SysAdmin1138 @sysadmin1138@octodon.social

This outline doesn't want to get nailed down. There are several ways this can go:
- full trial
- plea based on Thing 1
- plea based on Plot B
- flee due to angry god.
None of them work well.

@hfrazey From a quilt show in town. Also, this amazing one. Quilted in gold thread. https://octodon.social/media/bkhnOuVI_5X3BN7CtT8

https://octodon.social/media/KIkhiwiyAGPMeuJr-oM

Sleep is for the weak, it would seem. Will have to do something about that.

@CobaltVelvet Oo. Yeah, GETs are pretty safe. Feels like it's mostly an information over-sharing exposure. If snapshots are done to something that needs secrets in the cluster config, that could be a worrying exposure.

Put new toner on the laserprinter, suddenly everything is more black and less gray. AMAZING.

Spring is looming. Somewhat mixed feelings about that (allergies), but looking forward.

@phessler Excellent. If this comes more than an idle speculation, I'll look into those.

Idly speculating how to get to Düsseldorf from here. SRECon EMEA is there this year.

@kurtm I sure think they do, but the CFP committies seem to think otherwise.

It doesn't help that the biggest conference I don't have to Hotel for doesn't really have ANY 'soft skills' track.

@benhamill I've had trouble getting that one right. Yes, getting a new job because you want one less shitty and the new place looks like it actually cares leads to some problems common to other sorts of trauma survivors. Like, automatically assuming the worse motive of people and defending for it. Which looks to the unscarred like being a negative asshole. It *is* an immigration issue, but needs a better frame.

@phessler I'm great fun at ops-y conferences! There just not a lot of those around. DevOpsDays is the big one.

I'd love to present at more conferences, but my topics only sort of fit your standard software conference.

- Getting Observability out of your monitoring system.
- Making on-call suck less.
- Dealing with immigrants from pathological cultures in your standup team.

That thing where the storage tub chips into the food and you find it when you chew.

Job Title: Plot-bunny herder

Duties:
- Keep bunnies from escaping to disturb sleep.
- Skill at arranging bunnies into groups that tell a coherent story.
- Skill at managing wild pop-up plot-bunnies, through short-stories or outlines.

Not exactly joking. I picked up a button at a SF con as a kid with that phrase on it.

I realize some folk think this is a tasteless stunt, but this is a moment of beauty I enjoyed.

https://octodon.social/media/fALfJhMCYXP4ct62a2k

I've been waiting for this picture for years. No, decades.

Charles Stross on Where Is My Damned Speculative SF

Or

Your Space Opera Makes No Damned Sense.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html

@sigridellis Good work! I failed after three and called it quits.