{"id":1092,"date":"2010-04-01T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2010-04-01T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T05:46:12","slug":"unsent-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/04\/01\/unsent-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"unsent emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is an email, I’ve found everyone else is happier in the long run if I don’t actually send these anymore.]<\/p>\n

I’m working with a piece of software that runs every five minutes. It has to, as it collects data about the present state of the system from trending. If it doesn’t finish in five minutes, it’s supposed to commit suicide (makes me think of STONITH code from clustering: Shoot The Other Node In The Head). It currently takes a few minutes to collect all the data it needs, and only one copy of the software can run at a time, so there’s a small window of a minute or two where I can initiate testing runs. If I knew I’d still be waiting like this, I probably would have built a development copy of this system.<\/p>\n

Instead, I’m wandering the Internet; reading for work a bit, reading comics, poking around social networks. I clicked random a few times on xkcd and hit this early comic I had forgotten<\/a>. I’ve been thinking a lot this year about goals. Granted I was thinking about them this fall, but they were specific about moving away from some certain things and toward others. Lately I’ve been more meta, nearly in a “what does it all mean” way, but mostly in a “what would make bryan shut the fuck up already” way. I don’t complain about much, but I make up for that in ranting about meaning. Anyway, isn’t it funny that comics like that still remind me of you? Hope you’re well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is an email, I’ve found everyone else is happier in the long run if I don’t actually send these anymore.] I’m working with a piece of software that runs every five minutes. It has to, as it collects data about the present state of the system from trending. If it doesn’t finish in five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}