Oh, I’m well aware it’s overpriced. Exactly why I hacked the firmware on the board and now run Repetier. I took a $400 printer and gave it all the features of a $1,200 printer. Just took some time and patience... and frankly a little courage. Even the $400 investment was no small feat for me and I was not looking to…

I have my own 3D printer and the proprietary filament cartridges it uses (I have hacked it to not need them, but that’s another story) come to 12.5 cents per gram. That’s a really good deal considering they usually charge 10 cents per page for 2D printing services.

Easy now. It’s British Airways. It’s not as if they have any organic grasp of geography inherent in what they do as a business.

Side note: If you’re looking to make a stand for the virtue of whiteness, maybe pick a different place than a criticism of this trash gob.

To be clear, even in your attempt to make a point, there is no misinformation. You seem to be offering some “perspective” on why the demonization of white people as a race is not all together the most productive perspective, but It’s pretty clear to me from reading the article that there is a different point to be…

Anyone going to talk about the one asshole who gave “Highly Unlikely” a 95% chance?

I came to watch some dude take a shot to the nards. Damn you for making me feel something.

I think what is at issue is that people are becoming accustomed to not knowing the meaning or purpose for the words they use. I understand the democratic nature of language, and while I might not like this quirk of language in this instance, I understand why it happens. This, however, is a symptom, not the disease.…

I briefly met Mr. Vick in 2000, right before he announced to a room full of children that he was leaving college to go into the NFL draft. You see, I went to his rival highschool just a few years behind him. I was in the Telecommunications program (city-wide AV club if you will) and since he was their “hometown hero”…

My kids play on consoles (namely the Xbox 360 and Xbox One). I told them they can play as long as they play in survival mode. I want them to be creative, but I want to understand a world with limitations is the only one where accomplishment is meaningful. Want diamond armor? If you are in creative mode, what’s the…

And of course, as usual, no credit to the combat engineers who snuck in under cover of night, demo’d the obstacle, and removed the debris. You’re welcome, America.

I spent 4 years working as a contractor for Joint Task-force: Civil Support (JTFCS) who has this mission. It was some of the most interesting time of my life. I can tell you that, on the worst day in American history, it will be nice to know those guys are there.

There is an important difference between the euphoria barrier and the detectable barrier. Substances metabolize with a “halflife” where your body metabolizes more of them the more there is in your system. After a few hours, alcohol is reasonably metabolized to the point where it has no impairment effect on the user,…

Overused condiment: Prepared horseradish. I moved from Virginia to Wisconsin about a year ago and discovered this stuff. It’s amazing. I put it in sandwiches, throw it in with tuna salad, put it in marinades for pretty much any meat (pork/chicken/beef/fish) and don’t think for a minute I’m making a dip that doesn’t…

I know this is going to disappear into the ether here, but I have to say it. I joined the Army 2 weeks to the day after the attacks on Sept 11th 2001. I did so not because I believe in the president himself, but because I believe in the process of democracy which put him there. I am willing, and have been for these…

My wife bought me this watch as an Anniversary gift in 2010. I wear a smart watch almost every day (Samsung Gear S2 classic) but if an occasion calls for something with a touch more class, this is what I wear. It has seen a deployment to Iraq and held up just fine.

My wife bought me this watch as an Anniversary gift in 2010. I wear a smart watch almost every day (Samsung Gear S2…

The 29th was ALSO the day that the repos published the new driver sets for WiFi and Bluetooth (as well as a sweet GUI interface for raspi-config) and the new drivers work like gangbusters on all of the WiFi devices that I couldn’t get up before.

The crew and passengers made it to a small island in the South Pacific and spent their remaining days living off of devices improvised from coconuts and occasionally being visited by the Harlem Globetrotters.