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100 Word Stories: Santa’s Little OSHA Violation
Santa channels Tool Man energy to help little Timmy build a pinewood derby car, but the gift list spirals wildly out of control. Chainsaws, plasma cutters, flamethrowers, and “More power!” turn a wholesome Christmas moment into complete mechanical chaos. Read More
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100 Word Stories: The Incomplete Idiot
After being called an idiot in the newspaper, John angrily insults the editor, only for his wife to question whether either highly educated man truly understands the word’s outdated meaning. A dry exchange about intelligence, language, and ego unfolds. Read More
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ChatGPT Tried to Explain Me
After years of conversations about technology, history, memoirs, civic issues, creativity, and absurd humor, I asked ChatGPT to describe who I am. The result was a detailed portrait of an archivist, community-minded technologist, storyteller, and observer of systems, people, & preservation. Read More
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100 Word Stories: Prompted Royalty
When royalty arrived for a heavily guarded family portrait, they expected cameras, lighting, and nervous smiles. Instead, they discovered modern photographers preferred artificial intelligence over actual photography, while snipers watched from rooftops and Secret Service agents secured the cyberpunk studio. Read More
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Death by Metrics
For days, my server showed elevated CPU usage while remaining mostly functional. Then websites, WHM, and cPanel suddenly failed. Through SSH, I traced the problem to a runaway DigitalOcean monitoring agent interacting with CloudLinux CageFS, generating nearly 95 GB of endless filesystem metric errors. Read More
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Building a Self-Contained Phone Network with Asterisk and Grandstream ATAs
Building an 18-line phone system with Grandstream ATAs and a Raspberry Pi turned into a deep dive into networking, provisioning, and Asterisk quirks. What started as a simple upgrade became a full system redesign with routing, isolation, and interactive possibilities. Read More
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Timeline for Virtual Consciousness
Experimenting with an LLM, I fed it my dystopian notes about EEG tech and virtual consciousness. It produced “The First Borrowed Step” and a fictional robot gospel, transforming loose timelines and questions into unsettling, scripture-styled world-building that expands my future. Read More