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That worked out nicely
A number of years ago I started this blog and bought the domain meanwhileinthefuture.com. Sadly, I was unable to meaningfully get started with it, and eventually let the domain go. Some time later, I thought about blogging (again) and found that the domain had been bought by some chap who seemed to be using it…
The No Ideas blog post
I didn’t have a blog idea this week. I thought a little bit of following up on last week, but I don’t really have much new to say on the subject. I was leafing through my notebook, a bit of a “Commonplace Book” but a little more journal-like, and found a note about reading David…
Designing stuff is hard.
I’m really good at following directions. Give me a recipe, or building plans, or even just a good hard look at something along with it’s dimensions and I can probably build it (within my skill set, naturally). But designing something from scratch is hard. Going from a rough sketch to actual measurements and assembly methods…
No hot glue? No, hot glue!
I had an idea for a 3D printing project. Of course, being an old-school kind of guy, almost any idea starts out as a sketch (maybe digital, maybe not), but prototypes are probably not going to be digital. Regardless of the medium, a proof of concept can be mocked-up with card stock or cardboard. Now,…
From the archives
I like to thumb through old notepads and scraps that I’ve saved with doodles and drawings. Sometimes, when a drawing hits in a certain way, I copy it into my drawing app (Krita) and recreate it digitally. I don’t have a process to save or recall these doodles, but I find it meditative to thumb…
Down the rabbit hole
Everything went out the window when the SD card arrived. You see, I have a Raspberry Pi server that, among other things, serves up my “personal cloud.” Unfortunately, the SD card that it boots from failed and I had no replacement. I had to steal the one in my 3D printer. Server up and running,…
How do I cram cards into my phone?
A few weeks ago I wrote about the return of 3×5 cards. I’ve seen them trending for the past few years, but using cards to keep notes has been something I’ve dabbled in since I was at least in middle school. I was always fascinated by them. Or perhaps by their potential. Cards are versatile,…
Return of the index cards
This is just a quick post so that I attain my “post every week” goal. I must stop sleeping through my alarms. I was listening to a youtuber enthuse about the utility of index cards in maintaining one’s forward momentum with ongoing (or new) projects. Of course, someone in the comments said that this was…
I went grocery shopping this past Wednesday
My wife and I love each other very much. We also don’t celebrate Valentine’s day, mostly because we agree that it is a shameless money-grab that guilts people into performative “romance.” She finds it very irksome. We went grocery shopping on Wednesday night, quite on impulse because we were already out and needed to “pick…