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Mon Nov 6 09:40:47 EST 2017 Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. Woke briefly two or three times in the night. High of forty-six and partly sunny today. Work: - Help Hazel Park triage after their major lightening strike(!) Done. - Cut 9ft network cable Done. - 3 PM call with Rachel at HZ Left her a voicemail. - Work on MECS No time. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html Ugh. If true, that's not good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15634014 Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Nice weather. The air's filled with the smell of dried leaves and cut grass. This might be the height of fall colors. Home: - Run off-site backup Done. A beautiful gold, pink, and purple sunset tonight! Fifteen-minute walk after I got home. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631565 http://tttthis.com/rememberwebsites.php/ https://wiby.me/ > Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding those gems, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well. But finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web. http://ibm-1401.info/Toronto-KingSt-Datacenter-1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE-200_series#/media/File:GE_210_advertisement.jpg Watched the first episode of Alias Grace. Sharp. ...Ah, Margaret Atwood. No wonder. Lunch: coffee, pumpkin cookie, falafel sandwich Dinner: chips

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