This is an “article bucket” for “life hacks”, or DIY repairs, instruction manuals, device codes, and so forth. If you’d like to write some articles,…

I stumbled across and ad for an old Japanese doll, and wanted to get an idea of what’s out there, so I went to eBay…

This is going to sound crazy, but I think there’s a conspiracy  by plumbers to frustrate DIY plumbing repair efforts.  My mom had a hose…

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Bernie got into a bit of controversy over his position, that prisoners should have the vote. He called it a fundamental aspect of democracy. It’s…

I enjoy reading about alternative currencies (and laughing at them, for the most part) so Yang’s “Human Centered Capitalism” was an eye opener – a…

Recently, I got asked a few things about copyright, by a friend, and I guess copyright was a bone of contention. Others in an organization…

I haven’t paid attention to the Medium paywall, but I was deleting some stories and comments, and the site told me a comment wasn’t visible….

Numerous things have pulled me away from doing tech work, the big one being a mishap that flooded our apartment, and necessitated my moving, temporarily,…

Bought at a local estate sale, this yearbook is a look into history, into the East Los Angeles community. East Los Angeles was an unincorporated…