For Fucks Sake, Wear Your Mask Correctly – Pandemic Log 5/27/2020

It’s incredible how many people can’t follow basic instructions and are unable to do something as simple as cover both their mouth and nose with a mask when out and about. I know I’m not the first to talk about this, and this article has been planned for a few weeks but I never got …
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Don’t Mistake The Lack Of Posts For A Lack In Productivity

I’ve not been posting much over the past few weeks. Normally I say that this is due to me being tied up with other things or just not feeling it, but in this case it’s the opposite – I’ve actually been incredibly productive on fronts of both my day to day life and side projects, …
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Boy, This Looks Familiar, Doesn’t It?

If you’ve been to this site at all in the past few months you certainly will recall the rather beautiful, yet very “heavy” theme I had switched to, known as “Pen” and will certainly notice that, for now, I’ve switched back to the older theme I had been using: Frontier. This isn’t because I don’t …
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The Death Of My Gaming TV

Nothing lasts forever, especially in the realm of technology, and as much I hate to admit it even the items in my modest collection can, and sometimes will, give up the ghost and just become inert hunks of plastic, metal, and sometimes glass. That, however, will not happen without me putting up one hell of …
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Having Seasonal Allergies During The Pandemic Is A Special Kind Of Hell – Pandemic Log 5/14/2020

This one goes out to anyone and everyone who, like me, has seasonal allergies in any form and right now is being treated like some kind of ultimate evil for sneezing, coughing, or even just having a sore throat and mentioning it during the COVID-19 crisis. It’s bad enough every Spring and Summer feeling like …
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Finally Getting My “Dream” Computer: The Mac Pro

Let’s move the Macintosh collecting time table to August of 2018. By this point I’d been deep-diving into the more recent vintage Macintosh machines for a few months and had in my possession the 3 2007 iMac systems, the first of the 2 Mac mini’s (MiniServ), the G5 which started it all and the Japanese …
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Business Is Booming, Even During Chaos – Pandemic Log 5/11/2020

In a time when many people are still unable to go to work (in spite of, in the United States, most areas re-opening without much concern) I’ve been fortunate in that my job has stayed open, in so far as providing goods and services, during all this, under normal hours. In fact, on a whole, …
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As States Reopen, The Worst Is Yet To Come – Pandemic Log 5/6/2020

After a little over a month of what can only be described as “moderate” lockdown here in the United States many areas have decided to go on and begin opening back up to effectively normal business and work, beyond (thankfully) precautions being taken on a store-to-store, job-to-job, person-to-person basis. One can blame any number of …
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A Look At My Other Mac Mini: Lion

In the last article we took a look at the first of my 2 Mac mini purchases, “MiniServ” which acts as my home Macintosh file server. To say that, following some natural upgrades, I’m pleased with that system would be an incredible understatement – for as basic as it is, just sitting there running Snow …
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A Look At My Mac Mini File Server: MiniServ

In the late Summer of 2018 I was really getting into a big kick of collecting and using old Macintosh systems. It wasn’t long after getting the MacBook mentioned in a previous article (and thus becoming “current” in the Macintosh ecosystem) that I had an idea to get a Mac mini system and use it …
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Backlog Week 2: Electric Boogaloo

Well, backlog week was kind of a wash – in those 5 days I only actually touched on one singular entry which was part of the backlog — the Japanese MacBook post. I wound up working more than usual last week (this week looks to be following the same pattern) and didn’t have time to …
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Why My Main Portable Computer Is a Japanese MacBook

Something I’m known for among friends, family, and co-workers is the fact that, since mid 2018, in any situation where I carry a laptop with me my go-to machine, 99 out of 100 times, is a 2010 MacBook from Japan. Yes, I’m completely serious — my main portable computer, of all the options I have, …
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May 2020 Xbox Live Games With Gold

It’s the end of the month once again, which means another look at the upcoming free games on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 via the Games with Gold program. This time, unlike last month, we do get the traditional video, so I can actually cover these games in the same style as I normally …
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A Year With An iPhone SE

Just over a year ago I finally made the switch from a relatively modest Android phone to an iPhone — in particular an iPhone SE. No, not the new one, of course — the older one which, apparently, many feel is the “best iPhone ever made” given its form factor and inclusion of a headphone …
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