Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    

(As an aside to <174>, there are kindle apps for iOS and I imagine
the other one as well.  Don’t need to buy the device (my 7 doesn’t
seem to want to charge anymore).
  

    
Yup. I read mostly on my iPad because it has a bigger screen than
the Kindle.  But more distractions - so sometime I stick to the
Kindle.  There's even a Kindle app for Windows.
  

    
I read ~100% of my e-books in the Kindle app for my iPad. The only
exceptions are if I'm stuck in a waiting room or equivalent and then
I fire up the Kindle app on my iPhone.  For me, the distractions are
a *plus*. I like looking things up on Wikipedia or Google Images or
other references while I'm reading. A special thrill is when I know
I've caught out an author for making stuff up or exaggerating the truth.
(I know, juvenile, but it's fun.) Occasionally the distraction sends me
down a rabbit hole, but is that really so bad?  It's not like there's
a deadline for finishing the book!
  

    
I also frequently look up thing in Wikipedia and Google maps while
reading.
  

    
as a child, we were brought up with the Holling C. Holling books,
some of which had illustrations or diagrams in the wide margins.  So
for years, I decried the publishing industry's unwillingness to do
something similar, instead of the very occasional and separated page
of illustrations.  It seemed so obvious; was it just cost-cutting or
unconsciousness that stopped a simple solution?  Until the internet.
Now I can see what it feels like to walk into a street market in
Bangkok, or see a villa in Tuscany, while I'm reading
  

    
Will there be a State of the World 2026 this year? 
  

    
yes!
  

    
Any minute.
  

    
10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ... 
  

    
Hey, hallo! just jumping back in after a few, uh, decades and wanted
to thank @jonl for the resurrection.

[tried ssh, no go, i love that our OpenSSH is warning me about
post-quantum vulnerability.  Grand to be back]

this is my last week at NASA, so re-finding my feet, and its been a
fun few decades. moved to Europe (france, holland, UK), then Asia
(india, sri lanka, singapore), spent years living on a sailboat in
central america (nicaragua, panama, a decade in Mexico), now in
brooklyn NY for the last 4 years.  

at NASA i've been leading AI development and researching airports
and spaceports 50 years in the future. 

next chapter (2026+) looking forward to continuing the same
direction: art, writing, research and messing around with software.

and its great to be back! fwiw, i helped the WELL set up their first
website, back in 1993 or something, and helped gailm <?> post the
first photo of a cat on the web.

anyway, there's a fine sense of comfort here, nice to be back.
thanks @jonl!
  

    
Welcome home!!
  

    
hey, @tnf, great to see a familiar pseud. i've been time-cursed
lately but have set a clock to check back in on a regular basis.
look fwd to reconnecting.
  

    
Welcome back, <pighed>!!

Mark and I have discussed creating an AI topic in <inkwell.vue.> -
stay tuned!
  

    
<pighed>, I put this in my $HOME/.ssh/config to fix logins by SSH;

Host well.com
  HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa
  PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa
  

    
It's also important to note that the message that addresses quantum
computing doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't log in. We've been
discussing that elsewhere.
  

    
I see that message every time I SSH to the WELL. I don't worry about it.
  

    
thanks, @Karish, done, and getting t/here. setting up some shortcuts
and workarounds. stumbling through 's' vs 'r' but making progress.