Author: rihahn
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Wild Life
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Some new residents out in the forest in front of my place… Wild turkeys. Potato pictures because I was zoomed in quite a bit on my phone as to not…
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April showers
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Yesterday it was 81 degrees. Today it is: Springtime in the Rockies. Listening to “Love Game” by Timecop1983
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Sun-Shine
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I rarely talk about work because almost everything I do is NDA, trade secret, classified, or otherwise controlled information – so it’s easier to just avoid the topic entirely. But,…
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That one time…
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Story time! Back when I was in the Navy I did a lot of scuba training – for obvious reasons… That whole submarine, underwater, living near the ocean thing. Anyway,…
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Part and parcel…
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Three posts in one day!? Right after posting the last ramble about an old server, my roommate IM’d me to ask if I left the garage door open when I…
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High-end server
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Back in 1999, when we started the company, we bought some really high-end servers for performance testing – and I still have a few for ‘old times sake’. Here, for…
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Dystopia
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The 80’s were a pretty wild time, and despite the rainbows and day-glow the decade had a bit of a dystopian undercurrent that showed up in the pop culture of…
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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…
