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Tom Papa, Joke-stealing, Collective Experience, & Coincidence

First & foremost, let me say right off the top: I don’t believe Tom Papa actually stole my joke. Or, at least, I hope not. But I needed to write about it, get it down on our version of paper, and flesh it out. I, like any comedy fan, very much looked forward to Tom Papa’s new special. I’d known it was coming after his interview on The Daily Beast’s ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast. Very much enjoyed…

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Let’s Get Honest For A Moment

Let’s Get Honest For A Moment I hated everything and everyone during the heart of the pandemic. I didn’t (and still don’t) understand how people could be so callously inconsiderate, cruel even, over a public health issue. I won’t dump all my shit out here, but yeah… it was bad. Real bad. Then in the middle of the whole thing, my best friend for the last ten years OD’d, died, and broke the world,…

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A Letter To A Friend Postfacto Round 6 WFPC 2022

Something for you to laugh and cringe at. I’m sure you remember my friend’s death and what it did to me. Through counseling and a feeling of limited time, I decided I wanted to commit, full-speed, to joke-writing, attempting to do comedy competently enough to get a Netflix special. That isn’t a bit: that’s really the end-goal. So, I developed a bunch of really great material; really dark, none…

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#bomb #comedy #LoonyBin #Netflix #Operation Bong Bong #WFPC

Covid & Americana: A Treatise

Something I wrote on Reddit, but felt should go here:

Business regulation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Politicians and policy-makers aren’t sitting around, concocting new ways to control people’s lives.

Generally, an “Orwellian” regulation is the result of corporations behaving badly, usually repeatedly, as paying any fine if caught for said bad behavior is just part of the cost of doing…

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ROM Suffix Explanations

I stole this, shamelessly, from https://64bitorless.wordpress.com/rom-suffix-explanations/ for use in my retro-tools project. These guys gave me the inspiration, and it doesn’t look like the site is updated anymore, so I’m pulling it over here to hang on to in case it goes down. Please give them a visit if you learned something from this.

ROM files, unless altered by the uploader, always have…

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Libretro.com Backup

Since libretro.com was hacked, I found a backup from August 1. The binaries https://www.grio.net/Libretro_Backup/ The original source: https://mega.nz/folder/Js5HCTAD#JMGkwmyDVyv9zGBa_f5hfw

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An Open Letter to the Superintendents of the United States of America Concerning Reopening School at the peak of the COVID19 Pandemic

Hi Superintendent:

I’m going to get right into it:

First, we need to agree on some facts:

I need to know you believe the threat of injury and death from CoVid-19 is real.

I need to know if you understand and agree that an infected person can be asymptomatic and spread the virus for days before ever knowing they’re infected.

I need you to agree that the current death rate is…

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#open letter #school #superintendent

Tulsa

The police seem to be blocking the highway.

Snipers/eyes on the roof

West side of the BOK Center.

“Shutdown the Internet…”

South Gate entrance.

Trying to figure out what org this guy is with.

East Side feeder to the BOK Center

Her necklace was riveting

He was here with his sons, explaining and demonstrating their rights.

The guy in the window above was the draw

I Do Not…

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Docker & PleX - Harmonizing

Docker & PleX – Harmonizing

Figured it out. The world just opened.

First, do this: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

My docker-compose.yaml file:

version: '3.3' services: plex: image: plexinc/pms-docker:plexpass container_name: plex hostname: "plexpanse" environment: - TZ="America/Chicago" - PLEX_CLAIM=claim-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - ADVERTISE_IP="http://:32400/" volumes: -…

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#docker #kubernetes #plex

Docker & Kubernetes just went and f****d my world all up...

Docker & Kubernetes just went and messed my world all up...

…and I love it.

So, here I am, drinking from the firehose, and I’ve totally got to rearrange my whole implementation of services from my personal lab setup to my professional implementations.

Instead of a VM for everything, I’m going to have just aVM… with Docker & Kubernetes running. I’m sitting down tonight to figure out how to start designing the total redesign of my network. With all…

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#kubernetes

Wordpress Plugins

WordPress Plugins

Finally found the plugin breaking my WP. Nice to get that done.

Bye, Enhanced Media Library. Been nothing but frustration.

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Docker on Ubuntu 20.04: Permissions

I will be working with Docker/K8s pretty extensively. I’ve been tasked with creating my test environment. Knowing nothing of what I was doing, after installing docker to my environment, I was having to sudo everything to run it.

Should probably read the manual, but who does that?

Big sticking point – I don’t want to have to sudo everything to run it, so, a caveat to the instructions. From

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April 20-26 - The longest year of my life

April 20-26 – The longest year of my life

So, I’m laid off; that much is known. I have applied at so…many… places… and it appears the only folks that want me are the ones who have sought me out. That said, I’ll be joining the strongDM family on Monday, best I can tell.

I’ve learned not to get too excited until there’s a offer, in-hand, ready to sign. There’s a lot of opportunity to grow, and it seems like it’s a tight-nit bunch. I’m…

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I’ve been in quarantine too long...

I’ve been in quarantine too long…

I broke.