You say there is only darkness, I will be your light.

Visitor: [looks around incredulously] “But why? There’s no one else here.”

Me: “...well...there’s me?”

- Neck of a snake

- body of a leopard

- haunches of a lion

- feet off a hart (deer)

So is it

Or….

She just did a big scary alert bark for me and when I went to check what was up

She had found an extra large dung beetle

She wanted me to examine it... I did and I told her it was an Allowed Dung Beetle and she immediately stopped alerting, became very proud of herself when i praised her for letting me know, and went to finish up her bowl of kibble

Oh

It’s okay to miss them

It’s okay to miss what you had

It’s okay to wish it didn’t happen that way

It’s okay to to be upset about how they treated you

Ita okay to be upset about it being over

It’s okay to be angry about how they treated you

It’s okay to have feelings about the situation and even about them still.

It’s okay to cry about it even though it’s over, or cry about it even because it’s over.

You can cry, you can get mad, you can express your emotions.

It’s okay.

But it’s not okay to go back to them. It’s not okay to apologize to them for how they treated you. It’s not okay to hurt other people because of how they hurt you. And it’s not okay to hurt yourself.

Please please please I know that you might still be hurting from them and from what they did and becuase it’s over, but the hurt won’t last forever. You’ll heal and you’ll be better.

They don’t deserve you.

You deserve better. You deserve good things. You deserve healthy love and healthy friendships and healthy activities.

Just a Couple of Girls. Harry Wilson Watrous (American, 1857–1940)

Vicente Romero Redondo (Spanish, b. 1956)

Cafe. Valeriy Gridnev (Russian, b. 1956)

What’s encrypting your internet surfing? An algorithm created by a supercomputer? Well, if the site you’re visiting is encrypted by the cyber security firm Cloudflare, your activity may be protected by a wall of lava lamps.

Cloudflare covers websites for Uber, OKCupid, & FitBit, for instance. The wall of  lamps in the San Francisco headquarters generates a random code. Over 100  lamps, in a variety of colors, and their patterns deter hackers from accessing data.  

As the lava lamps bubble and swirl, a video camera on the ceiling monitors their unpredictable changes and connects the footage to a computer, which converts the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.

Codes created by machines have relatively predictable patterns, so it’s possible for hackers to guess their algorithms, posing a security risk. Lava lamps, add to the equation the sheer randomness of the physical world, making it nearly impossible for hackers to break through.

You might think that this would be kept secret, but it’s not. Simply go in and ask to see the lava lamp display. By allowing people to affect the video footage, human movement, static, and changes in lighting from the windows work together to make the random code even harder to predict.

So, by standing in front of the display, you add an additional variable to the code, making it even harder to hack. Isn’t that interesting? 

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