Every so often, you find a cute thing on the internet. One of my favorite unknown reseller non-vendor registrars started supporting .su.

On a whim..

[shawn@latty ~]$ whois aboynamed.su

Well, guess what!?

% By submitting a query to RIPN’s Whois Service

% you agree to abide by the following terms of use:

% http://www.ripn.net/about/servpol.html#3.2 (in Russian) 

% http://www.ripn.net/about/en/servpol.html#3.2 (in English).


domain:        ABOYNAMED.SU

descr:         My daddy left home when I was three

descr:         And he didn’t leave much to ma and me

descr:         Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze

descr:         Now I dont blame him cause he run and hid

descr:         But the meanest thing that he ever did

descr:         Was before he left, he went and named me Sue.

nserver:       ns1.dreamhost.com.

nserver:       ns2.dreamhost.com.

nserver:       ns3.dreamhost.com.

state:         REGISTERED, DELEGATED

person:        Private Person

e-mail:        frijole@me.com

registrar:     RUCENTER-SU

created:       2013-07-12T23:56:33Z

paid-till:     2019-07-13T00:56:33Z

free-date:     2019-08-15

source:        TCI

Last updated on 2018-09-04T02:31:31Z

That briefly took me back to when the internet was still a silly, open place.

“Battle Born” is the state motto of Nevada, and as I slowly work my way away, I found this poor thing- she was certainly put away wet and and has been hurt over the years.

I figured she and my own abused Daily Driver should have a chance to be seen, even if it meant walking all the way from the rear of the Wal-Mart parking lot.

The insidious pun hit several hours later (when I looked at our now-deprecated plates).

I’ve said this many times before, but hopefully this time it’ll stick-

Goodbye, Reno. I may visit you again, but you have become an incredibly depressing place to live.

This is probably the oddest question that I’ve ever been asked. The skinny: A stalker friend got bored and followed one of my archive.org links and found some of “MyMusic” -

Well, a decade and change ago, I used to remix MODfiles to make them enjoyable for my several-hours-stuck-in-traffic job. This generally meant that I’d reuse sequences, and sometimes slow them down to keep from causing extra anxiety and just put me in a good mood.. keep in mind that I often spent nearly 2 hours in traffic each way, nearly every day.

Enter “RedShift“. This wasn’t my song- all I did was slow it down, change patterns, and add a bit of reverb. This is nothing new, and certainly wasn’t at the time- no I didn’t create Vaporwave. I’m just a lazy hack who made songs sound better to himself when trying not to get annoyed at the world.

For those curious, I’ve restored a non-archive.org version from one of my backup images, circa mid-2003 (of a tune from 1996 remixed in May, 2002), completely coincidentally, as I was looking for patches I made to software then for a reference. This is – Juice/phds’ RedShift (download link), remixed to be longer, slower, and with a little bit more ambiance.

The bitter irony is that the S3M of this was still under 1MB. The 128k/s joint-stereo is 12MB, in 2002. Progress, they say.

No, this isn’t Vaporwave. I gotta say, though, for 20+ year old 8 bit samples, it still sounds pretty good on headphones. Thanks, Juice!

This post was primarily aimed towards the current “World Revolves Around Me” YouTube vlogger style of media- it wasn’t intended to be taken seriously.

In case you missed it,

B&N is dumping all old NOOK owners near the end of the month. For what it’s worth, Amazon stopped updating the first generation Kindle store around 2013.

“Dear Valued Customer,

Over eight years ago, we launched our first NOOK® eReader, and we were thrilled to have you as one of our first customers for what has become a tradition of offering great books on demand to readers. We want to thank you for your loyalty and continued support of the NOOK 1st Edition and NOOK products.

Because of advancements in our eReader technology, we wanted to let you know that, unfortunately, we are unable to continue to support the NOOK 1st Edition.

Please note that as of June 29, 2018, you will not be able to purchase new content, register with a BN.com account, or sign in using a NOOK account on your NOOK 1st Edition. However, you will still be able to access your existing library, or download new content, by using our NOOK Reading Appsâ„¢ for iOS, Android, or Windows, on mobile and tablet devices, as well as any of our other NOOK devices.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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