Year: 2025
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Thoughts
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It’s actually insane how much the ability to focus is a competitive advantage in today’s brainrotted society. If you can just sit down, ignore your phone, resist doomscrolling, close slack/email…
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My Dot.Com Story
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My Dot.Com story begins in 1994… In 1994 I started work at Intelligent Electronics (I.E.) here in Denver; 3rd shift assembly on the IBM EduQuest line. Turnover at I.E. was…
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World Wide Weird
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I was arguing with a plugin on the company website right before lunch, and then while munching on my PB&J came to the conclusion that I’ve been doing this entirely…
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Xserve
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Today’s side project is shoehorning a more modern video card into my 2008 Xserve 2,1. For about ten years Apple also made servers… The first Xserve models back in 2002…
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Laptop
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Every couple of months I drag out my old Mac laptops and run some juice through them to keep the capacitors as fresh as possible. This is a fairly involved…
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In 3D – part the second
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So I spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday working with the Bambu H2D and the Varioshore material from the pervious post to create 1:1 faces for work… And, I’m close. These…
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In 3D
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One of the things we do at work is Biometrics PAD (Presentation Attack Detection) testing, which is just a fancy way of saying we break into biometric access systems by…
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Pizza
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1970’s and 80’s Longmont, the town I grew up in, wasn’t exactly a hotbed of culinary delights – especially when it came to delivery – so if fast food was…
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@dead.net
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Doing some research on the ‘Dead Internet Theory’ – which is a postulate that most of the ‘data’ component of the Internet these days is algorithmic sludge; the content equivalent…
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The Wizard is IN
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Not only do I work with ancient computing history at home, but I’m also called upon on occasion to work the deep magic on artifacts floating around the office. See,…
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PowerMac 8100
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One of the complications with keeping a stable of old computers is maintaining the peripherals it takes to do anything with them – which is why most of my collection…
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Despite the horrors, I persist
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With being down to just me at work I’ve been ridiculously busy the last couple of weeks… And I don’t mean just me in the IT personnel sense, but more…
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Mid-week Update
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I’ve been really busy the last few days… The big thing to deal with of course is my roommate getting laid off as it’s basically a $1500 a month pay…
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Walk it off
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I’m a bit stressed out with everything going on, so I went for a long walk to clear my head… I live across the street from a big state park,…
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Update
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My roommate, we’ll call him RSO, got laid off at work on Monday. I’ve known RSO since 1995. In ’97, when Intelligent Electronics got bought by Ingram Micro, I moved…
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Where the rubber meets the road
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Having recently replaced the fuel pumps on the Hellcat, I’m pretty sure the reduced fuel flow has been dramatically impacting the car since I bought it. With the new fuel…
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Breakfast on the house
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During the week I normally eat breakfast at home before I head into the office, but today I decided to splurge and get something on the way in. I drive…
