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  • Sailor Boy Pilot Bread

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    As I mentioned in another post, I got a little obsessed with the idea of hard tack, and that led me to Sailor Boy Pilot Bread. This is a large dense cracker product beloved by the people of Alaska, and this is my review of it. Unobtainium These crackers are impossible to buy in Kentucky,…

  • Gazelle T8 tent vs. Badlands thunderstorm

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    We bought the T8 tent to take on a 2-week road trip out west. We’ve owned a T4 & a Clam which have worked well for us, and wanted something with the same features only bigger. Namely very fast setup, windows off the ground, and enough pockets. While the tent is nominally the same in…

  • The allure of hard tack – making a durable, edible travel biscuit

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    Between reading Aubrey/Maturin novels and watching Townsends videos on Youtube, I’ve developed a bit meme-lust for hard tack. Hard tack is flour and water and salt formed into cracker or cookie shapes and baked and dried until it is basically rock-hard, and is a very durable food source used as far back as humanity has…

  • This Youtube stuff is hard

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    I’ve been trying to dabble in making Youtube videos for a few years now. Making videos is something I’m having to learn and so far I’ve learned it’s harder and more time consuming than I’d thought it would be. But that’s ok. I’d watched a video on how to make a Youtube channel, and the…

  • Nice cheap notebooks

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    So a long while back I used to journal in the pocket size Moleskine notebooks – the ubiquitous black hardcover ones. They worked pretty well but I slowly moved up the sizes until I was using the Leuchtturm1917 master dots size. A great size with lots of space, but hard to carry anywhere, so I…

  • Mastodon making it fun again

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    So like a lot of folks, I’ve decided to move away from Twitter and over to Mastodon. While it feels a little empty from a big-media perspective, it also feels way more fun. Maybe it’s the lack of the audience-building vibe that seems to permeate everything on twitter. Mastodon has a fresher less follower-count focused…

  • A VHF/UHF handheld activity proposal

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    With as many folks out there who have HTs, surely there is some way to get them more engaged, make everyone a better operator, and build some community. Here’s an idea to do that – but it’s just the start really. I’ve put some details that need to be sorted out as questions. I’d like…

  • On Learning Python with Coursera

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    So my normal way of learning a new language or computer tool is pretty simple and probably the way most people do it: Dive in. There’s a problem that lead to that language, google to find & install the tools, and then google to solve the problem. Repeat until the solution is good enough. It…

  • Soundcloud vs Bandcamp

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    While it’s easy to find place to put written content on the web, audio content is less easy than just using a blogging site like WordPress. Podcasts have an entire ecosystem of hosting providers, aggregators, etc. But what about the other stuff like field recordings, ambiances, and other audio? Content that’s not exactly a podcast,…

  • Solving the Mutli-Channel Audio Detected error using MixPre with FiLMiC Pro

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    So you’ve got your Sound Devices MixPre recorder and you want to connect digitally to your iPhone to get some audio into FiLMiC Pro. You connected a USB-A cable between the phone and recorder (because if you use USB C your phone ends up powering the recorder, which sucks, and a USB-A cable allows your…