There are things I don’t discuss because I can’t verify the source of what I know and can’t locate an open source for it. Old habits die hard.

If Hipparchia drops by, she can probably identify a Sodium-Potassium compound, NaK.

If you ever suffer from insomnia try Kant’s commentary on the Book of Job. The Book of Job was one of the required courses at Colgate. I think they did it to screw with our minds.

map gave her example right here on a thread on Why Now. It’s true that she didn’t say what it was; I recognized it from some of the input filtering I’ve done to prevent havoc wrought by users on sites I’ve worked on. But I think she meant it to be recognized for what it was.

“I know you’re old enough to have mucked about with RS-232.”

Oooooh, yeah. I’ve done comm-related jobs for decades, lots of ’em in the 20 years of my contracting business, and a few before that.

“… the North American Kant Society.”

🙂 I saw that in googling for NAKS. But you know what the Eastern superiorists say: Genghis Khan, but Immanuel Kant.

I know you’re old enough to have mucked about with RS-232. I don’t know, but I don’t think she is, unless it as at school, but DHCP NAKs, especially with Windows come up.

Of course, she could be referring to the North American Kant Society. 🙂

Not to chatter on in third person about someone who’s probably present on the thread :), but “tech familiar” she most certainly is. I remember a comment in which she displayed the ability to tamper with a SQL statement constructed from input in a textbox by putting sneaky stuff in the textbox, if the programmer didn’t remove the bad stuff from that input before constructing the statement. Now that’s clearly familiarity at the level of a pro coder, not merely someone who’s taken a class for fun.

And yes, I thoroughly enjoy Taking Stock.

That storm looks stranger every time I visit Weather Underground. It isn’t even directly threatening me, nor is it apparently that bad a storm, but I find myself almost afraid to look, because it’s soooo weird… and potentially threatens so many friends.

It is a shorthand way of saying “there’s no one home”.

It’s like the unspoken contest a few years ago for the title, “youngest kid to fly a plane across country” (or wherever it was). People kept sending kids up until one of them was killed…

Bryan, depending on which model you believe, this thing could hit you and then eventually me (my first tropical weather to reach me out of the northeast), or all our friends in Ohio (fortunately, Mustang Bobby and family are in Canada for a festival), or any of an assortment of places in the Deep South. They need to return this storm to the shop for warranty work.

(What is “NAKS”? apart from mapaghimagsik’s excellent expansion, of course?)

It was interesting how FEMA paid to replace life guard towers for a local county after a hurricane. The thing is, no one ever remembers the county having life guard towers before the hurricane.

Right? Right?