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Now that we’ve had a Tesla for a while, I’m finally understanding how to do route planning. A Better Route Planner is an awesome tool, but it needs some critical data to really estimate where you will need to charge. This thing is awesome because it takes into account elevation and hills so that you…

Now that we’ve had a Tesla for a while, I’m finally understanding how to do route planning. For 99.9% of all people, the built in route planning in today’s Tesla maps is pretty incredible. Just plug in where you want to go and if you need to stop, it tells you which Tesla Supercharger and…

Well time once again to look at buying MacBook Pros. They are working on their mid 2017 model right now so if you are thinking about getting one, here are some things to know assuming you are using your computer for mainly web browsing, photos and not super heavy stuff. Things to delete To save…

Sadly this is way harder than you would think. Audible for instance does allow book sharing, but only with one other adult in your Amazon Household. The other option is to use Overdrive and borrow from a library. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to buy an audiobook for everyone 🙁

Wow, I had forgotten how complicated it can be to do the simple stuff. In this case, quite a few of our cars have had terrible problems with batteries. One nice thing about electric vehicles by the way is that they are a lot harder to ruin. But over the years, we’ve had lots of…

OK, I switched to using JPEG-2000 in 16-bit mode lossless for archiving images, this brings a 5400 dpi 35mm slide from 220MB to about 150MB. Moreover, you can also create a 16-bit lossy one and you get 16-bits. Now that many camera phones can record more than 8-bit color (the iPhone is 10-bit), Apple has…

OK, if the zombie apocalypse ever comes, I will definitely die of thirst because without this video, I could never figure out how to drink from the Ultimate Directions Kicker Valve. There are two tricks. First, because it is a bottle for running, you have to pull the valve out with your teeth (Argh). And…

Wow it is amazing how much data just lives out in the real world. Someone was just asking me about car sales and a quick google got me to a bunch of sites that track sales amazingly closely… Overall View The Wall Street Journal has their own overview of car sales because it is such…

Well, it’s spring again finally and all those little things I didn’t get last year, I’m determined to get for this year, so here are some recommendations. Arm Warmers Yes these don’t really wear out, but I keep losing them, so there are quite a few to choose according to Cycling Weekly from the Carney…