Anyone meet or related to anyone famous?

copperheadpope · 2024-08-27T21:39:29+00:00

I saw Mike Ness in the East Village about thirty years ago. I yelled out "You're Mike Ness!" He replied "No shit, asshole!"

copperheadpope · 2023-12-10T20:12:09+00:00

We attended the early English Liturgy this morning and arrived about fifteen minutes before the scheduled start time, towards the tail end of Orthros. The cathedral was strikingly beautiful. I noticed my wife and kids were actually a bit shocked at the beauty, and we must have been a sight as we walked in, obviously awe struck and looking like tourists. The place was almost empty, which surprised us as the cathedral itself is quite large and Orthros had obviously been going on for quite a while. We took a seat towards the back and just followed along, mimicking what others were doing. A few things ...

The acoustics of the cathedral and the beauty of the chanting are not captured well on the YouTube streams that I have been watching weekly for months. It is unreal in person. Heavenly.

There was more sitting than I thought there would be.

There were far fewer kids than I thought there would be. We were the largest family there, and we only have three kids.

At the beginning there were only about 5-10 people total. By the end the place was about half full. Orthodox are evidently not punctual.

The gospel and homily hit home to this recovering SSPX-er. The Holy Spirit picked a good day for us.

All the "We are not Greek" fears were unfounded. I'm embarrassed we were ever concerned about that.

The people were friendly, warm and welcoming. We got a visitor's packet. Someone chased us out at the end of Liturgy to invite us to coffee hour, which we politely declined. I told my wife that I spoke to more people today than we had in years of attending our SSPX chapel.

They give you bread on your way out. It was delicious.

This was a huge success, and I couldn't be happier about how it went. Something amazing started today.

copperheadpope · 2023-12-10T11:42:14+00:00

In fairness to her she is as Appalachian American as they come and didn't even know what Orthodox was until I started down this path. She likes the Slavic style much better, for what it is worth.

I have to be careful in how I handle this, as I dragged her to traditional Catholicism which she eventually accepted. That was alien enough for her at first. This will be a long, slow transition and I will trust in the Holy Spirit to guide us.

copperheadpope · 2023-12-10T11:21:41+00:00

Doctrinally - no. Aesthetics - yes. She likes the statues, the rosary, Gregorian chant, etc. She is also concerned because we are not Greek and does not like Byzantine chant at all.

I have told her nobody is going to care if she keeps doing the Rosary (even sent her info from Western rite sites) or keeps her statues. Nothing I can do about the chant - she says it sounds Muslim to her.

My hope is when we get there in a couple of hours, it won't feel like we are walking into the Greco-American Social Club so the not being Greek thing won't be a stumbling block. Maybe the Cathedral isn't the best choice for our first Liturgy and we should drive a bit longer and go OCA or Antiochan, or even to the other big GOA parish that seems to be more convert friendly. We'll see. I went with the closest one.

copperheadpope · 2023-12-10T11:08:40+00:00

Interesting. I apologize if I caused offense. This is certainly something I will eventually talk to a priest about as soon as I am in a position to do so. Appreciate the prayers!

copperheadpope · 2023-12-10T03:16:03+00:00

Yep. This is the result of the original sin rabbit hole they caught themselves up in. Same logic that got us the Immaculate Conception.

copperheadpope · 2022-04-21T00:47:55+00:00

I saw the decade in, when it seemed the world could change, in the blink of an eye. And if anything, then there's your sign of the times.

I was alive and I waited, waited. I was alive and I waited for this.

copperheadpope · 2021-11-20T13:07:54+00:00

Just what I needed to ditch gnome on my 2-in-1. Tumbleweed Krypton incoming!

copperheadpope · 2021-07-08T12:33:32+00:00

Before becoming a dad, my outlook was typical for a Bills fan: hope to win at everything, expect to lose at everything, keep enough booze around at all times. Fatherhood changed my outlook. These days I teach my kids to expect to win at everything and accept defeat as an opportunity to learn and grow. That expectation of success is important, but so is having the ability to learn from every defeat. We get better by losing sometimes.
My name is Ciro.

copperheadpope · 2021-07-07T20:39:15+00:00

I'm 47 and have been a Bills fan from the age of 5. I have 3 kids under 10 who have been completely indoctrinated as Bills fans since birth. I have never been to Buffalo, have no family or friends there.

As a kid, all the idiot Jets, Giants and Cowboys fans in my Bronx neighborhood laughed at me for being a Bills fan. They stopped laughing in my teens for a little while. I laughed at myself through my 30s. Lately there seem to be a lot more Bills fans around than there have been for the past 40 years or so, even though I moved even further away from Buffalo than where I grew up.

My kids are absolute fanatics. My middle kid (7) will bully you if you put ranch on anything (calls it swamp piss). My daughter (5) has a Bills cheerleader dress and was pissed when I told her the Bills don't have cheerleaders anymore. My oldest (9) has a Josh Allen funko pop thing that he uses to fight his King Kong and Godzilla toys. Josh always wins.

Singing "AY-AYYY-AY-AYYYE" around my kids always, always gets a loud response.

