Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Seven of Seven

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The Boredom Demons were tormenting me again most of yesterday. This makes clear why I hate weekends, and why I hate three-day weekends 50% more. At least this was the two-day variety. In any case, struck with nothing meaningful to do, I grabbed Ray Dalio’s three volume set about debt crises (yeah, I’m fun on the weekends). Here’s a tidbit I think you’ll find interesting (sorry for the highlighting, but all my books look like this):

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The Need for Speed

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As I’m typing this, a chap from AT&T is perched on a ladder high up on a pole, prepping the fiber optic line that is going to snake its way into my house.

I’ve been online, in one form or another, since 1981. The fiber install today got me thinking a bit about my history with connectivity. My first go at it was with my TRS-80 Model I and a 300 baud Lynx modem. I couldn’t find an image of it – – – and, mercifully, I just barely missed being required to use an acoustic coupler like the one shown below – – but this is pretty much the level of technology I was dealing with (and I felt fancy having 300 baud instead of a mere 110):

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