Was just thinking about a guy I went to high school with. Boyd. He was a cool cat; we had mechanical drawing class together. Anyway, he was into model aircraft as a hobby. I was into model railroad. We bonded for a short few years, satellites to each other’s planet. Funny that I remember him […]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Slap Head
For those who are keeping score, I’m a dumbass. So, I have a file server at my home that’s running FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD, a popular Unix distribution. I have around 7.4 terabytes of storage capacity across 5 disks; that’s a lot of personal files. I bought a single 8TB disk for the […]
Mobile Power Project: Ham Radio On the Go!
Intent: It seems minor, but installing the power cables for a ham radio in a car is a major project if you want it done right. After months of thoughts and tactics, I made good on my plan to install a 25 Amp circuit into my car to power my portable amateur radio equipment. I’ve […]
The Datacenter, Humanity’s Marketplace
So just what are the Holy Algorithms? They are the automatic schemes of man, human plans to model human behavior and optimize for some potential profit, either monetary gain or behavioral control. Humans make the algorithms for use on humans. Never forget that. Computers are only the agents of mass scale. How to resist? Simply […]
She’s an Algorithm, She’s the Dance
The holy algorithms of the modern web give blessings to frequency over length, and music rankings is no exception. Favorite producer PERTURBATOR has dropped a new EP, “New Model”, and it’s worth it. Definitely more of the PERTURBATOR sound you and I love. I had hoped for a full-length album, but a man’s gotta go […]