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What I Believe In (2017 Edition)

February 4, 2025January 2, 2017 by Dan Bailey

I believe that the best way to determine how someone is going to treat you is to watch how they treat other people. I believe that more manufacturers should work toward selling items that can be repaired in a home workshop — and that the trend toward making goods disposable has really harmed the tinkerer/manufacturer … Read more

Can We Just Snuff Out 2016 Already?

February 4, 2025December 7, 2016 by Dan Bailey

God, what a fucking shit year. As a whole, I would love to drag it out in the alley, beat it until it begged for death, and then put a bullet in it.1 Violent metaphor aside, I guess I’d just like a do-over on 2016, because reality as taken a walk off the fucking map.

Hacks: November 2016

December 5, 2016 by Dan Bailey

November’s tinkering was reduced by life and holiday stuff — new job, Sam’s birthday, the start of the holidays, a death in the family, and so on. It’s been a rough month. I did manage to escape here and there to accomplish a few things, however, and that was good for my mental health.

Anthem for 2016

February 4, 2025November 29, 2016 by Dan Bailey

P.S.: Fuck you, 2016, you heartless piece of shit.

Making Note of the Cubs Win

February 4, 2025November 3, 2016 by Dan Bailey

It seems weird to have this blog in which I document large swaths of my life and not at at least make some note in passing that the Cubs finally ended a drought of 108 years and won the World Series last night.

Hacks: October 2016

October 31, 2016 by Dan Bailey

Another month of tinkering is behind me. I’ve been plugging away at stuff and here’s what I’ve got — more code, more bike stuff, developments on the 3D printing front, and so forth.

Hacks: September 2016

October 6, 2016 by Dan Bailey

How much longer before I exhaust the “saw” metaphor with the featured images for these posts? I mean, really. I don’t know what I’d do next — bad authors1, maybe? Anyway, here’s what I got up to in September. Hint: it isn’t a whole lot.

Hacks: August 2016

September 13, 2016 by Dan Bailey

August was a little more productive than the last few. Perhaps because summer is winding down, and with it comes a bit less crazy and more time to tinker. So I was tackling all manner of crap. Computing/Code One of the things I’ve been struggling with is a good to-do tasking system for my day-to-day … Read more

“He who hesitates is your oyster.”

August 15, 2016 by Dan Bailey

— The Idiomatic

Five Things Worse Than Gas Station Sushi

August 5, 2016 by Dan Bailey

Gas station sushi was a topic that came up frequently with an old friend. It’s still the first phrase that pops into my head when I see something horrible. For this list, I decided to come up with things that were even worse.

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