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· 1 Iyyar 5780 (Saturday 25 April 2020) · 1 minute to read

I am on the phone with Sprint, and holy hell these people are the Hotel California of cell providers. First, I try to give them a lot of money, and they come up with some shit about having to enter the card number via the phone’s keypad because they apparently can’t take the number over the phone. Well, after the inevitable accessibility discussion, I get transferred to someone else who’s trying their damnest to keep me from leaving. "We have these other plans," "this other phone," "Are you sure there’s nothing we can do to keep you from leaving." No. I just want to pay the damn bill. Just let me pay the bill. Look! It’s money! You can have it if you just leave me alone and stop making my life difficult. I’m going to celebrate when I cancel this account and port the number over to something that has better coverage. Sheesh!

921 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1106ft)

57 °F Mostly Cloudy

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· 6 Nisan 5780 (Tuesday 31 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
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· 5 Nisan 5780 (Tuesday 31 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
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· 19 Adar 5780 (Sunday 15 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind ( )
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· 19 Adar 5780 (Sunday 15 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Finished Reading: Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind ( )
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· 14 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 10 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Finished Reading: The Purim Anthology by Philip Goodman ( )
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· 14 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 10 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Finished Reading: Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind ( )
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· 14 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 10 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: Star Fire by Charles Sheffield ( )
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· 14 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 10 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind ( )
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· 14 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 10 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Finished Reading: Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind ( )
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· 14 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 10 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: The Purim Anthology by Philip Goodman ( )
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· 12 Adar 5780 (Sunday 8 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Linux nerds absolutely and richly deserve that joke about having to compile their own birthday cake.

820 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

59 °F Clear

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· 12 Adar 5780 (Sunday 8 March 2020) · 2 minutes to read

I’ve spent this weekend playing with a Linode VPS in an attempt to install my own copies of various indieweb apps, (Compass, Quill, Own YOur Swarm, ETC.), and I’m somewhat ashamed of myself for letting my server administration skills atrophy as much as they appear to have done.

I mean, I get it, I spend most of my time involved with HTML and the like, and not necessarily the server side of things, but at the same time, damn.

I intend to correct this deficiency. I’ve grabbed a couple of books on Ubuntu, (most of my server experience has been with Redhat and so I was never as familiar with Ubuntu in the first place), and I’m giving myself a crash course as fast as possible.

Once I’m a little more confident, (and really, now that I’m writing all this down I think that’s what it comes down to), I’ll move my personal site and John’s personal site off of WPEngine.

I think we’ll need to do that if we want to use Compass with the Simple Location plugin, and anyway I think I’d rather trade the inconvenience and often necessary calls to technical support and custom NginX rules and everything else I’ve had to do to get indieauth working along with other indieweb stuff for the inconvenience of managing my own server.

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59 °F Clear

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· 12 Adar 5780 (Sunday 8 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: Mastering Ubuntu Server by Jay Lacroix ( )
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· 12 Adar 5780 (Sunday 8 March 2020) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: Ubuntu Linux Bible by William Von Hagen ( )
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· 10 Adar 5780 (Friday 6 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Current status: Reading Linode docs, setting up my own server, so I can install apps like Quill, Compass, ETC.

820 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

36 °F Haze

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· 9 Adar 5780 (Thursday 5 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Spotify apparently wants record labels and artists to pay it to advertise songs on its platform. This is a pubic hair away from payola, and I’m old enough to remember when the mere accusation of payola was fighting words.

820 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

43 °F Clear

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· 7 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 3 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Need to go spend some time with my emotional support beer because my eyes are stuck in an infinite roll.

802 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

48 °F Fog/Mist

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· 7 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 3 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Today is apparently the one hundred and thirty-third anniversary of the day Anne Sullivan began teaching Helen Keller. I would like to know why we continue to honor the memory of someone, (namely Keller), who was a passionate advocate for eugenics and who never reconsidered that position even after people with disabilities were specifically targeted for extermination as part of the holocaust

802 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

48 °F Light Rain and Fog/Mist

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· 7 Adar 5780 (Tuesday 3 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Cold turkey is better than dead turkey, and wild turkey is better than both.

820 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

50 °F Light Rain

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