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I’m back in Florida two months or so after my last trip during hurricane Milton. Things are a lot tidier than they were. At least they are inland. Yesterday we went over to the...

As I said at the end of my last post, I’ve headed down to Florida to see my folks. Hurricane Helene had just gone through. They were fine because their house is relatively high....

This week MIT threw a birthday party for their mechanical engineering department (aka Course 2). It’s 150 years old this year. We stopped by and went on tours of several of the labs. 150...

We were in DC about 4 weeks ago. That was just in time for the cherry blossoms. Now we’ve caught up here in Boston. This is what our nectarine looks like now: We won’t...

This afternoon we went for a hike in the Middlesex Fells. It was a beautiful spring day. The reservoir was sparkling. We saw a number of deer. There were several large vernal pools. Most...

It was a beautiful day for a parade this year. You can find our pictures on flickr. We spent the morning getting the garden ready. Next year is going to be a big deal.

We had a beautiful day for the eclipse. Just a little bit of haze, but a nice spring day. We weren’t in the totality, but it did get to about 94%, which resulted in...

We had a bit of a meltdown recently because our hosting service made some changes. That gave us a great opportunity to learn about how to debug WordPress and change the siteurl field in...

I’ve recently been playing around with the RP2040 (aka Raspberry Pi Pico). It’s a fun little chip. I’ve also got a bunch of cheap LED panels that I got from China. These are the...

In addition to the blog, we’ve hosted an email server for years. Recently it has been getting more and more frustrating to deal with. I’d been meaning to document some of the hassles here,...