Some basic math for Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats has been posting a bunch of memes to Facebook talking about the call for a $15 minimum wage. And the way they are trying to support the idea is...
Month: July 2015
Beta Orionis – Part XXI
Nothing like a holiday weekend to continue a build, especially since I’ve been putting this off for a lot longer than I originally anticipated. Okay I did...
Reply to Gov. Martin O’Malley regarding “gun reform”
Martin O’Malley is the former governor of Maryland who is also seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election cycle. Recently he pen...
$150,000 medical bill for snakebite
By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the $150,000 medical bill that one “adventurer” incurred when he attempted to take a “selfie...
Reply to Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer regarding white privilege
To the honorable Reverend, Privilege comes in many forms. As a person of the cloth, you have privileges that I, as an atheist, will never have. Yet I don’...
Questioning heroism
In general to be called a “hero”, you must do something heroic. This means that donning a particular uniform doesn’t make you a hero by defaul...
ASRock BTC Pro Kit
In building out a large project to put some spare hardware back into some kind of use, I purchased this as part of an experiment to connect graphics cards to an...
Building a Minecraft server
As I mentioned in a previous article, I decided to co-opt the original game server to use for distributed computing projects. This will actually work out for th...
Finalizing the graphics host
In a previous article I showed how I had the PCI-Express extenders going through USB panel mount extension cables, with the intention of finishing out that syst...
Adding a GTX 680 and water cooling
Time to finalize the X2 system and also do a little experimenting. I ordered a GTX 680 used through eBay as I wanted to test how well it’d work through th...