Another long day and evening spent on call, poised to pounce upon the
next emergency like a BIND bengal, ripping and tearing [1] through the
spreadsheet like a street accountant on the run [2].  The dust settles; broken
remains of As and PTRs litter the ground.

       As I sat chained to my desk for the better part of the evening, mnw
wandered in during openmic to play a set.  I learned the joys of Anamanguchi
and recoiled in fear of the atonal electro-feedback as he hammered the big red
emergency stop button.  Albums will be purchased to enjoy divorced from teh
intarwebs.

       Regarding formatting: Indent at the beginning of a paragraph, or keep
them blocky?  I'm also starting to realize that a gophermap for the phlog
listing may make things more manageable.  As much as I like the simplicity of a
directory listing, my biggest complaint is that the newest entries are at the
bottom of the list. And while the text and footnote format is quite convenient,
having hyperlinks to relevant material might prove to be worth the extra effort.

       Kvothe's recent entry [3] regarding the Hacker Crackdown was
coincidental since I've had the Gutenberg etext on a reader for a couple weeks.
This will be the third or fourth readthrough of the book.  It's quite a page
turner, and a trip down memory lane.  It was one of the first books I read on
Project Gutenberg back when the Internet was still predominantly textual and
screechily delivered via a boxy thing with switches on it.  Touring my early
webpage posed a reminder of the EFF's blue ribbon campaign [4], which
surprisingly is still alive, albeit less well known.

       Onto the next post, this time solderpunk's dissertation on lead-acid
life [5].  I have a few comments from my experiences that may help.  Maybe not.
Depending on the energy needs, a SLA will get the job done, but my requirements
necessitated a larger deep cycle battery to power various amateur radio gear and
this Raspberry Pi I'm typing this entry on.  The previous 7AH SLA would power a
radio for several hours provided minimal transmit time.  It still powers my
iGate and has weathered a few outages for a couple hours duration.  These
batteries will be great for 5V use (or let's say <10V) but for 12V most of the
capacity will be unavailable for those devices.  I suspect a buck/boost
converter or two batteries in series with buck converters should use more
capacity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMg9ryeWOw
[2] https://www.theonion.com/tag/herbert-kornfeld
[3] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/kvothe/phlog/2018/02/10-vintage
[4] https://www.eff.org/pages/blue-ribbon-campaign
[5] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/solderpunk/phlog/lead-acid-life.txt

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