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hello from cara. you may know me from twitter as @caraesten. |
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i make weird art with old computers and CRTs. |
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having spent a lot of time lately reading some truly beautiful |
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writing here in gopherspace, i thought i might like to create |
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my own little spot. |
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This Quadra 650 I'm typing on is almost too fast. Somehow, it feels zippier than |
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the 630 it replaced, but given the near-identical specs, that's probably just my |
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imagination. The video card is objectively better though; I can turn up the |
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resolution to 832x624 and everything seems small, distant, so much space to work |
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with, and all of it clear and sharp. |
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Monday, March 14th, 2022 |
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For the last few weeks, I've known my garden was overrun with weeds. I'm |
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sure it had been steadily getting worse, I must have seen it before then, |
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but I had largely bkeeping it from my mind. Sometime during the |
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fall, the last stalks of the mustard greens had dried up with their rattling |
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seed pods intact and I had managed to lie to myself till nearly the end of |
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winter about my plans to harvest the seeds. In the meantime, everything I |
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had planted was lost under the tall grasses. |
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Continued... |
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Tuesday, January 04th, 2022 |
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Repairs. Taking apart the computer where I read posts in gopherspace, |
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firing it up, making sure it all works properly, then getting carried |
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away with reading. I installed a SoundBlaster 16. There's an FM synth |
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chip I can use on it for writing music. The first time, there was |
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some gunk on the ISA pins, so I take it out, reseat it, pop it back |
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in. Was it something on the pins, or was it a driver conflict? I make |
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changes to the AUTOEXEC.BAT. |
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Continued... |
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2021 |
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I love reminding myself that I still know how to make a fire. Setting the logs |
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just right, starting the initial flame, and then tending it as it grows is such |
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a reassuring activity for me. In one sense, I get the same pleasure out of it as |
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from playing SimCity: watching a thing you set in motion take on a life of its |
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own. I'm warmed by the logs that were caught by the sticks that were caught by |
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the twigs which were caught by the wood shavings which I lit with my lighter |
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over an hour ago. All related, all building upon each other. |
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Continued... |
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Friday, December 24th, 2021 |
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The rain is falling outside as I write this; there's something odd about |
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witnessing a rainstorm in a desert. It's supposed to happen every once and a |
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while, but I never expect to be around to witness it. I don't live here, and it |
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feels like a fairly intimate and rare thing to see for someone who's just |
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passing through. Anyway, I'm in Scottdale with my parents and my sister for |
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Christmas, and it's pouring. |
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Continued... |
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