These little planting cubes are sitting on my garage workbench patiently waiting on spring. I love when hoodie weather arrives but to be honest I get my fill of it well before winter ends.
Bonus shot for plant day 😉
I have the house to myself for awhile this morning. As is customary I have the HomePods on max volume blasting songs like Worlds Apart 🎶
If is Feb 6th and 28F this morning. It’s going to be another 4 months before I can look up and see these beautiful plants again. February is generally our most difficult winter month. Fortunately we dodged the recent sleet storm. 🌱 📷
Try if you want, but you can’t hide from these eyes
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The Heisenberg Limit has long been one of my favorites learnings from quantum physics. I always get a “catch me if you can” image when Ithink about it.
Yes, I’m weird.
Spots on my windshield as the cold front moved through. This morning they’re from light sprinkles. Tomorrow they’ll likely be from snow and sleet. The kids will be super excited if so. 📷
All these discounts on Apple’s 16” MBP are soooo tempting. Must. Resist.
A couple of accomplishments today
✅ I am officially a licensed amateur radio operator. I passed the Technician exam last week and the FCC issued the license today. Now studying for the next level exam to upgrade to a General license.
✅ I successfully assembed the elliptical machine my wife ordered. No blood and no expletives 😉
Ripples & reflections 📷
Happy Universal Palindrome day!
On the downside it is the last one I’ll live to see 🤷🏻♂️
The gift of sight
The minute I walked into the kitchen after getting up duo morning this pair was looking at me. Apparently they wanted to be part of today’s photo challenge. It looks staged but instead is some sort of weird coincidence.
N.B. Son’s and wife’s glasses
Were posts for the photo challenge supposed to flow to Discover?
Push down and turn to … Open
What is the proper / best way to post something to my micro.blog hosted site while avoiding having it show up on the timeline?
Is there a Drafts automation for this?
The most oft rebooted device in our house you ask? Our Android powered TV.
I like the convenience of having the apps running on the TV but our AppleTV is >>> more stable.
Checking into the hospital for my exam.
Oh, no, not that kind! My amateur radio license exam 😉
Swirls
We have heavy fog this morning. Driving is a bit dangerous but so far everyone is being sensible.
In October a tornado went through my childhood area. The elementary, middle and high school were damaged and are closed. Last week I drove down. What had been my parents’ home had some major damage but is being renovated by the current owners. Some neighboring homes destroyed.📷
Now that I know I can subscribe to YouTube channels in Feedbin I love that app even more. I can even watch the videos without leaving the app.
This is so much cleaner and easier to keep track of plus I don’t have to see YouTube’s crappy recommendations.
Our daughter, our eldest, is a sophomore. Apparently it is the season now for her to be deluged with postal mail from colleges and universities all over the country. Many of which I’ve never heard of. 🏫
If you’re interested in music you might want to tell your voice assistant to “Play KXT radio”
We’re very lucky here to have a no-commercial, music-focused public radio station that is member supported. It focuses on a mix of acoustic, alt-country, indie rock, alternative and world music with a solid mix of local musicians and groups. I’ve been listening to it for years and was thinking it might suit the taste of other people on here since they have a worldwide streaming presence.
KXT streams from their web site and apps but the easiest way to check it out is to tell your able voice assistant Play KXT radio.
KXT calls itself “The Republic of Music”, the community of listeners, members, artists and other supporters who make KXT and the North Texas music scene special. In The Republic of Music, everyone is welcome, everyone is equal and everyone has a voice. It’s the non-physical place where we’re all about the music — where listeners, members, artists and more come together to make KXT possible.
Finally - Apple provides an ability to export Apple Card transactions (CSV format). Unfortunately only for a prior month.
The treadmill trots off into the sunset, hopefully, and an elliptical is seen on the horizon
The gals in the family convinced me to ditch our treadmill and to get an elliptical in its place. This is a bit of a logistical problem. The treadmill is upstairs and it is so wide it has to go down sideways. I don’t think my wife and I can handle that - one of us, the walls, or the treadmill would likely suffer injury. Places that take large exercise equipment as donations are quite limited. I’ve made an appointment with Salvation Army to take it way next week but they have right of refusal so it isn’t a done deal.
In the mean time the new elliptical shipped today so here’s hoping it arrives after the treadmill leaves. I decided to pay the delivery company to carry it upstairs. We’re not as young as we used to be! 🏃🏻
Raspberry Pi 4 can’t walk and chew gum at the same time (WiFi vs Bluetooth)
Welp I thought I was done posting about the Raspberry Pi 4 but I have to add one more thing.
I noticed my Bluetooth keyboards tended to be wonky - trouble staying connected and/or repeating keys. So today I borrowed a different keyboard to try and the same thing happens. After doing some research at the Foundation’s site it turns out there are a lot of reports of this. The RPi 4 has trouble with Bluetooth keyboards when used simultaneously with WiFi. Since June of last year. Because, you know, nobody uses those two things together.
Solution: Don’t do that.
Either use a USB keyboard or only use Ethernet. Or you can pay up for a RF keyboard with proprietary dongle.
It’s aggravating but I consider this defect more an annoyance than the throttling. Though it does further undermine the ‘desktop alternative’ claims.
Oh, in other news I built a small circuit that will turn the fan on when the CPU heats up. It’s amazing how annoying even a tiny fan can me in a quiet space.