The State of North Slope
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.
Soft Money
It will be no surprise to long-time readers that I’m very picky about my work environment. In particular, I cannot stand sitting at a desk. I need to stand.
Since most of the world is designed for people to sit their rear ends on a chair and stay planted there all day, I have to improvise. Sometimes with boxes. Sometimes with boxes of games. And, this time, with two squishy pillows on top of a table. One does what one must.
Life Imitates Python
We’ve all heard the stories about the tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to government programs that, in the end, wound up providing things like broadband Internet access to eight houses or, like here in California, the decades spent on the high-speed rail system which has gone absolutely nowhere (and never will).
So, It’s NOT Healthy?
I seriously wonder about our fellow humans sometimes.
Four Score and Seven Years Ago
Here are some truly peculiar ways to express the number “57”:
