What do you do when your wife is making the cakes that the all neighbors are expecting for the annual 4th of July / Independence Day bash, she's making fondant stars, and she can't find all of her star-shaped cookie cutters she knows she has? Why, you remember you have a 3d printer and you go make some. Just remember when she wants the same…

Never wanting to get stale professionally, I regularly experiment with different libraries, frameworks programming languages, and tools. It helps me stay on top of what's going on in the industry. The Rust programming language seems to be getting used and talked about much more these days. I even saw it referenced in a TV/stream commercial for a…

With distance learning the norm in our school district, our son is suffering the experience of full-time, remote-meeting hell. All classes are being taught over webex, on a sparse twice a week schedule. Some of the classes include extra material. One, in particular, is an college-level AP class that uses a series of video lectures hosted in…

Every few minutes, I’d look up and find myself thinking, “holy #@*!” We were at Calaveras Big Trees State Park to see some redwoods. We had just been to Yosemite Valley the day before to see some big beautiful rocks, and since this was in the neighborhood, we wanted to see some big trees. We were not disappointed. The visitor center is in the…

I just took a family trip to the UK, first time out of the country in quite a while. Historically, I’ve been one of those people who takes printed itineraries, maps, and other reference material when going to new places. But with the number of places we were going to go and heavy reliance on public transportation at all of them, I wanted to be able…