A few days ago, I woke up with some back and hip pain. It wasn’t bad enough to call the doctor about, but it was bad enough to be annoying. It felt like mild sciatica. I decided to rub some…
Liberal Hypocrisy and the Electoral College
Ever since Al Gore’s Electoral College loss to George W. Bush in 2000, and even more intensely since Hillary Clinton’s Electoral College loss to Donald Trump in 2016, my liberal friends and family members have been calling for the abolition…
Easy and Quick Low-Carb Pizza Recipe
One of the few things I really miss about being on a low-carb diet is pizza. I used to consider it one of the food groups. A few days ago I started wondering whether using Lavash bread (an Armenian flatbread)…
Good Replacements for Adobe Creative Cloud Applications
My relationship with Adobe ended last year around this time. Not only did I cancel my Creative Cloud subscription, but I had Adobe delete my account. I had decided I never again wanted to have anything to do with Adobe.…
Verizon Unlimited Prepaid Jetpack Mini-Review
Last week, I signed up for Verizon’s unlimited, prepaid Jetpack service. This is a mobile Internet service that uses Verizon’s 4G signal to provide broadband Internet using a hotspot (the Jetpack). I can’t provide a fully-qualified review because I’ve only…
Cell Phone Manufacturers: The Newest Racketeers
I just ordered another LG V20 phone. I don’t actually need it at the moment, but I bought it anyway. It will either be a replacement for my current one if I break it somehow, or it will go to…
Configuring and Optimizing DD-WRT for magicJack
Let me begin by saying that this article is not so much a “how-to” as a “how I did” post. I don’t claim that this is the only way, nor even the best way, to optimize magicJack’s performance. It’s just…
DIY Whole-House Portable Generator Installation – Addenda
A few friends of mine who read my post about hooking up a portable generator to power my house have raised a few good points about information that I omitted or could have described more fully, so I decided to…
Comparison of Sam’s Club vs BJ’s vs Costco: One Man’s Opinion
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.…
In the End, I Owe it All to Nick
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…