2022 GenX Mixtape
Yesterday M.Belanger mentioned over on birbsite putting together a 2022 GenX rage mixtape, which got me thinking along the same lines. Even though due to a number of factors, to be perfectly honest...
View ArticleMid-year .plan file update.
Well, I've uploaded the latest version of my .plan file once again. All the usual warnings and advisories apply.You know, at some point I'm going to run out of ways to signal that I've updated that...
View ArticleThere probably never will be a back to normal.
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." --Mal Reynolds, FireflyI've been relying heavily upon timed posts these last few weeks because my mental health has been...
View ArticleLife in a rudderless world
"The truth of the world is that is is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy, or the grey aliens, or the twelve-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control,...
View ArticleAlmost, but not quite jury duty.
Disclaimer: This blog post is not legal advice. Nothing in this post or my site in general are legal advice. I am not a lawyer. I just want to reassure folks who might be nervous about jury duty.A...
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View ArticleStrange sources of wisdom and capitalism.
I apologize in advance for how disjointed this post seems. I've been tinkering with it off and on for a while, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't strictly a linear narrative. The context...
View Article2022 is almost in the can.
As I write this we're just a week or so shy of Christmas. It's been, to put it mildly, one hell of a year. Enough so that I've pretty much coasted into holiday break on fumes (again) and, probably...
View ArticleTesting an RFID blocking wallet.
A couple of years back, when we thought that the covid pandemic might actually be over someday I did some research on RFID blocking fabric to see if it was actually worth anything. Somewhat...
View Article2023 did not get off to an auspicious start.
I try very hard not to pay too much attention to mercury in retrograde, mostly because I think it's a bad idea to name names too often because Things tend to hear them.Who am I kidding. I have a...
View ArticleLaid off?
If you've been following the news lately, undoubtedly you've heard one way or another that massive rounds of layoffs have been taking place. I got caught in one of them.1If you're younger than I am you...
View ArticleTools on the bench.
Fairly serious hardware hackers and makers like to post lists of all the gear they use for whatever it is they do (mostly the big-name Youtubers and bloggers who do a lot of retrotech work and reverse...
View ArticleNeologism: Thousand meter stare
thousand meter stare - noun phrase - Watching multiple poorly designed dashboards jam packed with graphs, meters, gauges, and other barely useful metrics, day in and day out. If you imagine the...
View ArticleSetting up Syncthing.
A very common problem one has if one has enough files stacked up in one place, is whether or not those files have been copied to another system already. Have they already been copied off? To where on...
View ArticleI may as well clear my cache.
I'm back from Pittsburgh. I think everything's done. Somewhere in the back of my head I have things to write about and maybe some photographs to post. I don't have the brainpower to do that right now,...
View ArticlePropmaking: Lego handlink replica
Warning: I'm going to be geeking about about science fiction to provide context for the rest of the post. Either skip to the bottom and page up a few times or close the tab. Also, the narrative is...
View ArticleVisiting the Ramses the Great Exhibit.
Early in October of 2022.ev, we paid a visit to an exhibit of artifacts at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco from the reign of Ramesses II, third ruler of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt. Since...
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