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Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.

It’s not hard; it’s just different.

What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.

Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.

Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.

When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, December 1.

Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)

Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (JANAF Shopping Center). (Map)

Join the forums.

Via C&L.

If you post a spam comment here at my place, it will be deleted and no one will ever see it.

Go annoy somebody else.

Must have been the little white tail . . . .

A woman was fatally shot by a hunter after being mistaken for a deer in north-central Arkansas, authorities said Wednesday.

Searcy County Sheriff Joey Pruitt said the 29-year-old woman died Tuesday in an “apparent hunting accident.” Her name was not released.

She wasn’t wearing hunting orange, so it probably was her own fault.

Holiday happenings for the next few days.

Out and about.

You can hear a lengthy interview with Francois Rautenbach, the narrator, at Hacker Public Radio.

(Errant tag fixed.

In the close link notation for the embed, there was an errant “i” tag.

i./a

In HTML 4.0, em is the new i. I didn’t know that “i” tags still worked! I thought they had been, as the geeks say, “deprecated.”)

My camera isn’t good enough to have taken a picture of Monday night’s moon, but my brother’s is.

It’s short notice, but we’d love to see you.

When: Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 p. m.

Where:
C. P. Shuckers
3232 Shore Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia (map)

It’s decompression time.

Image via Job’s Anger.

Off to drink liberally.

Today, I truly look forward to the fellowship.

Later:

It was a refreshing gathering. Join us (or look for a chapter in your area) next time.

Gird yourself against the dark times ahead.

Now, more than ever . . .

Join us.

When: Thursday, November 10, 6 p.

Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)

More here.

I have to meet a plane.

I’ll likely check in on the returns at TPM from time to time, but I’ll be damned if I’ll turn on a television set.

I’ve had my fill of stupid.

Catch y’all tomorrow.

Afterthought:

The last time I was inside the Norfolk International Airport terminal (I don’t think it was “International” at the time) was so long ago I was accosted by a Moonie.

Remember Moonies?

At the Raleigh News and Observer, Barton Swaim suggests that Trump used political correctness to appeal to his followers by campaigning against it; Swaim suggests that the tactic may well have backfired. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):

That feeling of delegitimation, of not being able to state one’s beliefs without attracting accusations of bigotry and backwardness, isn’t something most Americans will put up with for long. Many of them felt gagged and irritated, and Trump shrewdly named the thing that troubled them: political correctness. A lot of people fell for it. And in falling for it, they made two disastrous mistakes. First, by promoting political incorrectness as a remedy to the taboos they rightly detest, they gave us a man so loathsome as to make those taboos seem almost sensible. In the saddest irony of this deeply strange election year, Trump’s supporters have managed to enhance the credibility of political correctness: Given the choice between political correctness and the bigoted tirades of a dirty old man, I’ll take political correctness.

One more time, persons who complain of political correctness demand permission offend without penalty.

Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do.

It’s not hard; it’s just different.

What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.

Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.

Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.

When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, November 3.

Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)

Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (JANAF Shopping Center). (Map)

Join the forums.

Via Job’s Anger.

Via C&L.