It’s the peak of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and I sincerely hope that you are out doing something interesting rather than hanging out online. Video hangout attendance has been down, which I take as a positive sign, but soon enough the cold will return and folks will huddle up to their screens again. But […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of August, and the public at the beginning of September.) The most exciting thing this month is probably the Writing Chariot. I have written at a standing desk since about 2010. I find it much more sustainable than a standard desk, and it lets me pace more […]
I hope that y’all are having a fun-filled glamour-packed joyful summer and don’t have time to hang out with me. But most of you are computer folks, so I know better. Plus, it’s hot out. We melt. Instead, join me for an hour of snark, surl, and sarcasm with a possibility of rat. Michael Lucas […]
This post goes to Patronizers at the beginning of July, and the public at the beginning of August. Once upon a time, I owned a Chevrolet SSR hard-top convertible. It retailed for fifty thousand dollars in 2005, back when that was real money. No, I didn’t buy it. I won it at a $500/plate […]
What if some daft bugger got an invitation to submit to an exclusive Valentine’s Day anthology, and wrote the story, but wrote it with orcs? It would get rejected, that’s what. But the editor would remember it. And the other folks who read it would remember. And eventually, a sufficient number of them would say […]
Folks, I apologize. I overslept. I haven’t slept past 10am in years, but it’s been a rough week. I’m moving the hangout to next Saturday, 17 June, 10am EDT. Same link, same everything, different day. My sincere apologies.
It’s summer for most of us, so I hope you’re all out doing exciting things in fresh air rather than lurking in your homes waiting for an opportunity to hang with me. This hangout is closer to the May one than I’d like, but evening and morning tends to draw a different crowd. Except for […]
Hi folks! BSDCan dominated this month. It was good. It wasn’t the biggest con we’ve had, but for the first year back it was nice. A handful of folks said they wouldn’t attend because the pandemic is still raging, and that while we would be masked the rest of the world isn’t. I can’t […]
I try to give more than a week’s notice for video hangouts, so I can’t do it this next Saturday. BSDCan falls in the middle of the month, taking up the next two Saturdays. That means the next time I can do a video hangout is at the end of May. I also try to […]
Greetings and felicitations to my esteemed Patronizers. Been working solely on “Run Your Own Mail Server.” I think I finally have an order for the content, which makes the actual writing possible. I’ll have cycle back and backfill facts, but the skeleton should hold. This part of the process always surprises me. Who thought I […]
