Maps are fun! Here’s some sites I like: US Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/ US Covid-19 Cases Map: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map (no longer tracking as of 3/10/2023) US Drought Map: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ Other map related stuff: City Guesser: https://virtualvacation.us/guess
Canon EOS Elan 7E Door Latch Repair
I discovered that the latch on my fantastic plastic Canon EOS Elan 7E had deteriorated, and the door had sprung open, exposing that roll of film (grumble, grumble.) Repair was an easy process, after acquiring a replacement latch off eBay. There’s a full howto write up on J. David Buerk’s website. Essentially you have to …
AppleRAID in Disk Utility
Had to replace a failed ssd which was part of a mirrored RAID set in a Late 2012 Mac Mini. It was running MacOS 10.11 El Capitan, so the RAID functionality that used to be part of Disk Utility was not available through the app. Apple’s simple RAID tools are still available in terminal, using …
Re-Topping my Martin Backpacker Guitar
Years ago I bought a Martin Backpacker guitar. To call it a guitar is generous. Like Douglas Adams’ no tea, the Backpacker is something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a guitar. It sounds like the mutant child of a baritone ukulele and a banjo. Playing it is cramped, with a short scale and a …
Adding Hidden Tool Tabs in Capture One 23
In Capture One 23, a number of the built-in tool tabs are no longer selectable when you try to perform an Add Tool Tab command. These include the Black and White, Composition, and Local Adjustments tabs. Although you can add and assign icons to custom tool tabs, the icons associated with the built-in tool tabs are not available …
Spoofing OSX 10.11.16 El Capitan Install
When trying to install El Capitan via the recovery partition on a 2014 MacBook Air, I get a message that “no packages were eligible for install.” The problem is that the certificates are out of date, so the installer won’t proceed. The general workaround is to change the computer date to sometime in mid 2017. …
Apple Music Displays the Wrong Album Art
So my iPhone SE was displaying the wrong album art for a number (though not all) songs. When I checked these albums on iTunes, all the songs had the correct album art. I tried deleting all the songs and then resyncing the playlist, but that didn’t fix the problem. A quick web search turned up …
Fevermonks Revived
Many, many years ago, I wrote and played a bunch of songs with my friend Tom Rump. We called ourselves the Fevermonks, and we’ve recently been able to reconnect and record those songs through the magic of the Internet. We’ve published the songs on Bandcamp, so now you too can enjoy them in highest of …
In memoriam
Katu passed away today, 19 years old. He helped me through some of the most difficult years of my life, then moved in with my mom and helped her with some of her most difficult years. Thank you for everything, little buddy. You were the best cat ever.
Texas Busfest 2016
For the second year in a row, I attended Texas Busfest, although sadly without Melina as she was under the weather. Which was too bad, because the weather during the campout was, in fact, perfect. Temperatures were mild, skies were mostly clear, and nights were cool. It was a bit windy on Friday night, but …