That’s really a valid point.

Boredom after some period of time, you will have some everything there is to do.

Everyone knows this duh!

Into your heart!

Two men other than my father had dramatic impact on my life. Both of them were PE teachers, one in elementary school and one in high school.

I was awkward, uncoordinated, and a social outcast. I was always the last picked when teams were picked. My elementary school PE teacher solved this by making me the “captain” and I got to pick the teams.

My high school PE teacher, who won State championships and coached future NBA all-stars still had time to be my doubles partner when we were playing tennis.

Those two men were definitely my champions.

Dementia.

My mother has dementia.

Every time I forget something I know I should know it terrifies me.

Scorpions were my first concert back in 1981. Iron Maiden opened. Spectacular evening.

This was a great read. Thank you!

Fixing…

Fucking abhorrent behavior from the State.

I’m impressed you were able to convert the Oreos! 😉

6’6" (247.5 Oreo Cookies for those of you who use that measurement). My wife is 5’1" tall.

When I was growing up my mom would always say “the tall girls are going to love you!” Every tall girl I ever asked out shot me down in flames.

Everywhere I went, there they were calling through the fields…

“Gavin!”

Wandering the streets…

“Gavin? Gav?”

I couldn’t even finish a game of dominoes without it being interrupted…

“GAVIN!”

Finally one fateful day, stopping me and asking, “have you seen Gavin? Do you know where he is?”

Very very aware.

So you had another mail server elsewhere that port forwarded port 25 via port 22 to your internal mail server’s port 25.

I take it that outside mail server was secure.

That’s an impressive setup.

Did you really only use it when you were home? If you used it outside the firewall then port 25 must have been open also.

I used to run my own server and this was in the early 90s. Then one day, perusing the logs I realized I was not smart enough on the security front to even attempt such a thing. It was quickly shut down and the MX record moved to an outsourced mail provider.

When you call the cops you’re calling people who can kill you with impunity and get a paid vacation for doing so. Just say no to calling the cops.

I’ve been on my project for 23 years. I haven’t written production code for ten of those years. There are still commits in the production branch with my name on them. Is both gratifying and mortifying.

I was talking with two other “old-timers” today about our inability to pay off tech debt because our teams are never given the time to do it

61 in about 3 weeks. I’m older than Pong, and I game every day.

Absolutely correct.

Literally you’re are correct, figuratively, I think I’m in pretty solid ground.

I think she gets a huge bounce if she’s the President thrust into a role she did not ask for or seek. It’s a pretty typical human reaction to cheer for people forced by circumstance into an unexpected role. I think she also gets four months to show that she’s Presidential material.

So that’s the pragmatic part. I also believe that President Biden has shown he’s incapable of governing, and that we have rules regarding that situation. In fact that’s why we have the position of VP.