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Month: November 2016

10Gb network upgrade

10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part II

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Before continuing, first a few notes on the previous iteration. Firmware. FreeNAS’s driver for the Chelsio card complained about the firmware version. The...

Crime/Feminism/Second Amendment

Teaching men to not rape

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This is a response I gave on Facebook to someone who said Can’t we teach men not to rape at the same time as teaching women how to defend themselves? Oh w...

Children/Health/Health care/Rights/Science

Smokers can never be considerate

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let’s see, where to begin — and this is coming from someone who grew up around a smoker that quit 20 years ago this coming January: 1. The root word...

Free speech

Misconstruing free speech – #TrumpCup

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

On November 18, a woman named Sam Montgomery posted this to Twitter: I work at the Starbucks in Lexington, Kentucky and if anybody asks me to write Trump on the...

10Gb network upgrade

10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part I

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 5 Comments

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 ...

Politics

Post-election (willful) ignorance

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let’s start with these two: “Will my marriage stay legal?” “Will Roe v. Wade be overturned?” Anyone who asks these questions obvio...

Marriage

Naming children

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Absinthe

Another glass of absinthe — II

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Accounting/Debt

Integrating budgeting and accounting with GnuCash

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Politics

Referendum on the left

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

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