Lord Bowlich [UTC-7] @lordbowlich@hackers.town

New #Introduction for 2020 and #MerryJoinMas

I'm a remote software engineer working the various F/OSS web-stacks from my remote cabin at 8,500 feet in the White Mountains of Arizona -- I'm prone to wanderlust and often grab some batteries, solar panels, and head out to work from my truck from whatever corner of these great open lands has cell phone reception.

Posts often about the trials and joys of remote work, venting about development (since I've got no watercooler coworkers), the usual consumptive vices of our age (film, video games, books), and chatter about returning to a more open web,
culture and society.

Oh, and I hope to meet plenty you at Defcon 28!

Love that the gov of AZ is still explicitly labeling Golfing as "essential."

Somebody doesn't want to give up his hobby and stay home. ​

I do find myself irritated with how aggressive phones -- and well everything with a WiFi card are about trying to connect to everything.

iOS is constantly badgering me about that it's found some WiFi networks. Do I want to connect to them?

No.

Why would I want to connect to some random network. I have unlimited data. I don't want you to talk to anything but my home network, ever.

Deleting all my saved WiFi networks except my two home ones -- since it's a convenient way for the unscrupulous to track movements.

Boy though, it's a walk down memory lane looking at the names of these things. Coffee shops from my home town. Employers I no longer work for. Coworking spaces I hung out at. Grandparents who passed away several years back.

Went for a short hike on the trail by town to find some kids have recently TP'd a Christmas tree.

I'm glad someone is still getting some levity out there.

Been chatting in the household about how -- once this is over, it's really going to reveal which state level governments can actually protect and provide for their citizen and which ones are just a corrupt shit show.

Definitely going to be influencing our decision when (if) we do our next move.

Oh and brussel sprouts... although aren't those just cabbage as well?

Discussing the victory garden tonight.

My idea of tilling the entire yard and planting potatoes was not accepted.

Discussed, potted tomato plants in the Arizona room. Getting starts going for green beans, peppers, cabbage. Leafy greens of some sort.

Lots of fencing to keep the Elk at bay.

Great hunt at Safeway is done. $750 later and I’ve got two months supply of food. Now to hole up on the mountain top.

Not alone at the grocery with a mask and gloves. Though not sure if a carpentry dust mask does anything, but it does remind me not to touch my face.

I like how financial advisors are always harping on about how we should have an "emergency fund" of six months, but apparently "the economy" can't take a couple weeks off without falling apart.