Posts from June 2024

This is Dave's Ford Explorer. How do I know? His name is on it. Dave announces himself wherever he goes because darn it, he's just that important. Dave's truck smokes like an incinerator. You might think that's because the engine is on its last leg. No. Dave did that on purpose to keep people from […]

The proper name for this specific audio technology is called the compact cassette. Amazingly, for all those mixdowns you're never going to make. More on that in a minute. Nobody I knew back in the day used the term compact cassette. Everybody, including me, called them tapes. That term was so ubiquitous that when the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

June of '23 was when I officially switched over to Linux. It's now June of '24 as I write this, and yeah, I'm still using it. My flavor of choice is Kubuntu LTS, which means Long Term Support. I specifically wanted that because I am not a distro hopper. Some who run Linux change their […]

Yeah, I still do this because it's fun. However, I've changed the way I go about it so I can get ultra precise loops. There are only two tools required to do this, mpv media player and FFmpeg. And yes, we will have to go to the scary command line to make this work correctly. […]

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.