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This week I attended a work conference. The coffee was too hot and the cookies were stale (still ate ‘em), but the real stand-outs were the speakers.
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September 27, 2023
tech bro (derogatory)fiveducksThis week I attended a work conference. The coffee was too hot and the cookies were stale (still ate ‘em), but the real stand-outs were the speakers. Tags: internet, technology,
September 24, 2023
So I’ll make my clothing myselfdevonSecond hand clothing market is cesspool. Searching for decent clothes I like and are of good, natural materials in Normal price is a very… masochistic nowadays. So I decided to torture myself more and make most of my new wardrobe myself. Tags: sewing,
September 23, 2023
man i love eating takeout on the floorfiveducks![]() Nothing screams “I’m out” like being 19 in January eating takeout in an empty living room in a shitty apartment. I should sell all my belongings. September 18, 2023
First Draft: Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrotmariteaux![]() Rarely do albums come out right on the first shot. Labels reject them, bands disown them, and they get added onto after release. Here on First Draft, we take a look at albums that got cut down or remade and see what difference the changes made. This especially long-winded First Draft concerns the infinite permutations of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco’s 2002 art rock opus which streamed online officially for the first time 22 years ago today. Tags: First Draft, music,
September 13, 2023
YouTube Layout Timelapse ReduxjakeToday’s menu, remaking the YouTube Layout Timelapse video. I felt the original was a bit incomplete and the process of which I took the screenshots was very ghetto, so I dedicated this afternoon to writing a quick script in Python and sent it running. Tags: programming, video,
September 11, 2023
Fully licensed campus printerdotcomboomGetting your printer set up for wireless printing is relatively simple on a home network. Most printers can connect to your Wi-Fi network and make themselves discoverable, and we’ve seen units be all in one, neat little packages for about a decade. It’ll be ad-hoc (Wi-Fi Direct or Bluetooth) or infrastructure, usually, and current operating systems are pretty good about finding them. Save for the occasional clogged spooler problems on Windows—I just reinstall the printer when this happens—it isn’t too bad. But what if you’re trying to print from your printer as just one of thousands of users on a campus network? Tags: technology,
August 25, 2023
What Even is Somnolescent?mariteauxI’m standing around at work, tidying the shelves, and something pops into my head: no one has ever been able to make heads or tails of what Somnolescent actually is. We’ve been called a tilde, we’ve been described as a community of Windows 2000 users and MSN Messenger reverse engineers, a group of Furcadia friends, people have said we built toyhou.se, all sorts of wild shit. Those Somnolians, they get around! Some of this was promulgated by me wanting to make Somnolescent sound spooky and cultlike, so I was intentionally vague describing it to people for the first year or two. We’re almost at five now, though, and whenever we’re mentioned online, folks still try to put us in a box–and they keep getting that box weirdly wrong. I didn’t think we were doing anything all that complicated, but apparently, Somnolescent perplexes people. Tags: Somnolescent,
August 13, 2023
trip photos: toronto!fiveducksHey! I mentioned in my Art Fight post I was in Toronto at the time of posting. Wanna see some photos? Tags: blog, photography,
August 9, 2023
Update Rollup for dcb servicesdotcomboomI’m going to keep this post a bit short- I have drafts (and a lab report,,,) in the works, and the nature of this post is partly catch up. I’m gonna cover sites, sites again, and site generator generatoring. So here’s a few updates from my neck of the woods. Tags: AutoSite, web design,
August 7, 2023
Bunch of random scans off the press plus bit of related ramblingdevon![]() As I’m getting rid of some part of my collection, the earliest one because I need money, I ended up scanning some which I’ll compile here. Some favorites from few mid 90s Dazed & Confused issues. It will be probably split in few installments I guess. Tags: magazines,
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