Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Step 1: Get in da choppah
Step 2: Get over da volcano
There is no step 3!

The very rare Goth sea turtle only visits beaches as black as its soul. #hawaii

It's called #Hacktober because it's finally cold enough to walk around in a black hoodie.

An amazing fact about this calculator: not only does it work without batteries, it works without access to my address book, location, and photo album! They were advanced in the olden days. #privacy #technology

Today's antique store find: an Addiator Duplex mechanical computer!

They were made in Germany from 1920 to the 1980s (obsoleted by electronic calculators). This one is from the '50s or later, due to "West Germany" reference in the instructions.

My son successfully navigated my "MacGuyver obstacle course" featuring a lockpick set high out of reach, bomb-diffusing clues inside a padlocked bag, and a snap circuits "bomb" behind a locked bathroom door. #prouddad #lifeskills

Sure, Spot is creepy, but on the plus side I'd be one step closer to owning my own "Rat Thing" and turning my van into Ng's "wheelchair" from Snow Crash! #vanlife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkCQXHEgjA

Beat SMB1 in front of my family and almost beat it second time through in crazy fast beetle mode (died at 8-4). #stillgotit

Confession time: I used to put on the Hackers soundtrack when skating to work in SF. I also put on Master of Puppets when working on centralized config management. #dork #soundtracks

It's strange that config files transitioned from key/value pairs into complex data structures at the same time that databases transitioned from complex data structures into key/value pairs. #devops

I told you I was super serial...

But the flood that remained when it barely rained is not going to drain as soon as you close your eyes. NO!
And every time I scratch my pen to pay my city tax I hope you spend it. WHERE DID YOU SPEND IT?

Cuz I'm HERE to remind YOU
of the mess you left whenever it rains
It's not fair to deprive me,
of the kids I bred cuz the flood won't drain
YOU YOU YOU OUTGHTA KNOW

In honor of those of you dealing with Houston's infrastructure:

I want you to know, that school's out for you
I hope that you have, a raft or a boat

I know a normal city can handle when it's rainy
It won't go down on you in a river
It drains it elegantly, so you can get your baby
And prove you are a very excellent mother

I just heard from my school district that because our local utility hasn't maintained their lines for years and have a policy now of cutting power if winds are high enough, that the school (and we by extension) have to prepare for county-wide outages lasting upwards of 3-5 days at a time!

My copy of the Snowden memoir, Permanent Record arrived! Can't wait to dig into this tonight!