Author: rihahn
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Sign of the Times
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The is the first time I’ve seen a bare shelf at my local Walmart… I guess I won’t be making eggs for breakfast this week. Listening to “Even Less” by…
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Dusty
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The weather here in Denver was a bit windy yesterday, which stirred up a bit of a sand storm that eventually ended up in my house… Today is all about…
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Shady
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So I got an email from a sales-drone at Amazon today stating that they had noticed my EC2 usage had increased – so they wanted to discus my usage and…
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Empathy
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Today, when I had to go and clean out the bin on my upstairs Neato vacuum, I noticed some interesting empathy. See, my upstairs Neato is a “Botvac Connected”, and…
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iPhone, part 2
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For the pure entertainment value of it, I present my original 2008 iPhone… Technically this is an iPhone 2G as it’s the 2008 16G version of the 2007 iPhone 1.…
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In stereo where available
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My 32 year old, fifty pound, wondrously analog Denon AVC-3000 receiver finally succumbed to entropy today… I knew the end would come soon. See, the left channel had been weak…
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Mindful
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With the return to the iPhone I’m also able to return to wearing my iWatch, which completes my iLife iSuppose. Before I could set up the watch with the new…
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iPhone
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The new iPhone arrived this evening and I have it all set up… It’s pretty nice, and usable one-handed, which is a bonus. Oddly, I have to get another sim…
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Cellphone
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Prior to my first cellphone I had a pager… In the early 90’s everyone had a pager as it was far less expensive than a cellphone both in cost and…
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eBay, part the third
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Back on March 23rd I mentioned that I’d sold a few things on eBay, and that one of the items was a rather high-end motherboard. Then on April 3rd the…
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Where the Internet Began
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I got a few questions about the Before Times from my post yesterday – mostly asking about how the Internet finally materialized out of government funding and corporate phone companies……
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Online
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Believe it or not, there was a time before the Internet… It was a time simply known as “online”, where systems weren’t as interconnected as they are today and tended…
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G4
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Purely for the entertainment value, today I’m installing weird operating systems on my 17-inch 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4. I briefly had MorphOS, the AmigaOS-alike offering, installed. I installed MorphOS via the…
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RTFM
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Last evening I got a note from ebay stating that the buyer of the motherboard I recently sold wants a refund because it doesn’t work… The note the buyer included…
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Lift
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Some excitement this morning; the elevator at my office failed – while I was in it. I got in, pressed three, the doors closed and the elevator got to about…
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Processing
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Yesterday I decided to put the new laptop through its paces with some complicated video work – just to see how well it performed. I have a couple of collector’s…
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Drive
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Having nothing better to do, and being tired of staring at the walls, today I decided to move some funds around and go for a drive… The route was simple;…
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Breakfast
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This morning’s breakfast is “Le Peep”; there’s one just south of my place on Parker road, but I’ve not eaten there until this morning. I think the last time I…
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Sign of the Times
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I’ve taken to topping off the gas tank in the car every week just because it feels less expensive to spend smaller amounts more often… I know it’s not, but…
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For sale
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Well, I’ve had my first encounter with selling something on ebay. For the most part, it’s pretty painless… I wanted to sell an old motherboard and my old Cintiq tablet…