Geek On The Hill

I belong to all three major “warehouse clubs” in the United States: Sam’s Club, BJ’s, and Costco. I hold the higher levels of membership in Sam’s Club (“Plus”) and Bj’s (“Perks Rewards”), and the standard-level membership (“Gold Star”) in Costco.…

The post I published about how I connected a portable generator to power my house got me to thinking about Nick, who was the person who first got me interested in electronics. Nick was an old man who lived in…

First, a disclaimer: This is not an instructional article. It’s just the way I personally connected a portable generator to use to power my house in the event of an outage. It’s not a “how-to” article. It’s a chronicle of…

I’ve been converting all of my exterior lights to solar LEDs. Here’s the latest one. I bought this light at Sam’s Club for about $36.00. If you’re not a member and you’d like to join, use my referral link and…

In recent months, there’s been a lot of talk about amending the U.S. Constitution, mostly by partisans on either side of the political aisle who, failing at the ballot box and via the legislative process to impose their philosophical positions…

Before I proceed, please notice that in the title I specified boycotts over speech, not boycotts in general. I think that boycotting companies over abuses such as child labor, unfair trade or labor practices, human rights abuses, or other actual…

Here’s one my neighborhood chimpunks enjoying breakfast. Notice that it sniffed my finger first. It always does that. I think it’s to make sure I’m the right person. It doesn’t trust just any human, after all. This morning I think…

Or more accurately, perhaps, to ask directions. His owner lives elsewhere and her dad was dog-sitting, but Jerome got away and decided to peruse the neighborhood. He was wandering around my drainage ditch eating frogs when I noticed him, which…

For the past few years, I’ve been trying to figure out why so many of our youngest men are turning homicidal. Admittedly, I’m not especially well-prepared to answer that question, being neither a social scientist nor a mental health professional.…

I’m a bit of a newshound. I like starting my days by reading the local, national, and world news. Back in olden times, I’d do this by spreading out a newspaper or two on the table while I drank my…