A dear friend of mine recently started teaching beginning Spanish classes at uni again after taking several years off. She asked me to put together a playlist of Spanish language music videos that she could put on before class while students are arriving. Because of my musical background the playlist…

Cicada Haiku #64 They eat some fungus that makes them hallucinate and their butts fall off. Cicada Haiku #65 Butts literally falling off due to fungus. I mean what the hell? Cicada Haiku #66 When it’s hot they pee. it is known as honeydew. I’m wearing a hat. Cicada Haiku…

Cicada Haiku #43 They’re not very smart. But when they are trillions strong, they don’t have to be. Cicada Haiku #44 What if they did this every year in the spring time? I would move away. Cicada Haiku #45 One point five million. That’s how many per acre. …

Cicada Haiku #22 Dive bombing your head, it’s hard to appreciate their inherent worth. Cicada Haiku #23 As loud as they are, they still can’t drown out voices inside my own head. Cicada Haiku #24 It kinda gets old. At first it was exciting. But SHUT THE HELL UP! Cicada…

Cicada Haiku #1 Cicadas in trees sing to us their song of love. Do we not love them? Cicada Haiku #2 Birds gorging themselves upon periodical locusts all day long. Cicada Haiku #3 Dog eats cicadas and vomits in the kitchen. No dog! Bad doggie! Cicada Haiku #4 Bodies everywhere, dead and…

Abby Ang Leads the Revolutionary Service Work of Mutual Aid in South Central Indiana. I have been an admirer of, and sometimes participant in Monroe County Area Mutual Aid since its inception in March of 2020. Abby Ang started Mutual Aid, as it is simply referred to here locally, when…

It happened sometime in the early 2000’s. Probably 2001 or 2002. It was very early on in my career as a UNIX system administrator. At the time I was responsible for the shared web server environment at Indiana University. I was an apache admin on Tru64 UNIX and Solaris with…

I was recently called upon to do an incident response investigation and it turned up some interesting results. It started with an AWS abuse report alerting one of our clients that one of their EC2 instances had been observed attacking another host over the internet. I was tasked with providing…