A story about spam, artificial intelligence, two email addresses, several Amy’s, a Teresa, an imaginary horse and the remarkable persistence of international electronic component sales. Like most people who have owned an email address for more than approximately twelve minutes, I receive unsolicited commercial email. A lot of it even! This month alone, September 2026,…
Tales From The Crypt, Lasertag!
These stories are all Q-Pit related, the laser tag arena I worked in.
I had so much fun working there.
Book update, You Probably Did Not Ask For
A few months ago I thought I was writing another blog post.
Instead, I somehow ended up with a 125-page manuscript, a growing cast of fictional employees, multiple appendices, and a factory that keeps expanding faster than I can document it.
Here’s an update on the Brain Factory project, and how a simple idea went completely off the rails.
The Ooga & Booga Research Institute
A random YouTube Short about cigars somehow led to an investigation into the discovery of tobacco, an existential crisis experienced by a Tobacco Plant, and the possible evolutionary relationship between two prehistoric idiots and my Scrum Master pastel duo Randy and Dandy.
This is what chaos in action looks like inside my factory.
Complex Ethical Stuff #2, School essay gone wrong
In Atheneum 5, I wrote an essay that I thought was nuanced. My classmates disagreed. Thirty years later, I barely remember the essay itself, but I still remember the aftermath. A story about communication, guilt, interpretation, and the memories that end up in permanent storage.
Inverterdata, backups and a minor heart attack
What started with a YouTube video about a transformer quickly turned into a backup audit, a near-disaster involving rm -rf, recovering missing inverter data, fixing a broken NAS backup, and unexpectedly finding voltage logs from the 2022 150kV grid incident.
Congratulations, your motherboard is now modern art
Liquid metal as cooling solution, an accident waiting to happen. I do understand why manufacturers use liquid metal instead of MX-6 or another traditional thermal paste as a cooling solution. The thermal performance is amazing. Usually a machine runs a few degrees cooler compared to its non-liquid-metal counterpart. That means longer boost clocks, less fan…
Cafeine: Relapse
A while back I wrote that I had quit caffeine. Yeah. Ehmm. I fell off the proverbial wagon 😛 I’m drinking caffeine again. Some subtle changes though. I’m limiting myself to two mugs of coffee in the morning, before 11:00 AM. After that: zero caffeine. Brain, caffeinated, out.
Dear VodafoneZiggo: NO really means NO!
TLDR! Yes, I am absolutely burning VodafoneZiggo to the ground in this rant of an article. Yes, this is an extremely long rant. And yes, if you ever suffered through HorizonBox PTSD, unstable coax internet, telemarketing, packet loss, bridge-mode roulette, or support engineers replacing random objects in your house while praying to the DOCSIS gods……
My factory prefers balance
I was planning on writing another rant, this time aimed at “haute couture.” But while tinkering with the idea, the post slowly started shifting into something else entirely: an internal reflection about how my own factory, and my CEO Bob, seem to respond to everything “haute.” Analogy I think I finally found the perfect analogy…