Masters of the Universe- not too bad looking
I saw the trailer for the Masters of the Universe reboot movie. I was expecting crappy schlock, but it looks like prime grade stuff. https://youtu.be/ZmEx7wQI6RY?si=Kzzk1uhtUzlXvhF1 I was never a big fan of the He-Man Universe, but I get the era it is coming from- and the creators seem to have done a good job capturing [...]
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I posted earlier about my attempts to improve my site rendering speed by upgrading my blog server's RAM. As I noted in that post, it didn't seem like the changes made much if any difference to the rendering speed in the Safari browser. After much experimentation, I can hereby clarify/correct all of my previous observations [...]
Blog web server upgrade
I have completed a simple upgrade to the little box that serves my blogs. I have increased its RAM from 16 gigabytes to 64 gigabytes. I had observed some page loading slow-downs under some conditions recently. My quick review gave me the idea that some of the blogs processes might be a bit starved for [...]
Blaugust 2025 numbers
I had few serious goals for my sophomore Blaugust participation in 2025. Essentially I just wanted to feel like I was involved despite having a low 'blogging' drive. And I achieved that limited goal: mostly by reading the work of other, more energetic participants. Once again I've gathered some 'end of August' numbers illustrating the [...]
A little bird…
This morning's "bird in our yard" seems to be the Golden Crowned Kinglet: at least that's what our bird ID gadget helped me figure out. I have no pictures of my own- they move too fast, and are too far away for the zoom on my phone- so I grabbed the pictures for this post [...]
Bugs me: Hollywood facial hair
This is my greatly overdue response to the Blaugust 'community builder' "Low Stakes Hot Take" challenge. I'm a man. Men generally grow more hair on their face than women. Sometimes they style or trim that facial hair in ways that please themselves or others. Men who are not deeply interested in their appearance do not [...]
Over one year as a retiree
I retired on May 31, 2024. That means over a year has passed and I am still happy with the decision. Irene and I have had some tough times during the past year that I'll touch on in this post. But the absence of the pressures of work has made it a lot easier to [...]
Welcome to the State of Ninneso!
I read several articles today talking about the much improved ChatGPT 5 model. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has claimed that it is now like having a whole team of PhDs in your pocket. One of the key improvements touted is that the model is supposed to be less prone to making up incorrect answers. [...]
Who is ‘Ubergeek’ Kelly Adams?
The first week of Blaugust is over, but I'm still feeling like I'm just starting this event up. So I'll fall back on the writing prompts for the first week and talk about myself in this post rather than coming up with something new. Firstly, I already wrote a proper post about who I am [...]
Sadly disabling ActivityPub due to Discord weirdness
I activated a number of plugins last year to help make my blog part of the IndieWeb and Fediverse 'communities'. I definitely support their intentions, particularly relating to owning my own data. Unfortunately, something 'broke' with Discord some time back that I've been unable to fix. I am, for now at least, disabling a key [...]
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