Category: dad
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Mummy Groaning
Me and my dad thought this was hilarious, and so it was his text message tone in my phone until the day he died. I remember fondly when he would text me at a random time and my phone groaned. Very funny!
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Important research: was the Eudora “New Mail” chime from Ren & Stimpy’s “LOG”?
LOG chime This occurs from second **Edit: 0:59** of this video: The chime when extracted without further processing, sounds like this: Eudora Chime I found a copy of Eudora Mail 1.44 for Windows (bundled up in an archive quaintly called “internet.zip”) here. The EUDOR144.EXE file is itself a Zip archive, and contains several files. The…
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A Short Introspection on the nickname ‘Timber Tom’
This is extra short, but just a fun little explanation either way: I never really knew my dad as Timber Tom. That was a nickname he used as a forester and parks service worker, which he was never during my “memory years” (>10 years old). It was also his IRC name along with friends Tor…
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BASIC and the Timber Tom ‘Beep Boop’
So, I was going through Y Combinator and saw a post about this dude who created a free version of BASIC (freebasic.net). BASIC is one of those really old programming languages, so it seems kind of pointless in this day and age because basically any modern programming language can do the same stuff easier, better,…
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What makes work stressful (and why my job is more stressful than my father’s, despite being far easier)
The other day I got to thinking: why are jobs difficult, and, more importantly, what makes jobs stressful? Stress means different things for different people, with some being stressed about social interaction, some stressed about the moral or societal implications of their job, others with the amount of effort and time they need to spend,…
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A Timber Tom-n’t Christmas
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This is the second Christmas that I spent without my dad, and it was A LOT harder than the first. The first Christmas I was more “in shock” so to speak, like the whole concept of my dad not being there was so foreign that I literally half expected him to show up and say…
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I damaged my truck and now I can’t stop thinking about object impermanence
This post was a voice recording transcribed by my Pixel 8 Pro, then cleaned up, proofread, and formatted by ChatGPT. It has been carefully scrutinized to make sure that it still accurately conveys my original message, and is less than 2% different outside of grammatical changes I was driving home today and I started thinking…
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This site isn’t as good as it’s inspiration
I made this site after I saw my dad’s old site because I already had the domain and thought it would be cool to try and recreate something that my dad did in my own way, as sort of an homage to him. However, I just had the realization that I didn’t really make any…