Author: rihahn
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People suck
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I’ve done pretty good for myself over the years, and accordingly I managed to acquire a really nice car – it’s one of four hundred and fifty for its model…
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Relics of a bygone age
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I was digging around in storage and came upon an old box of ‘gaming stuff’… Pictured are my old Logitech “Wingman Extreme” joystick I used to play Descent II in…
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Update
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2026 has been – interesting – so far… I’m 57 now – so that’s a thing. Three more years to 60, eight more years to retirement. Not that retirement is…
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Generation X
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I was talking with a younger employees today – I think he’s 19 or 20 – and we got on to the subject of what makes Gen-X tick… I boiled…
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Update…
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Still head-down and plodding… At work I’m still cleaning out the office / store room where I stashed all of the crap our spinoff abandoned in place when the plandemic…
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Microslop
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Microsoft has been taking a lot of heat lately, but I don’t really play in the Windows World anymore so it’s just been an entertaining memefest while cruising the socials.…
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Old Odd Storage
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There was a brief period in time where portable electronics had gotten small enough that the HD was the limiting factor – but SSDs hadn’t caught up yet… So you…
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Tis the season
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It appears that I’m rapidly closing in on the end of 2025… Twenty Twenty Five… That seems like an awful big number considering I remember the 1970’s. I got a…
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Still down in it
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November is proving to be the month that never ended; HVAC company still cant find their butt with both hands so I’m still on portable AC units in the server…
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Been a busy month
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November is always busy for me as I try to get everything that needs doing done before December. At work I’ve been cleaning up areas of the building that were…
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Another thousand miles
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The Hellcat ticked over 31,000 miles on the way back from the office today… Ignore the low tire pressure warning – it was literally two degrees above an ice cube…
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Old Habits…
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Had an interesting encounter the other day at work – had an HVAC guy in doing some PMs on the building boiler and server room A/C, and as I walked…
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Good old days…
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Here at the office I’m still cleaning out parts of the building that haven’t seen human habitation since 2020… And today’s bit of entertainment is powering up a few antiques…
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Box Meals
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Last year I briefly tried out “Factor“, a meal delivery service, and after the first few meals wasn’t too impressed. The meals wound up costing about $15-18 each, and just…
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HellCosts…
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I get asked fairly often how much it costs to daily drive a Challenger Hellcat – and today I have some gas costs for you. I set up the Shell…
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TRON
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Went and saw Tron: Ares yesterday. Normally I don’t go to the theater as it’s too expensive and contains too many people, but I discovered that my local theater (AMC…
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AI “Art”
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The two primary arguments I see against AI are “trained on other people’s work” and “uses too much electricity” – with a third bonus point for “artists get paid to…
