Author: chris
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Gamifying Decrapifying: Week 2
Week 2 definitely upped the difficulty (here is Week 1 btw), but it seems as though it is pretty easy to find things that we can part with. My partner is very much getting into it. She mentioned that this was a good forcing function. There were things she was going to get rid of…
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Omniwheels on a Brompton GoRack
My commuter bike is a Brompton P-Line, which I’ve done various customizations on, and I’ve done a couple videos on this topic. This post is about upgrading the wheels on it, and why you should avoid OmniWheels. 😭 The #1 best Brompton upgrade I’ve done is the GoRack. One of my more popular videos is…
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Gamifying Decrapifying: Week 1
Like many people, I have fallen into the trap of having way way too much crap. And sometimes I don’t really have a good answer on how to get rid of said crap. Like… what do I do with old electronics and batteries? I also have a ‘man-closet’ full of tools and parts, and a…
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🪠Link Dump August 23rd 🪠
🥸Music & Communism🥸 Molly Nilsson has a new track from another album! I also looked up some old anti-communist propaganda which she used as lyrics for one of her recent songs: 100 things you should know about communism in the USA. There were terrible copies of this floating around, but someone found and uploaded a…
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💩 Link Dump July 26th, 2025 💩
Tech 🤖 I have recently migrated a number of services and projects to a docker-based setup and while in some ways its kind of cool, its also kind of a drag. The origin of the Apple command symbol is related to Swedish campgrounds. Ideas 🤔 While I haven’t read it, I found out about a…
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🎆Link Dump July 4th🎆
🦍Thick and Thin🦒 Nickels are too thin! You know what you need? Thicker nickels, or thnickels. This is a cool thin ‘pencil tower’ in New York. It has no load-bearing interior columns, relying on its ‘concrete exoskeleton’. 🧠Illusion of Thinking for Yourself🧠 I find Apple’s Illusion of Thinking paper refreshing and I enjoy the term…
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Fizz & Buster: Sketches
As part of my Fizz & Buster series, I made a bunch of sketches during the process. Some were created before and some after as I planned on continuing the project into potentially a larger adventure game. But it didn’t really get off the ground for various reasons. I wanted to flesh out Fizz’s world…
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Cycling in Arizona Heat
In my travels I have been close to hypothermia, and I’ve also been close to heat stroke. The difference between the two is that people seem to know more about preparing for the cold than the heat. In both situations I try to be aware of the dangers and be prepared. I generally commute by…
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Bulk La Croix: Carbonating your own sparkling water.
At one point, sparkling water was one of the most expensive and wasteful food products we were purchasing. Shipping the water from the canning facility is a major cost. The environmental cost of the trucks and fuel is in my opinion even worse. Then there are the aluminum cans: we were drinking a couple cans…
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Fizz & Buster – Part 4
Part 1 is here. This is part 4 in a short series of drawing from an old Inktober of mine. Click on the first image to enter lightbox mode, and enjoy! The End! Its a fun, light series, I enjoyed drawing it, I hope you enjoyed it as well. I’ll post a few additional character…