A few minor mods to Pitop OS.
Some time ago I wrote up a minor project I'd done, rigging up Raspberry Pi OS to run on a Pi-Top. And then never revisited the post.I think you can guess why. It didn't go very well.Even though all of...
View ArticleBuilding a mollyguard to protect a power strip.
If you've been to anyone's house in the last 20 years you've undoubtedly seen a bunch of stuff plugged into a power strip. Once found in office most of the time they've become as essential to everyday...
View ArticlePontification on the guy who stole a bag full of stuff.
You might have seen on the news a couple of weeks ago a video of a guy on a bike sweeping a bunch of stuff off of a shelf into a garbage bag (local copy) (video.hackers.town) and exiting the Walgreens...
View ArticleUpdating the Search Function of my Website.
Not too long ago I got fed up with how good a job Duckduckgo's site search feature wasn't doing. No matter what I did I couldn't find dick around here. And, folksonomies being what they are, unless you...
View ArticleTechnomancer Tools: Pepperminty Wiki
It's been a while since I've written a technomancer tools article. In the intervening time some things have changed; I've discarded a few tools because they didn't really work for me, or I didn't need...
View Article"Write once, run anywhere," they said. "Be easy," they said.
Java was once the hottest thing since sliced bread. From the very beginning it was said to be platform independent (meaning, you could run it on Intel, Motorola, ARM, or whatever else you wanted) and...
View ArticleClassism, perception, and dental health.
It is somewhat stereotypical that folks who didn't grow up with a lot of money or are considered lower class than whomever you happen to be tend to have bad teeth. Braces cost a lot; I don't know how...
View ArticleWars are won battle by battle.
I've spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how to write this post. And I'm not sure, even now if I know how to write this. I've been struggling with it for a couple of days and, somewhere...
View ArticleMom update 1.
Yinz might want to block the tag "cancer" in my posts henceforth. I'll figure out later how to get Switchboard to add hashtags to my posts.I really can't think of any other titles for these posts, so...
View ArticleMom update 2.
I'm writing this after taking a nap on the 30th of September. Mom asked me to go home and get some rest because I was nodding off in my chair when visiting her, and it seemed prudent to do so.When I...
View ArticleMom update 4.
Where was update #3? Right here.As I write this, it's 1930 hours UTC-4 on 2 October 2021.I am exhausted, fried, kind of in shock, and numb. My short term memory is shot to shit so I'm going to do the...
View ArticleRetreat In the Mountains.
After things slowed down a bit at work over the summer, I finally took some advice given to me by a number of people in various capacities and took a vacation. When your boss orders you to take a...
View ArticleMom update 5.
Every time I sit down to work on this post, something else changes.A long time ago, when my grandfather was taking care of my grandmother when she was in the hospital, he used to come home and say that...
View ArticleI don't think it'll be long now.
Someone asked me why these blog posts are always backdated. The reason is that I can't write about a day's that's happened until that day's... happened. Plus, if I wrote it up late at night and posted...
View ArticleI guess it runs in the family?
Judy and I slept at mom's bedside in the hospital last night on recliners that the nursing staff was kind enough to bring in. Mom's fever spiked to 103 degrees Fahrenheit in the span of about four...
View ArticleAnother shift.
Mom was moved to a hospice facility this afternoon. For how long, we don't know. We're supposed to meet with a social worker tomorrow morning to figure out what to do next. Technically she's still...
View ArticleHospice, day 1.
Mom was moved to a hospice facility yesterday. Let's start there, because today's been a day.Things were all over the place today. I had a good quote lined up to open this post with (it's funny what...
View ArticleNot a lot of humor right now.
I've posted another update to my .plan file. As always, the usual warnings apply.
View ArticleMom's dead.
The title pretty much says it all. If you want to punch out now, go right ahead.There's no other way to put it. No polite way, no delicate way...Cancer is neither polite nor delicate....The evening of...
View ArticleThird Pfizer jab.
Yesterday afternoon I took some time out to get a third vaccination, because I'm worried that the stress from everything going on, and all the travel I'm doing leaves me at greater risk of contracting...
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