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 Tags: #work #gopher #reading #eff #batteries #hamradio