Category: Blog

  • Keyless Entry, Bon Fires, VAX Mainframes & My Life History

    In early January, I lost the only set of keys I had, including the fob, for the truck. I looked everywhere for two days and couldn’t find them. Ironically, I’d bought an off-brand AirTag for the keys at Dollar General a few weeks before, but when I checked the FindMy app on my iPhone, I…

  • The Succulent Pseudo-Green House Experiment:

    I have a patch of mixed succulents next to the steps out front that has been there for three years now – this is the third winter it’s survived. The first winter, most of it was killed off and I had to replace it. The second winter, I took samples of each type of succulent…

  • The Kind of a Song That Makes me Want to Pray Just to Thank God for Making a Universe Full of Beautiful Things

    I have no idea where I heard this song originally, but I was hearing the rhythm to it in my head all day yesterday. I could hear the tones of the female vocals, but I just could not get what she was actually saying. Without something solid like that, I hadn’t a prayer of finding…

  • More Like Welcome to the Well-Maintained Park

    Some cover band covered the entirety of the first Guns and Roses album in the style of 1950s “rock and roll”. It’s…. different. It’s not quite as kitschy version of “Welcome to the Jungle” the band was playing in the bar in the movie “Swingers”, but it’s definitely different. It’s a little less “Welcome to…

  • Triumphant Return

    The new Triumph Spitfires look pretty cool. I guess they’ve had 45 years to work on the design since they stopped making them so if it didn’t look good, it’d be pretty shameful. I’m not going to post any links or photos. They’re easy to find and I don’t want to pick an example.

  • Twenty-Five Extremely Impressive Lego Builds

    When I first saw some of the new shapes Lego was making, I kind of felt like it was cheating. When I was a kid, I didn’t have to walk to school, 37 miles, barefoot, through the snow, uphill, both ways, as the joke goes (or did, before it was beaten to death, but that’s…

  • Nanites?

    Really interesting things being done by very small robots working together, but I can’t help but think of nanites from Star Trek TNG and the swarm from the book Prey by Michael Crichton. This video is about 2 minutes, 40 seconds long. I think it’s worth the watch. It’s one of those if you try…

  • Creative Dent Strategy

    This is the best idea for dealing with a dent I’ve seen in a while aside from repairing it.

  • Christmas Decorations 2024

    This year I put up 7 Christmas Trees as well as other decorations. They don’t look as good in photo as they do in real life, but I thought I’d share anyway. There are three trees in the kitchen, garlands and lights over the windows. Bows, a stocking, a couple of Santas, a snowman, snowflakes…

  • FHL (Farm House Live) Weekend Update

    I had a reasonably productive weekend around the house. There are two things I remember from my youth about the yard here that are no longer true. Somewhere around 1/3 of the trees are gone, so instead of the yard being a nice shady place to hang out in the summer time, there are large…