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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Thanks. The article title “tricks for Lent” points to the non-serious nature of it. Plus, it uses the phrase “According to legend” several times and doesn’t even mention the particular monestaries, nor the specific monks involved. I think it’s just meant to be a humorous jab at legalism.

    Typically, if practices get so bad that they have to be forbidden by an administrative authority, then you would have some written document forbidding the practice. Although that would acknowledge it wasn’t legitimate to begin with, it would at least suggest the histriocity of it.






  • My favourite is:

    Them: We want less red in the pie chart. Fix that remote vulnerability.

    Me: We don’t even have that component enabled. It’s reporting on a DLL file version, not the vulnerability itself.

    Them: Just lower our vulnerability score.

    (Me wondering if I deploying dozens of fully-patched systems would have the same proportional effect)




  • If we respond to this, does it count as virtue signaling?

    I avoided going to the bi-weekly coke sale at Shopper’s Drug Mart. Looks like I’ll be pouring my drinks a bit rich for the next little while. Ever since Loblaws bought them and the subsequent price increase, I’ve been less confident that it really is the loss-leader I’ve been led to believe it was. Then, my wife had a prescription faxed there since our local pharmacy had already closed for the day.

    I grumbled about it and had it transferred to the co-op, since I had been meaning to get set up there (3rd party insurance and all).