Rant
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The Gay Agenda vs My Idiot Parents
This story is a few years old, but I was thinking about it the other day. My parents are fundamentalist Catholics. Think Glenn Beck, with less reasoning skills. They decided to remove my little brother from the Boy Scouts because “the gays were attacking”. Now that quote came from my brother who was like 12 at the time, and I’m sure he was just parroting whatever my parents told him.
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Review: Suicide Squad
So this was a weird movie. Like, I can’t think of a better word, than “weird”. There were a lot of great scenes, and I will get into spoilers, but I’ll warn you before I do. Let’s start with a behind the scenes story. Marvel and DC have been competitors forever. Now that Marvel has had huge success with their MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), and DC has been hit or miss (mostly miss) with their movies, they decided to create their DCEU (DC Extended Universe). DCs TV Shows have been really good, but their movies haven’t. The Dark Knight trilogy was hugely successful, and Man of Steel was OK, but…
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Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Note: First posted to my Facebook page, January 24, 2016 Let’s get into this. First, it was quite good. I thought all the praise was from the nerds getting a new movie, but it was really well done. It was visually stunning. The effect when the force was used was really cool. The plot seemed well paced. The nods to the previous movies seemed predictable though. Especially the cameos.
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Review: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Note: First posted to my Facebook page March 26, 2016 Batman v (not vs, because that would make sense, and this movie doesn’t like that) Superman: Rant of Justice I’ll try to avoid major spoilers in this, but if you’ve seen the trailers, you already know everything you need to know. Seriously. You’ve seen the movie.
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Review: Captain America: Civil War
Note: First posted to my Facebook page May 8th, 2016. This won’t have much in the way of spoilers. Let’s get this out of the way. Lots of people will compare it to Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice due to the stupidly long name, they’re both about heroes fighting each other, they both have extra characters, and they both came out near each other. But they are very different movies. Civil War is about responsibility and consequences. Batman V Superman was about… something… I think.
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Review: Star Trek Beyond
Every once in a while, I’ll post a short review on a movie I’ve seen. I’ve been posting these to my Facebook page, but I figured, I’ve got this website, so I might as well use it. The first one is for Star Trek Beyond. I’ll warn you before I mention spoilers.
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The Case for Secession
I could have sworn that I’ve ranted about this before, but I guess not. By now, some of you have seen some variation of the image above. If you google “dumbfuckistan” you’ll find everything from internet memes, to hats, to even panties for some reason. This makes me think of an idea I’ve had for years. Forced secession.
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Artsy Fartsy
Modern Art is a cop-out. Let’s be clear here, though. I don’t mean “art in modern times”. I mean a style of art called “modern” or “conceptual”. Back in the long long ago, art required skill. Now, anyone can vomit on some canvas and call it “art.”
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Server Build Part 3: Domain Level Ad-Blocking with Pi-Hole
Welcome back. So far, we have installed and setup XenServer on a rack mounted server. We’ve also installed a guest OS. Part 1 can be found here, and Part 2 can be found here. Today, we are going to install a domain level ad-blocker. I’ve been working on this stupid part for months. Literally months. I’ve had absolute no luck until a few hours ago, so I wanted to write my steps down before I forget. This has been an absolute nightmare.
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Server Build Part 2: Setup and First Guest OS
I totally forgot I was going to do this. This is part 2 of my server build. Part 1 can be found here. So far we have the hardware, and have installed XenServer, which is a host OS that runs VMs. We installed the Management Console on a separate computer, and will be doing everything from here on out via the Management Console.
