffload", "history"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
++++
+
+Today was the day I removed the TNI (Telephone Network Interface) from
+my house.   The last vestiges of our land line. The last outpost of a
+once vast network.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/tni2.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>\"This Phone Is Property of Ohio Bell\" by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0" width="200px" >}}
+
+<!--more-->
+
+There used to be vast infrastructure (the Telephone Network) that got
+phone calls from place to place. I remember sometime around 1969 (cub
+scouts?  Elementary school?) touring the local AT&amp;T building that
+housed rows and rows of mechanical switches that routed phone calls in
+our neighborhood.  For those with an eye for it, those buildings are
+still everywhere to be seen.   Square.  Few windows.  Brick.   In
+virtually every neighborhood.
+
+There was the Microwave relay tower near my grandfathers farm. Part
+of a nationwide network that supported the "Long lines", where AT&amp;T
+made it's money until Judge Green broke it up, costing the world Bell
+Labs (creator of the Transistor and Unix) in the process.
+
+I recently stayed at a friends house, vintage 1920s. It has a little
+alcove in the wall just off the kitchen that was undoubtedly for "the
+phone". Growing up we had "the kitchen phone", and one on my dad's
+desk. When it rang sometimes you had to dash to the other room to answer.
+
+Phones like the one pictured above could be thrown down the basement
+stairs onto a concrete floor and survive. Not that I would know. Bell
+ENGINEERED their hardware.
+
+I'm glad we have moved beyond that technology, but it made the world
+move for over a hundred years.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/tni.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 2: </span>\"The TNI about to be removed\" by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0" width="200px" >}}
+
+Read "[Exploding the Phone](https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280)" for an insightful and amusing history of
+the phone system, phone phreaks, the rise of hacker culture, and how
+Steve Jobs and Woz got their start selling blue boxes in the Berkeley
+dorms so students could "steal" long distance calls (my father's
+roommate got around the high cost of long distance in the 50's by using
+ham radio to "phone home").   The world has changed.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/explode.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 3: </span>\"[Exploding the Phone](https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280)\"\" by Phil Lapsley" width="200px" >}}
+
+\#59 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

home/public/blog/content/Blog/AT2020.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title = "AT Hiking 2020: 1500 miles down, 700 to go"
 author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-09-19
-lastmod = 2022-04-19T19:52:40-04:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:23-05:00
 tags = ["hiking", "AppalachianTrail", "outdoors", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Mt. Washington, the Whites, the Presidentials, the Bigelows, but with
 persistence, luck, health, constant gear tweaks (and some HARD hiking)
 I should finish in a few years.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2020-AT-Milage-Status.png" caption="Figure 1: Miles to go before I sleep" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/2020-AT-Milage-Status.png" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>Miles to go before I sleep" >}}
 
 \#100daystooffload #hiking
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ I should finish in a few years.
 
 82 miles, 6 nights.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/TheCobbles.jpg" caption="Figure 2: View From The Cobbles, Mt. Greylock, Cheshire Mass (in valley)" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/TheCobbles.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 2: </span>View From The Cobbles, Mt. Greylock, Cheshire Mass (in valley)" >}}
 
 From Sunday 2020-09-06 to Saturday 2020-09-12 I hiked 82 miles
 SOBO on the Appalachian Trail from Bennington, VT (VT 9) to
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ in a non-COVID high season.  "
 
 33.9 miles, 1 night
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/MaxPatch.jpg" caption="Figure 3: View From Max Patch in the Morning" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/MaxPatch.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 3: </span>View From Max Patch in the Morning" >}}
 
 Breakfast at diner. Shuttle to I-40.  Lost 1 - 1.5 hours because
 shuttle driver (NYC guy) was a slave to his GPS, would not just
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ trail done.
 
