I’m getting back on the web after being away. Writing about audio, blogging, and other stuff.
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For some folks, namely me, getting away is not a natural ability. It takes effort. I see now that the trip we took recently was way, way overdue. I was basically paralyzed to even plan the trip beyond a rough…
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Sailor Boy Pilot Bread
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…
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Gazelle T8 tent vs. Badlands thunderstorm
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,…
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The allure of hard tack – making a durable, edible travel biscuit
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…
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Nice cheap notebooks
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…
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On Learning Python with Coursera
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,…
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Soundcloud vs Bandcamp
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…
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