The Bobcat CT235 is alive again!
Our Bobcat CT235 with only 977 hours on the engine broke down on 27 April 2026 after a coolant hose blew. My suegro bought this tractor used for his landscaping business around 2015 or...
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Clean Room versus Reverse Engineering: How AI Was Used to Reproduce Proprietary Software
Previously I wrote about how AI was used to reproduce Microsoft, Adobe, and AutoCAD software offerings using an allegedly legally free method called a clean-room implementation. Here I want to expound a bit on...
Microsoft is fast becoming a fully AI company.
Yesterday Microsoft announced its decision to voluntarily buy out 27% (60,000 people) of its workforce as it moves further towards an all-in investment in AI. While it isn’t clear to me if that means...
In Memory of Ramón Arbujas
In July and August of 2000 I was fortunate to spend time in Venezuela, traveling through the west and west-central regions. I have a much larger write-up of the full trip in progress but...
Ender 3 v2 Direct Drive and Hotend Upgrade
This is going to be a boring technical post about how I upgraded my Ender 3 v2 3D printer to a lighter print head setup, along with the reasons for doing so. It is...
Pablo Agustin Trujillo (1916–1997)
On a warm day in the middle of June 1990, in Taos, New Mexico, Pablo Agustin Trujillo stands proud and smiling dressed in his Fiestas costume and tuning his guitar. He is in the...
Artificial Intelligence in Art and Music
I have to be honest with you, I am not a fan of any of the AI generated art and music I have come across. Art (and I’m just going to lump music under...
Bandsaw Blade Tension Gauge
Changing blades on a bandsaw or large sawmill requires properly setting the tension of the new blade. If you run a sawmill these gauges (tensiometer being the $20 word for it) are part of...
The Story of Julius Joseph (Fr. Innocent) Mittelstadt, O.F.M.
At the start of summer 1931, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad (shortened to just The Santa Fe in brochures by then) ran five daily trains between Chicago, through Kansas City, and into...
Waking Up With Dad
It is 3:30am and my dad came into my room to look in on me just now, in a dream of course. In this dream, Dad said he was heading off soon. When I...
Adjustable Tenon Jig
I’m in the middle of converting an old barn shed into my workshop and it is time to replace the old janky doors with a proper set of shop doors. Since these will be...
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