 99 Miles, 7 nights.
 
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/RobBird.jpg" caption="Figure 4: Rob Bird provided \"Trail Magic\" 2 hikes in a row" >}}
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/RobBird.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 4: </span>Rob Bird provided \"Trail Magic\" 2 hikes in a row" >}}
 
 "Mountian Squid" joined me for the first 3 miles.  Ran into 2
 older Russian couples who were out for the first time.  Hiked
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ into hot springs from Laurel Fork.  Zeroed at Laughing Heart
 hostle, shuttled back to Irwin to get car, drove, car broke down
 in Wythville (axel), rented a car, came home, started a new job,
 went back to Wythville Wednesday night.  Got car Thursday drove
-back to Hot Springs_Laughing Heart, run by "Chuck Norris" and
-"Tigger" ... former Jesuit retreat center_hostel.  Great place.
+back to Hot Springs/Laughing Heart, run by "Chuck Norris" and
+"Tigger" ... former Jesuit retreat center/hostel.  Great place.
 Got food in Hot Springs hiking in.  Big hill/rock steps coming
 down.
 

home/public/blog/content/Blog/Goodbye Twitter.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Goodbye Twitter"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-10-12
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:52:22-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:40-05:00
 tags = ["social"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/Im-passionate about.md

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 +++
-title = "\"​I'm passionate about…\"​"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+title = """
+  "​I'm passionate about…"​
+  """
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-03-09T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:41:07-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:59-05:00
 tags = ["Latin", "humanity", "work"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/NoTV.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "No TV"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2021-12-07
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:35:00-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:09-05:00
 tags = ["life"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/bashrc.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = ".bashrc as literate programming"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-12-05
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:55:33-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:50-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "howto", "emacs", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ Here is the human-readable .bashrc file with comments, etc.
 
 -  cd commands that use/print the directory stack
 
-    These aliases support pushd_popd_dirs like functionality while
+    These aliases support pushd/popd/dirs like functionality while
     listing one directory per line
 
     I like to keep a "stack" of directories so I can work on one thing

home/public/blog/content/Blog/bin-ed.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "HOWTO: /bin/ed by example"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-08-28
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:58:12-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:25-05:00
 tags = ["geek", "unix", "100DaysToOffload", "HOWTO"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ Below I **show** an editing session that uses basic `/bin/ed` commands.
 > `/bin/ed` is the standard Unix Editor
 
 `ed` was written round 1969.  It's still here.  `grep` comes from
-`/bin/ed`: `g/re/p` works as an ed command to search **g**lobally for a
-**re**gular expression and **p**rint the matching lines.  ed commands
+`/bin/ed`: `g/re/p` works as an ed command to search \*g\*lobally for a
+\*re\*gular expression and \*p\*rint the matching lines.  ed commands
 will be familiar to users of `sed`, as sed is the "stream editor"
 with a very similar set of commands.  ed commands will be familiar to
 `vi` users.  If you type ":" in vi, you get, basically, an ed prompt.

home/public/blog/content/Blog/cybersecurity-and-bears.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Bear attacks, no-win situations and cybersecurity"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-03-19T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:44:34-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:45:53-05:00
 tags = ["cybersecurity", "secuity", "privacy", "perspective", "bears"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/digital-chimney-smoke.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Digital chimney smoke?"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-04-27
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:33:25-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:10-05:00
 tags = ["life", "twitter", "DigitalFrontiers"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/disclaimer.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "Disclaimer"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-08-19
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:39:48-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:01-05:00
 tags = ["work", "philosophy", "humor", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

home/public/blog/content/Blog/dns-today.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 +++
 title = "HOWTO: Breaking and fixing DNS - Understanding modern DNS on Ubuntu."
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-10
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:51:40-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:45-05:00
 tags = ["DNS", "Ubuntu", "HOWTO", "Linux", "systemd"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ understanding, debugging and fixing it.
 <!--more-->
 
 
-## <span class="section-num">1</span> _etc_resolv.conf {#etc-resolv-dot-conf}
+## <span class="section-num">1</span> /etc/resolv.conf {#etc-resolv-dot-conf}
 
 If you  look at `/etc/resolv.conf` on a Linux system today (Ubuntu
 19.10) you will find something like:
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ dig - known-good nameserver
 dig - 127.0.0.53
 : I ran `$ dig www.uu.net @127.0.0.53` to see
     if the local systemd-resolved nameserver specified in
-    _etc_resolv.conf was working.  Nope.
+    /etc/resolv.conf was working.  Nope.
 
