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The Best Multitool

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:59:43 -0400

My favorite multitool for a good decade now has been the Leatherman Style CS.

Even More Storage

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:19:29 -0500

The drives I ordered for the new NAS were a bit of a surprise choice.

Terra Nas

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:53:19 -0500

Hunger Is No Joke#

As we know, you can never have too much space. To the green Barracuda — once the biggest at 8TB — three red IronWolfs at 12TB each were added, replacing the 4TB WD drives. But all good things come to an end, and inevitably so did the free space on all those disks. For quite a while I had an expansion unit on my wishlist — a box that lets you connect a few extra drives to an existing Synology. And then Black Friday 2024 arrived.

Witch

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:19:43 -0500

The “Witch” has arrived.

Preparing the Sleigh in Summer

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:33:00 +0000

I’m the kind of person who buys a Christmas tree stand at the end of February.

A Knife for Field Cooking

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Inspired by gourmet ideas, nurturing the notion of culinary caste greatness… or, more honestly, after scrolling through Instagram of Poles living in Ireland, I bought myself a little knife to cook outdoors.

Video on the Go

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:00:00 +0000

When you’re riding through beautiful scenery, you want to capture it and share it — but you can’t pull out your phone while driving. So the photo arsenal has finally gained a tool for shooting on the go. Stay tuned for new videos on the YouTube channel!

Shovel!

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0000

The absence of snow in these parts had made me a bit complacent — but that won’t do, so a shovel was finally bought and put in the trunk.

Prepare the Sledge in Summer

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +0000

This particular purchase, on the other hand, was well thought out — it had been patiently sitting in my Amazon wishlist, waiting for a discount.

After swinging an axe all summer and realizing that cutting trees crosswise is not the most rewarding of tasks, I decided to splurge on a saw. Naturally, for camping I wanted something portable and foldable — though you could just as well throw a regular hand saw in the car, it wouldn’t be quite feng shui.

Watch 2020: the first one

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +0000

For quite a long time I was perfectly happy with my Pebble Steel. Even after the company was acquired and shut down by competitors, enthusiasts had written the software, a server with watch faces, and everything kept ticking along. The watch looks great — metal bracelet, a familiar almost-LCD screen, and a battery that lasts a couple of weeks. Modern watches that need daily charging can’t even compare!

Flash Drives

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +0000

Somehow before I knew it, I’d picked up a couple of flash drives. Time moves on, and the enormous university flash drive with its 4 GB is now only good for booting Ubuntu onto one of the old machines. And if you want to put a bit of music in the car — you’ll need to upgrade. Well, let the bigger one just sit there. You never know when you might suddenly need a 128 GB flash drive in the middle of the night…

"Woe from Wit" or "In Search of a Dumb Outlet"

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:00:00 +0000

This story begins in a neighbor’s bathroom.

Black Friday

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:17:00 +0000

Soon (or, according to most stores — already) the season of massive sales and gigantic discounts kicks off in the US.

An Alternative to a Campfire

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Sometimes there is simply nowhere to make a campfire, or no time for it — or you got your fill of woodsmoke yesterday and now all you want is to boil a kettle.

Better an axe in hand than a fig in your pocket

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0000

The next addition to the camping arsenal was a hand tool — an axe. After swinging someone else’s for a bit, I realized I needed one of my own. And on the advice of friends (not to compensate for anything) — I chose the longer model, the Fiskars X25.

Sleeping Pads

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 04:54:00 +0000

Our first camping experience showed that sleeping on foam pads isn’t the most comfortable thing, so our little camper kit has now been joined by these inflatable sleeping pads.

emergency supply 3.5

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:30:00 +0000

A box of six such packages arrived recently.

The Theory of Big Discounts

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 05:08:00 +0000

“Come and get it, prices slashed!” — that’s basically what an email from Amazon was screaming at me about a grand sale on all sorts of stuff from WD and SanDisk.