It’s no secret that I love burgers. So when I started learning how to cook, a simple cheeseburger was one of the first things I made that involved meat. Since then I’ve made burgers on many different occasions, but recently I’ve discovered a great recipe for barbecue-style burgers. And I’d like to share it with my readers.
While Audacity is mostly designed as recording and editing software, there are a variety of interesting features embedded within it. One of my favorites is the Chirp generator. By playing an Audacity chirp on loop, it’s possible to simulate a variety of alarms. What you’ll need for this exploration: Audacity (see Step 1 for download link) Speakers or headphones.
Even though the telephone is slowly succumbing to the forces of email, texting, and Instagram, calling still has its uses. Customer support is one of those major uses, and it comes with a lot of time spent waiting for a prompter to recite the menu. “For billing information, press 1. To see your current balance, press 2. For more options, …
In Ray Bradbury‘s Dystopian short-story “A Sound of Thunder“, the protagonist Eckels takes a time-travel safari to the Dinosaur Age to kill a T-Rex. While hunting the T-Rex, Eckels steps on a butterfly. They come back to the present day (A.D. 2055 in the novel), and find out that history has been altered. A Fascist dictator now rules the city …
Having a laboriously slow Internet connection, I get excited when my download speeds go upwards of 150 KB/s. Unfortunately at that rate, it takes a seeming eternity to download large files. Recently, however, I stumbled upon a neat trick that may speed up downloading of large files on a bad connection. Note that I say may, as it may depend on …