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