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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 11/07/2026

The impact of Emergency! is amazing. I don't think many people today realize the widespread effect it had at the time.

When the show premiered, there were 12 paramedic units in all of North America. In the next three years, 46 states enacted laws that allowed paramedics to practice emergency medicine. Within 10 years, more than half of all Americans were within 10 minutes of a paramedic rescue or ambulance unit.

Experts say that growth simply would not have occurred without Emergency!

m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 06/02/2026

KEXP is celebrating "International Clash Day" with an amazing ongoing set of awesome tracks, all nicely curated by humans, for humans. Give it a listen if you want to get fired up! www.kexp.org/internationa...

Image with a background of the NTSC test pattern. Text overlay reads "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. INT'L CLASH DAY. FEBRUARY 6. KEXP"

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 27/12/2025

Pretty sure everyone of a certain age is wondering why they didn't use this song for the last scene in #Pluribus S01E09.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 27/11/2025

I noticed that my security camera reveals the lidar scanning that my vacuum uses to navigate. I've added an appropriate soundtrack.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 01/11/2025

A UPS in my homelab is having a very Douglas Adams kind of day.

Status for a UPS that shows it being both online and offline at the same time.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 08/09/2025

I'm watching "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus" with some friends in Discord. I was prepared for the music to be powerful. I did not expect the cinematography to be equally moving. This is a beautiful, beautiful film. Highly, highly recommended. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi...

A black and white image of Ryuichi Sakamoto seated in front of a piano, mostly in shadow.

Close frame of Ryuichi Sakamoto's face while he is playing.

Closeup Ryuichi Sakamoto playing the piano. His hands and the piano keys are visible. They are also reflected in the piano.

Ryuichi Sakamoto seated at the piano, playing. Most of the image is shadowed, except for the acoustic wall panels in the background.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 01/09/2025

Happy Labor Day, y'all. Hug a union today.

A triptych portraying a person at work, a person sleeping in bed, and a couple in a boat on a lake. The panels are captioned "8 hours for work", "8 hours for rest", and "8 hours for what we will." A figure in the lower right corner holds aloft a banner that says "8 Hours."

The artist is Ricardo Levins Morales, his initials can be seen next to the figure holding the "8 Hours" banner.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 20/08/2025

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." - Edward Abbey

A winding trail leads off into redrock and desert.

Long Canyon, Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands NP.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 10/08/2025

Seems to be the same artist as this. Haven't been able to track down much more beyond this though. Maybe call the surf shop and see if they have more info?

A photo of a surf shop with a beautiful mural painted on its storefront. The mural features all manner of fish, a large jellyfish, and a large octopus as well.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 10/08/2025

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate.

A triptych of screen shots from the movie "Hackers."

The first frame shows Dade saying "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool."

The second frame shows Lord Nikon saying "Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history."

The last frame shows Lord Nikon saying "Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988."

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 29/07/2025

It's been this for years.

An iPhone lock screen. The background image is Capt. Kirk shouting "KHAN!" from Star Trek 2 : The Wrath of Khan.

It's 8:35 in the AM on Tuesday, July 29th. Battery is fully charged. Wifi and cel signal are at full strength.

I miss my old chair.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 24/07/2025

Sometimes, the algorithm is a little unsettling.

A screenshot of the YouTube suggestions page, showing two videos side by side. One is a video titled “The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”, the other is a trailer for the movie “Shin Godzilla.”

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 01/06/2025

This was a fun exercise until I realized this photo is nearly 25 years old. 🤪 Taken with a Canon G1 - 3 whole megapixels!

A Dwarf Lupine blooms after a surprise thunderstorm. Small purple flowers with white centers bloom with green leaves underneath. A piece of deadwood has been partially buried by desert sand kicked up by the raindrops. The red sand all around has been pockmarked by raindrops.

Taken in May 2001, along the Hurrah Pass trail in Utah, near Dead Horse Canyon State Park and Canyonlands National Park.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 01/05/2025

Happy May Day, y'all. Hug a union today.

Woodcut that says "8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will."

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 24/03/2025

Watch where you step!

