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Fri May 4 09:21:52 EDT 2018
Slept from ten-thirty to seven. Woke briefly around three.
High of seventy-six today. Chance of thunderstorm after noon.
Stopped at Starbucks on my way to work.
Work:
- Verify that Tiger RAID rebuild succeeded
Done.
- Run postmortem on bad(?) SSD
Done.
- Quiet smarthost backup job
Done.
- Email link of disaster plan to review team, schedule meeting
Done.
- Order 1TB SanDisk SSD
Done.
- Get quote on buying copiers, plus service
Done (but new annoyances ensued).
- Double-check that we remembered to install OSSEC on the upgraded hypervisors
Done (we remembered).
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Very windy. Blue sky.
Saw a turkey vulture.
Hmph. Power's out at Huntley.
Hope it comes back on by the time I go home.
Guh. Power's still out, and it's after eight o'clock.
Guess I might as well cut over to the new mail smarthost, as long as I'm sitting here at work....
Home:
Ha.
So, when I got home from work around midnight, I discovered that my building was one of a handful on the property that never lost power.
http://www.rocketroberts.com/stereo/stereo.htm
> This page shows some of the evolution of my stereo system and involvement with electronics as a teenager in the mid 1970s.
https://publicdomainreview.org/2018/04/18/made-in-taiwan-how-a-frenchman-fooled-18th-century-london/
> [...] George Psalmanazar, the mysterious Frenchman who successfully posed as a native of Formosa (now modern Taiwan) and gave birth to a meticulously fabricated culture with bizarre customs, exotic fashions, and its own invented language. [...] like a Borges character come to life.
> Psalmanazar describes an island nation populated by a skillful and learned people. Yet it is a place which oscillates strangely between civility and savagery. His countrymen possess “a very sharp natural Wit” and are capable of making “Pictures with great Art and Skill”, as well as porcelain dishes, a technology unknown to European craftsmen. Yet “they have no Shoe-makers, Brewers or Bakers,” and they use crude pine torches for lighting. And although Formosan parents refuse to beat their children — a level of tolerance unknown in Europe — they are also capable of appalling violence. In the capital at Xternetsa, Psalmanazar calmly explains, his people have erected an enormous “Tabernacle” where they sacrifice infants to an ox-shaped god, to the tune of approximately 102,000 babies a year.
> [...] Jonathan Swift [...] credited Psalmanazar with inspiring his famous “Modest Proposal”
Unusual types of visualizations:
https://xeno.graphics/
https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh
Breakfast: sausage and egg sandwich, cafe latte
Lunch: Thai
Dinner: pizza
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