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... )

If you’ve spent much time with me, you probably discovered that I mark my paper money and track where it goes using the Where’s George? website. And you’ve probably asked yourself, “Why?”

There’s no good answer actually, other than boredom and curiosity.

In 2004 I was between jobs and had nothing better to do, and I remembered having seen one of ( Read more... )

As I step away from some of my older hobbies, it looks like kyūdō-the Japanese martial art of archery-might be a new activity that arises to take their place.

People who know me will realize that when I commit to an interest, I ( Read more... )

Checking my friends list today, someone posted an article to the rarely-used singlemalt (Scotch whisky) community I subscribe to.

So I thought about it and realized that it’s been two months since I’ve had any kind of drink. Not that it’s really all that strange, since I ( Read more... )