Cursive Ugly Organ poster
Recent thoughts to self:
A snazzy-yet-sinister-looking poster for my new office, from a band I continue to love? Gimme! [purchased]
Continue readingPodcasts, Lately
My podcast rotation has expanded a bit lately. Here are the ones I’ve found particularly enjoyable:
Continue readingTen years ago, SpaceShipOne proved commercial spaceflight could be a reality
Continue 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 …
St. Augustine Supercharger | Tesla Motors
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 readingPersonal projects and self-hosted tools
A 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 readingbeagleboard-xM Wifi Router
For 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 readingNational parks will soon ban most drone flights
The 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 readingDonated to somafm (internet radio station)
Today 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.
Continue readingCuriosity on Sol 540
2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths About Foreign Aid - Gates Foundation
Learn how foreign aid reduces overpopulation, dependency on aid for impoverished countries, and makes a sustainable future for our planet.
This letter is a great read. It invigorates my optimism. “In just 25 years, new cases of polio were reduced from 350,000 annually, to less than 400 in 2013.” Simply, wow.
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