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Software
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Long, long ago software came on physical media – actual floppies, CDs, and DVDs – and I’ve held on to a lot of it that I’ve purchased over the years.…
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History
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Still on my personal quest to nail down specific dates and places for my memoirs; everything gets a bit murky after twenty-plus years, and I’m a stickler for detail. Today…
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Arts and Crafts
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I’ve had a few odd art requests from various acquaintances over the last week, and as they seem to be happy with them, I’ll post there here for posterity. First…
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Perception
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I’m old, so I’ve seen a lot of weather maps in my time… One of the things I’ve noticed over the years is that weather maps seem to be experiencing…
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Update
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Went out to top off the gas tank and get a few groceries today; it’s a pretty crazy world out there… Firstly, I paid $5.20 a gallon for gas today…
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Movies
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It’s been a hot minute since the last time I went to the movies… Between needing a space suit for one year, and then the economy being pure suck for…
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April Showers Bring May Blizzards
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It snowed all night, so here’s how things look here in Colorado this morning… If it looks cold, that’s because it is; it’s 28 degrees outside. 🙂 Listening to “Explorers”…
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Weather
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Yesterday it was almost 90 outside, today it is… Listening to “Girl Can’t Help It ” by Journey
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Sauce
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I’m a big fan of hot sauce and tend to put it on everything, because everything can use a bit more spice in my humble opinion. I’m also a bit…
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WoW
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Blizzard, owned by Activision, owned by Microsoft (Microblizzavision) announced the next expansion for World of Warcraft (WoW) about two weeks ago. It piqued my curiosity… See, I more or less…
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Breakfast
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No matter how complicated life gets or how convoluted the world seems, there’s always some solace at Waffle House… Waffle Houses are interesting in that they are always there for…
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Tweet
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I guess the biggest news in the universe at the moment is that the world’s richest man – Elon Musk – just purchased the world’s most problematic domain – Twitter.com.…
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Sign of the Times
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The is the first time I’ve seen a bare shelf at my local Walmart… I guess I won’t be making eggs for breakfast this week. Listening to “Even Less” by…
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Dusty
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The weather here in Denver was a bit windy yesterday, which stirred up a bit of a sand storm that eventually ended up in my house… Today is all about…
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Shady
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So I got an email from a sales-drone at Amazon today stating that they had noticed my EC2 usage had increased – so they wanted to discus my usage and…
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Empathy
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Today, when I had to go and clean out the bin on my upstairs Neato vacuum, I noticed some interesting empathy. See, my upstairs Neato is a “Botvac Connected”, and…
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In stereo where available
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My 32 year old, fifty pound, wondrously analog Denon AVC-3000 receiver finally succumbed to entropy today… I knew the end would come soon. See, the left channel had been weak…
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eBay, part the third
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Back on March 23rd I mentioned that I’d sold a few things on eBay, and that one of the items was a rather high-end motherboard. Then on April 3rd the…
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Lift
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Some excitement this morning; the elevator at my office failed – while I was in it. I got in, pressed three, the doors closed and the elevator got to about…
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Breakfast
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This morning’s breakfast is “Le Peep”; there’s one just south of my place on Parker road, but I’ve not eaten there until this morning. I think the last time I…