Slightly Off KIlter

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Noteworthy

  • We’re Almost Moved In

    One year in this house (and we've unpacked most of the boxes). Continue reading

  • Eek! Tornado Warning!

    We had a tornado warning for Silverdale and Kitsap County! I gathered the cats into the back room & hall. Rich worked in the garage. The wind picked up and the lights flickered and we got a spurt of frozen-pea hail (graupel) but we did not get a tornado. .   The NWS All Clear… Continue reading

  • rm -rf *

    Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code article in The Independent, 15 April 2016, /via Gene Spafford in Twitter. "The problem command was "rm -rf": a basic piece of code that will delete everything it is told to." I love this stuff. It proves we're human. (And also, EVERYTHING needs… Continue reading

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  • Solar Home

    We have been thinking about adding solar collectors for a long time, dithering over technologies, worrying about installation and maintenance, etc. When the public school in our neighborhood put in an 8190 sq. ft. array (6 rows of 91 3'x5' panels), we knew we should try to get on board. However, it's always been too… Continue reading

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  • It’s Not a Virus (SRSLY)

    What do you do if you get a phone call from someone who tells you they've found a virus on your computer? Our non-technical family members and friends are lucky to have people like us they can call on. But what about those poor people who don't have someone to ask? I got this note… Continue reading

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  • How (Not) to Eat Fried Worms

    We discovered a "new" SF Bay Area restaurant today: Coconut Bay Street Cafe (Thai). It's located at 1300 Howard St in Burlingame (CA). We came in largely by accident; the restaurant we initially planned to eat at turned out to close between 3:00 pm and 4:30 pm. We arrived just at 3pm. Pfooie!. We had… Continue reading

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  • The Nissan Cube

    I’m a great fan of Toyota automobiles; I’ve had three. The Camry has more than 150,000 on it now. We put over 200,000 miles on our Corolla and it never flinched. The only reason we don’t have the Corolla anymore is we couldn’t fit three cars in the driveway!. That third car is a Scion… Continue reading

  • Not Safe For Dogs – A Cautionary Tale

    We got this story from our veterinarian. On Friday, a sick dog was brought in. The dog had started vomiting the night before and had progressed to projectile vomiting by the morning. Continue reading

  • eBay – Watch out for “Handling” fees

    I recently purchased a very small item on eBay. Less than a square inch in size; well under an ounce in weight. I paid $2.99 for the item. Shipping (and “handling”) was $7.98. Following the principle of Never attribute to Malice what can be explained by Stupidity, I assumed this was one of those companies… Continue reading

  • Losses: Phil Frank, Robert Jordan

    In September, the world lost two well-loved story tellers: Phil Frank and Robert Jordan. Continue reading

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