Neologism: Whistle-drowning
whistle-drowning - "Whistle-drowning is designed to flood the public (with) a flurry of allegations that make it very difficult to concentrate on the important questions."Â The antonym of...
View ArticleChemotherapy begins.
Mom had her first round of chemotherapy last Tuesday. Early that morning I drove her to the Hillman Cancer Center at UPMC, got her checked in, and had to leave as they took her back because, due to...
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Calculating entropy with Python.
Fun fact: There is more than one kind of entropy out there.If you've been through high school chemistry or physics, you might have learned about thermodynamic entropy, which is (roughly speaking) the...
View ArticleWrestling with mental and physical health.
This isn't easy for me to write because it involves my mental health. So, if it's not your bag feel free to skip this post.Helping my mom since her cancer diagnosis has left me in this peculiar state...
View ArticleNeologism: Leaning Tower of Hangout
Leaning Tower of Hangout - noun phrase - The covid-19 quarantine phenomenon in which one discovers a stack of hangouts on one's work calendar, all for the exact same time, all flagged as required, all...
View ArticleSetting up a mail relay server with Postfix, DKIM, and a little Nebula trickery.
Given the proliferation of spam on just about every vaguely workable platform these days it seems sheer insanity to attempt to run your own mail server. If it's out there, it's ripe for abuse in one...
View ArticleYet more wit, wisdom, and out of context vulgarity.
The latest version of my .plan file has been uploaded. The usual warnings apply - profanity, hilarity, quotes, and anything else that gave me a chuckle when I wrote it down.
View ArticleEmbedded environment monitoring.
Disclaimer: This post has lots of links to the Adafruit website. There are no referral links, I received no consideration, I just buy parts from there and do cool things with them.A couple of weeks...
View ArticleNeologism: Cigarette principle
cigarette principle - noun phrase - The phenomenon in which, if you want something to happen sooner, you should do something that will immediately inconvenience you during the act of that something...
View ArticlePutting Faraday shielding fabric to the test.
Last year at Thotcon the presenters were given what were purported to be faraday shielded backpacks - backpacks manufactured with fabric woven out of very fine conductive wires that are said to reflect...
View ArticleAnother site migration
It seems that I still I can never leave well enough alone (as anyone who's known me for a while an attest to). While on Thanksgiving break I found myself needing to tinker more once I'd gotten my other...
View ArticleInterfacing Fess with Searx.
I promise I'll explain what Fess is in a later post. I want to get this information out there in preparation.If you haven't used Searx before, it's a self-hosted meta-search engine which queries a wide...
View Article30 Days on Adderall
Chatting every couple of weeks with my therapist for the last couple of years, the topic of ADD, attention deficit disorder keeps coming up. As in, she suspects that I have it, and has suspected it for...
View ArticleThis is a test of the timed post system.
I'm working on a script that'll do timed posts of my Pelican site. If you see this, it means it probably worked, in which case I'll make the script available to everyone.
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End of year disorientation?
Once again it is the end of year crunch at work and we're all scrambling to get things done before holiday break. That we even get a holiday break is something that I'm still not quite used to, though...
View ArticleLOCKSS and Git.
The archival community has a saying: LOCKSS. Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe.Ultimately, if you trust someone else to hold your data for you there is always a chance that the service can disappear,...
View ArticleFixing YaCy?
A couple of weeks back I decided to upgrade the YaCy installs running on Leandra to the latest supported versions, because they'd been lagging behind for a while. Due to the fact that they're...
View ArticleClearing stuck jobs in Huginn
From time to time the job workers in Huginn will lock up. This usually happens if they are subjected to an external resource which can be contacted but never seems to respond. A stuck webapp on the...
View ArticleReconditioning a touch tone dialer.
One of my holiday break hobby projects, a palate cleanser if you will, was reconditioning a classic Radio Shack touch tone dialer I'd picked up on eBay somewhen around Thanksgiving. They're retrotech...
View ArticleOne last shot fired by 2020.
Well, happy friggin' new year, everyone. It's 2021.ev at last, the year when the Internet is supposed to look like this or something.Of course it's never that easy. 2020.ev had one final kick in the...
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