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  • Vixen RV, an Aerodynamic, Futuristic Mobile Home

    Vixen RV front-side view on driver's side

    Y and I saw this futuristic Vixen RV on a recent walk through our Brooklyn neighborhood. Designed by Bill Collins, a distinguished car designer and former Delorean engineer who passed away in 2023, the Vixen has a rear-mounted engine with its radiator hidden behind the side air scoops in the back. I’ve never been inside of one, but I’m guessing it is a quieter ride than RVs with front mounted engines and has better gas mileage thanks to its aerodynamic shape and covering (on the top and bottom). This Vixen’s owner also has a cool license plate, which was also pictured in Road and Track–can you guess it’s meaning before clicking through?

    Vixen RV front
    Vixen RV front-side view on passenger side
    Vixen and BMW logos on passenger side door
    Vixen RV rear-side view
    Vixen RV back view

  • Don’t Move a Muscle

    Mose sleep on my arm

    I often find myself unable to move an arm or leg for extended periods of time when Mose happens to fall asleep while using part of my body as a pillow.

  • Username License Plate in New York

    Buick hatchback with a New York license plate with the word "USERNAME"

    If I had a nickle for every time I’ve said, “Now, enter your username . . .”

  • Brave Maryland Regiment Remembered Near 3rd Ave and 9th St in Brooklyn

    Street Art Mural depicting Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War fight the British, Battle of Brooklyn, 27 August 1776.

    I found this battlefield art mural near the corner of 9th Street and 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. The Google Maps’s street view shows it in better days in 2013.

    Michael A Rawley Jr. American Legion Post 1636 on 9th Street in Brooklyn, New York.

    The mural is on the side of the Michael A Rawley Jr. American Legion Post 1636’s building, which also features a blue historic marker on the front of the building stating: “MARYLAND HEROES: Here lie buried 256 Maryland soldiers who feel in the Battle of Brooklyn, August 27, 1776.”

    This August 25, 2012 story in The New York Times gives some details about the battle and the uncertainty surrounding the location of the soldiers’ mass gave.

    James Schmitt notes in this blog post that an archaeological survey of the (formerly) vacant lot next to the American Legion Post in 2017 didn’t turn up any human remains.

    While time has obscured where these soldiers rest, they are remembered for bravely covering the American retreat.

  • Before and After Video Card Views

    AMD Ryzen 7 System with NVIDIA A6000 Video Card

    When I swapped out the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB (seen above) for the RTX 4060Ti 16GB (seen below), I rerouted the main motherboard power cable and installed extra hard drives in the bottom power supply enclosure.

    At peak, the video card power draw has gone from 300w to 140w. The noise of the 4060Ti’s fans is a little more noticeable during full load, perhaps due to it’s open blowing fan design as opposed to the enclosed blower design of the A6000. And, I’ve re-familiarized myself with the memory optimizing features of A1111 for image generation, which I used to have to make use of with my old RTX 3070 8GB video card that I had before upgrading to the A6000. Later this week, I’ll test out how many LLM layers I can load on to the 4060Ti’s 16GB of VRAM with koboldcpp.

    AMD Ryzen 7 PC with NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB Video Card.