For my fellow academics as semester break approaches
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spaf
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Spaf is a homunculus of possible extraterrestrial origin, tilting at windmills. Cybersecurity, bad jokes, political outrage, academe, non-sequiturs, entropy. See http://about.me/spaf for more.
[I've been informed that it was NOT Pam Bondi in that picture. In the interests of accuracy, I have removed it.]
I am generally against software piracy. But chocolate or gold doubloons, well, that is a different matter entirely.
(My parrot flew south for the winter; the penguin is an exchange bird, better suited to the current weather.)
It appears most people outside the USA (and many inside) don't understand what the government shutdown is all about. Here is a succinct summary:
The ones with bones -- except spines, it appears -- compose the majority party in the US Congress right now.
