Author: rihahn
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3D
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Today we set the wayback machine to 1998; the very early days of 3D video games powered by dedicated 3D hardware… The era of “3dfx” and a whole lot of…
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Arts and Crafts
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I’ve had a few odd art requests from various acquaintances over the last week, and as they seem to be happy with them, I’ll post there here for posterity. First…
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165c
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A long time ago, in the before-times of early 1994, I bought myself a laptop that would change everything… The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 165c had come out in February 1993…
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Perception
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I’m old, so I’ve seen a lot of weather maps in my time… One of the things I’ve noticed over the years is that weather maps seem to be experiencing…
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Update
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Went out to top off the gas tank and get a few groceries today; it’s a pretty crazy world out there… Firstly, I paid $5.20 a gallon for gas today…
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Sign of the Times
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Another week, another trip to the gas station… Gas is up to $4.80 a gallon now. On Thursday I had to drive across town to the dealership for the yearly…
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Sign of the Times
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Back on March 25th I snapped a photo of this pump, where I paid $5 for one and a quarter gallons of gas. Today it was $10 for two and…
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G5
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In my ongoing expose of all of the old Apple stuff I’ve acquired over the years, here’s my “PowerMac8,1” iMac G5. Back in 2001/2002 I was teaching CompSci at Marianapolis…
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Movies
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It’s been a hot minute since the last time I went to the movies… Between needing a space suit for one year, and then the economy being pure suck for…
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MacBroke Pro
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One of the responsibilities of being an “IT Professional” is supplying computer fixes for friends, employees, friends of employees, etcetera. Today’s example is a 2011 15″ MacBook Pro belonging to…
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April Showers Bring May Blizzards
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It snowed all night, so here’s how things look here in Colorado this morning… If it looks cold, that’s because it is; it’s 28 degrees outside. 🙂 Listening to “Explorers”…
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Weather
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Yesterday it was almost 90 outside, today it is… Listening to “Girl Can’t Help It ” by Journey
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Airport
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Another interesting old bit of Apple tech I have laying about here at home; the Gen1 Airport Express. Before the Apple TV, if you wanted to pipe iTunes to your…
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Sauce
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I’m a big fan of hot sauce and tend to put it on everything, because everything can use a bit more spice in my humble opinion. I’m also a bit…
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WoW
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Blizzard, owned by Activision, owned by Microsoft (Microblizzavision) announced the next expansion for World of Warcraft (WoW) about two weeks ago. It piqued my curiosity… See, I more or less…
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Breakfast
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No matter how complicated life gets or how convoluted the world seems, there’s always some solace at Waffle House… Waffle Houses are interesting in that they are always there for…
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Watch
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I have successfully written, compiled, and executed an app on the Apple Watch… The most complicated bit was dealing with dependencies, the code signing, and granting myself permission on everything…
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Case
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The new case for the iPhone came in today… I figured making the iPhone SE look like the Macintosh SE was oddly apropos. Listening to “Blue Morning, Blue Day” by…
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So long, Server
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After many long years, Apple has discontinued MacOS Server. I’ve been using Apple’s server product since OSX came out, I guess it would be 2001 or so, so I have…
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Tweet
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I guess the biggest news in the universe at the moment is that the world’s richest man – Elon Musk – just purchased the world’s most problematic domain – Twitter.com.…