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Month: August 2017

Raspberry Pi

Portable Raspberry Pi music player

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

On the road it’s nice to have your collection of music standing by to plug into your car. For that I’ve typically relied on a 16GB iPhone 3GS. My ve...

Constitution/Term limits

Amending the Constitution – replying to Tom Coburn

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Article: The Constitutional Amendments We Need Today I’ve said before to be wary of someone who talks about amending the Constitution. Yes, I know I’...

Silent DIY rack cabinet

Mistakes were made

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Wow… it’s been… months since the last part of this. So what in the hell has been happening? Well, in short, a lot. I’d been doing some t...

FedEx

Honoring delivery instructions

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Once again I have a beef with FedEx and their apparent inability to honor delivery instructions. Where UPS has MyChoice, FedEx has the Delivery Manager. Which y...

Due process/Republican platform/Supreme Court

Legislating from the bench

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Recently I got into an online argument — surprise, I know! — over the Controlled Substances Act and the extent of Congress’s interstate and in...

Dress codes/Feminism

And again, not understanding how dress codes work

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

A high school student named Bree was recently cited for a dress code violation, despite wearing what she considered to be an “okay” shirt: please te...

Firearms and Ammunition/Law

Straw purchase Catch-22

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Some months back, I was asked by a friend to comment on a situation that had developed in a small town East of Kansas City. Colby Sue Weathers had been trying t...

Health/Marriage

Virtue signaling for a participation trophy

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I take thee to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day onward, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other...

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