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On Wed, Feb 21, the site experienced downtime.  The cause was an infrastructure update that caused certain resources to go offline. At no time was there a risk to the contents of the site. The resources (ceph cluster) has been brought back online and the site, obviously, is now functioning properly. Geek speak: The base…

Petition for Cert. As noted, Heller stated that the textual analysis focuses on the normal and ordinary meaning of the words in the constitutional text. Heller, 554 U.S. at 576. The plain and ordinary meaning of “arm” obviously includes all firearms. This is what Heller said. Id. at 581 (citing with approval a source that…

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American authors. I remember reading some of his works as a child and feeling the language spread terror. His was a style, not of gore, but of anticipated suffering. The Pit and the Pendulum stuck with me, as did The Cask of Amontillado. But I think…

Miguel talks about his hurricane kit. We have the storm kit. The first thing we did in deciding what was needed for our storm kit was to determine what we were likely to experience, and under what circumstances. There are three possible causes, winter storm, summer storm, social unrest. The most likely is the winter…

(650 words) When I read the filings of the plaintiffs (good guys), it is almost always respectful of the state. They might discuss the challenged statute in negative terms, but there was always a certain level of respect for the state and the courts. That seems to be changing. As is attributed to the American…

Corrected my username. DOH. This is what happens when you spend the preceding hours working an AWS issue. There was a time when a man didn’t leave his home without a knife. A knife is one of the most useful tools a man can have. As a boy, I carried a something like a Case…

This weekend, I’m going to be looking at the filings for cert. I’ve listened to a couple of reports talking about how powerful these petitions are. It should be good. We have a guest post happening. If you submit an article in LibreOffice or google doc format, and it is fitting for the blog, we’ll…

It is always weird when you have something that you can’t find online anymore. Years ago, when we owned a small hobby farm, we used to have “sausage making day”. About once per year we would, as a family, gather to make sausage. One of our lodgers owned a powered meat grinder. We would spend…

Update: I was not clear on my emotions when I wrote this. Then I had to ask Hagar for the right words. It is not that I feel remorse over harvesting that deer. It was done ethically. Nothing was wasted. It is that I feel the immensity of the life I took. I need to…

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