Nashua Canal Street
Before railroads there were canals. There are still a few remnants from this map today. By Margaritas you can see the beginning of the canal that went around the… Read more »
Author Archives: newts
Histomap of the World / Timeline
I have wanted a good history timeline and thought about making a crowdsourced wiki like one. I recall seeing one on Google. Anyway, this popped up on Slate and I… Read more »
Android Auto USB Cables and Even Magnets!
So the 2017 Volt includes support for Android Auto and I really like it. But apparently it is VERY sensitive to the quality of the USB cable you use. … Read more »
Synchronize Synology Photo Station to Piwigo with rsync
Yes this is mostly to help me remember the command line but there’s a couple other tricks I need to remember too. For context I use a Synology box for… Read more »
PiDP-8 Simulator Project
When I was in 7th grade in 1975 we were fortunate to have a PDP-8/I (I think it was an I) with a half dozen teletypes, VT50 terminal, and a… Read more »
The Orientalist
This was a gift and much better than I expected. Basically the biography of Lev Nussimbaum, a rich Russian Jew who grew up in Baku before the Bolsheviks and as a… Read more »
The metadata on that notebook is not safe
Last night we watched the Fifth Estate, the Benedict Cumberbatch movie about Assange. In my dream I was helping him. I remember some of the snippets. One of them was… Read more »
2012 Chevy Volt (My first Volt)
This was my first Volt and favorite car ever from October 2011 until December 2016 when I traded it in for a 2017 Volt. During this time it performed almost… Read more »
boy snow bird
This was on my nook from my daughter. Interesting start but geographically fanciful version of the Worcester area. I wasn’t sure what to expect but a book about mixed… Read more »
LED Slide Projector Retrofit Part 2: Fail
The basic problem is the COB LED I used is too large to focus well. I could solve it with various optical techniques. The first thing I tried was to… Read more »