Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Once again I find myself about to journey into my childhood homelands and it's always a really fucking weird feeling.
Not staying long enough to make a Big Backyard followup video, unfortunately! I might be able to check on some stuff though. We'll see.
Partial success in repairing a broken CD player - or progress at least.
The load/unload mechanism works now! It was totally jammed when I got it and a piece of the tray assembly was rattling around inside. Fortunately all the pieces were present and I've managed to reattach it and strengthen it a little.
Now the disc is really hesitant about spinning so I've still got work to do.
I have blocked a few people in the last few days with the note "takes jokes seriously" which I think is the best thing for both parties.
How is it May already what is going on? Time is doing that thing again.

