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  • Zorra

    Zorra

    by Marcia Kaoru Wilbur for my little sister, Sue who claims to have enjoyed my writing and said, “I don’t know why you do that technical stuff!” Episode 1 – March 16, 2021: Mexico Raspberry Pi Lab Adventures Mexico was fucking amazing! I touched the ground in Mexico City, single mixed Greek Yankee Japanese woman […]


  • Boycott Software Freedom Conservancy – Choose Freedom, not enforcement

    In October, the SFC stated they received a grant for GPL enforcement from ARDC https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/oct/01/new-copyleft-strategy-launched-with-ARDC-grant/ Then SFC submitted a proposed DMCA exemption – to police software for “investigative” purposes. https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2021/petitions/proposed/New%20Pet.%20-%20Software%20Freedom%20Conservancy%20-%201.pdf FYI… nice link copyright.gov BLEH


  • The White Pencil

    Today, I found a white pencil on my desk. You don’t really understand the significance of some event or item, until later – at least, that was what I have found. A White Pencil. I must have been 18. I worked at Apature/ACR manufacturing. I soldered, did inventory, managed speaker covers, shipping, and got coffee […]


  • History of a ch1x0r: 00

    History of a ch1x0r: 00

    1982 First phreak 1983 Payphone hack when stranded in New London, CT 1980s Norwich Free Academy high school, could jack any locker 1986 Consumer Electronics Show with dad for Apature Industries (one subsidiary) 1995 Kinkos Sahara and Decatur = night shift – computer services 1995 Trained in Las Vegas – Excel The trainer was from […]


  • Playlist 2019

    5 years. My worst fear is ending up like my mother – after my father passed – 31 years. Alone. She’s good with that. I’m getting there. Heard this one in Mexico while running from a local. I heard it in front of a clothes store front. Then he appeared again. Go the the bus […]



  • Did I drop the soap?

    Not because I’m female. Not because I’m Asianish. It’s because they are asshats. Not that I don’t think that eventually the client won’t solve it. I just get them there quicker. More efficient. Better. And they pay. Last couple times were kind of bad. Solving the raspberry pi and vision bonnet thing… getting it working. […]