Called mother to wish her a happy father’s day. It’s our in-joke. Funny-ha-ha. I don’t have a father. Obviously, I do, but he has never been my father. I have never been his son. I’ve written about this before. Has that made me less of a man? Yes, it has. Every bit of being forward …
Author Archives: Shawn
Unrestlessness
It’s a weekend day, and I find myself absolutely not wanting to be in my apartment. I get up, make breakfast, clean up, get dressed, and as soon as I can, I gotta get out the door. Where? Not home. Out there. My apartment is fine. It’s not a bad place. But it’s just where …
NWS WXK27 Service Disruption
Turned on the Austin TX weather radio WXK27 just in time to hear an unusual message: Public Information StatementNational Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX117 PM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025…NOAA WEATHER RADIO OUTAGE DUE TO A SOFTWARE UPDATE NEXT WEEK…The Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service office will be conducting a required, scheduled update to their …
VLC Recent Albums Flow
I use VLC on Android to listen to music because it’s kinda neat. My one annoyance is that it doesn’t have anything like the Recent Albums cover flow like Plex does. Really annoying. I pick up a lot of music and really miss being able to look at my recent CD stack to remind myself …
Kill All Serial Scrapists
Yesterday, I saw this site was timing out with HTTP 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) and I couldn’t access my WordPress blog. Whut? I logged into my shared hosting shell, looked at the server logs, and saw I was being hammered by some scraper bot. So of course Apache’s mod_security was throttling my site and returning …