First Round of 2018
Author: Nick Momrik
I'm searching for my first hole-in-one.
I enjoy being active and making things.
I work for Automattic.
Kid Letters
Do you remember getting mail when you were younger? It was always exciting. Then we grew up and bills took the joy out of mail.
I wrote letters to my nieces and included a few things like certificates for free ice cream when we go on vacation this summer. They were very excited and wrote back right away.
I may have created monsters. When I told my sister to let the girls know I received their awesome letters, Kennedy asked if I was going to send another letter back. Some day kid. Maybe I should get her an email account instead.
Lamp Repair: Replace Touch Control with a Switch
My Mom’s bedroom lamp was malfunctioning so I told her to send it down with my Dad and I’d take a look at it.
The lamp uses a very common TA-306A touch control unit and the BT134 thyristor on the board often gets fried. I think this might have been my bedroom lamp when I lived with my parents 20 years ago, so there is no sense buying parts for it. I replaced the touch controls with a switch I salvaged from a different lamp.
Why Do [People|Women|Men|Kids]…
Google search suggestions can be quite interesting. I’ve seen people post similar screenshots in the past and one morning, before I got out of bed, I came up with the idea to see what “Why do…” would show. I used an incognito window so the results wouldn’t be influenced by my Google account.
Link Dump – 2018/04/26
- Home Assistant 🤝 Ubiquiti Networks
It’s amazing when companies embrace open source projects like this. Even better when it’s something I use. - HQ Update on Brooke Wells’ video (they were hoping you’d miss it) ⇒
CrossFit’s standards for the Open have been getting more fucked up every year. I have many thoughts and should write a post. - The Canadian Cheese Cartel ⇒
Sounds tough to be a cheese lover in Canada. - 10 MasterLocks, 2 minutes
Don’t buy a MasterLock No. 3 to secure anything valuable. - “Nerves Of Steel”; Southwest Airlines Pilot Lauded As A Hero
We have a part of the aircraft missing.
Can you imagine?
- Priority Mail Delivery Map
Neat how the map works to show 1-3 day deliveries. - Continued: the answers to your questions for Eben Upton ⇒
Read about some of the things they’re thinking about for future Raspberry Pis.
Photo Challenge: Lines
How fitting that I picked up tamales for lunch today with the photo challenge focusing on lines.
Boldport: The Conehead (#24)
My second month of Boldport Club is #24 The Conehead. It’s a custom PCB design of a cricket and it chirps based on how much light the “eye” can see. According to video timestamps it took about an hour to assemble the kit and it was a lot of fun using the electronics components in different ways.
Myself
’67-’68 Michigan Map
Remember when everyone kept a map in their glovebox? This old Michigan map was in a stack of documentation the seller gave me when I bought the ’68 truck.
The 1960 Census info on this map had Rogers City with a population of 4,722 and 98,265 for Saginaw. Quite a difference from 2,827 and 51,508 in 2010.
1968 Chevrolet C10 Truck
