I'll be moving my home office soon and as part of that I want some new decor.

Thus, a little side project is born. Below are examples of the major desktop CPUs from PC I've used over the past ~33 years. (The gap is for a Cyrix P133+ I'm still hunting for a good, reasonably priced example of).

Across those years I've used other CPUs, but each of these was in my daily driver for years.

They'll get framed with specifications like release date, transistor and core counts, etc.

I got the new Matias ergonomic keyboard which is essentially a Microsoft Sculpt clone with some upgrades - it's wired and wireless, rechargeable, has removable, magnetically attached and thus replaceable wrist rest, and comes with both USB A and C adapters which can also be replaced.

I'm excited to try it out, as this addresses many of my wishlist items for the Sculpt and before the third party re-release is available!

Some of my fun recently - this year's holiday presents for folks includes lots of whiskey and wine bottle stoppers that I turned in my shop.

Woods shown are cocobolo, spalted tamarind, olivewood, bloodwood, bocote, zebrawood, stabilized and dyed maple burl, and clear spalted maple burl.

My CISO (a Navy veteran) was gifted this amazing / terrible AI generated coloring book.

Behold, the US Navy coloring book, with alllll sorts of advanced ship features like multiple stacked hulls, turrets on turrets on turrets, turrets without guns or guns in odd locations...and the list goes on!

The first full conference day of #EDU24 is rolling along at full steam. Brene Brown's talk was excellent, and her thoughts on power over versus power with and power of will stick with me.

What's next? Well, on my side I get to talk about effective cybersecurity programs with Helen Patton at the EDUCAUSE Commons Cybersecurity Theater. For us that means talking about AI and engaging the audience in a fun conversation.