OMFSM, the disco balls were used.

“Chechov’s disco ball”

Why is there no “head desk" emoji?

One of my favorite things about *nix is that stdin, stdout, and stderr are nothing more than user-space conventions supported by open(2) and dup(2) using the lowest numbered unused filehandle.

C++ is such a pain in terms of having to continually think of storage and object lifetime.

I pay 3 podcast networks and 1 individual podcast to openly share their work. I hope the walled-off networks shrivel up and die. twitter.com/marcoarme…

Cherry Cola Oreos are horrid.

Different ways of venting political anger: overcast.fm/+Mala3UcW…

If you are an Amazon customer (and who isn’t these days), you should listen to this week’s Reply All: overcast.fm/+DzGWWaMx…

Finally deleted the 40+ GB of apps in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications. Sad that app syncing in iTunes is gone; all that wasted bandwidth for getting the same thing on multiple devices.

I love Inconceivable!. The amount of work that Dan Moren puts into the show is incredible. “Cheese or Polearm?" forever.

Today’s lesson: On systemd systems, override the postgresql-10 service’s idea of the value of PGDATA before running postgresql-10-setup initdb.

Even if initdb succeeds, postgresql-10-setup will fail if the service’s PGDATA does not look like a database directory.

Email needs emoji reactions.

Clever of @TurbocastApp to use chapter markers for ads. Dynamically added ads preclude chapters and mean that they’re not at fixed points in the podcast.

Actions have consequences. 📷

I can’t bear to listen to the new Ministry album. Drumpf samples are just depressing as hell. Never had this problem Ministry albums released during either Bush presidency; those just got me riled up.

I’m liking the new Rhys Fulber solo album.

I died of pneumonia.

Someone signed up with Paypal with an email account I control. Now Paypal won’t let me go through password recovery to shut the account down.

Considering reporting all Paypal email as spam to my email provider.