Author: rihahn
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Special Project…
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I’ve got a bit of a special project coming up in the next week or two. Nothing work related, this one is a personal project and it requires these: You…
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Chef Me…
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I don’t really “cook” all that much outside of microwaving stuff, mostly because I have a roommate who kind of leaves the kitchen in a shambles all the time and…
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VBox is a time machine…
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On and off for a week now I’ve been attempting to create a Virtual Box VDI from an old set of Norton Ghost CDs I created back in 2003 —…
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View from the roof
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Had to go up on the roof to check on the fiber switch for the outside cameras, so here’s I-225 looking south on this snowy Monday…
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Winter Wonderland
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It snowed all night and in fact is still snowing right now, which made the drive into work fairly interesting. Not that the Murano has any issue in the snow,…
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Right on schedule
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It’s pretty typical here in Colorado that the first real snow happens right about halloween — this year is no different. I’m a big fan of winter, so to celebrate…
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MacBookPro 16,1 Reload…
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Today was spent reloading OS X 10.15.7 on my 2019 16″ MacBook Pro. Not as big as the 2004 17″ Powerbook G4 I had years ago, but it’s much, much…
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Notes from the Edge
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Just a couple of photos I thought were interesting. The first is something of an alert: I stopped in at the local Carl’s Jr. for breakfast (they make amazing breakfast…
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rihahn.com
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My first “personal” website went online in January of 1996, and was hosted by dimensional.com here in Denver. It was really just a tech demo and advertisement for my web…
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The hub of the grub
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For being so bleeding-edge technologically, I’m a bit of a Cro-Magnon when it comes to trendy high-tech gig-economy services. And accordingly today was my first use of “GrubHub” which has…
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Movies
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It was May in 1980 when the sequel to Star Wars was released; The Empire Strikes Back. I remember standing in line for the theater there in Longmont with my…
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Supplies
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Some of those supplies I mentioned a few entries back came in today… The first was the two one-week boxes of rations. As long as I have water, I have…
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The sounds of silence…
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I’ve had tinnitus most of my life. It all started with a trip to a HamFest with my parents. A HamFest is essentially an organized garage sale for radio nerds,…
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It’s a mad mad mad mad world…
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Given the sliding scale of crazy out there as the year winds to a close, this week I ordered another 60 rounds of 45-70 and two 7-day ration kits that…
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Changing of the seasons…
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It’s the end of September, which means the first real snow here in Colorado should be less than 30 days away. While it’s already snowed here for a couple of…
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The more things change…
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I’ve been working at the same place for over sixteen years now; you can even read about the day I got hired, and it’s been quite an adventure since then.…
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Data Loss
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Sadly, even given the precautions I take, it appears I’ve lost all of my photos between August 28th 2004 and August 9th, 2012. It’s more than likely a combination of…
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Smokey
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With large sections of the west coast being on fire and the jet stream moving west to east, and Colorado having a few of the yearly blazes as well, it’s…
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PowerMac 8,1 (The things I do to recover old email…)
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For my mono-no aware project I’ve been sifting though terabytes of archived data, searching for times and dates to try and build a timeline of the past. Part of this…
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Went to a show…
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Saw “Tenet”. It was very SciFi Channel, but after not seeing a movie since “Rise of Skywalker” nine months ago, I won’t complain. And the popcorn was really good. Scott…