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The refit: Installing Mountain Lion

The next step in the refit is to install Mountain Lion or Mac OS X 10.8. These days, of course, instead of …

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The refit: installing memory and hard drive

Step one in the refit process was to install a new 1TB drive and an additional 4GB of memory. So I opened …

Latest edition of The Molesworth Pilot

Another edition of The Molesworth Pilot has shown up in my inbox. It’s the email newsletter of the 303rd Bombardment Group (The …

The refit, boldly going from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion

It’s an exciting day for me and my venerable (2008) MacPro. I’m bringing the memory up to 8GB, adding a terabyte drive …

Mini AT-ST Popsicle Stick Model

Mini AT-ST Popsicle Stick Model. This is just brilliant and pointless at the same time. It will be hard for me to …

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In-Series WordPress plugin

With this website, I hope to have several continuing/related posts going at once. Once I finish the ball turret yoke for my …

The Dam Busters!

[youtube http://youtu.be/-miLoWZ68Dk] UPDATE: There are nice pictures of the new Lancaster tooling at Scale Model News. The news that Airfix is releasing a …

Code Breakers Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes

[youtube http://youtu.be/JF48sl15OCg] I’m a fiend for the efforts of the British secret service to decipher the German codes during World War II and …

Near perfect blueberry muffins

I’ve long been on the quest to make the perfect blueberry muffins, primarily because the quality of Safeway blueberry muffins is so …

Enterprise joy ride

[youtube http://youtu.be/XoZ5OqOyzAA]   Doug Drexler has posted a wonderful YouTube video on on his facebook page: a fan film about the original 1701 …