Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • The cat 🐈‍⬛

    Saturday I saw a Bugatti while driving back home from Kissimmee. I don't know much about cars, but I told Kim it was very expensive. She asked how much? a car can't cost more than a million! A quick Google revealed a Bugatti can cost 3 or 4 million dollars.

    Sunday I took out the trash, and there was an electric scooter by the dumpster. I kind of recognized the logo, so I did some research. It was a Bugatti! I didn't know they made electric scooters. I brought it with me, ordered a charger from eBay, and made plans of fixing it up. I hate seeing good things going to waste.

  • Good Sunrise Viewing

    One small note from last Saturday morning (2026-04-25) at 9am: I spotted a snow colored hare through our kitchen window. I called Emily and the boys over for a look. Its fur was mostly white, mottled with brown toward the middle. When not moving, it is difficult to spot. It had long, upright ears. I guessed the body was about 1.5 ft long when in a resting position, i.e., not stretched out.

    This Monday morning (2026-04-27) I got up about 4:10am. Remembering that it was party cloudy yesterday, I checked the forecast right away and determined that there might be partly cloud conditions again this morning, which gives hope for a good sunrise show. Sunrise time calculated at 5:35am. So, I rushed through my shower and such and headed out as quickly as I could, making it to the Dike Rd turnoff, on the south end of the airport runway, at a little past 5am.

  • i'm sorry, you can eat WHAT

    I grew up tromping around the woods of upper lower Michigan. I am one of the few people I know who would not starve to death if dropped into the middle of said woods. Yet every single year, I learn that something else is edible.

    Here are three things I learned are edible THIS WEEK. Also a revelation I had on identifying edible wild species.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Power Budgets for Selfhosting from Home

      I would love to have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W running Alpine Linux for all my static stuff, Gemini and WWW, and maybe a little bit of Gemini-based CGI. A tiny, four ARM cores @1Ghz CPU with 512 MiB RAM computer. But my calculations show me that it might be more expensive than using the tinyist and most inexpensive VPS like I do now.

      Even if I buy a RPZ2W now and it never breaks for the rest of its life, I only have a power budget of 1.5 W maximum, wired Internet costs for contract, router, and the router’s power consumption ignored. This includes inflation of energy costs, but excludes unknown inflation of VPS rent, which I don’t expect to rise much long-term, because they could resize their virtual cores to arbitrary performance or adjust overbooking. It’s more a question of companies thinking a VPS at a very low price point is not a good thing for them.

    • site updates

      i've started to migrate my pages (excluding logs) to someodd's bartleby[1]. i started with my t-files[2]. i eventually plan to use it for my private til repo that i never around to putting online.