For years I’ve been looking for a good screw extractor. So far I’ve had the most success with these: Grabit Screw Removers. While working with several stripped screws (mostly small aluminum and light steel), it removed all but one when used as per directions. I don’t think I’d try removing a screw that has the …
Category Archives: General
Travel Gear: Normal
While I might spend a few days at a beach resort with just my lightweight travel kit, for work related trips a “full” laptop is necessary. So here’s my normal travel setup, which centers around a new Macbook Air, and support accessories. Clockwise from upper left: Macbook Air – I’ve spent most of the last …
R/C Plane: Supercub
I’ve been enchanted by flying animals and aircraft my entire life. I’ve always wanted to get into radio control aircraft, but the time, complexity, and cost of radio control aircraft kept me away. These days modern high-density lithium-poltmer (lipo) batteries and foam aircraft have addressed the issues that kept me out of the hobby. For …
Books by Friends
For those who don’t spend time clicking on random words in my posts (since I don’t distinguish hyperlinks), you might not have noticed that Lightly Organized Chaos now has a storefront. Powered by Amazon Stores, the Lightly Organized Store has a variety of products mentioned in recent blog posts as well as some stuff that’s …
Travel Gear: Ultralight
I love to travel, but I don’t like carrying a bunch of luggage. Unfortunately, the geek in me needs a few tools to make it through the day. In this first travel kit entry I’d like to present my choices for trips where computing isn’t meant to play a large role. When travelling to destinations …
The High Price of Nostalgia
I can tell that I’ve hit that time of life where people start looking back and pining for younger days. How do I know? I’ve been surfing eBay looking for artifacts of my youth, and the prices make me wish I had been more careful with my stuff. The Rubik’s Cube picture above is very …
R/C Cars: Stampede & RC10B4
With the Blade MCX buzzing around the house Kim mentioned that she had felt deprived one christmas long ago. It seems that her brothers got radio control trucks and she didn’t. I tried to make it up to her by giving her a r/c car for Christmas. Based on lots of information on the Internet, …
R/C Heli: Blade MCX
While stuck in Kim’s basement immediately following my first surgery, I was looking for something to keep me entertained (besides CNN and the election). After some Internet research I settled on an E-Flite Blade MCX radio control helicopter. I’ll go over the in’s and out’s of this little heli and provide a small review in …
New Year’s Update
Happy New Year! I suppose now is as good a time to post a general update as any. Here’s a potpourri of random things going on in my world. Health: I’m fighting a cold (that I’ve also managed to give to Kim), but otherwise I’m doing pretty well. I start cardiac rehab next week (delayed …
I’m now on twitter. I’m going to try to be more proactive about writing updates by using twitter. Since they’re smaller and more lightweight hopefully it’ll be easier for me to generate posts. You can follow my exploits in the sidebar to the right, or at: http://www.twitter.com/SandroFouche. Also, if anyone wants to recommend twitter tools …