Documented Everywhere

Posted on 16May2012 by | Leave a comment

So, you want to connect to an ec2 instance with bash? Well, I can show you how to do that (although google has plenty of places to provide you with better documentation and more features, I’m sure).

I have a billion functions on my host which sets up variables depending on what environment I’m in. So, you’ll need to take that into account. As a side note, this one is stupid simple, but I may as document it for myself later.

#!/bin/bash

instance_id=$1

instancename=$(ec2-describe-instances –show-empty-fields -K $awsKey -C $awsCert $instance_id | grep $instance_id | awk ‘/INSTANCE/{print $4}’)
echo “Connecting to $instance_id using $instancename”

ssh -i $keyLocation root@$instancename -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no

A real quick addendum to this post, before I push it out. I’m on my way to deploying an application that hasn’t been tested to production, because development failure. This is going to rock out with its cock out. ^_^

And boom goes the dynamite (sorry if I’ve put her up already, I can’t remember, and I am unable to find another pic right now):

Ryu Ji Hye - Korea

Take the hoodie off, I like to see your eyes looking up at me.

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We’re About Done Here

Posted on 9May2012 by | Leave a comment

So, I let my blog lay fallow for a while. I just wasn’t motivated to post here or be involved with communicating information to anyone about anything. So, I suppose some quick updates which I’ll touch on in more detail later.

A lot of stress sources have been eliminated from my life. Some people got hurt in the process. That’s completely my fault. I’ve failed some people (one in particular; and, I am very sorry things went the way they did). I’ve managed to get some relief with the elimination of people who simply were not good for me in general. I’ve gotten a new job as well. I’ve picked up some new skills, and I’ve been working with Ninja to obey more consistently. Not that he wasn’t obeying well before, but I am honing his listening skills and widening his overall skills.

So, for the new job (which I may or may not have mentioned before in another post) I am contracting with Elsevier Health Sciences. I’m creating cloud infrastructure for large projects. It’s fun sometimes, and frustrating at others. Mostly due to customer expectations. There doesn’t seem to be a technical buffer between the customer and my team. Which means they start asking for things, and I don’t understand what exactly they want. I’m not an architect. I don’t want to be an architect. Just tell me what to build, and I’ll do that. That’s generally how I feel about it.

The Spawn’s mother has been not so difficult to deal with, and that’s a plus; however, I don’t think the Spawn wants to stay in North Carolina anymore. I think (and maybe I’m projecting, which may be likely) that he wants to stay with me, but isn’t certain how best to relay this to either of us without feeling like he’s hurting someone’s feelings. It’s a difficult situation in general, but I’m sure he’ll figure it out as he matures a little bit more emotionally.

That’s my brain dump for the moment. I’ll be posting more technical things up here I think as time goes on. Mainly because it’s good to have a place all my own to hold on to ideas that I currently use or can use elsewhere later. Bunny to arrive shortly.

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Simple Pleasures

Posted on 30Jan2012 by | Comments Off

So, I try to take joy in the simple things in life. This is one of those things.

After a Walk

Ninja usually hides from the camera with ninja magic.

Ninja decided that he should lay on my lap and go to sleep. One of those rare moments in which he thought it would be cool to lay down and take a nap for a few minutes. Sometimes it’s just nice to have someone not ask anything from you but to have a place to take a nap.

Anyhow, I’m too mentally exhausted to come up with something witty. In lieu of that, I present to you:

Supposedly, she's a car model. Wonder when they'll pose her with one.

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The Spawn’s Christmas

Posted on 6Jan2012 by | Comments Off

So, I’m not much on celebrating the zombie deity’s birthday or creation day – whatever you call it; however, the Spawn does. It rather pleases me that the Spawn is happy, so I make attempts to do things for him that increase his level of happiness.

For a long time, he did not wish to learn to ride a bike. I  made a couple of attempts, and so did other members of the broken family; however, he just wasn’t that interested and didn’t really try. This resulted in him getting to the ripe old age of 11 before he decided that learning to ride a bike was a good idea. This pleased me.

The result, a video I made for his mother:

Also, awesome:

Supposedly there's a car here - I don't see it.

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AT&T Has Dirty Windows

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I walk by AT&T’s corporate office on a pretty regular basis, as every night I have to do a walkthrough at a satellite datacenter. At any rate, It seems like AT&T isn’t making a good decision by leaving the windows dirty. It makes the building look a bit shady, especially at night, and I can’t imagine anyone who visits during the day finds the building any more inviting.

This kind of follows my own decision making process. I’m trying very hard to not make poor decisions, but lately I feel as if no matter what my intention I’m doing the wrong thing. I really feel like I should be taking a firmer stand, but all I feel is helpless. It’s a really worrying concept for me, since I’m generally a self-assured and decisive person.

I don’t like the way things are going, and what is even more concerning to me is that I do not know what to do about it, to get things back on track. I’m a little lost, and I’m pretty sure no one is rushing to assist me in getting it sorted out. That’s sad.

On a less personal (but still quite important) note, the Spawn has pneumonia, and he isn’t getting what I would consider much better. He finished off his antibiotics, and he has an appointment with his doctor here; however, he slept all night while at work with me (he never does that), and he’s gone back to sleep since then. He’s actually in bed now, I’m mildly worried. =-/

To put a cap on the day, I think I’ve been lied to today (yay for lies before bed), and I imagine I’m going to be lied to a couple more time for the next few days. I am not going to fight those battles though, as much as I would love to do so. Instead, I’m going to (once again make a bad decision) let the lies work themselves out into honesty/truth. We’ll see where that gets me right?

I keep checking my e-mail. I need to stop that, but that means also getting off this computer, and putting my phone on silent so I am not tempted to check it for every little sound or vibration. That means going to bed. So, enough with the depressing, and on with the awesome. Good night everyone!

Li Ying Zhi (China)

I'd say something witty, but I'm distracted....what?

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