Donald Trump Supporters in Maryland
These guys show up during rush hour every Friday. I don’t care if you agree or disagree with their views, but it’s so annoying that it backs up traffic as people try and read the signs.

Thanks for the RAM, Mom
18 GB RAM on Bowser
Thanks to mom, now I have 18 GB of triple RAM on Bowser. Incidentally, it’s the first time I’ve used the Task Manager in Window 10 and it’s really slick! I like it - it matches the look/feel/usability of the similar utilities in KDE’s Plasma 5.

New GPG Key
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.
A conversation with Scarlett about nature
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.

Raking with Scarlett
Scarlett was begging me to do two things:
-Rake
-and jump in the leaves after raking.
We did both…

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Extra Life 2015 Post-Mortem
A video in which I describe my experience participating in Extra Life 2015:
Does CentOS 7 Make a good Desktop distro?
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?
Scarlett Halloween in Ellicott City
As usual we went Trick or Treating in Ellicott City’s Main Street area. Just a few photos from that evening:

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Scarlett graduates to salad chef
Scarlett graduates from lettuce washer to lettuce cutter:
Scarlett "reads" The Carrot Seed
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.