2014
Fall Poem
Mazie had a homework assignment for fall poetry that involved having your parents write a poem and copying it in her notebook. Here is my poem.
The leaves had all gone from the trees.
In the air there was a gentle breeze.
My nose could smell the freshness in the air.
The air is chilly and the weather is fair.
The days are getting shorter the harvest moon is tall.
This is my favorite season I love the fall.
Watched the Apple Watch video 3 times now. Should stop now. 😀
shingadooties
For years Mazie has been using this word that she made up. She decided that it meant “everything”. Quite specifically, everything. Any question she asked, if you answered with “shingadooties” it would be right. This wonderful word has no representation on the Internet so Mazie and I decided to fix that by defining it here. So a shingadooties this shingadooties post about shingadooties.
Pronunciation: shing-a-doo-ties
Etymology: Mazie made it up
Verb: Every verb possible. I shingadooties all the way to school. The dog shingadooties around the backyard.
Noun: Every noun possible. One time I got shingadooties for my birthday and it was awesome.
I love my shingadooties!
Shingadooties,
Jamie & Mazie
2023 Update: This page is still the only reference to shingadooties on the entire web. OpenAI GPT-4 also isn’t aware of shingadooties.
Ordered Tammy an iPhone 6 via the AT&T website and it worked.
Grilling tools. Today is what Gin & Tonic’s were made for.
Minnesota United v Tampa Bay
Gorgeous night for a Minnesota United FC game! Stands are full! Nice to see Atomic Data sponsoring Minnesota United FC! Well done Jim Wolford and team!
GOAL!!! Minnesota United FC
Ugh! Tampa Bay makes it 1-1 vs Minnesota United FC.
Put the pressure on Minnesota United FC! Don’t play for a tie! ⚽️
I think it’s time to give nvALT and Simplenoteapp a serious go.
Nice day for Minnesota Renaissance Festival!
Morgan-Logan Labor Day.
Morgan-Logan Kubb.
What did I do on the flight?
Wrote a Backus-Naur form grammar for Planet Kubb Kubb notation.
I finally have TSA Pre✔️ and that is awesome. 🙌
Had no idea Raiden was available for iPad! Favorite arcade game ever!
MediaWiki LocalSettings for Farmers
I’ve been running a MediaWiki farm at thingelstad.com for a couple of years now hosting about a dozen wikis ranging from small to very large. Running a MediaWiki farm is a bit complicated and you can approach it a number of different ways. I recently pushed the settings that I use to run my farm into GitHub so others can see how I do it. The next step will be to also move the scripts that I use up, but those will be kept in another repository.
Hopefully this proves useful to others. It’s useful for me to finally have these very complicated settings (really code!) under version control.
Getting started with Ansible
I’ve been planning to start working on using a configuration management solution for my hobby servers. Chef was too heavy for my purposes, and confused me a lot. I got really enamored with SaltStack, but never really caught onto it. I decided to give Ansible a go and actually have a couple of hosts in Vagrant and am managing some limited packages with Ansible. My work is in GitHub.
In theory, it should be straightforward to take my build notes and turn them into Ansible playbooks. We’ll see.
Starting to watch True Detective and excited to hear The Handsome Family doing the intro music.
Music at Lake Harriet Bandshell tonight.
Summer dinner of watermelon. 🍉
