I worked in NSA, DIA, CIA, the Pentagon, NIC, FSTC, US Patent and Trademark Office, DOT, and a few other agencies over the course of 15 years. I started this career as a naive, very patriotic solder doing good for the good guys. This initial attitude accompanied me into work as a contractor.

I have to share my cousin, David von Kotzebue’s picture. Looks like a spotted Friesian - don’t know.

The blockchain is a relatively new and wondrous thing. What could be better than a system that maintains that absolute, objective truth? The essence of objective reality is any party any where getting the same result, without interpretation. Mankind has advanced outrageously using this criterion in the scientific realm.

I can’t eat the world I want to eat the world Chew, swallow and digest it I want to know all that is In all the ways that thing that are are If I can’t do this How can I have free will? I have free want Since I want everything If I get what I want I will stop being me Then I shouldn’t have will free or not

(Transcribed from a daily journal I kept while in the army 1984-1987 stationed at Ft. Meade)It’s been a whole week since last I wrote in my journal. Rather than a day by day account, I’ll try to simply note highlights of the week.

(Transcribed from a daily journal I kept while in the army 1984-1987 stationed at Ft. Meade)Up at 7:30, the standard time these days, at work by 8. Most folks here arrive before 7, and by 3PM the place is deserted. There had been a bomb scare at 6AM; no boom - we’re all still alive.