Riddle me this, Tarot fans. Cups=water Pentacles=earth Wands=? Swords=? My answer in the comments, but if you have an idea, post yours before reading mine.

I signed this electronic petition. If you agree with the sentiment, you might want to sign it too. So here’s the question that the right-wing extremists who control the Republican Congress will put before the Senate: “Over seven million Americans can have a raise of $2.15 an hour by raising the minimum wage, but only if we give a tax cut to 7,500 ultra-rich people at a cost of $753 billion dollars.” It’s despicable, it’s wrong, and we need to stop it.

Does anyone have some Postfix brain cells to spare? Let me know your thinking on the following problem.

First phone interview w/google today. I think it went pretty well. I was asked about: single vs double quotes in shell or perl, and what backquote does example of how you would parse a passwd file using perl reg exp do you make a loop to do that or is there a function (i said map, grep, he wanted split) how do you do simple math in shell (i guessed eval or parens) how would you do the passwd split in shell (i said sed or awk) example of sed to turn commas into tabs what is cidr notation, walk through example of /22, how many nodes, what is the mask, what is that in binary My turn to ask questions, I asked if ‘dont be evil’ has actually guided specific decisions at work. Nothing specific but just being cool to others in general. Also I mentioned that I am interested in both specialist and manager positions.

Exercise log for August Tue 8/1: exercise bike 30 laps Wed 8/2: exercise bike 40 laps Thu 8/3: exercise bike 30 laps (weight 273.4) Fri 8/4: none (oops, 7d avg drop to 25m) Sat 8/5: exercise bike 45 laps Sun 8/6: exercise bike 60 laps (back to 30+ avg) (Avg this week: 36.4 min) Mon 8/7: exercise bike 30 laps (weight 272.2) Tue 8/8: exercise bike 30 laps Wed 8/9: exercise bike 45 laps Thu 8/10: exercise bike 30 laps Fri 8/11: none Sat 8/12: none (excused: blood donation) Sun 8/13: exercise bike 45 laps (Avg this week: 25.7 min) Mon 8/14: exercise bike 60 laps (back to 30+ avg) Tue 8/15: exercise bike 45 laps Wed 8/16: exercise bike 45 laps Thu 8/17: exercise bike 45 laps Fri 8/18: exercise bike 45 laps Sat 8/19: none (weight 274.2) Sun 8/20: exercise bike 45 laps (Avg this week: 40.7 min) Mon 8/21: exercise bike 45 laps Tue 8/22: exercise bike 60 laps Wed 8/23: none Thu 8/24: exercise bike 45 laps Fri 8/25: exercise bike 45 laps (weight 271.8) Sat 8/26: exercise bike 60 laps Sun 8/27: exercise bike 45 laps (weight 270) (Avg this week: 42.8 min) Mon 8/28: exercise bike 45 laps Tue 8/29: exercise bike 60 laps Wed 8/30: none Thu 8/31: exercise bike 45 laps

More friends added: tim_wright M and I met Tim by way of Cafe Vax (eons ago!) aka_babs Also a Cafe Vax frequent flier happy_spinster I don’t actually know you, but you are a friend of both tim_wright and gregbo, so you must be good people :)

Since I have a fair number of sysadmins on my f.list, and sysadmins know sysadmins, I thought I would pass this along. This was sent to me by Phil (some of you from AV will remember him and may have already received this). Just wanted to make you aware of a great position for Sr. Linux Administrator I’m trying to fill. I’m looking for a seasoned admin with 5+ year experience managing Linux (preferably Debian). Must be strong. Have all of the usual skills that go along with the position. Experience with MySQL and Foundry a big plus. The company is a profitable technology business in the ecommerce space with offices in San Mateo. (Beautiful bay views and cool breezes). Contact me for more information. ...

Power was out from about 4:00 pm to about 10:45 pm. I believe both poly(vhostbox) and neko-base(aka box3) are back up and fine, but let me know if anything seems amiss. As mentioned before, I will start moving stuff to external hosting a bit more aggressively now. A/C had been keeping the house at 78F until the outage. It crept up slowly to about 83F downstairs, 86F upstairs by about 6:30. When it started getting a bit dark we opened the windows… it seemed about the same outside as inside. In reality it was probably still 95F outside. The inside kept getting warmer, even after dark (partly due to 3-4 candles going? hmmm). Anyway as of when power was restored it was 90F inside. A/C has brought it down 3 degrees in the last half hour. ...

power is currently out at our place. neko-hosted pages, poly pages and poly lists are down. I should have moved sites off to external hosting by now but I haven’t spent much time on it. oh well.. i’ll keep everyone posted.

According to my exercise log, both yesterday and today I have actually met my exercise goal (goal is 210 minutes over 7 days or 30 min avg per day) From this point forward I will count “good days” as days for which the total minutes for that day and the 6 previous days was 210 or more. That means I have had 2 “good” days this month. If I shoot for 45 min/day I can do 45,45,45,45,30 and take two days off, and still meet my targets. ...