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I finished watching the final episode of Stranger Things tonight. I had watche…

An interesting problem I encountered when moving to use Linux more is that git …

I propose that, for any word that ends with the suffix "day", the suf…

In writing a script for the ZSH shell, I wanted to extract some bits from a str…

I like the interactive mode of the bc command line calculator because it is ubi…

I have been using SSH configuration a lot to make short hostname aliases for si…

Last weekend I bought myself some new clothes / shoes. I hadn't in quite a whil…

I had a weird work incident yesterday. It involved a car crash (not me), intern…

I recently updated to Mac OS version 13 (Ventura). It mostly went smoothly, bu…

I watched the Columbo episode "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case" fo…

I bought a short domain name in part so I could have a short email address that …

USPS finally got me the teas I ordered as a Christmas gift. I ordered an Edinbu…

Apparently, the Western Fruit Basket sign that's on the corner of the Cogneato o…

From Saturday evening to Wednesday evening, I spent quite a bit of time on a plu…

The ending of Mr. Robot episode 4-12 was kind of hard to take. It tainted my v…

I watched the first episode of Tales from the Loop. If the whole series uses mu…

I wanted to make my command line shell prompt to be more noticeable and nicer w…

A few web servers that I've needed to access for work have blocked my connectio…

To make use of the short domain I bought recently (macn.me), I came up with the…

I recently found myself needing to replace some text in a PDF for confidentiali…

I finally made it happen: I bought a short "vanity" domain. Two, in …

Last night, I decided to finally take the plunge and buy a short vanity domain I…

I went to see the recording of Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me at Blossom last Thursd…

My friend Dwight visited from Texas this weekend. We hung out basically all day…

I've made myself a simple command line calculator using bc. Since I almost alw…

In the nice weather, I washed my car. It had been covered in salt road crud. I…

I saw Doctor Who for the first time this weekend. Channel 16.1 seems to air it …

Spent 30-40 minutes this morning shoveling the street, clearing a path in the cu…

Recently, the 'vagrant' user somehow disappeared on a vagrant VM of mine. It m…

I finally bought some new shoes. My previous pair were several years old, and h…

As I ran down the stairs, like I try to do every visit to an Indians game, past …

I watched the second episode of Electric Dreams, "Autofac". Right aft…

Recently discovered the show Electric Dreams, watched the first episode ("R…

Was going to wash dishes and clean the kitchen tonight from Christmas operations…

Christmas is fast approaching and, as usual, I haven't gotten presents yet. I o…

Alright. After much effort, I have moved my site from Dreamhost shared hosting…

Man, a sexual assault followed by a shootout with police happened not far from m…

Wow, the highest cost (31) bcrypt hashing of a password with PHP's password_hash…

I had quite possibly my first car accident dream. Hopefully this isn't forebod…

Woo, the Cleveland curse broken after 52 years. Such a close game all the way t…

Saw Flight of the Conchords do a live show at Playhouse Square to(last)night. …

It caught me by surprise that if you use mv on a symlink to a folder and have a…

I'm slowly copying the markdown versions of my posts after my recent move of th…

I've been looking for a short domain to potentially use for permashortlinks. F…

I've been interested in Indieweb lately, and have been looking for a good domai…

Shell Games I have been toying with some shell alternatives to bash; fish and z…

The ls command can have nice colors enabled to differentiate between file types…

Yay! I finally found a job. After six months of no income, I needed it. I'm …

I've been playing with shortcodes in Wordpress. They provide a nice way to all…

This is a little late perhaps, but I am now unemployed. My internship at RPM h…