Month: February 2018
Success smells like burning hair? Sticking it to big butane.
OK, we’ve all been there. We’ve bought one of those little butane torches (perhaps for creme brulee, perhaps for heat-shrink tubing). And then we’ve discovered price discrimination. You see, it costs $7 for 150g of ‘lighter refill butane’ but a 3-pack of 227g containers of ‘stove propane’ is $10. Wait a minute, about 3x as…
From the ‘shut up and take my money’ category: true security for voice
OK this was brought to my attention by a friend. I won’t mention his name, his love of swiss-chalet sauce and avocado, or the large south-american country from which he hails. But he was certainly in the process of backing this kickstarter. When I was a kid, one of the best (in syndication) shows was…
Once upon a time, a story of how a few believable facts can augment a total lie
of cadillacs and beach coins and gullible childhood
Falcon Heavy launch: what we saw
OK, there are tons of better videos on line. But if you want to see what i saw for the Falcon Heavy Launch… I’ll post the link to the 4K version (and then a down-scaled to HD one below inline). Here is the video in 4K. And below is in HD (go full screen and…
Roaming mobile data usage during high congestion
OK so I spent a day watching a rocket launch this week. And I took a lot of pictures on a mobile device. And I was roaming. So, am I going to be bankrupt? What will happen? First, how well did it work. In short, not very. Although I had full signal strength on LTE+,…