Author: rihahn
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In case of fire, yell “Fire!”
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Had a little excitement in my neighborhood this afternoon in the form of a small wildfire in that wooded area in front of my house. I was working from home…
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Spam
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I hate spam. I mean, I really really hate spam… And due to this I spend a borderline insane amount of time creating filters, building heuristic systems, and blocking entire…
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Truck part two
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The other day when the roomie and I were returning from dinner at Culver’s, I noted the odd antenna box sitting next to the rearview mirror in his truck and…
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Ordinary World
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I was listening to Space Radio this morning on the way into the office and Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World” began playing… It’s a very poignant song and one of my…
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Livin’ in the future
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The floppy emulator I ordered a few days ago arrived yesterday afternoon, so I spent the latter half of the day puttering about with antique computers… The emulator came as…
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Modulate Demodulate
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The first thing one should do with any old computer hardware is work out how to get it to connect to the local BBS. The Mac Plus needed some OS…
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Mac+
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Today we set the wayback machine to 1987… In early 1987 my duty station had changed from a TDU at the Groton Subbase to the USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735), which…
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Walk the walk
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A few weeks ago I signed up for this virtual adventure / exercise thing called “Conqueror Virtual Challenges”, and then walked the length of Hadrian’s Wall on Northern England in…
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And a few years later…
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I don’t normally keep my old Windows machines because, well, they’re just old Windows machines. There’s nothing really special about most old Windows machines as they tend to be either…
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Y2K Laptops
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Not all of my interesting antique computers are Apples; I have a few other things that I used back in the day, usually for work, that are pretty interesting… For…
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SELF=YEAR(NOW())-1969
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Well, it’s happened again; as of this morning I’m 54. It’s interesting to me to be one year away from the Seniors Menu at IHOP… Me, a “Senior Citizen“. LOL…
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Old Data
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Today I finished going through all of the posts I imported from LiveJournal and fixed up all of the media. I also removed all of the duplicate media that got…
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mRNA
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Scott Adams over on Twitter has been engaging with his detractors over his pro-mRNA stance. And while it’s mostly disingenuous trolling on his part, which is fine – it’s the…
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Greymuzzle
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I’ve been involved in the furry fandom, in various aspects, since the early 80’s… For me it all began with “Albedo Anthropomorphics”, an independent comic published by Thoughts & Images…
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Update
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Today I fiddled with ye olde website a bit; adjusted some look and feel, added search functionality, and imported everything from LiveJournal just in case Livejournal becomes a casualty of…
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M2
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The new M2 Max MacBook Pro arrived today… Even the shipping box is an origami masterpiece designed to protect the laptop box, which is another origami masterpiece… Apple just loves…
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Books
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Back in August I mentioned that I was embarking on re-reading the “Xanth” novels from my childhood, in order, from one to forty six – and I figured I should…
