Dilettante

I have two condensers: one is nice and quiet and the other is insanely loud.

In July 2002, I purchased an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 with an RF remote, a TV tuner, and analog audio/video inputs.

The built-in backup camera in a Grand Highlander shows the ground pretty well but doesn’t show things up higher.

I have a pair of GoldenEar Triton 2 tower speakers that are truly awesome.

I moved into a house that has two sump pumps dating back to about 2017 from Mid-Atlantic Waterproofing, a company that is no longer operating.

I just upgraded a machine to Ubuntu 25.10 and started seeing the following error messages from sudo (which is now infamously using sudo-rs implemented in rust) $ sudo ls /etc/sudoers.d/jellyfin-sudoers:23:30: unknown setting: 'requiretty'Defaults!

I bought a 2021 EGO electric lawnmower on Craigslist 7 months ago.

I had a lot of fun installing an industrial outdoor pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera on my roof in Seattle.

I love my System76 Lemur Pro laptop and use it a lot.

Autunite is a beautiful and rare uranium mineral that’s common in Spokane, WA.

There’s a dog park under the I-5 interstate in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood.

I wanted to try out a camper van for a vacation to see what it was like to van life it.

This is a legacy post, written originally in 2005.

There are some really nice art tiles at the Lynn Street Mini Park in Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle.

Seeing radiation with your own eyes is incredible.

Being a nuclear engineer, I thought it’d be fun to find some Uranium in the wild just out there in the nature, sitting somewhat dormant since it was made by neutron star mergers and giant supernova billions of years ago.

I don’t like the concept of decorative combustion that much, but I do have two tiki torches in my yard.

I have a Logitech Gamepad F310 USB controller, a computer, and a Amcrest Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) camera that supports the ONVIF standard.

A family member upgraded his stereo and offered me his Peachtree Audio Decco as a hand-me-down.

The Tonga eruption on January 14, 2022 sent a big shock wave out in all direction in the atmosphere.