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At least 30 minutes.

Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered more than the other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves.

According to Caffiene Calculator I can drink 170 cans and still be safe. Although, I'd probably be pretty sick.

It won't go bad per se, but if a cow is not milked regularly, it can eventually stop production.

I'm a security enthusiast, sysadmin, veteran, father, husband, tinkerer, and all around geek. A jack of all trades (and master of none).

What is a better use of my time other than giving my unwanted opinion?

When the mood strikes me.

Depends on my mood and who I'm with. Pretty much anything but country.

So many things. I've tried to like it and I've worked with people that listen to nothing but country. It's just not my thing.

Cats.³

No.

I like them, but not really an expert.

Aside from my feelings and opinions, I suspect most of my personal data has already been compromised as part of a breach somewhere. As for the rest, I usually give opinions out for free, might as well have them all in one place.

This is why there is no RSS feed or newsletter. I write when I'm in the mood. I don't want to force it by trying to write when I'm in the right frame of mind. You get what you get.

Because I don't didn't know enough JavaScript to fix it. I already spent way too long on getting the look I had in mind, so I'm not ready to abandon it just yet. Don't worry, I'll get around to it in all my copious spare time™. In the meantime, both visitors to this garden will have to refresh the page twice before the answers will be visible. This is probably the most first-world problem I can think of. If this bothers anyone you can file a ticket with our support team.¹

Update 2022-10-30: I fixed the JavaScript problem by removing it completely haha! I just used markdown a native Material extension (that I was already loading). As usual, I was making it way too complicated. I might change the green color later, but I kinda like how it looks.

One day I was picking up my cat and the name just came to me. Seemed like a good fit.

I am. I was going to add more to that sentence but then realized, it's me. Then I realized, I need an about page.

I learned to type on a teletype machine in the Navy. A teletype message had to have two spaces after a sentence for it to be clear enough to read. Now it's just 30 years of muscle memory.

Why, yes I do.

This site is cobbled together in my spare time and hosted on GitHub. If you would like a chat feature, feel free to file a feature request with our support team.⁵

It's a markdown/html issue. Trust me, it's easier this way, it's also more fun.⁶

I have no idea. I am pretty rigid when it comes to things like this, and I spent a good couple hours trying to figure out why it won't put things in alphabetical order and finally gave up for now. It's definitely an mkdocs thing. I'm trying to embrace being less rigid, though and this is going to be one of those times where I am going to stop fighting it and see where it goes. Does it really need to be a meticulously trimmed garden or can it wander? For now I'm going to consider it a vine that grows in my garden and sometimes it will grow to the directions it wants.

Update 2022-08-13: I figured it out, the issue is that mkdocs goes by filename and not description or title of the post. So even if my post is called "foo", if I name the file "zebra.md", it will show up at the bottom alphabetically. While I was ok with it being weird and did finally accept it, I'm happy I figured it out. I'm still going to fix it :)

Update 2022-10-30: Done!

Eyeball the bottom of each list, I guess. I haven't come up with a better way just yet.

I'm lazy and haven't gotten around to updating every link on the site.

The Carna botnet was comprised of 420,000 devices created by an anonymous researcher to measure the extent of the Internet in what the creator called the “Internet Census of 2012”. More details about how it went down and the resulting map can be found on Wikipedia.

Check out the NIST Official Official Map. If you are outside the US, you're out of luck. According to the page "The .gov means it’s official."

This is the place to start. Alternatively, you can fork my repo and tinker.

"rm -filename" doesn't work, if you know enough about getopt(), you can use "rm -- -filename".

The one you know best.

My current favorite destination is Japan.⁴

According to Wikipedia, a hobby is considered to be a “regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one’s leisure time.” Now, while traveling can be done for enjoyment, it isn’t a regular activity for most people. Personally, I consider it a lifestyle.