On Friday the car hit 6000 miles – so as I usually do here’s the record: I purchased the 300 on August 10th, 2022, which was approximately 600 days ago – so I’m managing to stick to the roughly 10 miles a day that I’ve been averaging since I bought…
I’ve been building a computer to load my old BBS on for giggles – a Dell E521 running Windows XP. The E521 is interesting because it’s one of the last machines Dell made with a Windows XP option – so it’s about as powerful a machine as you can run…
Back in the 80’s I was what they called a “Latch Key Kid”, meaning I usually locked up when I left for school, and let myself back in when I got home – usually an hour after my parents left for work and 2-3 hours before my parents got home.…
I was discussing various old computers with some folks online, and the topic turned to ‘what did screens look like in the 80’s?’ I dug around online for some examples and came up short, so I figured I’d make some based on the machines I have here in my home-office.…
Back in the before-times, comics were a big deal. And accordingly I spent an inordinate amount of time perusing my local comic shops when I was younger. The first comic I really got into was “Cerebus the Ardvark” back in the late 70’s as it was was both edgy and…
I try to avoid the “when I was a kid” posts because they don’t really serve much purpose outside of illustrating that time does indeed pass. But on my walk over to the local mall this morning and looking at the dismal state of things in my four-years-ago-this-was-an-upscale-neighborhood; graffiti, piles…