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1: Replace PSU in network storage, send email stating power restored. Email replies from other staff recommend shutting it down because of velociraptors. 2: Unix admin responds with “This is a UNIX system, I know this!” 3: Spend all of…
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Small update: Racked the big apple/pear back into (sterile) mulling spice mix. Started another with a little pomegranate juice, and some blackberry extract. Should be interesting. And thus exhausts my initial cidermaking supply. I’ll need to grab more juice. One…
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Had to chunk the smaller batch of apple-pear cider due to nasty floaties. I’d backsweetened it in secondary with a sugar/mulling spice mix, but I used one that was already open and just dumped it in instead of boiling it…
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Got the replacement screen in for my phone, swapped it out, looks fantastic. Disassembling an HTC One S is a pain, though. I’ll be snagging a case and screen protector after payday, had enough with the cracked screens. After that,…
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Things have been a little quiet lately, Texas Renaissance Festival opening was this past weekend, my grandmother passed away last week and her funeral was Tuesday, and haven’t really had time to work on stuff. Added another project I want…
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Alright, so I started a gallon of cider brewing a few weeks back, and pretty much butchered the process. I bought a bottle of unfiltered cider from Whole Foods, a vaporlock and tube of cider yeast from DeFalco’s, and jumped…
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Oh, this looks like it could be fun. I need to find a secondhand set of glasses and do something with the Beagleboard. It’s a little limited on the USB side, require a powered hub though, hm. This is pretty…
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And so begins the work on my TNC interface. I’m starting with desoldering a couple of transformers I need from some old dialup modems we had in the garage. See? Nothin’ to it. I would have had a fabulous timelapse…
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Nothing wakes you up at 5am quite like something in your bedroom bursting into flames. Fortunately, it was only the pedestal fan, which was quickly put outside in the garage. Didn’t get around to pulling parts for the TNC interface…
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This webspace is going to primarily be a host for publishing various projects I’m working on. First up will likely be a simple soundcard-based TNC interface for amateur packet radio. Might be picture-oriented, might be video, who knows? My soldering…
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