It is good to remember the role of the Jester in literature, as shown in Shakespeare’s plays [https://infogalactic.com/info/Jester#Fool_in_literature]. > In literature, the jester is symbolic of common sense and of honesty, notably in King Lear, where the court jester is a character used for insight and advice on the part of the monarch, taking advantage of his license to mock and speak freely to dispense frank observations and highlight the folly of his monarch. This presents a clashing irony…
Have a good Labor Day, gents. [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2017/09/tumblr_nlzuqxBUjo1ryxzr3o1_500-2.jpg) [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2017/09/tumblr_nndc271yRB1ryxzr3o1_500-2.jpg) And a few more pics from Instagram. > [Always this emoji: ??](https://www.instagram.com/p/BYgnfkiH9rl/)A…
While there is a form of diversity – that of available options and paradigms to analyze a problem and find a solution – that actually helps, there is little inherently superior in “diversity” that actually accomplishes that. For that matter, while for the longest time an argument for Macs and Linux in the workplace has been diversity and not having everything go down to a single vulnerability, in practice, what’s I’ve seen is the same thing that happens in the wilds. There may be one or two exc…
Vox posts a note [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/08/mailvox-of-scraps-and-subscriptions.html] from a not-crazy techie and his astonishment at stereotypes of the right, the south, etc. as seen by the left. > I must also relate a story. I recently had dinner with a silicon valley startup dude (I say “dude”, because he was allegedly a founder, but not particularly successful) regarding the possibility of Silicon Valley startups outsourcing to other parts of the US (particularly the deep south an…
I refuse to let a weekday go by without a post, or as in eclipse week, a pre-post, but I will have a minimum of five a week. That said, today has been light on the writing, as I’ve been busy digging up a new host to replace blogger, likely going with something WP-based running on one of several hosts. The hardest issue, actually, is staying fairly anonymous. Sure, I can use bitcoin or even prepaid debit cards to keep the payment paper trail an effective dead end, but moving my site will be no…