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An ex Norfolk Southern Dash 8 waits in Cumberland MD to lead the scenic railroad service this morning. It's a two hour ride, out and back. Very relaxing.

Covid for the fourth time. This thing still has teeth. Over a week now and had a nasty dip yesterday. Always has a long tail for me.

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Chances are high you know Samuel Barber's beautiful classical piece Adagio for Strings. It has been used in several films, including Platoon.

But not as many people know that there's also a choral variation, called Agnus Dei. Personally, I think that's even more beautiful. Listening to it always gives me goosebumps. Turn up the volume, close your eyes and enjoy...

youtube.com/watch?v=fRL447oDId

#music #ClassicalMusic #SamuelBarber #classical #beautiful #chorus #choir #moody

I understand how the money works in motorsport. Be that as it may, this even feels vulgar to me. Racing at an ultra-rich country club for a purse seems like something from ancient times. It's ugly. Something similar also killed Dan Wheldon, so there is that.

Most UNIX admins have probably made this mistake at least once.

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In fairness I recall a systemd bug that did something similar with temporary files, which got pushed to Fedora users a while back. Instead of /tmp it clobbered the root filesystem.

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Feeling a bit under the weather and asked my son to take my temperature with the electronic thermometer, which he did by ramming it into me head at great speed. The lesson? It can always be worse.

20F outside. My daddodils are all dead.

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Becoming an adult feels like slowly being pushed into a managerial position you didn't really want.

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