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Media Monday - Fallout
Given my history with games, interest in power armor, and an attraction to over the top shows, of course I’m watching Fallout. Fallout is a new series streaming on Prime now. It’s based on the series of games by Bethesda Games. I’ve played all but the MMORPG (Fallout 76) and the latest stand alone (Fallout 4). Many hours were spent playing Fallout 3.
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Media Monday - Godzilla x King Kong / Dune 2
I went to the drive-in to see Godzilla x King Kong: The New Empire paired with Dune 2 on the weekend. Both movies were a fun to watch.
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Media Monday - Androne
I just finished reading Androne by Dwain Worrell. It started a little slow, but ramps up to a great conclusion.
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Media Monday - Desert Skies
Over the weekend I binged the wonderful podcast Desert Skies. I was initially pulled in by the Welcome to Nightvale-like lone gas station thumbnail. I’m glad was. I’m also glad that there is nothing in common. Desert Skies is a story set in the astral plane. The first stop for newly dead people is a lone gas station on an empty highway. Here they receive directions and assistance in their journey. What makes this podcast work is that is re-imagines all of the tired tropes of death and astral projection into a new, fresh, and humorous direction.
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2024 Daily journal template
First day back to work after the holidays. It being a new year meant updating my daily journal template. I use Noteshelf 3 on my iPad to take all of my notes. There are many alternatives, this is the one that feels right for me.
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2024 - Happy New Year
It’s the beginning of a new year, and I want to take some time to outline the things I want for myself in the new year.
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Create Docker Container
Up until now we have been putting together infrastructure to run the application on. We will now get to building the root of the application. I start by breaking out the task for creating a docker container into it’s own task. To do that I ask the following of ChatGPT,
I would like to work on Master Plan Step 1 - "Create a Docker container for running your application." I will be building the application from a laptop. Break this task down into simple steps that I can follow. Refer to this task list as the "Create Docker Container Plan". -
Installing docker on the droplet at creation time
Tonight I want to simply add Docker to my droplet by default. I ask ChatGpt about it.
I've gotten my instance up and running. I would like to work on Master Plan step Infrastructure Setup: Install Docker on the instance to manage containers. What options are available to automatically install Docker into an Ubuntu 22.10 droplet at creation time? -
Creating a Digitalocean droplet via Python
After taking the week off for Canada Day in which I spent time camping with my family I get back to it. This time I’m working on step one of the master plan. As a reminder ChatGPT said my first task should be.
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Blog restart and a new experiment
I’m restarting my blog. It’s been 10 years since I last updated, and things have changed considerably. As a result I’m just going to start fresh. I may republish some items, I may not.