Posts from June 2024

It is usually true - other than just by looking outside - that the only thing you really need to get weather information is a and/or a . What those tools can't do however is tell me a forecast, nor give me any information from a significant distance.

I switched over to DE shaving, which means shaving using a double-edge blade using a safety razor. This is something I started doing about six months ago, stopped using the cartridge razor (I used to use ), committed to it, and have not used a cartridge razor on my face since. Initially, I thought that […]

There was a time when I seemed to be buying a new watch every month. What I bought was never anything expensive. The last one I bought was the . I'd never owned a watch with atomic clock sync and wanted to experience that. The watch is fine, but I just don't like wearing it, […]

Back in the '90s when I watched , there was a thing on the Enterprise called a replicator. And I assume that was inspired by the Foodarackacycle in , as that predates Star Trek. In Jetsons, the Foodarackacycle was a pushbutton device whereas in Star Trek: TNG you just spoke to it, and it magically […]

Every now and then I check to see what's out there for cheap but good data storage. I'm not talking about the because that's complicated... although I will admit NAS is a lot easier to set up these days compared to years ago. What I'm talking about is the easy stuff. USB stick, internal drive […]