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I just had an interesting journey getting help with a failed Quad Lock product.

Years ago, when our kids were much younger, we subscribed to monthly “Tinker Crate”s from KiwiCo.

Here are my recommendations for how I believe people should vote on the nine initiative petitions that Massachusetts residents are voting on this year.

On Friday, I received a call from 351-300-0683 which my phone identified as suspected spam.

Bottom line up front: Feds at polling places are considered observers, and if they don’t follow the rules observers are required to follow they can be removed or arrested if they refuse to leave.

I recently visited Trustees of Reservations property Lowell Holly in Mashpee and Sandwich, MA, on Cape Cod.

I recently visited Trustees of Reservations Doyle Community Park in Leominster, MA, https://thetrustees.org/place/doyle-community-park/.

On July 11, I visited the Trustees of Reservations property Charles River Peninsula in Needham, MA.

I appreciate that The Trustees of Reservations exists, and I appreciate the work they do to safeguard nature and historic sites throughout Massachusetts.

A few days ago, I asked the fediverse if anyone knew of a tool I could use to publish an article on my blog and publish the same article as a thread on Mastodon.

Thunderbird is an extremely configurable email client.

In December 2025, when my uncle was being discharged from rehab, the rehab facility sent AdaptHealth a prescription for a commode to be delivered to my uncle’s apartment, because they felt using a commode would be safer for my uncle than using the toilet.

Here are my endorsements and commentary about the Boston, MA Democratic primary election on September 1, 2026.

To illustrate how well AI is going, here’s a prime example of the confidently wrong phenomenon, a.k.a. mansplaining as a service… I asked free Microsoft Copilot Chat: if I rename a shared file in Google Drive, does the name change for just me or everyone?