It’s been a year, so let’s debrief about my experience as a drone aircraft owner/operator.

I’m not terribly good at spatial orientation in three dimensions, so I bought a cheap $50 quadcopter, mostly to see whether I could develop the skills to become a competent remote operator before dropping real money on a quality drone. The craft-a Syma x5c- ( Read more... )

Begemot the cat found a packing peanut and kinda went to town on it. Fun, but we don’t want him injesting chunks of polystyrene. So I looked online to see if we could obtain any packing material that was kitteh-safe.

However, when I entered “edible packing material” into Amazon’s search bar, the results weren’t *quite* what I had envisioned.

Here ( Read more... )

Funny how someone can get through consulting craft class, and still give a website walk-thru to a client CEO with “strippers Boston” sitting prominently as left over input in his browser’s Google search toolbar.

Actual screen shot from Adobe Camera Raw Update.

Hey, Adobe, way to reinforce your brand identity. This is the logical result when you offshore your development to LOLcats.

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