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Incredibly freaky: I had a problem in which the "Welcome to nginx!" page was showing instead of a web page of one of my apps. I was debugging nginx config stuff, then it occurred to me to check the index.html of the page that should have been rendered.

It had been replaced by the nginx welcome page.

I have no idea how that could happen.

After I resynced the app, everything worked again.

Other finds today:

Awakening. I totally thought this was a regular power metal dude singing this. If you think about it, though, the power metal range actually fits more naturally in a woman's range. And so Unleash the Archers demonstrates! I'm not into the long intro on that one, but once the soaring power whoaoaoahs and meedley meedley leads get going, that's a good tune.

Azusa was brought up in a work Slack channel: Heart of Stone. Again, a woman vocalist. She's very, very intense without trying to sound like a typical male death metal vocalist, but perhaps coincidentally sounding a bit like male (or all) black metal vocalists. And then, she goes into to melodic vocals here and there, and the band switch over to consonant voicings from dissonant along with her.

From my Discover Weekly, hardcore for our times: The Product Is You

What's it going to take to fucking change
If these habits are ingrained?
When everything comes apart gradually
We ignore what comes to us naturally
If you don't know what the product is
The product is you
If you don't know where the money is
The profit's growing huge

It ends with:

Punishment
Enduring punishment

Indeed.

There was always something mildly repellent to me about that early-aughts Victory Records hardcore. e.g. Snapcase, Strife, etc. (I think of it as Pantera-influenced hardcore, though, the bands themselves would not agree with that label, and indeed, maybe that sound doesn't come from Pantera.)

Incendiary is in that vein – there is a lot of slow breakdown chugging – but feels more closer in the spirit to earlier political hardcore. I haven't heard any self-pity or tough guy biz from them on their latest album. They are definitely thinking about things outside of themselves.

I like simple decisions, so I do not like that I like a school that's a mile away from us better than a school that's close to us.

Wow. The Internet Archive has Aldrovandi's Natural Historie of Serpents and Dragons.

The children's section of the library had Borges's The Book of Imaginary Beings on display, so I grabbed it for myself.

It's Borges's catalogue of mythical and fictional creatures. Each entry is firmly pressed with his take.

From it, I learned that Bahamut is actually a magic fish. AD&D used his name for the platinum dragon. (Metallic dragons are good in D&D.) He was the opposite number of Tiamat, a five-headed dragon, whose name was also nicked from mythology for an unrelated character, though less unrelated in that place.

The original Arabic Bahamut was one of those "hold up the world" types. In bottom-to-top order, it went:

- Darkness
- Water
- Bahamut the Fish
- A great bull
- A ruby mountain
- An angel
- Six infernos
- The earth

Re: Florida: ironic!

In an excoriating 24-page report, which will be presented to the UN human rights council in Geneva next year, the eminent human rights lawyer said that in the UK “poverty is a political choice”.

Powerful countries do not like to be subject to the same scrutiny that they enjoy seeing poorer countries under.

I came up with what I think is a killer theme in the shower (yeah, I know), and hummed it into a voice recorder as soon as I got out. When I worked it out on guitar, I was disappointed that that it was so simple.

I fought off my bizarre desire to complex it up.

A good recoloring series, but the original is even more interesting.

Some handy lists at the bottom of this article: Sitting GOP officials embracing white nationalists

Oh, yeah, before I forget: I had another external HD scare on the other day. It wouldn't mount; no partitions showed from it. This was the HD I have been restoring data from.

tl;dr

I had it plugged into a USB port that was subtly damaged. Non-power-requiring devices worked when hooked up to it, but this HD needed to draw power from it. The HD (hard drive for those not in the know) mounted when I plugged it into the other USB port.