Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Is it a travel talk, or a math talk?

 Well this is cool. Figuring out the best route, then visiting the streets named after every day of the year throughout Europe. (Fair warning, it's a 'lightning talk' so the guy talks fast.)



Friday, February 23, 2024

Fiber Internet connection. ???

For the past couple days they've been stringing fiber along my street.

I'm wondering if I should look into signing up for it.


Monday, February 19, 2024

My midwinter Florida adventure



I began today to get serious about planning for my (mostly) annual midwinter escape to Florida.

I have two missions while there.

First is I have a "day job" assignment in Orlando. I'll be doing that first after arriving in Florida.

After the work is done I'll move on to a visit with my podcast partner Jeb.

And who knows what other adventures may happen before, during, and after.

More on the progress of this adventure in this blog. Subscribe.

Friday, February 16, 2024

MIT's Missing Semester online course


I came across this very useful MIT open learning course.

Over the years I've absorbed enough unix/linux ability to be able to stumble around in the accounts I use. Mostly for web development.

It appears that many MIT curricula put students into a similar situation. And this course is to fill in the gaps in their (my!) skills at using the OS from the command line.

Shell scripting. Useful commands that I'd never heard of. A great illustration of using piping and redirection to splice commands together. Also a great overview of using the version control system 'git' from the command line.

I'm only halfway through, and I've already learned a bunch of things that I'll use all the time.

The Missing Semester.


Monday, January 29, 2024

Monday Message - Jan 29, 2024

 Monday Message

January 29, 2024

Amtrak Downeaster

Hi!

I'm pretty sure no one noticed, but I missed last week's message here. I hope to not miss it very often.

My goal is to spend 2024 focussing on building my work in creating, and my audience for, content about things other than General Aviation.

I'm sure most of you know my work on the Uncontrolled Airspace Podcast -- with Jeb Burnside and Dave Higdon. And I'll continue to be involved with that. But I want to concentrate more this year on creating other media things, about other subjects that interest me.

For the first few months I'll be experimenting. Dabbling in too many subject areas and media forms. But eventually I hope to discover the intersection of, what I'm most interested in, and what you all want to see.

My work with the UCAP podcast has been almost exclusively audio, but in this new work I'm very interested in the visual arts.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Monday Message - Jan 15, 2024

 Good Monday Message

January 15, 2024

Thrill Ride

Last week I reported that we finally got some snow (8.5 inches!) up here in Seacoast New Hampshire.

Well, two days later, the temperature rose to 50 degrees F, and it rained for the better part of 24 hours. Almost all the snow was melted and washed away.

And now, this morning's low temp was 20F! And the forecast is for it to stay below freezing 24/7 for the next week.

We've moved, from the unseasonably warm of December, onto a weather roller-coaster.

Monday, January 8, 2024

Monday Message - Jan 8 2024

 Monday Message

Monday, January 8, 2024 -- Good morning.

The big news up here in Seacoast New Hampshire is that it's finally snowed.

This winter had shaped up so far for its historically low snowfall totals. Specifically, NO SNOW yet.

But this past Saturday night and through the day Sunday we got 8 1/2 inches of white fluffy. This is more like it.

Although the current forecast is for 2 inches of RAIN on Wednesday. So... it's the new normal.

We posted a new episode of UCAP, #1083 (lgy 722) with guest co-host Drew "172Drew" Poley. Jeb and I talked with Drew about Jeb's new avionics and Drew's new airplane, among other things.

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