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Interesting Reads and Watches for May 7th, 2021

A collection of stuff that has caught my attention recently: Eating Less Meat won’t save the planet. Here’s why. (YouTube) Blue Ridge Parkway – I had no idea this existed and would like to drive it some Fall How Tech … Continue reading

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Interesting Reads and Watches for April 23rd, 2021

Some stuff I’ve come across recently and found interesting some way or another: How Initialized Investor Garry Tan Turned A $300,000 Bet On Coinbase Into A $680 Million ‘Golden Ticket’ (Forbes) That’s quite an investment return! Is The tp-link Omada … Continue reading

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Interesting Reads and Watches for April 8th, 2021

Here’s a short collection of interesting things that have crossed my radar: Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics (NYT) 1 in 3 Covid survivors suffers neurological or mental disorders, study finds (CNBC) Particle mystery deepens, as … Continue reading

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Interesting Reads and Watches for March 22nd, 2021

Stuff I’ve found and read or watched recently: Ham and Split Pea Soup Recipe – A Great Soup (AllRecipes) we made this the other night and it came out great. Why use old computers and operating systems?E (HackerNews) which pointed … Continue reading

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Dishy (Starlink) Custom Mount on Standing Seam Metal Roof

The new house we’re nearly done building has a shallow pitch standing steam metal roof upon which I needed to mount Dishy for my Starlink backup Internet service. TLDR: I ended up with something like this one. To get started, … Continue reading

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Interesting Reads and Watches — I should blog more (again).

It’s been a long time since I used by blog. It’s time to stop being lazy and get back on the wagon. To start, here’s a recurring I might do–post a list of Interesting Things that I’ve read recently. I … Continue reading

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Left Handed Flying (finally)

A weird thing happened recently in my flying: I got comfortable flying left-handed. I started flying gliders as a teenager back in Michigan and have always had the stick in my right hand and used my left hand for things … Continue reading

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Today’s lame sales pitch…

I’m going to paste the full text of an email message that recently landed in my inbox and unfortunately wasn’t tagged as spam. But I won’t paste it in one blob, I’ll do it piece by piece so it is … Continue reading

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My First Helicopter Lesson

Back on November 16th (last Sunday), we headed up to Auburn airport so that I could use the gift certificate for a 1 hour helicopter lesson that Kathleen got me for my birthday earlier this year. The plan was to … Continue reading

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Cast Iron Cooking

Last night I made our favorite black bean & green chili chicken soup for the first time in about a year. It’s the one recipe that always makes me pull out the cast iron pot instead of a cheap lightweight … Continue reading

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