Month: July 2019

Paula in Walla Walla

In a long-time family weekend tradition, we typically tune in to hear “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me“, NPR’s popular weekly comic news quiz.  Often guesting is Paula Poundstone — who host Peter Sagal says may be the funniest woman in America and is certainly one of our favorite laugh-getters, so when she was set to appear locally we didn’t hesitate to get tickets.   Her show took place in the historic GESA PowerHouse Theatre.  The venue provides seating for 300 in a 120-year-old repurposed structure.  We turned out to be in good company, demographically-speaking, as the audience was perhaps 98 percent gray-hair and were overwhelmingly self-reported as public radio listeners. Some pre-performance looks around (no photography allowed during the act, as usual):

Password Spraying

David Strom was at UCLA when I worked there in the 80s.  He was also writing a column for PC Magazine and other publications.  Since then, he has gone on in independent practice to become a noted expert in the computer security industry.  Today, his newsletter cites one of the latest threats and warns us again of the need to better manage our passwords, a subject that can never be overemphasized.  Read: https://blog.strom.com/wp/?p=7287