ESP 8266-01/Alexa

Sorry about the absolutely beyond crappy schematic. I just spent 40 minutes trying to take a perfectly readable (on my local system) photo of a pencil-drawn schematic and get a readable upload to WordPress. I obviously don’t have a clue about this, since this is actually the best try and I just don’t have the…

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My Amnesty Tattoo

Also, a word about Amnesty International It’s been a few months since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve done some writing for another site, and have several partly written entries for here, but until now, I haven’t posted any. In January, I got a new tattoo, my third. The first two (a semicolon and a mental…

The Gun Collector

When I was in college, back in the ’80s, I did TV repair to pay my way through school. This is the story of one service call that didn’t go well. I knew that it wasn’t going to be a pleasant experience when the customer told me that the set had to be fixed before…