Been a while since I was primary engineer on a network outage. Nice to know I still have some chops.

Kyle Tucker is having a hell of a game. ⚾️

Fantastic terminal at PAE.

The terminal at PAE is one of the most beautiful airport terminals I’ve ever seen. I feel so relaxed every time I fly out of it.

Ran into a problem updating packages on my Ubuntu-based NAS and Plex host; zfs-zed and zfsutils-linux were unconfigured due to some logic failures that occurred in certain configurations. This resulted in apt failures. In my case, there was an empty zpool configured in a subdir of another pool which resulted in the zfsutils-linux configuration script failing when it was run.

dpkg: error processing package zfsutils-linux (--configure):
 installed zfsutils-linux package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zfs-zed:
 zfs-zed depends on zfsutils-linux (>= 0.8.3-1ubuntu12.14); however:
  Package zfsutils-linux is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package zfs-zed (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.

 Errors were encountered while processing:
     zfsutils-linux
     zfs-zed
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

To resolve, I stopped all the services that might write to the zpool(s) - NFS and a Plex container, then

• zfs unmount [root pool name] (replace [root pool name] with -a to unmount all pools if needed)
• zfs list to list pools
• zfs destroy [root pool name]/[sub pool] - Be really careful you’re destroying the right pool. Going back isn’t impossible, but it’s not easy.
• zfs list to confirm the pool isn’t listed
• zfs mount -a to mount all pools
• dpkg --configure -a to complete the configuration of unconfigured packages
• Restart stopped services

Took the allroad out to BSCC’s last autocross cup event of the season. Running novice class per BSCC rules - you’re a novice until you’ve completed six events. Not sad about it: 8+ years away from the sport has unsurprisingly left me quite rusty.

Very happy with how the Dad Wagon performed. It’s very heavy and not especially nimble stock. But the H&R Coilovers and sway bars improve the handling considerably.

All runs were clean, and each run was faster than the last. Very happy with the cars performance, and pretty pleased with my own!

Run 1

Run 2

Run 3

Run 4

Itching for a long drive on back roads.

Remembered that my son used to call the Incredible Hulk “Credible Puck”. Man kids don’t even know how funny they are.

A few shots from today’s Italian-themed Avants Caffeine and Gasoline in Tacoma.

Golden hour vibes

Dan Szymborski has a great analysis of the exceptionally complicated contract that still has wet ink on its pages. Excited Julio will be a Mariner for the foreseeable future, and having Julio will be an enticement for other top players to think hard about making a move northwest.

Not to mention the structure of the contract seems to make sense for both the team and Julio.

This paragraph also emphasizes how forthcoming the FO has been with Julio. DiPoto told the press that if Julio played well, he’d break camp with the team. Julio played fantastically, and he’s been with the team all season.

The Mariners not playing games with J-Rod’s service time clock has paid off handsomely. If Rodríguez had been held in the minors for a few weeks, he’d still likely be in the top two for AL Rookie of the Year voting, which would have resulted in him accruing a full year of service time anyway. And he’s been so good that it might have cost Seattle at least a win, which could have plausibly resulted in the team missing on a Wild Card spot it otherwise would have won. Hopefully, this will encourage other clubs to stop monkeying around with service time quite as much, especially with their ultra-elite prospects.

Family Vacation ‘22 Vol. 2

All shot with the Ricoh GR-IIIx

Went out to the BSCC Novice School with the 911 last weekend. Despite the withering heat - well over 110ºF on the course - the car was up for the task. Keeping temps low all day, rising only when idling in the grid between runs.

It’s been years since I last autocrossed, so it was good to get some instruction. Jeremy reminded me that the car can hold much more speed than I’m expecting it to, and that it can brake much harder than I’m accustomed to in street driving. It’s funny, I knew these things but it’s tough to put it into practice when I haven’t been doing it.

My first run was just getting used to the course. Second was trying to put a little more speed in. In both first and second videos, I hadn’t learned to set the start/finish of the course appropriately so the time and finish of the course is off, but by watching just the speed you can see it makes sense.

The third video, Jeremy’s driving and I’m just riding along, seeing how a very competent autocross driver would approach the course. The fourth video I’m applying what he demonstrated, and I had by a long-shot the fastest lap of my day. I could have done better if I’d shut up and not overthought & discussed my mistakes in the moment. At least I figured it out a third of the way through.

Run 1

Note the finish line isn’t in the right spot on the overlay so the time is wrong.

Run 2

Note the finish line isn’t in the right spot on the overlay so the time is wrong.

Run 3 - Jeremy

Run 4

Might be my favorite thing I’ve ever read in reference to a ballplayer. From a reddit thread discussing the Mariners’ thirteenth consecutive win:

Diego [Castillo] comes out every night looking like he just ate way too much ice cream but pitches like he ate just the right amount

Some photos by Travis Gallatin. He got so many great shots, looking forward to sharing more!

New Rise Against, Broken Bells, Bloc Party, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs? So very happy.

Nice little throwback. My teams are being proactive and gathering information now for projects they might like to take on in the future. In some cases, I want to make notes to include these in future budget planning sessions. Sometimes it’d be useful to link to some specific details, and often that detail is in a specific email message.

The Message-ID header is made exactly for this, and you can view the Message-ID header in Mail.app using these instructions. There’s even an old DF post with an AppleScript snippet to make it easy to extract the Message-ID. I didn’t try that, but I suspect it’ll still work just fine.

Elsewhere on your computer, you can use a message:// prefix followed by the message-ID to link to the specific message and macOS still manages to handle it apporpriately, fifteen years later.

Nice when the simple & useful stuff still works.

Peekaboo

Interior, Soleil can design department

BOB: Hey, Dave, What’s a grapefruit look like?

DAVE: What? You’ve never seen a grapefruit?

BOB: No, we were more of a pomelo family. What’s it look like?

DAVE: It’s, uh. You take a shrimp? It’s like half a shrimp.

BOB: Shrimp, Ok. Legs still on?

DAVE: Yeah, I mean. Yeah. It’s a shrimp. Oh, but the rind is green

BOB: Ah! Ok. Thanks! Hadn’t considered the rind. Like this?

DAVE: Nailed it.

Caught a Charmander!

Glass Animals just killing it. So good to see live music again, and hot damn what a show.

It feels a little more like spring 💥⚾️