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My overnight backpacking trip in the Rockpile Mountain Wilderness Area went well. I didn’t have any equipment problems, and I didn’t forget anything important. I did add a couple of items to my list for next time, but they aren’t serious (like handy-wipes). I didn’t forget to bring my hammock, but I was unable to […]
As a kid, I grew up camping with my family. Car camping, we would call it now, in a tent. We camped mainly in our home state of Missouri, and farther north for relief from the heat, in Michigan and Wisconsin mostly. We were limited by how far we could drive, and our drives were […]
I am beginning to think I need to figure out how to screen film gigs. How do I decide whether a gig is one that I want to work on or not? I had an unpleasant experience on a film in January. The director tried to film a thirty page script in two evenings. He […]
My vacation was fraught with problems, the biggest one being the sudden and massive coolant leak in my truck. That’s fixed, but now I (probably) have a blown head gasket. I wasted days of my vacation on it, and ultimately I had to coax it home despite chronic misfiring. I will end up spending weeks […]
As a single guy in the real world, I am surrounded by couples, married and unmarried. Among my friends, I can’t name anyone who doesn’t have a significant other. It’s obviously a factor in why I’m alone. In fiction, it’s never like that. I have long been aware of this problem, the laughable improbability of […]
The last few days have been uncomfortable for me after social media has reacted to the motivation of the perpetrator of the Toronto van attack, who is an incel. The topic is uncomfortable for me because, though I hadn’t previously heard of the incel subculture, I see right away that I identify with some of […]
I am building a workbench using mortise & tenon joints. Somehow, this is the first time I’ve attempted to do so, despite owning a mortiser and a tenonning jig for two decades. I’m finding that they are both well suited to fairly flat tenons, one width of the chisel, or up to two if the […]
For years, I had no home theater system at all. I had a television, with its pathetic built-in speakers, and I connected a DVD player and a VCR directly to it. When I finally built a system, I chose a Definitive Technology ProCinema speaker system. It was a staff pick at Crutchfield, and it reviewed […]
I’m already having second thoughts about buying the Canon C200. For one thing, I’ve been reading the manual and doing online research, and there are tons of exceptions and weird things the camera won’t do. For example, it records 4K, but it won’t output 4K on the SDI port. It supports free run time code, […]
When I chose a table saw, I considered getting one with a 48″ fence – a fence that could accommodate a 48″ wide work piece. Thus I’d be able to do just about anything with 48″ wide sheet stock on my table saw. There were practical reasons I decided to get a smaller table saw, […]
