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After a think, I have removed the service-backed contact form from our performing company's otherwise static website.
The ways to contact us are still listed, and now there is one less way for a nefarious third party to extract personal information from our visitors.
That feels more in alignment with our values, and I'm happy about it.
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Today our performing company email received an inquiry so vulgar that I'm unsure whether or not I hope it was ai written.
I may share it later, after I chase down a few parties and let them know their names are being used like this.
If one of you did this as a 'joke', please let me know and then get rekt.
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There is little more frustrating in technology than the phrase "I fixed the thing which randomly broke by restarting all the bits over and over until it worked."
And yet, here we are.
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It sank in that I've been "fancy camping" at #ThisOldClownHouse just long enough to need our backup drives up and spinning.
If you need a reminder to keep extra copies of your digital creative life, remember that I'm doing this task while living in an actual construction site run by clowns.
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After much swearing, our #Nextcloud server is vertical again!
There's no place like 127.0.0.1...which is interesting, because apparently redis needed it specified on this network, as opposed to accepting 'localhost' like before.
Bewildering, frustrating, and for the moment, now fixed and off my to-do list.
Still need to upgrade the machine, but for the moment, enjoying getting all of our devices talking to each other again.
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Thanks to my geekiest friends, it looks like there's a shiny new #OpenBSD release to enjoy. Congrats on all the work to make it happen!
It may be a minute before I get to upgrade all the things though, as I am only vaguely certain which box I packed our server into before the move. :)
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I can now, after a fair amount of swearing, add "has packed a stunt trike, a miniature penny farthing, and half a unicycle into a single crate" to my circus CV.
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I'm an odd sort of "old school" where I thing I've been working on and talking about for months suddenly feels somewhat more "real" when I post about it on our own webpage:
I've also added an updated mailing address to the contact page, for those who like to send us things using stamps.
Please note that It's not the address of 'The Building', but things sent there will get to us in a (relatively) timely manner.
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That bubbly, optimism-laden moment wherein you register a new domain name for a secret project that's going to be a lot less secret in the relatively near future.
#TheGreatClownEscape
#TrueTalesOfACircusAdmin
#TinkeringFootgunFunTime -
Patchity, patch, patch.
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That moment where you find yourself hunting down old obscure and out-of-print books on mask and clown from long dead wizards and shamans.
So, you know, Thursday.
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If we ever air the sound checks for the #2ClownsInACloset #podcast, we're going to have to apologize for swearing, off-the-record stories, and some noises I didn't know human voices could make.
That being said, it does brighten the drudgery of editing...
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Work-related thing currently amusing me:
I have an email in my inbox with the subject line "For that idiot" that is both sensitive and helpful.
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Caution: being a clown who contact juggles can lead to images with spectacularly misleading filenames.
I just saw a file from 2013 which said "Creepy_Clown_Balls.pg"
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I've been countering some doom and gloom by digging around in a photo archive from one of our previous shows, circa 2011-2015.
Past-me and their production team did not really understand sane file naming conventions. I believe there were more than a dozen photographers over the run...which has led me to being absolutely impressed with just how many ways you can get this simple task wrong.
While the clean up is tedious, I'm positively drowning in personal nostalgia.
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I have a network drive codenamed "Elephant" which currently appears to be trampling things.
This would be funny if it wasn't wrecking my night.
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When we move our walking globe to make room for our gym mats, it was running into this dvd-rom's eject button. Thanks to this ridiculously placed puffy sticker, we can both solve the problem and keep a watchful eye towards accidental button presses in the future.
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You can add me to the chorus of people grumpily doing their taxes.
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Apparently I need to add "walking globe knocks UPS plug out of wall" to my threat model.
On the plus side, having your speakers plugged into a 'surge protect only' outlet is a terrific indicator that something's amiss.
No jams? No power.
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Nothing like waking up to a dead UPS and server right before a winter storm to make you feel an appropriate amount of dread.
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I just snoozed a note about an idea for a "pi day" pie throwing workshop.
Maybe next year, :clown:
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The drudge-work feeling of having to spend a night scanning legal documents is tempered by the geek win of having gotten my scanner working on #openbsd.
Whomever fixed the sane-backends recently, thank you!
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I'm confident that someday my wee primate brain will have a better grasp on the subtle differences between nuanced ideas like "days" and "weeks". In the meantime, there's nothing quite like misinterpreting a deadline by an order of magnitude to inspire some late night productivity.
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I spent a chunk of my day, with @avalon 's help, testing various exports of one of our performance videos.
This task is a grueling and ugly business which will make you question your eyes, mind, and sanity as you squint to compare minor differences between files.
On the positive and more exciting side of this experience, we'll soon have a holiday video on our site!
Moreover, if all goes well, we'll likely move to self-hosting all of our videos.
Stay tuned. :)
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I've just been asked to roll a d20 to determine what sort of pushups I'll be doing at the gym tonight.
If being a nerd is street credit, I believe we've achieved legendary status here.
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CW: Tonight's Pyrrhic victory...
After a bit of #TechnicalJiggeryPokery, I was able to successfully restore our troupe's nextcloud server from a backup!
Which meant I got to watch my "before-times" calendar populate the month as if the world had not gone all 2020.
So many cool shows, workshops, and other creative projects lost to doing the right thing.
One might think of it as a kick in the (in this case not) proverbial clown pants.
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CW: Covid related, griping about unsafe working conditions.
Today I find some dark irony in the fact that I, a professional clown, am acting as the voice of sanity and scientific reason to a potential client.
Signs you may be in #Texas include the possibility of clowns stepping up to serve as the voice of reason in absence of otherwise sound thinking.
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In tonight's edition of weird things the pandemic has led me to saying on the internet...
> Life is a fire hydrant of clickable need, and it's almost a refreshing change of pace to have everything moving slower.
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Typo in an important email I received today:
"We apologize for the convenience."