Life
Most of the time life is a fucking pain in the ass that you cannot leave. To do so would mean, well, to die.
But some days it’s quite agreeable. And today was one of those days.
local
Stuff posted in this site by me.
Hello yet again
It’s been a while, eh!
I took down the site in a hurry thinking it had been compromised. Turned out it was my phone that had been infected with a trojan. The server had remained secured.
Lesson learned.
Now it’s a new host, working on top of nginx and hhvm. Seems to work well except WordPress pretty permalinks seem to be a pain. I’ll fix it sometime later.
Season’s over
It was my busiest summer yet. Personal record (although I shouldn’t be proud of it) of 108 worked hours.
Mind you, those were the paid hours.
Three human truths
1. We don’t pay attention.
2. We pay attention to the wrong things.
3. We’ll forget.
On cooking
Baking is science, but cooking is like sex.
What worked one time might not get you where you want it the next time. You use your experience to adjust, tweak & finesse. When you get it right you just know.
Sometimes you need things to be hot, hard and fast, sometimes you need it gentle and slow and easy.
It takes a lot of passion, and dedication, and patience.
When people like what you do, they tend to moan, and say "oh my god" a lot, and their eyes roll back in their heads. (that’s the best!)
All the comments in this thread are golden.
Via Things you have to explain to people who haven't worked in kitchens : KitchenConfidential.
What Can Men Do?
If you’re reading this, there’s about an 80% chance that you’re a man. So after you give me the secret man club handshake, let’s talk about what we men can do, right now, today, to make programming a more welcoming profession for women.
http://blog.codinghorror.com/what-can-men-do/
Also applies to the service industry, particularly in the kitchen. I’m not the only one who thinks this way (there are too many places you can find that. If you work in the service industry, you’ll know where to look.)
Vacations
I need some. At least a few days off all my jobs. Somehow I ended up with four of them.
I want to sleep now because I don’t know if I’ll be able to once I’m dead.
Brings to mind Carlos Hank, doesn’t it?
Willimon paused in the retelling, intrigued all over again by the complexity of the situation. “That decision” — how to respond to a moment of public embarrassment and media distortion, how to counter, and outflank, the people who are trying to define, and defeat, you — “is the sort of thing Francis Underwood is thinking about all the time.”
via The Post-Hope Politics of ‘House of Cards’ – NYTimes.com.
psych-facts: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Discuss. I’d…
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Discuss.
I’d post a slice… but I know I’m going to eat the whole thing by myself.
Mississippi politicians
via Mississippi anti-gay segregation: Discrimination bill got unanimous bipartisan support..
Either legislators were shockingly negligent in the performance of their basic duty—reading the bills they vote on—or they were cruel enough to vote for a terrible bill and now too cowardly to stand by it.
Either option is giving congresscritters in this state too much credit.
Technological skill vs. Ego
The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World’s Top Drug Lord – Slashdot.
Anatomy of an Apprehension: The Three Keys to Catching El Chapo Guzman.
The first thing that popped into my mind was that most people purporting to be narcos will always use top of the line phones, usually iPhones. As cool as these things are, they are remarkably easy to poke full of holes if you’ve got the right toolset, just like governments do. That’s even before the arrest of a narco leads to government having physical possession of the device, and as we all know once someone has that, all bets are off.
It is specifically mentioned they were using satellite phones, all the more to avoid monitoring by Mexican carriers who deny any kind of monitoring takes place, but is widely rumored to be happening on a national scope. These phones are made for durability and reliability, not security, so the extraction of data was probably even easier.
The narco adoration of bling (their version of it) with expensive electronics (phones, computers, televisions, cars) is proving to be costing them victories, specially because most of the time they simply don’t know how how to use them.
Most of these people did not get any form of higher education. If they did, they did not learn how to use the technologies available to them properly. If they do know how to use it, they will usually stick to the most basic form of usage, as they do not care to learn more. Advanced functions like encryption would simply be done away with due to usage complexity.
Any sort of advanced usage would necessarily lead to the need of having a proper IT support staff, even if it’s just the one guy who fixes cartel computers. Having precisely such a thing would be completely out of the question, as then someone would have far more knowledge about a cartel’s operations than even the top boss does.
Another, more important factor, is ego. These people see themselves as guys who get stuff done, who want to be where the action is. To be left behind in a support role on a permanent basis is, put simply, inconceivable to them. Internal cartel divisions have started precisely because of this.
Hopefully now that el Chapo is back in custody, things will calm down… although it is very unlikely. One can only hope for the best.
This is what it’s like for a woman
I love (and hate) dating Russian men – Salon.com.
I got this from @feministripper. She knows what’s up.
Norma
It wasn’t until now that I looked. I realized it had been a while since I heard anything from you.
Far too little, far too late. I should’ve thought… but I had thought you had made it. I’m sorry.
Thank you.