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Today is Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States. In honor of same, I’m writing about Lebn Zol Kolumbus, a song from the 1915 Thomashefsky production, Der grine milyoner. In the song, the immigrant characters praise Columbus for setting in motion the events that led to an America of opportunity for them.

Jane Peppler’s rendition comes with historic notes, as she includes the two verses that were removed by the time the play launched in 1915, which included references to the case of Leo Frank and an anti-immigration bill. It is also the only version I found online with subtitles.

The musical Ragtime even pays tribute to the song in their song, A Shtetl Iz Amereke, where some of the lyrics and tune of the song were incorporated into, though played at a lower tempo.

For more about the Thomashefskys, I recommend their grandson’s musical tribute to them that was broadcast on PBS in 2012.

Trying to flash some boards with new firmware. Holes too small. Internet suggested sewing needles. Didn’t have any. Borrowed some from parents. They came from Shopwells…which ceased to be in 1986. Clearly we don’t sew much. Needles worked though. 1 board down, 10 to go.
I heard some social networks were down. As long as I have my website, my social network is always running. If you’re interested, join the #indieweb community on Wed at 6PM PST/9PM EST for Homebrew Website Club, this weekend for Create Day. All events at events.indieweb.org.
Decided to finally dispose of my MSI Wind U100 netbook. I bought it on March 19, 2009 for $299, and immediately added an extra GB of RAM and an extra battery and installed Linux. I haven’t used it in years, and it is time to retire it.
After declaring my intention to help iterate on the Ticket extension to IndieAuth, I built an experimental ticket endpoint, which is available on my test site. I was able to test it using Martijn van Der Ven’s test form for requesting a ticket., after some troubleshooting on both sides. Still have some tweaks to make and questions to answer for expansion, but it turned out that adding support for receiving and redeeming a ticket was relatively easy.
Working on expiring tokens for the WordPress IndieAuth endpoint. This would be a breaking change, as currently, tokens issued by the endpoint never expire. This is a security concern, if you keep issuing tokens without ever expiring them. With the new system, you can renew a token, or even disable expiry in the admin if you need a long-lived token. There is a way to have the client get new tokens regularly that I could implement, but currently no client supports it.
In November 2018, we went to Orlando to perform the Parkeology Challenge.  We came close, but did not succeed. We had always hoped to try again, but illness, as well as the pandemic restricting travel, had pushed it off. Now one of the team is no longer with us(the one who took the photo).

I’ve never been particularly good at speaking of those who have gone, and the stories I might choose to tell are probably would not do justice to the memory.

There is little to say when someone is taken from their friends and loved ones too soon. When we were kids, he, being a few years older, was primarily my brother’s friend, but we all did things together…our families frequently got together. It is hard to accept I will not see him again.

The best I can think of to do that would please him is to finish this one thing we never completed someday.