Even in a northerly place like Minnesota, our existing panels provide a decent bit of electricity. However, they were put in when this house was not fully occupied, and because of rules – that you can only put up 120% of your current use worth of generation capability, the array size was too small to […]
Of the many natural disasters that can befall our fields, two plagues in particular trouble the lands here. The first is my dad, armed with a riding mower. The second is my dad, armed with a backpack sprayer of herbicide. If a plant is not currently laden with flowers or fruits, it is ‘a weed’
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I put a handful of improvements into my early imperial legionnaires kit this year: a pilum (a javelin), some nice hand-knit socks a friend made for me, and a stab at some camping gear with a furca (a thing somewhere between a hiking pole and a backpack) in which of I have put a water
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Traveling with a bike is, in theory, one of the best ways to travel. Unlike bikepacking – where you carry all your stuff on your bike, here you just take your bike as part of your luggage and then go on rides like you would back home. Bikes offer most of the close-in scenery opportunity
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If you are part of that privileged group who has the money and need for a second computer, building your own computer is really the way to go. Everyone’s first computer these days should probably be a laptop, or maybe a tablet. Well maybe not these days because with COVID no one is going anywhere,
I think there is a market out there for a tool which really helps people travel for fun, wisely. Starting from city X, these destinations Y1 and Y2 are unusually cheap (with filters to remove bad weather, crazy long flights, etc.) Starting from city X, these destinations Z1 and Z2 are the best value for
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I had a nasty crash on a TT bike a few years ago. I made the mistake of saying ‘on your left!’ to two neewbies on city bikes while I was going fast down a hill. I gave them far too much warning, plenty of time for one to swing left, one to swing right
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Choosing a place to travel for a week or two is not usually a big challenge. With tens of thousands of awesome places to go to, it is likely that many will be equally satisfying, give or take whatever fate may throw at you. I won’t say it is easy to choose, but rather that
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You shall soon all be able to see 12 mb photos on this blog! Yes, I finally decided I was sick of 2 mb photo uploads, and upped the level. It was slightly complicated, which is why I haven’t done it before. I am posting the details for future reference.
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Having a server at home or even at an office is so old school. All the cool kids host their servers in the clouds somewhere. Even this blog is hosted in the cloud, or rather an ocean, Digital Ocean. Of course, quite a lot of the ‘cloud, cloud, cloud!’ hosting chants come from people with
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