Diary (July 4, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday July 4, 2020.

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The Gelded Lily

The Gelded Lily - a body-mod franchise specializing in gilt and demasculation; headquartered in New Minneapolis, Canada

What a Friend We Have in Croesus

What a Friend We Have in Croesus

Oswald the Unlucky Agent

Oswald the Unlucky Agent

• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

It Was A Very Good Sign

When I was Sibylline I got a very good sign ...

It Was A Very Good Sign

• It Was A Very Good Year

I Ching

Thought for the Day

Yin (New)
Yin (New)
Yin (New)
Yin (New)
Yang (New)
Yin (Old)

The present is embodied in Hexagram 7 - Shih (The Army): With firmness and correctness, and a leader of age and experience, there will be good fortune and no error.

The first (bottommost) line, divided, shows the host going forth according to the rules for such a movement. If these be not good, there will be evil.

The situation is evolving slowly, and Yang (the active masculine force) is gaining ground.

Yin (New)
Yin (New)
Yin (New)
Yin (New)
Yang (New)
Yang (New)

The future is embodied in Hexagram 19 - Lin (Approach): There will be great progress and success, while it will be advantageous to be firmly correct. In the eighth month there will be evil.

The things most apparent, those above and in front, are embodied by the upper trigram K'un (Earth), which represents docility and receptivity.

The things least apparent, those below and behind, are embodied by the lower trigram K'an (Water), which is transforming into Tui (Lake). As part of this process, danger and the unknown are giving way to joy, pleasure, and attraction.

Denial of stellation

Denial-of-stellation attack

• Stellation @ Wikipedia: the process of extending a polygon in two dimensions, polyhedron in three dimensions, or, in general, a polytope in n dimensions to form a new figure. Starting with an original figure, the process extends specific elements such as its edges or face planes, usually in a symmetrical way, until they meet each other again to form the closed boundary of a new figure. The new figure is a stellation of the original. The word stellation comes from the Latin stellātus, "starred", which in turn comes from Latin stella, "star".

• Denial-of-service attack @ Wikipedia: a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.

General Simulants

General Simulants - a division of Extract of Radium

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)