Knuckledragger

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Man, Adult. brings me back to the early 00s and dawn of SoulSeek. I totally missed 2000's Nausea, but I was there for Resuscitation and Anxiety Always. The latter was a big enough release that we got some promo material at WAMH (it's worth noting that I was also heavily involved with WAMH in the early 2000s.) Initially I didn't like Anxiety Always at all, especially after how much I enjoyed Resuscitation. I should revisit it as it's been more than 15 years since I gave it a proper listen.

Wharfedale Lintons.

I spent several days transferring ~25MB of data off a 1991 IBM PS/2 Model 30/286 that had a broken floppy drive. I ended up using a Tripp Lite USB to Serial adapter and a null modem cable. Man, does late 80s/early 90s technology make you feel like it's actually doing something. The PS/2's fan (singular) is loud AF. The HDD is loud AF and makes a very distinct noise on every read or write. Also text based modem software looks the way Hollywood portrayed anything computer related ...until well into the 00s.

Somewhere in MA. The absolute chonkosity of it. Sound it out if you have to.

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More like speaker horror.

I'm glad I never sold mine. (GLite V.1 or its DPS.) I did send The World's Fattest Wallwart to the World's Fattest Headed Mexican a while back, but I digress...

Man, did I sleep like a baby last night. I slept IN as well, which felt wonderful. I woke up to NPR playing Garth Brooks, which was kind of weird. He doesn't strike me as public radio's normal fare. All day everyone has seemed to be in a good mood, and I can't figure out why. It's like the whole nation got a good night's sleep as well. Funny thing, that.

45 minutes of a British fella running other people's code on his 500 LED "smart" Christmas tree:

This post inspired by my viewing of The Comey Rule.

I ended up watching both parts of The Comey Rule last night. It was really quite good. Jeff Daniels is an amazing actor, but he's about a foot too short to accurate represent James Comey. Brendan Gleeson is lowkey terrifying as Trump.

Gold plated optical cable. Seems legit. Man, do I have inadequate cabling on my Mac Mini(s). This one isn't funny, it's hurtful.

Craaazy wind here last night. Power went out early this morning when I was of course dead asleep. I got awakened by a chorus of UPS alarms. I got up, shut down all the various electronic bits, sent an outage notification to my beknighted power company and tried to go back to sleep. The wind continued to make crazy noises. I had the thought that with proper mics, the sound would be perfect for the ambient background to a horror movie or video game. [Fun fact: that is exactly how some of the background for the original Evil Dead was recorded.] I think the power was out for over 3 hours. I managed to have a doozie of a nightmare before being awakened yet again by the power coming back on and various devices beeping their approval. Solid B'town/10 evening, I'd say.