Month: May 2025

  • media review: weird al

    media review: weird al

    I don’t even know what prompted it, but last night turned into Weird Al night at our house. I wandered upstairs to the teevee room and the Kid had started watching the most recent of his movies, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” which I had added to our digital collection a while back when it

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  • pi dayrectory

    pi dayrectory

    Oh, remember back in 2023 when my attempt to run a web server from a raspberry pi computer in my basement got hacked and some turd of a botscam hacker tried to hold my data hostage for a few thousands of dollars in bitcoin? Yeah, but I do. I tell people that there was nothing

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  • weekend wrap four

    weekend wrap four

    Used to be that May Long Weekend was a rite of spring to which we all looked forward. Maybe people still do. Entrenched as I am, it was just another weekend, albeit one where the family hung around the house for an extra day. In fact, the Kid has a five day weekend and as

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  • accidental distances

    accidental distances

    It was only a little accidental that I ran my longest run of the season yesterday. But heck, it wasn’t much to brag about either way: barely thirteen klicks all in. And barely one when it came right down to it. My running is not doing great these days. I mean, I have always had

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  • performance anxiety

    performance anxiety

    There is a teensy chance that people are actually reading this site. I may have mentioned in a previous post that I wrote a blog for something like sixteen years, pulling it down about five years ago when I got into a management role at work and had employees who literally hated me because “me

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