Marc Blase

Me on a bike (2022 Season)

Return of the Zombie Goat Enduro – Flat Rock Ranch, Comfort, TX

Dino Enduro – Dinosaur State Park, Glen Rose, TX

results

Published on January 23, 2022

2021 Top Listens

  1. Wilco
    319
  2. Sturgill Simpson
    279
  3. Paul Simon
    278
  4. Wally Clark
    249
  5. Steely Dan
    225
  6. Sault
    221
  7. Jazz Spastiks
    220
  8. My Morning Jacket
    220
  9. Band of Horses
    210
  10. our Old Droog
    197
  11. Benny the Butcher
    196
  12. Yo La Tengo
    184
  13. Michael Bublé
    173
  14. Enzo Carella
    172
  15. Ultramarine
    165
  16. Burrito Brown
    164
  17. MF DOOM
    162
  18. Larry June
    153
  19. Westside Gunn
    148
  20. Miles Davis
    146
  21. The Magnetic Fields
    144
  22. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
    142
  23. Always Proper
    139
  24. Berner
    139
  25. White Denim
    139
  26. The Shins
    133
  27. Emma-Jean Thackray
    127
  28. Richard “Groove” Holmes
    127
  29. Modest Mouse
    126
  30. David Bowie
    125
  31. PUP
    123
  32. Richard Swift
    120
  33. Lucky Brown
    115
  34. Moses Boyd
    115
  35. emune
    113
  36. Kurt Vile
    112
  37. Mocky
    107
  38. Adrian Younge
    105
  39. Conway the Machine
    105
  40. Nick Drake
    104
  41. Built to Spill
    103
  42. Wun Two
    102
  43. Bruno Pernadas
    100
  44. Fleet Foxes
    99
  45. Hot Snakes
    99
  46. Rhye
    98
  47. Theon Cross
    97
  48. Bright Eyes
    96
  49. Ted Hawkins
    95
  50. The Deli
    95
Published on January 3, 2022

Marc is 100% awesome

It’s on the internet, so it’s a thing.

Sorry, this is only here to illustrate a point. Just because something is on the internet doesn’t necessarily make it true, except for this case, in which it’s 100% true.

Published on August 13, 2021

Yard Birds

Birds that have hatched and/or fledged in my yard.

Screech Owls

Cooper Hawks

Published on June 7, 2021

Power

W = V * A
V = W / A
A = W / V

W = watts
V = volts
A = amperes

Published on April 6, 2021

Me on a bike (2021 Season)

Zombie Goat Enduro – Flat Rock Ranch

DNF this race — injury crash

O’Rock Epic Enduro – Big Cedar, OK – Ouachita National Forest

results

Published on January 27, 2021

2020 Top Listens

  1. Derrick Harriott
    455
  2. Billy Swan
    393
  3. Sault
    348
  4. Harry Nilsson
    226
  5. Jazz Spastiks
    219
  6. The Deli
    219
  7. Lee Dorsey
    211
  8. Richard “Groove” Holmes
    207
  9. Fiona Apple
    182
  10. Wilco
    168
  11. Burrito Brown
    153
  12. Saib
    149
  13. Ted Hawkins
    149
  14. Sweeps
    146
  15. emune
    139
  16. The Menzingers
    139
  17. Alphonse Mouzon
    137
  18. Jim Ford
    137
  19. Bully
    123
  20. Gene Harris & The Three Sounds
    121
  21. The Sea and Cake
    121
  22. Built to Spill
    120
  23. Run the Jewels
    115
  24. Rush
    114
  25. Wun Two
    114
  26. Hot Snakes
    112
  27. Shabazz Palaces
    112
  28. Moses Boyd
    111
  29. Eddie Henderson
    110
  30. Yussef Kamaal
    108
  31. Dr. Lonnie Smith
    107
  32. Maggie Rogers
    107
  33. Always Proper
    103
  34. Pkew Pkew Pkew
    103
  35. Tender Leaf
    101
  36. Mose Allison
    100
  37. New Tutenkhamen
    100
  38. Ikebe Shakedown
    95
  39. Real Estate
    95
  40. Justin Townes Earle
    94
  41. Smoke Trees
    94
  42. FloFilz
    93
  43. Adrian Younge
    91
  44. Fastlife
    91
  45. Undagawds
    89
  46. Ronnie Foster
    88
  47. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
    86
  48. Brother Noland
    82
  49. PUP
    82
  50. PENPALS
    81
Published on January 1, 2021

Process CSV file and curl request with its contents 

#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: Read Comma Separated CSV File and cURL using contents

INPUT=$1
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=','
[ ! -f $INPUT ] && { echo "Please provide a CSV file"; exit 99; }
while read user_email first_name last_name Level start_issue start_date
do
    # curl request with contents from CSV and write output to file
    curl -m 10 -X POST --data API_Key=KEY_GOES_HERE --data Email=$user_email --data Program_Data=PROGRAM_DATA_GOES_HERE --data FirstName=$first_name --data LastName=$last_name https://API_ENDPOINT.TLD >> curl_output.json
	
done < $INPUT
IFS=$OLDIFS

Run this as, if saved as curl-csv.sh:

$ ./curl-csv.sh curl-csv.csv

If you get the “/bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory” error message you probably created the .sh file in Windows and are running in a Linux shell. Run the following command to rectify.

$ sed -i -e 's/\r$//' curl-csv.sh
Published on December 3, 2020

gulp.watch not firing with changed files when run in WSL

Using WSL Debian for dev and gulp.watch is not running when files are changed on the Windows side. Solution is to add {interval: 1000, usePolling: true} to the gulp.watch event.

For example, here’s the styles portion of my gulp.watch task.

gulp.watch([path.source + 'styles/**/*'], {interval: 1000, usePolling: true}, gulp.series('styles'));
Published on August 19, 2020

Match and replace content in WordPress the_title()

In a situation where content in the_title() needed to be italicized.

function fix_the_title( $title ) {

  $new_title = $title;
  $pattern = '/Content to Match/';
  $replace = '<em>$0</em>';
  $new_title = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $new_title);

  return $new_title;
}
add_filter( 'the_title', 'fix_the_title' );

Add that to functions.php and you’re good.

Published on July 1, 2020