The system is down

I learned recently that HomestarRunner.com is 25 years old this year, and that there's a cute Trogdor: The Burninator plushie available to celebrate. It's adorable.

Anyway, there was an early Strong Bad email where a special light switch is installed so that The Cheat can use it. The Cheat opted for a light switch rave instead.

It actually brings back a lot of memories, including me and a group of college friends walking down Cliffton in Cincinnati, with each one us performing a role in the techno song. Good times.

I think of that every time there's a major system outage, like the current Cloudflare outage that's preventing me from doing any work this morning.

My newsletter? Down. My website? Down. My website's host? It uses Cloudflare's CAPTCHA, so it doesn't work. I can't even use the website to get my most up-to-date DNS records from my site to try to temporarily migrate my DNS off of Cloudflare, because I can't log into Cloudflare because Cloudflare uses Cloudflare's CAPTCHA interface.

Good grief.