Author: tqb

Tinker, tail -r, soldered, spry
Getting your $%*# Ring Doorbell hard-wired

Getting your $%*# Ring Doorbell hard-wired

I got a Ring Doorbell as a gift recently (thanks, Mom!), and, after about 4 weeks I’m finally satisfied with its installation! It’s not hard to find people complaining on the internet that their Ring Doorbell installation isn’t working. The design is… not great. There are spring pins on the back of the device that …

+ Read More

Jesus didn’t run this year

Jesus didn’t run this year

So, as I sit here, it is November 14th, 2016. A portion of the United States, my homeland of all 38 years of my life, is beside themselves because of the decision our electoral college made just less than a week ago to elect Donald Trump president. I won’t go into my personal feelings in …

+ Read More

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: a review

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: a review

UPDATE: Gruber chimes in In an interview about his recent biography Steve Jobs, author Walter Isaacson had this to say about the writing experience, [Steve Jobs] gave me an enormous amount of material, and the book kind of just wrote itself. Yes, it appears to have. It’s all too easy to tell that this book …

+ Read More