I’m not much of an artist (I started sketching to send my daughter to school with a snack note) but one of the things that’s surprised me is that it feels like the process is more about “seeing” the thing you’re drawing more than the actual process of making lines on paper. I have no idea if that’s a common experience or not. Oddly, I occasionally find that the thing I’m drawing will take on a life of its own (which is where I find myself with a coyote playing a synthesizer)
I wanted to take a few moments and apologize to many of my former students.
In the past I said the industry needs people who look at security as a vocation and an avocation.
I was wrong.
Have a life outside of this industry.
Have hobbies that have nothing to do with your computer.
Get outside.
The problems of the industry are not problems of people not working hard enough.
They are not problems of people not being "hard core" enough.
They are problems of education and resource prioritization.
I was wrong.
I am sorry.
Stop breaking yourself on rocks for people who don't really care if you break yourself on rocks.
Dogs are partly (red-green) color bind. If you want to know what your dog sees, install the app "Chromatic Vision Simulator" on your phone.
Select option P (protanopia), point the camera towards something colorful and you will see things from the dog's perspective.
You will quickly notice that the choices we make when it comes to the color of toys often aren't the best.
#dogs #science #ColorBlind #protanopia #ChromaticVisionSimulator
@katypillar @donmelton I’m staring at one of my piles right now 🙄
Stressed? Got that Friday the 13th feeling?
Just watch this. It's video Valium.
Colorized footage of Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway, #Germany, 1902.
I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.
Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.
The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.
The place: 1920s Portugal.
The crime: Counterfeiting.
The obvious mistake: That the money is counterfeit.
(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)
Courage is a child of serenity. It is what you get when you are certain in your deepest principles, and in all of your actions, you are merely following that deep current. You do what you feel is morally necessary, and you are not afraid because you have accepted that the cost and risk of your choices is lower than the cost and risk of compromising in your deepest beliefs, not because it is courageous but because it is right.
“Mansplaining as a service.” Spot on.
Quoting @andrewfeeney: https://phpc.social/@andrewfeeney/109466122845775778
Father, Fiancé, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem