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Ah, so you just moved from one side of me to the other, assuming you mean Claremont, NH! If so, I had a bunch of friends down there, too (I played youth hockey for a Claremont-based team). I'm afraid I don't have any fun pizza questions for you about Cincinnati or Taipei.

Also, if you were in Hanover from a young age and went to daycare across the river on Montshire Rd in Norwich., there's a 99% chance my mother remembers you.

For years and years the only place I would get my hair cut was Hilde's Salon Vienna, downstairs in a corner of a weird little brick mall-like building near old Brick & Brew. And agreed, EBAs was just fine. We went there often after movies at the Nugget.

But yes, hello! Hooray upper valley folks! I graduated high school in 2003 (I was one of those KUA kids) so lots of overlap. I'm sure we know at least a few of the same people. If you went to Hanover High School you possibly had my friend's mother (Mrs. Hirai) as a teacher, for instance.

Most importantly, I remember that if you ordered an extra large pizza to go, it was smaller than ordering an extra large pizza to dine in. They had to shrink it so it would fit in a box. If you were eating there, it was the size of the whole table.

Yeah, I can't remember the exact timeline, but I know Ramunto's was a small chain. I could have sworn that Brick & Brew was independent before the Ramunto's name got tacked on. I remember the tiny location on S. Main St, where the brick oven took up a third of the whole restaurant it felt like.

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My first question for Hanover people of a certain era is "EBAs OR BRICK & BREW?" Also, hello! I spent a lot of time in Hanover growing up because I had a number of friends who lived there.

Why did the product manager like to close the gap in the boxing ring? Because they were constrained by Weighted Shortest Jab First. Ok you can block me now.

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 11/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool day. Hope everyone is getting their watches in. It feels good on VHS.

The title screen of the 1995 film Hackers, displayed on an old wooden cabinet TV.

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 10/08/2026

I think I watched hackers 1.5 times yesterday. Here is my work desktop background currently (it rotates between my hand-selected stills from the film every 20 minutes).

$A screenshot of a desktop background, which is itself a screenshot from the 1995 film Hackers. Specifically, it is a scene in which Joey is staring at the source code of a "worm", which in this case looks like math and fractals swirling around with Joey's face superimposed over it.$

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 02/07/2026

I found some more shots of those folks who climbed the empire state building yesterday

A still from the 1995 film Hackers, in which Crash Override (Jonny Lee Miller as Dade Murphy a.k.a. Zero Cool), The Phantom Phreak (Renoly Santiago as Ramόn Sánchez), Lord Nikon (Laurence Mason as Paul Cook), and Acid Burn (Angelina Jolie as Kate Libby) are on a service platform on the Empire State Building. Phreak holds a laptop while Acid Burn uses it and the other two look on.

A still from the 1995 film Hackers, in which Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard as Emmanuel Goldstein) is on top of the Empire State Building yelling in the foreground with the cityscape in the background.

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Exactly, haha. That thing deserves to be worn a lot more than I would wear it. What a good stone

Probably for the best anyway!

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I mean it's not NOT my birthday in a month 😉

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 01/05/2026

I'm pretty sure THAT size...

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Now draw a strange little portrait in each box

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 11/02/2026

Seeing the phrase "Spamhaus DBL" brought me right back to my days working in email marketing. Brutal!

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 19/01/2026

DNS setup seems fine; DNS lookups were zippy. Images and the site's javascript were all reasonably sized; no slowdowns there. No general internet routing issues going on that I would expect to be related. The most likely culprit is Squarespace's CDN being slow in some regions.

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 19/01/2026

I checked things out and everything that you have control over seems fine and normal. It does seem like Squarespace is sometimes extremely slow for no reason. My first page load was nice and zippy, but when I reloaded it hung for 20 seconds or so. Seems like just Squarespace things to me.

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 02/01/2026

Not super possible because our upstream bandwidth sucks. :(

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 23/12/2025

If I had to bet money on it and this was three years ago, I'd bet a LOT of money that they copy-pasted something similar from stackoverflow without understanding it. If I had to bet money on it right now... you know exactly where I think they got those parameters 🙄

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 19/12/2025

Yes, but I don't know if it was the original or "express" version, but I'm starting to understand why the original might have helped when nothing else did 😮

An old Feminax original box, showing that it contains paracetamol, codine, hyoscine, and caffeine

A new Feminax express box showing it contains ibuprofen lysine

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 09/11/2025

I agreed with you at the time, but didn’t want to believe it. i’m about ready to start boycotting brands that are replacing creative roles with AI and lying about it.

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 02/11/2025

Funny how a studio like this can work magic if they are given the time and space to do so.

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 02/11/2025

Short answer? Reasonably sized multiplayer maps that are super super super super well optimized. This dev team knows what they're doing. This game is also by FAR the best running UE5 game I've seen, for similar reasons.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Since we've decided as a country not to support PBS anymore, I do want to make a plug for PBS Passport the online streaming version of PBS. It's $5 a month and we've had it for 8 years now. Nova, Frontline, nature, Ken Burns, local shows, old house, masterpiece, and more are faves in this household.

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 24/07/2025

I started The Enchanted Greenhouse this week! I was worried about picking it up originally, given the fate of the character as described in the previous book. Once I learned that this book STARTS with that, rather than ENDS with it, it changed my perspective and I got excited for more cozy fantasy!

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 27/05/2025

I'll make sure not to eat mine

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 27/05/2025

I'M SORRY THEY WERE FREE

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 23/05/2025

A sane body of legislators would impeach and remove to counter blatant disregard of judicial rulings, but here we are.

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 19/05/2025

I am and shall always be Bobson Dugnutt

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 14/05/2025

So help me, if they take my semicolons, I'm not responsible for what will happen

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 03/05/2025

💔 She was an icon. What a tragedy 😭

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 03/05/2025

Jolyon's whinging is the worst part of watching F1. Perhaps F1TV will start offering a subscription tier that mutes him?

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 28/03/2025

All of this is making me want a beautiful old radio to play with! @trickycrayon.bsky.social this is your fault - get me one for my birthday

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 27/03/2025

It's weirdly hard to find good info on how their cord-antenna setup worked, but this wiring diagram makes it pretty clear that it is attached to the power cord, but via a capacitor. You are safe to leave that lug detached, but can always tape it if you don't trust that capacitor.

A partial wiring diagram for the KLH Model Twenty One

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 26/03/2025

Unless the receiver circuit is damaged in some way on your KLH 21, I doubt a modern radio would be as selective (or sensitive, for that matter). It's still worth testing on a couple of different radios to see if you have different results, but I agree that fiddling with an antenna is your best bet.

Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 26/03/2025

Another thing that may help is a radio receiver with better "selectivity". These days it's hard to find a broadcast FM receiver with much care put into circuit design, but they're out there. Depending on what radio you're using, you might have better luck with a different one.

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 26/03/2025

Yeah! A cheap dipole *may* help, but it really depends on where the desired and undesired stations are located. A dipole antenna is directional, though, so if the two stations are not coming from a similar (or opposite) direction, it may help.

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Samuel Colburn @sam.codes · 24/02/2025

I should see if I can get some updated maps though. Mine are from the 90s probably