Global Wahrman

draft Fragment of a larger essay. I had the misfortune of working at RAND as a college drop out and being part of the early ARPA communi...

draft Several friends have expressed concern about my lack of traditonal employment (or non-traditional employment) and have offered to he...

I dont write about shit like this so that people who hate me can use it to make fun of me. I already know what you think. I write it so...

As part of the continuing effort to live within my means, I decided that when SDGE (San Diego Gas and Electric) turned off my power this...

draft This post is being rewritten, I would wait for this notice to go away before reading. I applied for seven jobs at a large very s...

I can't imagine anything more futile and tedious than spending time agonizing over how to present what I have learned about some of t...

There was a time, years ago, when one's friends and professional colleagues were an important part of one's career path. There a...

The following has been edited for formatting purposes and to fix minor grammatical and spelling errors.  I have removed the identity of t...

In the last few weeks I have blocked three people on Facebook, unfriended a few, and probably have been unfriended myself without my know...

Three recent “interview worthy” issues were recently brought up by a friend who has the misfortune of managing several hundred researcher...

[needs to be rewritten with examples from article] If you go to the following link, you will be able to read an article in Foreign Affai...

If you are unemployed then you probably already knew how fucked you are. But those of you interested in the details may wish to review t...

A colleague of mine from the old days who, to my amazement, occasionally reads my blog, wanted to make very sure that I knew that there w...

draft For many years I have attended the national conference of SIGGRAPH and been amazed that as far as I can tell the conference is to...

In the following discussion, the primary Antagonist is someone many of you know, but not all of you. He will not be named in this post. ...

Have you noticed how boring and unreadable most official reports on cyber crime seem to be? They come in various styles of boring from a...

On the occasion of a very disappointing Siggraph for those of us struggling to make a living with computer animation and failing, as so m...