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dream tariq died

around 4 or 5am Tuesday 01 December 2015 JST

Making a copy of Tariq's data, I noted a pattern of full backups and partial backups, so I was able to go back a week to get the most recent full backup. The current backup was going to be a full backup, but it was aborted before it finished.

Later, he and I were walking to the train station, and after I crossed the street, I was like, "hey Tariq over here!" and he turned to follow and was suddenly hit by a car like blam and instantly dead = dismembered into blobs of white fat and two wooden egg shapes which had been his eyes.

I had a sense that it couldn't be real, but didn't wake up. I was shocked, and I feared it was my fault, as I had called to him, and he was killed when he turned to follow me. Riding in his dad's car, I called Lin and told her "Tariq is dead!" and also wanted his dad to understand, so I switched to Japanese "Tariq が死んだ!" and he took notice and we drove to the location where there was a police vehicle nearby so we directed him to the scene where some people were picking up the blobs of fat. I was too distraught to do anything.

Walking with some people in a new neighborhood, I realized they looked like gang members, featuring big tattoos, spikey hair, knuckles, jackets. I spoke to the toughest looking one and said, "to be honest, I feel a bit of fear around you guys, even though I know you're just a bunch of guys.. Your outward appearance reminds me of some stories I've heard about gang violence."

They were like, "well why don't you come with us?" and more fear came up in me as they took me into a room. I realized I was dreaming, but didn't come fully out of it until I stated the intention that only good things will happen in my dreams.

And I woke up out of the dream

how to kill an external hard drive

12:31 Tuesday 01 December 2015 JST

Step 1

buy neodymium magnets

Step 2

Put the hard drive on them

reason 8,144 to hate apple

10:52 Tuesday 01 December 2015 JST

I started this copy last night. This morning:

Just now I noted it couldn't copy even the first folder. There are about 50 folders. Perhaps it could have let me know sooner?

sweet now i can easily test my journal locally

08:43 Tuesday 01 December 2015 JST

   #!/bin/bash
   cd ~/journal-hugo-local

   open http://localhost:1313/

   echo "building"
   hugo server --watch

The browser is opened using the open command and shows a failure for a few seconds until I reload it after Hugo builds the site at lightning speed. After that, any changes I make a quickly refelcted on the localhost webpage.

Hmm but I can't yet see my images locally

15:00 Wednesday 02 December 2015 JST

Thanks to Travis for pointing out that I don't need to cd ~ back to my original directory when running (most) shell scripts!