Stopping in for a rare Bluesky post to say that I'm up to mid-June 1996. Shawn Michaels did achieve his boyhood dream, Razor showed off a "Big Surprise" on Nitro, RVD is in ECW, and I've just finished watching the first round of the 1996 KOTR tournament. 🤼‍♂️ #WrestleSky #ProWrestling #WWF #WCW #ECW

It's dipshittery like this from Bluesky staff that has me moving to Mastodon instead.

Took a few days to find and follow a decent chunk of my crowd, but I'm digging this #Mastodon thing. So far it's exactly what #Bluesky has wanted to be. Keeping the account here on Bluesky open for now as not everyone has migrated, but I don't plan to spend much of my time here instead of there.

Just a post to confirm that yes, mastodon.social/@mrgm is me. Trying this Mastodon thing out to see if I like it.

With a giant douche for a CEO here, anyone know where we're migrating to?

I hate that it's come to this, but we've been unexpectedly hit with a big car repair, and we're kind of out of options. But I don't like asking for help without offering you *something*, so: Ask me anything in the message section, and I'll respond here with a *video* answer. ko-fi.com/geekcritique

On one hand, I'm sad to see Cactus Jack leaving #ECW in late January 1996. On the other hand, Foley moved on for a guaranteed paycheck and if he hadn't gone to #WWF then kid-me never would have seen him and found one of my favorite pro wrestlers of all time..! #WrestleSky #CactusJack #MickFoley

CEO: we're all trying to improve this place You: so you're gonna kick out the guy who keeps trying to kill me, right CEO: You: You're gonna kick out the guy who has literally helped kiwifarms target me personally, right CEO: WAFFLES

On a more positive note, Piper's introduction as the #WWF authority is pretty great! Piper: *gets out papers* Vince: What is this? Piper: It's rules, dammit! Rules! Vince: Rules? You've never lived by rules in your life! Piper: You know what? That's a heck of a point. Let me just put these away.

Wow, January 1996 WCW got bad again. Almost everything is about Hogan and it's lame. It's wild that it's like early 1995 WCW again, I was getting hyped thinking things were going to be decent like late 1995! Oh well, I'm still pretty sure it gets amazing by the end of the year..! #WrestleSky #WCW

This week a crab truck returned to my town. Earlier I had crab legs and watched pro wrestling and anime with a girl who is in love with me, and just a bit ago we took her dog for a car ride to see friends. Today is a good day.

PCIe modem card thing for the "bring my Dreamcast online" project arrived a week early! ...the downside is I don't know if I'll have time this week to start the project early. Oh well! I'm still excited to figure this all out when time permits! #homelab #Dreamcast

One minor downside to having a cat is they don't react when you're being intentionally ridiculous. I found out I made a mistake in my computer stuff and said "Oh well! You live and you learn! ...and you hang on the edge of tomorrow" and my cat looked at me nonchalantly like "yes those are words"

That is damn good advice.

I'm p. sure this means I'm not allowed to get up #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

I watched the first episode of both Zyuranger and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers for a new series I'm calling Super Kuriboh Time I'd like to cover more shows than these, but this is where I'm startin' I've never seen Power Rangers before so it's exciting youtu.be/WnAEKAQkzYY

Just set up DNS host overrides in the new OPNsense router and it feels like some kind of magic to be able to access stuff in my network by name instead of IP! This is pretty neat, I'd been relying on a bookmarks folder previously. #homelab #networking

Attn: Internet There is a ball of fur peacefully napping against my legs. That is all.

OPNsense router is up and running! It was... surprisingly uneventful. I haven't set up any of the advanced features yet, but those will come with time. For now the only functionality I've lost is Plex outside of my home network, but I can fix that later. #homelab #networking #OPNsense

New OPNsense router is mostly configured, running repeated iperf tests overnight to ensure the SFPs don't cause the PC to overheat. It won't be running full bore like this regularly, but it's good to do a burn-in test for mission-critical equipment. #homelab #networking

Took a very close up picture of the back of what will be a router PC to look at the port labels, I think it looks kind of neat. #homelab #networking

Saved (some) money by ordering Direct Attach Copper Twinax cables, they should be here within the next few days. Two are new short ones from FS and eight(!) are 5m (16 ft) from eBay. This oughtta give me stuff to play with for a few months..! #homelab #networking

Well shoot, the Cisco SFP-10G-LRM SFPs specifically say "Not compatible" in my Brocade ICX-7250 switch. At this rate it might be cheaper to buy new SFPs for $30 each instead of buying eBay lots and finding they aren't the advertised speed/aren't compatible/etc... #homelab #networking

Me at 8 PM: I'm going to try to go to bed at a semi-decent time tonight. Me at 3:xx AM: Wait, is that thunder? And now intense rain? Welp, I'm already up this late, I might as well wait out the storm before going to bed..!

If Superman fought Fred Flintstone, who would win?

