Just now starting looking at the first class I’m taking at WGU. It’s 1:44 AM on Saturday… Why I’m not asleep, I just don’t know. What I do know is that I’m doubting my decision to do this degree. The work will be a slog. Not complex enough to make…

My laptop has started getting flaky. I would be go along using it and then a random crash would occur. Or a reboot would fail. Etc, etc, etc… Confirmed my suspicions by running a memory diagnostic and found that the RAM is failing. $100 or so later and when the…

Started trawling through the PPP dataset and decided to focus on Bentonville based loans. That was a mistake. So many businesses that I know thrived during the pandemic or otherwise took advantage of the PPP loan program. Business where the owner has been publicly hateful to minorities. Or dismissive of…

I’ve gotten antsy about not doing some sort of large project. A side hustle to either push my understanding or create a new bullet point on my resume. I have plenty of work and other interests but a weak siren’s call keeps rattling around in my brain. So I’ll start…

Decided to start back up with some basic training after someone mentioned LetsDefend.io. The site impressed me. Here is a writeup on one of their public facing challenges that kind of shows what to expect. Disclose the Agent Premise is that you’ve got a PCAP file and you need to…

Travel Go to Iceland and see the aurora or even the geography depending on the time of year. National Parks are America’s best idea and I want to see them all. Bryce Canyon Zion National Park Hot Springs Yellowstone Everglades Gateway Arch Grand Teton Great Smokey Mountains White Sands Grand…

find . -type f -exec grep -li TXT_STRING {} ; strings /dir/to/executable | grep TXT_STRING lsof -i -P -n … … The number of times that I have to run these same commands. Find the string of text that is in the log file and where did it come from.

Well actually I’m testing out Publii more than anything.

I have had to explain why I like musicals on a few occasions. Usually a soft pause happens in a conversation where that is revealed but occasionally a direct question is asked. It is always a weird one because I have to guess what level of info do I reveal.

I married a goddamn musician. Ain’t no way to make that shit right. - Ladonna, Treme S1E1 “Do You Know What It Means” There is no way to pussyfoot around this. Last couple years went south for me as it did for many. COVID sure as hell contributed but in…