Month: June 2020

  • Pro’s Con’s of tankless hotwater

    This is “Boots” Economics. — https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-rich-were-so-rich-vimes-reasoned Let’s do the math. I was renting a Power Vented 75gal (PV75) tank. It was 13 years old, and rusting out from the inside. No leaks, but bathwater looked like pond water. GROSS. Safe, but gross… needed it replaced. The tank was inspected in February and was going to…

  • Testing your power outlets/receptacles at home.

    Had some worn outlets, house is 13 years old… so, turn off the breaker for that circuit, and replaced the unit. The issue was when I plugged one of those “outlet” testers in, it told me I had an open neutral. Well, WTF… I plugged it in the other side, and then a bunch of…

  • Converting files HEIC to png/jpg or MOV to png/jpg

    If you got one or two files, just use an online converter… however, if you have several hundred files you wish to convert, use imagemagick. You first need to install it… on OSX, use homebrew. $> brew install imagemagick. this will give you the “convert” command in the command prompt. Now, to do it manually…