The tax returns that the New York Times has hold of show what most of us already knew: he's a fraud, a criminal, a lowlife, and a gigantic national security risk.
I thought this was important enough to break radio silence for.
Hey yourself! Things here OK - busy as usual. Hope things are going well with you, too.
Enjoy the rest of your time back here, and safe travels!
It's been ~20 years that I've been on Slashdot, although the last five or so have been far less engaged than earlier. After 20 years, I'm the same in some ways, different in many, many more. Some worse, but most for the better, I think.
Which is how it should be.
You made more from reviewing books than I ever made writing them.
That caught my eye as well - had to check the paper. A 10 mm coating would be... unimpressive.
Well done!
I'm talking about language and literature, not coding. The semicolon is my favorite punctuation mark. I even wrote a poem about it: "Ode to the Semicolon" .
I also use semicolons when I write novels like "Verbosity's Vengeance" .
I admit to having a rather different opinion regarding semicolons, but that's only because I use them in a very different context.
I've run into this before, too. Eventually, the performance advantages I gained as an individual by having a much better setup (software, hardware or both) got completely offset by the lack of interoperability with everyone else.
I visited Moscow in 1985, at the height of the cold war. It was Reagan vs. (I think) Andropov, the USSR was the Evil Empire, and Moscow was the sluggish heart of a gray, shopworn police state.
Today, the BRIC nations are still the big economic wave, even post-2008. A friend went to Russia a few years ago on an adoption trip. From his pictures, Moscow was a brightly painted, active city. At least in the parts tourists went, the brass was polished, the streets were clean and the streetlights all worked.
Strange how the world changes.
After how I crashed mid-day in Bucharest AND made you miss your train, I was afraid to ask!
Yeah, this will be a romantic getaway for us. It's the first trip we've taken without kids in... in... actually, I can't remember the last one. Austin, TX for a wedding, maybe? 8 years ago?
If they keep inviting me over, I'll keep bouncing around all the European cities I never thought I'd get a chance to see. Who knows... maybe Budapest will be one of them! 8-)
Will do. I'm always careful about such things, especially far from home.
I'm looking forward to it!
After a talk I gave in Bucharest last year, my name has apparently gotten on somebody's list of "speakers worth paying for". This fall I'll be going to Prague, invited by the same parent organization as last year. Unlike the trip to Bucharest, where I was traveling alone, I've managed to convince my wife to come along on this trip. Expensive, but it's a great time of life to do it, and when's the next time she's going to see Prague?
Good summary, thanks.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." -- Ford Prefect, _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
