I don’t know whether I should complain about not getting a straw with my drink at the drive-thru. I mean, I did get the drink, and yes, it was a good drink because even at eight p.m. the temperature was 92 degrees, and my drink had ice. It had a lid. It was everything I …
Author Archives: lopey
On Being Young
First, a story from back in the day, back in Genesis. Like most of Genesis, you have to take it with a grain of salt. A literal interpretation will make your brain start to hurt. So, let’s just take it for what it is: a story about the diversity of language: Now the whole world …
aws ecr get-login free for all
I do tech stuff, and here’s a headache for you: you have a node that’s running docker version 17.09-ce. You have a jenkins process that will .ssh to this node, then do some fun stuff like connect to aws to grab images. First try after setting up credentials and all that: aws ecr get-login . …
Well, that seems to work
I’m testing some little things that may be of use next week. Or not. We’ll find out.
Liveblog test
Returning to Posting
It’s been roughly over a year since I last posted. A lot has happened since then. I don’t really feel like going into the reasons why, but suffice to say that everything is as usual okay. Not great, not spectacular, but also not lousy. I am considering transitioning this site to become a longer-term project, …
The Lack of Gray
I haven’t written in a while, mostly because I just haven’t felt like writing much lately. There’s been a lot of stuff happening, and sometimes it’s hard just to keep everything from overwhelming me. However, there are two separate issues that have at their heart a much larger issue. They are the Declassified CIA Report …
Can Corporations be “Religious”?
Let’s talk about Hobby Lobby. Currently, HL is suing the federal government because they feel that the inclusion of emergency contraceptives as part of mandated by PPACA goes against their religious beliefs. There has been some frothing at the mouth about HL on the internet, and some of it is with good reason. The owners …
A typical day
And so the machine has to reside in the DMZ to have outside people access it… But you can’t use an insecure port, because people are picky about that… Then you have to try and collate years of results into meaningful data… VMWare? Why hast thou forsaken me? Huh. So that’s what a Gomertz equation …
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