Interesting article in the L.A. Times about how the Aryan Brotherhood used invisible ink to covertly send messages to each other. Basically, they used their own urine to write invisible messages. Not only that, they used a secret code to pass seemingly innocuous messages (in regular ink) and snuck it out underneath the guards’ noses.
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Insightful essay on the purpose of our Constitution:
The Constitution doesn’t exist to implement a certain “American way of life.” It exists to ensure an environment of freedom in which the ways Americans live can flourish and evolve, within a common commitment to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” as stated in the Declaration of [...]
Background: The US is playing the Czech Republic today in group play
Problem Statement: I don’t have cable TV, thus, I don’t get ABC as it’s not broadcast over the air here
Alternative 1: Watch live streaming internet tv using TvAnts, which streams TV from China, with commentary in Mandarin. (TvAnts setup here and channel info here)
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One of my favorite activities in life is grilling. There are few things as viscerally satisfying as heating meat over an open flame and then devouring it moments later. Of course, in this day and age, some silly humans have decided that they want to eat some vegetables too, and so we must satisfy them. [...]
To the four people that read this blog, I apologize for not updating it more often. What can I say? It’s summer time and there’s too much stuff to do that’s not on the intarweb. So I’m dialing it back, and going to try for a once-a-week update rather than the every-two-to-three days frequency of [...]