Ves

@vesdba.me

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I constantly read, frequently do database stuff, sometimes write, and occasionally take pictures of space.

Photo from national lampoons Christmas vacation where cousins Eddie stands in the snow wearing a short cloth bath robe, socks, and shoes.. I'm the movie he's saying "shitters full" which relates to the RV he's been traveling in.
Photo of car rental booths. On the left, Budget and on the right Avis. Between their computerized signs is a bios screen for ami American Megatrends. Probably a computer behind the scenes is having boot issues.
Image showing books read in January 2026 including their rating. There are 9 books - three of them from the Bloodsworn Trilogy by John Gwynne and the others Fantastic Four TBPs. Shadow of the Gods (Gwynne) - 5.0 Hunger of the Gods (Gwynne) - 5.0 Fury of the Gods (Gwynne) - 4.75 Fantastic Four (all Ryan North) - 4.0 for each
Image from storygraph showing December book stats - total books:19 - total pages: 3,566 - average rating: 3.82 Highest rated reads: Die! Die! Die! volumes 1 and 2.
Screenshot of video mentioned in the regular text. The captured image shows an aircraft with two rocket engines at the back (lit up like afterburners) flying at speed over a planet. There's some untranslated Japanese text underneath. This is from the opening credits.
Storygraph ratings stats for November 2025 - Uncanny Magazine - 4.0 - By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars (Premee Mohamed) - 4.0 - Dropnauts (J. Scott Coatsworth) - 3.5 - Down Cemetery Road (Mick Herron) - 4.0 - Pietr the Latvian (Georges Simenon) - 3.5 - The Carter of La Providence (Georges Simenon) - 4.0 - The Late Monsieur Gallet (Georges Simenon) - 3.5 - The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Georges Simenon) - 4.0
Storygraph October reading wrap-up. Shows 9 books read, 3049 pages with an average rating of 3.94. There are three hightest rated reads listed - Lazaurus (graphic novel by Greg Rucker), The Shattering Peace (John Scalzi), Silver and Lead (Seanan McGuire). The average book length is 338 pages and average time to finish is 9 days. The majority of read work are science fiction followed by fantasy, science, dystopian, comics.
Image of receipt for $120 donated to the food bank along with a $120 company match
Side photo of lower leg. The leg has some connected hexagons. Within one of these hexagons is a tattoo of Darth Vader. Half of his face is covered by his helmet, the other half is open and shows his disfigured (burned) face from Return of the Jedi. Another hexagon has a set of geometric shapes in black and grey - as if someone did tie dye but with just black dye.
PWHL Seattle cream and green jersey
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Picture of a bunch of racked servers with the text "it's not dns. There's no way it's dns. It was dns."
Street poster showing Noem in handcuffs and behind her an ice officer that instead has "nice" in hot pink. Above the two is the word "that's"
Bunch of hockey players on ice
Image shows text - Here’s how you can narrate that output in one smooth paragraph, bro:
Image of the old ZX Spectrum game "Manic Miner." This is an 8-bit platform game from 1983 with blocky graphics and garish colors of red, green, and white.
Close up image of a tattoo. The tattoo is a hyperrealistic feminine vampire mouth with pointed incisors. You can see the light softly reflecting off the lips and the top teeth. The mouth is set within one of several hexagons. The other hexagons are empty.
Geordi meme First panel - "huge TBR pile" Second panel - "New Marko Kloos novel"
Stack of books
Screen shot of part of a web page. It is just text that reads Building Writing Skills Through Fan FictionFanfic; Writing; Streaming; Virtual Room 433-434, Thu. 10:30–11:30 a.m. Before we write, we read, and often, it’s our favorite stories and characters that inspire us to be writers in the first place. Whether you stick with fan fiction or not, fan fiction is a place where young writers can play in a familiar sandbox, honing their skills and building their own authorial voice. Which fanfic writing skills translate directly to pro-writer skills—and what fanfic skills don’t connect to commercial markets at all? Brian C. E. Buhl (M), Ann Michelle Harris, Atlin Merrick, Elliott Kay, Judy I. Lin
Photo of art on wall - Left top print of painting showing a valley and milky way night sky bottom left print of painting showing a beachy landscape withmilky way night sky Top center - painting of Spock and Bones from ST:TOS. Painted on them are baseball hats and gold chains with the text "Straight Outta Vulcan" Middle center - original oil painting of the pillar of creation. The painting is broken into squares that reflect different parts of the light spectrum. Middle lower left and middle lower right - b&w prints with abstract horror imagery Middle lower center - Bandit from Bluey in "this is fine" meme Top right - painting Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect Lower right - print of painting of Jupiter
Cricket pitch photo. Players in yellow and lime green
Thousands of cricket fans in the stands on Oakland Colosseum waving orange SFU or blue MINY flags.
Photo of cricket pitch.
Bottom two shelves of a bookcase. Multiple Heilein leather bound books
Child in a black outfit looking angry. Words over the image "congrats, happy for you, nice"
Photo of "ports to freedom" notice posted on a wall. Top of it says "ports to freedom - no one should have to force a person into work or prostitution". Beneath that is the text repeated in different languages that starts by saying "people have rights in the United states, regardless of immigration status"
Image of Seattle PWHL hockey team logo (emerald green and cream hockey sticks within a round border). Text under logo - You're In! Your Season Ticket Membership Deposit purchase has been completed. You will recieve a confirmation email with details shortly. Information regarding season ticket membership seat selection and purchase will be sent directly to your email address in the coming months.
Screencap of USPS package tracking page that states "Sorry, we're currently experiencing technical difficulties with our tracking application. We thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the issue. Please check back."
