Endless Dreamless Sleep
My father died last week, and it has me thinking about this Carl Sagan quote, that I would love to have remembered at my own death.
— Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Station in the Metro
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Florida
I sit here, on a sweltering summer afternoon, on the back patio of my parents’ house in Florida, polishing the black shoes that my father will wear in his casket, for his funeral. I don’t know what my emotions are right now, but I’m trying to be of service, and I think that is the best thing I can do right now. I miss my dad. -
End Citizens United
Exciting if true.
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Testing ActivityPub Comments
Apparently since I’m publishing these blog posts via ActivityPub, Mastodon/fediverse replies should appear here as comments?
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Install Mastodon with Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 (behind a Synology reverse proxy)
MoreI found myself needing a Mastodon server that I could manage for testing on a project I’m working on. I found a walkthrough guide for the setup that was pretty close to my situation, but not quite, and I found myelf a little stumped at certain points when things weren’t working out quite right.
I […]
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Lola the Cat
Morefelis ambitiosus
June 11, 2010 – September 8, 2025
On December 6, 2010, my then-wife adopted a young cat from the Animal Welfare League of Frederick County (Maryland), already named Lola at the shelter, a.k.a. “KITTY #8 LOCKLAIR,” according to the initial vaccination document that we were given. Her cat Lola moved in the same […]
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Oldest “Legacy” Sequels
MoreI was recently watching The Color of Money (1986), a sequel to The Hustler (1961), and that got me wondering — how old is the concept of a “legacy sequel,” and could I think af any earlier sequels?
After posting my question on farious social medias, and chatting with friends, I think we came up […]
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