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Whenever I see some sort of “how to be well” article that includes the line “Avoid going to bed stressed, angry, upset, or nervous” my reaction is always something like…
\n\nHa. Ha ha ha! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! wheeze.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2020/03/06/whenever-i-see.html","date_published":"2020-03-06T01:37:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-03-06 01:37","date_timestamp":1583458641,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/103773545700509755"]}},{"id":"7146050","content_html":"I do love YOW. But it could also have the monicker “The Annual Scourging of the Javascript Devs”.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/12/10/i-do-love.html","date_published":"2019-12-10T12:15:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-12-10 12:15","date_timestamp":1575980131,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/103283434129411484"]}},{"id":"6468227","content_html":"Black Swans swim on the ocean! I had no idea. This feisty bastard chased away the fishing pelican we were watching while having our morning coffee.
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I just want to wear a nice coat damn it. Everyone else gets to!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/23/i-just-want.html","date_published":"2019-05-22T22:26:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-22 22:26","date_timestamp":1558563976,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102142050876544802"]}},{"id":"3689326","content_html":"I can tell I’m going to be one of those insufferable old gits who calls a highland storm a “brisk morning” and goes for a determined constitutional.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/23/i-can-tell.html","date_published":"2019-05-22T22:25:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-22 22:25","date_timestamp":1558563941,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102142046592941158"]}},{"id":"3689310","content_html":"Proof I’m not designed for this climate: the temperature just dipped below 20 and everyone on the bus has leather jackets and heavy coats on. The bus driver has turned on the heating!
\n\nMeanwhile I’m just bordering between comfortable and slightly sweaty.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/23/proof-im-not.html","date_published":"2019-05-22T22:24:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-22 22:24","date_timestamp":1558563866,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102142042043634747"]}},{"id":"3665083","content_html":"Building up my personal “Last Chance to See” list for Australia before I go (and chances are they’ll be gone before I return):
\n\nI think headphones that sound good and also don’t hurt my head might be my white whale.
\n\nBower & Wilkins PX: perfect sound, hurt with my glasses\nAirPods: fall out of my tiny ear canals\nQC35s: sound like bum\nBeyerdynamic DT770s: not portable
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/20/i-think-headphones.html","date_published":"2019-05-20T00:45:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-20 00:45","date_timestamp":1558313125,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102125609937480101"]}},{"id":"3604393","content_html":"I resolved my terrible query drama by disabling the health check that runs the query. We have redundant health checks on that data anyway. Now everything is happy again. But I still don’t know why that particular query is forever doomed now.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/17/i-resolved-my.html","date_published":"2019-05-17T04:02:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-17 04:02","date_timestamp":1558065765,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102109422682712523"]}},{"id":"3604296","content_html":"Whither RSS? justinmarrington.com
","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/17/whither-rss.html","date_published":"2019-05-17T04:01:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-17 04:01","date_timestamp":1558065692,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102109397016178510"]}},{"id":"3598086","content_html":"A migration from Postgres on RDS to Aurora Postgres on RDS has left us with several critical queries that won’t use their indexes and no amount of VACUUM ANALYZE on the affected tables seems to have any effect. Not particularly happy.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/17/a-migration-from.html","date_published":"2019-05-16T22:26:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-16 22:26","date_timestamp":1558045567,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102108075820826514"]}},{"id":"3385672","content_html":"“Miscommunication” is a euphemism for “bald-faced lie”, correct?
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/05/02/miscommunication-is-a.html","date_published":"2019-05-01T22:20:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-05-01 22:20","date_timestamp":1556749208,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/102023118390869570"]}},{"id":"3193671","content_html":"New glasses day!
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fjustinmarrington.com%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F351a637021.jpg\")
Bowl of red lentil Dahl and a mug of English Breakfast with milk. Most colonial British lunch ever?
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These wind-harried Lorikeet bros joined us on the roof for drinks.
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Automatic Night-Mode for Bear: justinmarrington.com
","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/04/04/automatic-nightmode-for.html","date_published":"2019-04-04T12:02:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-04-04 12:02","date_timestamp":1554379352,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101867805384853647"]}},{"id":"2997251","content_html":"“Hey Siri, play some music”
\n\n“Okay. I think you would like to hear some Tropical Fuck Storm”
\n\nWell shit, she’s got my number.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/04/04/hey-siri-play.html","date_published":"2019-04-04T05:01:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-04-04 05:01","date_timestamp":1554354071,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101866149239421462"]}},{"id":"2966480","content_html":"Credit to iFixit. The Genius Bar quoted me $1400 AUD to replace the dead SSD in my 2014 MacBook Air. For $450 AUD including shipping, and literally 8 minutes of labour, I was able to replace it myself.
\n\nRight to repair is a real thing, peeps.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/04/02/credit-to-ifixit.html","date_published":"2019-04-01T22:41:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-04-01 22:41","date_timestamp":1554158509,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101853353332119834"]}},{"id":"2868071","content_html":"TMITuesday: I have two enormous pimples deep inside my nostrils. They’re excruciating and I can’t. Do. Anything. About them.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/03/26/tmituesday-i-have.html","date_published":"2019-03-25T22:26:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-03-25 22:26","date_timestamp":1553552792,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101813636538645775"]}},{"id":"2803020","content_html":"Fibrous Rant: justinmarrington.com
","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/03/21/you-know-the.html","date_published":"2019-03-21T08:28:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-03-21 08:28","date_timestamp":1553156912,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101787691686182999"]}},{"id":"2770219","content_html":"4 months: a new low for “amount of time I’m willing to put up with a phone condom for”.
\n\nApple cases are so much better than any of the third parties I’ve tried in terms of protection and size, but the pocket bulk remains untenable.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/03/19/months-a-new.html","date_published":"2019-03-18T22:42:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-03-18 22:42","date_timestamp":1552948945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101774063836800793"]}},{"id":"2657020","content_html":"“But I was interested in the real future that I could see approaching, and less in the invented future that science fiction preferred.”
\n\nSnippet from Ballard’s intro to his first large omnibus of collected SF short stories. No better sentence to describe why I admire him.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/03/11/but-i-was.html","date_published":"2019-03-11T03:34:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-03-11 03:34","date_timestamp":1552275250,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101729911021943269"]}},{"id":"2656863","content_html":"It’s closing on a decade since I was last at university. Can anyone tell me when I’ll stop having that nightmare that a mid-semester exam is imminent and I haven’t made it to classes yet?
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/03/11/its-closing-on.html","date_published":"2019-03-11T02:45:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-03-11 02:45","date_timestamp":1552272305,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101729719259055130"]}},{"id":"2412983","content_html":"Is anyone else worried that the new head of Nintendo America literally has the main Mario villain as his surname?
\n\nTo be succeeded as head of marketing by Tony King R. Kool.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://justinmarrington.com/2019/02/22/is-anyone-else.html","date_published":"2019-02-21T22:15:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Justin Marrington","url":"https://justinmarrington.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F9c3b021d402eea43e052fdde09f7edec%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"HowlingEverett"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-02-21 22:15","date_timestamp":1550787326,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.scot/@howlingeverett/101632398756164848"]}},{"id":"2397917","content_html":"Two in one week. Let’s hope I can. All the third.
\n\nIt’s Couch 2 5K I intervals, so it’s not like the first week is particularly strenuous: 3km in total, 1/1.5min run/walk intervals.
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fjustinmarrington.com%2Fuploads%2F2019%2Fecf8112aea.jpg\")