What We Don't Cover...

From the SF Body Art Expo Page - by Cecil Poter

While it may seem like it would be hard to find something to write about each day actually the opposite is true.

I usually cover multiple sources each day: The Wall Street Journal, Wired, various geek publications, various other news outlets, law, copyright and technology sources, to name but a few.

Today, for example here are just a few of the possible topics for the Lone Wolf:

Girl Talk by the Tesla Orchestra



(Notice there is no one seated in the audience... I wonder why???)

I have always been a big fan of Tesla Coils. This video was created by the Tesla Orchestra in Cleveland, OH USA.  You never know what you are going to get when mixing geeks and music.

Then there is the fascinating circumcision ban on the ballot in San Francisco (see this link).  I have been to a few over the years (though I am no Jewish nor am I a doctor).  I distinctly remember my first time.  It was the late 1970's and I lived and worked in NYC.  My boss had a business on 14th street and lived a few blocks over on 12th.  He and his wife just had a baby - little Arnie Jr. - and he we going to be circumcised (actually its called a bris in Yiddish).

(I learned a lot of Yiddish in those days - a fabulous language.  Known for lots of fun slang words like the apropo putz and shmuck.)

So I donned a yamaka and headed over with the family to watch the mohel conduct the affairs.  Unlike circumcisions in most of the western world this one was conducted in the dinning room where the ceremonious results were proudly held up for all to see.

Unless they plan on banning tattoos, piercing and other fun body art as well (like the Body Art Expo to be held at the San Francisco Cow Palace the August) it seems like the height of hipocrisy.

Then there is the issue of "nuclear safety" in wake of Fukushima (see this).  Nuclear power accidents, as I have chronicled in this blog have a wonder history of human involvement - particularly on the "human error" side.

Human's always seem to make wrong decisions just at the tipping point of the disaster - letting the cooling water out of the core (Three Mile Island), doing the wrong thing right after the earthquake (Fukushima), and so forth.

In the US the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is ultimately in charge should their be a nuclear accident.  However, I doubt very much that the US (both the government and the utilities) would be any less bureaucratic than the Japanese in the case of an accident.

Then there is Squirrel - a scripting language system - that I have ported over to Mac OS X and the iPhone.  (This is highly technical but these posts turn out, at least in the "geek community" to be at least as popular as the other types of posts.)  This is not quite complete so it will probably have to wait a bit.

There is also music.  Open mics at the "Steel City Steakhouse" on Wednesday's with Ed Jenkins and the Zig Zag open mic at the Wicked Witches Tuesdays.  This is with traditional instruments as opposed to tesla coils.