Tag: Neo-LJ
A Happy Unicorn Story
The Girl had this kick where she absolutely HATED sad parts of stories. I tried to explain how it’s a common plot device called the “darkest hour” or “low point” and that it’s basically used in all storytelling, but she was not at a point of caring about what I…
“Girlie Posters”
Some of my coworkers are 70s kids and we got talking about how teen boys back in those days would have “girlie posters” in their bedroom of stars like Farrah Fawcett. By now, you likely know that I really enjoy ironic and weird AI art, so I was able to…
Cold Day Outside
We went up to see my in-laws this weekend (after having been too sick to see them last weekend). There was still a lot of snow up near The Bridge even though we drove through rain to get here on Friday. Kids got me outside after breakfast against my better…
2008 vs Now
I normally don’t do these (because it’s likely feeding the Facebook facial recognition training data more-so than normal) but this one shows a pretty stark contrast between 22 and 39. I don’t know if either of these guys would recognize the other.
Get the Power!
Back before the internet, if you wanted to get through one of your favorite video games, you couldn’t Google for a walkthrough or watch YouTube play-through videos; if you got stuck, you were just stuck. Sometime in the early 90s, I found this Nintendo Power magazine at K-Mart and used…
Backyard Camping 2024
Backyard camping. It’s one of those activities that sounds really simple but always ends up being more of a pain than expected. The kids have been begging to “go camping” ever since last fall. Besides being the wrong season, Dear Wife keeps things planned out months in advanced and I…
…and we’re back!
Note to future self (and you, Dear Reader): WordPress on Docker, behind an nginx front end, spread across two servers in a home environment (see photo) is not a good combination to maintain data reliability. To summarize: I’ve always kept old computer parts around and, almost a decade ago when…