jnm @jnm@appdot.net

So, introductions. I am:
… a lifelong learner.
… committed to self-awareness.
… practicing gratitude.
… difficult to categorize.
… working on my baggage.
… an acquired taste.
… a husband and father.
… a cisgender he/him.
… an ambivert.
… rediscovering wonder.
… exploring creativity.
… an Enneagram Four (4w5, IYKYK).
… a guitar player.
… trying to find my singing voice again.
… a professional techie.
… kind of a drama queen.
… deeper than you realize at first glance.

Humans can be amazing.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/woman-navigated-3000-mile-pacific-voyage-without-maps-technology

I think Chomsky offers a lot if we take the time to read him, but I'm disappointed in the way he handled 🇺🇦 x 🇷🇺 . This strikes me as a well-written rebuttal.
https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2022/05/19/open-letter-to-noam-chomsky-and-other-like-minded-intellectuals-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/

Every time.

MRW my child asks how I would do a thing, and I tell her, and she says, "That's crazy. I've never heard of anyone doing it that way before. I'm going to <do it this other way> instead."

ಠ_ಠ

This is extraordinarily cool. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-an-unknown-extraordinarily-ancient-civilisation-lie-buried-under-eastern-turkey-

Y'all, if you want a deep dive on exoplanets with a side of funny GIFs, check out @_astronoMay and her #SpaceTalkTuesday threads. Really interesting stuff.

Our daughter is performing in a talent show tonight at her school. There are some high school kids setting up a 3-piece set — guitar, drums, bass. As usual, the drummer is drowning everyone out to the point that everyone else in the band is yelling at him to knock it off so they can sound check. 😆

Indulging in my newfound love of really drippy spring reverb.

Preparing for pollinators

"Church invites asshole to speak, is surprised when he stays on message"
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/church-apologizes-republicans-bizarre-speech-six-four-woman-big-old-mohawk/

A little too on point.

https://youtu.be/JLj3P7UMk4w

This child died because the state refuses to support people in poverty. Pro-life my ass. https://www.wsaz.com/2022/05/11/infant-dies-crash-mom-fled-officers-stealing-baby-items-walmart-police-say/

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/christopher-walken-dune-emperor-fatboy-slim-1352415/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/12/this-is-spinal-tap-sequel

https://thenib.com/unprecedented/

Initially it was just dumping an unordered JSON object to STDOUT, and it was bugging me. Yesterday I built a PowerShell script to grab that same info and return it in tabular form. The Fish function just subshells to `pwsh -NoProfile -File`. It still blows my mind that MS is making so many things easier with cross-platform and open-source software.

I’ve been working for a while on a Fish shell function I use at least a dozen times a day for reporting on our edge Kubernetes clusters. One of the things it does is grab some info from the VMware API.