Almost as soon as the thief breathes his last breath, a cloud of sinister black fog envelops him, and when the fog lifts, the carcass has disappeared.
When cell phones started becoming mainstream I always sort of avoided them. Maybe it’s the part of me that resists change (I loved my pager, after all). But I remember even back then in the late 1990’s, I felt like the benefits of having a constantly-on radio on your person for the sake of communicating […]
Systemd seems to take control away from the console user. For instance, with Sysvinit, if I encountered a problem with a startup or shutdown script I could normally CTRL+C out of it and the system will continue on its merry way. Today, I shut my computer down to air-dust it. When I hooked it back […]
What if Facebook swapped words around in your posts/replies to make you look like you can’t type (thus others would partially dismiss what you’re trying to say) if you posted something that they (or their superiors) didn’t like? On that same note, what if Facebook modified posts for certain people who view them? Would be […]
Got this as a present – a multifunction pocket knife, complete with that much needed cheese spreader you know and love.
I was rooting around my old BBS installation tonight and, while looking through the file bases found a document. A digital artifact, if you will. Before they were popularized as “Emoticons” by hundreds of AOL junkies, and eventually replaced with emojis, way back in the beginning….they were “Smilies”. This document, “The Unofficial Smilie Face Glossary”, […]
Find me When you least expect it Don’t try me, I’m undetected Catch me And it’d all change Chase the wagger a bit more, baby So find me In the air around you There’s nothing more true But you wouldn’t believe it So find yourself In the darkness of your chambers Nothing can remain here […]
The C64 theme has to do with my childhood. When I was growing up (from age 5 to… 11?) You would normally find me in the living room, laying stomach down on the blue carpet, Commodore in front of me. We had it hooked up to our big old wooden framed television set. I’d be […]
Sorceror Dark sea of awareness glowing coat of awareness Flyers Predator Keep inner silence They will be bewildered They will leave Envelope, suffocate This is their job Eat a baby’s glowing coat Leave only a spine, a sliver to keep us alive Keep us in your fear Our awareness Will keep you Away Our awareness […]
No matter how many times I tell people ‘Do NOT use Outlook’, they don’t listen. No, they just don’t listen. They go and use Outlook because they ‘like’ it, because it’s what they’re used to. And then they come crying to me when they get a corrupted .PST file. Again. And again. *facepalm* UPDATE: It […]
PREFACE: I’m not pretending to actually know anything about the topic of audio engineering. There, I said it. —- Live performances vs. professionally recorded music. Which is more genuine and true to its form? There’s a guy that I’ve run into three times now at the post office. He only hangs around inside where the […]
When I listen to music, I focus on the sound, the song. The strumming pattern of the guitar chords, the melody of the vocals, the bass, the solos, the drums. The structure of the song and its harmonies, its mode(s) (to the best of my still rough ability) and essentially how it makes me feel. […]
I’ve been doing a lot of reading on systemd for the past few days. I honestly didn’t notice it creep into my own Debian Jesse system much until I went to reboot and it hung on stopping smbd – for some reason it felt necessary to wait almost 5 minutes (with a counter) for it […]
Time Time heals no wounds But the ones you choose to heal Chime Watch the years go by But this is still so real Gain Nothing but remorse In how to feel Again Contemplate the end Kill but don’t defend Fall and rise again Hold your baby on the tree branch Read the leaflet Choice, […]
it’s-space(?) when I came-i-don’t-go(?) over there with and answer any dental vehicle but I don’t not able to plug in for myself of something that’s just i’d(?) contact the center-so(?) we’ll probably be over the-way(?) so I want to see if they see if they both they-face(?) single see if they really won’t know.”
I feel like the right side of my brain is being smothered by the left. Gently, with grace. Maybe just enough that I don’t notice most times. Maybe my recollection of the past brings forth the reality that I am wildly out of balance. Too much analytical, logical thinking, not enough creativity. I want to […]
+ Funny thing is, you’ve known it all along + Music that permiates your ears + Reminding you of the truth – Right vs. left – Hemisphere + Multiverse – Is it a curse + Or are you just riding it out + Writing it out – Might not give you more time + To […]
Working as an independent I.T. consultant puts me in a unique position. I work for many different businesses and individuals on a contract as well as non-contract basis. Each situation I encounter is different, but some share very common attributes (especially when it comes to data). When it comes to an apparent crisis, I […]
I love it when people say, as if a mantra on privacy, “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about.” I’d like to think the mantra should be, “If you’ve got nothing to hide, they shouldn’t be spying on you.” All my communications are belong to ME. I signed up with […]
If I never do PC tech support again, two things I would never miss would be dealing with Microsoft Outlook and HP consumer-based printers or all-in-one scan/print/fax devices. They both are absolute pieces of garbage. I mean, sure, they’re complex and they do a lot so you can’t expect them to be perfect…but it seems […]
So I’m looking at this cool new encrypted USB drive and the specs are impressive – hardware-based AES-256 encryption, small form factor, large capacity, even a hardware read-only switch, and…from what I read thus far, no Windows/other drivers necessary to operate. Pretty cool. Something I’d be happy to use and know that everything on it […]
Ok so I guess I’m a bit biased – I’ve been using Palms (and earlier PDAs) for a long time. I’m 34 now, and I started using PDAs when I was 16 (yeah, I’m a computer nerd). I’ve been able to keep the same memos, address book, and date book for a very, very long […]
Do you ever feel like you have the answers to life and reality when you wake up every morning, only to forget them in a matter of seconds? I woke up this morning and was thinking about vibrational frequency and how it relates to our physical bodies (and the rest of the physical universe). What […]
Hello, and welcome to reality. Please buckle up! The purpose of reality is to serve you in your creative endeavors. It is a static world, which means that your actions are everlasting and have the potential to affect everything and everyone around you. Unlike other realms, reality is “sticky” by nature; it is a landscape […]
Music doesn’t require image. Music doesn’t want image. Music is sound. I wish we focused as much on audio as we did on our visual senses. Is this evolution? I beg to differ. A temporary disruption in input, IRQ bank full. Focus on what is at hand. Don’t be distracted.
Chill
Just got back this morning from fetching water from the popular Rattlesnake Spring. Usually a once-a-month trek to fill our drinking/cooking water reserves up (9 x 5gal bottles, 45gal total). I got started a bit late this morning (6am), but nobody was there for the duration of time I was there. Took me about 6.5min […]
This is the original song I was referring to in my Shamus song post (originally called, “Creep of the Shadow”). They share few musical similarities but both have their inspirational roots in the old Commodore 64 version of the game, Shamus.
I was doing some spur-of-the-moment research on music culture and how it could possibly be manipulated to serve a less than authentic end. I came across this paper and sort of fell in love with it. It very eloquently puts a lot of thoughts I have had in the past, into real words. I’m adding […]
I used to (casually) use screen, but then desired something that would display multiple terminals simultaneously. I also wanted to be able to type and have it echo into all terminals (useful for updating multiple servers and other general sysadmin stuff). I remember a couple different people (likely including, but not limited to greenfly, ttkay […]