Ah, November. The time EDT becomes EST and everyone in Michigan goes to sleep. Michigan is in Eastern Time, which is the same as New York City. We’re six hundred miles west of them, so our experience of Eastern Time is very different. I’m all for the Sun being overhead at noon, but that happens […]
Author: mwlucas
Tiny Silly Useful Patronizer Freebie: “To Serve Orc”
A bit of an odd one, but I promised some of y’all copies of everything and this is part of everything. I’m giving it to everyone, because “Beans with Found Meat” is delicious. One of the stretch goals for the Prohibition Orcs kickstarter was a collection of recipes. Not many recipes, mind you, but recipes. […]
Video Hangout, 22 October 2022
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 […]
October’s Onomatopoetic Sausage
I have spent my life looking for a valid excuse to use the word “onomatopoeia,” but at last have settled for an invalid one. The deadline for tech reviews on “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” is one week from now. I’m already looking at early comments and wondering what kind of idiot I am. Part of this […]
Books for Patronizers
Hi, If you back me at Digital Reader or above, I have books for you! No, not the OpenBSD book. That one’s out for tech review. If you want a preview, drop me a note and I’ll be happy to send the unedited, unreviewed draft. (Feel free to review it and tell me exactly how […]
September 2022 Video Hangout
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 […]
September’s Scrambled Sausage
Woke up this morning and realized I hadn’t posted this month’s Sausage, or scheduled the video hangout. Oops. This month can best be described as “overload.” I’m writing the very last chapter of OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems, and as usual it requires me to go back and fill in missing tidbits from earlier. “How the system […]
Video Hangout, 20 August 2022 11AM EDT
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 […]
August’s Agonized Sausage
August 2022, two and a half years into Covid, and all is as well as it could be. I mean, society’s decided to ignore Covid, and to pretend that monkeypox is an STI rather than a wildly infectious bacteria that can be transmitted by touching a shopping cart, but other than that everything is dandy. […]
A note on the orc Kickstarter
Hi folks, There’s been some confusion about the Prohibition Orcs Kickstarter, so I’m making a standalone post. There’s no need to back the Kickstarter to get the rewards you’re already entitled to. If you back me at Digital Reader or above, you’ll get a copy of the Prohibition Orcs collection and novel. If you back […]