I'm here.
I'm still here.I have a post that hopefully doesn't suck too much in the works, but not enough compute cycles to work on it right now. Not a lot of hacking going on right now, either.Things aren't easy...
View ArticleGrief.
This blog post is probably going to make less sense than usual. It's certainly going to be out of order semantically; I'll try to minimize the disjunctions as best I can and I apologize in advance....
View ArticlePain.
"Sometimes I think this whole 'growing up' thing is just pain management."--The MaxxSeems like a pretty cynical take on life, doesn't it? In a sense, it is; it comes across as somewhat defeatist, as a...
View ArticleHeroic IT measures on an HP Pavilion x360 Convertible.
Note: The purpose of this post is mostly to document how to reconfigure laptops like my mom's to boot from a flash drive. The actual imaging process is only parenthetically laid out. If you're in a...
View ArticleNeologism: Pandemic Fine
pandemic fine - noun phrase - A state of being in which you are employed and healthy during a pandemic but you're also tired and depressed and feel like trash all the time.Source: @sarahesmith23
View ArticleMy .plan file has broken the one megabyte barrier.
As the title implies, my .plan file has broken the one megabyte barrier at long last:{12:10:40 @ Thu Jan 06}[drwho @ windbringer ~]() $ ls -alF .plan .rw-r--r-- drwho drwho 1.0 MB Thu Jan 612:03:39...
View ArticleSearching for a bourbon replacement.
Disclaimer: I'm not getting anything for these reviews. I haven't been asked to write them, I'm not being compensated for them, and I don't have an in with any of these companies. My Amazon links are...
View ArticleWhat's on my desk?
In the last couple of weeks, a meme has been going around the blogging community where people talk about the stuff they use on an everyday basis. So, I figured, why not. I write about everything else,...
View ArticleUsing Recoll to index my hoard.
Long time readers are probably familar with two things: Horror stories about my dental work, and my endless quest to find search software that'll let me make sense of my data hoard (because I never...
View ArticleOkay, fine. I'm generation X.
This blog post best read while listening to this playlist.I keep trying to figure out how to start this blog post. I've started, stopped, pondered, and taken a shower while thinking about it off and on...
View ArticleTwo in a month.
This might be a record. Two posts in a month.Things seem to have calmed down a little so I've had more compute cycles free to do stuff. The last week at work was uncommonly... I don't want to say...
View ArticleWorking around another Android misfeature.
I've been using Android phones for probably ten years now. Not because I have any particular loyalty to Google or the platform, but just because I can afford the phones. The last time I tried to text...
View ArticleThe end of an era.
I flew back to Pennsylvania about two weeks ago to wrap up my mom's estate.I'm really not sure how else to put it. It's short, to the point, but nothing at all like simple.Lyssa and I flew back on two...
View ArticleCombining Manticore and Searx.
Difficulty: Advanced.One of these days I'll get around to doing a writeup of an indispensible part of my exocortex, Wallabag. I used it to replace my old paywall breaker program, largely because...
View ArticleNeologism: Follicular surveillance
follicular surveillance - when you use the "you are under surveillance" screens at self-service checkouts to check on the progress of your androgenic alopecia.
View ArticleNeologism: wad;dis
wad;dis - Working As Designed; Design Is StupidSource: Anonymous co-worker
View ArticleNeologism: Strossian nightmare
Strossian Nightmare - noun phrase - Where the Great Old Ones haven't taken control, but things have gotten so bad that you wish they had.Source: @tautology
View ArticleNeologism: Profit Honeymoon
profit honeymoon - noun phrase - When the price of a barrel of oil goes up (or when something occurs that could eventually make it go up) the price at the pump goes up immediately. But when the price...
View ArticleLife in Pittsburgh.
For reasons I don't quite understand I always equated growing up with situations where you can walk into someplace to do something, talk to someone, and immediately have a real conversation about life...
View ArticleNeologism: Shark mode
shark mode - noun phrase - The state in which a given piece of software is sufficiently developed that it doesn't really need any additional work, save to keep it working in more modern environments....
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