I have returned to the States, journal people! I was pretty down about it for a few days, but time and diving into this year's trip diary helped move me along. I say this every time I come back, but that's because stuff truly gets better every time I come back—this was the happiest and comfiest trip Caby and I have had yet. Never met anyone I'm just that well matched with and attached to, and I still miss her guinea pigs and watching Red Dwarf in the lounge and time spent cuddling and days Read more
F's in chat for the eMachines Box's hard drive once again. This was a sudden failure. The machine was really slow all of a sudden, which I thought might've been an errant background process, only for XP to tell me that the C: drive was not formatted! That's an error you don't want to see. I quickly booted into my Ubuntu (10.04 LTS, Lucid Lynx if you prefer :lince:) rescue drive and thankfully was able to copy off basically everything I wanted to that I hadn't had backed up, which included my Read more
Folks, say hi to the retrocam you'll be seeing my upcoming Wales trip through. If you're a longtime Cammy fan, you'll probably remember my multiple run-ins with the AOL PhotoCam, and I was eager to not repeat those mistakes by buying an actual digicam from a reputable brand this time. I was a little hesitant to go Canon, only because I thought the sample images looked a little too good for the specifically hazy, shitty look I prefer from my retro digicams, but I've decided that usability Read more
Y'know, this is the kinda morning where I look out my window at a half-barren patch of trees and something just feels correct. I love familiarity. I think part of the reason I still blog about shit, even when no one else does, is because it's my little way to keep the mundanity of the Web I grew up on alive. I've been reading a lot about old Minecraft versions—perhaps I'll spend the day drawing and playing that. I own two second generation Kindles, neither of which work. They both have flat Read more
I guess it had to happen sometime! My iMac display has officially given and now only displays streaks: This started happening intermittently yesterday evening after it woke up from sleep, and now it's just not displaying anything period. Really, it's no great surprise. This computer celebrated ten years of daily service this year (don't ask me for a specific date). Yeah, I've been using this computer since I was 14 or so. I'm now 25. The fact that it hadn't developed issues sooner (outside of Read more
If that wasn't the longest pause on journal entries yet, it's probably close. I'm so out of practice with these! For a bit, it was because I genuinely didn't feel like updating it, and now I have a bit of a pileup of stuff to cover, so let's not let that put me off further. I'll split them up into sections. Let's go! Protoweb! I've already posted this literally everywhere, but my first Protoweb restoration has been accepted! I restored imax.com, circa 1998. It was in incredibly good shape for a Read more
Think like you haven't ever, try to remember the days When we would talk 'til the light, before morning Your summer neck is burned with salt and sand I lost my fingers trying to find your old hands In time, maybe We'll discover we Could've been closer to the core, yeah In time, maybe We'll discover we Could've been closer, closer It's funny, how perspective works. I've mentioned this before, but I've really sequestered myself these past few years. There's only so often you can watch things blow Read more
Whoops, I fell asleep before I could write that post last night. Here's the fun stuff! So, I've said this many times now: whenever something creative I made becomes massive out of date, be it sites or stories, I have a hard time looking at it. The Somnolescent Gopher server absolutely, 100%, fit this criteria. The last time it was seriously updated was 2021, back when borb and mon were both still in the group. That's legitimately ancient. There were talks of making a GitHub repo and us Read more
So it's been nearly a year since I last streamed, at least according to YouTube. I used to stream all the time, but I just got so exhausted and I wasn't having much fun with them, so I quit, and I haven't had much reason to pick them back up because I'm either busy or we're having a group call, and that takes care of my "interacting in voice with the group" quota, really. Jake linked a cheap chinese HDMI capture device he apparently successfully used to stream Xbox Minecraft a few months back, Read more
The new hard drive arrived yesterday; she's back up and running. I'm writing this on the eMachines Box once more. Got her on XP Media Center Edition SP3, like she should've been running all this time, and now it's just repeatedly installing updates from Legacy Update over and over (the POSReady stuff is key for getting TLS 1.2 and thus Escargot fully functional), getting my programs and games back on here, and slowly getting everything situated again. Media Center Edition got a custom version Read more
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