My last job is currently controlling kubernetes with Ansible (configuration management and orchestration) in a hybrid cloud model. The new engineering director likes yaml so they put yaml on his yaml.

That’s a good tune. One of the first I learned when I figured out power chords on the guitar.

I always thought Danzig was pretty much baseline metal in the 90s. His other band was (is? I don’t keep up) a few subgenres of punk.

But truthfully I don’t try to keep up with how they draw genre lines. I like what I like, and Danzig makes music I like.

I have nothing useful to add to anything you’ve said and agree with your message.

“I’m a faithful follower of Brother John Birch and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church, and I ain’t even got a garage, you can call and ask my wife.”

–Charlie Daniels

The line was spoken by a green toothed hillbilly in a song he wrote. He was making fun of these types and painted them as drunk hicks.

For reference, 15 years later he had a song (the second part to this song, funny enough) that did its best to make fun of half the queer community.

Yep. A lot of these tech companies that have run in the red for years are now being called on to produce a profit and pay the big backers.

I can’t argue with that because honestly I was jealous of the folks running it. But they are buying new equipment today and I’m not.

Same. I have a lot of legacy recording equipment that I won’t replace until it stops working and it’s all mini USB.

I’m just glad I got what I did instead of FireWire.

Until the CIO gets the “telephone game” version of what’s going on.

I’m less concerned about that and more concerned about supervillains building lairs.

Some of us always look like shit.

I prefer funny over accurate.

That’s no fucking joke. Please just send me an email about this meeting because it’s not really worthwhile and I just want to crank out code.

I was barely in high school and had just gotten into heavier rock. Before that it was my dad’s rock (a lot of Boston and ZZ Top) and a little grunge because it had EXPLODED the year before on the radio because of Cobain’s death.

That Ozzy album and Astrocreep 2000 led that shoeless hillbilly boy down the road of heavy metal that continues to this day.

Perry Mason and I Just Want You were my favorites, but I played that cassette enough to destroy it. Same with Astrocreep. The next year I got a CD player and that changed the whole game.

That’s what I was wondering. Could they please release the full definition of the version of the word “genocide” they’re using?

It’s like the people who call Ted Cruz stupid. They’re absolutely wrong. Those two aren’t stupid, they’re just terrible people (assuming Cruz is a person) and are actively working against the well-being of the vast majority of the US.

Yep. A few of the big boys are pushing for hybrid but I think the great majority will never be full time in the office again.

I’m having a ribeye, gratin potatoes, brussel sprouts, and a slice of pie. I’m having a glass of Maker’s 46 to cap it off.

I chose to eat alone tonight so I didn’t do all the fixings, but it’s enough for me. Last week was a tough one and for three days I’ve chosen not to deal with people. I may go out for a nightcap later but I’m not going to be dealing with anyone while I do.

Apparently, SpaceX has special tactics to stoke his grandiose ego and trick him into giving them the freedom they need.

It’s a tale as old as bosses. Many of them have big egos and think that because they’re in charge that magically gives them expertise. So if you want to do something you either get them looking at something shiny or you make them think it’s their idea.

I had a boss like that ages ago. If I wanted to work on something out of the ordinary I would plant the idea, then a few weeks later I would remind him that he brought it up a while ago. I used the fact that he had a million things going on so he never really remembered who brought it up. I didn’t care that he got the credit because I got to work on cool things and expand my repertoire.

That’s a great way to go. There are also still some budget options (Sceptre comes to mind) that don’t have any smart features in some models. My buddy just picked one up.

It’s an absolutely terrible TV, but for his use case it’s perfect. He’s using it as a karaoke monitor for parties at his house. It’s mounted in a covered patio and is dumb as hell.

Theoretically, someone could have baked the sugar from lemonade onto their pipes by riding with a cup of it in a cup holder attached to an engine guard. Then hypothetically that person could have had great success removing it using Bike Brite, then taking 000 steel wool to it after the bulk was gone.

I’m not saying it happened, I’m saying you can’t prove it happened to me.