All I want for X-mas is to not be paged.

December 25, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Got paged this morning. Wasn’t expecting a call from the president, but one of our local customers had a server go down late last night. The sshd was down so I couldn’t get access to it, but the proper ports were open, so it was definitely some kind of process-level problem. I had them take the machine out of the round-robin loop and asked them to restart it. Luckily, they wanted to get back to X-mas too, so they just took it out of the loop and would deal with it next week. With that out of the way, I was able to get back to makin’ merry.
Got some really cool stuff this X-mas, including a giant microbe plushy. R got me Beer and Bread Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). It’s totally cute. Also got “Planet Simpson” by Chris Turner, and a Surreal Gourmet cookbook.

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About This Site

As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.