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.
Tag: Photos
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Username License Plate in New York
If I had a nickle for every time I’ve said, “Now, enter your username . . .”
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Brave Maryland Regiment Remembered Near 3rd Ave and 9th St in Brooklyn
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.
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.
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Before and After Video Card Views
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.
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The Moomins and the UFO
I was taking photos of objects on my desk and this configuration of Little My and The Groke from Tove Jannsen’s Moomin standing in front of Fox Mulder’s UFO poster from The X-Files gave me a chuckle. I thought, if only there had been a “The Moomins and the UFO” book. A quick Google search reminded me that there had been an episode of the Japanese 1990-1991 Moomin anime in which UFOs visited Moominvalley titled “A Close Encounter With Aliens.” A child alien visits, officialdom searches for him, the Moomin characters discover his technology, Moominmama is accidentally shrunk, Stinky steals the shrink ray machine, it is destroyed, and the child alien’s parents show up to collect their little one and set things right. I want to believe (in Moominvalley).
