Category: Filler
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One step forward …
Tuesday I picked Ally up at The Fort at No 4. On the way home, we stopped to do some banking and pick up some groceries. As we were walking to the bank I said, “Oh, it is closed.” “Why?” “Because it’s Sunday.” “Huh?” I then got home and posted “Tuesday Tunes” to show up…
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Math Is Hard
My oldest son is on the spectrum. He has a job but does not have a license. He still lives with his mother, my ex-wife. When he was in middle school, I attended an IEP (individual education plan). This is where we lay out what accommodations he needs and how best to get him educated.…
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Organized thoughs
I admit that I have horrible organizational skills. I use different tools to account for that lack. I love me some Kanban and it looks so pretty when I start. And then it gets left behind. Git allows me to make cheap commits. It allows cheap branches. The development model should be “Create Issue. Create…
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Does This Sound Familiar?
Since DHS has been lying about this, allow me to correct the record. This scuffle, during which an ICE agent physically shoved me, occurred AFTER we had entered the Delaney Hall premises. We entered the facility, came BACK OUT to speak to the Mayor, and then ICE agents began… https://t.co/3RC92YbHo3 — Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman…
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Where there’s smoke, there are arsonists
Ally and I have had some long conversations about winning the hearts and minds of the middle. The common saying is, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” This is normally true. Sometimes it is not. In 2016, my parents expressed their disgust for Trump. They were convinced that he was doing horrible things. Today, there are…
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TDS is a sickness
While scrolling through X, looking for something to write about, I stumbled on a posting regarding Trump’s annual physical and its results. /Trump’s 2025 Annual Physical Results The post and almost all the comments are of the “It’s a fake!” or “They’re lying!” His temperature is normal. That can’t be because it is just an…
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Document Object Model
A modern website is a complex system of inter related pieces. Each of which must work correctly and communicate correctly with the other parts of the system. As website creators, we break the design into the Frontend and the Backend. The front end is anything the end user sees, while the back end is responsible…
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How Many Languages Do You Speak?
In computer languages, there are very few that are structurally different. FORTRAN is like COBOL, which is like Pascal, which is like BASIC, which is like ADA, which is like … Forth is not like those above. Nor is APL or Lisp. Assembly languages can be used in structured ways, just like FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal,…
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It’s Complicated
Networking should be simple. Even when it was big, it was simple. Plug the wires in correctly, assign the IP address your system administrator gave you, and you are up and running on the internet. We built each node on the net to be able to withstand attacks. Each node was a fortress. But when…
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Eating Their Own
It is difficult for me to make friends. In general, my friends have come from my place of work or from my lady introducing me to people. I make the effort when I’m out. I just don’t like people enough to be out and about. I’ve been watching the pain that Ally has been going…