fighting the lack of good ideas
A couple months ago I posted a first review of my Ninja Dualbrew Pro CFP301 K-Cup-compatible brewer. This morning I made my first carafe of coffee with it. First the pros: very easy to brew a pot of coffee it’s easy to pop the K-Cup holder out and swap to crafe mode even without using…
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After close to a decade, my old Keurig brewer finally bit the dust last week đ Given we can’t go long without needing hot water or got beverages in the family…it became âurgentâ to replace it We had been looking for a while, knowing a replacement was going to be necessary âsoonâ – so we…
I’ve been running an M1-powered MacBook Pro since late April. Here’s my experience so far: it Just Works⢠That’s it That’s the tweet Want more? Sure! Battery life is bonkers-awesome! I can run for over a full working day with my VDI client, YouTube, web browser sessions, ssh, several chat apps (including video and audio…
I came across pi-hole recently – an ad blocker and DNS service that you can run on a Raspberry Pi in Raspian (or any Debian or Ubuntu (ie Debian-like)) system. Using pi-holeĂÂ should obviate the need for running ad-blockers in your browser (so long as you’re on a network that is running DNS queries through pi-hole)….
It had such promise. Or, should have. How could you go wrong? Slow zombies. Arnold Schwarzenegger. A plot. It was also [almost] direct-to-video. What am I talking about? Maggie. The worst movie Ahnold has been in since End Of Days (andĂÂ boy was that one bad). No, it was worse than End Of Days. I don’t…
I’m happy I didn’t pay for this copy of Jump Start Your Brain. I’m saddened someone else did in order to give it to me. The core of Doug Hall’sĂÂ creative self-help book from 1996 is decent: get outside yourself, remember what it’s like to be a kid, have fun, don’t take yourself too seriously, and…
Andrea Sutcliffe’s book Steam: The Untold Story of American’s First Great Invention was a pure joy to read. Being the second review I’m writing with my “new” system, I hope you find this book as interesting as I have. In 1784, James Rumsey designed a boat that could, by purely mechanical means, move its way…