-
Welcome!
Thanks for popping in. You might notice that there are a few broken links and a whole lot of not much here for now. There’ll be more to come, I promise!
-
Welcome to DMR
Someone once quipped to me that ham radio is a hobby of hobbies and nothing could be more true. So far, I’ve gained proficiency in soldering, scavenging, throwing lines into trees, and having as much fun as possible along the way. Now I can add “codeplug editor” to this list of skills. My latest adventure…
-
Colemak Update
Can’t say I’m one to always choose the simple path! I’m a little over two months into using Colemak as my daily driver at home. I have been unsuccessful so far in getting the folks at work to let me use Dreymar’s EPKL package (can’t say I blame them, considering how locked down my work…
-
Slaying Demons
I did it. I finally did it. I played that fucking lick from Molly On The Shore and I fucking slayed it. Backstory: 2003, I was a much younger arrogant punk, thinking I could bullshit my way through an audition the way I’d done throughout the rest of my schooling and career today, on charm,…
-
Pause for the cause
Today is the start of a “tactical pause” at work. Understandably there are a lot of thoughts, opinions, and misconceptions about what this time is and isn’t. I won’t expand here on what the root causes of the pause are, but rather talk about the communication aspect of things. Boss and I have a ton…
-
More Colemak (now with bonus new hardware!)
The adventures continue. At home, I’ve now made the switch to 100% Colemak, and I’m back up to a respectable 45-50wpm and while not back to my usual gait, it’s enough to keep me going and not be an impediment. A few observations and some bonus stuff though: After just going hard into it and…
-
Colemak Continues…
I think I’m starting to get the hang of things… I am definitely still hobbled by the switching of layouts but with some patience and deliberate thought I can get my ideas out. This post is brought to you entirely in the Colemak layout and while it certainly isn’t a speed demon writing session it…
-
Colemak Day 2
Nothing like relearning a skill to make you recognize how maladapted some of your practices are. I learned to touch type as a kid of the late 80s. By the time I took typing in Grade 8, in the 2.5 months allocated to that endeavour, I was already typing at 80+ wpm. I finished Keyboarding…
-
The Changeup
I don’t know why, but I am really drawn to niche, non-standard practices. For instance, and I will expand on this in other posts, I’ve switched up the tuning on my double bass from fourths to fifths. I extol the virtues of fixed-gear bike riding. For some reason, I don’t mind increasing the degree of…
-
Tying the room together
Last night’s tsunami advisory made for an unexpected and interesting hasty setup of a radio room in my house. I received the notification from the Alertable app after having a couple of lovely happy hour beers at the local pub with my son, and thought to myself that it would be a good time to…
-
Christmas practice!
I’m in the process of working out my practice recording setup so that a) I can archive my sessions and listen back; and b) I can post a little of what I’m doing for a combination of selfish and feedback-seeking reasons. I had a quiet Christmas morning – Sara worked a 12-hour shift, necessitating her…