Roy G Biv and Friends

Originally created this playlist on Spotify some years ago, was reminded of it today**, discovered Spotify no longer had America's "Green", and recreated it on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8nPtJfUMwlOIv9RVO7SQforS3WoLyo4g

** I have a rotating moderator for my team's weekly standup, and part of the moderator's job is to ask a "Question of the Day". Today's question was "what is your favorite Taylor Swift song" and trying to find my favorite song simply titled "Red" led me to Taylor Swift.

Vermont Spring plantings

Picked up a couple of blueberry bushes at Claussen's in a light drizzle this morning, and a couple hours later Vermont Spring was wondering if we missed Winter.  It all melted, and I got the new bushes in the ground in the evening.

Winter's Orbit, Everina Maxwell, 2021

The opening sentences are great:

"Well, someone has to marry the man," the Emperor said.

She sat, severe and forbidding is a high-collared tunic, in her reception room at the heart of the warren-like sprawl of the Imperial Palace.

I see why they wanted a quote from Ann Leckie, though this is not quite Imperial Radch, and more of a romance than the kind of deep intrigue in Leckie or Arkady Martine.

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance might be the best comparison among works I'm familiar with, promising a similar kind of romantic hijinks set against a broader, darker, background.  The challenge here is that the universe is entirely new, and so it's a lot to take in at once.  If you're ready to take that on, it's worth a read.

Spring was never waiting for us, dear

Going to Arthur Park was really just a lark

The leaf covered path flowing down

Someone left this roller out in the rain

I don't think I can skate it

The ice is thin, I'd break it

And I'll have to wait for winter again.

Thank you for your service, T510

For a nearly a decade this has lurked on the side table to my workspace.

In June of 2014 I bought a steeply discounted Lenovo ThinkPad T510 from my then-employer IBM.  Initially, the ThinkPad replaced a very old desktop computer as the main home computer, but the kids gaming needs soon outstripped it and we purchased an HP in 2016 (which we still have).  The ThinkPad then became "my" computer for personal use, until I joined Dataiku in 2017 and company policy allowed me to use the work MacBook for personal use.

At this point I considered rehoming the ThinkPad, but then realized that I could instead install Linux w/no GUI on it and use it as a personal Dataiku server.

And so it began its lurking, and I started and maintained a number of projects on it, through my switch to Olive and acquisition by Availity.  But as my day-to-day work no longer involved Dataiku, I felt more keenly the inability to share those projects the way I can with, say, GitHub.  So I started moving Dataiku projects to notebooks in GitHub repos, and today finished moving the last one.

So now it's time to finally wipe and rehome the ThinkPad.

Edit: quick shout out to all the ports on the laptop and its dock.  The laptop alone has more ports than the dock of my current work laptop.