Sorry to be slow. I'm overloaded right now getting back up to speed and writing again. I'm not a huge "sharer" about myself but I have written a few things.
Personal Thoughts is mostly about my 4th Wife and the last few years. I recently wrote about my mental state Personal Notes — 08 : I'm having a lot of Synesthesia the last few months.
Cooking While Autistic has some personal stuff as well.
One of my great passions is Mesoamerican archeology. I write on that in The Archeotourist.
I am Autistic. I have written about my childhood here, My Autistic Life.
Random Thoughts - 08 : Imagine there's no Heaven has a lot of personal stuff about me.
Random Thoughts - 06 is about my personal "memory palace". The place I live when I'm in my head. My retreat from the world.
Random Thoughts — 10 : Exhibits in an Atrocity Museum has a lot of personal stuff in it as well.
There is personal stuff in my comments to people. I have written just over 100 articles. I have written thousands of comments. I am trying to group the better ones here.
I have a "disclaimer" that I have included in some of my articles but here's a friendlier version of it.
I double majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley in the 70's. I have a Doctorate in Anthropology as my 'hobby" degree that I got in the 90's while I was employed by the NSA.
I was a Navy Seal in the 70's and 80's (ROTC scholarship to Berkeley). My MOS was EOD. I just don’t advertise that I used to get paid to travel the world and engage in state sanctioned murder.
After that I worked for NSA and then I made my money in the Dot.Com days. Providing IT support and Project Management services to startups. I have seen it all when it comes to the tech industry.
Including going back to the beginning in the 70's.
I knew Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. I talked to both of them several times in the 70’s before they were famous. When they were still showing things off at the Homebrew Computer Group.
It was no big deal. Historically I was in the right place at the right time to meet a bunch of people who would go on to be famous or rich.
I have been married 4 times. I have no children. I have no immediate family. My sister died of an overdose in Seattle in the 80's and my brother killed himself after shooting his ex-wife and their 2 kids. My parents are deceased.
Here is a partial list of sources I pay attention to:
Washington Post
New York Times
Guardian
The Hill
Politico
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
The New Yorker
The Conversation
FOX
CNN
MSNBC
Bloomberg
Al Jazzera
BBC International
News Max
Scientific American
National Geographic
Foreign Affairs Magazine
Discover Magazine
Military History Magazine
Ancient Military History Magazine
Paul Krugman's column
Heated newsletter on Climate issues
Archeology Magazine
Pro Publica
Reuters
Five Thirty Eight newsletter
Inside Climate News newsletter
Climate Nexus newsletter
STAT newsletter (medical news)
VOX Sentences, newsletter
AAAS Science Daily Report newsletter
Outbreak Watch (epidemiology newsletter)
Nature Briefing, newsletter
Archeologia (Spanish magazine on Mesoamerican archeology)
CDC M&M reports
Earth Sky News (astronomy newsletter)
.....
I could go on. Plus I read about 75-100 books a year on basically anything that catches my attention.
I don't do social media. For reasons of my own I never have. There are other good reasons why everyone should think carefully about what they share on the internet.
This is going to be Bad Ep. 13
For completeness sake here is my standard disclaimer.
DISCLAIMER:
I write and post on a number of sites and have been attacked for having no “academic credentials” in any field related to climate science. I do not wish to misrepresent myself as a “climate scientist” or “climate expert” to anyone who is reading this or any of my other climate related posts, so let us be clear:
I am not a climatologist, meteorologist, paleo-climatologist, geoscientist, ecologist, or climate science specialist. I am a motivated individual studying the issue using publicly available datasets and papers.
The analysis I am presenting is my own. I make no claim to “insider or hidden knowledge” and all the points I discuss can be verified with only a few hours of research on the Internet.
Back in the early 90’s I did National Security level analysis and threat assessment reports for a few years. My professional degree is a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, but it is from the 70’s and has only minor relevance to the world today.
I also have a “hobby” degree in Anthropology and a passion for Mesoamerican archeology (see my Tumblr blog if you are interested, The Archeotourist — Mesoamerica). None of which makes me an “expert” on climate science.
The analysis and opinion I present, in this and my other climate articles here on Medium, is exactly that: my opinion. I hope anyone reading it finds it useful, informative, and insightful but in the end, it is just my opinion. You have been warned.
Anything else you want to know?
FYI I enjoyed writing this which is why it's so long. It pulls together a bunch of stuff I want to mention. You didn't cause me any stress writing this. 😎