 
 systemd-resolved - how is it configured?
@@ -119,23 +119,19 @@ systemd-resolve - let systemd resolve a name
 : dig(1) and host(1) are
     not the only game in town for doing command line DNS look-ups.
     Systemd (of course) will do it for you:
-
     ```text
                           $ systemd-resolve www.uu.net
                           www.uu.net: 152.195.32.39
     ```
-
     In this case, it worked, which tells me that systemd-resolved
     is happy and working.
 
 
 try dig again
 : Try another "normal" lookup:
-
     ```text
                           $ dig www.uu.net
     ```
-
     This failed.  The conclusion seems to be that the whatever the
     resolver library is looking at (127.0.0.53) is not working.
 
@@ -239,7 +235,7 @@ debugging this problem further.
 run servers on dedicated systems
 : I had been messing with
     <https://pi-hole.net/> on this system (a laptop that mostly does
-    not move_go off the net).  There was some confusion_doubt
+    not move/go off the net).  There was some confusion/doubt
     about whether this interacted badly with things/caused the
     problems.   It may have.  I un-installed it.   But running a
     dedicated server would be better.
@@ -249,7 +245,7 @@ Failed Ubuntu "upgrade"
 : The actual trigger that made things not
     work was an attempt to let the Ubuntu installer upgrade the
     system.  This failed in strange ways.  After running, my
-    system which was Ubuntu 19.10 reported (_etc_issue) to being
+    system which was Ubuntu 19.10 reported (/etc/issue) to being
     18.04 and the pi-hole logs reported that they could not find
     the wireless interface it had been configured to use (but the
     device was still there, same name, still working...)

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 +++
 title = "What a day for a daydream"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-11-25
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:22:41-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:18-05:00
 tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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 +++
 title = "Latin Flash Cards in the 21st century (2773 AUC)"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-08-23
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:56:02-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:23-05:00
 tags = ["latin", "100DaysToOffload"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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 +++
 title = "Things that fall in the river get wet"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-25
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:58:30-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:21-05:00
 tags = ["life", "outdoors"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false
 +++
 
-1500 miles down, 700 to go to finish section hiking the Appalachian
-Trail with 215 miles completed this year in 3 trips.
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/paddling.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>Bryan paddling on the Shenandoah" width="400px" >}}
 
-Of course, I have some of the hardest miles left: the Smokies,
-Mt. Washington, the Whites, the Presidentials, the Bigelows, but with
-persistence, luck, health, constant gear tweaks (and some HARD hiking)
-I should finish in a few years.
 
-{{< figure src="./2020-AT-Milage-Status.png" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>Miles to go before I sleep" >}}
+## <span class="section-num">1</span> Intro {#intro}
 
-\#100daystooffload #hiking
+This weekend my son Bryan, friends (former scouts from Philmont days)
+Sam and Preston and friend Jack went on an canoe trip down the
+Shenandoah river.  We were only dumped in the river by two of the two
+rapids we encountered.  More on that below.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/swimming.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 2: </span>Things that fall in the river get wet" width="400px" >}}
 
