J. B. Crawford

lightwell

the wonders of the outdoors

not pictured: the part where I have to walk back down the hill a bit to retrieve it because I didn't log into my DJI account for too long and it reset to some low AGL ceiling and got stuck there.

oh I have this folder of videos off the drone that I don't know what to do with. I guess I'll put them here? Surf time in the Gila.

The Rio Grande, once a bit of water had returned.

Worship at Red Rocks

Albuquerque content: bristling at every article on the radical idea of free buses that doesn't mention that Albuquerque has free buses.

Elsewhere at UNM, the Johnson Center has so many fascinating nooks.

so now that I have the stupid blog post out of the way I can go back to the research distraction I had to force out of mind for productivity's sake. I can finally read "History of the Town Gas Industry in Ireland 1823-1980"

Today on Computers Are Bad, the Steorn Orbo.

https://computer.rip/2025-10-28-the-steorn-orbo.html

To be honest I am not 100% happy with this one but I'm having a real busy week and traveling soon, so I wanted to get it out there. I think really getting everything I wanted to in there would […]

actually I guess it's a very relaxed month on account of all the things we are _not_ doing. like writing a novel. hope you all enjoy the free time.

unsolicited hot take on NaNoWriMo: incredible how "hey let's all try to write a novel in November" managed to later collapse in financial difficulties, scandal, and questionable entanglements with industry. The whole thing's incredibly overbuilt institutional infrastructure always seemed […]

finding out that kwrite doesn't want to wrap lines over 500kb, and then finding out why

and I know I'm a broken record about this, but say it again, with me: Aerojet General Nucleonics.

They just don't name companies like they used to. National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC my ass.

This building at UNM contains an Aerojet General Nucleonics model 201 reactor, licensed for 5W thermal power. The reactor runs on HALEU, high assay/low enriched Uranium, approx. 17.2% U-235. It was originally installed at UC Berkeley before UNM bought it […]

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I sent Nitrokey an abuse report about someone on their Matrix server and the CEO emailed me back eight months later

several parts of this are weird

Water From Your Eyes at Sister Bar

love the jaunty pose of our unfortunate stick man

Sometimes when I'm working on an article on something I thought was sort of obscure, I find out that someone wrote a whole book about it. The stages of grief here are first irritation, that I have been scooped by someone with no doubt much deeper research, and second irritation, that I now have […]

main street

the dairy barn

A rather poor quality newspaper clipping, headed "My Technology: Sean McCarthy." The full text does not fit here but I like the first question of this interview-format column. "Are you a technophobe or a technophile?" "A technophile."

I say we bring back this 2002 newspaper feature unchanged

I like that the ability to construct roads, railroads, tramways, and bridges seems to be routine boilerplate in Irish corporate charters.

I am resisting the urge to comment at great length on the WONDERSTICK but if you are curious you have to look it up

Meanwhile, we are back in New Mexico, at the State Fair. In the increasingly common fashion of this petrostate, it is sponsored by the Human Energy Company.

I do not feel like they intended the Matrix vibes but that's always what I got from the slogan.

The tube madness is setting in

VLANs are a technology that allows you to aggregate multiple, logically separate L2 networks onto a single set of physical links. Later, while troubleshooting something, you will connect the same laptop to three different ports on the switch because it feels easier.

the view from the roof is very pleasing but the library's main atrium (not pictured) has the ambiance of a Salt Lake City shoping mall and I do not like it

And a little detail of the, err, very odd main library. just architecturally strange.