George Jones

Curious Musings

Aug 2024

Migrating to microblog, off digital ocean

I think I ’m going to settle in on curious.port111.com for the blog going forward. I’ve had the domain for o...
Aug 2024

Out in the real word (why I hike) ๐Ÿ“ โ›บ๏ธ

Hikers all have 1000 stories. When you hike, you meet people. You experience things. What is that bug? Will it rain? If ...
Aug 2024

Checking out micro.blog

Exploring @micro.blog thanks to recommendations of @jtr@taonaw.com. It’s got a lot going for it: Hugo based so my ...
Aug 2024

Gemini Dream ๐Ÿ“

Yesterday while on a walk, I had a conversation with Google Gemini about the Emerald Ash Borer that is killing most of t...
Aug 2024

The song remains the same ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ“š

If there’s one thing we learn from history, it’s that people don’t learn from history. โ€” Hegel? I&rs...
Aug 2024

into the future

@rscottjones, I will probably be mining your Strategies for Aging Seems its something that’s going happen, like it...
Aug 2024

Life is better with your phone turned off.

Aug 2024

It's not safe ๐Ÿ“ โ›บ๏ธ

What risks do you take? Why? Do you think about it, or just do it? In a recent post, @jarrod said “Much like I thi...
Aug 2024

About 1900 miles ago... โ›บ๏ธ

16 years ago my son and I started hiking the Appalachian trail with a 47 mile weekend in Shenandoah national park. We sp...
Aug 2024

6 miles in sky meadows state park. First hint of fall.

Aug 2024

Nihil novi sub sole ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

I’ve been making a third pass through The History of Rome podcast โŒ›๏ธ. So much of what’s new is old. The powe...
Aug 2024

When time is short

Some perspective from a person who spent decades providing financial advice, planning for retirement and was then diagno...
Aug 2024

Phil Donahue passed … I grew up in central Ohio. There was a regional network of TV stations run by Taft broadcasting, all carried on the WLWx stations in Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Dayton. His was just another of the local shows. Paul Dixon, Midwestern Hayride, Lucy’s Toyshop, Flippo, Phil Donahue … time moves on.

RIP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil…

Aug 2024

Salve, saeculum.

Apr 2024

The TNI is dead, long live the TNI ๐Ÿ“

Today was the day I removed the TNI (Telephone Network Interface) from my house. The last vestiges of our land line. The...
Mar 2024

Be kind to your call center friends ๐Ÿ“

I’m going to subvert the system and try to connect with humans I talk to in call centers as humans … at lea...
Jan 2024

"I ain't no Senators son, no !"

Warning. First-world baby-boomer problem described here: So, I'm stitting here on the group-W bench, I'm just si...
Dec 2023

Changing the world, one side project at a time ๐Ÿ“

Figure 1: “This Phone Is Property of Ohio Bell” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0 -- It is some...
Sep 2020

AT Hiking 2020: 1500 miles down, 700 to go

1500 miles down, 700 to go to finish section hiking the Appalachian Trail with 215 miles completed this year in 3 trips....
Mar 2020

Bear attacks, no-win situations and cybersecurity

I spend a good amount of time hiking in Shenandoah National Park and surrounding areas. I've seen quite a few #bears and...
Mar 2020

"โ€‹I'm passionate aboutโ€ฆ"โ€‹

“I'm passionate about…” I've always hated that phrase. Because I thought it was fake. I thought it wa...
Feb 2020

"โ€‹Reproducible security analytics?"

I'm looking for repositories of “reproducible security analytics”. As an addict of Emacs Org mode, one of th...