Dear Big Questions: Is Library Paste Vegan? Asking for a friend… Dear Friend, it beats the heck out of me. So I did some research. The short answer is that library paste should be vegan, but it may not be. Library paste is essentially water and starch with a little anti-insect ingredient (like clove or… Continue reading Big Question #438: Is Library Paste Vegan?

I left twitter and deleted the app on January 10 after more than 12 years of using it multiple times a day. I cannot imagine buying a ream of paper that allows me to print only information that the manufacturer has pre-approved, so I found I could not imagine being a part of a platform… Continue reading Two months without twitter

You’d think that this would go without saying. Oh, sorry, your classical Latin is a little rusty? It says, “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.” This is most recently seen as the motto of Hogwarts. Chaucer may have put it in print first when he said, “It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.” The… Continue reading Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

I run a Raspberry Pi 3B to track airplanes that fly over our house. It then uploads the data to flightradar24.com. It is a really neat set up, all for under $100. If you are an airplane geek, and like this stuff, check it out. The image is the polar plot of the 800 or… Continue reading flightradar24.com tracking is cool!