https://xkcd.com/1807/ I live in a large-enough apartment complex that it’s only a matter of time until someone runs around yelling some such thing.

I bought a Google Home, and it is–by far–the best speaker I own. As an audiophile (I have a bachelors in Audio Engineering), I’m fairly ashamed that I don’t have an audio system not tied to a consumer electronic. 😢

https://qz.com/970924/the-psychological-importance-of-wasting-time/ There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any time wasted. But the truth is, a life spent dutifully responding to emails is a dull one indeed. And “wasted” time is, in fact, highly fulfilling and necessary.

Overall, the results are rather hilarious: http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/tagged/recipes. They’re improving, too!

I knew it had been a few years since I switched to my own mailservers, but I was still surprised to find that it has been nearly four years. My first production MX went online on August 2, 2013. Since then, I’ve switched over my dozen or so domains and their few-hundred aliases without incident. It takes a significant amount of my attention, but I can’t see myself giving up the flexibility it affords me.

I’m reminding myself of this today: Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. Oliver Wendell Holmes

I recently switched to aptly to manage my Debian packages. I’m still learning what I’m doing before I post on ethitter.com, but this makes me absurdly happy: $ apt-cache policy nginx nginx: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.11.13-1~eth-jessie Version table: 1.11.13-1~eth-jessie 0 500 https://apt.ethitter.net:6293/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 1.11.12-1~eth-jessie 0 500 https://apt.ethitter.net:6293/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 1.6.2-5+deb8u4 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages Don’t bother loading https://apt.ethitter.net:6293, it’s IP-restricted. I’m not prepared for the responsibility of others installing my packages.

A bottle of champagne with lunch is a nice start. 🍾🥂

For a variety of reasons, I usually miss Morning Edition. Particularly since I no longer commute, I have difficulty finding time to listen to the entire two-hour show. On Wednesday, NPR introduces a podcast that might help. Up First will be a ten-minute recap of the day’s top stories, released weekdays at 6am, and hosted by the same three who bring us Morning Edition. I’m very excited about its potential to fill a gap in my morning updates.

Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson. A look inside the hunt to catch one of the country’s biggest con men. https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/03/19/the-strange-spectacular-con-of-bobby-charles-thompson/