Weird techy discovery: the MySQL 5.5 client on Ubuntu can't seem to handle a connection that requires the --ssl-ca option (which apparently Amazon Web Service uses?), but MariaDB 10.0 can. I had thought that the upgrade from MySQL Workbench 5 to 6 had broken my connection, but the problem was actually the default Ubuntu MySQL installation, whereas ( Read more... )

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies ( Read more... )

Rewatching the Supernatural Season 2 2-part finale, I realized that I wasn't wrong to decide way back when that the show wasn't worth my time. The show's great strength, two brothers who would do anything for each other and for family, didn't (doesn't) touch any deep part of me. No doubt being an only child raised by people who weren't related to ( Read more... )

There are no scientists in Supernatural. No engineers. No teachers or philosophers. Nobody who says, "That's weird. That's fascinating. The world is a lot different than I thought. Why? How? I'm going to find out." Or, "Holy crap, there are actual poltergeists. And there's already a method for dealing with them which involves a lot of running ( Read more... )

--just trudging grumbling and limping behind it (hee).

( (Spoilers up until the end of Season 5, if it's on your list and you haven't gotten to it yet.) )

If you watch one thing today, make it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bGYljQ5Uw: "WHOLOCK - Sherlock meets The Doctor!" I am totally, totally, amazed by the editing job on this.

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Yes, there is now a garden in my life to which I have indentured the rest of my natural existence. It terrifies me, mostly because experience has taught me that I’m horrible at keeping anything that requires more than occasional water and occasional sunlight alive. My current goal is to preserve at least one sample of every species. I’m meeting it… ( Read more... )

Got to work at 4:30 this morning because my brain wouldn’t shut up and let me sleep. And what was my brain so stuck on, you might ask? Well…

10 pm: Trying not to think…trying not to think…

11 pm: Grumping over my pet peeves with Buffy fanfiction: claims, gratuitous use of the word “effulgent,” senseless Angel abuse, and “-clad” anything.

12 am: ( Read more... )

Diplomacy: quelling your desire for a zero sum battle of egos to achieve a net gain to the good of the whole.

Mirrored from Bridge into a Dreamer's Mind.
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