I fell asleep the other day while thinking about this inside joke I have with a friend about a talking dolphin as some prescribed ketamine was kicking in. I don’t have any idea what happened after that but from the moment I woke up, and for the entire day thereafter, I had the theme song to Flipper stuck in my head.

These can be grown from cuttings, right? There’s been one in my dad’s family for over a century and I’m thinking I should clone it.

I recharge it for a few hours twice a year and use one of dozen other lights in its place.

It easily lights up the corner of my room on the beside table where I keep it in case I lose power. You can read by it with good eyes in a dark enough room.

Yes, I should have mentioned that. Nothing measurable yet but these are also decent quality matched 30Q cells that shipped with the light and this is only the second six month period into the experiment.

Mirrors in case media fails to load like it did for me:

And it’s becoming increasingly likely you’ll never see it again.

Water flavored.

Mmm, hallucinogenic orange juice.

Yep.

That’s because the new one is just the existing web app that loads inside an Edge instance so they were basically starting from scratch. I realized that when I discovered I couldn’t open the new version on my laptop that I had uninstalled Edge from.

Oh, and MS is killing the old version. Joy.

I still give it an 83% chance that at least one random dude named Sheldon Brown has received a stranger’s credit card in the mail.

Wait, was I supposed to be using them for something else?

That’s okay, at a certain age it becomes irrelevant information anyway.

You say that as if it’s far off but I feel like we’re nearly already there.

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While I fully support the spirit of this idea, the problem here has little to do with a lack of storage redundancy and everything to do with the bandwidth limitations of a nonprofit company vs a malicious nation state that would seek to deny access to this sort of resource. Basically, given enough bandwidth, you either become resilient to most of these attacks or you become capable of performing them yourself on anyone with a slower connection than you.

I think the Internet Archive would be better served by direct donations, although I’d also love to see a complete torrent posted that gets updated regularly for anyone with the storage and bandwidth necessary to grab and then re-seed it. The web content alone is nearly a trillion pages, though, so that’s not going to be a long list of volunteers.

Wait, there are other countries?!

Absolutely love the name.