peterhoneyman

peterhoneyman, 14 days ago to random

why is it that WiFi never works for me on planes, neither on my iPhone nor my iPad? I must have set network something or other on them … i get redirected from, e.g., connect.klm.com to this page.

works for lynn’s iPhone… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

it’s DNS, innit?

peterhoneyman, 21 days ago to random

@fbancilhon

check out this thread

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112410315322827303

peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

vatican city

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peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

i think it’s this stout fellow’s last hurrah in its sixth year of service 😢

we’re fully packed, not light, but one bag each. only gifts are heavy books and mix tapes.

white luggage covered with stickers

peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

SIRENS!!!!! TAKE COVER!!!!!!

peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

eclipse central for me, lynn, maggie, and zoe

peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey the week it came out at the Cinerama (iirc) in downtown Detroit on a field trip with Mercedes Mueckenheim’s 10th grade English class at Cass Tech, then twice more that month.

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112204706529162225

peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

Prof. Grubbs was inspired to prepare an introductory lecture on PQC for today’s EECS 388 lecture.

peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

i feel like i am never going to get through this stack of books by my bed #alas

peterhoneyman, 1 month ago to random

@NPR :Star Wars opening crawl:

peterhoneyman, 2 months ago to random

Plan for the day is to attack my inbox for an hour or two, pack lightly for an overnight, drive to Detroit, check in to the Ferry St. Inn, spend the afternoon at the Art Institute, dinner at Mario’s, then the highlight, Herbie Hancock at Orchestra Hall.

peterhoneyman, 2 months ago to random

coq au vin pour le dîner

peterhoneyman, 2 months ago to random

free lunch with the systems faculty, talking search

peterhoneyman, 2 months ago to random

I gave my Last Lecture Ever today … again … prob’ly not for the last time heh

peterhoneyman, 2 months ago to random

lynn and i got calls from blue cross (our insurer) offering to come to our place and measure our vitals etc. and to compensate us $75 each.

i was tempted by the $150 offer, but i couldn't sweep the privacy invasion from my mind, so i declined.

peterhoneyman, 2 months ago to random

in case you missed it …

#DST #EDT

a bunch of clocks changing time

peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

Returning to the classroom twice a week after three semesters off, I am finding lecturing so taxing that I can’t really hope or expect to accomplish anything else on those two days, not even email. I just come home and crash.

peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

When I was a kid, it seemed like society was obsessed with quicksand. I know I was — I was terrified and studied all the texts on What To Do.

I was reminded of it watching an old Italian film — Divorce, Italian Style — this evening, in which one of the characters drowns in quicksand. (In southern Sicily. Where I’m headed in a couple months. So now I’m worried.)

Seems like you never hear about quicksand anymore.

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peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

Lynn asked me where we should stay in Amsterdam in May and I started thinking about Oosterpark and the Tropenmuseum and Museumplein and the Rijksmuseum and Concertgebouw and Vondelpark and Centraal and how I haven’t been to Amsterdam in a very long time.

peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

they’re playing kick out the jams

#motherfucker #WayneKramer #ZalGazGrotto

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peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

i live across the street from a record store with associated dangers to my wallet (forty bucks in this case)

peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

Seiji Ozawa has died at 88.

Twenty years ago, on a Europe opera tour with my son, we were in the Vienna Staatsoper enthusiastically applauding the curtain call of Don Giovanni when Seiji Ozawa stepped onto the stage. (I guess I should have glanced at the program.)

peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

This is quite an interesting article about Dave Mills, who passed away last month, with a lot of details about his time at Michigan (BSE Engineering Science 1961, BSE Mathematics 1961, MSE Electrical Engineering 1962, MS Communication Sciences 1964, PhD Computer and Communications Science 1971).

https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/remembering-alum-david-mills-who-brought-the-internet-into-perfect-time

#NTP

peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

ooh i discovered that vannevar bush is my great-to-the-fifth doctoral grandfather!

peterhoneyman, 3 months ago to random

this is not a hard decision