guyton-foxcroft

Feeding the Need

As the Coronavirus pandemic affects the world, the needs of the most vulnerable cannot be forgotten, but groups that work the homeless, etc have their own adjus...

An App For That?

The itch to develop an app is gathering momentum in my brain. I was working on learning the Kotlin programming language through a series of video classes. Alas,...

What's Done--What's Next?

January is over and, unlike last year, where I attempted to tackle one task, I worked on four separate skills. The first skill was the interactive fiction app T...

Don't Mess With My Privacy!

I got myself a fairly large Christmas present this year. I am now the proud owner of a 2012 Nissan Versa! I am still trying to figure out some of the quirks of ...

Advice From Across The Pond

It's been a little more than a week since the UK's activist community took a serious punch to the gut. The Tories have a majority in Parliament and the path to ...

The Immaculate Deception

Yesterday was the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Contrary to what many think, this is not the day Mary conceived Christ. That feast, The Annunciation, is i...

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work?

I have ideas to improve everything! The popular, phone-based, Marvel Contest of Champions game is not immune. Since the game seems to be driven by players joini...

Changing The Game?

For years, meat has been seen as the basis of the athlete's diet, the idea of a athlete sitting down for a steak or drinking raw eggs is part of the culture of ...

Speed Kills--But Might it Kill Me?

In February, I went to "Dave and Busters", it's what arcades have evolved into. You can order food, watch sports on television and play video games. One of the ...

The Enemy of My Enemy

In the 4th Century BC, a Sanskrit text introduced the notion that "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", according to Wikipedia. During World War II, this was a ...

It's Not In The Game

For people of a certain age, today has the potential to bring back memories. Sega released it's Genesis Mini console. The 42 games include the familiar; Sonic T...

The Spirit of Shanksville?

Photography By James D'Angelo To those who see themselves as part of theresistance, especially the more radical segments, September 11 can be a tricky day. Whil...

Too Big For A Box

Some of President Trump's comments about Baltimore hit where I grew up a bit. The head of the Urban League for the community I called home from when I was 9 unt...

The Newest Color War?

America has a long history of colorful crusades; we had the "Yellow Peril", several "Red Scares", the "Lavender Panic" and a potential new one in the "Black Men...

A Hard Loss--A Hard Choice

One cost of being part of theresistance to Trump is that you lose people. I lost a few alumni of my High School, at least one co-worker and a friend of nearly a...

Your Day In Court?

>The 'justice system' is a three-headed bear and Joe Citizen is a wounded moose. Not totally defenseless, but without a >herd around him it ain't looking good L...

The Language of The Outcast?

In the Summer of 2016, I saw that the Indigo Girls had a concert in Washington DC in the Spring of 2017. When Trump was elected, I realized that I needed to be ...

Ask For Jane. . .

I got through the first of the two books I purchased from my trip to Baltimore. Jane--Documents From Chicago's Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973 is a look ...

Phishing For Fasc?

The Summer 2019 edition of 2600 provided me with a lot of useful material. One article from this hacker's journal concerned "Blast Accusations for Cybersecurity...

Paradigm Shift

In a previous post, I introduced that I was going to look at what may be "Boring Parts" of Self and Community Defense. The parts that go beyond the physical ele...