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 …
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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, …
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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Camping, Scouts, and… Stuff
I had the distinct pleasure of going to Webelos Camp with Jacob last week. We left Wednesday morning and came back Saturday morning. The camp was located in beautiful Pottsboro, Texas, right on the shore of Lake Texoma or somesuch (no, I didn’t really check. They just told us that 42 feet out into the …
Burn, Baby, Burn
Ultimately, we had no other choice. There are some things you don’t want to deal with as an adult. I’m not referring to the really big life-changes such as losing jobs or family issues; this is just “okay, why do I have to put up with this?” level irritation. Background: Laureen and I are suckers. …