New house, lots of travel and some delicious beers. More consolidation of my beer-cellar and after next month,…
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Rants: Amazon, please stop including “Alexa” commands in your commercials
May 2, 2017
1 min read
I don’t watch cable TV but my girlfriend does. She uses DirectTV now to watch terrible (I mean…
My Car: Spring Engine Bay Cleaning – MK7 Golf R
May 2, 2017
1 min read
Replaced my VWR 600 Air Filter due to the filter failing after 2 years and thought it’d be…
Linked: “Rules for Surviving a Horror Movie”
May 2, 2017
11 min read
via Tripod (Heck, yeah, Tripod!!!!): This is an amazing archive of everything to do in order to survive…
Linked: “AOL will cut off older third-party app access to AIM”
May 1, 2017
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via ArsTechnica: On Tuesday, AOL (yes, it’s still around) suddenly announced to users of AOL Instant Messenger (including…
Linked: “Instapaper Outage Cause & Recovery”
April 30, 2017
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via Medium: The Instapaper service experienced an extended outage between Wednesday, February 9 at 12:30PM PT through Thursday,…
Linked: “Interest in travel to the US has plummeted since Trump became president”
April 29, 2017
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via QZ: Overall average interest in flying to the US declined 17% from the three weeks before Trump’s…
Linked: “A VHS Tape From 1996 Demonstrates What the Internet Looked Like in Its Early Days”
April 28, 2017
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via LaughingSquid: Transferred from a VHS video tape, this 1996 video shows how to use a PC and…
Linked: “Overcast 3: Design walkthrough”
April 27, 2017
1 min read
via Marco: Overcast 1.0 was designed for the iPhone 5S. Some fundamentals needed to be revisited now that…
★ Beer Tastings: Pre-RoadTrip Beers with Chris
April 27, 2017
1 min read
Chris and I had a blast trying to get a few of these in before I flew down…
Linked: “Why buying used cars could put your safety at risk”
April 26, 2017
1 min read
via CNN: “The car is really smart, but it’s not smart enough to know who its owner is,…
Linked: “Not Ok, Google”
April 26, 2017
3 min read
via Stratechery: Fake news, on the other hand, tells people who’ve already made up their minds what they…
Linked: “Social netiquette: When poking isn’t polite”
April 25, 2017
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via Time (2009): Adam Jackson, who co-authored the book “140 Characters,” a style guide for Twitter, says he…
Linked: WikiTribune.com
April 25, 2017
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Wikitribune is a news platform that brings journalists and a community
of volunteers together. We want to make…
Linked: “The White House Flickr Account Just Changed Hands from Obama to Trump”
April 24, 2017
1 min read
via PetaPixel: If and when Trump does appoint a White House photographer, the Flickr account is waiting for…
Travel: Thoughts from my FL to NH 2017 Road Trip (with photos)
April 24, 2017
5 min read
On Sunday the 16th, I flew down to Florida and put on a smile while dozens of people…
My Car: Cars & Coffee NH/VT, April 2017
April 24, 2017
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I started this event last year as we don’t have any form of Cars & Coffee less than…
Rants: The Gizmodo RSS Feed is broken…again
April 24, 2017
2 min read
In 2010, I posted to this blog that I was going to stop reading Gizmodo because their RSS…
Linked: “Steve Jobs mini fig”
April 23, 2017
1 min read
via FamousBrick: Lego mini-figs of some of my favorite people. I’ll take a Steve, Phil, Tim and Woz.…
Linked: “Being Careful About Your Time”
April 22, 2017
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via 500ish: The framework should be simple: what are you getting out of a meeting? It’s obviously reasonable…