Sometimes I do stuff that people are interested in, and if I write it down then I can repeat myself less. I've built my home on the internet some years back ...
I remember distinctly riding in the car, to church, with my maternal grandparents, when I was a single-digit-aged child, and witnessing this conversation Grandma: Where did you guys fish today? Grandpa: We fished in the crick for a while. Grandma: The word is "creek", John. Grandpa: I don't know what they call it in West Virginia, Dorothy, but in Oklahoma, we call it a crick! (We were in Kansas).…
Let the products sell themselves Fuck advertising, commercial psychology Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed Because of their own blind involvement In their own conditioned minds The unit bonded together Morals, ideals, awareness, progress Let yourself be heard! D. Boon My friend Jerry puts stuff on Instagram a lot and something he's always posting is "Own your day". It's usually…
Something that I think is cool about NES games is that the NES is a single thing. The hardware platform has a precise definition, and therefore the software is written for exactly that platform and no other. In my work-life, it's not like this at all. There are many "configurations" possible and the software is full of branches dedicated to this. So, recently, in my time, I built a simple thing. I…
I've owned a Draeme L10s Ultra since 2023. I'm quite happy with it. It's running Valetudo which is a lovely piece of software that is working well for me and that I've managed to spread to another user. Unfortunately, on Friday, the vacuum stopped vacuuming. What does that mean? Once I got over the emotional turmoil of it not working, I investigated. The robot still wandered around - the brushes…
I bought a phone case from Crave for my Pixel 7a, when I bought it, in late 2023. This summer, it failed dramatically. The buttons fell out, the case shell cracked and broke off, and the inner rubber ripped. I dropped them an email and they sent a replacement, no problem. This week, the replacement case chipped. When I contacted them, they were no longer willing to ship me a replacement case. I…
Today is backup day, but when I plugged in the USB drive that my phone is configured to use for backups, it would not stay seated well enough for the backups to complete. I've noticed for a while that charging cables don't stay well seated, either. I recall some attempts and some successes removing debris previously with a paperclip, but that it was a bit unwieldy and error prone. Today, I got a…
More than just another crowd More than just another crowd More than just another crowd We need a gathering instead When I first started getting into Punk Rock, Operation Ivy really made an impression on me. I mean, they are great. Ask anyone. And if you haven't heard them, you should. I shudder to link to youtube, but you can listen to their full-length album there , and if you haven't heard it,…
I've been working on interpreting the results of a benchmark, recently, and, as is the nature of benchmarking interpretation, there are many questions. A benchmark, itself, in my opinion, is simple. You get some computer, and you run some program on it, and you get some result. So here's the benchmark I ran: On a 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11500B @ 3.30GHz, running Qubes, I made a VM with a single…
Out of breath is unintuitive to me. On the surface, I get a feeling that I need to breathe more, which might or might not be true. I love weird facts. I was having a conversation with Juan the other day who characterized the substance of many of our conversations as "esoterica". Now, I don't even know if that is a word or not (Firefox is showing me a red line underneath that, so I guess it thinks…
"Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others." Something that concerns me when I write is knowing the audience I write for. For the record, I am a member of the audience for this blog, and at the moment, one of the most important. So I beg you…