Mustache November
For some reason November is now Mustache November. Now we’ve got two months out of the year where we have to grow mustaches? I don’t get it. This is supposed to be some statement about masculinity...
View ArticleIt’s Wonderful…
I dream of you, chips chips chips, du du du du du It was just a song, but one that Starbucks seemed to have on a tight loop. Every time I’d walk into one of the four Starbucks I had on rotation I’d...
View ArticleMeteor Shower
The back of a truck is an appropriate place to watch a meteor shower. I had driven out onto a back road in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to watch the meteors fall, and I was not disappointed. Orion knew...
View ArticleBash Dictionary – Terrible Hack of the Day
So, I just had a reason to implement something like a dictionary in Bash. Of course, I could try to determine if such a feature exists already (it does in Bash 4, alas the default on OS X seems to be...
View ArticleThe Compro-Flirt
Some times I’m not sure whether I’m trying to flirt with someone or not. The coffee shop was playing some crazy music from all over the World, like, a French song followed by some crazy Spanish dudes...
View ArticleMore to Life than Being Happy
This article in the Atlantic a chord with me. It’s about how, in life, searching for meaning can leave people more satisfied than searching for happiness. As [Viktor Frankl] saw in the [concentration]...
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How to Have An Awesome Weekend Anywhere in the Country
Somebody gave this post on BuzzFeed the title, “How to Date Anywhere in the Country,” but really it should be called, “How to Have an Awesome Weekend in the Biggest Cities in the Country”. That’s not...
View ArticleUnix Text Editing Awesomeness
Oh, LaTeX acronym package, you won’t automatically alphabetize my list of acronyms? Strange… Let’s see if Unix will… $ echo "\acro{SCADA}{Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition}...
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San Antonio Hackerspace
Apparently San Antonio has a hackerspace now. Up until a few minutes ago, this image was alongside the rest of their “About Us” page. I think that by observing the page I changed it, so perhaps it’s...
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The Plunger
A wooden stick with a rubber cone on the end can solve so many problems. When the toilet’s on the fritz, But you’ve really got the shitz, You’ve got to plunge it. You’ve got to plunge it. That cat...
View ArticleThe Economist on US Surveillance
This article in The Economist summarizes most of the issues relevant to this whole Edward Snowden debacle. Their attitude is that the amount of secret surveillance going on in the US, as suggested by...
View ArticleEngineering the Van Allen Belts
This article proposes a pretty crazy sounding idea – remove the Van Allen Belts. Simplified Explanatory Summary: The Van Allen Belts are a natural phenomenon, electrons and protons flying around the...
View ArticleSaturday Ramblings of a Frustrated Cybernerd
This is one of those Saturdays where I’m finding it hard to focus on what I want to focus on. Ok, so that’s a pretty regular problem for me on Saturday. I’m trying to focus on programming for this...
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Building Your Own OpenVPN
I’ve wanted to have a VPN setup for a while – I’ve never been entirely comfortable when using public wifi, even secured public wifi… Open wifi? I feel a little crazy every time I connect. But I...
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RasPi Flow Meter In A Pinch – Part 1
META: This first part is about the problem that caused me to build the solution. Part 2 is about the solution. My new place has an awesome feature that was disabled when I moved in – a reverse osmosis...
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RasPi Flow Meter In A Pinch – Part 2
META: Part 1 describes the problem I’m trying to solve here. I need a way to monitor water flow through my water filter over several days, and I don’t want to sit and watch it. So – I took a Raspberry...
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Leaving London and Going to Scotland
On the morning of 7 Oct Sarah and I headed to the Stansted airport to fly to Glasgow. It’s fairly easy to get to the airport, there’s a train out of the Liverpool Street station that takes you right...
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Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland
I pushed the accelerator of the Peugeot 3008 to the floor, as I slammed it from fifth into third to accelerate up the hill and around the corner while the rock wall on the passenger side caused the...
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Dubsteppin Dublin
Watch Yourself at Dublin Airport Land at Dublin airport, take a trip through passport control, buy a Leap card at the tourist desk inside, put €20 on it, step outside to the bus stop, hop on the...
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Cork and the Cliffs
We took some side trips from Dublin – one to Cork/Blarney castle/Midleton, and one to the Cliffs of Moher with a few extra stops in there… It’s easy to take the train from Dublin to Cork, be and from...
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