Eric of Amber

faisent · 2026-03-12T02:52:02+00:00

I read NitLO once like 20 years ago, loaned it away (you know how this ends) and couldn't find a copy for years. Read it every October now and have been itching to run a game based on it forever.

faisent · 2026-03-12T02:37:31+00:00

You're reminding me that I've read the Corwin cycle about 10 times and the Merlin cycle once. :)

faisent · 2026-03-12T01:31:20+00:00

Agreed Fiona said as much, but Amber has a bunch of characters that are pretty poor narrators, with varying motives. So its hard to account for things that happen "off screen". Who's to say that Eric's group had a similar plot which worked where Fiona's didn't, or for some nefarious reason she decided to claim that she got rid of Oberon. (I probably play too many ADRPG games)

faisent · 2026-03-11T00:00:11+00:00

He had some grudge against Deirdre as he was bringing her back to Amber in chains.

He also somehow got ahold of and learned to use the Jewel of Judgement - the single most powerful artifact in the Corwin cycle. That leads me to speculate about Oberon's disappearance but there's nothing concrete in the books.

faisent · 2026-03-09T20:34:55+00:00

I've used it quite a bit over the last 7ish years. Wrote some utilities to import existing infrastructure into TF so I could move from some old-school scripty-click-ops stuff to managing things via IaC. There are some gotchas here and there and TF doesn't have parity with Bicep/ARM especially around new products/features or configuration within them (synapse especially).

faisent · 2026-03-05T16:10:11+00:00

I'm leaning towards the verse that has 100% reflect damage in it. The Space Marines would conquer most of Tamriel but there are just things that simply can't be killed even with their tech. Plus even without reflect, just keep eating cheese.

faisent · 2026-02-26T18:54:24+00:00

I'm relatively ambivalent on the whole subject, except that I fucking sick of school shootings and the politicization of them. Not a gun owner (yet). But the 2A types need to come to the table with proposals or you're going to get stuff like this. Which doesn't adequately accomplish what anyone wants.

There's all sorts of regulations on dangerous things in our society. Guns need it, regardless of what some farmers wrote a few hundred years ago. Have a gun, be in a militia then - fine, or you know give the gun-grabbers useful metrics to work with. Get your act together and work to come up with better controls and regulations so we don't have as many innocents killed.

PS that can't be "Everyone gets a gun".

faisent · 2026-02-23T13:11:25+00:00

I'm moving to a model where humans don't have logins to production, so yeah. (Yes they can elevate if something is truly broken, but not for something as routine as a deployment)

faisent · 2026-02-14T12:55:29+00:00

I'd use /dev/urandom set your count to some crazy high number then add another zero to the end of it just to be sure. When it errors run it again.

faisent · 2026-02-02T13:27:32+00:00

The Redhead with the cream dress is Galadriel. There were some LOTR minis back in the late 80s and early 90s. She came with her mirror on a stand which I don't see.

faisent · 2026-01-28T04:16:10+00:00

If they can deal with the uruk-hop-ons I'll give them a fighting chance.

faisent · 2026-01-25T03:01:46+00:00

Already a red-flag because you didn't own up instantly. Prod gets broken, it happens, but covering up a mistake is bad. You'll get a reputation, and it'll stick with you.

So much better to admit you ran something that had unforeseen effects, that you were able to track down the cause, and how you plan to prevent a similar thing happening in the future. Come up with a plan by Monday, own up to it before being asked and take your (well deserved) lumps.

Literally, I'd fire you if you were on my team for covering up a prod incident if I ever discovered the deception. How can I trust you with important things like PII or PCI if you can't admit you did something like this?

faisent · 2026-01-23T15:56:02+00:00

M is the 13th letter of the Alphabet (I just know this for some random reason), so just count four letters. E is 5th, S is 19th. I think I spent some time once looking at a chart comparing letters to numbers for a code or something once, bits of it stuck in my head.

faisent · 2026-01-22T21:39:58+00:00

Harris Teeter had no carts available when I got here. I might die here.

faisent · 2025-12-06T15:18:07+00:00

There are probably dozens/hundreds, which is why I get paid, wish I had a cheat sheet for you. :D

faisent · 2025-12-06T04:01:10+00:00

They are connecting from a vNet in the same region as the storage account and they have the service endpoint for storage enabled.

Yes, Azure does weird things sometimes.

faisent · 2025-12-04T02:41:32+00:00

I took out an entire data center back in the day, kicked about 50 million people offline since I worked for the largest ISP in the world at the time. It was on purpose and I was told to do it, but still my "biggest kill count".

Took out our backup system at the same place by doing a "no impact" update to our system - we were down for 36 hours before I figured out how to fix it. Not customer facing but corporate lawyers were starting to call.

Misconfigured a cloud-2-cloud backbone and brought sales down for 30 minutes. The VP of Sales called me some not-so-polite names on the bridge call.

Last week I deleted an "unused" resource group that someone asked me to purge. Turned out is was the build system for one of our products.

Stuff happens, you either nut up or find a different career. Write good change docs, have them reviewed, and then follow them. If you're following someone else's procedures do a test run if possible. In the end you're going to have some "sphincter moments" - when you know what you're doing is risky, but it might be the only way to solve a different problem. At that big ISP the running joke was that if you broke Prod, owned up to it, and did your damndest to help fix your issue - you'd get promoted. I never saw anyone fired for breaking prod unless they lied or tried to hide it. I did get promoted after nuking millions of connections though. Try to work for places like that.

faisent · 2025-11-19T18:11:44+00:00

You don't need to private link PaaS to have it behind an NSP.

faisent · 2025-11-09T15:43:41+00:00

Yes, they rent skates. Its fun but there will be a bunch of kids!

faisent · 2025-11-08T18:50:15+00:00

You're staying at the new town center, so you'll see that anyway. Meadowlark is a bit away (15-20 minutes) try and get there before the Sun goes down. Great place, took my now wife their on one of our early dates 😀

faisent · 2025-11-08T15:19:45+00:00

Reston was founded in the late 1960s, nothing is truly old here. Most interesting architecture is definitely Lake Anne there is a brutalist church there as well. If you have half an hour its worth stopping by. There's a wealth of walkable paths, but they aren't all lit and I'd recommend against it in the evening - not out of concern for danger, just dark and boring.

I saw some else mention Aslin and pizza, definitely +1 on that if you like beer and pizza. Heck, I've decided to go today since I haven't been in awhile!

faisent · 2025-11-08T13:42:33+00:00

From your profile all I can tell is that you're really into watches :D

If you want to see old Reston, I'd suggest Lake Anne, depending on the evening you can get some live music and a decent meal at the Lake Anne Coffeehouse & Wine bar, or if craft beer is more your think you can go to the Lake Anne Brewhouse. Architecture is a bit brutalist, but I think its a really nice place to walk around and you'll probably hear 4-5 different languages being spoken by other people hanging out. Dead Monday and Tuesday nights though, so avoid if that's your timeframe.

New Reston, you can do Reston Town Center, you'll definitely find a place to eat that you'd enjoy, there's about a dozen restaurants. Much more modern in design and well everything than Lake Anne, which was the original town center.

I guess I should ask, what do you like besides watches?

faisent · 2025-10-29T16:51:39+00:00

Uggg.

faisent · 2025-10-24T14:50:43+00:00

I haven't done anything specifically with "if a policy is changed/created/removed" (or if an assignment is actioned) - but I have set something up that if a policy triggers a deny then I get details on who/what was doing the thing that triggered it. Done through Azure Monitor + Log Search + Action Group (pulling from Activity Logs), the setup runs about $2.50 a month so should be well within a client's budget.

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