Introducing The Art of Sysadmin podcast

I am super excited to announce the launch of a solo podcast project I’ve been working on!

Introducing The Art of Sysadmin, a podcast where I talk about all things sysadmin from a more human perspective rather than a technical one.

The idea for this podcast was one I originally had around the end of 2022, it took me months to actually decide on what I wanted to talk about exactly and some more months to actually sit down and record the episodes.

The first episode is now available here. If you enjoyed it, please subscribe to it in your favourite podcast player and share it with a friend!

Media Diet – June 2023

This month there was a good variety of media. I started off the month with reading Laura Kate Dale’s book Who Hunts The Whale which is a satirical novel about the video games industry. It was quite effective at making me both laugh and cry.

I am also watching a dystopian sci-fi TV show called Silo. It took a few episodes for the show to really get going but when it eventually did, it got very interesting.

I watched another movie in the theatre, this time it was Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse. Quite possibly the best animated movie I’ve ever seen. It was a delightful experience from start to finish. Worth watching in a movie theatre if you can.

I watched an anime series, the first season of The Witch from Mercury. This show is a show set in a wholly new Mobile Suite Gundam universe disconnected from the rest of the franchise. It was a enjoyable watch even if in typical Gundam fashion it is a little heavy handed with its messaging in some places. It’s always cool to see mechs fight.

At the end of the month, I watched the first season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. I see why people have been singing the praises of this show and I also enjoyed it. Between Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks there is a good variety of Trek TV out right now.

That’s all from me this month, see y’all next month!

Media Diet – May 2023

May started off a hot mess with me playing the thoroughly mediocre Redfall. Redfall just might be the worst game I’ve had the displeasure of actually playing in a long long time. But hey, at least I only had to pay for a month of Xbox Games Pass to play it and wasn’t one of those poor souls who bought the game full price.

It improved a bit from there, I watched the second season of The Legend of Vox Machina which I think was kind of “eh”. I am not entirely sure I’ll watch the third season whenever that comes out. Probably because I’ll forget about the show’s existence by the time the third season comes out.

I also watched a movie with some folks on a Discord server I’m on: The Menu (2022) which was a decent time. Made better by Anya Taylor-Joy’s presence. Whew lord.

The rest of the month has been devoured by me playing the newly released Zelda game, Tears of the Kingdom. The open world sicko in me is enjoying the open world aspect of the game. A lot of my criticisms of the previous game BOTW still apply to this game and in those ways, the game can still be annoying to play. A 7/10 game as JSS put it.

That’s all from me this month, see y’all next month!

The Live Hip-Hop Album

This is a republishing of a post I wrote for my now defunct music newsletter. Substack sucks so the post is here now.

Recently I was talking about the concept of the live hip-hop album on Mastodon and since that thread was followers-only I want to elaborate here on what favourites are in that specific genre. To clarify, when I mean “live hip-hop album” I mean a recording of a hip-hop album performed live in concert or with a live band and instrumentation.

So here they are!

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Living Large with Larry June

This is a republishing of a post I wrote for my now defunct music newsletter. Substack sucks so the post is here now.

Hip-hop has always had the element of flashing one’s material success. Gold chains, expensive cars, stacks of cash etc. Larry June with his latest album The Great Escape demonstrates a less flashy but still extravagant kind of lifestyle rap. Larry is more about buying property and diversifying your investments.

I have been lowkey obsessed with this album since it came out and its been on repeat.

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