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.
Long-time readers are acquainted with the fact I’m not fan of government. I’m not speaking of the present government in particular; I am referring instead of government in general. The reasons are multitudinous and varied, but instead of going through those, allow me to share the front page of our little hometown paper, Palo Alto’s own Daily Post.
Inspiration can come from odd places. The most recent one came from a RiffTrax video, poking fun at a 1976 movie made for school kids about good manners and courtesy.
Slopers – last night, we upgraded our platform, and, well, you know how “upgrades” can be really “downgrades“, so I decided to revert. I did so this morning, but it seems in doing so, a few folks are having trouble logging in.
Don’t worry: your account isn’t disabled, and the database didn’t change. I’m not quite sure why some folks are having issues, but many of them who were wrote me later to say that after a couple of attempts (in some cases, just resetting their password) they were fine. In some cases, if you keep trying to log in, the system will lock you out since it thinks you are a hacker, but after 60 seconds, it’ll release your IP.
I’m sorry for any trouble, but I don’t have any magic cure-all at the moment. Write me if you are totally stuck after trying the above.
My Substack page is basically a simplified version of the Slope website. I post maybe 25% of my stuff there, and of course there are none of the tools or information systems at all. What has made the biggest impression on me, however, is the community. More specifically the lack thereof.