Year: 2022
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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…
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3D
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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…
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Arts and Crafts
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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…
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165c
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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…
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Perception
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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…
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Update
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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…
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Sign of the Times
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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…
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Sign of the Times
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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…
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G5
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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…
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Movies
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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…
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MacBroke Pro
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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…
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April Showers Bring May Blizzards
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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”…
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Weather
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Yesterday it was almost 90 outside, today it is… Listening to “Girl Can’t Help It ” by Journey
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Airport
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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…
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Sauce
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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…
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WoW
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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…