Author Archives: Kevin

About Kevin

Just an old guy with opinions that I like to bounce off other people.

Anticipation — An autonomous vehicle story

Posted on September 20, 2021 by Kevin

It’s Monday and this Friday, according to Elon Musk, the long-anticipated “Request Button” is supposed to start rolling out to the Tesla fleet. The button requests access to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta, something that up to now only existed on … Continue reading →

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The receding past

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Kevin

Time passes and memory fades. Things wear out and are discarded. The hymn says, “change and decay, all around I see.” But there is a countercurrent, thanks to the Internet. Things that I have searched for unsuccessfully in years past … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump is trying to rig the 2020 election.

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Kevin

This article comes out of a federal lawsuit about mail-in voting in Nevada. As I discuss the suit, feel free to follow along with the complaint.1 One has to read the complaint for a bit to get to the meat … Continue reading →

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Google search is really good

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Kevin

I read this article at the New York Times a while back, and I wanted to locate it again. I typed in a search query into Google: trump covie-19 repeated warnings site:nytimes.com Google first figured out that I meant “covid” … Continue reading →

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Another day, another email scam

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Kevin

The latest scam seems to be emails that appear to come from me to me. The sender email is spoofed as my own. The spammer than makes the claim that they have hacked my email account and found all manner … Continue reading →

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My New image

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Kevin

Initially this website was pretty lame. Then I got a somewhat more streamlined version: This one was quite nice, and going back and seeing this image, it reminds me of a photo that I would take not long afterwards on … Continue reading →

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Tesla Full Self-Driving Computer

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Kevin

Tesla called. My 2018 Model 3 was manufactured about 8 months before Tesla started including the Full Self-Driving (FSD) computer in all its cars. Those of us bought the FSD Capability option are entitled to an upgrade. My car came … Continue reading →

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