Grant Hutchinson

2021-09-29: Dragonfly wing, terrazzo’d.

2021-09-21: Shiner. Today, my face had a disagreement with my handlebars during my morning bike ride. The lesson learned …

2021-07-20: Play this side.

2021-07-18: Quarter century dot com. The first domain I ever registered (and my onomatopoeic online moniker ever since then) somehow …

2021-06-15: You are complete. Two months to the day, I received ny second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine. Two more weeks …

2021-04-15: Pfizer’d. Patiently waiting for my superpowers to kick in.

2021-03-22: So. Many. Torx. Today, I disassembled and salvaged parts from five dead (or dying) ATA hard drives. That’s the post.

2020-12-13: We’re in the grip of -27°c windchill tonight and I can hear parts of the house cracking as the …

2020-12-10: Six weeks ago today, my wife received an early morning phone call from her gynæcologist and was told …

2020-11-16: Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

2020-11-15: Hiluxi is a word.

2020-11-15: Today in retrocomputing, I connected one of my Apple IIc Flat Panel Displays to a host rescued from …

2020-09-07: While this is not exactly a “One Day Build” (with a tip of my workshop tuque to Adam Savage) … a …

2020-08-22: Telidon and on and on … Does anyone else remember Telidon besides me? I recall having a major crush on Telidon back in the …

2020-07-18: Twenty four years ago today, I registered my first domain name. Happy birthday splorp.com … you …

2020-07-15: Re: Visor It may be hard to believe, but it’s not always about Newton in my handheld compunabula collection. …

2020-07-05: IBM Personal System/2 Model P75 486

2020-06-22: While the WWDC 2020 keynote was going on today, I was disassembling a Rev A Bondi iMac.

2020-05-21: I may have figured out why the floppy drive in my Quadra 700 wasn’t working.

2020-05-20: Boot’d. Reinstalled one of my recently re-capped Macintosh IIcx motherboards into its case, fiddled around …

2020-05-04: The original Apple QuickTake. Never forget.

2020-04-30: Volvo, spotted.

2020-04-26: The lady whippet of the house.

2020-04-06: Connected my (almost) 20 year old Griffin PowerMate to my current desktop setup. I had forgotten how …

2020-03-10: Bourbon is a disinfectant, right?

2020-02-18: Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

2020-02-16: Cleaning the floppy drives from a pair of recently recapped Macintosh IIcx boxen. As one does. …

2020-01-20: SCSI’ing. Testing a 30 year old SCSI hard drive that will eventually wing its way overseas as a transplant for …

2020-01-12: Pew. Pew. Pew. The latest update to my Comment Blacklist for WordPress contains over 39,000 spam-blasting terms and …

2020-01-05: U-matic. This somewhat vintage beast is my Sony VO-9850, a professional U-matic video cassette deck. It will …

2020-01-01: Visual cacophony, indeed. This is the current state of my basement workshop. Obviously, there is a metric shitload of …

2020-01-01: First thought of the new year … what good will I do today?

2019-12-14: Bug fixes and performance improvements. Generic release notes — otherwise known as “bug fixes and performance improvements” —equate to lazy …

2019-12-07: Glowforge’ing Christmas accoutrements.

2019-12-03: Cassettes.

2019-12-03: TIL: CDr frost rot is a thing.

2019-12-02: Now, that’s a keyboard.

2019-12-02: Actually, it wasn’t a seizure. Four months after my initial “event”, both the neurologist and the MRI results gave us the answer. …

2019-04-07: Actually, I think I had a seizure. I’ve fainted before. A handful of times, dating back to when I was still in my teens. The last time …

2019-01-09: It’s late. As per most evenings, my wife has gone to bed a couple of hours ago. I’m still up, but have …

2018-12-05: Current status.

2018-11-16: Mastodon’ing, occasionally.

2017-06-01: Melting signage abstraction. Spotted at outdoor swimming pool in Calgary. Guest appearance by a rather unfortunate instance of …

2017-04-28: The workshop.