Hello again gopher friends | |
Tonight's going to be a quick mash of random stuff off the top of | |
my head before I forget. I hope to flesh out some of these later | |
if I get motivated. I'll probably forget something and will write | |
a new entry for that/those as well. | |
I've been thinking about the connection machine a lot, just | |
randomly pops into mind. It's a fascinating machine, and I love | |
the look. Which also lead me to think about WAIS again. | |
Read the Water Knife, and reading Burning Chrome. Both of these | |
books have been thought provoking. | |
During the heat waves I wondered why I hadn't heard about solar | |
concentrator absorption chillers, which would seem like an obvious | |
solution. I did find some projects such as ISAAC [1], so that is | |
heartening. Still, I think it would be a good exercise to | |
figure out how to make one using some reflectors and an old | |
propane powered fridge. Maybe using those evacuated tubes and the | |
parabolic troughs perhaps. Also wondering how where I am and the | |
world at large will be like in the event of AMOC and ENSO | |
collapse, something I hadn't figured into my calculus before. | |
Also thinking about EV conversions as of late. Never did like the | |
waste of throwing away something so resource intensive and | |
hopefully there will be nice legal and monetary incentives that I | |
hope will spur interest. As it so happens, my friend, who I helped | |
a little bit way back when for an EV motorcycle conversion, | |
recently completed a conversion for his truck. I'm quite excited | |
and love chatting about that sort of stuff. Learning a fair bit | |
too. | |
Finally, I've been working on some repurposed thing clients for my | |
desktop, and whatever else some light computing is needed. The | |
pi-pocalypse and desire for a simpler and unified computing | |
environment conspired on this one. Also, the nudge for these | |
little Wyse devices from someone on OCC. Cool thing is that I got | |
a few of them for something like $15 each, which is way better | |
than any Pi nowadays. | |
Anyways, as it always seems to be, it's late. Goodnight. | |
Tags: #connectionmachine #think #oldcomputerchallenge #ev #wyse | |
[0] Text-only version | |
[1] https://www.energy-concepts.com/_pages/app_isaac_solar_ice_maker.htm |