While dealing with SSL certificates today, I ended up reading Network Security: A Feminist Perspective.
Every time I hear the line “like the ceiling can’t hold us” I think of this:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse>
But then, I’m probably dating myself. And whenever I hear that phrase (dating myself) I recall the banter:
Dating yourself? How do you do that?
It’s simple. You just work yourself into a lather until you are beside yourself. The rest is an exercise left for the reader.
Can you tell I’m a little punchy tonight?
Oh, and it seems to fit the IE commercials quite well, TYVM.
Ah, Texas. Where else can you get a flash flood warning during a drought?
An advance in domestic feline-canine relations, and much fur was shed…
Today, G convinced the dog that he can chase the cats with impunity, hissing and raised fur (and also our sofa cushions) be damned. What followed was 15 minutes of a rousing game of egged-on chase, which abruptly ended when a single claw was raised, followed by the most pitiful “welp” you can image.
It is truly surprising that they don’t all get along better, considering that the dog is a giant pussy.
Why my left leg is not cold
Mime disease…
Bookmarks 20130701
Clearing out the “Other” bookmark folder…
- WunderMap® | Interactive Weather Map and Radar | Weather Underground
- Marcel Neergaard: Taking a Stand Against Anti-Gay Bullying (VIDEO)
- After Your Job Is Gone | TechCrunch
- The 13 Lessons You Need to Learn in Your 20’s to Discover YourselfKnowledge For Men
- Tornado History Project: 19730603.39.14
- Tornado History Project: 19970527.48.97
- Tornado History Project: 19970527.48.96
- Neil Armstrong’s ‘small step for man’ might be a misquote, study says – CNN.com
- 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America – Business Insider
- selenium-server-2.33.0.zip – selenium – All variants of the Selenium Server: stand-alone, jar with dependencies and sources. – Browser automation framework – Google Project Hosting
- Nearsoft/PHP-SeleniumClient · GitHub
- Dangerous Intersection – keyetv.com Austin News, Weather, Traffic KEYE-TV Austin – Top Stories
- Nathan Schneider: Macs No More: After Edward Snowden, Time to Come to the Penguin
- Active Fire Incident Page
- www.PetHarbor.com pet:ASTN.A653809
- Are Blade Servers still the nightmare they used to be 5-7 years ago? : sysadmin
- 9 reasons sys admins hate you | ITworld
- Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)
- Tiny CubeSat Satellites Spur Revolution In Space | Singularity Hub
- A Taste of Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck
- 21 Books Every Gay Man Needs To Read Right Now | Thought Catalog
- Scientific American: Bring Science Home
- DELL PERC5/i Integrated – Emergency Cheat Sheet
Wow, I’ve been too busy to surf much this past month…
News is gossip for intellectuals?
Fine. I’m going to pause working for a while to keep up with gossip. Between last night’s Texas senate and the SCOTUS rulings today, I’m captivated in politics again.
Specifically, how can anyone put their entire life into this?
Catchup blogging 201305
It’s been a while, but here’s the core dump of things I bookmarked over the past several months. There’s bound to be something in here to grab somebody’s interest; I just don’t have time to comment on everything all the time.
- Alien Chestburster Plush – Take My Paycheck | The coolest gadgets, electronics, geeky stuff, and more! Shut up and take my money!
- Simply scale with Nginx, Memcached, PHP-FPM and APC | explosive web programming w/ j_blotus
- restaurant recipes | copycat recipes
- The More Republicans Know About Politics, the More They Believe Conspiracy Theories | Mother Jones
- Deloitte | P@$$1234: the end of strong password-only security | TMT | Technology, Media & Telecommunications | Industries
- How to get Carl’s sourdough starter
- Reuben Sandwich Recipe | Simply Recipes
- MySQL: How to change or convert MyISAM to InnoDB or vice versa?
