Girl Scout Cookies shipped!
Who doesn’t like girl scout cookies? For years, I never had a way to get Girl Scout cookies, no kids, and nobody I knew had kids. Even in person, less…
Miscellaneous
Migration to WordPress
We are starting the final pieces of moving to WordPress from Joomla. It had been a pretty seamless process, yes some things are totally different. Totally new template. New layout.…
RTL-SDR dongles under VMware – workaround for unsupported dvices
Completely unrelated to brewing – but running on the same hardware, I have virtual machines set up to monitor emergency communications (police, fire) as well as aircraft tracking, which feed…
Best way from Long Island / Penn Station to Manhattan Cruise Terminal
We recently cruised out of New York, and came in from Long Island. Looked at many options to get there. Park in the city? Best was $140 for the week.…
New York – Make your electoral vote count! (California, you too)
New York and California – this one is for you! Election after election, we hear about how our votes don’t count. The heavily populated areas (New York City, for example)…
State laws regarding handheld ham radio use while driving
Here I am going to build a state by state summary with links to official pages where possible. This is mainly geared towards handheld radio use while driving – I…
Programming FOBIK without a trip to the dealership
If you have ever had to replace one of the “enter-and-go” keys or whatever Dodge calls them you know it isn’t a cheap process and involves a trip to the…
I found a legal way to buy New York Lottery tickets online
For years you have been able to purchase NY Lottery subscriptions online, and recently found out that yiu can buy most of not all tickets online up to a little…
Optimum Fiber installation review
First a little history – in the past we had Optimum cable modem service for years. Recently having been tired of the annual increases we dropped OOL and went to…
My Tesla experience, from a car guy..
I am not a super-serious car nut, but definitely a car guy. Have rebuilt a few from the ground up, do most of my own work, and am interested in…
Programming Jeep keys (the easy way)
I have an older Grand Cherokee with the SKIM keys, chip keys or whatever else you know them as. The ones the dealer charges a bunch for. To make it…
Easily save 15-20 cents per gallon on gas
Do you want to pay less for gas? Of course we all do. I have two apps I use and am saving anywhere from 15 to 20 cents per gallon,…
Air traffic dropoff from COVID restrictions
I was recently doing some maintenance on my ADSB reciever and took a look at recent performance graphs. I knew the flights have been a lot less since COVID-19 restrictions…
Moving windows scanning profiles to another PC
We recently ran across this and searching did not give us too many good answers. Problem – User was moved to a new computer. In our case, they were migrated…
Force Carbonation Chart
Evert time I have to carb I need to search for this chart – so saving a copy of it here. Not sure where it came from – if it…