We use incredibly weak language around smartphones and point-n-click computer interfaces. It’s embarrassing.

There’s a system admin saying: It’s always DNS

But weird problems aren’t always DNS problems. Better than 50% of the time, they’re cabling problems.

I went to see the Union Pacific No. 4014, a Big Boy locomotive, at a whistle stop in Greeley, CO, October 23, 2024.

I had to get my production server to clamp MSS (size of TCP data “segment” in bytes) to path MTU.

Model rocketry changed my life back in the 1970s. I built my first rocket, an Estes Big Bertha the summer between 3rd and 4th grade, which I think was the summer of 1970.

Ate at Cracovia Polish-American restaurant in Denver’s most-misspelled suburb, Westminster. It was delicious.

Got a couple of dumb fortunes from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai joint.

If you’ve driven the long way across Kansas on I-70, there are two things that you’ve seen and wondered about.

First and foremost, Wheat Jesus on a billboard in Colby, Kansas. I have no insights, artistic, theological or sociological, on Wheat Jesus, or “Wheatus” as some folks know him.

There’s also the big beige dome on the south side of I-70 in Hays, Kansas. That’s the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. You really should take an hour or two to visit it. Well worth your time.

I’ve got what Amazon sells as Sunnytech Mini Hot Live Steam Engine Model Education Toy DIY (BJ001)

Some very simple assembly is required.