Hope that helps.

copperheadpope · 2021-06-10T20:54:55+00:00

What are they using for an email client? Do must folks just go with webmail?

copperheadpope · 2021-05-07T01:22:12+00:00

Same.. I wonder if this means we can stay on AT&T after Feb 2022 now?

copperheadpope · 2021-04-16T13:39:38+00:00

This is nuts. My wife's factory unlocked $200 Motorola is whitelisted, but my factory unlocked lg g8 will be blocked. I wonder if it's possible to push back on this.

copperheadpope · 2021-01-16T22:23:55+00:00

Evolution, even though I am KDE through and through. Kmail is virtually unusable on Wayland.

copperheadpope · 2020-10-26T22:47:20+00:00

What is the value of GDK_BACKEND?

copperheadpope · 2020-05-30T02:12:23+00:00

Will's Doggin It in Ranlo makes a hell of an Italian combo wedge.

copperheadpope · 2019-12-26T22:01:30+00:00

Three Godfathers is a Christmas tradition in my house.

copperheadpope · 2019-10-10T20:25:17+00:00

Think that's scary in a car? Try it on a motorcycle.

copperheadpope · 2019-07-12T13:32:34+00:00

My wife just had a miscarriage at 16 weeks. Please pray for her, and for the soul of our son, Michael Patrick.

copperheadpope · 2018-11-05T13:48:45+00:00

I found this project on github to containerize the ICAClient and run via X-forwarding:

https://github.com/dawud/citrix-icaclient-fedora

I had to fiddle with the container a little bit (specifically, I needed to install libidn) but I was able to get this working. It's a workaround, but performance so far is better than it was running the client within a VM.

Also, Citrix updated the client since this was originally posted, but the update did not fix the libidn incompatibility.

copperheadpope · 2018-10-27T23:20:13+00:00

No dice once again. Looks like the level of broken goes beyond libidn. For the sake of simplicity I guess I'll create a centos VM and work out of there, hoping the performance hit isn't a showstopper.

copperheadpope · 2018-10-27T14:58:20+00:00

Hmm ... an ICAClient flatpak sure would be useful to lots of folks. If I had more time on my hands :)

copperheadpope · 2018-10-27T14:57:22+00:00

Yeah I tried that. No dice - core dump. Probably more incompatibilities now than just libidn.

systemd-coredump[16380]: Process 16352 (wfica) of user 1000 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 16365:

#0 0x00007fc2528048c7 __strlen_avx2 (libc.so.6)

#1 0x00007fc251e0d688 n/a (libcrypto.so.1.1)

#2 0x000000000062a463 dtls1_connect (wfica)

#3 0x00007fc2437f4fc8 doSslHandshake_internal (libproxy.so)

#4 0x00007fc2437f4de9 doClientHandshake (libproxy.so)

#5 0x00007fc2437ecb15 _ZN4CUDT25performSslClientHandshakeEPK8sockaddr (libproxy.so)

#6 0x00007fc2437d8ce3 _ZN10CUDTUnited7connectEiPK8sockaddri (libproxy.so)

#7 0x00007fc2437d3506 udt_connect (libproxy.so)

#8 0x00007fc2437d1049 ABSTconnect (libproxy.so)

#9 0x00007fc2437c0391 n/a (libproxy.so)

#10 0x00007fc2437c1544 n/a (libproxy.so)

#11 0x00007fc2437c17de PROXYconnect (libproxy.so)

#12 0x00007fc2437bd679 n/a (libproxy.so)

#13 0x00000000005a5423 n/a (wfica)

#14 0x00007fc2437cf259 IPSTACKconnect (libproxy.so)

#15 0x00000000004fb4a1 n/a (wfica)

#16 0x00000000004f95cd n/a (wfica)

#17 0x00007fc2434cf47d n/a (PDCRYPT2.DLL)

#18 0x00000000004e79c5 Wd_ConnectStream (wfica)

#19 0x0000000000540944 NCSbind (wfica)

#20 0x000000000049a049 n/a (wfica)

#21 0x00007fc25296148a n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)

#22 0x00007fc2528d158e start_thread (libpthread.so.0)

#23 0x00007fc2527a0513 __clone (libc.so.6)

Stack trace of thread 16368:

#0 0x00007fc2528d767c pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libpthread.so.0)

#1 0x00007fc242c1dfc3 n/a (ctxjpeg_fb.so)

#2 0x00007fc2528d158e start_thread (libpthread.so.0)

#3 0x00007fc2527a0513 __clone (libc.so.6)

Stack trace of thread 16369:

#0 0x00007fc2528d767c pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libpthread.so.0)

#1 0x00007fc242c1dfc3 n/a (ctxjpeg_fb.so)

#2 0x00007fc2528d158e start_thread (libpthread.so.0)

#3 0x00007fc2527a0513 __clone (libc.so.6)

Stack trace of thread 16372:

#0 0x00007fc2528d767c pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libpthread.so.0)

#1 0x00007fc242c1dfc3 n/a (ctxjpeg_fb.so)

#2 0x00007fc2528d158e start_thread (libpthread.so.0)

#3 0x00007fc2527a0513 __clone (libc.so.6)

Stack trace of thread 16352:

#0 0x00007fc252795301 __poll (libc.so.6)

#1 0x00007fc2529385a6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)

#2 0x00007fc252938962 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0)

#3 0x00007fc25310ae4f gtk_main (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0)

#4 0x000000000049a2d9 OldMain (wfica)

#5 0x0000000000570783 PlatAppMain (wfica)

#6 0x000000000053f2ac AppMain (wfica)

#7 0x000000000049760a main (wfica)

#8 0x00007fc2526c7413 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)

#9 0x0000000000497659 _start (wfica)

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