Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Odds

    Someone asked what the odds of getting a six on any of four rolls of a six-side dice, or something like that, though I was busy eating which can make it difficult to think through these things, and too messy to use a computer to get an answer and anyways was eating. Probably bad for the digestion to be furiously cognitiving whist one should properly be relaxing after a meal. One may also forget various things having not sharpened particular tools in a while.

  • Keeping (Relatively) Cool plus Adventures in Solar

    So this week brings our first real heatwave to western New York (I think we had a small one last month, but no one really talked about that one...), and everyone seems to be talking about how to survive the heat. So here's my tale...

    I avoid using air conditioning whenever possible, as I'm something of a cheapskate when it comes to electricity, especially now that the cost is rising about 20-25% per year, and our electric company is now entirely foreign-owned (but that's another story).

  • pink hue

    thunder roars in the distance 
    the trees wrap their branches 
    closer to their trunks 
    prepared
    knowing the pretty pink hue in the sky
    is not of innocence
    

  • On the Radio - June 2026

    Related to my previous blog post, here are some of the interesting things I heard for the first time on the radio over the past couple of months.

  • Full moon psychedelic synth

    Who are these hands? Why are they pressing these buttons?

    I had to fight with my hands for a while there. They had a mind of their own. They didn't feel like my hands, they looked like my daughter's hands. They would tweak my synth knobs and button, tricking me in different ways.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Camp Snap Cameras and XTEINK X4 Ereader Reviews

    For stretches this gemlog has been quite tech focused but it has been a while since I've posted about anything tech related. I think the last tech post was about a 20+ year old PDA :-). I'm taking a brief respite from the food forest updates today to talk about and review some devices I've acquired recently. You may sense a theme here and with a lot of my tech interests. A move towards more focused devices that do one or a few things well instead of trying to do everything. These devices very much fall into that category.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Hello, World!

      Hey all, and welcome to my first post on the interwebs.

      At the moment, I do not have a lot to share, but I do have interesting things to post down the line.

      You can explore this site and all posts on three different protocols, all hosted by the nice people over at tilde.club. See the following locations to explore it at your own leasure: [...]