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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I remember it now. The joys of running early Linux systems. #linux #redhat #compiling

picture of a Toshiba laptop screen showing a kernel build in the small central area that is 640x480 of the LCD panel.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I think the obvious question is HOW DID IT GET TO GREENVILLE?!? Atlanta is sprawling, but it's not that big (yet).

USPS tracking screenshot showing a package arriving in an Atlanta distribution facility and then leaving a facility in Greenville. without somehow also leaving the Atlanta facility.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The last #baseball game of the season for us. We did get to see our (well, my) name in lights 😁 Tonight is Stripers vs Indianapolis Indians. Hot dog(s) acquired (and eaten). #Milb #GWNvsIND

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. the infield is empty but there are players warming up and a chorus lined up in the outfield.

the scrolling screen in left field with a thank you to Finatics (Season ticket holders) showing my name scrolling to the left.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Bit of a late start for tonight's #baseball. It's Stripers vs Indianapolis Indians. Tonight is #PurrInThePark where cat owners are invited to bring their cats (on leash) to have them at the game. I'm proud to report, there seem to be zero owners stupid enough to try that. #milb #GWNvsIND

picture of the jumbotron with "Welcome to Purr in the Park" and a picture of a kitten sitting on a base.

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. a game is in progress. the stripers are in the field and Indianapolis is batting.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I hate sharpening. I managed to sharpen 3 chisels and my plane iron in about 6 hours. I need a better way to do this. I have water stones (220/800 and 4000/8000). They are messy, need constant flattening, and the edges of the wider blades take forever […] [Original post on boothcomputing.social]

three chisels and a plane iron sitting bevel up on the edge of my workbench. the tips are shiny and the chisels are (mostly) sharp.

my sharpening setup sitting on my workbench. there is a water basin with a stone on top, a squirt bottle of water, and my flattening stone.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

All 5 legs assembled, planed, and cut to length. #woodworking

leg five sitting on the workbench being glued with lots of clamps.

all 5 legs fully assembled but not yet planed to size. legs are sitting on my workbench. lots of clamps are visible in the background.

one of the table legs going through my DeWalt 735 planer.

finished stack of 5 legs now 1 7/8" square and 29 1/2" long the stack is sitting on a wooden a frame stool in front of wood stored vertically.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

[Wordle] I was pretty confident in guess 5. Missed it by THAT much... #Wordle Wordle 1 911 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Leg 4 of 5 will be done in about 30 mins. It used every last drop of my wood glue. So, leg 5 will have to wait until the weekend. I have two more bottles coming tomorrow. #woodworking

a 36"x2.5"x2.5" wooden post is being glued from smaller pieces. lots of clamps are sticking up in the air

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Leg 3 of 5 complete. All these legs need some filling of cracks and a couple of passes through the planer to get all the sides flat. #woodworking #wip

a 36" x 2.5" x 2.5" leg sits on a work bench. with a stack of clamps and some glue behind it.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Got my digitizer setup on my 486 and it's working in Microstation. Lot of nostalgia for this particular config. #retrocomputing #microstation #cad

picture of an LCD with a black screen and the handmade words "Hi, Mastodon". below that is a 1990's gateway 2000 keyboard and a large Summagraphics II digitizer board. a hand is holding the 4-button pointer. some other retro systems are visible to each side.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Tonight's #baseball is Stripers vs Charlotte Knights. Hot dog acquired. #milb #GWNvsCLT

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. there are players working out and stretching in the outfield. the infield is empty. a hot dog is visible in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Tonight's #baseball is Stripers vs Durham Bulls. It's Chopper's (the mascot) birthday. He's 18. I hope to find out which college he'll be going to. 😁 Hot dog acquired. #milb #GWNvDUR

a baseball field nicely prepared with players working out in the outfield. perspective is from the seats on the first base side.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Tonight's #baseball game is Stripers vs Louisville Bats. Let's hope they don't hit my son again. Hot dog acquired #milb #GWNvsLOU

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. the grounds crew is making the field ready. a hot dog is visible in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Tonight's #baseball game is Stripers vs Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. Hot dog acquired. #milb #GWNvsJAX

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. the grounds crew are getting the field ready. a hot dog is visible in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Tonight's game is...warm...the Stripers at the Memphis Redbirds. Hot dog acquired. #baseball #milb #GWNvsMEM

a picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. there are players warming up in the outfield on both sides and a hotdog being held up in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Tonight's #baseball is the Atlanta Black Crackers (Stripers) vs Louisville Bats. Hot dog acquired (and eaten) #milb #GWNvsLOU

a picture of a baseball field with players in two different uniforms warming up in the outfield grass. the display over the left field wall reads "Atlanta Black Crackers Weekend". the perspective is from the firstbase stands.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Tonight's #baseball game is looking iffy. Steady light drizzle coming down. It might be Stripers vs Louisville Bats Hot dog acquired. #milb #GWNvsLOU

a baseball field from the first base seats. it is overcast and dreary. a hot dog is in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Tonight's #baseball is Stripers vs Tides (again). Hot dog acquired. #milb #GWNvsNOR

picture of home plate from the first base seats of a baseball stadium. in the immediate foreground is a hot dog.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Tonight's baseball is Stripers vs Norfolk tides. Hot dog acquired. #baseball #milb #GWNvsNOR

a hot dog held in front of a baseball field as seen from the first base stands.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Tonight's #baseball is Stripers vs Charlotte Knights. It's Star Wars night. May the 23rd be with you. Hot dog acquired. #UseTheFarce #milb #GWNvsCLT

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. the grounds crew is making the field ready after a brief rain shower. A hot dog is in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

My son and I both got new shoes. Enjoy them for the brief moment before they get all dirty and scuffed up.

picture of two people's feet one wearing dark blue slip on shoes and one wearing bright pink slip on shoes. the ground is concrete and both people are wearing shorts.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Tonight's baseball game is #ArmedForcesNight at the Stripers game. Still playing the Durham Bulls. Hotdog Acquired #milb #baseball

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. a hotdog is visible in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

Tonight's baseball is Stripers vs Durham Bulls. Hot dog acquired #milb #baseball #GWNvDUR

picture of a baseball field from the first base stands. a group of people is walking around the track behind home plate in some sort of parade. players are warming up in the outfield.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

It's #rehab day at the Stripers Game. Both Seam Murphy (C) and Spencer Strider (P) are rehabbing with them tonight. Hot dog acquired. #baseball #milb

picture of a baseball diamond from the first base side. a hot dog is in the foreground.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Turns out the Azure Agent for Linux has been costing me $50/month in Azure disk usage. Graph from before and after me uninstalling it. It's a DNS server. The whole zone file is <<10KB. 50 GB read and 25 GB write per day. #Azure #Billing

Graph showing the disk IO for a VM I have hosted in Azure. The graph is averaging around 500 MB on the graph for a day. At the far right is a steep drop that goes to near zero and stays there for an hour or two. Metrics show 49.12 GiB read and 26.22 GiB write in the last 24 hours.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

This is an actual science textbook doing math in imperial units. I've never seen anything so bizarre.

a page of equations from a book being worked and the units are miles, slugs, and ft

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

Almost time for #baseball. The hot dog was acquired but has already been eaten. #milb

picture of a baseball field being prepared for a game from the fist base stands.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

Guess what time it is?!? That's right, hot dog time! I mean #baseball time. #milb

a hot dog with a blurry baseball field in the background.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

Next up is the Motorized Lighthouse. Bags 1 & 2 #Lego #inprogress

picture of the box for the Lego Motorized Lighthouse.

the manual sits closed on the table with the cover visible.

bags 1 & 2 assembled. it's mostly the base plate with a few rocks and the batteries and motor.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

My #Lego stash was getting out of hand and taking over most of my office. So, enjoy some pictures of the build process.