 <!--more-->
 
 
-## <span class="section-num">1</span> 9/6 - 9/12/2020	Bennington VT to Great Barrington, Mass (Rt. 23) {#9-6-9-12-2020-bennington-vt-to-great-barrington-mass--rt-dot-23}
-
-82 miles, 6 nights.
-
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/TheCobbles.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 2: </span>View From The Cobbles, Mt. Greylock, Cheshire Mass (in valley)" >}}
-
-From Sunday 2020-09-06 to Saturday 2020-09-12 I hiked 82 miles
-SOBO on the Appalachian Trail from Bennington, VT (VT 9) to
-Great Barrington, Mass (Mass 23).  Highlights (high point) of
-the trip included Mt. Greylock, the highest point in Mass, the
-lovely town campsite in Cheshire, Mass, Camping by a beaver dam
-Sunday night and seeing Moose in the morning, lots of beaver
-dams/bogs, staying 2 nights (Thursday, Saturday before driving
-home) at the Berkshire Lakeside Lodge, a lovely little motel .2
-off the trail, and, of course, lots of hiking and people.
-Resupply in Dalton, Mass at the Post Office.  Chocolate shake
-and meatball grinder in Cheshire.  Pizza and milk in Dalton.
-Magic coming down to 20 Thursday in the most-of-the day rain.
-The weather, except for Thursday rain, was excellent.  Upper 50s
-to lower 80s.
-
-Pre-trip I stopped at a Legend Of Sleepy Hollow/Rip Van Winkle
-site, and just down the road the Martin Van Buren home, a short
-hike in Philmont (!), NY to a high waterfall that people were
-swimming under, saw some wild turkeys.  Stayed at the Days Inn
-in Great Barrington and got a shuttle Sunday morning from Debbie
-Andrus
-
-Post trip, I went back to the Berkshire Lakeside Lodge.  I'd
-spent time in the area.  Normal Rockwell museum.  Lakes.
-Tanglewood music festival (Boston Symphony summer series).
-Shaker village (I camped at the ""Shaker Campsite"").  West
-Stockbridge is a lovely little town.  It has the ""TurnPark"",
-an outdoor interactive art park where I met one of the artists
-(cutting the weeds).  Good food.  Probably expensive and crowded
-in a non-COVID high season.  "
-
-
-## <span class="section-num">2</span> 7/3-7/4/2020	Davenport Gap to Hot Springs {#7-3-7-4-2020-davenport-gap-to-hot-springs}
-
-33.9 miles, 1 night
-
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/MaxPatch.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 3: </span>View From Max Patch in the Morning" >}}
-
-Breakfast at diner. Shuttle to I-40.  Lost 1 - 1.5 hours because
-shuttle driver (NYC guy) was a slave to his GPS, would not just
-hop on 40.  On trail at 10.  Made it to Max Patch about 6.  UP
-HILL.  I was shot.  July 3 on the summit was a mob scene.  I
-camped 1/2 mile short.  Tried cold dinner (mashed potatoes +
-stuffing + chicken).  Meh. Went up for sunset, and again just
-after sunrise.  Bueatiful. Hiked 21 back into Hot Springs.
-Hiked a little way with 2 girls from Tucker/Stone Mountain, GA
-(where my wife went to school). Hit town.  Liquid.  Shower.
-DROVE to store.  White Castles.  Bed.  Drove home.  %65.1 of
-trail done.
-
-
-## <span class="section-num">3</span> 6/17-6/24/2020	Hughs Gap to Hot Springs {#6-17-6-24-2020-hughs-gap-to-hot-springs}
-
-99 Miles, 7 nights.
-
-{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/RobBird.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 4: </span>Rob Bird provided \"Trail Magic\" 2 hikes in a row" >}}
-
-"Mountian Squid" joined me for the first 3 miles.  Ran into 2
-older Russian couples who were out for the first time.  Hiked
-with the owner of <https://www.flowmarshall.com/> gallary in
-Marshall, NC and her British husband for a bit.  Stayed at Uncle
-Johnnies 1st night, shuttled to Hughs Gap.  Stayed at Uncle
-Johhnies 3rd night, resupplied, hiked on to Hot Springs.  20
-into hot springs from Laurel Fork.  Zeroed at Laughing Heart
-hostle, shuttled back to Irwin to get car, drove, car broke down
-in Wythville (axel), rented a car, came home, started a new job,
-went back to Wythville Wednesday night.  Got car Thursday drove
-back to Hot Springs_Laughing Heart, run by "Chuck Norris" and
-"Tigger" ... former Jesuit retreat center_hostel.  Great place.
-Got food in Hot Springs hiking in.  Big hill/rock steps coming
+## <span class="section-num">2</span> Other people having fun {#other-people-having-fun}
+
+Along the way we saw many people out enjoying the Memorial Day weekend
+along the river.  The photo below shows a water slide set up to let
+kids slide into the river, with a twist: the last 10 (3m) feet or so of the
+slide were down a mud bank.  For safety there was a kayak in the water
+to help the fun-havers out if needed
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/mud-slide.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 3: </span>Water and Mud Slide Into The River" width="400px" >}}
+
+
+## <span class="section-num">3</span> Getting Dumped the first time {#getting-dumped-the-first-time}
+
+The river was up.   Running about 6 feet (1.8m) at Luray.   The outfitters
+along the river recommend only going at 5 feet (1.5m) or less.   Our second
+day out we were making 5 miles per hour (8 km/h).
+
+We hit the [Compton Rapids](https://youtu.be/Zswr_IB9C_A).  The swells were 3 feet (0.9m) or so.  We made it
+about half way through, taking on water, and then got dumped.  Life
+jackets are a good thing.  It was a little dicey floating though the
+end of the rapids.  We kept our paddles and stayed with the
+upside-down canoe.  The only losses were a couple water bottles, cup
+holders and a fishing rod (other canoe).  Most everything was tied
 down.
 
