10,000 scraps of paper

One foot in front of the next is the only way to get there.

This is my first post on the site using [Gutenberg](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg).

I sit there, typing here

I just stumbled across a thing I wrote months ago at work, x-posting here for posterity:

I heard a segment recently on NPR’s Here And Now re: Facebook and Google together capturing 80-90% of online advertising. As so many web-based business models hinge on advertising (either directly or indirectly), this allows these two companies to “steer” the future of the web in so many ways.

The web I grew up on was about connecting to information (aka, content). Increasingly, today’s web is about connecting to people. Google and Facebook are coming at this intersection of content and people from opposite directions and at that intersection is the proverbial end of the rainbow, pot of gold.

I don’t have a full theory developed for this (yet), but I believe this centralization and consolidation, combined with increasingly algorithmic driven user experiences, reduces our online experience to normalized advertising units and pays no respect to the diversity of our offline/analog world. For me, the concept of an “open web” represents an alternative.

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Have a file where you want to add a comma to the end of each line?

$ sed 's/$/,/' ip_addresses.txt | head -n2

This should work…but, wait, it didn’t. Instead, it replaced the first character of each line with a comma:

,6.127.0.0/17
,7.238.80.0/21

Ah, because the file is dos encoded, see the “\r \n”:

$ head -n1 ip_addresses.txt | od -c
0000000 9 6 . 1 2 7 . 0 . 0 / 1 7 \r \n
0000017

Ok, so dos2unix to the rescue:

$ dos2unix ip_addresses.txt
dos2unix: converting file ip_addresses.txt to Unix format...

And, finally:

$ sed 's/$/,/' ip_addresses.txt | head -n2
96.127.0.0/17,
87.238.80.0/21,

But, not so fast. We actually wanted commas on all but the last line:

$ sed 's/$/,/' ip_addresses.txt | tail -n2
103.246.150.0/23,
103.246.148.0/23,


So, use “$!” which matches lines which are NOT the last line:

$ sed '$!s/$/,/' ip_addresses.txt | tail -n2
103.246.150.0/23,
103.246.148.0/2

…to have a drink with Pierre Teilhard.

In 2001-02 I studied Theology at Regent College. There I took a literature course from Dr. Loren Wilkinson. His syllabus listed about a dozen books, including: Everything That Rises Must Converge, For the Time Being, and The Brothers K.

Having just now read Duncan’s essay “Assailed: Improvisations in the Key of Cosmology” in Where I’d Rather Go: More Essays Beyond the Comfort Zone by Susan Olding et al, I’m more convinced than ever that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was onto It.

Funny because I wrote a paper about this back at Regent. And, while it’s probably embarrassingly bad, I still have it here.