Category: BLOG

Four Steps Forward Yesterday was supposed to be the end of a long battle with hardware. I had used the tools at hand to modify the case to hold the motherboard correctly. All that remained was to plug it in. Yeah, not so much. Access to the lower basement is via bulkhead doors. In case…

At the speed of light? The State of New York files a suit to stop DOGE from doing its job at 2100 on a Friday night. By 0100 Saturday, a judge has issued a TRO stopping the President from performing his duties as defined by the Constitution. The DoJ files suit in New York to…

Snow Blowers I’ve moved away from having any 2-Stroke gas-oil mixtures in gas cans. I don’t use enough of it. I purchase it in one gallon tins. This means there is never a question as to the right gas can to use to feed a motor. We have a few gas cans around. Unfortunately, the…

Banana Pi, Stay Away The board I purchased was a BPI-M2U or M2 Ultra. Nice little Pi-3 or pi-4 clone. It has BT, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, 2 USB ports, onboard eMMC flash, microSD, SATA, audio, two power modes, serial header, HDMI (full size). Just a nice little board. After a week, I finally managed to get…

SCOTUS watch There are two important Second Amendment cases being discussed by the Supreme Court today. Snope and Ocean State Tactical The questions presented are assault weapon bans and large capacity magazine bans. Both made up terms. This is not the limit of what the opinion might cover. This evening I’ll be checking for miscellaneous…

Returning to Normal I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and new year. Here, we are slowly returning to normal. Once child has returned to school and the other is scheduled to head back on Sunday. We haven’t gotten the tree down and put away, but it is on to-do list. Almost all the junk…

Happy New Years Welcome to 2025. This is the time of year when I used to write the wrong year on my checks. I’ve not written a check by hand in over 5 years. That’s what computers are for. And we are getting older. It used to be that we would sit around the TV…

SCOTUS We currently have one case scheduled for the January 10th conference. The other two cases have not been rescheduled yet. I do not know what we will see in the court filings before the 10th. What does it mean to be conferenced? When a party petitions the Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari,…

Continuing Resolution DOGE has its first confirmed kill! The continuing resolution is the legal device that the government has been using to avoid passing a budget. It has been nearly 30 years since Congress completed all its appropriation bills before the start of the new fiscal year. The last time a budget was passed was…