Author: rihahn
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Atari
Ages ago – 1985 / 1986 – I had an Atari 800XL computer that was my gateway to an online world through bulletin boards and things like Compuserve. Prior to…
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6000 miles
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…
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Objectively better
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…
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TV Dinner
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…
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In Living Color
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…
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Collectables
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…
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The State of Things
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…
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Update
Been busy trying to keep the ship afloat and haven’t really done much more than work-stuff in a while now… It happens. There have been a few noteworthy events though,…
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The Computer Wants You To Be Happy
I get asked fairly often by various friends when the subject inevitably turns to computers, “Why Linux?” So, to put my thoughts on the subject into a concise format, I’ll…
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Food
My CFO and the sales guys from our spinoff company have all been eating this stuff called “Factor” at work for a couple years now, and it looks and smells…
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Happy Birthday to me
I’m coming up on the 55 in a couple of days. Wednesday in fact… I still find it hilarious that I’m a ‘senior citizen’ now. Normally my birthday is celebrated…
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Linux all the things
Since my last post I’ve had to load Linux Mint on my MacPro 5,1 at work – a MacOS “security update” a couple of weeks ago did in the OCLP…
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Unix
Well, I gave up on Windows 11 after an entirely too long 90 days… I installed it as my home desktop OS on October 6th, fought with it on and…
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Stormwatch
Lines join in faint discord and the stormwatch brews a concert of kings as the white sea snaps at the heels of a soft prayer whispered. Listening to “Dun Ringill”…
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2024
One more trip around the local star complete – on to the next. Listening to “Wheel in the Sky” by Journey
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2023 – a year in review
It’s that time again; the semi-annual review of the year to somewhat consolidate things into a single post. 2023 was, in most ways, a repeat of 2022; the economy is…
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Drive 5000 miles…
In keeping with tradition, my car just passed 5000 miles and here’s the update. Interestingly, I purchased the 300 on the 10th of August, 2022 – which is about 500…
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Amiga
It’s hard for anyone who wasn’t there to understand just how amazing the Amiga was when it arrived in the mid 80’s… See, prior to the Amiga pretty much everything…
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Not even light can escape…
Back on the 4th I mentioned the Minimig I ordered on the 27th that, in theory, was to arrive on the 6th. Oh, how wrong I was… See, in this…