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Nearly a decade ago I digitized my families cds and dvds. The stamped discs had about a 10% failure rate, which was higher than I expected. Fortunately the vast majority of discs p…

Factory stamps are still not immune to bit rot, even when stored in ideal conditions.

Hearing the vroomvroom isn’t the same as feeling the vroomvroom.

My dad worked for HEB for 35 years. He never planned to stay there when he started in the late eighties, but they had better hours than his prior work as a photojournalist and trea…

This is your reminder to stop touching the bell when playing third position.

My partner and I got a 1 year old rescue schnauzer a few weeks back, so we are learning to dog while trying to teach her to sit, stay, and come. Tech thoughts: this week I decided …

Those colorized movies were awful, AI would have just made them awful in their own way. Outside of film restoration, old movies should be enjoyed the way they were made.

I haven’t thought about Ask Jeeves in a good long while. For a brief time in the late 90s they were my go to search engine and my recommendation for those new to the net.

Citizen has an Atomic Timekeeping Eco-Drive series of watches that have a 200 meter water resistance. If you like complications see the Promaster Skyhawk A-T.

Apple Series 3 owner for about 9 years. 1. Notifications. Most useful in noisy environments such as grocery stores, airports, shop floors, or any place you may be wearing hearing p…

Would be cool if somebody would make a round over or chamfer plane that would allow you to remove the corner with a higher finished look.

This takes all the satisfaction out of spending a few well thought out weekends to build your own language. So many fun options: compiled or interpreted; virtual machine, or not; s…

My solution was to half the requested liquid for a thick oatmeal. Ok, thick is underselling it, it’ll be quite dense. Add cinnamon and chopped dates.

I just don't think to proof my texts. Usually it's type, send, and realize autocorrect makes me sound like a ~balloon~ buffoon.

"in" to "inn" is just one of the numerous words it LOVES to replace for me. (But it is one of the most common) Just this afternoon it also replaced "for" with "fire", and it loves …

That could is doing a lot of heavy lifting. If they can't get my keyboard to stop replacing in with inn I don't think they are going to magically fix the battery life hit that come…

This month is dropping network cable to the home offices and then adding recessed lighting in the living room, pantry, and coat closet. Next month prep starts for finding dev work …

I’ll switch to Wayland as soon as I can use xscreensaver with it, preferably as the screen locker.

> "The environment that people live in needs to be one that promotes health, not weight gain. […] Obesity is not a GLP-1 deficiency," he says. This is my biggest issue with weight …

Maybe for city truck drivers. For those that don't drive in town, noting beats gas or diesel. Companies need to build a stepping stone truck. Dino-powered generator on an electric …

The secret is to only move up and down when trying to dock.

I rented the vast majority of NES games I played back in the day, getting a manual was uncommon, sometimes they came with a xeroxed copy. For me, half the fun was trying to figure …

Ellison wants WBD for the TV networks, including CNN. I don’t think they want the film division but the vast number of cable channels that Discovery owns. Giving them a rather larg…

If you think the stories in 90's movies are good, you need spend some time with classic era movies (pre-1970). When you have to let the writing carry the story, the movie works muc…

Get your magnesium level checked. Those that suffer from chronic migraines often are deficient in magnesium and will see a significant reduction in events after 4-6 weeks on a dail…