Captain's Phlog                                    2020.02.22
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Yesterday I geographically relocated the server. This sounds 
a bit more impressive that just saying I carried an old Acer 
Aspire One out to the garage and plugged it in. :-D It was 
easy peasy though thanks to the fact that a week ago I 
gifted it the first working battery its had in over a year 
(so now ~Cow has a six hour UPS) and I can worry less about 
the power interruptions that occur with some regularity here 
in the outlands. I have a solar panel with battery storage 
out there and am considering supplying the server off of it. 
We'll see.

This got me musing on Solderpunk and their ROOPHLOCH event. 
If you've not heard about it, check out their Gopher Hole on 
Circumlunar Space. I do hope they decide to do it again this 
year as I'd like to participate in some wacky Rube Goldberg 
way. The most outlandish scenario I've come up with thus far 
would be using speech-to-text on a pi powered by a small 
wheel mounted generator on a bicycle. The pi would ssh the 
entry to ~Cow via a WiFi hotspot as I'm peddling down the 
road. Again, We'll see.

Thus ends this tail.
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Also in the news...
I've started playing with processing LDPE and HDPE (numbers 
4 & 2 respectively) plastics in-house or more properly 
in-garage. Once I have a few experiments under my belt I'll 
report back.

Me: [thenumbersixtytwo]connolly[at]google[period]com