(Use | Lose)(it: any)
Yes, that's a cryptic title, too cryptic in fact, for Blogger to wanna let me do it. Use It or Lose It, where "it" my be anything, as in "any type of object". I'm not using the syntax of any real language that I'm aware of, although | ("pipe symbol" -- named for Bob's) has routinely meant "or" in many authoritative postings.
The "it" of this afternoon is getting on the Internet from some public mall with lots of sign-in opportunities, including a few without passwords. Is this the official Lloyd Center hot spot? At Pycon we had FBI-Surveillance-van as a hot spot option (though I think with some auth).
At first, given the request for a texted code, I inadvertently got the smartphone on the network instead, so then tried to forward the laptop through a Bluetooth connection, no dice. You might say "why trust public wifi?" but then I know about https and so feel that I know the answer. Lets see if this posts...
I don't think the title is what's bad. Something lower level. I changed it anyway. A physical spider has been crawling my screen, a small green one. I let it alone. Even saving doesn't work. I think I'll jump to another network. It worked when I came back.
On Facebook this morning, I relayed the fake news that the Committee on Taxonomy and Terminology has officially revoked our "sapien" status, as in "homo sapien". After further study, we are deemed to be "homo machinus" instead. Hey, they demoted Pluto, happens to the best of us sometimes.
Yes, that's a cryptic title, too cryptic in fact, for Blogger to wanna let me do it. Use It or Lose It, where "it" my be anything, as in "any type of object". I'm not using the syntax of any real language that I'm aware of, although | ("pipe symbol" -- named for Bob's) has routinely meant "or" in many authoritative postings.
The "it" of this afternoon is getting on the Internet from some public mall with lots of sign-in opportunities, including a few without passwords. Is this the official Lloyd Center hot spot? At Pycon we had FBI-Surveillance-van as a hot spot option (though I think with some auth).
At first, given the request for a texted code, I inadvertently got the smartphone on the network instead, so then tried to forward the laptop through a Bluetooth connection, no dice. You might say "why trust public wifi?" but then I know about https and so feel that I know the answer. Lets see if this posts...
I don't think the title is what's bad. Something lower level. I changed it anyway. A physical spider has been crawling my screen, a small green one. I let it alone. Even saving doesn't work. I think I'll jump to another network. It worked when I came back.
On Facebook this morning, I relayed the fake news that the Committee on Taxonomy and Terminology has officially revoked our "sapien" status, as in "homo sapien". After further study, we are deemed to be "homo machinus" instead. Hey, they demoted Pluto, happens to the best of us sometimes.
