Author: rihahn
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Breaking And Entering
This morning at 0500 I got a text from my CFO asking if I was up – and of course I was because 0500 is when I start the day……
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LAN Party
Back in the before times of the 90’s we used to drag our gaming rigs over to friends houses to play multiplayer games… And being as I was a network…
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Disgruntled
In my continuing analysis of life in the idiocracy timeline, today I present another grocery run… A few variables: The above is Total? $82.52 ($77.63 after coupons) When the tech…
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Audit ALL the things!
You can tell things are getting tight economically by the number of organizations shaking down my company for loose change right now. This month started with a tax audit by…
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DARWARS
I was digging around in an old box of stuff here at work and came across a DVD for one of the first things I worked on when I started…
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The Golden Age of Wireless
A package arrived today… I’ve been searching for the Apple branded wifi card for my circa 2000 PowerBook G3 “Pismo” on and off for quite some time, and while they…
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Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get
A little return to winter here today, so here’s a picture for the snow deprived out there: I’m also testing the post template I whipped up to make posting more…
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Update
Took the 300 over to the dealership to take care of a TSB… Apparently a few 2022 cars have flakey tire pressure sensors and people are too stupid these days…
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Space
I’ve always been into ‘space stuff’, so I tend to always have an eye on whatever the new space-thing is… And today the new space-thing was SpaceX’s test of the…
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Wild Life
Some new residents out in the forest in front of my place… Wild turkeys. Potato pictures because I was zoomed in quite a bit on my phone as to not…
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April showers
Yesterday it was 81 degrees. Today it is: Springtime in the Rockies. Listening to “Love Game” by Timecop1983
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Sun-Shine
I rarely talk about work because almost everything I do is NDA, trade secret, classified, or otherwise controlled information – so it’s easier to just avoid the topic entirely. But,…
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That one time…
Story time! Back when I was in the Navy I did a lot of scuba training – for obvious reasons… That whole submarine, underwater, living near the ocean thing. Anyway,…
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Part and parcel…
Three posts in one day!? Right after posting the last ramble about an old server, my roommate IM’d me to ask if I left the garage door open when I…
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High-end server
Back in 1999, when we started the company, we bought some really high-end servers for performance testing – and I still have a few for ‘old times sake’. Here, for…
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Dystopia
The 80’s were a pretty wild time, and despite the rainbows and day-glow the decade had a bit of a dystopian undercurrent that showed up in the pop culture of…
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In case of fire, yell “Fire!”
Had a little excitement in my neighborhood this afternoon in the form of a small wildfire in that wooded area in front of my house. I was working from home…
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Spam
I hate spam. I mean, I really really hate spam… And due to this I spend a borderline insane amount of time creating filters, building heuristic systems, and blocking entire…