Darlin's Law - survival of the cutest.

Animated from still newspaper photo in 1983. Loops well once saved. Ahhhh memories... 43 years ago and i can feel it !

Memtest 86 passed on 48 gig RAM in TrueNAS on Terramaster f8 with crash problems, used as graphic in post about moving daily detailed updates here

Forgive my posting about posting, but I'm trying to decide where to do fine-grained progress reports on mobile lab and Bionode. They get lost in Substack notes, I've dialed Facebook use down to almost zero, and I've not used Twitter/X whatever for years. Here? Little tech details and bits?

The most honest USB-C connector labeling I've ever seen. Is this a real standard?

A Cloud on Wheels Meet Bionode - archivist, production studio, info survival pod, comm center, and geek workstation built into a hand truck

I decided to be open about the bionode project... History, architecture, and mostly why. I've been coming to realize that we're nibbling around the edges of a new kind of information appliance...

open.substack.com/pub/microshi...

Melibe leonina nudibranch

@nudibranch.bsky.social #Nudivember A Melibe leonina from a few years ago, invited aboard my boat while docked in Anacortes....

New York City midtown 1948 - 8mm film YouTube video by Nomadic Research Labs

77 years ago in midtown Manhattan... 8 mm home movie...

youtu.be/1FH2csK__Lc

Port au Prince Haiti in 1940

My dad was on the maiden voyage of the liner America in August 1940 and did some beautiful 8mm film of this part of the world... Including shore time in Port-au-Prince, Havana, and St Thomas. That's what started my digitizing business. This is a postcard that was in the collection of memorabilia

<blink>good times</blink>

It's the ratio of all you put out to all you get back. Only part of that is financial.

I'm using an F8 with 14 TB and TrueNAS... what an amazing little machine! Almost dead quiet even when cranking huge Immich imports across Tailscale.

Meet Bionode - Nomadic Research Labs A Mobile Minilab by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Introducing an information toolkit and cognitive prosthesis built into a hand truck… with 14TB of NAS, video and audio production, sensor su...

In insane times, we have to refine our tools. I've never thought of myself as a "prepper" per se, but building all my geek systems onto a hand truck feels like a really good idea. A distant descendant of BEHEMOTH now under construction in my lab...

microship.com/meet-bionode/

Bionodal branding, using a beautiful artifact from about 30 years ago -- something that began life as quarter inch stainless steel plate and was cut with wire EDM at a friend's machine shop in Chicago, attached with 3M High Bond to the soundbar.

Herondactyl!

I drove a school bus around the country for a year, and calculated that it got 1.2 light years per cubic mile of gasoline

"deploy the sharpies!"

Whereas over on this side of the pond, any reference to that forbidden topic is asking for trouble. Science bad! Headdesk.

Primum non nocere

I know I haven't talked about the big picture of this project yet, but here's another close up... The PiKVM is great at some things but not so much at local console. Fixed this with series connected cheapie for "manual and auto" modes, selecting local console devices or complex network stuff.

Reviews are pouring in? A splash of publicity? A flood of orders?

More blinkies! Third Pi in the cluster now alive - installed to SD and then cloned image to 1 TB SSD and changed boot order. And the KVM is working after lots of hair pulling.

PiKVM headbutting this weekend, complex and counterintuitive. But it is well clamped to a rack shelf and now blinking.

Feline AFib Detection - Nomadic Research Labs Retrospective Atrial Fibrillation Detection via Feline Jacobsonian Substrate Analysis of Nocturnal Adhesive Artifacts Steven K. Roberts, Nomadic Research Labs, with Isabel and Alice Abstract In a long...

Observing elevated plasma concentrations of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide after nocturnal AFib episodes, correlated with my cat's refusal to engage with adhesive CPAP-adjunct lip tape residue, I created a retrospective study on potential Jacobsonian diagnostic modality. 🧪

microship.com/feline-afib-...

Agreed .. i always spoke of my technomadic adventure as a combination of all my passions. Besides, interesting things happen at the boundaries between specialties

Sign in texas, 1984, road construction next 5.051 mi.

A random moment from 40 years ago, east Texas, on the road with the Winnebiko

Current photo of console from the Winnebiko 2 computerized recumbent bicycle, circa 1986

Current state of the Winnebiko 2 console, which I moved into the shop yesterday while clearing a workspace for the new project. I've always really liked this version, which covered about 6,000 mi on both coasts of the US.

Feline Existential Angst - Nomadic Research Labs Isabelle the cat is writing a philosophical trilogy about individual autonomy and the cat's view of self, summarized here along with a photo.

Been swamped with a new project (still in stealth mode), digitizing, and reacting with dread to the goings on that dominate the news. Now and then, we just need a bit of sanity preserving humor. Isabelle, who is now 15, wrote a book. Lead photo AI, writing biological.

microship.com/feline-exist...

Making things with 20/20 t-slot extrusion... Geek Tinker Toys!

Prehistory of a Technomad - 1963-1983 YouTube video by Nomadic Research Labs

I just parked my "prehistory of a technomad" on YouTube, a little under 7 minutes. Plan is to do additional videos spanning the whole adventure epoch (including Deep Geekery), with the main body of the story continuing in text.

youtu.be/-RzBPcDYCF0

(And I'm back to work on Substack!)

Hope it goes smoothly! Alice weighed in with this lovely graphic....