Voices / The commonwealth / Layers of the Network

[Michael Bailey]

I have no idea who Johnna of The Story is. What is The Story, for that
matter?

Favorite voices -
At the pinnacle is Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Billie Holiday,
Diana Ross, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. And so many more. I like Joan
Armatrading.

whiny Hispanic voices can be alluring, although other modes more so…not
familiar on an intimate basis...but, flashing back to a training class or
two at the phone company.… I also like Fran Drescher’s voice from The
Nanny. And the Fran character from the 90s sitcom Mad About You. They
didn’t bring her back for the reboot, because the actor had become a
psychotherapist and wasn’t available. But anyway…

It didn’t seem like you minded a link. So,

Here’s the Stooges

https://youtu.be/a9jPIf_V-70


Here’s the MC5 from their 2nd album performing “The American Ruse” which
was a clue on Jeopardy not long ago.

https://youtu.be/fqWbHxIQbTk

Both pretty tasty, if you ask me.
Overly raucous & rascally for a steady diet, though.


Here’s What’s Up:


https://youtu.be/aPEhQugz-Ew



You wrote:

“Sure, it's a shame when
you have to depend on government for certain kinds of social services,
but it's a much bigger shame when you can't.”


Well put!



Networking

Enterprise networks like a college have IT people to
maintain Windows machines, maybe some Apple, printers, LANs.

They hook up to carrier networks to carry signals between locations, & to
get on the internet.

I worked in a carrier network.

As in purgatory, there are 7 layers of network.

Layer 1 is like the physical layer, pipes.

I was in a Layer 2 shop, switching. We had these big boxes in various
locations & had to make sure they were throwing all the bits into the
correct pipes. I stayed on Layer 2 all night, maintaining the network.

Layer 3 is internet routing,

layer 4 & up tend to get amalgamated (from layer 2’s point of view anyway)

An enterprise network person would have an admirable stock of competency
that didn’t competely overlap with a carrier network person.

Within their domain, they maintain all the layers 1 thru 7 (and there’s the
humorous layer 8, which is end user goofs).

The log-ins & keystrokes they use wouldn’t be part of my repertoire, and
vice versa, although we have a good idea of what each other are doing.

In terms of ideal jobs -

1 - Design beats maintenance. (I never got anywhere near design!)

Rather than maintenance, it’s generally cooler & cleaner to do design and
programming.

Like the difference between being an installation plumber, or a repair
plumber.

2 - High beats low.

 lower level programming is, although indispensable, pretty boring (imho)

—- you can have a good time on any level & in any capacity and none of them
works without all the others —- but still…

 Layer 7, the application layer, is where the fancy programming for end
users happens.

When you look at the 957 coins & other applications available on Ethereum,
that is a bunch of Layer 7 programming.


Messing around with -coin, or apps, or content, is the pinnacle from a
certain point of view.

So I’m of course intrigued.

(Starting over, if that were possible, security would also be a good place
to be. But that’s a different domain. And Layer 7 still wins in terms of
“glamour”)

But still, Layer 7 is only the pinnacle of Purgatory -

Paradise, in my estimation, was always Academia.
I hung out there as long as I could, and maybe might still pad around those
hallowed halls some more.


But perhaps Paradise is also retirement.

Hope you’re doing well. Happy Memorial Day aftermath!