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Cake day: February 24th, 2024

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  • Yesterday I showed a local business owner how he could set up the signboards and menus in his shop using a raspberry pi. The guy is a windows guy. the second he saw the boot screen he balked. I told him they needed to be set up one time and the rest of the time he could manage them with a windows program (winscp). I don’t expect to hear back.

    They fear CLI.

    Another local guy had a huge archive of forestry images. They were all folders that had been renamed for the location and time they were taken but underneath they were all the standard filenames you get from a digital camera. It was nearly twenty years of pictures and he was getting five figure quotes to rename them all to match the folder names. I told him I could build a script to do it so he brought me one of his backups and I promptly did it using CLI before I was going to build a script. The next day he calls to say he talked it over with one of his vendors and they decided to drop their price down to a two thousand dollars. He wasn’t interesting in me doing it. I hung up and a few years later when he called me to come fix something someone had messed up I hung up again.

    I have no doubt the people he was talking to did something similar probably using bash scripts. So now when I tell someone I can sort out their file naming or some other sorting task I don’t let them see how I do it.




  • Grew to adulthood in the mist of having my promised future stolen by a D list actor and a oil baron. Only have to them replaced by a guy who signed a treaty that allowed all manufacturing leave for the countries north and south of me. By the time we arrived at oil baron jr being in charge the future was certain and the name expresses the truth of that certainty.













  • There is a distinct class of asshat in this country who refuses to see what is going on. It isn’t limited to maga either. I’ve determined its the stupid 30%. Before the internet gave the stupid 30 a platform they were largely ignored at the local level. Now they get on and yammer out their dim bulb outlook. Lacking the ability to remember from day to day what that outlook is exactly. They spew their of the moment opinions, forgetting that they believed in the past. Its how my POS mom and dad changed from democrat to maga without changing one bigoted opinion.



  • I was just talking about my first and second grade years today. It was 1977/78. Both teachers those two grades tied my left hand down and forced me to try to learn to write with my right hand. What it did was make my handwriting absolutely terrible. This was due to the fact that in the third grade they didn’t teach you that anymore and I never had any practice at it. My parents didn’t care it happened since my dad was convinced a left handed man just couldn’t match a right handed mans abilities. It was because the school nearly got sued by another students parents that they finally ended that bit of abuse. This is the southern US by the way. The place that is permanently out of step with decency.