Who is Nick?

Asking all my life.

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  • I knew I liked to do nothing for a reason

  • Belief without a reason

    I have a belief, but my media background can’t explain why you should care.

    I want you to care. If you did it would help explain that feeling of insanity

    Yet,

    I can’t find the words. The reasoning. The nut.

    So instead I write vague posts.

  • Hat’s off to all producers

    Hat’s off to all of those who create.

    I commend all of you who produce something with any form of regularity.

    It’s my weakness.

    You do it through all the excuses.
    Through exhaustion.
    Through nervousness.
    Through repetition.
    Through drinks with friends.
    Through desires to binge watch.
    Through child vomit.
    Through partners to-do’s.
    Through bill payments.
    Through little voices inside your head.
    Through sickness.
    Through happiness.
    Through fear.
    Through success.
    Through confusion.
    Through it all.

    You hit publish.

  • Years and Years – The Storyteller

    I am hooked on Years and Years. If you’re a
    Black Mirror fan, and haven’t already started watching, this should be your next show.

    Spoilers.

    Small spoilers.

    Teeny tiny spoilers.

    The show follows a family over 15 years into the future. Nuff said about that.

    A man meets a woman. They ask what each other does for a living. She is a Storyteller.

    A Storyteller.

    A storyteller as in sitting in a crowd using words. Ever one of those syllables taken
    in by those around.

    A storyteller as in myths, and fables. Lessons woven in metaphors.

    Even the writers of a TV show, are feeling it. Orality.

  • PYODBC face smash

    Just had a hell of a time installing pyodbc on AWS ECS Linux AMI. And since I think I smashed it… here’s what i did.

    First go though everything on this post. An awesome start

    https://datalere.com/tips-guides/ec2-aws-linux-ami-pyodbc/

    However, the challenege I had next

    (env) [ec2-user@ip-172-30-1-231 eurion]$ pip install pyodbc
Collecting pyodbc
Installing collected packages: pyodbc

    Yet, pip freeze still had no pyodbc! FACESMASH!

    So, after running through it 100 more times slightly differently, it occured, let’s go manually, shall we??

    (env) $ cd ~/src
(env) $ curl -O -L https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/archive/4.0.26.tar.gz
(env) $ tar xvzf 4.0.26.tar.gz
(env) $ cd pyodbc-4.0.25
(env) $ python setup.py build
(env) $ python setup.py install

    not there… one more error.

    TEST FAILED: env/lib64/python3.6/dist-packages/ does NOT support .pth files
error: bad install directory or PYTHONPATH

You are attempting to install a package to a directory that is not
on PYTHONPATH and which Python does not read ".pth" files from.  The
installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
the distutils default setting) was:

    env/lib64/python3.6/dist-packages/

and your PYTHONPATH environment variable currently contains:

    ''

    So I guess I’m setting $PYTHONPATH

    After trying a few try’s, I needed to knwo not just my virtural environment directory but also where my
    site-packages and dist-packages. Which ended up being

    export PYTHONPATH=$PROJROOT/env/:$PROJROOT/env/lib64/python3.6/dist-packages/:$PROJROOT/env/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/

    Any now give python setup.py install a go.

    And we’re good to go.