Very techie here... For a few months I've been operating a packet radio station on a 2-meter radio frequency here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I explored what it would take to make this a full “BBS” … [Read more...]
Wear ’em Down
This is the fourth exactly-same-model of hiking boot I've worn over the last 10 or so years. A pair lasts two or three years — hundreds of trail and sidewalk miles. Then wears through, or the bottom s … [Read more...]
295
I traveled from Brussels to London on Eurostar this week. 295kph. Very much like other fast trains in Europe, and still exhilarating. Didn't hit 300 on this trip, but always looking forward to that … [Read more...]
Where’s your external brain?
For years I’ve kept snippets of code in a file that I refer to when I need a cookbook of sorts to perform some magic incantation I only need to invoke once or twice a year. I just don’t need to keep th … [Read more...]
No such thing as a “Quick question”
I like to think I’m open and helpful. Not everyone would agree. But the one thing that really annoys me is the email whose title is "...quick question..."Of course the question will be quick. But, if i … [Read more...]
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