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I have 6 OpenBSD machines that I use for self hosting various services: nuc - My main homeserver, hosts general stuff that I use at home. bluebox - My home router, what connects me to the internet. www - A VPS that hosts this website. smtp - A VPS that hosts my mail server. imap - A VPS that serves my mail clients....
If you took philosophy in college or knew someone who did, you probably remember having conversations along the lines of āwhat if, you know, everything I observe is just an evil god tricking me?ā This is the Cartesian demon1 that has haunted more undergraduates than pop quizzes. But after a few late-night talks, the...
In my mandatory annual fire safety training class the other day, they had us run through the same simulation exercise they always do. There was a big box with LEDs that simulate a fire, a fake fire extinguisher with which we "put out" the fire with lasers, and a pretend fire alarm on a portable stand. The routine,...
Recorded at The Elias J. Halling Recital Hall Minnesota way back when on October 20th, 2012.Where we find ourselves trapped inside a seething throng of the Proletariat (aww Bless 'em).Confused stares abound, this sounds like the kind of sophisticated improvised Art that those outside the intelligentsia elite can...
When the Swedish dance band Arvingarna got together, the founder told one of his friends to play the drums. When he explained that he didnāt know how to play the drums, his friend replied: āHow do you know that?ā Itās a funny story, but I also think thereās something to be learned from it. Who says he canāt play the...
Thunderbird is an extremely configurable email client. There are also different levels of configurability: some settings are global to the entire application, some are per account, some are per mail folder, etc. These distinctions are usually obvious and common-sensical, but in my experience, there are some...
Your humble author in 2009, with his last even vaguely cool car, a 2000 Volkswagen GTI. I sold the GTI and left the United States that same summer. I wouldnāt own another car for ten years. Looking back from the vantage point of today, itās hard for even me to believe, but itās true all the same: I used to be a...
Iāve been having fun researching a Civil War letter written by my great-great-great grandfather on my dadās side. Also, in preparation for a possible road trip, Iāve been researching my momās familyās migration from Kentucky to Indiana. So expect some blog posts of interest to no one but me!
"Untitled" is the best I can think of, given the subject. There wasn't another title that really fit the best, for me. Will this deter people from clicking through? Maybe. But that's the gist of this post, too. Ever since Robb announced the closure of EchoFeed, I stopped tagging my posts to automatically share with...
Moon-Flashby Patricia A. McKillipGenres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Pages: 150 Series: Kyreol Duology #1 Rating: Synopsis: Kyreol's small world begins at the Face, a high rock cliff, and ends at Fourteen Falls, a series of rapids. Each year, her people celebrate Moon-Flash-a spark of light that seems to come from and...
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