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The 12V light bulbs on the underside of our kitchen cabinets drop (go dark) like a nest of wasps hit with Raid Wasp and Hornet spray – bunches of them drop all at once.

Family First
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July 23, 2012

If I had been sitting in that theater in Aurora, my first priority would’ve been to get my wife and family out of there.

While there are several ASCII to Morse code translators out there, I haven’t seen the encoding used herein. It is slightly denser than most and should work nicely in machines with a tight memory constraint.

On this day in 2012 with the horror of the shooting in a Denver suburb movie theater blanketing the news, I am newly reminded of the incredible and sometimes terrifying range of what it is that we call, human.

Shotgun, rifle, body armor and a dark theater versus a snub-nose 38?

As of late yesterday, I’m now developing and downloading code for Arduino in Eclipse.

Monsoon Season
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July 14, 2012

It’s monsoon season.

We’ve been in Arizona for more than 40 years and it’s always been called that. I don’t care if it looks more like a “haboob” than a “monsoon.”

Light Strikes
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July 13, 2012

The hammer hits the firing pin and that hits the primer, but it doesn’t go bang. Removing that round and looking at its backside, the dent in the primer is smaller than it should be.

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