_drafts/rotating_k3s_certs.md

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----
-title: "Draft"
-author: "James Pace"
-date: "2024/01/01"
----
-
-Problem: k3s client certs, including the admin cert expire after 1 year.
-
-To see cert:
-```
-cat ~/.kube/config | grep client-certificate-data | cut -f2 -d : | tr -d ' ' | base64 -d | openssl x509 -text -out -
-```
-
-```
-ssh jimmy@192.168.1.103
-sudo systemctl stop k3s
-sudo k3s certificate rotate
-sudo systemctl start k3s
-
-
-```
-
-```
-sudo cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ~/j7s-cluster.yaml
-sudo chown jimmy:jimmy ~/j7s-cluster.yaml
-exit
-
-```
-
-```
-rm  ~/.kube/j7s-cluster.yaml
-scp jimmy@192.168.1.103:~/j7s-cluster.yaml /home/jimmy/.kube/.
-# Use text editor to fix IP in file.
-
-```
-
-```
-export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/j7s-cluster.yaml
-kubectl get nodes
-```
-

posts/right-side-of-brain.md

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-title: "\"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain\" Review"
-author: "James Pace"
-date: "2024/05/15"
----
-
-A few weeks ago I visited the National Portrait Museum during a business trip to
-DC and was inspired by the paintings at the museum.
-While I've historically not been a huge fan of art museums, looking at the
-portraits and reading about the individuals in the portraits and what they
-accomplished or went through in life was inspiring, and after coming back
-home, I felt inspired to learn to make portraits myself.
-Particularly, I was interested in drawing with a pencil.
-The minimal amount of equipment required to generate something cool
-compared to other art forms interested me.
-
-I've never been an artist and wouldn't consider myself a good drawer
-even when I was a little kid, so learning to draw was going to be a tall
-order.
-I did some research online on good books on drawing, and decided to pick up
-two to get started.
-The first one of those two that I read was "Drawing on the Right Side of the
-Brain" by Betty Edwards.
-
-The book's main thesis is that most thinking in modern life is dominated
-by the left side of the brain, while good drawing is dominated by the right
-side.
-Thus, to become good at drawing, we need to learn to silence the left side
-of our brains and let the right side take over.
-Good drawing can further be split between five basic skills:
-
-1. the perception of edges,
-2. the perception of spaces,
-3. the perception of relationships,
-4. the perception of lights and shadows, and
-5. the perception fo the "gestalt"
-
-which, again, are all done best by the right side of the brain.
-The book contains a number of exercises all aimed at exercising that
-side and each aimed at improving one of the five basic skills.
-
-I found the book did a good job of teaching the first three skills.
-After the book, which I finished in approximately a week, I was much
-better and more comfortable at generating contour drawings than I was
-at the beginning.
-For example, the weekend I finished the book, I drew the outline of an
-empty Starbucks cup while sitting at Starbucks and generated something
-that looked good, in my opinion, which I would not have been able to
-do before I read the book.
-I was also able to look at and the copy a cartoon of Snoopy into my sketchbook,
-which would have been a struggle for me before I started the book.
-(I said I was bad at drawing.)
-The focus on "drawing what you see" I think is good, and something that I can
-imagine I will keep using and having to remind myself to practice long term.
-
-I don't believe the book did a good job teaching the perception of lights and
-shadows.
-After I read the book, I had no confidence in my ability to shade a drawing.
-The book's focus is also very heavy on drawing what you see, and did nothing
-to teach drawing from your imagination.
-While I can't say my skills got worse, I'm not sure how to apply most
-of the tools from the book when drawing from my imagination.
-
-I found the book occassionally got a little too pseudo-scientific for my liking.
-Particularly, there was a number of pages explaining how every kid goes through some
-set of drawing growth, which didn't match my experience as a kid that really never drew
-at all.
-Further, the book spends a lot of time talking about brain sideness and going into
-the "science" of brain sideness, while proof is building up that the reality of
-how the brain works is not nearly that simple.
-With that being said, the examples provided by the book were still seemingly beneficial.
-
-In conclusion, I think the book was a good purchase, both worth the time I put into it
-and the money I spent on it.
-While not perfect nor the end all be all, I do think this book is an excellent starting
-point in learning how to draw, and would recommend any one else starting down that
-journey to check the book out.