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Fri Nov 17 10:00:14 EST 2017
Slept from eleven to six-thirty without waking.
Cloudy today. High of forty.
Work:
- Allow port 22000 out for my workstation and firefly
Done, and general review of firewall LAN allowances.
- Buy UPS with AVR for front desk and another for Bob
Done.
- Start Ansible notes
No.
- Work on MECS
No.
Sort of a busy morning.
Scott has taken the afternoon off.
Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch.
Cloudy and windy, but not too cold.
Started notes on WireGuard:
https://paulgorman.org/technical/wireguard.txt
Home:
- Work on nanook
A bit.
> The year is 1960 and a congressional delegation is touring military bases in Western Europe to evaluate custody and safety issues associated with U.S. nuclear weapons.
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> With the delegation is a scientist named Harold Agnew—and he’s not just another congressional staffer. Agnew helped build the world’s first nuclear reactor, served as the official scientific observer during the mission that dropped the Hiroshima bomb and at the time was the science adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe—the military head of NATO
> While at an air base almost certainly located in what was then West Germany, Agnew saw little evidence that nuclear weapons were under strict American control, as Congress expected.
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> At best there was what he later called a “token custodial arrangement” that he witnessed when he saw nuclear bombs hanging under West German aircraft with only the supervision of a young, lone American G.I. on the flight line.
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> “What are you going to do if these guys come running out and they’re going take off and no one has told you that it’s all right?” Agnew asked the soldier.
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> The soldier said he didn’t know what to do.
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> “What you ought to do is just shoot the bombs,” Agnew told him, counting on the high probability that bullets would disable the weapons. “Shoot those things and don’t worry about it.”
https://warisboring.com/when-to-shoot-a-nuclear-bomb-with-your-gun/
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb498/
Made notes on Unicode characters I find myself sometimes looking up (and a few others):
https://paulgorman.org/technical/utf8-hex-values.html
This gave me a greater appreciation of Gothic architecture:
https://kottke.org/17/11/a-mesmerizing-animation-of-the-repeating-elements-of-a-medieval-cathedral
> I barely know how to describe this so maybe you should just watch it. Animator Ismael Sanz-Pena took a single image of a medieval cathedral and used the facade’s repeating elements to find the movement within, kind of like a zoetrope.
https://vimeo.com/239282032
> An animated short film made with just one image exploring the dancing potential of the still sculptures at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway.
Breakfast: cafe latte, sausage and egg sandwich
Lunch: bagel
Dinner: Philly cheesesteak
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