Year: 2023
-
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get
A little return to winter here today, so here’s a picture for the snow deprived out there: I’m also testing the post template I whipped up to make posting more…
-
Update
Took the 300 over to the dealership to take care of a TSB… Apparently a few 2022 cars have flakey tire pressure sensors and people are too stupid these days…
-
Space
I’ve always been into ‘space stuff’, so I tend to always have an eye on whatever the new space-thing is… And today the new space-thing was SpaceX’s test of the…
-
Wild Life
Some new residents out in the forest in front of my place… Wild turkeys. Potato pictures because I was zoomed in quite a bit on my phone as to not…
-
April showers
Yesterday it was 81 degrees. Today it is: Springtime in the Rockies. Listening to “Love Game” by Timecop1983
-
Sun-Shine
I rarely talk about work because almost everything I do is NDA, trade secret, classified, or otherwise controlled information – so it’s easier to just avoid the topic entirely. But,…
-
That one time…
Story time! Back when I was in the Navy I did a lot of scuba training – for obvious reasons… That whole submarine, underwater, living near the ocean thing. Anyway,…
-
Part and parcel…
Three posts in one day!? Right after posting the last ramble about an old server, my roommate IM’d me to ask if I left the garage door open when I…
-
High-end server
Back in 1999, when we started the company, we bought some really high-end servers for performance testing – and I still have a few for ‘old times sake’. Here, for…
-
Dystopia
The 80’s were a pretty wild time, and despite the rainbows and day-glow the decade had a bit of a dystopian undercurrent that showed up in the pop culture of…
-
In case of fire, yell “Fire!”
Had a little excitement in my neighborhood this afternoon in the form of a small wildfire in that wooded area in front of my house. I was working from home…
-
Spam
I hate spam. I mean, I really really hate spam… And due to this I spend a borderline insane amount of time creating filters, building heuristic systems, and blocking entire…
-
Truck part two
The other day when the roomie and I were returning from dinner at Culver’s, I noted the odd antenna box sitting next to the rearview mirror in his truck and…
-
Ordinary World
I was listening to Space Radio this morning on the way into the office and Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World” began playing… It’s a very poignant song and one of my…
-
Livin’ in the future
The floppy emulator I ordered a few days ago arrived yesterday afternoon, so I spent the latter half of the day puttering about with antique computers… The emulator came as…
-
Modulate Demodulate
The first thing one should do with any old computer hardware is work out how to get it to connect to the local BBS. The Mac Plus needed some OS…
-
Mac+
Today we set the wayback machine to 1987… In early 1987 my duty station had changed from a TDU at the Groton Subbase to the USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735), which…
-
