Random notes: June 15, 2013.

NYT headline:

Minnesota Man, 94, Is Investigated for Nazi Ties

I think, with Father’s Day approaching, this is an important safety tip for everyone. A tie may be a good gift for Dad, if he has to wear ties and if you put some thought into it. However, I’d recommend staying away from ties with Nazi iconography, just as a general rule.

When two student journalists from Paw Prints, the newspaper of West Islip High School, set out to investigate school security, they thought they might do some good, maybe win the award for story of the year in the Long Island Press high school journalism contest. Instead, the article was quashed, and they wound up with a grown-up lesson in the consequences of testing nerves in a post-Newtown-massacre world.

Randal Schwartz, call your office please.

(That was perhaps my only disappointment at YAPC. As I noted, I did get to shake Larry Wall’s hand, but I never saw Randal Schwartz; I’m not even sure if he was there.)

There’s a protest singer singing a protest song.

Another NYT headline:

A Precarious Olympic Bid for Istanbul

Not Constantinople?

(Technically, I suppose that’s nobody’s business but the Turks. And, I guess, the IOC.)

2 Responses to “Random notes: June 15, 2013.”

  1. No, I didn’t make YAPC this year, as much as I might have liked to be in Austin. My clients come first, and I have a pretty heavy load, since I have to be gone for most of July for OSCON and a cruise.

    And yeah, that story is hauntingly familiar.

  2. stainles says:

    Thanks, Mr. Schwartz. I’m sorry that you weren’t there, but I admit that I feel better knowing you weren’t. (As opposed, that is, to finding out you were there, and I missed talking to you.)

    I hope we’re both at another YAPC sometime in the future.