<a href="https://smidgeo.com/notes/deathmtn">deathmtn</a>

2019-7-23 11:52:18
I may have become too bored of everything to be useful to capitalism any more.
2019-7-23 09:44:00
I was just looking back at my Gmail spam box because I'm testing my server's mail transfer agent's ability to send email to Gmail, and I found this. Summer dirt!
2019-7-22 21:28:54
I was finally able to get my server to send email successfully to Gmail but setting up a reverse DNS (PTR) record. If you search for information on this, you get the impression that you have to get CloudFlare or DynDNS. However, it turns out Digital Ocean (which provides my server) will just do this for you if you name your droplet to the hostname. Done!
2019-7-22 14:20:06
Just dug up 17776 to send to someone and scrolled through the intro again. It is so good, and I wish more stuff like this happened on the web.
2019-7-22 13:31:20
10-4-3-2-3-3. Gonna try a little harder than normal to not skip a day until my next vacation, which is soon.
2019-7-22 11:37:23
I was trying to make a mailing list for not content on my own server yesterday and ran into the need for a reverse DNS record. Without it, mail sent from my server will be accepted by some mail servers, but will be rejected by Gmail.

My domain registrar, Hover, doesn't handle reverse DNS (PTR) records. So, I have to choose between:

1) Changing registrars or getting an additional one

2) Using something like Tinyletter, which I use for my existing mailing lists, and having a process on my server email to Tinyletter. I have to hope that Tinyletter will accept email from a server without reverse DNS and that there won't be any weird formatting issues. Or that forwarding from Fastmail (which does accept my server's email) works.

The downsides of #2 are exposing users' emails to a commercial entity (which I already do to newsletter subscribers) and the possible impermanence of the service.
2019-7-22 10:36:34
The Apollo 11 launch on the Washington Monument. It didn't occur to me until I saw that they're similarly-shaped!
2019-7-21 21:57:04
Surprisingly (but also not surprising after thinking about it for second), it's hard to send email through your own email server. I suppose spending a few hours configuring something isn't considered "hard", but it's more time than I want to spend. When I hit the reverse DNS requirement for Gmail acceptance and couldn't figure out how to do it in Hover, I decided to take a break. Hit me up if you know how to do this!
2019-7-21 15:30:42
Making your own cardboard box separators is really satisfying!
2019-7-20 22:34:14
It's 10:30 PM and 86°F.
2019-7-20 22:33:33
The CERN documentary has a lot of quiet scenes where people are working non-dramatically. It didn't really enlighten us about CERN, but it was good to see. There were some noises that excited the cats.
2019-7-20 21:00:35
Made three mistakes today:

1. Misremembering when swimming lessons were; guy missed half the lesson.

2. Getting strawberries that were bad (again). I did look them over at the grocery store, but I guess I didn't look very closely. 80% of them went straight into the compost.

3. Not watching the pizza on the grill.

I kinda wish all of my mistakes had consequences at this severity, now that I look at these!
2019-7-20 18:52:53
In an admittedly foolish attempt to save some of the grill failure, I scraped the toppings off the burned pizza along with whatever non-burned bread I found and put them on a new crust. I put more cheese and pepperoni on top for optics and am cooking it the traditional way in the oven.
2019-7-20 18:42:18
Yeah, possible total failure. Way too hot to leave alone for four minutes. Should've been watching it the whole time, given I've never done this before.
2019-7-20 18:19:23
This may end in tears.
2019-7-20 15:54:42
I just posted 27 pieces of media from our vacation to my kid's weblog. Backlog dread can come from any source, it turns out!
2019-7-20 13:43:09
They have the largest of the the 3D hive climbing structures at Seattle Center.
2019-7-20 10:24:51
Correction: these circles were near Penticton, Montana.
2019-7-20 10:19:31
A guy I saw taking a truck break, which looked relaxing.
2019-7-20 10:13:35
Plane line at SEA
2019-7-20 10:09:25
Near Miles City, Nebraska.
2019-7-20 10:06:04
Somewhere over Watford City, Sidney, and Dickinson, North Dakota.
2019-7-20 01:56:59
We're back! This guy is here; no environmental disaster befell the cats or the house, other than cat hairballs and extreme humidity.
2019-7-19 15:21:53
This is how I feel about more vacations and family dealings.
2019-7-18 21:35:59
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
Conservative intellectuals cannot rescue nationalism from Trump, any more than they could rescue Goldwater from Jim Crow, because Trump’s explicit appeals to racial and religious traditionalism, and his authoritarian approach to enforcing those hierarchies, are the things that have bound conservative voters so closely to him. The failure of the conservative intelligentsia to recognize this is why it was caught so off-guard by Trump’s rise to begin with.
I am saddened when people that think that because Bill Kristol criticizes Trump that he's actually going to do things to try to stop Trump's policies. Trump says what the Bill Kristols believe in but are careful not to say."