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<title>Reflections on 2020</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 Jul 2021 13:47:00 CDT</pubDate>
<link>gopher://ymodem.org/0/phlog/2021/last_year.txt</link>
<description><![CDATA[ I didn't update the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2021.html">reading list</a> because I just haven't felt like reading much lately. I haven't felt much like doing much, to be honest. I'm fine, really, but I decided to write up some thoughts about the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2021/last_year.txt">Eternal 2020</a> anyway. </p> ]]></description>
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<title>Read Somethin' Will Ya?</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:37:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I finished reading <i>The Long Earth</i> and before I jumped into the second book in the series, I found a trove of old mass-market paperback reprints of some comics that I bought about a year ago and then put in a bag and forgot about, so I figured I'd read through them as sort of a brain-cleanser. Updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2021.html">reading list</a> accordingly. I also found two NES games in the bag that I forgot that I purchased: Super C and Kabuki Quantum Fighter. So that was a nice bonus </p> ]]></description>
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<title>New Year, Same old S...tuff</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:17:00 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <p>2021 is here! It looks a whole lot like 2020 so far. That will probably change eventually. I hope. I started a <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2021.html">reading list</a> for 2021. I didn't read nearly as many books as I wanted to last year for a variety of reasons that I don't want to go into here. I still bought a bunch, though, because I'm apparently incorrigible.</p><p>I also made <a href="http://zmodem.org">zmodem.org</a> a landing page for most of my projects so that it's a one-stop shop that I can point people to show how many projects I'm currently ignoring. </p> ]]></description>
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<title>The Sprint to the end of the Year</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:14:00 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I probably don't need to tell you that 2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year. I managed to remember to update the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2020.html">reading list</a>, so I'll take that as a win. ]]></description>
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<title>This Gopher Hole</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2020 11:06:00 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I've been neglecting this gopher hole lately, so I wrote <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2020/gopherholes.txt">a phlog entry</a> talking about it today, and I got a little more nostalgic for the Old Web(tm) than I anticipated. I updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2020.html">reading list</a>, too. ]]></description>
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<title>What do you want?</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 May 2020 13:21:00 CDT</pubDate>
<link>gopher://ymodem.org/0/phlog/2020/whatdoyouwant.txt</link>
<description><![CDATA[It probably has nothing to do with the global ongoing health situation that shall not be named, but I'm feeling kind of <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2020/whatdoyouwant.txt">introspective</a> today. I also managed to read a book, so I updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2020.html">reading list</a>, too. I'm exhausted. ]]></description>
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<title>The OS Dance</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:05:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It's been about three years, and after a lot of backing up/formatting/installing and so on during that time, I <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2020/theosdance.txt">re-installed FreeBSD</a> on my daily driver again.I know that nobody cares what OS I run or why I switched back to it in the first place. To the TL;DR version is that I did it to make my recreational computing fun again. Because I missed having fun when I used my computer.]]></description>
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<title>Happy (belated) New Year</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 07:47:00 CST</pubDate>
<link>gopher://ymodem.org/0/phlog/2020/happynewyear.txt</link>
<description><![CDATA[I haven't started the reading list for 2020 yet, even though I have read a few things. Since around the last time I updated this thing life has been turned upside down for me and a lot of the people around me, which has been sucking up a lot of my time. I did manage <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2020/happynewyear.txt">eke out a phlog entry</a>, finally, rallying myself to get back into the swing of making things (or at least some facsimile thereof while the dust settles around here, which could take a while). It remains to be seen if I take my own advice, but, hey, you have to start somewhere, right?]]></description>
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<title>Not New Year's Resolutions</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:45:00 CDT</pubDate>
<link>gopher://ymodem.org/0/phlog/2019/resolutions.txt</link>
<description><![CDATA[Updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">reading list</a>. I know I've been kind of ignoring the phlog lately, and I'm sorry about that. I've been working on the 'tracking my video game' collection website, which kind of turned into a rudimentary content management system, so that's nice, I guess. I also came to a realization over the last few days (though, to be fair, this has been percolating in the back of my head since the beginning of the year) that the Modern Web(tm) is all but a lost cause, and I need to disengage from the worst of it. I lay out my reasoning in a <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/resolutions.txt">kind of rambly post</a>, but the TL;DR version is that it's not really fun any more, and I'm tired of doing things because I've been doing them for a long time, even though they stopped being fun.]]></description>
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<title>Reading list update</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:45:00 CDT</pubDate>
<link>gopher://ymodem.org/h/readinglist/2019.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">reading list</a> (again). I know it doesn't really look like it from this angle, but I've been really busy. After that article I wrote about 'just create something great', I started to get the bug to redesign my office into a Classic Game Cave of sorts and maybe go back to one of my old projects that I never really followed through on: making silly videos about video games. I made a couple for Google Video a million years ago, and I made a few for YouTube, but now that I have more resources at my disposal, I figured I might give it another shot. Plus it gives me an excuse to play some of these games that have been piling up over the years.]]></description>
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<title>Just create something great</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:25:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">reading list</a> (finally). I've been concentrating on building a studio with the intention of making some videos of some kind or another because it looked like a fun thing to do. I also ran across a bit of information about being successful that, essentially boiled down to "Just create great things", which is so useless that it inspired me to <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/justbegreat.txt">rant for way too many words</a>.]]></description>
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<title>Oops I forgot to update</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:05:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description>Realized a week late that I updated this feed, but I forgot to update the lastBuildDate, so it's possible that nobody noticed. That's what I get for posting updates before I've had my morning coffee*. *I don't drink coffee.</description>
