10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part I
Right now my home network is entirely Gigabit — minus any wireless devices or laptops that are using “Fast Ethernet” (i.e. 100 Mbps). And the ...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Post-election (willful) ignorance
Let’s start with these two: “Will my marriage stay legal?” “Will Roe v. Wade be overturned?” Anyone who asks these questions obvio...
Naming children
I love my mother-in-law, I really do. But her baby name choice, Esmeralda, was not, I repeat, not, anywhere near the top of my baby name list. She knew that, I ...
Another glass of absinthe — II
In the interim, the R9 290X was put back into the system and the GTX 1080 pulled and sent back to NewEgg on RMA. Unfortunately NewEgg didn’t send out the ...
Integrating budgeting and accounting with GnuCash
There are a lot of approaches to budgeting and personal financial management, it seems. Some are rather complicated, while others make you wonder whether their ...
Referendum on the left
I knew from the outset that Trump would win Kansas last night. So my vote really didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of who would carry the night. On...
Another build project – White Lightning
Another project is now in progress, sort of. Just as Desert Sapphire was a build for one of my wife’s friends, this build will be for another of her frien...
Opposing Hillary
Saying to someone “vote for Hillary, you racist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic bigot!” isn’t going to convince people… When Hillar...
Aborting black babies
One idea commonly parroted by those who are anti-abortion or “pro-life” is the idea that the “abortion industry” is targeting minorities...
Dodging taxes – the “fair share” argument
[Note: this isn’t really an article, but merely a cut/paste of a comment I left to someone trying to argue that the wealthy don’t pay their “f...
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