https://pikhq.com/atom.xml 2024-10-14T01:28:17+00:00 pikhq soupault https://pikhq.com//posts/serial-tapes 2024-10-14T01:28:17+00:00 There’s a wonderful resource floating around that’s wonderful for Apple II users who just want to load things onto their system, the <a href="http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/">Apple Game Server</a>. The README describes how you use it, but the basic idea is you just plug the headphone jack of a modern system into your Apple II, hit <code>LOAD</code>, and wait a little. They’ve got a lot of software available, and you could have a lot of fun exploring. https://pikhq.com//posts/new-blog 2024-09-28T22:10:52+00:00 Hello, world! I figured that I might want to set up a new place to post long-form things, so here’s the new blog space. I’d previously had cohost for that, but since cohost is dying, that seems ill-advised to rely on. As some of you may have more astutely noticed, there’s already posts here. That’s because I went through my old posts and populated this with an archive of things I’d posted previously. Some may not make sense in blog form, some may. Whatever, it’s my own site and I get to say what goes here! https://pikhq.com//posts/laid-off 2023-03-17T23:08:40+00:00 Well, this week’s been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster! https://pikhq.com//posts/pretty-famicom 2023-02-02T04:17:34+00:00 <img src="/posts/pretty-famicom/famicom.heic" alt="A Nintendo Famicom, with a transparent top. Inserted into it is a translucent blue Everdrive N8 Pro. A faint green light can be seen, coming from the rear of the Famicom."> https://pikhq.com//posts/some-freaking-good-news 2023-02-02T04:14:36+00:00 <img src="/posts/some-freaking-good-news/lake.heic" alt="A lake, covered in ice and snow, surrounded in a large number of trees without their leaves due to winter. The sky above is clear and blue; it is a bright and sunny day."> https://pikhq.com//posts/poison-inject-day-2 2023-01-06T18:30:28+00:00 never mind, i hate insurance. they haven't approved it yet so i get to be in pain longer, fuck me https://pikhq.com//posts/poison-inject-day 2023-01-06T16:42:51+00:00 iiiiit’s time for me to get botulinum toxin~ https://pikhq.com//posts/local-girl-feels-cute-and-gay 2022-12-31T04:50:28+00:00 <img src="/posts/local-girl-feels-cute-and-gay/local-girl.heic" alt="A woman with long hair, cats eye glasses, and a septum piercing, who is looking at the camera. She is wearing a black T-shirt, with a green plaid shirt over it."> https://pikhq.com//posts/norad-santa 2022-12-25T06:43:16+00:00 on the one hand, the whole “NORAD tracks Santa” thing feels like some weird military propaganda. on the other hand, i realize that this means there are Very Serious People with Allegedly Serious Jobs working for the Space Force in uniform who sit and discuss, and actually make, a thing to “track” Santa, in some room somewhere, probably Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs… and this just feels so outright silly i have to grin anyways. https://pikhq.com//posts/computer-crimes 2022-12-05T01:18:45+00:00 <img src="/posts/computer-crimes/monitor.heic" alt="The startup menu for Ladder, a platformer for CP/M computers, on an Apple IIc monitor"> https://pikhq.com//posts/mri-2 2022-12-02T00:12:41+00:00 Well. They didn't find anything wrong. My MRI is "unremarkable". So aside from the pain my brain's fine. Thanks, cool. Now, is something gonna make it stop? https://pikhq.com//posts/mri 2022-12-01T18:42:28+00:00 So excited, I’m sticking my head in a giant magnet today! They’re taking pictures of my brain, wheee https://pikhq.com//posts/h2g2-rc2014 2022-11-22T01:01:53+00:00 <img src="/posts/h2g2-rc2014/monitor.heic" alt="The start of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game, by Infocom. It is pitch black."> https://pikhq.com//posts/mad-as-hell 2022-11-20T20:42:27+00:00 I’m angry about an awful lot today, but I think I’m most angry at the people who yesterday were sharing things about how “queer people are grooming children” and promoting the overarching anti-queer movement that has been getting increasingly violent in its rhetoric, and today claim to be sympathetic for the victims of anti-queer violence. https://pikhq.com//posts/headache-anticipation 2022-11-17T00:47:54+00:00 under 24 hours until my first neurology appointment, and the waiting is still unbearable. fuck, i hope they at least give me something for this pain. i mean i want a full diagnostic evaluation and starting on a treatment plan, but i will settle for literally anything that makes this pain more bearable https://pikhq.com//posts/big-eevee 2022-11-14T04:41:40+00:00 <img src="/posts/big-eevee/eevee.heic" alt="On the left, an Eevee standing with its left paw raised. Its body is turned to the left, with its head facing the camera. On the right is a Mimikyu, which is substantially smaller. Behind them are several video game boxes for Nintendo consoles. The Eevee is about as high as the Wii and Wii U DVD boxes, and the Mimikyu is a little shorter than the DS boxes."> https://pikhq.com//posts/pikachu-ja-nai 2022-11-14T02:56:00+00:00 <img src="mimikyu.heic" alt="A model of the Pokémon Mimikyu, which is a mimic of Pikachu, in its standard pose"> https://pikhq.com//posts/bbsing 2022-11-13T00:03:26+00:00 <img src="/posts/bbsing/monitor.heic" alt="The Captain’s Quarters BBS menu, displayed in monochrome green on a CRT monitor. On the left is a poorly-rendered example of ANSI art, and on the right is the menu. The options are: forums, quickscan all forums, games (door games), system news, masters of trivia, text files, download sections, AE line, CQ file server, last few leeches, BBS listing, user listing, info about CQ, email user, report to sysop, preferences, yap with cap, and outa here - logoff"> https://pikhq.com//posts/legalizing 2022-11-11T19:16:54+00:00 Huh. Colorado’s legalized shrooms for personal use. Neat. Well then, if I get into growing ‘em I may post about that here then. Seems like a thing to chost about. (and yes I’ll CW if I do, y’all get to consent to seeing posting about drugs) https://pikhq.com//posts/chronic-pain-sux 2022-11-10T21:48:21+00:00 So some of you know this, some of you don’t, but here goes. I’ve been with a headache the past three or four months, constantly. On top of migraines multiple times a week. It fucking sucks and I hate it and I wish it’d stop or I could figure out something to make it easier. The wild part is I dunno even what exactly it <em>is</em>. Is this EDS (which I <em>definitely</em> have)? Is it long COVID (in spite of never having tested positive)? Is this some other thing? Who knows! https://pikhq.com//posts/ada-squees 2022-11-07T06:28:42+00:00 <img src="/posts/ada-squees/rc2014.heic" alt="An RC-2014 computer, consisting of a backplane and several expansion cards."> https://pikhq.com//posts/cpm-time 2022-11-06T22:46:12+00:00 So I’ve been playing with the RC-2014 I built last week. It took some fiddling to get file transfers over to it working, but now, I can do this: