brainwagon

I’ve found that there are three basic strategies that have helped me in the past. They are probably not comprehensive, or even the best, but they are pretty simple to remember, and cover more situations than you might think. I categorize them as Plan, Act, and Ignore. Perhaps the most productive and generally the best […]

So, in an effort to get back to blogging about things that may not matter in the grand scheme of things, but which provide some measure of joy to me, I present something that I have not blogged about, but which might be of interest to others: my astrophotography tinking using a nifty gadget: the […]

Or does it? It’s not like gravity attracting bodies together. It’s not a force of nature. It’s something that we all have to work toward together, because the moral universe is something we can only create collectively. Prosperity does not come at the expense of others. Freedom does not come when we deny it to […]

When I was a young, one of the things that frequently had was pickled salmon. Sadly, it was also a recipe that I never bothered to learn, and which my sister and I had thought was lost to time in forgetfulness when she found this recipe hand written in one of her inherited canning books. […]

Annoying: the videos which I inserted in here late last night seemed to not be working this morning. Granted it was late and my COVID soaked brain may not be working at full efficiency and I haven’t done this in a while but… I’ll get it sorted out later today. It’s been sometime since I […]

I wonder if i trained a large language model on the contents of this blog and used it to generate new posts, whether it would generate interesting enough stuff to at least shame me into creating new posts? This would require that I actually learn something about this topic at least. Although it probably would […]

It was twenty years ago today that I first posted something to my brainwagon blog. While I have sort of fallen out of the habit of posting to this site, it still remains as an testament to my inability to concentrate on a single topic for more than a couple of days. I keep thinking […]

Hey gang, I know it’s been quite some time (since last May apparently) since I posted anything new on the blog. It is not that I haven’t been doing projects. The continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic generally means that I’ve had a lot of extra time, and have been tinkering with a bunch of different […]

Sigh. The new version of WordPress is doing stupid things with images. I’ll fix them later. Okay, so roughly a month ago, I said that I was interested in rebooting this blog, and then once again I lapsed into silence. It’s tough to make something a new habit, even if it is something that you […]

Okay all, it’s been a while. If anyone is reading this, then welcome back to the brainwagon blog. I’ve been blogging off and on for about fifteen years, but in the last year have found that it’s basically been hard to do anything meaningful here. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the unfortunate illness and passing […]

A couple of years ago, I decided to try to get into the entire 3D printing “revolution”. I liked the idea of being able to do some actual design of custom parts, and then be able to render them in plastic. I first bought an Anet A8 kit, and then later a Creality CR-10 which […]

Part of my recent interest (obsession) with getting my shop equipped for wood working is that I want to return to an activity that I used to do a lot more of: telescope making. In particular, my six and eight inch Dobsonian telescopes that have been relegated to the garage, collecting dust could use some […]

You would think that with the shelter-in-place orders that we are all under, that I would have had a lot of time and energy to get back to blogging again. I mean for the last eight weeks, I’ve been having to find ways to entertain myself, and in the past blogging has been part of […]

So, I’ve had a minimal AREDN network running at my house for the past few week or so, and it is working well. To recap where I stand today, I have three different pieces of RF hardware: a Mikrotik hAP ac lite, which looks like a small router or network switch. This is widely described […]

So, I have a spare computer out in my shop which I have used to host various small bits of networking. Previously I used it to host reports from my solar powered WSPR beacon. I thought it might be nice to make it available on the AREDN network as well. This machine uses “conceptron” as […]