I joked about the entrance music, but I'm smiling ear to ear so far with this early January 1996 Monday Nitro. Luger/Savage as the opening match, and it ends clean? That great 4 Horsemen vs Dungeon of Doom promo? Public Enemy doing their thing? And now Sting vs Flair? I love it! #WCW #WrestleSky

Yeah yeah I know music licensing and all that but I'm watching Public Enemy debut on WCW Monday Nitro and it feels *wrong* not hearing "Here Comes the Hotstepper" playing. Their WCW theme feels like the "We have 'here comes the hotstepper' at home" version.

Working on documenting everything on my home network so I can plan out what VLANs to set up. It's a long and slow process and there are lots of devices I rarely use and services I haven't set up yet, but it'll be good to have it all down while planning this out. #networking #homelab

There is a much less than subtle smell of weed coming from the apartment above me. I'm normally a "I don't touch the stuff myself, but you do you" kind of person but this is a STRONG smell, like damn.

I don't follow baseball closely, so part of me wonders if the 1990s Atlanta Braves were as amazing as I remember or if kid-me was just influenced by TBS' propaganda for their local baseball team. #MLB #AtlantaBraves #TBS

I feel like "2: Beyond Cyberspace" should have been a bigger meme than "2: Electric Boogaloo," you know?

Local box inspector has decided to nap on the job, and apparently my ankle is a good pillow. #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

I don't know how I feel about the fact that I learned that I learned that the temperature inside your mouth is 98.6 degrees from a commercial back in the day. Just saw it on this recording and apparently I still know this whole commercial by heart a few decades later...

This random Scott Armstrong match on WCW Saturday Night reminded me of the fact that I'm glad I learned of "Bullet" Bob Armstrong from SMW and USWA from 1995. Prior to this year, I only knew of one of his sons... and I didn't know that Road Dogg was a second-generation talent. #WrestleSky

So this commercial started in 1995, but as I'm watching 1996 stuff I still see it and it's burned into my brain. "ART THOU BORED?!" #WrestleSky #WCW #SlimJim #MachoMan #RandySavage

I've mentioned it before, but every time #WCW sells Dean Malenko as "The Man of 1000 Holds" in 1996 I can't help but immediately think of the later "Man of 1004 holds" bit... ARMBAR! #WrestleSky #WCW #DeanMalenko #ChrisJericho #armbar

I think I've got it figured out after watching a LOT of junk from 1995. For 1996 I'm watching the following for every week in addition to PPVs: WCW Monday Nitro, WWF Raw, ECW Hardcore TV, WWF Superstars, and WCW Saturday Night. I don't think I'm missing anything big? #WrestleSky #WCW #WWF #ECW

I think I've mentioned it before, but about a decade ago I watched all of WWF Raw and PPVs from January 1996 through March/April 1999. It's interesting watching more stuff now that I'm up to early 1996 again, there are lots of "Oh hey, I remember that!" moments! #WrestleSky #WWF

Also in other early 1996 WWF news, a former WCW star who was in ECW for a bit debuted with a buzz cut that he had at the VERY end of his ECW run. They're making him Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Champion, they call him the Ringmaster. I wonder if he'll ever make it big? #WrestleSky #WWF #WCW #ECW

Oh hey, I think this 1996 "totally not a squash match" that furthered the storyline of "Goldust messes with Razor Ramon" was Jeff Hardy's first win in the WWF? Who knows, maybe this Jeff Harvey kid can make something of himself in the future? #WWF #WrestleSky #JeffHardy #HardyBoyz

I didn't get a chance to play clean-up from the troubleshooting before someone decided that Dad is being boring staring at that TV, it must be time to hop up and take a nap. #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

Did some further troubleshooting and fixed the fiber link to the living room, the cable wasn't fully seated in the SFP down in the basement. Also found that the new cheap unmanaged 10G switch doesn't have a bad SFP port, it's just bricked. Oh well! At least the 1G switch works fine. #networking

Purchased a new box for my records while I was out as it was on sale. My local box inspector immediately had to check it out to be sure it was up to code. #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

I'm definitely calling my next NAS "Information Furnace." I was originally thinking "Alexandria" after the famous library, but after seeing this perfect name there's no going back

And yeah I *guess* I could do this the boring way and order one of those pre-built DreamPi things, but this way I get to experiment and put the skills I've picked up to a non-work practical use.

Today I found some (somewhat) cheap PCIe x1 cards exist that can act as FXS/FXO ports for telephone stuff. Ordered one now, I'm going to push the limits of my knowledge to bring one of my favorite game consoles online again. It will be thinking once more. #computers #networking #Sega #Dreamcast

I love it!

"Broadly, therefore, the three even now lurching across the deserted planks of the Brass Bridge were dead drunk assassins and the men behind them were bent on inserting the significant comma." #Discworld #Pyramids #SirTerryPratchett

Three Panels #BestOfBortposting #Simpsons #2ColdScorpio #Moleman #WWE #ECW #WCW