Posts from April 2025

Yes, I'm still DE shaving, but my rig has changed.

I talked about the vintage Garmin 200 series earlier this week, so I figured I might as well give a report on what I'm using currently.

Above is a GPS navigator, a model released in early 2008. And yes, it's my 205 because I have a collection of Garmin navigators just because I like them. After all, I do use a modern . What's truly amazing however is how many people are still using the '08 stuff. Why? The answer is […]

Retro needs an update, and it's 2012.

I talked about this at the beginning of the year but want to revisit it. At the time I write this, Microsoft Windows 10 is almost 10 years old, and the time is drawing closer to where 10 will become officially unsupported. And oh yeah, I'm seeing some panic.

I just talked about getting new tires, and it's worth talking about these little things, valve stem caps (a.k.a. valve stem covers). There are , and they all fall into one of three categories: Plain, TPMS or metal. Which is the best?

Every time I have to get new tires, I hate it because there are a thousand different ways to get screwed buying these things. I've been buying tires for close to 30 years, both for cars and trucks I've owned. In that time, I've come up with a few ways to get screwed less.

I do love one-liners that I can do on the command line in Linux, and this one has to do with TAR archives. TAR, on its own, doesn't encrypt anything. This being true, a separate utility has to be used to encrypt it. The easiest one is GPG.

I learned this one the hard way, but fortunately I didn't wreck my coffee maker. One would think that using distilled water would be better than tap for brewing coffee, right? That's what I thought. I was wrong.