Tag: Video Chat

CORRECTION: I go into Daylight Savings Time next week. Thanks to FO for catching that there was a problem! We’ve had multiple folks confused by time zone math, which makes perfect sense because I can’t do it either. On the last call, CM brought up everytimezone.com, which does the math for you. Time zones were […]

Hanging out online. That’s what we do, this fourth year of 2020. This month it’s in my morning, so the Europeans can easily join. If you look at this month’s Sausage post, you’ll see you have extra chances to do that this month. Lots going on this Triple Threat February. I’m not entirely sure how […]

It’s cold outside. Stay inside. Let the snow pile up and join a video call. Mind you, it’s not as much snow as before. Global warming is clearly a thing, and it’s here with a vengeance. Seeing as I live in Michigan and worked my way through college by shoveling snow five months of the […]

Last year’s December all-Patronizer hangout worked pretty well, once I showed up. I’m thinking of doing that again next month. If you want me all to your high-class selves, you should probably show up this time. 19 November 2022, 7pm. The weekend before American Thanksgiving, so I won’t yet be bloated to unbearable proportions. Topics […]

Hey, would you look at that! This month I’m setting the schedule early enough that I have a choice of days for the hangout. Will wonders never cease? Uh… yeah. Wonders will cease. I’m certain I’ll fubar this somehow. The next hangout will be at 10 AM EDT on 22 October 2022. I’ve checked the […]

My calendar has a recurring notice for the first of the month. “Write Sausage, schedule video hangout.” It pops up alarms and emails me. But I exist in a timeless void. Days of the week? Meaningless. The purpose of a month is to tell me if I should wear my regular Crocs or the fur-lined […]

We’re a little late this month, sorry. She Who Must Be Obeyed and I are taking shameless advantage of the decent weather before she returns to the grueling College Professor Forced Death March. She teaches psychiatric nursing, and has her hands full trying to teach 19-year-olds that the mentally ill are mostly harmless and more […]

Time for an evening meeting! I don’t get many folks joining the evening sessions. Pondering if I should just have them in the mornings, but I don’t want to cut out folks who might join evenings in future months. Being fair isn’t hard, but it is super annoying. See you there! Or not. < shrug […]

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that we’re boring, but we’re not exactly exciting either. Maybe we talk Terry Pratchett, or heavy metal, or pets, or the boundless stupidities of software. But the good news is, we’re always there for each other despite being locked inside by this pandemic. We’re doing the morning […]

It’s spring. We can leave the house without freezing. Why are we still meeting? Oh. Pandemic. Right. Saturday 14 May 2022, 7PM, to support the West Coast folks. I need a little more text to keep the invite below the preview, so here’s a snippet of the in-progress OpenBSD storage book. It’s fairly generic material […]