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While we have been waiting for weather for the passage to Cook Islands, we’ve utilized the time building backup communication systems. Starlink changes their policies on August 17th, and it is possible it becomes prohibitively expensive...
Last post I wrote about buying several tools from the widow of a woodworker who, after several months of grieving, was ready to let go of her husband's tools. On a separate occasion, I got a few more things from her and this post shows...
Julie Czerneda ★★★★★ More like the Species Imperative trilogy or In The Company of Others than Czerneda’s more recent Night’s Edge series, To Each This World is a hard science-fiction story featuring multiple alien biologies, space...
This is the fifth client I work with this week who’s auto-replied to an email I sent with this: I am currently on leave returning on the 17th of August. I don’t think I’ve ever had two clients from disparate companies share leave, at...
Our dishwasher is dying. Why does it make me emotional? The death of an appliance. It's been acting strange recently. Over the past couple of nights, it's revealed a new sound that it can make... like a performance. The last chance for...
TL;DR: Play, Yattee and Unwatched all refuse to let YouTube pick your next video; each builds a feed from your subscriptions instead of Google's ranking. Play is free to download with the channel-following features behind Premium at...
TL;DR: Play, Yattee and Unwatched all refuse to let YouTube pick your next video; each builds a feed from your subscriptions instead of Google's ranking. Play is free to download with the channel-following features behind Premium at...
I was talking with Clara about the new Anthony Bourdain movie coming out, and it… Wait, hold on a moment, Vim is telling me I misspelled the word “movie”. Really? Yeah, look at that, “movie” has a red box around it. Huh. Who’d have thunk...
Previously, on njms.ca: [[ Studying computer science at the end of the world ]] [[ Studying computer science at the end of history ]] At midnight on June 13th, 2009, analog TV broadcasts were suddenly terminated across the United States....
Poison Dart Frog from Central America. I don't understand why the Texas Discovery Gardens has almost nothing from Texas in it. I'm also not entirely sold on the idea that looking at an animal in a plastic box is educational. I wonder if,...
Interior, The Shops at Hudson Yards – New York, New York I’m not familiar with all of these stores, but I recognize some of them, so I know this is the high-end section of the mall. It was on the first floor, just as you pass through the...
I planted my garden this spring from seeds. I've got a nice big garden space in raised boxes that gets lots of sun. I decided to try to grow some zucchini. I'm a bit of a hands-off gardener. I try to water regularly, but I also forget,...
I recently watched Codie Sanchez’s video on 10 upgrades to make once you have more money. It reminded me of a 10-idea list I wrote. Here it is. Healthcare. No more ER waiting lines. Shoes, mattress, and chair. No more back pain. Diet and...
The weather kinda nuked my one plan for the day, and I really didn't find my footing for the rest of the day. The stormy weather kept me from going out, and I just haven't done anything since. It was nice before my partner left for work,...
…the discomfort with temporal uncertainty that manifests as false certainty about the future has, I’ve come to realize, an equivalent in the unease about ambiguity, complexity, contradiction, and opacity that manifests as the urge to...