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<title>Oops I built a website</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:35:00 CDT</pubDate>
<link>gopher://ymodem.org/0/phlog/2019/oops.txt</link>
<description><![CDATA[<p>A few months ago I decided to buy an old deleted domain to keep track of some Nintendo collectibles that I have because I kept accidentally buying duplicates. As I worked on the list, I kept adding more and more features until it dawned on me one day that I had <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/oops.txt">accidentally built a website</a>.</p>
<p>I also updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">reading list</a>. I found a copy of The Elements of Style at my local used book store and decided to see what all the hubbub was about. I'm partway through the book and I still don't know. Maybe it picks up toward the end.]]></description>
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<title>Book titles</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Jul 2019 16:35:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>In July of 2019, the XKCD guy (he's the one that makes stickfigure comics that aren't usually very funny, but get passed around a lot anyway) <a href="https://blog.xkcd.com/2019/06/10/book-tour-announcement/">held a contest</a> for some book that he wrote.</p>
<p>To enter the contest you had to find a bunch of books that you could put in some kind of order such that the titles made a sentence or a story, and whichever one was the 'best' would be the winner and he'd come to your town to promote his book.</p>
<p>I didn't enter, but I thought it was an interesting idea, so I got a few pictures of some books that I thought might fit if I did enter the contest, and posted them <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/books">here</a>.</p>
<img src="http://ymodem.org:70/images/books/sez_who_sez_me.jpg" /> ]]></description>
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<title>wyrm.org</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You know how it is: You have a problem that you need to solve, so you make a tool to take care of it, and then, you keep working on that tool until one day you turn around and you've accidentally built a website. <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/scopecreep.txt">Something like that</a>, anyway. I'm still building it because I'm having fun doing it, which is the best possible reason I can think of to build anything. ]]></description>
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<title>Little Updates</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:25:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">reading list</a> (finally) and shuffled a few things around. I'm still busily using outdated technology that nobody else likes to build a website that's very likely to only ever be visited by a handful of people (not this one, another one), a.k.a. 'having fun'. ]]></description>
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<title>Expired Domains</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:25:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/excessiveconsumption.txt">in my phlog</a> instead. It's something that I've been struggling with for a while, so this article hit a little bit close to home for me. ]]></description>
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<title>Excessive Consumption Ruins Creativity</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 07:55:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Someone linked to a poorly-written article on Medium, and rather than write a response in the comments, I decided to write it <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/excessiveconsumption.txt">in my phlog</a> instead. It's something that I've been struggling with for a while, so this article hit a little bit close to home for me. ]]></description>
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<title>Kicking ads out of my life</title>
<pubDate> Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:01:00 CDT </pubDate>
<link>gopher://ymodem.org/0/phlog/2019/solongwww.txt</link>
<description><![CDATA[I updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">reading list</a> a few days ago, but didn't update the .rss feed until today (whoops!). I also <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/solongwww.txt">rambled a little bit</a> in response to getting linked to two different websites that demanded that I either give them money or use private mode somewhere else, which got me worked up enough to write about it. ]]></description>
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<title>8 bits of fun</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:40:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I decided to shutter <a href="http://8bit.fun">8bit dot fun</a> and concentrate on other projects for the time being, like this very gopher hole! Also a new site I'm calling <a href="http://backlog.tv">backlog.tv</a>. You can read more about my decision in <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/phlog/2019/8bitfun.txt">the link</a>. Or not. Your call.]]></description>
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<title>History</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:45:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Updated the <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">reading list</a>. I also was cleaning out an old forgotten file cabinet and found a bunch of old disks, software, manuals, and catalogs from the 90's. I have a soft spot for that 90's computer design aesthetic, so I'm <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/oldcomputerstuff">getting some pictures</a> of the treasures I'm finding before they get shipped off to the landfill or the recyclers. <br /><br /> <img src="http://ymodem.org:70/images/oldcomputerstuff/go_for_it.jpg" alt="Go for it..." />]]></description>
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<title>Housekeeping</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:20:00 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Added a <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/everythingelse/gamestats.jpg">couple</a> <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/everythingelse/toblerone_tacos.jpg">of</a> <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/everythingelse/itcanthappentome.jpg">pictures</a> to the misc images directory. Also added a bunch of .abstract entries all over the place to make the directory listings more descriptive]]></description>
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<title>Image Updates</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:57:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Added a few images to some of the various image folders: <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/everythingelse/no_connection.jpg">No Connection</a> <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/everythingelse/the_bedside_mad.jpg">The Bedside MAD</a> <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/everythingelse/dnd1e_2011.jpg">An ADnD book cover</a> and <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/videogames/jazz_jackrabbit/the_internet_jazz.jpg">The Internet</a>. I also added <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/images/quotes/darkeyepreface.jpg">a quote</a> from The Dark Eye Core Rulebook, and I renamed the files in the Quotes folder to be a little bit more descriptive. <em>whew!</em>]]></description>
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<title>Reading List - Family Circus Edition</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 9 Feb 2019 23:15:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I grabbed a stack of comics at the local used books store and discovered that they were all Family Circus books. I decided to <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/readinglist/2019.html">binge-read them all in a week</a> for some reason. Also, you can't really tell, but I moved ymodem.org to a new server. ]]></description>
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<title>Rescuing a trashed laptop</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:40:12 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I started a directory for current projects and then immediately put an article detailing how I pulled a laptop out of the recycle pile from an undisclosed location and then <a href="http://ymodem.org:70/projects/acer/acer.html">tried to get it working</a>. ]]></description>
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