The Byzantine Generals Problem

Computers And Man Second Edition by Richard C. Dorf 1974/1977 Boyd & Fraser
In the Preface to The Second Edition "There are about 170,000 computers in operation in the US, while there were just 5,000 a decade ago." Davis, CA June, 1977

Algorithms should be studied. They were writen about in the 800s A.D. by a Persian.

Every July 4th week-end, I try to learn the names of the Presidents of the United States and the year that they either were elected or took office. (There is a difference between learning and memorizing)
The trick is to find a knowable historical event and attach it to the President at the time.
The Louisiana Purchase, the build up to the Civil War, World War I, etc. are examples of historical events which we should all be familiar. The problem for me seems to be Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore or Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland.

I have Presidential flash cards.

ELVIS REDUX

PATHFINDER John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire by Tom Chafin 2002 Hill and Wang A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Tom and Meta are part of the literatci that have become part of the Manuel's Tavern Myth. This book does what I most enjoy about non-fiction biography and history which is tell the human face about the characters who make our world. The pains, loves, failures, triumphs, talent and luck which make up life need to be included when one tries to tell a complete story about a person. Tom is a gifted scholar and a good story teller. He chose a character who is both important in the American story and someone whose complete story needed to be told.

Last night I went to hear Elvis Costello play in Athens, Georgia for the first time. Great 2 hour set at the Athens Classic Center.

The night before I went to hear Michael Penn at the Red Light Cafe in Atlanta and then the BooHoo Ramblers at Blind Willies.

President W. Bush had what was described as the fourth prime time news conference of his Presidency tonight. I received an e-mail during the 1 hour asking why the networks were televising him. I had hoped to watch ABC television's showing of Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon. I had been paid to be an extra one cold night in Atlanta several years ago to reshoot some scenes of that movie. I never saw it to see if they used any of my cameo appearance. I did meet and chat with Reese that night.

The Next Pope should be Ringo

A Decent, Orderly Lynching The Montana Vigilantes by Frederick Allen 2004University of Oklahoma Press was hung out to dry early this morning. (I finished reading it.)

Attended a reading for Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at Push Push Theater last night. "When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn Pro."

This Friday, Chrystal, a movie directed by Georgia native Ray McKinnon and starring his wife and Arkansas native Lisa Blount opens across the country. Billy Bob Thorton and Harry Dean Stanton appear in this Southern Dramatic tale.

The Masters Golf Tournament starts this week.

Spring Break in some form or function is happening here and there. Be Afraid!

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is Dead

I met Dr. Hunter S. Thompson over twenty years ago in the Memorial Hall ballroom at the University of Georgia. We compared notes and decided it would be a good idea that we should not adventure together. We honored our pact until that faithful night at the Woody Creek Tavern outside of Aspen Colorado when intoxicants resulted in gunplay.

I had agreed to remain silent until his big sleep.

A week from Tuesday, March 1, 2005 I will contact the agent and start the book.

The working title ......"Oversleeping for the Dalai Lama"

TRIFECTA

People On Our Side by Edgar Snow copyright 1944 by Random House is a follow up after Red Star Over China. This may be one of the greatest books I have attempted to read in some time.
First person account of Asia during World War II.

NO job, NO place to live, NO girlfriend - Freedom is just another word for nothing else to lose.

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GREED AND VANITY

Constitutional Law Eleventh Edition by Gerald Gunther -William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Stanford University copyright 1985 with the 1985 Supplement by Frederick Schauer had to be complemented with Casenote Legal Briefs Constitutional Law copyright 1985 when I first took Constitutional Law in my 1st year of law school at Georgia State University College of Law.

Last night at a Junior League legislative reception at which I wore neither pearls nor heels, I met a clerk who works at the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta. I will go on record right now and predict that if and when a U.S. Supreme Court vancancy comes open during the W. presidency,
Larry Thompson will be nominated by this administration and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Everyones Got To Fight To Be Free

A History of American Diplomacy by Armin Rappaport copyright 1975 might be useful right now. "...the factors that went into the formulation of policy, such as public attitudes, domestic political considerations, pressures from interest groups, and aims, aspirations, and ambitions of the principal policy makers as well as their characters and personalities."

Check out how much news coverage the Congressional lame duck session is getting or not getting. The little matter of raising the Federal debt limit and passing an omnibus appropriation bill.

William Faulkner is said to have been influenced by James Joyce.

Sports and art are great distractions. The combination could possibly bypass religion as an opiate of the masses.