Butch Howard

WPBT 2017 was today and I was fortunate enough to be able to make it. I played. Poorly. That was fun. We should do it again.

Hey there's an ODBII Bluetooth device on sale cheap. I think I'll get it and play around. It's here! (After a couple of weeks....

Modern Paleo Principles A "paleo" approach to health uses the evolutionary history of  homo sapiens , plus the best of modern...

I have gotten Travis CI to build my Haskell doodles . There was a little bit of cabal learning to get it going. It does not do much other...

Geez, I might have some time and some inclination to post some again. Today begins my last active month at my current employer. I have worke...

I am a lazy blogger. To make it easy on myself, I am digging up a post from my old blog before I started using Blogger here and WordPress el...

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My name is Butch and I am a Woot-a-Holic. There's a Woot-Off today. Dozens of offers instead of the usual one-a-day deals. They have a ...

A security and privacy expert explains how "anonymized" data can still be used to discover the original source and how Netflix mes...

Cool distance estimation trick from LifeHacker (and proof to the kids that math class pays off some times): Estimate Distances with Your Arm...

From 2009 August In the Fall of 1990 Frank French of Far East Futon Company made a futon for Mary and me. A great big 8-inch thick, ...

From an actual scientific paper submitted to the Journal of Ethnopharmocalogy For many years students of Haitian society have suggested th...

From Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek It’s the wrong question because when you’re 65 the problem isn’t getting insurance. It’s paying for health c...

Mathematical models demonstrate that most movie concepts of Zombie outbreaks are close to correct or even understated. Zombies and other Zo...

Scott Adam's gets it almost right . I read an interesting report in the media about a new technology breakthrough. Obviously you shouldn...

I wonder how many really read the Official Rules closely enough to realize just what they are agreeing to when they play these silly games ...

Reminded me of John Prine, even though the song does not match the story very closely, but still, it's a good song, and it's John Pr...

From Tom Smith: Google voice machinations Evil vs . evil. My Google Voice phone number is: 678-807-9195.

Ari from FreeColorado.com Should a life insurance company 'discriminate against' an 80 year old smoker with lung cancer by declining...

These are a few of the photos I dug out of the 30YearBox I stumbled across in the basement. Except for the picture if the soon-to-be wife, ...

On the suggestion of my sister, and because I could get a free rental, I gave RedBox a try yesterday. The website is not bad, there is a bo...

Success I guess the girl scouts have to go back and find the right spot . According to readings by the National Geodetic Survey, the Four Co...

The weekend before last Nelson and I ate at Pappy Red's, a truly wonderful barbeque joint in town. At some point the talk to turned to u...

Just finished reading this from John Scalzi. It is basically a best-of from the past ten years of his online writings. You could go to his w...

Ed Felton: This story might help to illustrate why experienced engineers assume that any large software program will contain errors, and why...

William Gibson tells a good tale.

A couple of years ago John Scalzi announced the launch of Ficlets (which I am not linking to for reasons to be clear by the end of this par...

After an hour and half of driving 25mph on 4-lane wide interstate between Macon and Atlanta we decided that we had to change the route. We g...

If the the propane powered grill on your back deck has trouble starting when using the built-in automatic starter, be sure to SHUT OFF all ...

I rode the bike to work most of the days through the summer. The general rule was (and still is) that I ride the bike unless there is some ...