I am currently taking an online course in Cryptography and I’m learning a lot about the nuts and bolts of modern encryption, especially the standards, how to write proofs, and other elegant details about encryption that we all use everyday without thinking about it. In taking this course I am learning about all kinds of …
Author: termberkden
I am a writer, a software engineer, and a refugee from the punk/metal/new wave/my-God-what-did-we-do-last-night daze of the San Francisco scene.
I write, I run, I actually stop and smell the roses, I meow back at cats, and I pet strange yet friendly dogs.
33 Hours of Pinball – Yes, Really!
Because of the Covcid-19 lockdown this event was postponed. Still intend to do it this year when things calm down. (Knocks on wood.) This upcoming April I am going to attempt something crazy, possibly insane, and perhaps highly questionable: I am going to attempt to break the World Record for the longest time playing pinball. …
Vaguebooking: AKA How Not to use Facebook
The term Vaguebooking should be familiar to many a Facebooker: It’s when someone posts a status that is vague and lacking information, so much so that the many readers of the post is not sure what’s going on. Vaguebooking is oftentimes defined as a sad cry for attention, such as when someone posts just simply …
Yes, I actually sent this email today.
The following is an email I sent today to a Pinball Arcade in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yes, I am totally serious about doing this! Hey there. Remember me? I’m the guy who wants to break a World Record for playing pinball! I would like to meet up to discuss this idea in person, …
“Omigod, I think this guy is straight!” – An Excerpt from my Novel The Clubber
An excerpt from my novel, The Clubber: A Tale of the Eighties, available now on Amazon.com “Your friend’s upstairs.” He turned around. It was Beth El, this time with a spaced out Throcker hanging off her arm. “What?” “Your friend Serge is upstairs.” “Serge?” “Yes.” No doubt Serge had made it to the club’s covert …
Breaking News!
Many people bag on Facebook, but I oftentimes prefer the Facebook newsfeed to the Google newsfeed: This just in: Bay Area man tweaks his vegan muffin recipe, hopes for a successful baking. Breaking news: Woman trapped under sleeping cat: Does not want to wake up the putters!. Conflict in Scotland: What wine goes with a …
My Roommate Soup’s Final Resting Place. (One of them…)
I made a box for my late roommate Soup. Soup was not a human. Soup was a cat . Soup was not my cat. My friend Jen was Soup’s human, and we all used to be roommates some time ago in a house in Berkeley, California. (Jen is a musician who plays for The Hammerbombs …
When you’re talking to someone and you get all “…”
My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This post was from a few years ago. I was at my German speaking group and I was talking to a vegan about Sarah Kramer, a …
The Box I made for my Roommate Soup
Full blog on this topic soon. In the meantime, here’s the video!
Matucha Of Berkeley’s Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks
Matucha Of Berkeleys Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks With Pixie Stix And Moonshine You can find this recipe here! Prepare a large quantity of Hackey Sacks for cooking. Combine Pixie stix, coffee grounds, Potting mix, and bread crumbs in a small bowl – sprinkle Hackey Sacks with Pixie stix mixture. Place Hackey Sacks in a circular …