My Rack (Home Lab part 3)
March 8, 2026
Bought a metal wire shelf so I can put my PCs for my home labbing project.
With my NAS box I added a Docker box and looking to gets some apps running on it.
Update on my home labbing project
March 6, 2026
I have talked before on my home labbing project. I am starting out but I have a NAS box I built with OpenMediaVault. It has one SSD for the operating system and two traditional HDD. This is where I keep backups of my pictures, documents, videos, music and software downloads.
Now I am looking into getting a computer that I can put Docker containers to run apps on. Apps I am thinking of running is Jellyfin (videos), Immich (photos), RetroRom (video game roms), and much more. Planning to install Ubuntu Server as the operating system. Of the two PC the bigger one on the right is for that. The one on the left doesn’t have RAM or storage.
You might be wondering where I get some of these PC. I work it IT so where I work was getting rid of PC in the picture labelled future projects. As for the NAS box I built that with parts I bought online and assembled them. I will keep you posted on the project.
Home Labbing
March 3, 2026
I work in IT and was looking on doing home labbing. Home labbing is a way to build your own server with VMs or Docker containers to run OS or Apps. I have started years ago making my own NAS box with OpenMediaVault. I use it to store my media files like my ripped CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays as well as my documents, music, pictures and software. I want to expand to other services like a PiHole or home automation.
Cosmic Lounge at Montreal World Con
February 24, 2026
I have been doing party room at Sci-Fi conventions for a few years now. I would have karaoke with non-alcoholic drinks and snacks. I don’t have alcohol because I can’t check IDs and run karaoke at the same time. I am planning getting a suite for the party room at Montreal World Con in 2027.
Back from the dead and the battle of the bulge
February 22, 2026
Hi everyone. I see my last post was back in 2019 before we even knew what COVID was. I am not dead and ghost can’t type on the keys. I am looking to get back on blogging and doing cool things and reporting about it.
One thing that isn’t cool is my weight. I ballooned to 276 lbs, the heaviest I’ve been in my life. I live alone so their is no body here to tell me to stop. I tried over the years and it would be start and stop. No momentum as before. Then my doctor wants to put me on a weight loss drug, only problem before they prescribe it to me I need to show that I have been taking a weight loss program for 6 months. (i.e. Weight Watchers or Noom) The problem is if I do the program and lose weight wouldn’t that defeat the need of a weight loss drug?
This is what I am going to do, I am going to lose weight at the way I did before. I am back on MyFitnessPal app to record my calorie intake and what I have burned working out. I went back to Planet Fitness and going start working out. So the bottom line is spite is a good motivator.
New Idea for a Show on Twitch.
May 17, 2019
With my friends at The Mighty Monkey Corporation (http://www.fc3roc.com) talked about doing more with their Twitch.tv channel. I had an idea of a show for them. It is called The One Shots. A bunch of games will play a different table top RPG every episode and then tell us what they think about the game setting and rules. Even if they don’t pick it up I will try and produce it on my own. The trick is getting the space, equipment, cast, and crew. Hopefully this will work.
Changing Fortunes RPG
January 10, 2019
On New Year’s Eve, I was on a friend’s livestream and we played this one page RPG call The Witch is Dead. The players play a witch’s familiar and now she is dead. The players have to find the witch hunters eyes and put them in the witch’s corpse to resurrect her. I played a Toad, with a dog, a fox, 2 owls, a magpie, and a rabbit. We had fun.
This gave me an idea to try and make my own. This game doesn’t use dice but cards. It was inspired by an article on how inmates played D&D in prison. It is called Changing Fortunes and it is designed to be an open action-adventure setting. The unique feature of the game is the Fortune stat that is divided into 2 types: good and bad. Good the player can spend on an advantage, but Bad the GM can spend against the player.
Perspective on Immigration.
October 27, 2018
Back in 1869, my great-great grandparents immigrated to the US from the North German Confederation. They were from the region known as Westphalia. It is located in Western Germany and shares a border with France. In 1870 the 2nd French Empire invaded starting the Franco-Prussian War into regions that included Westphalia. My Great-Great Grandfather would have been conscripted into the military and the region would be ravaged by war hurting the local communities and the economy. They left just in time to the US and settle in an area south of Syracuse, NY.
Let’s look at the caravan of people from Honduras that are making there way to the US. According to Human Rights Watch, the nation’s government is corrupt with police abuse and repression of basic freedoms of speech, press, and assembly. Also, women and other marginalized groups live in fear and many other abuses. If you want to read more about it here is a link giving you a complete picture: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/honduras. So the next time you complain about immigrants should go back to their country they came from please remember that more likely your ancestors came here from a time where that country had similar conditions that the ones current immigrants are coming from now.
The Elephant in the Democratic Party?
June 9, 2018
What platform should the Democratic Party run on? Should they run on impeaching President Trump? The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, but…..
I feel the impeachment is a good platform, but it is only good in the short term. Say there is a victory and Trump is impeached, then what’s next? There is a split in the Democratic Party between the Establishment Dems (Clinton, Boxer, Feinstein) and the Progressive/Grassroots Dems (Warren). This is the issue facing the party. If they stay with the Establishment then GOP will still have a moderately strong foothold in Congress and it will be more policies supporting the 1% and low voter turn out.
Now if they try and balance a platform and incorporate more progressive policies something like with the New Deal. Then maybe they will have what happened in the 1912 election when Dems embraced a progressive platform that helped Woodrow Wilson with the presidency. Only time will tell but if we support more progressive candidates we may have the turnout like Bernie Sanders had in 2016.
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