Fortunes from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai joint, from a takeout order on December 5, 2025.

I built a full wave bridge rectifier. I attached it to a doorbell transformer and an oscilloscope to see what the resulting waveform looks like.

A Canticle for Leibowitz is just a great book, one of a kind.

When working with Linux (BSD or Unix, or even MacOS) command line programs, you often work with file names.

We did peppernuts before Christmas this year. We did a 6-cup-of-flour full recipe.

2024 haul, 2023 haul, 2022 and 2021 hauls

I read yet another paper about the Ordovician period:

The Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration by Thomas Servais and David A.T. Harper, Lethaia, vol 51, pp 151-164

There is a PDF of it.

I’ve read Men, Martians and Machines, and another Ace Double with Six Worlds Yonder and The Space Willies. many times since I was a child. The unifying theme here is: written by English sci fi humorist Eric Frank Russell.

At 2025-11-15T15:38:20Z, I submitted my Goofing on Meta blog post to the Hacker News link aggregation website. Shortly after that, at 2025-11-15T18:22:00Z, short blurb tech news website slashdot.org put an article about the same blog past in the Technology News section.

Since I run my own web server, I can see how the two sites’ users compare.

I put an oscilloscope on a doorbell transformer to see what the output waveform looks like.

I set up two Raspberry Pi SBCs with GPS boards as NTP servers earlier this year. I used an oscilloscope to see how far apart the “pulse per second” (PPS) pulses that the GPS boards output.