Year: 2023
-
‘Burger Helper
Written by
on
It’s been a long time since I’ve made Hamburger Helper… In fact, the last time was probably back when I was in the Navy and living in New London –…
-
Book Report
Written by
on
Back in August I decided to take on the challenge of re-reading / reading the entire Xanth Series by Piers Anthony. In January I was most of the way through…
-
Update
Written by
on
Back on march 31st, we had a bit of a fire nearby… A fire that caused about a dozen homes to be evacuated while the local fire department spent most…
-
I drive an invisible car…
Written by
on
That has to be it. It’s the only thing I can think of that explains the propensity for people to completely miss the fact that my bright white four door…
-
iPod
Written by
on
Today’s old hardware is a 4th generation iPod Touch… While I don’t have my original ‘click wheel’ iPod anymore, I do still have my original 2005 iPod Shuffle and this…
-
WWDC 23
Written by
on
Yesterday was the annual Apple “World Wide Developer Conference” – which is where Apple shows off all of their new and updated stuff. There was all of the usual stuff;…
-
SGI
Written by
on
Ever wondered what a $30,000 computer looked like in the mid 90’s? Well, let me show you… The above, in 1994, came with a 150Mhz R4400SC cpu, 24-bit XL graphics…
-
Mixtapes
Written by
on
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like being in Highschool in the mid-80’s – here’s the musical version: “Mixtapes” by Moonrunner83 – featuring N8TVS Waking up in the middle…
-
Crowfall
Written by
on
Back in March of 2015 I heard that an MMO I really liked back in the old days of the early 2000’s – Shadowbane – was having a bit of…
-
Ance-story
Written by
on
On a lark, this weekend I was engaged in one of the traditional pastimes of “old people” – the Family Tree. In short, like most things with my life, it’s…
-
Land of (lane) Confusion
Written by
on
Another day, another curious example of why everyone’s car insurance costs so much… The police officer who pulled up into the opposite turn lane just as the space cadet ran…
-
Hand Crafted Bits
Written by
on
The site took a dive yesterday; completely fubar’d. So today I sftp’d my backup of the old wp-content directory into a totally new GoDaddy server instance, which then required hand-jamming…
-
Breaking And Entering
Written by
on
This morning at 0500 I got a text from my CFO asking if I was up – and of course I was because 0500 is when I start the day……
-
LAN Party
Written by
on
Back in the before times of the 90’s we used to drag our gaming rigs over to friends houses to play multiplayer games… And being as I was a network…
-
-
Disgruntled
Written by
on
In my continuing analysis of life in the idiocracy timeline, today I present another grocery run… A few variables: The above is Total? $82.52 ($77.63 after coupons) When the tech…
-
Audit ALL the things!
Written by
on
You can tell things are getting tight economically by the number of organizations shaking down my company for loose change right now. This month started with a tax audit by…
-
DARWARS
Written by
on
I was digging around in an old box of stuff here at work and came across a DVD for one of the first things I worked on when I started…
-
The Golden Age of Wireless
Written by
on
A package arrived today… I’ve been searching for the Apple branded wifi card for my circa 2000 PowerBook G3 “Pismo” on and off for quite some time, and while they…