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Mortality
I have cancer.
Stage 3, possibly stage 4. I had the MRI to determine that this morning.
Continue reading “Mortality”Darn Tough Socks Review
I tend to destroy socks. I’m a large man that doesn’t mind walking and generally gets around with transit and bike. So I’ve got piles of socks that could be darned, but would only wear holes in them again after a month or two.
I’ve been listening to Caleb Musgrave’s Canadian Bushcraft Podcast, and one of the things he talks about is the importance of quality clothing, especially footwear. He recommends two companies that make merino-based socks, that are expensive, but also have guarantees so if you wear a hole in them, send them back: Darn Tough Vermont and Smart Wool.
Continue reading “Darn Tough Socks Review”Library
In an effort to keep a list of the books I read and recommend, here we are…
This will be in a general reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent first. Some are from the library, some are in my personal library. My wonderful Mom has given me several over the years as we both learn the things we were never taught.
Podcast List
I’ve been into podcasts for a _very_ long time, and regularly get asked for my recommendations. So rather than try and recreate this list for everyone who asks, I’ll just point them here! This list is in alphabetical order, and some of the entries aren’t current anymore. Some are dead but you can still get past episodes.
Continue reading “Podcast List”2019 Holiday 2020 New Years Cheer!
With the dawning of this New Christian Year 2020 as marked by the recent Gregorian/Italian New Year, as well as the various Holidays that have passed/are still happening/are coming soon, I hope you all are doing fantastic! Much joy and cheer to you!
Nothing much of an update really, things are plugging along at 4Crows and MakerCave, the steps on some days are bigger than others, but most days lately have been forward!
I’m trying out some jewellery on the 3D Printers today, just to see how it turns out and stuff like that. One is a Cosplay toy, which is also kinda fun. Pictures when they’re done added.
Thinking about land
I’ve been doing a lot of learning lately.
I think it started in earnest with Red Man Laughing. Which is rather sad really, since I’ve been surrounded by non-white voices since university. But Ryan’s show is the first one I can remember sitting with me, the stories. And how much similarity there was in some of the shittier aspects. How much colonization had just completely fucked everything up for, well, everyone.
Continue reading “Thinking about land”B4TR
<Scriven> The first one I noticed was beautiful and competent.
<Scriven> of course we didn’t know it was an android, not at first.
<Scriven> when they passed the testing phase, the DMV phased out all the humans, so the androids just dealt with everyone, one per location.
<Scriven> lines stayed the same length, it was just more efficient for each of the thousands of daily transactions.
<Scriven> Soon businesses cropped up serving the people who are standing in line. over-head drone delivery of smart-phone ordered food from vendors that hover around the perimeter.
<Scriven> then came the ‘holding the place in line while you use the bathroom’ people… and the adult incontinence device sellers.
<Scriven> garbage collection.
<Scriven> A collection was taken up one day, and one section got a tarp installed.
<Scriven> They were angry when the other people didn’t let them take it with them when the line moved slightly, but the security guards pulled out the rowdy ones and put them at the back of the line… that shut up the rest… no one wanted to be reset.
<Scriven> That set up the precedent that installations stayed where installed… umbrella sales skyrocketed.
<Scriven> Eventually people started to wonder why, if the dmv was so efficient, did the line not move faster…
<Scriven> shouldn’t they be shuffling along at a slow but regular pace? Not camping out?
<Scriven> That was when the rumour started… the dmv had started a pay-to-the-front line…
<Scriven> “Before The Riots”.
Nerf Hacking Notes
My kids asked me, yet again, to fix busted Nerf darts. There’s a few sitting here beside me waiting for cyanoacrylate as I type this in fact. One or two have a plastic tip that is starting to separate, another has double splits down it’s shaft. This would be less of a big deal if we had more, but looking at the stores just walking around and Nerf replacements aren’t cheap!
This led me online and down the rabbit hole of DIY foam ammo, gun mods (dart post / air restrictor removals) and inevitably looking at DIY guns (which are very similar to the water guns). I collected the kid’s 3 Nerf guns, and started researching their hackability, to see if I could get the owner’s permission to upgrade their gun.
[Pictures coming soon, will edit the post and add them when I post them]
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RePhone, SIM testing and more keyboard hacking
This is a follow up on my previous RePhone Keyboard post.
My sim-card cutter arrived, so I chopped my pay-as-you-go sim card and got the phone activated. That process went remarkably smoothly, simply following the instructions provided with the card. I’m using a 711 Speakout card currently, but bought it before their new nano cards were released.
The phone itself as it is is very basic, but does that job just fine. The microphone seems to pick up sound ok, but the audio out seems very quiet by default even at full volume. After confirming the initial phone setup worked, I loaded my first version of the keyboard hack code onto the phone and sadly confirmed that my code didn’t work. 🙁
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RePhone Keyboard Hack.
So, I posted before about the RePhone stuff I’ve been playing with but here I’ll talk about one specific deficiency and the fix I’ve programmed and released to the wild.
The RePhone Kit Create software (source code on github) provides a very basic cellphone and Xadow module interface. By default, it provides the following interfaces: