Beta Orionis – Part XII
The system is back on the heart-lung machine, unfortunately. The AX860 stopped being able to handle any kind of power load for some reason, so it’s going ...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
A home for a kitten
On Thanksgiving Day, 2013, one of my two cats died suddenly at the still young age of 8 years old from what we’ve come to believe was an undiagnosed cardi...
Beta Orionis – Part XI
Since the last incarnation in this series, the loop is done. Mostly. I’ll fill in that detail in a little bit. For now let’s talk building this out,...
Beta Orionis – Part X
Building finally begins! As I mentioned the tubing straightener shipped on October 31. It arrived November 4, so that was pretty quick, certainly sooner than I ...
Beta Orionis – Part IX
Courtesy of a train that was going through the western district of KC that includes Kemper Arena, I barely made it to UPS on time to pick up the package. When I...
Misconstruing free speech, revisited
Back at the end of December ahead of the Christmas holiday, the country was polarized around the suspension of Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty. I don’t c...
Follow-up on AquaTuning
It has been a while since I’ve written about the situation I’ve had with AquaTuning and the concern with regard to the CPU block catastrophe. I̵...
Beta Orionis – Part VIII: Delays
Delays, delays and more delays. That is the one thing I really, really hate about places getting orders wrong. It easily turns what should’ve been only a ...
Beta Orionis – Part VII
So much hardware in so little time… Four packages in one day with another due later in the week. The loner toward the end of the week were two UN Z2 brack...
The argument from history doesn’t jive with history
It seems when arguing about our legal system, two things will hold true: a person arguing against capital punishment will bring up the cost associated with it, ...