Archives: February 25, 2026

I set out to build a practical Windows gaming machine for Microsoft Flight Simulator and a library of retro DOS classics. What Hobbs at H-Mods delivered instead was a fully fabricated, RGB-lit piece of functional art — a custom PC so visually ridiculous I keep pausing games just to stare at the case. From accessibility realities and hardware anxiety to wall-mounted retro gaming and resurrected music software, this is the story behind the Jetsetter build and why modern horsepower is mostly being used to run 1993 shooters.

While building the Nine Inch Nails deep dive, I pulled out one of the first CDs I ever ripped into MP3 — sometime around 2000. What I didn’t expect was hearing the digital equivalent of vinyl wear. Not damage… but texture. It raised a strange question: when does outdated audio quality stop being a flaw and start becoming nostalgia?

There’s a darkly hilarious truth about working in web development — the guy who builds and maintains everyone else’s websites never has time to fix his own. After neglecting my company site since 2014 and accidentally crashing it while poking around the backend, I finally did what any responsible developer would do… I launched the new one that had been sitting 90% finished on my server.

Watching How to Train Your Dragon completely backwards led to an unexpected realization — I don’t want a war dragon like the ones from Game of Thrones. I want Toothless. The emotionally supportive, flight-capable, plasma-breathing house cat we all deserve.

What started as a quiet breakfast at my girlfriend’s house turned into an unexpected tech-support intervention when a coffee-soaked HP laptop entered the room. I expected catastrophic hardware failure — what I found instead was a machine brought to its knees by preloaded antivirus and OEM software bloat. A funny, ridiculous, and painfully relatable look at modern laptops, trialware, and why removing McAfee sometimes fixes more than espresso ever breaks.

Living with cerebral palsy means living with nonstop muscle spasms — and the only thing keeping mine under control is a surgically implanted baclofen pump. Every three months it has to be refilled or things get medically dangerous fast. What should be routine maintenance turned into a road trip, a rental billing mess, hospital bureaucracy, and a transportation system that wasn’t even sure a wheelchair user qualified for a wheelchair van. If I don’t laugh about it… I’m going to punch somebody.