Oldskooler Ramblings

Disclaimer #1: Despite my fondness for triple construction (which was drilled into me in grade school English class), this post was not written with AI.

While I get my video editing gear up to HDR standards and prep for Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2025, I’ve found time to appear on some podcasts the past few months: hpr4273 :: Improving videography with basic manual settings (or: How I learned to st…

(Edit 2025: I have been informed that “letterboxd” is a better outlet for this sort of thing, so I joined letterboxd and will put future reviews there.

Amendments after additional tests: With a dummy battery, the screen flipped out, no active cooling, and a normal ambient room temperature, a 4k60 4:2:0 10-bit recording overheated the camera sometime after 3 hours.

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is an annual celebration of all things vintage computing.

“How do I write a DOS program?”

On November 1st 2023, I released the first part of a 4-part series on the IBM PCjr on YouTube.

Recorded something for Hacker Public Radio when their queue was getting low: How I got into tech.

Did I forget to mention that I co-hosted four episodes of the Floppy Days podcast 18 months ago?

When my crew and I wrote 8088 MPH and Area 5150, we had a secondary goal other than to amaze: It was to spurn emulator authors into improving the emulators.

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(This post has been edited with new information) The LG Cx series of OLED TVs have terrible network chipsets in them: They can do more than 100mbps over 5GHz wifi, but can only do 100mbit/s over ethernet (my experiments with a USB-to-ethernet adapter were…

The Olivetti M24 was a fantastic PC compatible that was double the speed of the IBM PC, had built-in expansion ports, a smaller footprint, and special hi-res graphics, all at a price cheaper than the original PC.

While I’m not the #1 PCjr fan in the world — that honor goes to Mike Brutman — I consider myself in the top five.

Every October, I allow myself to get all of the horror, gore, and halloween-themed movie-watching out of my system.

During a conversation with one of my archival collectives, the topic of archiving color magazines came up.

At the beginning of October, I pledged that I would do two simple things to see if I could improve my physical and mental state: Get enough sleep, and get a small amount of exercise every morning.

Technology has human physical cost.

MobyGames turns 20 years old on Friday March 1st, something I am overjoyed to witness.

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My vote for the most subtle-yet-cruel entry in the category of brain mis-wirings is Imposter’s Syndrome.

I am taking on a contract programming job with a deadline this week, so I’m afraid my horror movie indulgence must come to an end.

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(For an explanation of what these posts in October are, see the parent post.)

(For an explanation of what these posts in October are, see the parent post.)

(For an explanation of what these posts in October are, see the parent post.)

(For an explanation of what these posts in October are, see the parent post.)

(For an explanation of what these posts in October are, see the parent post.)