Like many people, I departed Twitter after Musk purchased the company, since it seemed like as good a time as any to make a break with the service. The user experience predictably tanking shortly after also helped. Despite many predictions of its impending demise, it’s still chugging along thanks to the twin forces of habit…
The San Fernando Cascades, where water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct enters the Valley. The small one on the left is where Mulholland famously told a crowd of 30,000 people at its opening in 1913, There it is, take it. The larger Cascade on the right was completed in 1970 and feeds the Foothill power…
In the growing quest to finally turn one of my Raspberry Pis into a multi-functional machine, I installed Calibre and Calibre-Web on the Pi 5, along with a FreshRSS installation. I initially was going to use Docker to do this, but I could not for the life of me figure out how to get Docker…
The final two 3D Prints for my succulent planters. One is a neat little model reminiscent of a Greek building, complete with a little reservoir at the bottom that fills with water that flows down from each of the planter areas through internal plumbing. The other is a Mario mushroom that was far larger than…
A directory of BBS’s accessible via Telnet, Modem, or Software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o I missed this when it was first released, but it’s a fascinating story recounting the challenges getting Crash Bandicoot programmed on the Playstation
It turns out there’s nice sunsets in Hawai’i. Next time, I really need to bring one of my real cameras and not just the phone.
I forgot to do a wrap-up last week, because I got side-tracked with what started as a simple image gallery post. As I began typing out the context for the pictures, it transformed into a full-blown essay about the history of the Mojave. This past week saw the arrival of another heatwave or Heat Dome…
I was rummaging through an old box and was excited to find some old pictures from my time in Japan that I hadn’t seen since I picked them up from the developer. These were taken on a disposable camera (could’ve been Kodak or Fuji, I used both all the time). The negatives were not in…