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“Admins who have vCenter servers directly exposed to the Internetshould strongly consider curbing the practice…”

— No shit, Ars Technica

Pixiv Champloo 16

Wed 9/14/22 1:08am Comments: 0 Cheesecake

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To quote Cole Trickle, “it’s just a little rubbing”. Or something likethat…

(a lot of these have been in my archives so long they’ve been deletedfrom Pixiv, which means I lose track of the artist)

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Devil By The Deed

Sun 9/11/22 9:52am Comments: 0 Fun

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Vermeil 10

Y’know what this series needed? A massive battle against an unbeatablefoe that’s interrupted by several minutes of lengthy exposition,including a brand-new character who shows up to kick off a flashbackexplaining The Secret History Of Our Gainaxing Succubus (which we’vebeen expecting for some time, thanks to the credits). Also OurDetermined Hero somehow ends up bleeding in that “Grendel mask”let’s-get-serious way.

Not shown: Vermeil’s panties, in what’s practically aDon’t-Buy-The-Bluray moment during the calm before the storm.Related, random spear-carrying military mages were so focused andintense that they didn’t even notice her barely-contained curveswhen they walked by to deliver their bit of inept foreshadowing. Idisbelieve; I’ve met young soldiers.

By the way, remember that gang of friends who show up occasionally toremind the viewer that they exist but have nothing to do? They show upbriefly to remind the viewer that they exist but have nothing to do.

Call Of The Night 10

In this episode of Sukebe Deka, Our Friends With Sucking Benefits goundercover at a maid café to solve The Mystery Of The MissingUpskirts. And it would have worked if it weren’t for that meddlingkid.

Home-work

The guys sealing the basement cracks managed to work around theinconveniently-placed pipe, so I’m all set there. And with theelectrical work done, I now have Toto Washlets in all three bathrooms.Next week the only thing going on is picking up a comfy chair Iordered for the living room, but the week after that, the structuredwiring is going in, complete with a 5U rack mounted to the basementwall to store all the network gear. Once I have the modem(s), router,and 2.5 Gb/s switch in there, I’ll be a lot happier.

I’ve mostly gotten used to relying on wireless in the house with thenew Orbi Wifi 6E setup, but the two satellites are currentlybackhauling to the base AP via wireless, so they’re not deliveringfull bandwidth. They’ll perform better with a 2.5 Gb/s wiredconnection, and adding a switch in the living room will make all mystreaming video wired as well.

The biggest win will be running a 10 Gb/s connection between the NASin the basement and the computers in my office, allowing me to managemy photo and video archives better. After the basement is finished, ofcourse; right now I’d need to buy another closed rack for it, tokeep the spiders out.

Torching the Doctor

I just finished watching seasons three and four of Torchwood (whichI’d only seen bits of before), which taken together make a good reasonto worry about Russell T Davies’ return as the showrunner for DoctorWho.

Many of the flaws in season four can be blamed on the co-production byStarz, which put most of the action in the US with a really weird mixof good actors, bad actors, and otherwise-good actors in bad roles(Bill Pullman is almost unwatchable for the first two-thirds of thisturkey), but the primary culprit is Davies, because he created theoverall story arc, which is frankly terrible message fic (as was thearc for season three).

It seemed odd that they narrowed Captain Jack’s original omnisexualityto make him almost exclusively gay, to the point that they madehomosexuality essential to the plot. Literally: the root cause of thecrisis in season four was Jack being stabbed by a deeply religiouscloseted gay man that he picked up on Ellis Island in the earlyTwentieth Century.

(picture is unrelated)

Guess the book…

Amazon says that “products related to this item” are (in order):

The Storm Glass (The Glass Sky Series Book 1)The Better World Shopping Guide: 7th EditionCocktails, Mocktails, And Garnishes From The GardenCoin: Have You Ever Wished You Could Uninvent Something?(RightMind Book 1)Made Of SteelConstable In The ShrubberyThe Dartmoor GirlThe Evil Than Men DoMade Of Steel: The Complete SeriesReal World Gunfight TrainingResistance TrainingThe Perfect AthleteHow To FenceTemptation (The Hunted Series Book 1)Constable Around The ParkCity Of MenThe Case Of The Missing Morris Dancerspoiler

The Gun Digest Book Of Concealed Carry, 2ndEdition, by Massad Ayoob.

(picture is about as related as most of Amazon’s recommendations…)

3D Cheesecake Champloo 4

Tue 9/6/22 8:38pm Comments: 0 Cheesecake

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In the definitely-not-in-California-any-more department, I’m lookingat 5 days of thunderstorms. Also a 5-for-$55 deal on MagPul 30-roundAR-15 magazines at the local range. They’re also offering a bundlewith a S&W M&P-15 Sport II, extra mags, and a rifle case, which theysaid was selling quite well, but I took a look at the case, and it’sthe wackiest collection of tacti-cool straps, buckles, zippers,pouches, bungies, and velcro that I’ve ever seen.

Seriously, you could make a gimp suit out of this bag and havehardware left over.

No gimp suits were harmed in the collection of this cheesecake.

