In what is apparently now a series, here’s another “Towerspotting” post. This time I traveled to Mt. Uncanoonuc in Goffstown, NH. (Months ago, actually.) There are actually two Uncanoonucs, South Uncanoonuc and North Uncanoonuc. South Uncanoonuc, actually the shorter of … Continue reading
I am crazy about this salsa; found this recipe I’ll have to try: https://www.culinaryhill.com/roasted-chili-corn-salsa-chipotle-copycat/
I’ve been thinking for a while about trying to do a lot of short posts here with links to things I happen across that are interesting. Let’s see how long I can keep this up. While in Portland earlier this … Continue reading
Because I’m always looking for an excuse to buy a new radio, I’ve been looking at the various VHF-and-up digital modes in use on the ham band. There are a multitude of them in use. Going by New England Repeater … Continue reading
Being a radio nerd who’s trying to spend more time outdoors, I’ve figured out a good way to kill two birds with one stone: hiking up hills with radio towers on them. Since the towers tend to be atop hills … Continue reading
Pepper spray has been legal in Massachusetts without any sort of permit required for a few years now. It’s also known as OC spray, from the extracted oleoresin capsicum, being an oleoresin formed from capsicum, the ingredient that makes hot … Continue reading
I’ve just completed a server move, and the site should be back in business. The old setup was a beefy server in my basement with 24GB RAM and eight cores. But access was via a jenky IPv6 connection over my … Continue reading
Trying to play around with sharing various embedded content, not just writing long rambling posts. Here’s a song I’m really digging, even if that’s not the type of content I intend to post:
Most normal people will probably never even know this is a thing, but Chrome (and other browsers, really) keeps its own in-memory DNS cache, separate from what the OS keeps. For normal use, this is undoubtedly an improvement. But every … Continue reading
I hate not knowing things. The latest? What exactly constitutes a millennial? And what’s all that Gen X/Y business? It turns out that there’s actually not broad consensus on exactly what the date are, but they look something like this: … Continue reading