Yes, that’s two morning hangouts in a row. Sorry. One weekend in April is Penguicon. Two Saturdays have BSDCan meetings. This is the most tightly scheduled month since I began the whole Patronizer program. May will have an evening hangout, promise. Jerusalem (+0300) 2024-04-13 17:00 Berlin (+0200) 2024-04-13 16:00 Detroit (-0400) 2024-04-13 10:00 Chicago (-0500) […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of April, and the public at the beginning of May.) Well, this last month officially blows. I just got news that Craig Maloney finally lost his fight with cancer. Craig was a regular in our Patronizer Zoom hangouts. The guy had the usual IT cynicism, but it […]
Note that Daylight Savings Time kicks in here on 10 March. Let’s see how wt copes with that: Jerusalem (+0200) 2024-03-16 16:00 Berlin (+0100) 2024-03-16 15:00 Detroit (-0400) 2024-03-16 10:00 Chicago (-0500) 2024-03-16 09:00 Boise (-0600) 2024-03-16 08:00 Los Angeles (-0700) 2024-03-16 07:00 (+0000) 2024-03-16 14:00 Thanks to EDT it’ll be extra early. I promise […]
Last month, I mentioned blood pressure problems. The good news is, I have the blood pressure under control. The bad news, it’s given me a cough so fierce that I occasionally fall over. People have told me I work to hard, so now I’m taking a thirty-minute break every four hours around the clock for […]
A FreeBSD developer solved my time zone problem with a shell script. I think. Unix is lovely. Except when it isn’t. I’m listing all the time zones I know people attend from. If yours isn’t on the list, poke me and I’ll add it to the config file. (A config file! Unix is lovely! That’s […]
Last month, I made plans. Immediately thereafter, life gave me a surprise. Since my last doc visit in June, seems my blood pressure has doubled. It’s been 80/110 my whole life. Suddenly it went to 130/190. What changed? I had my first bout of covid, that’s what. Fortunately high blood pressure is a well understood […]
The zoom invite said 1AM, not 10AM. 10AM is correct. Y’all can meet at 1am if you like, but I won’t be there.
There will be rats. There usually are rats, at least. I really should call this tier “Meet the Rats.” When I host the video hangout I have a choice of venues. I could stagger up the stairs to my attic office. If it’s nice weather, I might go out onto the back porch. The Rats […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of January, and to the public at the beginning of February.) The beginning of the year. Time to not only contemplate last year’s failures, but to select next year’s failures. Not that I’m cynical. Truly, what’s the point of setting goals you know you will accomplish? The […]
Remember when I did the Prohibition Orcs Kickstarter campaign? My hope was to raise enough to pay for Eddie Sharam’s painted covers. Instead, it broke $12,000. I was stunned. I was also unwise. When I created the campaign, I said that at $10,000 I would write a Prohibition Orcs baseball tale and send it to […]
