Author: rihahn
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Interactive Entertainment
I’ve been orbiting the game development space for over three decades at this point, so I have a lot of cool stories and weird artifacts from the past. For example,…
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1987
For me, certain albums tie deeply to certain periods of my life – and today as I was listening to my tunes and working on some C++ code, I came…
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And done – for now…
The new carbon fiber intake tube / filter arrived today and was promptly installed. And with that I think I’m done for a little while. In the last 30 days…
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33,000 miles
Another thousand miles added to the car since March 12th, so 83 days. I bought the car with 24,800 miles on 31 MAY 2024 – 733 days ago – and…
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Fuel Injection
Memorial Day weekend over – back to the office, though I had to take an Uber to get there and back. After telling my roommate for the last four days…
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And again…
So, the injectors I ordered, that were scheduled to arrive today, then FedEx told me Thursday, then at 1pm Thursday decided that, no, it would be Friday – arrived. Well,…
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AT&T
When I moved in here, five-ish years ago, I had CenturyLink broadband installed, and got the “lifetime” $75/month deal for 1gig bi-directional… Not bad. The problem with ISPs and “lifetime”…
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Shipping and Handling, part 2
Since my last post regarding the epidemic of shipping foibles currently, I had an especially good screwup… In last Thursday’s meeting (The 14th of May), one of the project managers…
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The cost of (horse)power
Back on June 17th, 2022, during the height of an unprecedented global pandemic, I hit a personal record at the gas station: $5.20 per gallon. Today I set a new…
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Automotive
Two things done on the Hellcat over the last few days; coil packs and catch can. For the coil packs I started with the hard ones first – the passenger…
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Shipping and Handling
I’m not sure what’s going on, but for the last month I’ve not gotten a single package on time, and two so far have gone completely missing. It’s not like…
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Technology
A couple of months ago the battery in my 2022 iPhone 14 Pro Max bit the dust, so I replaced it with the iPhone 17 ‘air’ – which is a…
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Been a while
With everything going on – and none of it really noteworthy – I’ve not posted anything here in a while. Let me remedy that. First up is another of the…
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Old Photos
I found a few really old digital photos from a camera I had that decided to only take 320×240 images and ran them through Topaz Gigapixel for fun – not…
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And I would drive 1000 miles…
Hit 32,000 miles on the way to the office this morning. 31,000 miles happened back on November 9th… So it took me about four months to put another thousand miles…
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People suck
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
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…