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 13/03/2025

crontab entry in question was :

a crontab entry :
0 8 20 * thu -n /home/wmb/bots/bin/thurs20thbot.pl

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 12/03/2025

You have to be a tricksy hobbit, but you can get the same thing out of the search box here. Put his full username in the search box but then click "Search for" rather than the username that pops up. Then click the "Latest" tab and refresh as needed to maintain sanity.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 23/02/2025

Stupid sexy pepperoni pizza.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 14/02/2025

I recently found that Roger C. Sharpe's amazing book "Pinball!", with beautiful photographs by James Hamilton, is available on the Internet Archive! It really captures the feel of mid/late 1970's pinball. archive.org/details/pinb... #pinball

Two pages from the book "Pinball!", one showing a series of triptychs of people playing pinball, opposite a closeup of the feet of someone playing a pinball machine.

3 black & white photos of pinball bumpers, along with some text describing what a bumper is, and a schematic illustration showing the different parts of a pinball bumper.

Three photographs show a mother and child playing pinball, a teenager watching a pinball game, and a young woman in shorts and a bikini top playing pinball.

An illustration showing a person's stance at a pinball machine, and several paragraphs of text describing "How To Play Pinball."

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 12/02/2025

Good to see you here!!!

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 07/02/2025

"Interesting" is a wild way to describe VIvek's fucked up collection of racism, sexism, and conspiracy theories, LinkedIn...

Screenshot of promo email I received from LinkedIn, suggesting I follow Vivek fucking Ramaswamy because I should add "interesting content" to my feed.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 22/01/2025

Decided to stuff the audit data from the #TZ into a mysql DB, it's easier to work with there. Looking to print session data (session = collection of games), possibly into a bsky post or a blog entry or something? It's starting to come together! Still lots of data to mine. #pinball

Sample output from a 2 game session played yesterday, showing basic stats from the report generator.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 19/01/2025

Finally found the right utility to control the USB hub in the Pi5 so that it can bring the WPC printer board up properly without needing to reboot the Pi! Now I can just leave the Pi on all the time and the perl script can do it all itself. This was the last stumbling block for this stage!

pimon output showing the script detecting the current state properly, resetting the USB hub in the Pi5, and then successfully detecting the WPC printer board and reading data from it.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 19/01/2025

Oooh, not too late! Second Lila wave coming through now.

Two more Lila * accounts have now followed me.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 18/01/2025

Honestly surprised I haven't been followed by Lila Small Berries, Lila Bigbooté, and Lila Many Jars yet.

Screen capture of recent bot followers, all named Lila.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 17/01/2025

Party like it's 1996! USB serial ports are just as finicky as I remember, but I think I've got reading from the #TZ printer board mostly sorted out. (And keeping with the 90's theme, pinmon is a few dozen lines of sweet sweet perl code.) #pinball

Log output from "pinmon", a perl script I'm writing to grab the audit output from my Twilight Zone pinball machine.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 13/01/2025

(thinking about ways to get data from the TZ to someplace meaningful) i need a network protocol that is simple, and designed for lightweight monitoring... hmmmm.... i know! #pinball #tz #snmp

A screenshot showing audit data from a Twilight Zone pinball machine being retrieved via SNMP.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 11/01/2025

With help from my good friend Grue, we were finally able to get the printer board I bought back in July working in my pinball machine this weekend! It pipes all the juicy audit data from the game out a serial connection, which l've hooked up to a Pi so l can capture and parse it. #pinball #TZ

Sample of audit output data from a Twilight Zone pinball machine, showing a game time histogram and various timestamps.

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 11/01/2025

Finished the big zpool re-org over the holiday break, it worked out quite nicely. Boosted space on the big /media zfs mount by a few dozen TB and then waterfalled the old disks into the other pools. This also got rid of the last of the SMR 8TB disks which worked well but I'm happy to end that era.

Listing of zpools on my main file server, total usable space 189TB, raw space is about 250TB. (Lots of redundancy on the critical zpools.)

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 26/12/2024

Pretty straightforward, these are all Seagate drives :

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m2ke @eccentric.ity.org · 03/12/2024

Just starting the long process of migrating from the hellsite. Pardon the dust, please.

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