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 […]
Last month’s hang out was in the evening, so we will meet in the morning. 10 AM Detroit, on 16 April 2022. The zoom invite follows at the end of this message. I have a few new Patronizers at this level, and I’m always delighted to see new faces, so don’t be shy. If it […]
Welcome to False Spring, which is a step before Fool’s Spring, which comes before Taunting Spring. It’s a perfect time to sit inside and talk online while all any of us really wants to do is hang out on the taco shop patio and sample the abuela’s latest masterpieces. Saturday, 19 March, 7PM Detroit time. […]
Silly me, griping about how cold it was last month. I’ll have the monthly Sausage post up in a bit, but wanted to get this out so you can schedule it. 19 February 2022, 10 AM Detroit time. 3PM UTC. If you’ve backed me at this level and have never attended, well, we’ve had some […]
The time given in the Zoom invite is wrong. It had expired before you read the note. Because I’m an idiot who’s trying to do too many things simultaneously. 22 January, 7 PM EST is the actual time. The meeting ID and passcode are correct.
This seems like a really good month to stay home as much as possible. If you must go out, don’t click any covids. But why not join me on the evening of Saturday 22 January to hang out on Zoom and talk about random crap? My Patronizers’ random crap is usually more interesting than the […]
Hello my dear Patronizers! My big news is the tendinitis in my left arm and up through my shoulders. Apparently you can’t work for 20 years as a system administrator while writing dozens of books on the side without straining your body. Yes, I have an ergonomic workstation, split keyboard, and all the proper tools […]