the Box for the Lego Soundwave Transformers set.

the tape robots were the early bags. they are assembled and transformed sitting on a wooden table top.

main body now has a finished center section and the arms have been attached. there are still no legs

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

I have a Roblox account because my son plays and that's the only way to mange the parental controls. I tried to change my email address and I don't have the option. I contacted support and they were supremely unhelpful. Basically suggesting I have my […] [Original post on boothcomputing.social]

a message from Roblox support that reads:

Hello <blank spaces>,
We're sorry bit we're unable to provide you with any further information or response regarding this inquiry. we encourage you to review the previous information sent to you as we have provided you with all that we can at this time.

sincerely,
Roblox Support

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

I was #retrocomputing on modern hardware today. I bought some Jaz drives for moving files to retro machines. I could never get them working on the retro machines. Turns out two out of three drives were no good. So, that explains that frustration.....

A Jaz drive with disk sticking out and the case standing up on top. it is sitting on top of my modern Windows 11 machine.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

Well, fuck. I guess my display bracket needs screws for the display driver panel to keep this from happening next time. #electronicsproject #electronics

a 3d printed bracket with a thin PCB ribbon cable sticking through. next to it the piece that broke off when I tried to slide the bracket into place....

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

The Grinch's heart grew three sizes... and medically that's not a good thing...

picture of a yard inflatable in the form of the Grinch. it is laying flat on it's back on the grass.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

Well, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well... I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working. #retrocomputing #IBM5150 #IBMPC

an IBM 5150 with the case open is on the left. A 5151 monitor sits on the carpet to the right. the text in the screen is the MS-DOS welcome banner from my DOS 3.3 master.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

I hate trying to work with OS/2. I'm told this worked on IBM systems, but it's a pain in the ass on anything else. Right now, it can see the drive, crate partitions, but not volumes. And it needs volumes to install. I'm at the point where I be happy if […] [Original post on boothcomputing.social]

picture of the OS2 LVM screen stuck on "committing changes"

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects. #retrocomputing

four floppy drives sit on a wooden table top. all four have the tops off and the drive heads are visible. the two 5.25 drives are on the right and the two 3.5 drives are on the left. the middle two drives are actually a combo drive 3.5+5.25 but I'm counting them as separate drives since I have to clean both. behind the drives are a small round container with a clear liquid (99% IPA) and some q-tips.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

It's alive! The IBM 5150 (AKA IBM PC) just needed two caps on the 12V line replaced. The monitor had some plastic rattling around in the case. Both of those were pretty easy to solve. #retrocomputing

an IBM 5151 monitor showing the IBM Personal Computer BASIC screen.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

Day 1 of my Cheese Brothers Advent of Cheese is Garlic and Dill cheese curds. They weren't bad. #advent #CheeseBrothers

picture of a bag of a Cheese Brothers Garlic and Dill Cheese Curds. the bad is green with a window in the lower portion showing the cheese curds.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

Christmas tree acquired. Unfortunately, we can't move it into place because there is Lego building going on. When we reach a stopping point, we'll fold the table and put it in the corner. #Lego #ChristmasTree #decoration

a picture of a Christmas tree still in the bailing sitting in a tree stand in my garage. to the right is my car, behind it is my workbench, and to the left is another workbench with a miter saw and scraps of wood.

a folding wooden table full of Lego from two sets. the Lego pieces are neatly stacked and grouped by color. each side as it's own piles. in the background is a rocking chair sitting in the corner.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Planning for Christmas Lego has begun. Sets have been divided between my son and I. The one set by itself is new and we will alternate bags. #Christmas #Lego #WinterVillage

8 Winter Village Lego sets sitting on the floor with a few smaller sets on a coffee table. The sets are divided in to three piles. One for me, one for my son, and one that we will take turns assembling.

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Jamie Booth @jamie.boothcomputing.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

For the first time in my life, I can solve a Rubix cube. Done it 4 times in a row.

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