https://jwegner.io/posts/Recent content in Posts on jwegner.ioHugo -- gohugo.ioen-us©2023 Joe Wegner. All rights reserved.Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:07:31 -0500https://jwegner.io/posts/2020/08/boundary-waters-trip-2020/Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:07:31 -0500https://jwegner.io/posts/2020/08/boundary-waters-trip-2020/In a couple weeks, I’ll be joining four of my close friends for a canoeing trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Since COVID-19 is still in full swing, camping seems like one of the few vacation options that won’t bring you into contact with tons of strangers. I’ve been to the BWCAW a dozen times in my youth, but this is my first time going since I was in high school, and it’s been really fun planning out the trip.https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/08/gen-con-2019/Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:14:56 -0500https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/08/gen-con-2019/This year I attended Gen Con for the first time. For those that are not familiar, Gen Con is four days of gaming madness. While there were some electronic games, the primary focus is on board games, tabletop role-playing games, miniature war games, and trading card games. I went almost exclusively for RPGs, but ended up only seeing a couple demos in the exhibit hall and watching some live one-shots. I love board games, and ended up playing several that were pretty neat, but I was ultimately disappointed with myself for not playing in any RPGs.https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/06/beginning-photography/Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:17:42 -0500https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/06/beginning-photography/Recently, I’ve been a bit obsessed with photography. Specifically 35mm film photography, but as a result I’m learning digital as well. Shortly after moving to Chicago, I brought a couple of my dad’s old film cameras with me: a Pentax Spotmatic F and Minolta Hi-Matic 7sii. The Pentax is a pretty standard, fully manual, single-lens reflex (SLR) camera, with a 55mm f/1.8 SMC Takumar lens which is very similar to the ever-popular K1000, albeit with an M42 screw lens instead of the newer bayonet mount.https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/01/first-game/Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:09:23 -0600https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/01/first-game/As I mentioned in my previous post, I am going to be running a Stars Without Number game for some of my IRL friends. Up to this point, I have played in a lot of different role-playing games, but I have never been the game master for any of them. Joe’s Gaming History A long time ago, my older brother was really into Vampire: The Masquerade with his friends, and of course I wanted to do what the cool, older kids were doing, so I convinced my brother and his goth high school friends to let me play with them for a couple of sessions.https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/01/reading-list-january-2019/Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:57:33 -0600https://jwegner.io/posts/2019/01/reading-list-january-2019/I have a few books that I have been bouncing between, sometimes starting them and getting a few chapters in before I start another. Not a great habit, sure, but there are so many good books out there that I get really excited when I get a new one that I want to jump right in. If it isn’t immediately apparent from the list, I’m a bit of a science fiction junkie.https://jwegner.io/posts/2018/10/nanowrimo-2018/Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:45:08 -0500https://jwegner.io/posts/2018/10/nanowrimo-2018/I have been enamored with the idea of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) since I first heard about it. I do not remember the first time I attempted doing it, but it has been going on 6 years that I have made an attempt each year, and hopefully this year will be more successful than in the past. Part of the reason for my optimism is that I am finally finished with school.https://jwegner.io/posts/2018/08/rhel-vmware-deployment/Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:38:34 -0500https://jwegner.io/posts/2018/08/rhel-vmware-deployment/Over the last year at work, we have really stepped up our automation efforts. It started out with OS customization using Ansible, but we quickly ran into the issue of bootstrapping the network configuration. We were cloning a minimally configured RHEL 7 template to deploy new machines, but we would have to manually login through the remote console to set the IP and also change the VLAN in the admin console.https://jwegner.io/posts/2018/08/introduction/Wed, 01 Aug 2018 21:51:21 -0500https://jwegner.io/posts/2018/08/introduction/Hello There! My name is Joe. I’ve been kicking around with various web platforms (web2py, django, ghost, etc), for a while now, trying to put up a basic website, but nothing really stuck. Coming from a systems and CS background, I kept thinking that maybe if I found the right stack, I would be interested enough in the platform that I would like writing in it. Of course, this is the classic mistake: I have a hammer, so all problems are now nails.