Category: Skills
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The Weekly Feast – Garlic Pull-Apart Bread
This stuff is crack. It’s worse than potato chips. You can’t just eat one. They’re so yummy that you won’t be able to help yourself. It can be made with margarine instead of butter and it turns out okay, but if you can digest dairy, use butter. Ingredients for the dough: 1/4 cup warm water…
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One Step Forward n Steps Back (geek)
I’ve known about “System On a Chip” and “System On a Board” for many years. I have one of the early embedded software development kits, including some TI chipset. The most common style of these today is likely the Arduino class of SoC. These things are incredible. An idea I pitched years ago, for potential…
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Prepping – Fitness
I’m writing this while I pant heavily, sitting in my chair at my desk. I’ve just finished cleaning bunny cages and exercising, and I’m dripping with sweat despite it being a mere 58*F in my room. I’m exhausted and aching. I am not fit. I’ve seen this topic touched on a few times in the…
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A Little Shake of Pepper (what is a nanosecond)
Correction(s): I made the mistake of trusting Google’s AI answer. Speed of light: Time Distance 1s 299,792,458m 0.001s(1ms) 299,792.458m 0.000001s(1us) 299.792m 0.000000001s(1ns) 0.2997m (299.7mm) 0.000000000001s(1ps) 0.0002997m (0.2997mm) Sorry for that. A pepper grain is the size of a picosecond. A nanosecond is around 11.7 inches, which makes much more sense. My mentor, Mike, had so…
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The Weekly Feast – Turmeric Meatballs
Meatballs are the ultimate feast food, in my opinion. There are as many ways to make them as there are cooks, and maybe more. This recipe was created based upon a video by Country Life Vlog in Azerbaijan, Turkey. While Aziza (the cook) doesn’t give you amounts or any real instructions, I pieced this together…
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Tick Tock, More Clock Stuff
There are two network time protocols in use today. One is the NTP protocol, the other is PTP. I have no idea what the PTP looks like, I know that it requires hardware support. The goal of NTP is to create a local clock that is accurate to less than 1ms from sources that have…
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Prepping – Disease
Mask mandates probably weren’t the best thing out there, but I’ve seen enough evidence to know that masks do help stop the transmission of many illnesses. Vaccine mandates probably aren’t the best thing out there, but a lot of long-standing vaccines are the reason we don’t have people in iron lungs anymore. Disease and illness…
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The Weekly Feast – Oyster Soup
“In all her life Laura had never tasted anything so good as that savory, fragrant, sea-tasting hot milk, with golden dots of melted cream and black specks of pepper on its top, and the little dark canned oysters at its bottom. She sipped slowly, slowly from her spoon, to keep that taste going over her…
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It’s Late, Nerd Babble/status
We are in the process of moving from the image above to the image below. At least in terms of what the infrastructure looks like. Today I decommissioned an EdgeRouter 4 which features a “fanless router with a four-core, 1 GHz MIPS64 processor, 3 1Gbit RJ45 ports, and 1G SFP port.” When they say “MIPS64”…
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Prepping – The Grey Man
We’ve used the term “grey man” a few times over the last couple of years. There’s been a bit of debate over what it is, how useful it is, and when to use it. I wanted to address a bit of that. For me at least, the “grey man” is the person who just blends…