Category Archives: Computers

The Mac Minty

Posted on November 28, 2025 by Joe

It’s Black Friday, and while the shoppers in the West are killing each other over disposable junk manufactured in dystopian hellholes, I’m at home basking in my frugal nature with my 13-year-old Mac Mini brought back to useful life with … Continue reading →

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A Minty Fresh Refresh

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Joe_Williams

How a 2012 Mac Mini dodged the landfill—and Apple’s planned obsolescence—with Linux Mint. Continue reading →

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Memorial Day 2023

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Joe

More than half a century ago a skinny kid from Maryland found himself in a place he had probably never heard of — Phu Loi, Vietnam. This is Daniel Love who I met on a job about 25 years after … Continue reading →

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The FUTURE circa 1986

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Joe

Bubo the Rat is one of my earliest digital illustrations. I drew it on a digitizing tablet called The Animation Station which plugged into a Commodore 64. The print was output on a Panasonic dot matrix printer.

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Thinking Differently

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Joe

We were in the market for a new computer and I was hearing great things about the current Mac mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. The video reviews I watched were mostly enthusiastic for Apple’s entry level desktop computer so … Continue reading →

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One Touch Colorization

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Joe

A new set of features in the recently updated Photoshop make it unbelievably easy to cheat by making the painstaking process of colorizing photos into a one button process!

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It seemed like a good idea at the time…

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Joe

Behold…the FUTURE! …or at least it was about 20 years ago.

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