Month: July 2022
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Eco
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My neighborhood has both a regular trash service and a recycling service, each with a different can. I generate so little trash that I don’t really participate… I mean, by…
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I’ve Seen All Good People
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Yesterday I posted about the Pink Floyd show I saw in 1994, which was notable as being the last Pink Floyd tour ever. A few years prior to this I…
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Division Bell
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It is June 18th, 1994, just after sunset… I’m standing in a throng of 69,788 people on the field of Mile High Stadium; the scent of pot thickly fills the…
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Red Barchetta
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I’m sitting here at work, working (as one tends to do at work), and I’m playing my ‘old man’ music… Today is a selection of old Rush from the recent…
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Software
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Long, long ago software came on physical media – actual floppies, CDs, and DVDs – and I’ve held on to a lot of it that I’ve purchased over the years.…
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BBSing
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For the sheer Back-To-The-Future-Ness of it, I’ve spent some time over the last few days working out how to get 20th century analog to work with 21st century digital. See,…
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The Apple “G-Machine” trifecta
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Earlier today I posted some photos of my G5 iMac, so I figured I should show off the rest of my “G” collection… Before the G5 there was the aptly…
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Capacitors
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My G5 iMac started getting a little flakey the other day, which usually means one thing; the dreaded aging capacitor issue… See, back in the old days capacitors were basically…
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History
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Still on my personal quest to nail down specific dates and places for my memoirs; everything gets a bit murky after twenty-plus years, and I’m a stickler for detail. Today…