My 2019 Intel i7 MacBook Pro was overheating and throttling on simple tasks. Monitoring a webcam, running the Music (nee iTunes) visualizer made the machine unusable. Here’s how I fixed it. Processor temp wasn’t much above 60°C, but the fans were jacked, processors were all going nuts. Clearly CPU throttling was stealing cycles. I found […]
When winter comes, it’s hard to get a good day to apply paint to rockets and other crafts. So I move my painting inside with a cheap paint booth. First thing I must stress: Be Safe. You have to ventilate your painting area actively, and ensure you’re not painting near ignition sources like furnace pilot […]
A few years ago, I ran into a situation while working in an enterprise. The Intranet team announced with great fanfare that they’d released a brand new Intranet redesign, with a pretty new look and feel. Sure enough, the Intranet looked shiny-new. However, once a user searched for anything, nearly all the results (all the […]
I’ve been looking for chords or tab to David Baerwald‘s beautiful song “Born for Love” for a year or more. I fooled around with it on the guitar, and found a few of the chords used, but couldn’t make a good arrangement to play it. Yesterday I found a video of David Baerwald playing Born […]