blog of Intrepid Wanderer

This is the weblog of Intrepid Wanderer. You never know what you might find here; graphic descriptions of bodily functions, computer programming secrets, proselytizing for the antichrist, miscellaneous ranting and kvetching, valuable information on living off the land... if you don't share my rather weird interests you may want to try slashdot instead.

You can consider my Del.icio.us links an extension to my blog, as are my LifeTango goals and my other to-do items. My to-buy list is also public, but only for sharing any useful ideas that might be there; I'm not requesting charity, neither do I offer it.

You can find me easily in google searches, as jcomeau, jcomeau_ictx, or jcomeauictx. There are lots of other jcomeaus, but AFAIK I'm the only jcomeau_ictx out there so far.

If you want to comment on anything you see here, try the new Facebook comments, reachable by clicking the "[comment]" link at the end of each post. If for some reason that isn't working, go ahead and email me, jc.unternet.net. You know what to do with the first dot. Make the 'subject' line something reasonably intelligent-looking or it goes plunk! into the spambasket unread.

This RSS feed may or may not work. Haven't fiddled with it in forever.

2026-10-16-1710Z

Turns out I wasn't oriented correctly. The string of lights was probably from the golf course, I wasn't seeing across the bay. And the dropping lights could have been from Santa Rosa and/or Sacramento. Still, there were an awful lot of them, one after the other. [comment]

2026-10-16-1424Z

Was up at 0235, and my started my first pot of coffee somewhere around 3. I'm at Doran beach since yesterday morning, and most of this morning I've been sitting on Blakeman bench, the end farther from the jetty. Looking over the spit and across the bay, there's a bright string of lights which is probably The Tides wharf, and using the finger method for angular distance, about 12 to 13 degrees to the right of that, and around 5 degrees above the horizon, I was watching a fairly constant stream of lights drop. I was thinking a mountain pass, except there aren't any mountains that high in that direction. Airport? The map shows nothing in that direction for many miles. Chico and Redding don't likely have a lot of air traffic from 0300 to 0500. Spokane? Calgary? Edmonton? Could I even see plane lights from that far off? A mystery for sure.

I've been thinking about decentralized DNS, addressing, and routing all morning so far. Anonymity and addressibility seem to be at odds. At some point, one has to pop his head up and announce himself to the world, or at least his world, using an encoded message to those he trusts, to be locatable, and at that point, his enemies will be able to triangulate. And then, I was thinking, they know exactly where I am now, why haven't they killed me yet? Do they think I'm not that much of a threat? That's insulting. But I guess I'd rather be insulted than dead. [comment]

2026-10-16-1423Z

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2026-10-02-2253Z

Losing my shit lately, in more ways than one. First, on the Silver Lake trip, my Anker power brick was nowhere to be found whrn I got back. Then, on the latest Tehama County trip, one of my coffee grinders went missing, and when I got back, both my soup ladles were gone. Then a few days ago, a glove disappeared, and overnight, my hacksaw flew the coop. What the fuck is going on? Pretty sure foxes took my coffee mill, because they were seen in the vicinity, but I have no clue about the rest. In the not-too-distant past, things I'd misplace usually reappeared eventually, but that phenomenon seems to have gone by the wayside as well. [comment]

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