2023-06-05 | #Geekyness #Mechanical Keyboard
Building a new keyboard requires an immense amount of justification. Because you can only use one at a time, and they are not cheap. My first keyboard build was fun, but, I had two things I disliked. First, the height of the chassis was uncomfortable. Second, I did not really LOVE the brown switches after months of use. Third and final, the last act of Red Dead Redemption 2 broke my spacebar switch.
2023-04-26 | #Geekyness #Maintenance #Site
Things have changed. Or not, if this went poorly It has been a few years since I’ve changed something with this site, and it was time. In early 2016 I switched to Hugo, from Octopress. This was done because Hugo seemed to have a lot of momentum behind it, and boy was it much faster to generate a site. Before that, in 2013 it was from Wordpress to Octopress. This was my first push into a static site vs a big publishing platform that required a bunch of resources I no longer had at my disposal.
2023-04-19 | #Geekyness #IRIX #SGI #Silicon Graphics
I did a fun thing at work. A group of us had run through Prometheus training, and the group coordinator had asked if people could present about new things they had discovered. So, how I learn the absolute best is to tinker. Its not to read, because I’m at a 5th grade reading level, nor is it to listen and watch adult story time because I have a short attention span.
2023-04-11 | #Games #Reviews
WARNING! This post has spoilers. Both in text and images. Do not read beyond the summary if you do not want anything spoiled. Pentiment I mentioned this masterpiece in my Games of 2022 post, as well as when I was a guest on EP78 The Jump Crouch Podcast, but I wanted to give a small and potentially spoiled review. Plus some pictures. Because I compensate for my poor wording and though process by distracting potential readers with images.
2023-01-16
2022, probably a less diverse year in gaming for me due to the overwhelming time sink that was and still is: Elden Ring. Still, here is my list Cyberpunk 2077 While I was waiting for Elden Ring to come out, I played Cyberpunk 2077 for the second time. I enjoyed it possibly even more than the first, and wrote a lengthy love letter Elden Ring I have played this game for over 500 hours, this year.
2023-01-06
Previous years, I have primarily had a focus on Deadlifts and Squats. They are my personal favorites. I feel like I get a lot of mileage out of them. After a few years of slow by steady progress with my deadlift and squat progress, I had noticed that my bench press and overhead press had become stagnant. Max bench press from 2016 - 2021 was 255. No more, no less.
2022-12-01 | #Desktop #Development #Geekyness #Linux #Work
This post is in the spirit of usesthis.com, because after working at Blizzard for a while I wanted to share the setup I’ve currently settled on and why. What I Do I’m a Site Reliability Engineer, and my day to day workload consists of: System troubleshooting (k8s, containers, vm’s, baremetal, etc.) YAML Software development (golang mostly) Communicate with people I help people solve problems, fix things, and occasionally I get to dive into a old system and figure out what is what.
2022-11-21 | #Obituary
I would be remiss if I wrote an entire post to my dearly departed cat, and not one of my father in law (who had a profound effect on myself and the family) Curt was diagnosed with cancer almost two years ago. During may of 2021 when we had made a trip down, my mother in law told me privately while I was in the garage putting some sodas in the fridge.
2022-08-16 | #Games #Reviews
Dead Space (2008) *WARNING! This post contains spoilers! I did another Long Jump podcast with the Jump Crouch folks: Aaron McNair, Orrin Luc, and the dark web only Kevin McNair on The Jump Crouch Podcast As this is now my tradition, here are my expanded thoughts that I mostly expressed on the episode. I played dead space when I was still in my PCMR snobbery before we even called it that.
2022-06-24 | #Cyberpunk #Games #Reviews
WARNING! This post has spoilers. Both in text and images. Do not read beyond the summary if you do not want anything spoiled. Table of Contents Summary The Game Itself RPG Mechanics Leveling Attribute Points Skills Combat Performance and Bugs The Open World Open World Aspects Highlights The Engine and Details Side Quests Music Driving Areas I Felt Lacking Empty World Empathy and Cyberpsychosis Mechanics World Interactions Combat Music Hypersexuality Ultrawide Pr0n Final Thoughts The Story Overall The Future Summary Disclaimer: I have been a long time fan of the pen and paper RPG system Cyberpunk 2020.
