2020-07-05
My home AC has been operating (fitfully) under the control of my system for a few weeks now. While doing so it has also been logging various parameters at one second intervals. I thought it would be interesting to look at the data. The first question was: what is maximum attic temperature. Since all of the data is in a Postgres database, that’s a very easy question to answer: bbb_hvac=> select max(attic_temp) as temp_f Read more…
2020-01-26
A “little while ago” I bough a Samsung “smart” TV from Costco. It was neither the cheapest nor the most expensive model. I was juuuust right. At that point Samsung’s smart TV shenanigans were well known so I made sure to disable automatic updates and I declined the user agreement during the initial setup. One of the very first annoyances I noticed was this “TV Plus” that would start blaring anytime I turned on the Read more…
2019-07-13
I had a touch of panic when I received a text from DHL that my PCB order from Elecrow would be delivered Tuesday, July 16th. Tuesday July 16th, you see, is when I’m scheduled to be flooded. The following is the river gauge closest to where I live. Tuesday July 16th is when we’re scheduled for a flood event thanks to tropical storm Barry. The even more disconcerting prediction is for the Comite river. They’re Read more…
2019-06-14
It’s been a little while since the last update. And for a very good reason. I was busy failing Calculus II. How I got a 89% on 70 (not a typo!) homework assignments and a ‘D’ in the class overall is beyond me. The long and the short of the story is anything that involved grading by a computer averaged 89%, while anything that involved grading by an “instructor” went straight into the toiled. I Read more…