I created my first GPG key 10 years ago when I didn’t really know anything about encryption. So I have created a new key and signed it with my old one. You can find it here: My New GPG Key

I’ve also uploaded it to the servers supported by KGPG.

It went a little something like this.

Scarlett: “Will the leaves be back in the Spring?”

Eric: “Yes, they’ve fallen now, but they’ll be back in the Spring.”

Scarlett: “It’s like MAGIC!”

So much in there - learning things for the first time, the wonder of childhood, the reason it took humans to long to understand science vice magic.

Scarlett was begging me to do two things:

-Rake

-and jump in the leaves after raking.

We did both…

A video in which I describe my experience participating in Extra Life 2015:

https://youtu.be/mLXiWhVqHBs

People often recommend using CentOS for your desktop machine if you find Fedora’s pace to be too fast. Does this even make sense? I decided to explore the idea of CentOS 7 as a desktop computer using my wife’s requirements as the benchmark. Why? Because my wife likes long term support distros. What’s more long term support than Red Hat/CentOS’s 10 years of support for each version?

https://youtu.be/1eYBgqAsEdU

As usual we went Trick or Treating in Ellicott City’s Main Street area. Just a few photos from that evening:

Scarlett graduates from lettuce washer to lettuce cutter:

I remember doing this and getting guff from my parents for claiming that I could read. In reality I had simply memorized one of my favorite books.

In September I once again covered Baltimore Comic-Con for Comic POW! Not only did I get to meet Greg Pak, awesome creator of Code Monkey Save World and The Princess Who Saved Herself (in collaboration with Jonathan Coultan and the artists), but I got to see that I made the blurb on the back of the second volume of Altar Girl!  (see my Comic POW! coverage of Altar Girl)

I wanted to play a bit with Fedora Rawhide so I installed Fedora 23 to a VM. I named it Blargg after the Fire Dragon in Super Mario World. (See video below) I used the following commands from the Fedora wiki:

# dnf upgrade dnf
# dnf install dnf-plugins-core fedora-repos-rawhide
# dnf config-manager --set-disabled fedora updates updates-testing
# dnf config-manager --set-enabled rawhide
# dnf clean -q dbcache plugins metadata
# dnf --releasever=rawhide --setopt=deltarpm=false distro-sync --nogpgcheck

## Optional: it is generally advised to do a selinux autorelabel and reboot
# touch /.autorelabel

https://youtu.be/K7H6f_wGJZQ?t=12m10s