VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

Here’s a turnaround. I’m asking readers for your viewpoint and advice.
Something very upsetting happened last night and I’m trying to understand where things broke down, how I should evaluate the whole thing, and what - if anything - I should do about it.
Background: We’ve been friendly with a family in the neighborhood for a [...]

The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message.
Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization.
Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an [...]