I just rotated a hot tub by 90 degrees, with the help of Tom.
This was not, err, easy.
But it means the heat pump conversion this week will be much easier.
The hot tub came with the house, and I had no idea at the start how expensive they are. A heat pump will help a lot, I hope.
The house also came with a fence approx 1m inside the border wall, which was silly, but was cheaper than making up the wall to a good standard, which we are now doing.
@revk I have quipped (and will continue) that one of the joys of home ownership is the reassuring stability of knowing you will never have absolutely spare time or money ever again. There's always going to be something on the list even if it's not immediate or pressing.
I do, in all honesty, find it reassuring. But my brain soup is known to be a bit odd :)
thanks to @billgoats and @paulrickards this LC 475 is going for its first flight in over 20 years.
i rescued this fella last summer from a retired junior high school teacher who himself rescued it from his former mac lab in the mid 1990s. you can even see the old asset tag for Parkland School Division which I will leave on for historical value :) this was workstation #8 in his class
the LC 475 was the “education market” version of the same model of Performa. it has a speedy 68040 which I’ve never used before
for this year’s marchintosh - the first i’ve participated in! - i will be turning the ol gal into a WAN AppleTalk network router, and FirstClass BBS node :D
@vga256 Crafty cruftiness from the early days. Using the byte to keep a pair of BCD values meant the date could be held in 3 bytes and if the machine was adept with BCD (and the 68K has instructions for such packed BCD) it was pretty quick to manipulate in that form. So it was a multi-dimensioned trade-off. Not the best for anything but about the best considering everything. At the time :)
back in the late-80s, universities all over canada made a massive investment in converting their paper registration systems - which usually required the student to walk from faculty to faculty and have them hand-approved by the department - to touchtone telephone registration.
this was a massive bureaucratic improvement in many ways. a server with hundreds of phone lines handled the tens of thousands of students calling during registration week.
it also meant that adding and removing courses required a certain....... facility with what basically amounts to a verb-object scripting language.
both because of the dialtone scripting language, and server errors, most students, including myself, loathed calling in to register for courses. 😆
i found this "sample worksheet" from 1996 buried in the waybackmachine. if you were a post-2000s student, it should give you a sense for the 90s.
circa 2003, the telephone registration system was replaced with an online registration system.
@vga256@rjblaskiewicz I kinda wish I kept mine! Though thinking on it, it was probably kept by my parents and then lost in the flood...
It WAS pretty neat when I was registering in 1993. Long distance call from where I was and it was a call I didn't want to employ any "techniques for unauthorized discounts" :)
Okay techies: Every time I post a link to my website on Mastodon, everyone (including me) is shut out of my website for about 5 mintutes with an "error 500" message.
This doesn't happen when I post anywhere else, and I get 10 time the traffic from other sources.
People have offered me and my tech support staff (my husband) solutions. None of them worked.
@RickiTarr Husband and I eloped on our way to a vacation in 2003 2 months after it was legal in the neighbouring Province. Our provincial Premiere was still fighting against it so there was an awkward time where in Alberta we could BE a legally married Dude To Another Dude but we could not BECOME a legally married Dude To Another Dude.
And the Conservatives are still trying to roll back the calendar about it...
@ZachWeinersmith I found a delightful way to very-mildly-but-cheekily agitate folks is to - in conversation - flip back and forth between pronunciations of some words. Like 'aluminum' and 'aluminium' and especially flipping back and forth between hard and soft G on GIF. If it hooks someone that is brimming with excess argument energy it's a fun little outlet they can use to take the edge off.