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CAPD is the new MAGA

Mon 9/5/22 9:12am Comments: 0 Fun

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That’s “clear and present danger”, a heavily loaded term that suggeststhat the president’s speechwriters watch too many movies. I supposewe’ll all need to buy new hats now.

Cry, Uncle

The series has been suspended indefinitely because sweatshop animeproduction spreadsCovid.

You know it’s bad when…

…your CFO jumps out of a skyscraper to hisdeath.

“To dodging bullets”

Fun fact: while most electric ranges require 220 power, most dual-fuelones come with a 110 cable. I learned this when the installer pulledout my old range and asked me if we were going to plug the new one inon top of the counter for now (!).

Fortunately, when his suffering partner finished pulling it uphill, wediscovered that the Kitchenaid dual-fuel doesn’t ship with a powercord, and removing the back panel revealed that they could hook up a220 cord, which they had in the back of the truck.

I’ll need to get a trim kit for it; there are small gaps on bothsides, and a big one in back. The official one is out of stock, buthopefully they can hook me up with something that’ll work.

Speaking of bullets…

On my last trip to the range, I ended up next to a man who wasteaching his kids to shoot. I thought the gold-star-for-attendanceconstant encouragement was annoying and a bit silly, but since theywere actually shooting recognizable groups, I let it pass.

However, when I walked to the trash can to throw away an empty ammobox and saw him casually pointing a gun into the room as he explainedits operation to his son, I politely-but-firmly intervened.

J: “Downrange, please!”

X: mrrr?

J: “Please point your weapon downrange!”

X: mrrr?

J: (louder, pointing firmly) “Sir, please keep your gun pointedthat way!”

I deliberately raised my voice to attract the attention of the rangeofficer… who was amiably chatting with someone at the other end of theroom. Sigh.

Recycling Princess Bride lines…

In his thousand-year-trike speech, Brandon once again used one of hiswell-worn trust-me phrases, with precisely the effect you might haveexpected:

“I could give you my word as a Biden!”

    “No good, I’ve known too many Bidens”.

Reminder: when you hate half the people in the country, you’re thebigot.

Tripped planning

Fri 9/2/22 1:11am Comments: 0 Fun

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Call Of The Night 9

In which The Upskirt Cam Fails To Deliver, and not in a Buy The Bluraykind of way. Our Actually-Not-An-Undead-Haremette-#2 and Her OverlyAttached Food Source get some couples therapy from an unlikely source.Still the best thing running this season.

“Oops, wrong breaker”

Sure enough, while they were finishing up labeling every circuit inthe house, they tripped the one breaker that I’d gone out of my way topoint out shouldn’t be tripped: the one in my office controlling thecable modem, router, and NAS.

…and that’s why I shut the NAS off before they got here. Pity I wasjust about to head into a post-mortem meeting, but fortunately Iwasn’t the only one a few minutes late joining the call.

While they were tracing all the circuits and switches, we learnedsomething important that will result in another visit: all of theoutdoor outlets are on the same GFI circuit, which includes the oneused by the big new freezer in the garage. The freezer needs to be onits own circuit, and definitely shouldn’t share one with the bigTraeger smoker.

Related, turns out the plumbers were just there for the gas lines tothe range and the back patio; the guy doing the water line to thefridge comes next week. Better than the other way around, since thedual-fuel range is being installed Friday, and I have a new smallnatural-gas grill arriving as well. I went with the Weber Q3200,which is big enough to grill for people (Mom) who can’t handle thesmoke. I just have to assemble the appropriate parts to reduce the1/2-inch pipe to 3/8.

Juxtaposition fail

Dear Amazon, even if I were in the market for the product on the left,the picture looks like you just found a stalker in your shower, andwhen combined with the product on the right…

Personal fetish alert

Yoko Minamino masters the invisible-handcuff pose, a skill that’simportant for an idol.

Blowing your own horn

Yumiko Itaya masters an even more important skill…

Dream a little dream

Wed 8/31/22 1:31am Comments: 0 Fun

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Vermeil 9

In which That’s The Power Of Love. Also, Our All-Powerful StudentCouncil would like to remind you to Buy The Bluray, and Our GleefullyPsychopathic Villain would like to remind you to turn your brain offand just go with it, okay?

Sandman: Dream Of A Thousand Cats/Calliope

I hadn’t realized the Netflix Sandman series was still going, butthey released a new episode with these two between-arc stories.Calliope was… “altered”, with pretty much the same mix of good andbad choices as the main series; DoaTC was animated quite faithfully,but the voice actors they used (apart from Dream himself) were not theA team, to put it gently. Honestly, it felt like one of those animedubs where they cast from a small pool of voice actors who didn’treally get the parts. (okay, that’s “almost all anime dubs”…)

Ramping up the home-work

This week, the electricians are tracing circuits, installing newcircuits, installing a sub-panel and whole-house surge protector, andinstalling outlets. This does not involve cutting power to my houseat any point, but I’ve heard that waaaay too many times during datacenter maintenance, so I carefully backed up my servers and shut downmy NAS.

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