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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Some of this depends on whether you have a short haired or a floofy haired pet.

    Thankfully we got a short hair. I bought a proper small pet nail trimmer for him, about $15 USD, and he’s cool with it. Given his recent tippy taps, he’s about due for another nail trim soon…

    Edit: I’m guessing every 2 weeks or so for nail clipping, using the proper safeguard trimmer tool anyways.

    I’m still learning…











  • I do still have a lot of these games, ROMs, programs, music and videos from back then actually, as I was heavily involved in my area salvaging flooded hardware and data right after Katrina.

    Within like 2 weeks, using WD-40 and a pressure washer for the circuit boards, I estimate that I was able to get about 80% of the electronics that came my way working again.

    Mechanical parts like hard drives might as well be considered a loss in the long run, but if addressed quickly, cleaning the controller board separately often allowed data recovery and backup.

    I don’t have it all anymore, but I do still have a lot…


  • I’d go back to my old Hurricane Katrina flood salvage computer setup, specifically the evolved upgraded version by about 2008. I literally had 18 different cables plugged into it, with multiple devices connected throughout the entire trailer we lived in.

    • 2 monitors
    • A printer and a scanner
    • Stereo speakers
    • TV tuner with 2 televisions, a VCR, and an FM radio antenna
    • Game controller
    • Ethernet
    • Keyboard and mouse, of course
    • External card reader

    And probably a couple other things I forgot.

    Internally…

    • 5 hard drives

    • 3 disc burners

    • Floppy drive

    • 2.53GHz Pentium 4 CPU

    • 1 whopping gigabyte of RAM, 333MHz I think

    And you better bet your ass I had lots of music, movies, games and emulators too, even had multiplayer sessions across different rooms.

    Man, lots of weed was smoked back then…