Category Archives: Random

To Read a Book, To Collect a Book

By | March 20, 2026

I love books even though I rarely find time to read them. I have an old Audubon book, “Birds of America” that my wife found for me at Savers for five dollars. It is not the best bird book in any modern sense. The illustrations are no longer the highest-fidelity option available. Folks could argue… Read More »

Discord Server as a Knowledge Base

By | August 1, 2019

Discord, which is aimed at gamers, offers unlimited history for each Discord server and channel therein. I would have picked Slack instead but the lose of information would have defeated the purpose of this exercise. Discord has stored everything I have posted in both my public and private Discord servers. Private Discord server? Yup that… Read More »

Building a Monero cryptocurrency mining rig for fun & profit

By | October 16, 2017

After many years being a bystander on the world of cyptocurrency I’ve finally taken the plunge into making a starter rig to mine some coins of my own. Getting “in” to cyptocurrency doesn’t have to be as technical as building a computer though. I found the easiest way to just buy coins with cash is… Read More »

Entropy

By | February 11, 2006

That’s entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y, the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die. Order from disorder is a scientific rarity, allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity. Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility, at least in a closed system there… Read More »