Fifteen Hours Without Internet, and the Downward Spiral That Followed
My house was Without. Internet. Entirely. for fifteen hours last Saturday. It turns out some jackasses in my area have discovered a new sport:
One Chime, Two Doorbells: UniFi Protect and My Old Wired Doorbell
I spent a few evenings recently trying to add a Shelly 1 Gen 4 to my existing wired doorbell so I could integrate the old-school indoor chime into my modern home automation setup, without losing the way the physical doorbell already worked. This post is the writeup of what I got wrong the first time, what actually works, and the final wiring I ended up with — hopefully it saves the next person some time.
Eight Months on Harvest Temple Challenge Mode, and Thirty Seconds of Yelling
Twenty-Six Years of Blog, Mostly Saved
I started blogging in 2000, and I never quite stopped — though there were stretches where I really, really did stop. The blog has lived in WordPress at movingparts.net for all of those twenty-six years, and during that time I’ve managed to make a few long-term-thinking mistakes.
All You Can Eat (up to 4’x8’ at a time) Whiteboards for only $13!
Inspired by LifeHacker’s older post about making your own whiteboard for cheap, I bought a 4’x8’ sheet of dry erase board from Home Depot for $13. I had them cut it down into 2 3’x4’ sections and one 2’x4’ section on account of I have a Honda Fit and that’s just not gonna hold a 4’x8’ section of anything.
On Facebook, Notifications, Filtering, and Hire Me
tl;dr: 1) Nice job on the Notifications dropdown, Facebook devs! 2) I still really miss RSS feeds and Jabber message integration!! 3) You should hire me! I have some ideas on how to make this better! =;P
On Gaming, Highest Quality, Best Price
I am a nerd and love video games. I looked into buying a gaming laptop, but after researching and talking to some friends who know more about this space than I do, I decided to go a different route.
Thoughts on Guild Wars 2 Expansion
As I mentioned previously, I BIG TIME LOVE Guild Wars 2. And now there’s an expansion coming and I am really excited about it. But I’ve seen a lot of complaining from current players that ArenaNet decided to charge $50 for it and also throw the core game in for free for people who don’t have it already. I think the thought process there is “well, I spent $50 on the game already, and now I have to spend another $50, so my investment is $100; whereas new players will only have to pay $50 for all that I have now.” I think this is a flawed mindset and I dumped this into my Guild’s Facebook group post earlier and thought I’d also post it here.
Neato Botvac 80 Is The Best Robot Vacuum Out There (No Really)
I posted this on my Amazon Reviews page too, but I figured it was worth a blog post as well.
Guild Wars 2 AC Dungeon, Path 3, Burrows Pattern, Memorization By Grid
Wherein our fearless GuildWars2-playing blogger attempts to memorize the burrow graveling spawn pattern in AC P3.