Here are some of the different “First” rules of gun safety I’ve picked up from different courses and various reading material: 1. Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. Sometimes worded “Muzzles must point down range”, sometimes “Never point a gun at something you don’t intend to kill”. 1. All guns are always …
Author Archives: Brian
Trusting GPS
I was recently driving to an appointment and I was running exactly on time. I was a bit stressed about not having any buffer because the office I was going to runs like clockwork. I really didn’t want to be late. Suddenly the highway came to complete stop. People started making u-turns in the median. …
Brew, Rinse, Repeat
For my third installment of Adventures in Cold Brewing I offer a quick note on repetition. For this experiment I started with my usual Mason jar cold brewing routine. After my standard 12 hours I filtered the coffee, reset the mason jar with fresh coffee grinds, and poured the coffee back in instead of fresh water. I …
Improving GPS
Every time I get in my car I ask my smartphone to use precise measurements of time beamed from several points in space to quickly triangulate my location, then wirelessly connect to the internet, find my destination, map a route avoiding traffic, then read the directions to me as I drive. And yet I will …