Author: chris
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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…
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💩 Link Dump June 7th 💩
Extra Ranty Edition! 🕹️ How Not To Fix Your Switch 2 The state of Washington is adding right to repair legislation. While most people may not be fixing their *own* phones, this allows things like repair shops to at least exist and hopefully flourish. If we want a culture of repairability, we need places that…
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Fizz & Buster Part 3
Part 1 is here. This is part 3 in a short series of drawing from an old Inktober of mine. Click on the first image to enter lightbox mode, and enjoy!
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💩 Link Dump May 24th 💩
Resistance The ‘bullshit’ continues with power grabs and lies with Harvard being told they can’t enroll international students. Harvard isn’t bending over and have received a temporary restraining order. Heather Cox Richardson highlights much of the bullshit in the current bill being passed by the house, including stratospheric budget increases to ICE, tax cuts for…
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Fizz & Buster – Part 2
Part 1 is here. This is part 2 in a short series of drawing from an old Inktober of mine. Click on the first image to enter lightbox mode, and enjoy!
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I’m Really, Really, Tired of Phone Keyboards
I find phone typing exhausting and tedious. As technology evolves, there are always compromises. A physical keyboard takes up space, so we went ahead and got rid of them on phones. This is generally a good compromise, but I assumed that with all the permutations and experimentation we might have found a better option by…
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💩 Link Dump May 17th 💩
Neal Stephenson has a track record that is not to be ignored. His thoughts on AI are thoughtful: https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/remarks-on-ai-from-nz I was always curious what passkeys are. Turns out they are a kind of protocol around public key cryptography. Now that I understand them I want to use them more. The most interesting thing is how…
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Fizz & Buster – Part 1
As part of Inktober 2020(-ish), I decided to do a short series of drawings. I wrote a small script around the characters Fizz & Buster. Fizz is a blobby-looking guy forages for ‘sprooms’ in the Belt. Buster is his blobby dog, who usually just hangs out in the truck. I really enjoyed drawing these characters,…