Opera Magni

My Latin is not good, which is why I gave this article its title. But maybe it's useful to be able to write great works. I choose to be humble here and say that such things are above me. But maybe this can be used as a sort of shuttle…

On Gaza

The princes are prostrate, crying 'Peace!' [...] Plundered is Canaan with every evil; Carried off is Ashkelon; Seized upon is Gezer; Yanoam is undone; Israel is laid waste-its grain spoiled; kHarru has become a widow of Egypt. All lands together are pacified. Everyone who was restless has been bound. ~The…

Freaky times on the Frontier

You may not be aware of this, but as I write this, the site has been down for the past sixteen hours. During some general reorganization of the Hartr.Net domain, I decided to relegate the blog portion to the blog. prefix instead of leaving it as the base domain.…

Zoned pt. 2

We woke up, hours later, outside The Camp. The Camp is usually the first thing we see when we go into the ZEL zone-space. It used to be a boy scout camp named after what had at some point been a local Indian tribe. I'm not sure whether or not…

Zoned

Preface: this is (obviously) a work of fiction. Unless something has vastly changed about the world at large, there aren't alien-spawned zones of demarcation across the Earth's surface. I plan to add onto it over time. As you may be able to guess, this is largely based off Roadside Picnic…

One Awesome Year

Firstly I have to say to check out Lara's Website where you can check out her art and everything else she finds interesting. Here is a recent picture of my wife and I at her wonderful wedding. The festivities took place out on the west side, not far from where…

State of Affairs; 2022

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities First of all, fuck Dickens. Aside from giving us Elizabeth G's† brilliance, sometimes I wonder about his ability to influence civilization. But that's beyond me. I don't give the answers, Mister,…

New Post on tmux in our Linux Learning Series

But hey, they're not charging me by the letter, so I'll share it here: Terminal multiplexing gives you wings, especially when you're sshing into another server. To run it, try: tmux new -s mysession This will create a new session, where you can use extensive ctrl-based shortcuts to split open…