I’ve said a bunch of times that my Patronizers make a big difference in my life, and it came into focus this morning. Y’all give me tooth money. Bad teeth don’t run in my family, they gallop. I brush, I floss, I use the water-pik and the fluoride and the 12-horsepower gum sander, but my […]
Yes, an extra post with not one but two updates! Posting early so interested folks can mark their calendars. Last December, I opened the usual video hangout to everyone who backs me. I forgot to show up. Completely on-brand for me, of course. I hadn’t gotten to the dojo all week and made myself get […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
