I helped run a Kickstarter where one of our rewards was Mac and PC software on custom USB sticks.

We had a couple hubs set up and cloned the drives 20 at a time.

Ellie dozing in the snow.

I’m 46 and we got a 14.4 modem in around 1992-3 I think. We used gopher and ftp then later hotline to trade shareware, then warez and serialz.

I miss those days, but I don’t miss downloading 8 of 9 parts of a file and not being able to reconnect to the server for the last one.

Most of New England is named that way too. The problem is that the same road ends up with 2 names depending on which direction or end you are in.

Got luck getting an ambulance dispatched to the right place (in my unfortunate experience).

As a designer who turned into a developer, had to do minor server stuff, manage my own freelance projects and debug it all…

I quit and started working in old cars and handyman stuff. Not a Luddite, but fuck marketing, temporarily organizing pixels, and spying on users for pennies.

I was working with the education division about a decade and a bit ago when they had an open source platform with sensors and motors. Then iRobot abruptly killed that division too, right as our project was getting going.

I haven’t felt good about that company since.

I live both north and east of NYC, I want the later sunlight in summer and winter. The first hour of light is wasted on me and many others. Farmers maybe not, but around here that’s pretty much over by late October anyway.

I’ve also lived at the most extreme opposite end of the Eastern time zone in Michigan, and like the late evening sunlight even more!

This guy used to live near me: