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tea-induced nap
Sunday, November 30 2025
I wasn't feeling super motivated today, and not for any obvious reasons. One thing I needed to be doing was making another copper pipe menorah, which someone recently ordered. But I never got to the point where I even had a copper pipe I could cut up into all the segments I would be needing. After days of coffee drinking, I switched back to black tea and drank a lot of it this morning. I was drinking so much of it that I had to go outside to piss every ten minutes or so. Towards the end of my usual Sunday morning web consumption, I started asking ChatGPT about specific chips on an old ISA board that was populated with a Motorola 68020, a compatible math coprocessor, and four megabytes of DRAM. ChatGPT is very helpful when it comes to obscure legacy hardware, but the other night it pretty much gave up when I asked it about an old ISA card covered with nCube processors (which I'd salvaged from a pile of abandoned tech piled up along the side of a University of Virginia hallway in 1997 or 1998).
After drinking and pissing out all that tea, I became sleepy, so I took a mid-afternoon nap that lasted at least a couple hours. When I woke up, I made myself gather a backpack of firewood.
Later, Gretchen and I ate leftovers and watched the last episode of Devs. I wouldn't say the series was amazing, but it ended up being reasonably watchable.
In an effort to achieve something today, I finally got around to testing all the improvements I'd made (while on that recent Rhine cruise) to the firmware that gets flashed onto ESP8266s in my remote control system. As you may recall, the new firmware is designed to be more easily machine-generated and to also allow for nearly all configuration values to be changed during runtime. But when I wrote the firmware to an ESP8266, the device quickly crashed, and ChatGPT was sure it had something to do with the fact that 95% of instruction RAM was spoken for.
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