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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
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