Month: February 2018

  • Feel the heat: 3hr to go!

    Feel the heat: 3hr to go!

    20 hours of driving. 7 hours of charging the car. many waffle houses. roadkill/jerky. one reboot of a tesla.  windshwind wiper software in beta. one trip down the runway of  the shuttles landing strip. and here we are. 3hr to go to the kaboom

  • Laser pointer no longer best method to entertain a cat?

    Up until now it has been believed by many that the laser-pointer and the cat are a marriage made in heaven. The ‘click’ of the button makes a tiny sound, imperceptible to human ears, and your normally lazy feline makes a beeline for it. I’ve been working on upgrading one of the gadget army, and…

  • Radon update: my basement is (currently) safe from this scourge

    Radon update: my basement is (currently) safe from this scourge

    So an update on the earlier radon gadget. I received the BLE sniffer widget, but, wow, its a bit complex to use. Keeping an eye on the basement Radon, and you can see, it fluctuates quite a bit. We are well under the ‘safety’ limit (which there is some discussion on, some being of the…