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Bought a “Rechargeable Bird Table Lamp” from Amazon. These are possibly the worst instructions I’ve ever read.

The Arizona Desert Museum, in the vicinity of Tucson, AZ is well worth a visit.

Got a new desktop lamp from Amazon.

I purchased a C-3718-5B drafting chair from Wayfair. They drop-shipped it from China. The actual assembly instructions are OK, but it contains a few oddities.

I read a paper, The Historical Impact of Revealing the Ultra Secret by Dr Harold C. Deutsch.

It was published in 1977, in Parameters, Journal of the US Army War College. It was Approved for public release; distribution unlimited

I installed OpenWrt 24.10 on a Linksys Velop WHW03 V1 wireless router. This is the story of how I got all 3 radios it possesses to work.

Got some more takeout from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai place.

The mystery of the Belkin heartbeat illustrates what kind of bullshit companies will pull if you buy into their proprietary software, and let them get away with demanding that you run everything through “The App”.

The experience made me check if OpenWrt is available and runs on Linksys Velop hardware.

I noticed that my DNS aggregator, DNSMasq, was periodically getting bursts of queries about “www.belkin.com” and “heartbeat.belkin.com”.