Who Am I, What is Lameazoid?
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Who Am I, What is Lameazoid?

Part of Blaugust involves some, optional prompts, and one is an introduction post. This is one I have done before many times and it's probably mostly all there on the About page linked above. But I'll recap a bit here for those just joining in. Welcome to Lameazoid, my first blog that I keep dragging along behind me. When it began life on Geocities it was The Chaos Zone but I did a sort of rebrand when I moved to Livejournal in the early 2000s. It's technically all the same.blog, though I have purg d and restored content on it…
My Gaming Journey – Part 1 – 8-Bit Era
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My Gaming Journey – Part 1 – 8-Bit Era

Last year when I did Blaugust over on [BI], I dis a series of posts about my history of computer use.  I wasn't really going to try to go all "hardcore" at posting this year, but I decided it might be fun to try to parallel that series a bit with a history of my Video Game memories. Also, I have no idea if these are all 8-bit systems, it's just an easy way to segment things, don't @ me. Like my computer use, I've played video games, essentially my entire life.  I've played a lot of games.  My god…
Welcome to Blaugust 2024
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Welcome to Blaugust 2024

Welcome to Blaugust.  A sort of, celebration of blogging, created by bloggers, and set during the month of August.  I first participated last year on Blogging Intensifies, I set a goal to blog daily over there, and I accomplished that goal.  It was, a little grueling to be honest.  this year, I'm participating here, on Lameazoid.com.  And I have no plan or real intention to post daily. The main reason for switching which of my two blogs I am using is well, frankly, a lot of the other Blaugust Blogs seem to be gamer style blogs, so Lameazoid just, fits…
Some Neat Final Fantasy Swag
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Some Neat Final Fantasy Swag

I'm a bit late on posting these, but they are still pretty cool. A few months ago, I went to the newly added "Side Quest Decatur" for the Midwest Toy and Comic Fest. It was the first year for the secondary even in Decatur, normally it's held in Bloomington, about an hour north. It wasn't anything super fancy, mostly just a big vendor room. I didn't end up buying much, but I did pick up these neat custom Final Fantasy items from Rusted Icon Designs. One is this slate coaster, with a fun reference to the Spony Bard line from…
HDMI Cables for Retro Consoles
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HDMI Cables for Retro Consoles

I've slowly been working on doing a bunch of upgrades to my console video game space. In some cases it involves elaborate changes to how things work with a particular system. I upgraded my PS2 to run from a hard drive, for example. I've modified my PS Mini to run more than just the base set of ROMS. I have an extra Wii I plan to try to jailbreak as well. I've looked into getting an Everdrive style cartridge for my N64, though those are kind of weirdly expensive. Not everything is about playing more games though, sometimes it's just…
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Code Project – Python – Twitter Archive to Markdown

I have been wanting to convert my Twitter Export archive into a more useful format for a while. I had vague dreams of maybe turning them into some sort of digest posts on WordPress but there are a fuckton of tweets (25,000) and it would require a LOT of scrubbing. I could probably manage to find and remove Retweets pretty easily, but then there is the issue of media and getting the images into the digest posts and it's just not worth the hassle. What I can, and did do, is preserve the data is a better, more digestible, and…
This Year’s Garden
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This Year’s Garden

I meant to post when I planted but did not because, "reasons." More specifically, a lack of motivation to do so. It's not exactly anything impressive anyway, but that isn't really supposed to matter anyway. My 2024 gardening is underway, and if it's anything like the past several years, it will not be very fruitful. At our old house, we had a pretty decent garden. I built a nice tiered raised bed pyramid thing, we grew plenty of peppers and tomatoes and the plants were super large and full. We had so many tomatoes we made a ton of salsa…