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Got a year of essays on the One Year Bible, a few articles on fatherhood, home improvement, management, recipes.

Monday, January 30, 2023

Can't pull Kenmore 790.47892602 builtin oven from its cabinet?

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Like the person in this doityourself.com post , I had a problem where the oven stopped heating after being put through a cleaning cycle. ...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

assimilating a new (to us) imac: SMTP mail

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So the mac mini is almost a teenager so we got a new box. According to "About this Mac" it's "iMac (retina 5K..., 201...
Monday, July 25, 2022

upgrade debian stretch → buster → bullseye

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I hate upgrades, but python3 on my debian stretch box doesn't grok f-strings , because its python3 is python3.5; fstrings were added ...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

I actually like being on vacation

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I wrote recently that I’m not very good at the “rest” thing. But our two weeks on a faraway island were very enjoyable. What made it ...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

__stack_chk_fail(): What It Means

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Recently I had a “stack smashing” incident to debug at work. It turned out to be a little more complicated than the example I'm about ...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Animations with gifsicle... plus complications

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Some years ago, I discovered the excellent gifsicle , which I've used a few many times to create animated GIFs, like this sunrise a...
Monday, October 25, 2021

What I Did on My Weekend Vacation

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I've been working 3-day weeks now for some months. I take Fridays and Mondays off, so it's been consecutive 4-day weekends....
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I've worked in the computer industry for over 40 years. During that time, I met Jesus (1978), became a member at MPPC, met the lovely Carol and married her, moved to Japan, then back after about 6 years. We have two daughters, no longer teenagers, who are smarter and more spiritual and kinder and nicer and more talented than we had any right to expect.
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