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Year: 2022

  • Software

    Software

    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.…

  • BBSing

    BBSing

    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,…

  • The Apple “G-Machine” trifecta

    The Apple “G-Machine” trifecta

    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…

  • Capacitors

    Capacitors

    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…

  • History

    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…

  • 3D

    3D

    Today we set the wayback machine to 1998; the very early days of 3D video games powered by dedicated 3D hardware… The era of “3dfx” and a whole lot of…

  • Arts and Crafts

    Arts and Crafts

    I’ve had a few odd art requests from various acquaintances over the last week, and as they seem to be happy with them, I’ll post there here for posterity. First…

  • 165c

    165c

    A long time ago, in the before-times of early 1994, I bought myself a laptop that would change everything… The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 165c had come out in February 1993…

  • Perception

    I’m old, so I’ve seen a lot of weather maps in my time… One of the things I’ve noticed over the years is that weather maps seem to be experiencing…

  • Update

    Update

    Went out to top off the gas tank and get a few groceries today; it’s a pretty crazy world out there… Firstly, I paid $5.20 a gallon for gas today…

  • Sign of the Times

    Sign of the Times

    Another week, another trip to the gas station… Gas is up to $4.80 a gallon now. On Thursday I had to drive across town to the dealership for the yearly…

  • Sign of the Times

    Sign of the Times

    Back on March 25th I snapped a photo of this pump, where I paid $5 for one and a quarter gallons of gas. Today it was $10 for two and…

  • G5

    G5

    In my ongoing expose of all of the old Apple stuff I’ve acquired over the years, here’s my “PowerMac8,1” iMac G5. Back in 2001/2002 I was teaching CompSci at Marianapolis…

  • Movies

    Movies

    It’s been a hot minute since the last time I went to the movies… Between needing a space suit for one year, and then the economy being pure suck for…

  • MacBroke Pro

    One of the responsibilities of being an “IT Professional” is supplying computer fixes for friends, employees, friends of employees, etcetera. Today’s example is a 2011 15″ MacBook Pro belonging to…

  • April Showers Bring May Blizzards

    April Showers Bring May Blizzards

    It snowed all night, so here’s how things look here in Colorado this morning… If it looks cold, that’s because it is; it’s 28 degrees outside. 🙂 Listening to “Explorers”…

  • Weather

    Yesterday it was almost 90 outside, today it is… Listening to “Girl Can’t Help It ” by Journey

  • Airport

    Airport

    Another interesting old bit of Apple tech I have laying about here at home; the Gen1 Airport Express. Before the Apple TV, if you wanted to pipe iTunes to your…

  • Sauce

    Sauce

    I’m a big fan of hot sauce and tend to put it on everything, because everything can use a bit more spice in my humble opinion. I’m also a bit…

  • WoW

    Blizzard, owned by Activision, owned by Microsoft (Microblizzavision) announced the next expansion for World of Warcraft (WoW) about two weeks ago. It piqued my curiosity… See, I more or less…