That was supposed to make us sad, right?

Life has felt complicated lately--?

I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine

focused on Clifford Stoll..

Whom I had never heard of previously,

but was soon in awe of....

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Stoll 
was educated, PHD, as an Astronomer, but who
is also a mathematician and a Physicist..
Stoll
actually developed the methodology to track, and trap
Internet hackers..
in fucking 1986..!

In fact his anti-hacker procedures and methodology is
considered the bible of computer security...
It was his interest in computing and the developing web
and a missing .75 cents in a computer account,
that initiated his hacker hunt...
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He's left the computing world now preferring 

to work on and sell 

non-orientable surfaces...

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So Astronomer, mathematician, physicist,

first hacker hunter...

I absolutely had to order his book..!

(did i mention he built his own robot

and drives it around under his house?)

Former 1%er....

Elizabeth Holmes is finally going to court...

facing 11 counts of Fraud and attempted Fraud..
You may remember she was the darling of Wall Street,
for a time...?
Brilliant financial minds compared her to Steve Jobs, 
for fucks sake,
right up until her, supposed revolutionary,
 blood testing company
was found to be a total, complete fraud...?
Disgraced-Theranos-founder-Elizabeth-Holmes-35-arrives-San-Jose-court

Apparently her lawyers are bitching and wanting out of defending her
 because
"the new Steve Jobs",
says she's broke..

This diagram stunned me when I examined it..
go to the link for a larger visual...

the distribution of the worlds-wealth-2019

I had been very worried about my upcoming gig this past Friday...

I had been worrying that I might be too old now
to continue gigging..
I was really riddled with doubt...
did i still have it to play for an audience..?

Things turned out well..the audience seemed 
pleased and everybody
left happy..including me...!
It's insane what we musicians do to ourselves...
I guess I went through the torturing part of the
tortured artist..?

Since i ceased writing on our dysfunctional political system,
and our corporate overlords...
readership on the blog has dropped significantly...
I don't fucking care...

If Bernie doesn't win the Presidency,
I am creating plans on how to isolate myself from 
any news on our system...
I just won't care at all, in any manner, any longer...?
It's good to have a plan...

This was too good to watch just once...