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Blood Plasma Donation #13

Nix McRetro // 9th October 2021 // News

Today was plasma donation #13 and overall 33rd donation. Nothing went wrong, as usual. I’ll be getting my iron levels checked before the next whole blood donation in roughly a month. Peripheral haemoglobins were rocking 159g/L which is back where they should be. And what’s this? Ohhoooo a shiny! Fancy... Continue reading

Folding, Folding, Folding!

Nix McRetro // 2nd October 2021 // News

Today we say farewell to the ShaneMcRetro on Team Curecoin Folding@home account. We did well with 1,422 workunits folded counting up a massive 15,692,754 points! Farewell tears aside, we join Team dogefolders as a Dogecoin wallet address! Why the change? Less wallets, that’s why! Plus DogecoinFah is donation-based relying on... Continue reading

Tentaku Mechanical Calculator

Nix McRetro // 25th September 2021 // Guides

This is A&N Laboratory’s Tentaku Mechanical Calculator DIY Kit which I recently picked up from Switchkeys in Australia. Powered by two beefy seven-segment LED displays and a tiny bit of circuitry it makes calculating fun. My build is equipped with Glorious Pandas (non-lubed). I am planning on getting a Glorious... Continue reading

Internal Inspection of the Sega Mega-CD (VA0) HAA-2910

Nix McRetro // 19th September 2021 // Sega, YouTube

A quick stroll around the internals of the Sega Mega-CD HAA-2910. This one is a VA0 revision making it a launch day console! If not launch day very close to launch day. Definitely in time for Christmas - probably. In other news geocities.mcretro.net has had a little bit of work... Continue reading

Blood Plasma Donation #12

Nix McRetro // 11th September 2021 // News

With all my vaccinations up to date and my iron bolstered, it’s back to my relatively regular, varied (and somewhat) scheduled programming. I stopped by the local blood donation centre (see above) and had a rather interesting visit today. Interesting enough to write a blog post on. First up a... Continue reading