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This is based on a real thing that happened, but no I won't tell you where.

Disaster Con – (No) Contest

November 18th, 2016 | by Trae Dorn

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└ Tags: lynn, megan, Mickey Vanderburt, Rick Smortly

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viga

November 18, 2016 at 3:21 am | # | Reply

This is a vast improvement on many skits.
Langland

November 18, 2016 at 5:26 am | # | Reply

This actually quite different.
B. Peterson

November 18, 2016 at 9:17 am | # | Reply

If this was inspired by an actual event, then I really wanna know the story behind that…
Nick Schneider

November 18, 2016 at 3:03 pm | # | Reply

*taps fingers together*

Things like this are why I’m glad we hire off-duties.
- E. Bernhard Warg
  
  November 18, 2016 at 6:59 pm | # | Reply
  
  This con probably hired a High School anime club to handle security…
  - EcchiKitty
    
    November 18, 2016 at 8:31 pm | # | Reply
    
    Given the fubar thus far, I’m gonna guess that’s the former head of anime club, and the guy who hired them, or some similarly complex pair to give security pause.
calvsie

November 18, 2016 at 6:20 pm | # | Reply

At least it wasn’t a badger.
- E. Bernhard Warg
  
  November 19, 2016 at 1:07 am | # | Reply
  
  Or a ferret.
  
  Because that would be weird.
Kay Shapero

November 22, 2016 at 2:33 am | # | Reply

A) I believe you.
B) I don’t want to know – mostly I’m relieved I don’t… 🙂

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Every Time I Say My Desk is 'Peak' Cyberpunk, I End Up Topping It ( November 30th 2020 )

So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

Like that 2017 update? I exceeded it in mere months.

Anyway, since I made some significant changes recently, I thought I'd post an update about my weird hole of many screens where I run The Nerd & Tie Podcast Network from. I'm not going to run through everything, but I will map out the biggest differences from 2017. The first is (obviously) the 32" display up top, which I now use to stream media on instead of the Kindle Fire (though the Kindle Fire is still used for audio bumpers on podcasts). An Apple TV runs that, though I also have a spare Switch dock hooked up sometimes. The Linux laptop is gone (I mean I still have it though), replaced by the late-2011 13" MacBook Pro which used to be my main personal machine. That MacBook Pro is tucked away, but displays on the relocated black monitor in the lower left.

Of course, my new main personal machine is a brand spankin' new M1 Mac mini, which is controlled by the keyboard and trackpad that sit where my laptop used to be. I've expanded the physical desk (and retired the mini fridge) to support the monitor for the Mac mini. And don't worry, Linux isn't gone from my desk (and I mean I still use the laptop) -- as you will notice one last monitor on the lower right which is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 400. This is notably used from a different chair, as that's my "goof around" computer, and would literally be a distraction if I was trying to use it while getting work done.

It's funny, I bought two computers in 2020, both of which are ARM based. With a good chunk of my desk now on RISC architecture, I'm happy I can just dig out this image without context as I sign off for today...

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