Author: rihahn
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Labor Day ’25
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So, I got Labor Day off this year… Labor Day is generally a grilling day full of BBQ, brats, and beer – but I don’t have anything to BBQ and…
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Cold hard cash
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Back in ’99 I did some globe-trotting for work… In May I was in England for a couple of weeks. And then I jetted off to Amsterdam for a couple…
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Improvement…
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Just had my groceries for the next week delivered – lunch meat and cheese, buns, four breakfast bowls, four breakfast burritos, a half-gallon of orange juice, four spicy chicken sandwiches,…
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If you don’t like the weather…
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Wait a minute, it’ll change. Colorado has some really rapid weather shifts, and today it went from nice and sunny to thunderstorms and hail in like two minutes flat. I…
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Today’s view from the guest room
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My guest room’s windows face west, and the house sits on a ridge looking over Denver – so the view from those windows overlooks the forest outside my front door,…
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30,000 miles
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I bought the car with 24,800 miles on 31 MAY 2024 – 455 days ago. So I’m averaging 11.42 miles a day… Still a daily driver. I did add about…
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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…
