{"id":158,"date":"2008-07-16T18:31:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-07-16T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T02:31:06","slug":"bits-and-bits-and-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2008\/07\/16\/bits-and-bits-and-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"bits and bits and bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam passed this post<\/a> by Linus Torvalds across to me recently, and I agree with it quite a bit. There isn’t a paragraph to take out of context and paste here, just read it, it’s short.<\/p>\n

The reality is that security people tend to get all worked up about security. As a Systems Administrator<\/a>, I’m concerned and weigh in on security, but it’s part of my multi-faceted approach to Getting Things Done. I do about fifteen milliseconds of risk assessment with each choice, and try to use some experience + common sense to convert what security folk deem as a “really big hole” in real terms.<\/p>\n

That being said, I know a bunch of security people, and pretty much all of them that aren’t alarmists tend to be the smarter ones who do cool things and are nice folk to be around.<\/p>\n

This weekend while chilling with kids from the slow sunday<\/a> ride, I somehow finally got to understand that the old timers saying of “uphill both ways” actually meant that your start and stop were both on a hill, with a valley between them, and could actually be legit.<\/p>\n

I built a new wheel for my Schwinn due to not liking the quick release on the old hub. Since I was buying a new nutted hub anyways, I got a flip flop and now have a 17\/19 fixed and a 18 freewheel. I’ve been riding the 17 fixed for a couple days. I can’t tell if my soreness is from riding constantly for weeks, or from switching to a fixed gear. Since it’s mostly my back, I think I blame a satchel full of pints actually. I want an LHT<\/a> but I’ve been deciding lately to not spend money since I’m spending so much on flight training and kind of screwing myself. If I’m really good I might buy some clipless pedals and shoes though.<\/p>\n

I also have something to say about [not being] “just a normal guy”, but I’ve been too busy lately to get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam passed this post by Linus Torvalds across to me recently, and I agree with it quite a bit. There isn’t a paragraph to take out of context and paste here, just read it, it’s short. The reality is that security people tend to get all worked up about security. As a Systems Administrator, I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}