Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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Anyway, this is a memory: mom took me to the glass flower museum in Boston. And I sort of think I returned there with Joe in 2001 but we were getting sick at the time.

https://open.substack.com/pub/kirkgordon/p/the-age-of-silicon-began-long-ago?

I suppose I should get back to sleep.

I have things I really want to go to today in Manassas and Elkridge and Capitol Heights and argh.

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

In the autumn we go to concerts

Oct. 19th, 2025 09:36 am
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We hit a rich vein of '80s and '90s acts at the Palace Theater in Albany. In no particular order:

* KT Tunstall & Toad the Wet Sprocket
* ZZ Top
* The Beat(*) & UB40
* Gary Numan and the Psychedelic Furs

KT Tunstall was really damn good. Luckily there was an opening opening act (Vertical Horizon playing a medley of their hit) so despite delays at dinner we did not miss anything important.

Toad the Wet Sprocket was kind of meh.

ZZ Top was a lot of fun. I knew most of the songs. Boy howdy is that music a product of its time though.

The Beat & UB40 - Loads of fun, good energy. I did not know most of the songs and had a blast anyway.

Psychedelic Furs - MASSIVE disappointment. Richard Butler(**) was like somebody's creepy drunk grandpa getting out the dance moves. It was embarrassing to watch. I bought a t-shirt before the show & am having some regrets.

and finally, GO SEE GARY NUMAN IF YOU CAN, OH MY **** ***. I had no idea what to expect. It was loud, it was industrial, the lighting was like something out of Blade Runner. He played "Cars" about 30 minutes in - normally that's the point where we all think, welp, that's the end of the set then - and then he KEPT GOING for another half hour. Absolutely incredible. Super intense, amazing performance. I can't believe he's 67. He still has his voice, his moves, and his precision. GO SEE HIM. Do consider buying the $2 earplugs from his merch booth.

I should have stuck around & bought a Gary Numan t-shirt; but if there is one thing I have learned, it is that if I buy a black crewneck t-shirt I will NEVER wear it.



(*) known in the US as "The English Beat" but they are the One True Beat to me

(**) it still weirds me out that he has the same full name as a friend-of-a-friend who passed away much too young

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Oct. 16th, 2025 10:26 pm
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I'm not all that worried about no Kings Day weekend especially here in DC. Mpdc is pretty committed to supporting first amendment activity.

Hopefully I'm not wrong.

Also good God I have agreed to be at 14th and U for 8:30 in the morning on saturday.

Maxine Waters has confirmed for tomorrow, friday, at the Lincoln memorial.

Somewhere in there I think I may be wearing an axolotl onesie.
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Come one, come all to a Halloween ball!

When: Saturday Oct. 25th, 6 pm onward
Where: Boo Manor of course -
Directions upon request

Why: To celebrate the spooky and the ooky. We'll have food, games, fun and candy aplenty for buoys, ghouls and groan ups alike.

COSTUMES ENCOURAGED! (But we'll let you in even if you are just dressed like a serial killer. ;)

Dire Warnings: parking is limited at our place. A few can brave our steep driveway, or you can park on the road at the four way stop and walk up four houses, or use the road kitty-corner from our driveway.

Hope you can make it!
Howls,
The Boos!

ok, it's at least ironic

Oct. 13th, 2025 09:29 pm
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So a week before we move is a *great* time to have the fire alarms go off, credibly. (That is, all of them at once, ours and the upstairs neighbors', going off at once, which is probably required in the fire code by now but isn't how I'm used to them behaving.) I checked in with the upstairs guy, and neither of us saw smoke or anything likely to cause anything dangerous, but Calluna and I nonetheless got the cat into the carrier and go bag and purses outside, Just In Case. And called 911.

The fire guys (who have a fire station about 3 blocks from us so we get a hell of a lot of Fire Truck Noise) arrived just as the upstairs guy was solving the problem by starting to take down the smoke detectors, one by one. First one he tried was the relevant issue, which makes sense given as it was date-stamped 2007. (...yes.)

Lessons taken from this: a) I don't think the upstairs guy had the right approach to the problem -- that is, I think the fire guys should do that kind of conclusion making, and b) I need to do some practicing for an actual fire, clearly, because I dithered too much. Since I want to make sure we have reasonable fire exits in our upcoming basement (that's easy, there's huge windows that open and you can just crawl out) and the upcoming 2nd floor (not sure there), that'll just fold into the consideration.

Anyway, not to bury the lede, but we bought a house in Pepperell (on the border of NH, as opposed to where we are now on the border of RI), it's cool, we're having the movers next Monday, will quite likely have to do a smallish truck (or van) the weekend after for remaining stuff, dislike packing vociferously, but! we can finally get the Stuff From Storage from when we stuck it there like 5 years ago.

More about this soon, or, as is more likely given me, more much later.
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