You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain
I need to cut holes into a 2-inch PCV pipe. Round or square, it doesn’t matter. Holes about the size of a quarter. I need to cover those holes in a low-pressure air-tight way. I need a way to lift or drop the covers via levers, cables or something else based on a key. Preferably […]
I look forward to having a time and place to experiment again. As a younger programmer or admin, you are expected to be learning and taking time to improve as part of your tasks. As a more senior admin or programmer, you are expected to be proficient and expert in your field. That is good, […]
I am a hack writer. Some days, I hope I am better than your average hack writer. Anyway, let’s see how this meme goes. I dumped in a story that I wrote where I was trying to emulate the humor of Douglas Adams: I write likeMario Puzo I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. […]
At one point, while walking a person through one of the VMware provided sample scripts I found myself talking about the perl mistakes that VMware was commonly making and my frustration with them. It turns out, it makes an interesting micro-view of how I find VMware’s perl code and SDKs frustrating. I know that there’s […]
“Alerts are somewhat broken.”
That’s how my more experienced coworker put it in the initial bug report. He’s a sharp guy and rarely states things in an impolitic way. So it surprised me for him to state something that direct. Turns out, it was quite true.