Recent content by Amontillado

It sounds like you have the gift of music appreciation. That's what brings the magic.

Kallet and Bok would be a great act, too. Everything on their Neighbors album is just the thing to play quietly on a still evening, camp cruising on a small sailboat. I clearly remember testing that theory a few times. The song Janko is amazing. The story is depressing but the melody is...

That really did make me happy. Gordon Bok is a treasure. My favorite, Right, Said Fred. "I get a sort of feeling, if we remove the ceiling..."

Today I realized I must have picked up something of the flower-power summer of love back in '69. Sure, I'm crass, my table manners might make Archie Bunker blush, and I would look silly with petunias in my hair. Still, somehow, I must be a child of nature. This makes me want skip around Maypoles...

For my purposes, backup and sync are two different animals. A backup should be an independent copy. If I sync with a cloud, I could sync file catastrophes as well as my work. I sync with Chonosync to a credit card sized SSD, which is formatted with an encrypted filesystem. That's handy, but I...

I have been driving a minivan for a month or so. I've come to really like the silly thing. It's a writing studio on wheels. There has been one extreme disappointment, though. On my bike, I'll greet a total stranger by dropping my clutch hand off the handlebar and drag a wave or a v-for-victory...

All those turns, figures, and trills. Particularly considering the range, what a challenge!

Nice! One of my favorite YouTube channels, 58Keys, is run by a British writer, William Gallagher. This month is Scrivener month. He is very Mac-centric, but the uses and workflows for writing tools apply universally. There's also nothing at all wrong with dry, self-deprecating gentle British...

I have crossed a dread Rubicon. Nothing shall be the same. Ever. Life is sepia, today is dark, tomorrow, foreboding and I must face it alone. My Princess has lost interest in my wellbeing. It happened yesterday. She, whose smile is a dim memory, needed a wheelchair accessible van. I have a pen...

Nexus Data Centers is building a 600 MW data center in the little community of Hubbard, Texas. The town of Hubbard is about 1,200 acres. The data center will be 2,000 acres. I am constantly amazed by how well stupidity scales. I hope Hubbard has plans for what to do with the data center once...

I have a category in my personal accounting I call Deadbeat Vendors. For instance, an insurance company stopped sending bills to my home. For some reason, they thought sending the bills to the insured site where there is no mailbox, no office, no staff, and no means of receiving mail would be a...

Spoil sport!

I'm both amazed and thankful for how much can be learned from other people's misconceptions. Today I saw an X post claiming the usual drivel about flat earth theories and mentioning how earth has to speed up and slow down for its slightly elliptical orbit. My physics expertise fades once we...

Great idea - so much better than conference calls! You might think, given the current state of minivan gangs, the Waffle House would be humbling. "As you can see from my ride, I'm with a minivan gang. So, um, well... Table for one, please." Then - wait for it - the pity perks. "Oh, bless your...

My wife needs a van she can drive into on her powered wheelchair. What she needs, she gets. I'm picking up a converted Chrysler Pacifica minivan with a built in ramp this Tuesday. Unfortunately, her current ride, a stock Pacifica, isn't a good candidate for trade-in because of repair history...