OLD CS1

"John Wick: Chapter 4" was pretty good.  Do away with JW3 and we have a good series.  (Although, I admit the Continental siege was pretty bad ass in 3.)

My grandmother's favorite music these days is hip pop.

A tale of two VDSLs: one bonded, one not.  The not bonded has a bad modem, built into a firewall, the configuration of which is not compatible with its replacement so a ton of manual copying has to occur.  The second line of the bonded has gone shitty, but a tech will be out tomorrow.

In the meantime, instead of glorious 80/10 (load balanced,) I am at 22/1.2.  Oh, the humanity!!

Holy shit.  After just getting nailed for almost 9% tax, which is not even my local tax rate, I am done with eBay for person-to-person sales for obsolete computer parts.  Fuck.  This.

ffmpeg is a harsh mistress.

Just heard the news.  Rest In Peace @Airshack.  Another one lost way too young.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/james-shackel-obituary?id=39585348

The dollar sign goes before the numbers.

What do white lines do??

127.0.0.1 door mats are stupid.  The saying is, "There's no place like home."  This mat would say, "There's no place like localhost."  Additionally, having it to greet people, or be a warm welcome upon return to your home, is silly because no visitor could ever reach your 127.0.0.1 and you would have never left.

I am reminded today of a young man whose life was unnecessarily ended by his own hand. I was both saddened and angered by this news as working with him I saw someone with talent, dreams, and unrealized potential. He left behind a son to whom, in life, he was a dedicated father.

If you are having thoughts of ending your life, injuring yourself, or simply cannot see a future for you in this world, please, please, seek help. You are never as alone as you think. You have friends and loved ones who are waiting for you, some desperate that you cannot find your way. No one in your life is better off without you. Where those close to you may not be able to help fully, a professional can, and there are many out there who care and will help.

It is easier now more than ever to reach someone who will help. Just call or send a text message to 988. Someone is there every hour of every day, for you. All you have to do is make the call. Asking for help is not weakness; it takes strength to reach out, and you have it in you to take that first step.

https://988lifeline.org

"vintage" 🙄

As of July, 2022, the National Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Crisis Lifeline is available at 988. If you are in suicidal crisis or emotional distress, this number, available to all phones, routes to a trained professional waiting to speak to you 24/7, free and confidentially.

https://988lifeline.org/

The perpetual state of forums:

1. Post specific question about doing something.
2. Get questioned why you are doing it that way.
3. Get told to do it another way.
4. Get told you are an idiot for doing it the way you want.
5. Thread runs for miles.
6. Never get answer for original question.
7. Give up and fuck off somewhere else.

First order of 16TB drives direct from Western Digital were damaged because they just threw them into the box to ship.  Had to wait and trade up to 18TB drives, the condition of which I may never know because the box is either lost or stolen.  Maybe this is a sign that my 27.6TB is plenty enough space and I just need to make do.

At Free Play Florida.  Maybe I will bump into someone from AA.  Look for me in my black "Parsec" shirt.

I tell you what!  (What?  I just told ya!)  It is not easy to get a perfect sample to use for keyboarding out TI music.  The audio between the computer and the keyboard is not the best, and the sample quality of the keyboard has a ceiling.  Not to mention TI likes 440Hz for A3, rather than 442Hz for A4 per Casio, which makes tuning a little more difficult.

One niggle about the Casio SK-series is there is no pass-through for the line-in sampling input (nor the microphone input,) so you fly blind (or deaf) when sampling.  There is some bleed-through if you have the volume up and shove the bud deep into your ear.  But the snare sound when sampling obviates doing so.

I was considering whether to use the laptop to generate the 9919 tones or real iron, but real iron is very noisy on the output and authenticity is not necessary for my purposes.

Having fun getting into the swing of things.

Casio SK-5 sampling keyboard.  Craigslist find from Minnesota for a great price.

I used to use my Amiga to read and write D64 images.

Are status updates making a come-back?

Off to VCF-SE!  SFGE had better have Pin*Bot!!

Just a quick "boo hoo, woe is me," moment of self-pity so I can get past it.  Been sick the past few days (no coof, just a run-of-the-mill sinus infection,) so I have been wanting to do a little programming on my down-time.  But my back also decided to tweak, so now it hurts to sit at my desk chair or pretty much any useful position, and my laptop has something wrong with it that keeps cutting off the screen backlight.

Already replaced the laptop screen, not good so it is something with the motherboard so I found a full replacement which should be here tomorrow.  I am on the mend, only experiencing fever at night, normal temp during the day, and my back is starting to feel better.  So, there, got that off my chest.

I have not gotten around to installing one of @matthew180's F18As I picked up a while back. It still sits here in the glory of its original packaging. I have thought about getting it WATA rated and making a mint off someone.

That moment you determine most of your difficulties likely stem from trying to live a lifestyle you have not earned.

tfw a 16GB SD card actually is just less than 16GB (raw and unformatted,) and a 16GB image taken of another 16GB SD card will not restore to it.

A Lumen (CenturyLink/Level3) IP service outage in Atlanta today has wiped my services completely off the Internet. Little did I know that my secondaries are run through Level3 at some point.  Fffffffffuuuuuuuuuu....