#holidayparty season has begun. 2 of them ON THE SAME DAY today. One "official" department celebration, One "unofficial" work friends/colleagues gathering after 5pm. The big company one is next week. #themostwonderfultimeoftheyear

A little bourbon to start off the holiday festivities (since I've been cooking on and off for the last 4 hours) Happy Thanksgiving!

2 visits to the dentist in 24 hours was NOT on my bingo card. No biggie, just didn't want to deal with a sharp-edged temporary crown for the next 2 weeks. Still a little sore, but none the worse for wear.

When having any dental work (filling AND a crown for me today), I cannot emphasize enough the benefits of a playlist full of metal and hard rock for the headphones. I've always had issues with drills, but this is the only way I've ever gotten through these procedures over the years. 100% recommend.

Really need to queue this up for tomorrow #WFHJams. I *really* want to blast it right now, but it's 12:30 AM EST and my family is sound asleep... Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea

The (little) Mac Mini that refuses to stop working. (Mid-2007 Core 2 2GHz). SSD upgrade and a 32-bit EFI - despite being 64-bit CPU cores...

If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself. One day, the meaning of labels will disappear. Please love yourself as you are. The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself. Because that is your strength and beauty. Chiitan loves you

Hey, when the head of a government agency is instructing the agency to declare a link to something, it's not proof. It's bunk science, and a dangerous precedent.

Currently repurposing a decommissioned server to collect a large forensic image for analysis. It exceeds my current evidence drive capacity, so additional HDDs are on order and coming Tuesday. #improvise #react #dfir #incidentresponse

Nothing quite like the vehicle to remove large things from a soon-to-be vacated storage unit deciding "hey, my battery is terrible, I'm not going to start" during a grocery run. Walked home with groceries, made dinner, and my father-in-law took me back to jumpstart. It's home. And I can buy local.

Mr. Lehrer was a big influence on me in my younger years. So many memories of his music randomly inserting itself into my playlist.

I was finally able to volunteer at new student orientation table early this morning. It seems weird to act as a walking billboard for what your department offers, but our main concern is that they leverage the resources we already have site licenses for and get set up with technology BEFORE day 1...

That was probably the worst "premium" breakfast sandwich I have ever eaten. Advertised as a bacon, egg and cheese on brioche. Nope. Bacon, egg, no cheese, on a hamburger bun. A *hint" of syrup in the egg. At least the cashier was friendly... Should have gone to the on-site Panera. #hospital

I love the random guitar gear thrift store finds. I missed out on a nice hardshell electric case someone had in hand, but I found a Zoom G1 with an AC adapter for $10. I call that a win, and it's much nicer than the cheap Zoom all-in-ones I already have. Alas, this one is designated for my kid...

I struggle to unplug from work. But I'll be doing so on the west coast for a bit. I will absolutely be tempted to check work e-mail and messaging. Recharge. Recuperate. The soul needs that sometimes. It doesn't always have to be a complete change of venue, either. But taking the time is important.

How is this OK? Congress?!? I used to buy a lot of printer toner ($1k+ orders) in a previous State job. One vendor would throw a bulk bag of M&M's (~3 lbs) in the box as a "thank you". We had to return the candy *at our expense* because it violated State rules. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Having an entrepreneurial child is awesome, until child is sick and cannot fulfill their customer obligations. I have gone from barely mowing our lawn to doing 4 this weekend. All of them were pretty tall and would not have lasted another weekend (esp. with rain forecast all week) #dadlife #pain

Performing our biannual Troop service retiring damaged American flags #scouting #bsa

This does not bode well for our national cyber security posture...

Not a good sign: www.securityweek.com/nist-still-s...

Problem: dept. budget for training is $0 for the foreseeable future I have a knowledge deficit that needs to be resolved ASAP. My institution has an employee benefit for 6 cr a semester. Solution: Register as a non-matriculating grad student in my old program to audit new classes / ones I missed.

Hidden gems of DC: Planet Word

I am a half hour into a committee meeting, slowly devolving into a hangry goblin. Didn't have time to eat between work and the start time... 🤣

Pro tip from a software engineer, don't install chinese malware on your phone 👍

Did I find my anthem of 2025? Possibly...

THIS IS CINEMA, BTW. Be careful if you're using fireworks this NYE. youtube.com/shorts/twuIK...

Harder than I thought it would be, with plenty of pieces at weird angles. Glued, waiting to frame for the game room.

Big thanks to Christina and Bob at Lockpick Extreme for an excellent "Intro to Lockpicking" workshop! Great walkthrough that was very informative and lots of fun! www.lockpickextreme.com

One bonus to waking up at 4:30 in the morning: starting work at 6a instead of 8:30a. I'll be dead tired by the time the kids' extracurriculars are starting tonight. This wasn't in my plan for today.

This is probably a Bad Idea™️ to be walking around in public with. I think the wearer is risking their life just to carry a 12 pack... Beer shirt or bomb vest?

How did Netflix get this level of access to my off-the-clock time (although I'm probably still reading infosec news anyway)

Happy Thanksgiving, BlueSky! Best wishes from my family to yours.

The Great Clean Up begins in order for us to host Thanksgiving tomorrow. Some things might actually make it to their final storage locations - emphasis on MIGHT.

Just got a sophisticated smish / phone call for a cryptocurrency exchange. Professional e-mails, english speaking tech. It might have fooled me, other than I did not have an account on that exchange. I still chatted. Aforementioned crypto exchange's security team now has all the luscious details.

AI being put in charge of the US' nuclear arsenal was a real program under the Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980's. The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility produced this movie to stop it. This terrifying episode of the Cold War had been forgotten. archive.org/details/Reli...

Transferring terabytes over the network to a fileserver they should have been on all along = painful. Thankfully we're almost done.

I'm thinking about deleting all prior conversations on *other app*, setting one pinned post redirecting here, and setting a randomized, super long password on the account (to keep safe in my password locker indefinitely) I'm sure there's going to be some sort of inactive account purge eventually...

I was introduced to APPLE BASIC in 5th Grade, tinkered with QBasic through high school, and entertained myself with TI Basic at home. I, along with man others, are in computer careers in no small part BECAUSE of the work of Dr. Thomas E. Kurtz (and those who extended / expanded on his work)

10 PRINT "REST IN PEACE" 20 GOTO 10

Our band has found another bassist who wants to play occasionally, so I was asked if I would be willing to move to electric guitar those weeks. Of course! My home pedalboard isn't really geared toward church. Looking online for "church-friendly" pedalboard setups has been... an experience... 1/