Meandering Thoughts and Random Observations
Just passed 4000 miles. I bought the car on August 10th, 2022 – 404 days ago – so I’m up to about 10 miles a day on average. The up-tick in miles is probably due to the trips to Castlerock every other weekend to have breakfast with a friend and…
Occasionally I’ll be doing something here in the bright and shiny future, and suddenly realize everything is incredibly overcomplicated in the name of technology… For example, this morning I was pulling my laundry out of the washer and tossing it into the dryer, and then navigating the bazillion settings the…
Not only does the bag contain a half an ounce less, but it’s also six bucks now… And that’s pretty much how everything is these days. Listening to "Dark Days" by Timecop1983
A couple of years ago I early-adopted a cloud-based computing platform called “Shadow“. Shadow is interesting because it’s not really a cloud-based gaming platform, it just pretends to be one really well… It’s more aimed at creating dedicated remote-access high-performance computing platforms. Think of it like a modern, low-latency terminal…
It’s been about a week now of using a 2011 computer in 2023, and things are still going well. The only real noticeable difference between decades is that the Mac Pro takes a second or two longer to open an application – and some of the fancy “AI” things in…
It’s been quite the journey to get to this point; sketchy mining cards, shipping complications, undocumented third-party utilities, and a distinct lack of modern-ish Windows hardware at my disposal. That latter kept me at the office until 8pm last night as I tried valiantly to reflash the new RX 6600…