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3D Printed: Picture Frame Stand
We’ve had a picture frame in our bedroom for about 18 years. And for about 17 of those years, the flimsy little piece of cardboard on the back of it that’s supposed to make it stand up has been all bent and weak and generally unable to do its job. Various attempts to fix this…
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3D Printed: printer grill holder-opener
This one was kinda hard to name… but my new Prusa CORE ONE 3D Printer has a little grill on top, that you slide open or closed depending on what kind of material you are printing, to help with temperature control inside the print chamber. But since I’m always using PLA, it’s always supposed to…
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3D Printed: A stand for my little Enterprise D model
I don’t have too many model starships, but I do have one little Enterprise D. Unfortunately, the stand for it broke years ago. So what do I like to say? 3D printing to the rescue.
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3D Printed: Stove Handle Covers
For the last several years, every time I’ve used my stovetop, I’ve had to mostly guess what temperature I’m setting it at. This is because the paint on the handles (or knobs) that indicates HI, LO, or OFF has long-since rubbed away. Of course, I mostly know what they’re set at, because I’ve been using…
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Early Summer 2025 Gardening Update
For an update on my original Gardening 2025 post… Flowers We’ve got 3 Sunflower plants going strong (and I don’t want to say what happened to the fourth…) One is as tall as me, with no blooms quite yet. A second has five or six open flowers! The third has one flower on it so…
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Was Cursor AI created by the Tholians?
I just started using Cursor – the AI IDE, and while I’m pretty impressed (and should probably make a real blog post about it) – instead, I can’t stop thinking about how its icon/logo… … really reminds me of a Tholian, from Star Trek: I’m sure it’s just me…
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My Pre-WWDC ’25 Predictions
It’s less than 90 minutes before Apple’s 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, and I’m going to put a few predictions out into the world for what I think they’re going to do differently at this year’s event
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Gardening 2025
Last Spring I bought a handful of pots of flowers from the grocery store one weekend on a whim. I hung a couple of them on our front porch and sat a few others in the back yard. I was surprised all summer long at how much I loved seeing the beauty that they brought…
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KP
At an appointment the other day, a physician told me that I’d have to be on “K.P.” for the next few weeks. I looked at them with a confused face, and said “what’s that?” They explained that it meant Kitchen Patrol, as used in the military. Of course, the next day, I was reading a…
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Fixing a bad key on a Keychron Q11 Keyboard
In my latest youtube video, I showed how I fixed a key that wasn’t firing on my (relatively new) Keychron Q11 mechanical keyboard: The short version: Simple, and effective!
