Kent "Ryan"

Wrote about this watch a few years ago after I got it. A quick update – the battery life, which was excellent for a long… Read More »Forerunner 55 Update

Another in my line of “amatuer car reviewer” posts. We recently bought a 2020 Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring (FWD).  I had the opportunity to drive… Read More »2020 CX-5 Review

My cousin Erik died yesterday. A bolt out of the blue – an illness turned into a raging infection that despite heroic measures, couldn’t be… Read More »RIP Erik

We’ve owned our CR-V for a while now – thought I’d jot down my impressions and opinions. Model: 2019 CR-V EX AWD – roughly 52k… Read More »CR-V Update

A few (5?) years ago we decided to “upgrade” our kitchen with stainless steel appliances. After some (possibly flawed?) research, we bought a set of… Read More »Samsung Sucks

In 2022 I found myself in need of a vehicle. Someone in my household got in an accident and totaled their car, and needed to… Read More »Oh Burt, We Hardly Knew Ye

I have a friend who has educated me on this subject. One specific example: he had a stapler on his desk (insert Office Space joke… Read More »Simplify Don’t Optimize

While extracting some dandelions from my back yard (I know, leave them and be bee friendly), I was struck by some of the absurdity of… Read More »A Strange Kind of Farming

I’ve had the opportunity to learn a lot in the last few years. Here are a few of my favorite frameworks/tools (and a few boos).… Read More »Cool (and not so cool) Tools

Have been listening to a lot of astrophysics podcasts to try to cure insomnia (no offense, physicists, and to be clear my undergrad degree is… Read More »(Forward) Time Travel Is Possible (?)