Month: August 2020
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Configuring the AIS unit
I finally decided to acquire an AIS transceiver for Blue Opal, and went with one that talks both NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000; an Alltek Marine B600s. It should happily chat with the Miniplex3, which will deal with sending the received AIS transmissions to something like my iPad (as there is no chartplotter or MFD…
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Birds!
I’ve got an older HikVision camera set up at the kitchen door, looking in to the garden. With a feeder hung in front of it, I’ve got a front row seat for bird acrobatics!
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Nostalgia, of sorts
While digging around for the supporting paperwork for a passport application, I came across a blue folder with the name of the college (Pennsylvania College of Technology) I attended in the US. Somehow, even though it’s decades distant, I still have my undergraduate transcript and the B.Sc. certificate. For posterity: Semester Course Title Grade Major/Support…
