{"id":186,"date":"2001-07-26T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2001-07-27T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=186"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:27:50","slug":"cool-people-and-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/26\/cool-people-and-new-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool people and new books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8667,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/messenger.yahoo.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180718010747\\\/https:\\\/\\\/messenger.yahoo.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.yahoo.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 03:25:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:17:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 14:46:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 05:54:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16899,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0312194390\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0312194390\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16900,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tuxedo.org\\\/~esr\\\/jargon&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240128122903\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tuxedo.org\\\/~esr\\\/jargon\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 15:43:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 19:56:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:17:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 10:33:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:02:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 05:54:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16898,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0743411463\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314154558\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0743411463\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0743411463\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 03:25:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:17:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 05:38:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 08:53:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 13:07:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:37:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First off &#8212; with as many complete momos as there are running around in the world today, it&#8217;s always nice to be reminded that there actually are some truly cool people out there, too. A couple days ago I posted a bit of a whine\/moan\/rant about how the combination of lack of response on the job front and lack of money was getting to me. Since then I&#8217;ve gotten a couple e-mails and a couple conversations over <a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.yahoo.com\/\" title=\"Yahoo! Messenger\">Yahoo! Messenger<\/a> with some very kind words of support. Much as I try not to let things get to me, and keep a healthy and happy outlook on whatever&#8217;s going on in my life, sometimes it&#8217;s neccesary to let my frustrations fly &#8212; and when I do, it&#8217;s wonderful to get the occasional &#8220;buck up, kiddo&#8221; from people out there. Thanks to all of you &#8212; you rock.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I managed to finish two projects I&#8217;d been working on. The first was a large puzzle of M. C. Escher&#8217;s work &#8216;High and Low&#8217; &#8212; a real bear of a puzzle too, as the entire thing is black, white, and shades of grey. The second was the book I&#8217;d been reading, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312194390\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Margaret George: The Autobiography of Henry VIII\">The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by his Fool, Will Somers: A Novel<\/a>, by Margaret George. Very good historical fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Having finished those, I&#8217;ve just started re-reading (as I don&#8217;t want to spend the money on something brand-new at the moment) a book that I was reminded of while reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuxedo.org\/~esr\/jargon\/\" title=\"The Jargon File\">The Jargon File<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743411463\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Cliff Stoll: The Cuckoo's Egg\">The Cuckoo&#8217;s Egg<\/a>, by Cliff Stoll. This is a great little techno-spy thriller detailing the chase of a West-German hacker (this was written in the late 80&#8217;s) who was tunnelling through the then-new Internet, breaking into U.S. Military computers, and selling secrets to the Russians. The entire trail started from a 75-cent billing error in a Universities computer system, and the real kicker to the story &#8212; is that it&#8217;s all true. It&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve read it, though &#8212; I&#8217;ll babble more about it once I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as I try not to let things get to me, and keep a healthy and happy outlook on whatever&#8217;s going on in my life, sometimes it&#8217;s neccesary to let my frustrations fly &#8212; and when I do, it&#8217;s wonderful to get the occasional &#8216;buck up, kiddo&#8217; from people out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2043],"tags":[1939,13,1936],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal","tag-cliff-stoll","tag-life","tag-margaret-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}