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Model rocketry changed my life back in the 1970s. I built my first rocket, an Estes Big Bertha the summer between 3rd and 4th grade, which I think was the summer of 1970.

Ate at Cracovia Polish-American restaurant in Denver’s most-misspelled suburb, Westminster. It was delicious.

Got a couple of dumb fortunes from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai joint.

If you’ve driven the long way across Kansas on I-70, there are two things that you’ve seen and wondered about.

First and foremost, Wheat Jesus on a billboard in Colby, Kansas. I have no insights, artistic, theological or sociological, on Wheat Jesus, or “Wheatus” as some folks know him.

There’s also the big beige dome on the south side of I-70 in Hays, Kansas. That’s the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. You really should take an hour or two to visit it. Well worth your time.

I’ve got what Amazon sells as Sunnytech Mini Hot Live Steam Engine Model Education Toy DIY (BJ001)

Some very simple assembly is required.

I run pacman -Syu about once a week on my Arch Linux machines, to stay up-to-date, avoid security problems and generally stay at the bleeding edge of software revisions.

Today, I ran pacman -Syu on my Dell R530 server and it updated the PPP package.

Trouble ensued.

Under the Dragon’s Tail, by Maureen Jennings, 1998, McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-9597-9

I used to try to do one dumb/weird hardware thing every year. One year, I used a Palm Pilot as a serial terminal for a Sun SPARCStation-10. Multiple serial cable adapters and gender changers involved.

My dumb hardware stunt for October 2024: 10 USB WiFi adapters on the same laptop.