- Naan Recipe – Allrecipes.com
- zend-dev/ZendOptimizerPlus · GitHub
- yEd – Graph Editor
- BOXEN
- resultsreturned/to · GitHub
- Touch Mathematics | Trigonometry
- 10 Obscure Punctuation Marks That Should Really Get More Play – Flavorwire
- Companies are desperately seeking Linux talent, report says | Root Access
- Moviehouse & Eatery – Austin Movie Theater – Home page
- Galera Cluster for MySQL | Codership
- Vulnerability in recent Linux kernels offers root rights – The H Open: News and Features
- [PATCH 1/2] sock_diag: Fix out-of-bounds access to sock_diag_handlers[
- MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 14.2.2 InnoDB Startup Options and System Variables
- [Open discussion] Cool Trick Thursday. What are your favourite little command line tools and tricks. : commandline
- A sampling of coreutils, 20-40 : commandline
- Puppet Portage module version 2.0 | Straight from tha bloK
- Grande Oaks Golf Club
- From The Cutting Room Floor « The Dish
- Hunan Riverplace Restaurant – Chinese & Korean Cuisine – We Deliver! (512) 241-0330
- How to sync your bashrc between servers
- Types Of Bread
- MySQL Memory Allocation
- How to Download a Hypercom T7 Series Device (T7, T77, T7 Plus)
- merchantservicellc.com/Download/files/Support/TerminalDownloads/Omaha/t7series.pdf
- memcache internals | A day in the life of…
- SecureLinx Spider KVM over IP Switches: Non-Blocked BIOS-Level Control of Servers over an IP Network
- www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog57/presentations/Monday/mon.tutorial.Steenbergen.Optical.39.pdf
- Classic tech on film | www.statesman.com
- Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly | Building Feedly
- JamezQ/ubuntu-speech-recognition · GitHub
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music
- www.itslenny.com
- xkcd Password Generator
- I built a new user script that generates a random password, and just got an email from my boss with a complaint from a user : sysadmin
- Linux Commands Heard Out Of Context | TOBlender.com
- Dinner Rolls
- Dead database walking: MySQL’s creator on why the future belongs to MariaDB – MariaDB, open source, mysql, Oracle – Computerworld
- Jimmy Carr: Being Funny [Full Show] – YouTube
- fogproject.org
- Texas Drought Monitoring Tools
- Golf Jokes: The Golfer and The Caddie
- Solution Science: Colorful Candy Chromatography: Scientific American
- Merge or Encrypt / Decrypt PDF files using pdftk | Linux Blog
- Web-Based JavaScript Spreadsheet Software – dhtmlxSpreadsheet
- Controlling Raspberry Pi via text message | Steves Computer Vision Blog
- Unicode In Five Minutes ?
- Car hits and kills woman in her 30s | KXAN.com
- Bitcoin Is A Disruptive Technology – Forbes
- Open Recursive Project
- punge: totally gay old-fashioned
- Evan Travers : Workflow in Tmux
- Two weeks later, that XKCD comic is still telling an ongoing story | Books | Great Job, Internet! | The A.V. Club
- Free Paper Airplane Designs-Printable Templates
- KLAIG: Make your dotfiles follow you automatically when you ssh to a server
- NoHomophobes.com
- DB_DataObject
- RackTables
- IT Security in a Nutshell – The Fishbowl
- The man in the hat at Boston Marathon finish line: Carlos Arredondo didn’t set out to be hero – U.S. News
- Cowboy Hat-Wearing Hero of Boston Bombings Is Famed Peace Activist
- WordPress brute forcing question. : sysadmin
- People – YouTube
- 40 Inspiring Workspaces Of The Famously Creative
- MA Rt. 9 Window Cam on USTREAM: A live look outside my window. Other 24/7
- A Wet Towel In Space Is Not Like A Wet Towel On Earth : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
- 20 Point List For Preventing Cross-Site Scripting In PHP | Pádraic Brady
- nojhan/liquidprompt · GitHub
- ioerror/duraconf · GitHub
- Sacramento couple fights to get their baby boy back from authorities | news10.net
- English Pronunciation | The Poke:
- The Exotic Resort Zoo – Johnson City, TX – Central Texas Hill Country – Bed & Breakfast – Animal Zoo
So Cy and I played the “1 Direction Girl Talk Trivia Game” with G tonight.
I can only quote Woody Allen from Love and Death this morning:
Oh, sleet! My favorite!
I just learned that the person who invented knock-knock jokes won a Nobel Peace Prize.
The Onion nailed today. Sadly.
Monopoly epiphany
So, Cy is off teaching other students tonight. G, being her usual responsible self, starts her homework at 6:30 sharp. It gets difficult, there are tears, but we work through it with silliness and laughter. OK, I had to sing and do a booty dance, but whatever it takes.
After the homework is learned and done, we play monopoly. She bought Cy the “Family Guy” version for his birthday with her own money. Cy was gone, but we still played. (Don’t tell her it sharpens her math skills — especially subtraction!)
As we’re playing, she casually states: “So, you and Cy are married.”
I replied “Not legally.”
G: But you’ve been together 28 years?
Me: Yes.
G: And you have a daughter?
Me, laughing: Yes! One we love very much!
G: Oh, you’re married.
That’s when I realized: I don’t care about a Supreme Court Opinion, all that matters is the opinion of the one person who is the focus of my life.
And she knows the commitment we have to her, and to each other. This is immutable to her, as it should be.
Any other vote: whether by 9 justices, or by 25 million Texans, cannot change the love and stability she knows. She doesn’t know nuances of tax law, nor should she care. All she knows is that we are there for her, and there for each other, above all else. This, she accepts without question nor hesitation.
There is only thing I love more than teaching my daughter; learning from my daughter.
And tonight, I have had an epiphany.
Just heard Wand with a full orchestra. Wow…
Everyone I spoke with who has already watched it over and over said they got chills — including me. Interestingly, we all felt our chills at separate times.
I strongly encourage seeing it early; you may decide you want to see it more than once! After months of writing and re-writing and rehearsals, I can honestly say that every day I spend with several songs stuck in my head still, and I enjoy every minute of them. In fact, my mental playlist just changed — and I like this song as much as the previous one!
Hearing the full orchestra play during this, the final dress rehearsal was revealing: it revealed Cy’s skill, his talent, and his dedication.I don’t give praise like this lightly; it is well deserved, and well earned.
Come join us for an evening (or more!) or magical music! wandthemusical.com
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