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| | Hello from IOWA (yes, the American state with all the corn and | |
| | pigs!) I am a self-described computer nut. I also love electronics, | |
| | telephone systems, lawncare and modern TV shows like Alf and | |
| | Growing Pains. Have you seen the new Columbo series? And, of | |
| | course, I am a big fan of Star Trek- I am not sure about The Next | |
| | Generation yet. Hopefully the next season will live up to the | |
| | original! | |
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| | My own FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site where you can download | |
| | some cool software and even a couple programs I wrote. Mine are the | |
| | ones in the GRIZZSOFT folder. Check out the Codename:Arcturus BASIC | |
| | program! There are also some photographs I scanned in the Polaroids | |
| | folders. Here is a link to my FTP. | |
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| | If you like fun stuff, maybe you like the same fun stuff as me. | |
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| FEB-25-2026 |
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| So, time for me to fess up. I am not actually living at the dawn of |
| the digital age. I am writing this in 2026 and have just been playing |
| make believe. It is getting more and more difficult to keep up this |
| charade, and it's likely that everyone has seen through it anyway. So, |
| what does this mean? I am going to start dating my entries. Cool, huh? |
| Don't worry dear reader, I will not be changing my ramshackle writing |
| approach, nor will I be adding images to the website. |
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| In other news, I've been having a blast sharing recipes with all of |
| you and I have added three more since my last update. I added Pizza |
| Burgers and Italian Dunkers over the weekend; yesterday I added Wacky |
| Cake, a delicious depression era recipe that comes together almost as |
| fast as a boxed cake mix. The recipes I add all have one thing in |
| common--they are near and dear to my heart. A lot of them are simpler |
| recipes I learned or enjoyed in my youth, but some are just (like the |
| figgy pudding recipe) are more complex. |
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| I have been getting positive feedback about all the new construction |
| here. There is new art popping up all over the page, so make sure you |
| have a look around. It seems that the full-color ASCII art is quite |
| striking and "too legit to quit." I am glad you enjoy it, and even |
| happier that I am hearing from you. I love it when you sign the |
| Grizzbook. Even if you signed it before, go ahead and sign it again. |
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: On a whim I bought a glow-in-the-dark flexible race track on clearance. :
: The set, which comes with a single car, had 220 pieces of little :
: plastic track that can pivot once snapped together. If you are :
: imagining a traditional slot racer track where the cars get their power :
: from the track, I assure you that this is a different animal. For :
: starters, instead of track pieces that are several inches long and :
: molded into curves and straight-aways, the track pieces in this set are :
: about 3" wide and maybe 1/2" long. Having each piece able to pivot :
: allows for the track to be re-shaped the way you could a rope laying on :
: the ground. The track not only curves at will, it can also ramp up and :
: down allowing you to make overpasses and more. :
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: The included car runs off of a single AA battery and when you switch it :
: on, it just goes, kind of like a Stomper. There are several lights on :
: the car that flash as it drives. With the flashing lights and the track :
: glowing in four different colors (orange, yellow, green and blue), the :
: track looks great in low light. I had so much fun with the set that I :
: went back and bought four more and hooked them all together into a :
: massive, winding loop. :
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: The only thing that disappointed me is that there only seems to be two :
: colors of car- orange and blue. With my five sets, I got three blue :
: cars and two orange. I have since remedied that with the help of some :
: paint markers. I now have the original orange and blue cars, plus ones :
: that now sport pink, red/black, green paint jobs. This is one of my :
: favourite purchases for the year! :
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01 A while back I wrote an entry called "Telnet shell: A new service from 01
10 my ISP." Well, I lied. I wrote the shell and was playing make-believe. 10
01 I remember when ISPs and colleges used to have such features and I 01
10 wanted to relive that experience. Specifically, I remember dialing in 10
01 to my ISP circa 1998 and finding the despite a successful handshake, I 01
10 effectively had no connectivity. I can't remember exactly how I did it 10
01 or what software I used, but I would dial back in via a terminal and 01
10 use terminal services to access the web and IRC in a text-only 10
01 interface. When the internet wasnn't down I would sometimes TELNET into 01
10 my college's system and access internet and e-mail that way. 10
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10 When I was looking for a way to connect my Compaq 286/SLT (Compaq's 10
01 first laptop) to the internet, I landed on creating a dial-up server on 01
10 a Raspberry Pi 3b+. The same server also hosts my FTP server and my 10
01 TELNET/SSH shell, amongst other things that I can't think of right now. 01
10 Some of the services that I had set up are no longer working. For 10
01 instance, I used a bash script to grab showtimes for my local theatre 01
10 from the web and then filter out all the garbage I didn't want. 10
01 Eventually the site I was getting them from changed formats and I 01
10 didn't feel like rewriting it. Same for a written weather forecast. I 10
01 still have the visual forecast working, so I decided that it wasn't 01
10 worth maintaining the more verbose version. 10
01 01
10 The first two options in the shell, e-mail and web browser, are still 10
01 fully functional. This is no surprise as they are programs that are 01
10 actually running on the server. Option 3, which grabs time, date, and 10
01 moon phase got a slight update. I was previously basing the moon phase 01
10 on the Jewish calendar. This was fairly accurate, but I have since 10
01 installed a small program on the server that calculates it properly. 01
10 Now my script just calls on it for that part. 10
01 01
10 Option 4 used to be showtimes, but that has been replaced with a gopher 10
01 browser. The browser is running directly on the server, so I do not 01
10 have to worry about any maintenance for it. Option 5 remains the visual 10
01 weather forecast, but the text forecast that was option 6 has been 01
10 replaced with an IRC client. Again, this is installed on the server so 10
01 there will be no maintenance going forward. 01
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01 Option 7, which I use first thing every time I login, shows me a random 01
10 joke. This is using a curl request and I hope the server never goes 10
01 down. I love jokes! Have you checked out any of my THREE jokes pages? 01
10 Option 8 remains as a geolocation service. I can't remember for sure, 10
01 but I would think that this is running locally. Option 9 remains an 01
10 online encylopedia--Gopherpedia to be exact. Great site, BTW! 10
01 01
10 Option 10, Chatbot, used to connect to ChatGPT via API. I didn't like 10
01 having to pay to keep this going, so I am now working on my own 01
10 chatbot. It is NOT true AI, it's just scripted. But I am having fun 10
01 working on it and trying to improve it. I plan to write more on this 01
10 later. Option 11 allows me to leave the shell and access the server 10
01 directly. I use this option to access the server. Option 12 quits the 01
10 session and closes the connection. 10
01 01
10 I have added one more "unadvertised" option. Option 99 quietly resets 10
01 the modem and dial-up server. This is useful for when I have an 01
10 unexpected disconnection. It never gets run from the Compaq because if 10
01 the option needs run, I won't be able to dial-in. However, I have SSH 01
10 access on my phone and can now easily reset the modem without having to 10
01 find a modern computer. 01
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Pizza sounds good right now
I like it with pineapple
green peppers and tomatoes
and some meat
pass the pepper flakes...