My Desultory Blog

RichC | September 6, 2024

Europe and their big government overreaches in restricting personal liberty by American standards, but that same heavy handedness often does more that the U.S. to protect an individual’s privacy from Big Tech and their sweeping data collection machines.  Ever since social media and cloud-oriented companies desired to take ownership of their users data, it has […]

Category: Business, Idioms, Politics, Social Media, Video | No Comments »
Tags: big govt, bigtech, cloud, collection, data, google, government, idiom, idioms, irs, lois lerner, phrase, power, tea party, tech friday, techfriday, tulsi gabbard, Washington DC, x.com

RichC | February 6, 2021

Now that I have my new DeWalt DW735x planner working (and stored) in the pool detached garage with my ShopVac, I’ve been contemplating a better "chip separator" so that the filter doesn’t plug up so fast. I’d love to have a bigger system, but really just need to build my own cyclone separator with a […]

Category: Ideas, Tools, Woodworking | No Comments »
Tags: bucket, chip, clearvue, collection, cyclone, dewalt, dust, dw735, ideas, planer, shopvac, tools, woodworking

RichC | January 30, 2021

My basement woodworking shop is a dust-making mess in our house, but there isn’t much I can do about it now other than to improve how I collect and filter and keep dust from gravitating into the furnaces cold air returns and upstairs. In our previous house in Hudson Ohio, I was fortunate to have […]

Category: Archive, How-To, Humor, To-Do, Video, Woodworking | No Comments »
Tags: collection, dust, ideas, miter, saw, video, woodworking, workshop, youtube

RichC | June 28, 2019

Unfortunately I’ve bought into – or was “gifted” into 🙂 – BUT really enjoy the Amazon Echo smart speaker virtual assistant devices. I know Alexa is “always listening” (as is my cellphone, iPad, computers, etc) and that they are doing “who knows what”with my data, but probably not always what I want. Obviously, they dissect […]

Category: Advice, Alexa, Marketing, Shopping, Technology, Video | No Comments »
Tags: Alexa, amazon, article, assistant, collection, data, echo, Marketing, phys.org, speaker, tech friday, techfriday, virtual