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Yesterday I stopped by the local St. Vinny’s like I often do to see if I can find interesting things. I happened to come across an old RCA tube television. I powered it on in the store and it came up with a green screen, but after a couple of light taps it went away and got the normal screen of static and digital channel indicator. My daughter has really been wanting to play Duck Hunt, so I figured for $12 it would be worth giving it a try.

I got it home and, after stopping by the local retro video game...

I was hoping to get a better picture, but saw this really cool hummingbird moth by our lilac today. At first I thought it was a tiny hummingbird, then thought it was a wasp because of the yellow stripes before I realized what it was.

I did my first POTA of the year with my TruSDX. I managed to do pretty damn good on 40m early in the day with 5 watts. It was my first time really taking it out so had low expectations, but was quite pleased with the results.

In case your in the mood for some surf metal.

I’m not an AI lover or hater. I find it a useful tool for some things but get really annoyed at it being crammed down our throats. AI "art" is about the dumbest thing humans have come up with, but I do find Claude helpful when it comes to helping out with coding (with the understanding that I still need to know what is really happening). The economic and environmental toll is bad but feel like both could be managed with some cooler thinking. It is absolutely overhyped, but unlike Cryptocurrency and NFTs, I...

I like Libby/Overdrive a lot. However, since I only get a little while to read every day it can take me a while to get through a book, so sometimes I’m unable to finish before it’s due back after x amount of renewals.

Overall I think that artificial limits on ebooks are silly, but understand that it is a part of the current system. What I don’t understand is why it would apply to works in the public domain. I’ve been making my way through Dracula, but then someone else apparently wanted to check it out so...