-Post 26 #100DaysToOffload <https://100daystooffload.com/>
+We floated 10 or 20 minutes in still-ish water and wound up swimming
+our swamped canoe to the banks where there was a large group camp-out.
+Some of the people (speaking pretty-much only Spanish) helped get our
+sorry selves and swamped canoe out of the water and drained out.  They
+gave us 6 water bottles which replaced the water we had lost.  Gracias
+!
+
+
+## <span class="section-num">4</span> Getting Dumped the second time {#getting-dumped-the-second-time}
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/swamp-number-2.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 4: </span>Pulling out after the second spill" width="400px" >}}
+
+The second time we got dumped was a about a mile from the end of the
+trip.  Our planning had failed to disclose the presence of these
+rapids, just had it had failed to disclose the possibility of portage
+around the first set (Preston :-))
+
+The other canoe went first.   We hung back in the smooth (but fast)
+water so as not to run into them if they had trouble.   They did.
+They dumped about half way through.   These canoes were a little heavy
+with gear and people and not horribly stable.  Extra water in the boat
+does not help.
+
+I decided to go to the shore and work thorough options.   We reached
+shore 10 or 20 yards (9 or 18) upstream from the rapids.   I grabbed a tree
+root to hold us in place, but the current flipped us.   At that point
+I made the call to "abandon ship".   We let the canoe go and swam to
+the bank rather than float the rapids in life jackets.
+
+We climbed up the bank, staggered downstream and found that our
+friends were a) OK and b) had snagged our canoe.
+
+
+## <span class="section-num">5</span> The end {#the-end}
+
+In the end, we had minimal losses, no significant injuries, no harm,
+no foul?  Live and learn?  Life jackets, tying down your gear and
+quick thinking are your friend.  And fun was had in the face of
+self-selected risks.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/starting-out.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 5: </span>At the takeout point (BEFORE we were drowned rats)" width="400px" >}}
+
+Days 15 and 16 of #100DaysToOffload <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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 +++
 title = "All is not doom and gloom: go for a walk !!!"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-04-25T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:33:49-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:10-05:00
 tags = ["life", "hope"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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 +++
 title = "Some Happy Notes"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-04-21T00:00:00-04:00
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:34:21-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:10-05:00
 tags = ["music", "family", "life", "piano"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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 +++
 title = "Hello twtxt"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-10-17
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T07:52:11-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:40-05:00
 tags = ["social", "HOWTO", "100DaysToOffload", "geek"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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 +++
 title = "Hiking, the Appalachian Trail, Health and Choices"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-05-03
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:17:08-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:20-05:00
 tags = ["hiking", "AppalachianTrail", "ATC", "PATC", "Katahdin", "outdoors"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false

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 +++
 title = "The History Of Rome - nihil novi"
-author = ["George Jones"]
+author = ["George M Jones"]
 publishDate = 2020-08-22
-lastmod = 2022-02-26T08:28:52-05:00
+lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:16-05:00
 tags = ["life", "history", "100DaysToOffload", "rome"]
 categories = ["blog"]
 draft = false