The book, North American Lake Monsters, is a collection of short stories that I reviewed here. Read that first, without it, this will have little context. Seriously, the following is absolutely full of spoilers, and I don't want to hear about it. Well, for the stories that I actually like, I still try to keep them a little spoiler free, but the first story ... that one I lay out ALL the main points....
As I've done from time to time, this blog serves as a bit of a bench-notes of what I did. However, maybe someone else hits the same problem, and finds my blog via search. About a month back, the new nVidia 2080 Ti card was announced. I decided to hit up eBay to see if anyone was selling off a 1080 Ti, and I was not disappointed in the price drops....
I know this. Read the fine print. I didn't do that. The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers. I have a 12U rack. Sort-of an end-table next to the couch. I have two servers. One of them is happily racked. The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack. I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....
Gone Not too far from where I live is a "turn key fully equipped restaurant" for lease. The restaurant that was there until a few weeks ago was called Pizzaniste. Pizzaniste had really good pizza. Gourmet, all fresh ingredients, coal fired, whole-wheat crust as an option; even gluten free as an option. Partly because they also made custom fresh salads, there were some unexpected ingredients: Real anchovies, fresh basil, artichokes, black beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, chickpeas, eggplant, hard-boiled egg, zucchini and two types of olives to choose from (along with all the other things you might expect every pizza place to have)....