Year: 2023
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2023 – a year in review
It’s that time again; the semi-annual review of the year to somewhat consolidate things into a single post. 2023 was, in most ways, a repeat of 2022; the economy is…
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Drive 5000 miles…
In keeping with tradition, my car just passed 5000 miles and here’s the update. Interestingly, I purchased the 300 on the 10th of August, 2022 – which is about 500…
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Amiga
It’s hard for anyone who wasn’t there to understand just how amazing the Amiga was when it arrived in the mid 80’s… See, prior to the Amiga pretty much everything…
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Not even light can escape…
Back on the 4th I mentioned the Minimig I ordered on the 27th that, in theory, was to arrive on the 6th. Oh, how wrong I was… See, in this…
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E3
As of today, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is no more… The end of an era. Here’s a couple of my E3 badges: one from 2009 and the other from…
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Audio
As I mentioned a few months ago; I’m kinda into music and accordingly I always have some nice stuff for the reproduction of it. Now I’m not some mental-case audiophile…
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Hospital-ity
My roommate is on day three at the hospital; surgery went fine and they got what they were after without complication, so now it’s just recovery from having his insides…
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Robots
About once a week for years now I’ve stopped at the Carl’s Jr. near the office and gotten breakfast. And in that time the morning crew and I have gotten…
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New project
Leading up to September 1989 I’d had quite a few different home computers – Sinclair ZX-81, Commodore VIC-20, and an Atari 800XL – but it was in the afternoon of…
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Wire-less
My CFO / real-estate mogul has been renovating a new house for his family for about a year and a half now – and now that he’s moved in, he…
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Eco-Warriors
My alt.save.the.planet neighbors with the gargantuan SUV, the bad air-conditioning habit, and the alter to Greta Thunberg have struck again… Apparently said neighbor saw a field mouse on their deck…
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Update – the OS kind
We’ve had centralized OS updates in one form or another for about thirty years now, and they still can’t install them when you’re not using the computer… This morning my…
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Update
It’s been a bit, so I should probably post something for proof of life. The roommate’s hospital visit on the 9th turned into a fiasco; I delivered him at noon…
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Tired
So, back on the 24th I had a tussle with some food poisoning which landed me on antibiotics for ten days. Antibiotics tend to make me woozy and slightly ill,…
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Massively Multiplayer
Over the years I’ve played a lot of MMOs, and with a couple of notable exceptions such as World of Warcraft, they’ve all become inoperable relics in my game collection.…
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Economics
There’s a couple of fairly up-scale apartment complexes right near my office; you know the type – one is “modern” and looks like hundreds of various colored cubes stuck together,…
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Update
Back on July 4th, 2022, I put in a request for my OMPF (Official Military Personnel File), and today it showed up in my email from the National Archives. So…
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Debugging
My CFO came in this morning stating the big sliding front doors to the building wouldn’t close. I just had them serviced, so I doubted it was anything major and…
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The Listeria Diet
I spent several hours at “Urgent Care” last evening for a bad bout of food poisoning, probably caused by a King Soopers salad… I try to eat healthy, but apparently…