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Welcome to Mirage Travel Writing Podcast, I’m your host William Barlow. After two decades of indigent wanderings, I’m coming to you with stories, curiosities, and questions. In this first season, there will be narratives of sleeping on the streets in European capitals. There will be tales of crocodile men in remote Central African Republic and armed groups in eastern DR Congo all told through the experience of an aid worker. We will try to understand what it means to be a foreigner in clanic ...
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Marriage or Mirage by Charmaine & Neek Bey podcast is about the good, bad, and ugly of Marriage. With the divorce rate at 50%, we expose failed and successful marriages in and out of the entertainment industry. Charmaine was the lead star in one of Vh1’s most successful reality shows, Black Ink, starring in seven seasons and over 100 episodes, while Neek has appeared in five seasons of the show; this is where America fell in love with their love story. They’ve been together for six years and ...
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I once thought each culture had its neuroses, I now think each culture is a neurosis. Neurosis is defined as a particular atrophied behavior, the expression of which results from some sort of malady. Mental conditions that are not caused by organic disease, but involve symptoms of stress, such as obsessive behavior, but not a radical loss of touch …
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Multiple times a day, on a whim or by demand, I sing my son the song The Wheels on the Bus. He's just turned two and loves repetition. He watches my lips as I describe the movements of wheels, wipers, and the driver as the driver says move on back. All over an idealized town, this bus drives over a dozen times a day. At any time of the day, I can r…
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Travel writing is always going on about place. And travelers are forever comparing and positioning themselves between home and away. But if you travel long enough, the home you think you know will vanish in time and as you touch down in your home country or hometown, you’ll suddenly realize there's often nowhere to return to. If you enjoy what you'…
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A blow by blow of a humanitarian aid distribution in eastern DR Congo The aid industry is selling you a lie but it’s one that’s necessary. The poignant photos on aid organization websites showing beneficiaries in Africa and Asia as grateful recipients of aid are misleading. The lie is necessary because you, the viewer might not know that Giving Thi…
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In this gripping episode of "Marriage or Mirage," we delve into the tumultuous lives of Lynn and Jamal. After Jamal suffers a near-fatal gunshot wound to the head, leading to severe brain damage, their world turns upside down. Initial suspicions hover over his family's motives, as life insurance money comes into play. Miraculously, Lynn's discovery…
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In this episode we have a crash course in clanic values in Palestine when yours truly is robbed and the question of justice—formal justice or informal justice is forced upon me, the wayward traveler. Intro music by Sam Widaman, episode music by Bull of Heaven, He is Not Dead, but Sleepeth If you enjoy what you're listening to but would rather hold …
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Anyone who has ever had his or her heart shit on, enjoyed needle drugs, or rotted away in Sub-Saharan Africa might have witnessed things and could have things worthwhile to say. Worth what? I haven't the faintest idea. At least not yet. This is a story. It could be mine, or it could be yours. In all reality, it is of little significance, the Africa…
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In this episode we have the politics of foreign aid as it relates to the KONY 2012 campaign told through a story about an aid worker kicking painkillers in the Central African Republic. We have crocodile men, a cameo by Celine Dion, and we turn the narrative of Central Africa as a warzone full of witch hunts on its head. Intro music by Sam Widaman,…
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Herbert Marcuse's book "Eros and Civilization" proposes a non-repressive society by attempting a synthesis of the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. He describes a utopia based on aesthetics, sensuality and play, as opposed to our current construction of civilization based on reason, production and repression. When I was a horny twenty-year-o…
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When I was living in West Africa, I learned the hard way why people are poor. And why, during the International Year of Microcredit, why the clients of the microfinance institution where I interned failed to reimburse their loans, and why that was a good thing. Intro music by Sam Widaman, episode music by Christopher Mathis available on bandcamp If…
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Hannes on how he discovered mirageOS, his TLS contribution to the project and the motivation to kick off the mirageOS Hacker Retreat in Marrakesh. LINKS: 00:50 Marrakesh 01:03 Priscilla - Queen of the Medina 01:14 Mirleft 02:08 ocaml-tls 05:31 Dylan 05:43 Andreas Bogk 06:01 ICFP Programming Contest 07:07 Coq 09:31 Network Night Vision 10:27 CCC Con…
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Christiano on how to develop a SSH implementation with mirageOS. LINKS: 01:56 Marcelo Tosatti 02:03 OpenBSD 03:10 Scheme 04:08 Anil Madhavapeddy 04:35 Real World OCaml 05:20 MirageOS 06:04 Charrua / A DHCP library in OCaml 06:08 Docker 09:25 SSH 10:43 nocrypto 11:33 Awá SSH library 12:35 Pthreads 20:45 OpenBSD VMM (virtual machine monitor) 21:06 Xe…
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Talking to Gabriel Scherer about the nature of programming and the role of ocaml in particular. LINKS: 00:51 Hannes Mehnert 01:57 Caml 02:08 Caml Light 03:26 ML 03:50 F# 03:58 Haskell 04:42 Prolog 04:42 Declarative programming 05:45 Lisp 05:52 Clojure 07:02 Ruby 10:12 Charrua-Core 11:46 Fuzzing 11:52 Stephen Dolan 11:54 Mindy Preston 12:17 Anil Mad…
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Anil Madhavapeddi on his research and how mirageOS came to be. LINKS: 01:15 University of Cambridge - The Computer Laboratory 02:41 Robin Milner 05:08 Light-weight Threads 06:07 XenStore 08:05 Library Operating Systems 09:14 Unikernel 12:48 LifeDB 15:44 Xavier Leroy 15:47 Coq 15:53 CompCert 17:14 Inria 17:21 OCaml Labs 17:33 Thomas Gazagnaire 17:38…
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