More Cosmononplusation Charles Yu gets Cosmononplusation. "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel" by Charles Yu "Other nights, it’s the opposite. It’s so dark that every single person in the universe feels lonely, at the same time, even if they
NetApp ldap & ontap & active directory Troubleshooting ldap connectivity issues on Ontap & Active Directory sucks. This advisory is about as much help as I found online. What finally helped me out was a typo. Everything on the NetApp looked fine. It said it could connect to AD and said
VNC through firewall over ssh mine is my computer with a nice big monitor. work is my work laptop with a vpn into the corporate firewall. testdt is the computer inside the firewall I want to vnc to. First, make sure the vnc server is running on testdt. testdt$
Keith's Hour Hash Browns The very best home-made hash browns. This is the first (and only) recipe I've developed from scratch and I'm pretty darned happy with it. It took a lot of potatoes to get here! My goal was to have crispy, crunchy toasted potatoes on the
Another Ghost Blog Update A few months ago I started upgrading ghost and got distracted in the middle of it by class-work. I ended up retiring the (Amazon Linux) host it was on in favor of an Ubuntu server. In the meantime mysql was upgraded a couple of
Sous Vide / Arduino I have been playing around with the Arduino again, finally getting my sous vide project completed. As much hype as there is on the topic I was underwhelmed by the outcome. The technology and premise were cool! I mostly followed the Adafruit instructions, using
Code Graphs in Python Here's a presentation I gave in December 2018 to the San Diego Python User Group on using different Python tools to look at graphs/networks. It was quite a bit
HabitatForHumanity Habitat For Humanity - San Diego Natasha and I spent another day helping build homes. This time here in Barrio San Diego. It felt good to be out in the sun all day with a hammer
Volunteer Habitat For Humanity - Argentina My daughter and I are preparing for an upcoming trip to Bahia Blanca, Argentina, to participate in a Habitat For Humanity project. Along the way we'll spend a few days
Volunteer Startup Week San Diego I helped coordinate ~500 volunteers over the course of five days at Startup Week San Diego for the Startup San Diego organization. We used VolunteerLocal for all the volunteer signups
The Red Car Car mystery I showed Tony from Autobahn Interiors a picture of my car's doors and he immediately said "That's a 1966." We bought the car in about 1993 and always
Luftgekühlt 2018 Just came back from Luftgekühlt 2018 (#LUFT5) and boy are my eyes tired. It was insane. So many beautiful and well used cars. A museum where most people drive the
The Red Car Red Car Clutch Replacement The "wrenching" gene came from my dad - I'm glad I have it. Replacing the clutch - hopefully everything will be back together for a drive this weekend.
Zion / Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek / Grand Canyon Pictures from our recent trip to Zion National Park, Utah, then down to Prescott, Arizona.
YOLO Favorite Paper I now have a new favorite paper. This technical report. Read it all the way through, it is amazing. The author's resumé is pretty tight too.
Sad and Angry I am so sad and so angry that this keeps happening. We have failed. These kids and teachers were slaughtered. The only things that worked well this day was the weapon and the industry built around selling it and as many weapons to as
xkcd choropleth I love this. Such a better way of showing distributions. https://xkcd.com/1939/ p.s. From my computer's dictionary: choropleth map | ˈkôrəˌpleTH ˌmap | noun a map that uses differences in shading, coloring, or the placing of symbols within predefined areas to indicate the
Code Data Center Optimization Project This was an assignment for an optimization (COMP 671) course. Problem Description The primary data center for Qualcomm Engineering is reaching its maximum capacity. There is a demand for more
Code R Wide to long Here's another note to self on how to do something I do frequently enough to need to document but not often enough to memorize - transforming data from "wide&
Concert Xmas Danya's Xmas present to me was tickets to go see X, Meat Puppets, and Mike Watt. The concert was last night (Dec 22, 2017) at The Observatory in North Park,
IT Leadership Leadership: Mission Statement Mission Statement Teams often struggle with creating a Mission Statement. Too much over-think it, analysing every word and trying to cover every corner case. It shouldn't be that difficult. As I went from an Associate Engineer title to Senior Director, I kept the same
Code Visualization: multipass This sketch was for a potential client that was trying to decide if COTS program was needed. I got an idea of what they were looking for and created this
IT Leadership Management Style: Easy Sailing The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. Edmund Gibbon I love sailing. I've spent many hours blasting across Mission Bay. It's the perfect
IT Leadership Management Motivation I'm continuing to write about my "management style." This post is the second one about what I look for when considering transitioning someone from individual contributor to manager. It's closely related to my thoughts on leaders needing to lead. Most managers have
