Author: Nick

Surprise! It’s your past!

So I there I was, looking for some esoteric track for a mix I’m kind of puttering with, when I came across a blast from the past. Buried in a tarball in a directory in the dark corners of my filesystem was a soundboard recording I made back when I was a DJ at WFHB. It’s not entirely unheard of as I have several different recordings. This one isn’t one I’ve heard in years.

Back in October of 2006 I had an external drive crash. My media drive. Nearly 500GB of audio files including all of my old soundboard recordings. I was able to resurrect a few from other devices but the bulk of them were disappeared that fateful day.

Needless to say I spent the last two hours–give or take a few minutes–reliving a Saturday/Sunday overnight from early February 2006. Now you can too. Presenting The Millionaire’s Holiday–One Year of Crap. Roughly 117MB of mp3 silliness.

The enemy of the good

So some time right before RAGBRAI I figured out that $CURRENTISP does not block out-going port 80 HTTP traffic. This immediately got my brain to wanting to shift my platform to something JSP-like running under Tomcat on a server in my basement. Needless to say, it is one of about five outstanding projects that I totally want to do but never find time to accomplish. It’s not even close to highest priority.

Yet I tell myself that instead of posting here, I should be working on that Brave New World. So I scratch the posting itch by using Facebook (boo) and the blog loses out on all of that content.

Well, I hereby resolve to get back to posting here and pushing appropriate posts to Facebook. I like being in ultimate control of my content and when Facebook finally gives up the ghost, I won’t be missing out. So here’s to a renewed dedication to NixQuips/Same River Twice/Pixelated Miscellany/More Like This/Life of Fezboy!/whatever other titles this long-running, semi-regular blog has been published under.

RAGBRAI routes

Day Route Visualize Importable RAGBRAI Map
July 19, Sunday Sioux City to Storm Lake Google Map GPX PDF
July 20, Monday Storm Lake to Fort Dodge Google Map GPX PDF
July 21, Tuesday Fort Dodge to Eldora Google Map GPX PDF
July 22, Wednesday Eldora to Cedar Falls Google Map GPX PDF
July 23, Thursday Cedar Falls to Hiawatha Google Map GPX PDF
July 24, Friday Hiawatha to Coralville Google Map GPX PDF
July 25, Saturday Coralville to Davenport Google Map GPX PDF

Bitchin’ rad cool

Dude plugs a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern World Wide Web [1]. Of course doing this involves some serious bit of nerding out with a Pi, a chain of interface adapters, and a stroke of good luck. Using it takes much patience.

I remember spending many lunch periods in the library lab writing a text-based psychiatrist emulator in BASIC on one of these.

[1] http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/12228/mac-plus-modern-web/