“Let us think the unthinkable
Let us do the undoable
Let us prepare to grapple with ineffable itself
And see if we may not eff it after all”
Douglas Adams
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On April 15 2024, around 5:30 pm, I took out the garbage and recycling, something that required two 15-yard-long round trips from the back of my lot to the curb. The first trip took some effort and left me winded,…
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Lesser-Known Advantages of Having Eyeglasses
Everyone knows that have a pair of corrective lenses is the front-line way to enable you to see clearly. Near or far sighted, a pair of frames holding a glass or plastic set of lenses in front of your broken,…
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3D Printing
As a Christmas gift to myself, I bought an Anycubic Kobra 2. I’ve never owned a 3D printer and have been enamored of the tech for a while. With a holiday sale from Anycubic, I bought into the hobby for…
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The picture is too large and will be truncated
Old bugs are super fun. If you’re using Excel and copy/pasting as little as one row, you may get the following error: “The picture is too large and will be truncated” If you inspect the results, the copy/paste was successful,…
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The End (?) of Evernote
With the announcement that Evernote’s new owners have laid off all US staff and are moving operations to Europe, the writing seems to be on the wall for the service in the short term. Over the years, Evernote has lost…
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Tornado Season
It’s tornado season and we’re getting a good chance at one today. Someone at work posted this video and I found it informative. Still not good at reading radar imaging, but this got me a little better.
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Culture Catch-Up
I am old enough to remember (less each day, though) life before the modern Internet. This post is not a nostalgia-laden trip back to the heady days of the mid-1980s, but more to establish that I’ve been an adult for…
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Blank Inside
I went to Walgreens to find a card to send to my mother. It’s been a year today since my father died and, while I plan to call her, an artifact seemed… not appropriate, but necessary. We are not an…
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What is that noisy IoT device on my network?
That’s the first question that popped up when I installed AdGuard Home on my Raspberry Pi last night. Within minutes, hundreds of queries went out for these two domains: What is mi.com, you ask. It is Xiaomi’s US website. I…
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Twitter has pushed me too far
Inspired by Matt Haughey’s stand against Twitter, I re-logged into Mastodon on all my devices and shelved my Twitter access. I haven’t gone to quite the extreme that Matt did by nuking my Twitter presence, but I’m consciously choosing to…