I 🟥 Judd

I 🟥 Judd

I saw bumper stickers like the title of this post for years and wondered, in the pre-internet era, what they meant. I believed it when I was told, “Oh, it’s a band. It’s an inside joke among the fans.” WTF? It wasn’t until my second trip to the Chinati Foundation, in Marfa, Texas, that it …

From the Help Desk: Rescuing a Laptop from BitLocker and Lenovo’s SecureBoot

From the Help Desk: Rescuing a Laptop from BitLocker and Lenovo’s SecureBoot

I’m putting this here to help anyone who ends up in the same place I was last night at a bit after midnight. I know you’re out there… I’ve seen your panic-stricken posts to the Lenovo forums (fora?). The Problem: Lenovo-crippled firmware As the de facto “IT person” for the greater portion of my and …

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The Dangers of Domestication

The Dangers of Domestication

Part 1: From Hated to Hallowed Last month, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, my daughter was given a worksheet at school. It looked a lot like this one to the right, but with different content. The actual content of the worksheet was “Ways I can make the world a better place, just …

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The Best Stories on TV

The Best Stories on TV

This is not going to be the blog post that wins me a Pulitzer (has that happened, I wonder? Ah, yes, sort of), but I keep having this thought, and I feel like it deserves to be “out there.” Two of my favorite television shows of recent times have been Orange Is The New Black …

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