The bag is a Dell backpack laptop carrier

has 5 pockets

2 small side pockets

small front accessory pockets

medium middle tool pockets

large main pocket with interior zippered pocket the padded laptop section is well padded and roomy enough for 2 slim 15" laptops

Asus Z54C (W/ 120Gb SSD/ 4Gb Ram ) laptop running Sabayon linux

Dell 5570 laptop for work-sometimes running Win 10 enterprise/pro chargers for both,

Sony noise cancelling headphones

Logitech wireless mouse

maglite led flash light

multi tip screwdriver 1 philips, 1 flat head

6 tip screwdriver 2x philips 2x flat head 2x nut drivers

punchdown tool

shammy cloth

folder for paperwork/ current tasks

one subject notebook

asstd pens & mechanical pencils

wall wart phone charger

micro USB cable

Lightning USB cable

2 6" velcro tie straps

15' ethernet patch cable,

10' ethernet patch cable

7' ethernet patch cable

5' ethernet patch cable

2x 3' ethernet patch cable

6" ethernet patch cable

laptop lock cable

USB to ethernet adapter

6' HDMI cable

Display port to DVI-D adapter

digital voice recorder

portable powerpack/charger (gimmie from Wired Mag)

2x 16GB usb thumb drives

1 blank

1 portable apps tools including libre office, and wireshark

6' power strip/ surge protector

Reading glasses

alcohol prep wipes

latex gloves

Band aids

Excedrin bottle and migraine meds 1/2 dose for emergencies

If I expand the definition of tool kit to include the tool box on my pickup truck, I also have...

10' telephone cord

analogue telephone (princes style) for testing

3 spare usb keyboards 1 spare ps/2 keyboards

2 usb mice

2x 6' dvi-d cables

adjustable wrench

pliers

needle nose pliers

craftsman precision screwdriver set

X-acto knife set

socket set

Ratchet straps

50' cotton bond rope 1/2" diameter

50' nylon 1/2" rope

7'x 8' medium weight tarp

Fluke #117 multimeter

Fluke Link runner AT 1000

and toner probe

machete

jumper cables

analog linemans handset/ butt s

Details about Kill Doctor Lucky on Paizo.com.

Penguicon 2018 is a combined technology and science fiction convention in Southfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, and presents over 500 hours of programming over the entire weekend. Of this, around 100 hours are open source, tech-related. In this episode I tell you about my own personal experience at Penguicon this year.

Links:

http://2018.penguicon.org/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

https://www.michaelwlucas.com/

http://www.physics.ccsu.edu/larsen/

https://solarsystem1.jpl.nasa.gov/ssa/home.cfm

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYOD-3fZbuGhwsADBd9ZQ

http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2510

https://www.zwilnik.com

Pandemic Reign of Cthulu

Pandemic original edition

Mods can be found online. For instance: fractuslearning.com/pandemic-board-game

Personal finances

Problem

People need to save for retirement. But how do we do that?

Conventional wisdom in the USA says that Social Security is your retirement fund.

There's no guarantee that will still be around when you retire, and it's entirely out of your hands. It maybe a good bonus, but possibly it isn't something to rely on.

So how do we do it?

They don't teach you this stuff in school

People say you should save for retirement, but they forget to say how.

Currently, there are two de facto methods of funding retirement in the USA:

social security: abstract, not guaranteed. Assumes you start contributing to ssn early

401k. abstract, indirect unless you take active role in tracking it. best if you start early.

In other countries, there may be significant alternatives. For instance, Kiwisaver in New Zealand.

These methods are OK, but difficult for you to interact with directly.

There are two direct levels of investment:

At your bank: CDs and mutual funds

Go to your bank, ask to invest in a mutual fund or Certificate of Deposit (CD)

Stock market: your local market and the US market

what: direct investment in "publically traded" (whatever that means) companies

how: http://etrade.com or http://fidelity.com

In other countries, look for brokers who will invest your money in local or international markets

I follow-up on my Frotz episode by covering Son of Hunky Punk, a Z-machine interpreter for Android. I also test my copy of ZORK I to see if it works as well as it did on Frotz.

Links:

Son of Hunky Punk - IFWiki

http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Son_of_Hunky_Punk

Github: https://github.com/retrobits/son_of_hunkypunk

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.andglkmod.hunkypunk&hl=en_US

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.andglkmod.hunkypunk/

Hunky Punk (the original)

http://hunkypunk.sourceforge.net/

Contact:

IRC: claudiom (#oggcastplanet on Freenode)

E-mail: claudio (at) linuxbasement (dot) com

New hosts

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2542

Tue

2018-05-01

How I helped my dad run a static website using SparkleShare

clacke

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Wed

2018-05-02

Home Theater - Part 1 Hardware

operat0r

2544

Thu

2018-05-03

How I prepared episode 2493: YouTube Subscriptions - update

Dave Morriss

2545

Fri

2018-05-04

HPR 2017 New Years Eve show part 5

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2546

Mon

2018-05-07

HPR Community News for April 2018

HPR Volunteers

2547

Tue

2018-05-08

MSYS2

clacke

2548

Wed

2018-05-09

Single Vs Multiple Characters

lostnbronx

2549

Thu

2018-05-10

DVD ripping using old hardware

Archer72

2550

Fri

2018-05-11

Howto get

HPR NYE 2017 - 7

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuiDNTaTdPTGZZzHm0iriGQ

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggHoXaj8BQHIiPmOxezeWA

history buffs

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-laptop-ubuntu-or-win-10-os-laptop--2#/

Why are they killing off the 32 bit distros?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

https://archive.org/details/hpr1037

Ken Fallon the fastest solderer in the West. Able to solder a component tester in a single show...

Some shownotes for fossil

Create a new fossil repository:

$ fossil new shownotes

Add your work to the repository:

$ fossil add shownotes.html

Commit your work:

$ fossil commit --comment "added shownote HTML file"

As a fun exercise, destroy your work.

$ echo "klaatu said this was perfectly safe" > shownotes.html

$ cat shownotes.html

klaatu said this was perfectly safe

And now revert it back to the

last known good version:

$ fossil revert shownotes.html

REVERT shownotes.html

$ head -n1 shownotes.html

<p>Some shownotes for fossil<p>

Did you accidentally revert? You can undo that.

$ fossil undo shownotes.html

And then revert again.

$ fossil revert shownotes.html

REVERT shownotes.html

$ head -n1 shownotes.html

<p>Some shownotes for fossil<p>

Check your remote:

$ fossil remote-url

Close a fossil repo:

$ fossil close

See the fancy browser-based UI of your repo:

$ fossil ui

Lostnbronx contrasts what he calls "static action" with "story action", and looks at the functions of these techniques for storytelling in various media.

A car chase is action-filled, but so might be a quiet Victorian drawing room, where, at least on the surface of it, nothing is happening.

What actually constitutes action? What purpose does it serve? And how much of it do you really need?