Tue Aug 14 09:19:49 EDT 2018

Slept from eleven to seven without waking.

High of eighty-nine and sunny today.

Read a few pages of Walden after I woke up.
In high school, I must have read at least chunks of Walden, but I don't remember much.
Thoreau's funny in places.

Heard a crow.
Saw a cardinal.

Work:
- Email about Yardi demo schedule
  Done.
- Check UPS battery indicator
  Checked but still lit.
- Patch Tuesday
  Done.

Fifteen-minute walk at lunch.
A breeze kept it tolerable.
Heard cicadas.

https://research.checkpoint.com/sending-fax-back-to-the-dark-ages/
> Check Point Research has uncovered critical vulnerabilities in popular implementation of the fax protocol. These vulnerabilities allows an attacker with mere access to a phone line, and a fax number to attack it`s victim’s all-in-one printer – allowing him full control over the all-in-one printer and possibly the entire network its connected to.

Huh. It turns our that, contrary to my longstanding assumption, HIPAA does _not_ require fax or mandate any specific technology.

Home:
- Read
  Done.
- Go to bed early
  Done.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/honoring-the-80s-defcons-badge-is-also-a-text-adventure/

How Snow Crash ties technical sophistication to aesthetic sophistication is interesting.
We see this in how Hiro describes his neighborhood in the Metaverse as tastefully restrained _because_ it's populated by coders and early adopters, or how the designers of the Black Sun recognized the limits of their architectural sense and so opted for simple geometric shapes.
It's true that technology is sometimes tied to design, like IBM's modernism or Apple's design priority.
Further, some coders have a developed aesthetic sense akin to that of poets.
But I suspect early areas of the Metaverse would more resemble the unrestrained amateur exuberance of the early web or Myspace (i.e., uneven and often garish).

Rage Against the Machine (first time reaction)
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/hip-hop-fan-freaks-out-when-he-hears-rage-against-the-machines-debut-album-for-the-very-first-time.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=233&v=2eUxQ2_CQlw
> This is some Public Enemy shit!
Ya, yeah.

https://magazine.atavist.com/barbearians-at-the-gate-new-hampshire-libertarians-fake-news
> As we meandered through the usual small talk that precedes an interview, I noticed that Soule used a striking phrase: before the bears came. As in, “I used to let my cats outdoors, but that was before the bears came.” I asked her to explain.

Lunch: coffee, steak salad
Dinner: chips, ice cream