Anne Adams Feb 3 2019

My friend Anne Anne M. Adams is in a hospice and is not expected to regain consciousness. She did an amazing job of fighting cancer and the chemo worked very well for years. She was completely Anne until less than a week ago when she stopped being lucid. I worked with Anne at Degraf/Wahrman and Viacom, and she worked at many of the early "multimedia" companies as well. She really did not deserve this. It makes me very sad. The picture is from her farewell party less than a week ago.

Nancy Pelosi For President

I love Nancy Pelosi and I hope she becomes POTUS.

Metropolis at the Arlington on a Wonder Morton

I finally saw Metropolis by Fritz Lang, and not only that, I heard the track played live on a Wonder Morton at the Arlington Theatre at the SBIFF!

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Read about the Wonder Mortons and where they are today:

https://gstos.org/organs/the-bob-balfour-memorial-wonder-morton-theatre-pipe-organ/the-5-wonder-mortons-where-are-they-now/

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival
https://sbiff.org/

Hunter vs Carbajal

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Once upon a time, I lived in CA-50, the district of Duncan Hunter, one of the more obnoxious right wing congressman in the house of representatives. I called and left a message, and was treated very well. I emailed him, and would get call backs from the 212 area code (Wash DC). Maybe every other letter, and these letters were quite inflamatory, would get a response, perhaps a position paper on the topic (net neutrality). Of course this was all his office not Congressman Hunter himself, and of course it made no real difference but it was nice, it felt engaging.

Now I am in CA-24, Congressman Carbajal, a Democrat, and after 5 emails and one office visit. Nothing. Zip. Do not exist.

The result may be the same, but I much preferred being represented by Hunter.

Channelling Concept Art from A Horror Movie

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More entertaining accidents from my tests of GANs and machine learning.  Perhaps concept art from a horror movie I did not know I was working on?

Counterintelligence is Slow

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Counterintelligence is slow.  There is no law or rule that says that those who do counterintelligence have to tell you everything or, for that matter, anything.  Their job is to defeat certain kinds of attacks on this country and they take that job seriously.  Trump and his gang sincerely think they are the smartest guys in the room and that they can get away with it.  And probably did not understand the significance of what will be known as their treason.  We are in the middle of one of the most amazing stories in American history, but the candidate was not brainwashed.  He was just a fuck-job bully rich kid racist who did not realize that there are lines you can not cross, and boy did he/they cross those lines.

Far worse than Trump was the betrayal of this country by the Republican party.  They knew, yes, I am pretty sure they did.

Alien Merit Badges

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Given a diet of 200 real and fake merit badges from the internet, suitably rotated and skewed, my little convnet GAN generates some acceptable alien merit badges.  

The Deputy Sheriff

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The deputy sheriff came by yesterday looking to serve a warrant for someone who no longer lives here. First time that has ever happened.

Rawstory and Wonkette are my Go To News Sites

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I want outrage.  I want the truth.  I want the Trump criminals and their Republican traitors to go to jail for their crimes.  When I want to read someone else who thinks as I do about this hideous abuse of power, I go to rawstory.com and wonkette.com.  They are both reader supported sites.  I hope you will read them and support them!

4th Letter to My Congressman

Dear Congressman Carbajal,

This will be my 4th letter to you without a response.  Even Duncan Hunter (CA-50) did better than that (I sent him 10 or so emails, and got nice responses to almost every one). 

This madness in Washington has to stop, now.  People are getting all riled up.  Open the government, impeach Trump, make a statement, already.  A press release, whatever.  Do it today.

Yes, I would like a response to this email.

Your humble constituent,
Michael Wahrman