Author: rihahn
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Groceries…
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Just got back from King Soopers, my local grocers, and things have gotten weirder here in Colofornia… Starting yesterday you have to pay ten cents per plastic bag – ostensibly…
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Snow Day
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Had a bit of a blizzard last night, and the snow outside is deeper than the ground clearance on my car – so it looks like I’m working from home…
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Old Code
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I was rummaging around in a box of old stuff, and came across a typed-out bit of BASIC I wrote for my ZX-81. I know it was the ZX-81 because…
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Christmas Breakfast
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Brought to you by Waffle House. Listening to “Neon Sun” by At 1980
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Designed in California
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Colorado has seasons, which means it occasionally gets colder and cloudier than “72 and sunny” – which also means that things designed for California fail here. Which is unfortunate as…
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Digital Art
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My first ‘art’ on a computer was a code-based graphic of a pegasus, done on my ZX-81 – which was 64×46 pixels. It was basically digital needlepoint, where I’d made…
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TV
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I don’t really own a “TV”; I do all of my media consumption online and I don’t see any real reason to sit across the room from a panel the…
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MiniDisc
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Today we set the wayback machine for February of 1998… In late ’97 I had moved to a forty acre farm in the backwoods of Rhoadesville Virginia and was working…
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2022, a year in review
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2022 has been routinely weird… Which is worrisome that the weird is becoming routine. Once again I didn’t really go anywhere; thanks to the one-two punch of covid and crap…
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Walk
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While I was out on my daily stroll around the neighborhood I noted that the mountains were really pretty – so here, have a picture. I also noted that there…
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Cleaning
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Back in March I bought the 16″ MacBook Pro I’ve been using this year, and by using I mean it’s basically an electronic RV that I move from place to…
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Thanksgiving
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Made it to another Thanksgiving – yay me! Dinner tonight was a Prime Rib done sous vide, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, fresh dinner rolls, and a chocolate silk…
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Photoshop
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I bought my first copy of Photoshop about thirty years ago this month… Which seems like an insanely long time ago. I ran Photoshop 2.5 on my Powerbook 165C back…
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Government efficiency
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Back on July 4th I sent off a request to the SSA for an itemized list of where I’ve worked and when – mostly just to keep the dates and…
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Feeling better – mostly
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So, here I am a bit over a week from when I came down with the 2022 model year of the flu – and I’m pretty much over it I…
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Ill
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It’s been a while, February 2021 in fact, since my last tussle with a yearly flu bug. But yesterday I finally got my ticket punched by this year’s variant. Yesterday…
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Dash Cam 2
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Just to show how prevalent the crazies are now, this is three days after the last post, which also happens to be the next time I left the house… And…