Joel

Joel

@joelivoryjohnson.com

This is my personal profile. I also have a professional profile over at @j2i.net

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10 years ago in October, I paid 2.499 for Ethanol free 87 Octane gas. Now days, I usually don't drive my gas car. After a gas price surge following hurrican Katrina, I made up my mind to move off gas as soon as it was ciable for me. #gas #oil

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In 2022 the AC in the car failed. I managed a "fix" myself that kept the AC working to 2023. Then it got to hot for me. I got one of the cheapest EVs I could find that wasn't TESLA. #oil #ev #gas

I have been able to charge 100% not at home. This has mostly been at work (for free) and on occasions using some EVGo credits I have thst would expire. I am trying to make it Xmas break like this. šŸ˜€ #evs #gas #oil

10 years ago in October, I paid 2.499 for Ethanol free 87 Octane gas. Now days, I usually don't drive my gas car. After a gas price surge following hurrican Katrina, I made up my mind to move off gas as soon as it was ciable for me. #gas #oil

I had considered a natural gas powered car. But when I was purchasing in 2010, Honda had discontinued the version thst coukd burn gas or natural gas and my local natural gas vehicle stations only sell to govt. I got a gasoline car. #oil #gas

In 2020, I was looking to buy. But then the world shut down. I kept the civic and bet my down-payment on NVDIA (great bet!).

I enjoyed the Street Fighter movie. It had a great balance of goofiness and high stakes. It closed, leaving room open for a sequel. Side note: one of the main evil forces was named "Akuman". Isn't "Aku" japanese for "Evil"? #StreetFighter #Movie

I used to take pictures of the pump when I filled up. Here is a picture I took after getting ethanol free gas (red) 9 years ago. #memories #gas #fuel

Disney+/HULU has enabled this home location restriction. It would cost 21.99/month for me to get my own sub. Going a different route. I'm leaving a router in the primary home of the account holder and will VPN into it on the occasions I want to watch Disney/Hulu. #Disney #Hulu #Streaming #VPN

Hmmm...Over a versy short period of time, his employer blocked access to Google services, put in place a policy to delete all e-mails after 90 days, disabled USB-drives, removed e-mail access from all mobile devices, and siable teams transcriptions. Someone must have leaked something. #office

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At a free speech conference where an Iranian-born speaker is presenting over video from Sweden saying she doesn't feel safe coming to the US currently and noting the irony of her not being able to come to a free speech conference

Going through old things to clean house. Found my Masters of Software Engineerging graduation items. #SPUS #Graduation #SoftwareEngineering #School

Watching someone unpacking their laptop, adjusting their monitor, unboxing their cables, preparing for their work day. I can't help but think about how much more quickly one could start working when they had a desk assigned to them that was always ready for their specific needs. #work #rto #office

I was encouraged by someone in the office to make "a day in the life of a software engineer" video. I hopped in my car for my morning commute, had the GoPro rolling, and had an unfortunate observation of a Cotote on I75 going to work and called 911 about an elderly...

Come on, dude. There are plenty of open spaces. Why are you parked in a space reserved for charging EVs. I am glad the charger has very long cords. I managed to pull the cable to where I was parked. #EVs #ICE

I don't get this. There's a security policy on my work computer that prohibits it from going to sleep. Closing the computer just turns off the screen. The "Hibernate" command is grayed out. The pmset command does nothing. The computer can only be on or off, but not sleeping. #mac #security?

The only way that I can make sense of it is that there might be some way of accessing data while the computer is in a sleep state. Maybe the boot encryption keys or something similar can be accessed. Removing sleep state forces a shut down...

...it also limits an attackers time opportunity for doing something before the computer shuts down. At least that is my theory. That said, I feel that I'm finding more and more that security and usability are hostile to each other.

My Amazon deliveries reliably suck. I get a delivery date, the deliveries achieve a status of ā€œarriving today.ā€ The day passes, and then the status is updated to arriving 2 days later. It may or may not come. Almost all of my deliveries in the past two weeks have been delayed. #Amazon

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It is recommended to start a playthrough of Paper Mario: The Origami King by dying 17 times in a row. The game has a hidden pity system that applies discounts to accessories. Dying 17 times allows Mario to reach Maximum Pity for a 90% discount, saving a lot of money over the course of the game.

Watching Season 2 of Shangri-La Frontier. Who ever is performing in the closing credits sounds a lot like Awich. I wonder if that is her... #awich #ShangriLaFrontier #slf

The guest came out with a full garbage bag. The dumpster was already overflowing with garbage. She turned the bag upside down, emptying the contents into the dumpster and overflowing onto the ground. She turned around and went back inside with her empty trash bag. #AirBnB #Garbage #Atlanta

The Mercedes Benz Stadium has been adorned with Fifa branding over the Mercedes logos. The graffiti under theboverpasses and bridges has been covered with murals. Homeless encampment have been removed. This reminds me of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics actions. #fifa #atl #atlanta

Pedestrians may do better to walk on the opposite side of the street. The sidewalks near the stadium are bisected with barriers. I cannot speak on how comfortable or stable the barrier footing might be to walk on. But having lower margin to move away from cars looks concerning.

With storage having gotten more expensive, I'm going to have to clear up some space. I have some Blu-rays and DVDs ripped to some drives. I still have the original discs. I am thinking of erasing some to reclaim the space. AI has driven up storage prices too much. #AI #Computers #Storage

"Technology is a tool for experts to offload their skills. They are not tools for novices to become experts. When they offload before learning the initial process, they are at the whim of whatever the machine tells them." ttps://youtu.be/oawBfCAnbdc?t=1h9m10s #Tech #Students #Learning

I think some ambiguity in this quote could come from the word "Technology" when the quote is read in isolation. He is referring to using automated means to get a thing done. Sadly, I know some people that halted the development of certain skills through automation.

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Should I be horrified or bemused that I still know the fix for this is to put Himem.sys Device=emm386.exe Dos=high,umb into my config.sys, reboot the computer, and then install the game?