But reading @Scalzi’s response to GamerGate jerks just demonstrates how few companies run the media world and how important it is for us to maintain an open internet so that people can express themselves without being gated by companies that, as a whole, tend to be conservative (not in the political sense, in the business sense)

Scarlett slept all night last night. But for the past week it’s been something like every other day that she sleeps through the entire night. But I can’t figure out the variables. I try to copy them from night to night. Oh well.

This is completely unacceptable and these people are complete jerks for doing this to Sarkeesian.

I’d love to see either (or both?) Quentin Tarantino or Kevin Smith take on an updated film adaptation of Catch-22. The dialog is so important in the book and those guys are masters of dialog.

These instructions are from this site, but I don’t trust sites to stick around.

1. Make sure Netflix is setup to prefer HTML5. This is in Your Account-> Playback settings.
2. I have the latest nss (has to be equal to or better than 3.17.1)
3. Need Google Chrome (you can PROBABLY do this on Firefox with a similar plugin)
4. Get the User-Agent Switcher.
5. Fill it in with:
   • Name: Netflix Linux
   • String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36
   • Group: (is filled in automatically)
   • Append?: Select ‘Replace’
   • Flag: IE
6. Click on Permanent Spoof list and put netflix.com in the domain (and select the rule you just made from the drop-box). Then click the add button.
7. Go to Netflix and watch instant videos.
8. And it works! So linux is perfectly capable, but apparently it’s not supported. I guess I can understand not wanting to support the infinite versions of Linux, but why not Ubuntu or Fedora? Maybe it’s coming? That’d be great.

I’ll later check if if it works on Ubuntu, too, with with this method.

Just realized Jetpack hasn’t been working 100% correctly since I changed URLs. Got it working correctly and I think I lost all my old stats. Oh well.

For more or less the first time since mid-June, last night Scarlett slept the entire night without needing her blanket fixed, her hair-tie fixed, or a cup of water. It was nice to get some rest.

I’ve been working with my host to try and figure out why my relatively low traffic site has been having issues. So I’ve rejiggered WP Super CACHE to work well on the site and I’m using Cloudfare on most, if not all, of my Wordpress blogs. Yet I’m still getting some periods of time where the site’s offline. So, after many years I’m getting rid of Sociable and YARPP (which produces related posts). YARPP, in particular, if often called out as a plugin that requires a lot of resources. Here’s how things looked before I changed it:

I love when newspapers predict things that are hilarious in hindsight:

I continued listening to artists alphabetically on my computer and randomly on my phone.

1. Childish Gambino (92 listens) - Came across his music in my alphabetic romp. Currently conflicted. I enjoy the verbal jiu jitsu, but find a lot of it whiny (after hearing for the 15th time) and just so overly aggressively sexual I feel wrong listening to it with my daughter around. 2. Billie Holiday (64 listens) - long-time readers know that Danielle and I listen to pretty much everything from the latest music to the oldest music. Billie Holiday is awesome and more people need to listen to her. 3. Danny Baranowsky (61 listens) - Listened to the Super Meat Boy soundtrack. It was fun. 4. Chance the Rapper (47 listens) - Still really enjoy Acid Rap and don’t enjoy #10Day. 5. The Black Keys (46 listens) - I always start off happy listening to The Black Keys, but the sameness drags on me by the end. 6. Alan Menken (45 listens) - for Scarlett. 7. Celia Cruz (44 listens) - I can listen to Celia Cruz at any time. Really enjoyed revisiting these songs. 7. Brave Saint Saturn (44 listens) - Although the first album’s a tad cheesy, I really enjoy where Reese took things for the second two albums. I continue to hold out hope that he will do another one. 9. Mandy Moore (43 listens) - Scarlett wanted to listen to a lot of Tangled this quarter. 10. Anberlin (31 listens) - Maybe it’s just the quarter in which I bought it, but the last album failed to make a lasting impression. I’m sure, with time, I’ll come to enjoy it as much as I enjoy the other albums. 11. Christafari (30 listens) - The music is a great groove. I have the first two albums and I think I like more songs in the first one, but I do like a lot of the second one. Although no longer an evangelical, I still find it to be pretty uplifting. 12. Ben Shive (29 listens) - There’s a certain timelessness to the songs. Some of them remind me of a subdued Billy Joel. 13. The Chipmunks & The Chipettes (28 listens) - Playing some Chipmunks for Scarlett. 13. The Weeknd (28 listens) - I know there are issues with some of the lyrics, but I do like the sound of a few of the songs. Especially “High for This” 13. Ben Prunty Music (28 listens) - The FTL soundtrack. Quite moody. I enjoy it.