A month ago, Amazon and Sling TV had a deal for $50 off an Amazon Fire TV box if you paid for 3 months of Sling in advance (the promo is still running). Since I was curious about Amazon’s box and Sling as well, I went for it. Luckily, Amazon was offering an extra $15 off the Fire TV box at the time, so I ended up paying only $35 for the box.
Continue readingRecent thoughts to self:
A snazzy-yet-sinister-looking poster for my new office, from a band I continue to love? Gimme! [purchased]
Continue readingMy podcast rotation has expanded a bit lately. Here are the ones I’ve found particularly enjoyable:
Continue readingContinue readingBack in 2004, companies weren’t fighting over NASA contracts and nobody was selling tickets for suborbital space flights just yet. The commercial space industry was still in its early stages …
Woah, there’s a Tesla charging station in my city! Click the title of this post to see where it is. In a few years I hope to own one of their vehicles, so this is great news.
Continue readingA recent scroll through my blog posts got me thinking about the personal projects I’ve worked on in recent years. Last month I built my own wifi router over a three week period. It was invigorating. Similarly hardware-related, I came across a three-year-old blog post from when I built my current desktop PC. It still meets my needs quite nicely so I’ve no need to upgrade, which is a nice feeling. On the software side, a much older project is a web application I call Tracker. It’s something I use roughly 355 days a year.
Continue readingFor the past year I’ve been using a TP-Link WDR4300 wireless router. I tried installing OpenWrt on it but it became unusable so I reverted back to stock. Last month I decided to build my own wireless router out of the beagleboard-xM I bought three years ago.
Continue readingThe National Park Service tells the Associated Press that it’s about to order all 401 of its parks to ban unfettered use of drones on their grounds.
I kinda want a drone, or some sort of flying radio-controlled vehicle of my own, but nevertheless I’m quite happy about this.
Continue readingToday I gave money to support Soma FM. iTunes radio is starting to remind me of Pandora with it’s repetition (and ads!), so I figured I should support Soma FM and add them back to my rotation. They’re ad-free and they keep adding stations … kinda blows my mind.
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