Awakening any Sunday
An early morning log of conscious considerations upon waking up
Musings
Episode 44: "Leaving ORD, minimalism yes please."
At airport gate, waiting. Originally, a dawn departure. Hilton at ORD decides that rooms do not need the usual bathroom items, and prefers the full plastic half-assed attempt at a capsule pod coffee maker. Substantial displeasure occurs, events transpire, and now we're rebooked on flight a few hours later — sleeping in for those hours and have been – words and thoughts – but brain still not really awake. Robin is
Episode 42: "We're leaving. Take only what you need to survive!"
Goodbye Chicago, It was mostly Not.
Memories of a Younger Era — Tokyo Hiroshima Kyoto
Memories of Japan are easy to get lost in, the time period was often a blur. Capsule hotels, bullet trains, insomnia, and several neuro-cognitive mods offering symbiotic boosts to perception. Stimulated by a then-unknown cranial passenger, a surging PRL level resulted, HPG-axis thrown off course, thyroid blasting T3 in feedback-loop, resulting metabolic rate sky high. In personable social terms, an immediate realization dawned upon landing, that so many people seem
System Migration Complete, and Now it's Cherry Time
ZFS sync from box to box, impatience, performance, routines
Memories of Harmonic Distortion, Descending Carson Pass
While training for The Death Ride one year, so many years ago, I had quite a surprise on Highway 88 while descending Carson Pass in the Sierra Nevada. This was in the late season, the last week of October, a last minute plan with a best friend to get one last ride in before the snow storms arrived. On top of the usual physical challenges of climbing ~2,500'
💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻
Thunderbird, wtf are you doing where you need 83% CPU plus ~50GB (virt) and 20G (res) of RAM allocated? The entire mailbox isn't even 1GB in total size. Yet here it is, cranking out all of this nebulous processing 24/7... literally 24/7 it's running loads like this for months now. Generally I ignore it because the workstation has a modern EPYC with 32 cores
💖 Siren Song of the UltraSparc 💖
02:42, awoken to first-morning, 4hrs sleep 02:55, at home office standing desk 02:58, navigate to eBay once more 02:59, search Sparc M7 T7-2 chassis 03:08, begin writing silly poem 03:12, resume eBay search 03:16, distracted by dtrace for tcshrc 03:20, distracted by view of Lake Michigan 03:22, return to Mastodon post-form 03:28, distracted by tcsh config options 03:32, review