Badly designed white page with a blue and red border. On the page there is the text "United State Goverment Govormint Gvmt Census" with the words "Goverment Govormint Gvmt" struck through. Beneath that is the word "Race" and below that two options with checkboxes. The first option is "white". The second option is "other". All the text uses the comic sans font.
Photo of the crew from the TV show faracape
Photo of hand holding box labeled SQL server 2009 r2 developer
Man tapping head meme with the text "you can't do mail in voting if you eliminate the post office"
pepperidge farms meme - old man holding a small bag of cookies. Top text: emember when the GOP freaked out over hilary having a private email server (and not just having some rando plug in a hard drive to critical national assets)? Bottom text: pepperidge farms remembers
Photo of lower leg with blue leggings, bright yellow socks and blue and bright yellow sneakers
Flex tape meme. Top of image shows man (labeled "dev") looks at tank of water (labeled "deadlocks"). Water is pouring out of a hole in the side of the tank. Bottom of image shows flex tape slapped on to the tank to stop the water flowing out. The tape is labeled "nolock"
Image of the skeets in replying to indicating it's from the "quiet posters" feed
Photo from a (dirty) plane window showing the horizon. Beneath the horizon, the ground is dark. At it, there is a band of red and above that a band of orange and above that the sky gradients from a light blue to black.
Distracted man meme - Man (tagged 51st state) looking back at woman dressed in red (tagged Canada), while woman in blue jeans and shirt stares at him with disgust (tagged DC/Puerto Rico/Guam)
Shocked Pikachu face
Image from StoryGraph showing the number of books/pages read in 2024 by month and the genres most read. Most read books was May as was most read pages. Most popular genre was scifi followed by fantasy with others lagging well behind.
Image of screenshot of contact form for Patty Murray with the text: Yesterday, you approved a bill that includes a provision removing healthcare coverage for gender-affirming care for transgender family members of armed service personnel. How dare you? You cannot claim to be "working for Washington state" when you vote to strip critical healthcare away from children in the armed forces, which includes children who live and go to school in Washington State. "Oh, but I was a signatory on an amendment to remove that language" is likely to be your response (ref https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/baldwin-20-senators-introduce-ndaa-amendment-to-protect-military-parents-right-to-health-care-for-their-kids). That amendment went nowhere, thanks to your party leadership, and yet, despite being fully aware that signing off on the bill, without this amendment, would strip away healthcare rights, you went ahead and voted "Yea". The only conclusion that I can reach from this is that your sponsorship of Senator Baldwin's amendment to eliminate the healthcare provision was nothing but performative from someone that believed it would never be passed. It is repugnant to me that I voted for you. I will not make that mistake again. And the next time you're stumping for cash to fund your campaign, feel free to not have me on any of your mailing lists, because you aren't getting a dime.
Image from World Cup 26 details on hospitality deposits that cost $$500. Text on screen: PRIORITY ACCESS FOR FIFA WORLD CUP 26™ OFFICIAL HOSPITALITY FIFA has appointed On Location as the Official Hospitality Provider of the FIFA World Cup 26™, and we can’t wait to bring you the ultimate experience at the greatest sporting event the world has ever seen. Place a deposit today to receive: Front-of-the-line access to hospitality packages for the biggest tournament ever. Luxury offerings, exclusive experiences, and more. Not ready to place your deposit yet? Looking for corporate options or to learn more and stay connected? Register here and be the first to hear about premium product launches.
Photo of US election ballot with Kamala Harris marked.
Image of text: My wife Kerry is a biochemist, and back in 2015 she got together with some friends to start an event called Science Cafe. Here’s how it worked: Every month they would book out a steampunk coffee shop in Cape Town, and bring in scientists to give enthusiastic lectures on their areas of expertise. The talks were less than an hour long and aimed at a general audience, and the topics included the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, indigenous medicine, biomimicry, string theory, and gravitational waves. There was beer and pizza, and the place was always packed.
Photo from behind that looks like a dragonfly but has black and white wings. The photo is close up as the skimmer stands on the end of a piece of wood. There are green leaves around it.
Cover image of the novel "Loka" by S.B. Divya. Image depicts a person in the distance standing on a rock. A bicycle is next to them. There are steep mountainous walls to each side that are covered in grass or moss.
Cover image of "The Mercy of Gods" by James S.A. Corey. Image shows, from street level, a shot of giant buildings that appear grown rather than built as their shape is not blocky or square. The buildings extend to a sky with bright yellow clouds lit by a strongly shining sun.
Image of Trump tweet from May 30, 2017. Tweets says "despite the constant negative press covfefe"
Image of a book cover. A burnt orange background with bold black text "Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes ------ R. Austin Freeman" There is nothing else on the cover.
Neon pinks and greens above trees
Image from the PiHole web interface. It shows the top permitted domains and list is truncated to a single entry for ingest.sentry.io which has 241918 hits in the last 24 hours.
Photo of cases of SQL pass summit recordings from 2011, 2011, 2016
Cover for "Love After the End" - an anthology of two-spirit & indigiqueer speculative fiction
Screenshot from phone of music app playing "what do you do with a B.A. in English" from Avenue Q - the musical
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