Congratulations to Julien, who is getting married![1]

Leeb, I like your website[2]. Whether or not you switch to 
gopher depends on what you need to do[3]. I have a few 
different pages and they've all been neglected since I found 
gopher. HTML markup is annoying. Writing is so much more 
natural without it. That being said, stay tuned to 
Solderpunk's phlog, because he's got something new up his 
sleeve that might interest you.

xiled, that's a nice pda/phone collection[4]. Oddly, I spent 
a few hours on the weekend reflashing the CF card in my 
LifeDrive. Apps were getting corrupted and I'm not sure why. 
The card hasn't seen a lot of use, so I hope wear is not the 
issue. If it is, the original microdrive is still laying 
around somewhere, but the device is so much faster with the 
solid state storage.

I guess the next thing on my agenda will be playing around 
with a raspberry pi zero w. Sloum's colorfield.space has 
really inspired me, as have the handheld prototypes on 
n-o-d-e.net. You can do so much with such a low-spec, 
inexpensive computer. So I picked up a zero w and added a 
regular zero to the order as well. There's already a USB 
ethernet cable around here somewhere. The ethernet version 
will become a pi-hole DNS server for my LAN, I think. We'll 
see. The wifi version may turn into a DIY handheld. Fun 
stuff for weekend projects. I'll save the rest of my 
Christmas windfall until the Pine64 linux phone is released.

As far as 'culture' goes (can I even call it that?), I'm 
watching the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series. I caught 
snippets of it back when it first ran, but wasn't able to 
watch regularly or catch onto the storyline. It's nice to be 
able to finally watch it from start to finish. Back in 
1978-79, I watched the original series every Sunday 
night.... Well, that's almost true. On the first night, it 
was pre-empted by a Middle East peace agreement involving 
Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. The network 
may have run the rest of the premiere afterward in the US, 
but they didn't in Canada. Grumble, grumble, curse. Eight- 
year-old me wasn't impressed. But I never forgot who those 
people were. So that's something.


[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/julienxx/Log/2019/plain-text-chat.txt

[2] https://www.tanmatsu.jp

[3] gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/0/~leeb/phlog/2019-01-09_Giving-Up

[4] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/xiled/phlog/2019/20190113_charging