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Avoid Targeted Advertisements

February 5, 2025 Art Zemon

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I would wager that you have been dismayed to see an advertisement targeting you very shortly after you searched for similar products. Maybe the ads showed up in Facebook. Maybe they showed up on a completely unrelated website. This practice goes by several names: targeted advertising, targeted marketing, and remarketing to name a few. It […]

Internet, Recommendations, Software, Technology

Cycling Power with the Velocomp PowerPod

February 21, 2023 Art Zemon

Velocomp PowerPod mounted to bike handlebars

I am cycling through data nerd heaven. Winter weather “forced” me to buy a Zwift Hub indoor bike trainer so that I could ride in icy, wet weather that normally keep me out of the saddle. The trainer tells me how much power I am pumping through the pedals, info that I have never had […]

Bicycling, Recommendations, Technology

Translate Biblical Hebrew to English

February 2, 2021 Art Zemon

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When I am in my weekly Torah study class, I often find myself wondering, “That’s what the English says but what does the original Hebrew say?” As a guy who does not read or speak Hebrew, here is how I figure it out. The built-in Hebrew dictionary at sefaria.org makes it easy to translate biblical […]

Cabbages & Kings, Judaism, Recommendations

Cutting Aircraft Aluminum with a Hackzall

September 3, 2019 Art Zemon

I tried all sorts of tools to cut the thicker aluminum stock while I was building my airplane. I used a band saw with a regular wood blade for most of it, finishing the rough edges with a big disk sander and then deburring with a six-inch Scotch-Brite wheel on a bench grinder. That worked […]

Aviation, Recommendations

Chevy Bolt EV 10,000 Mile Report

June 1, 2018 Art Zemon

Chevrolet Bolt EV

I just passed 10,000 miles in my Chevy Bolt EV. In a nutshell, the car has been absolutely wonderful. I get in it, drive it, and plug it into the charger in my garage at the end of the day. Owning this electric car is downright boring; it just works. Driving it is an absolute […]

Ecology, Rants & Raves, Recommendations, Technology

How to Lace Wire

December 19, 2016 Art Zemon

In building the wiring harness for my Bede BD-4C airplane, I decided to lace the wires together instead of using cable ties. This video shows you how to do it yourself. I used lacing tape from Aircraft Spruce on my project. This is my first attempt at a “real” tutorial video. I know that I’m […]

Bede BD-4C, Recommendations

Birth of a New Tradition

November 29, 2016 Paul James

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[My good friend, Paul James, posted this essay on Facebook. I hope that you find it as inspiring as I did. — Art Z.] As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods — merchandise that has been produced at the expense […]

Economy, Recommendations

Chai Tea Recipe

August 20, 2016 Art Zemon

chai tea in a mug

Mmmm mmmm good! I just brewed my first batch of made-from-scratch chai tea.  Here is my recipe: 2-3 green cardamom pods 1 inch cinnamon stick 1 piece star anise 3 peppercorns 3 whole cloves 1/4 tsp coriander seeds 1/4 tsp fennel seeds 2-3 thin slices ginger root 3/4 cup water Combine the dry ingredients in […]

Cabbages & Kings, Recommendations

Binder Park Zoo

August 19, 2016 Art Zemon

yellow bird

I visited the Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, MI this week. Beautiful zoo! More like a stroll in the park, with animals thrown in for a bonus, than a “traditional” zoo. The big bonus for me, though, was getting to feed a giraffe. 😀 I took a few photos (of course). Here is a […]

Cabbages & Kings, Recommendations

Baratza Encore Coffee Grinder

April 15, 2015 Art Zemon

Worn out coffee grinder blades

We wore out our venerable Mr. Coffee coffee grinder. It made a lot of noise but the blades were so smooth that they would not feed the beans. Here is a photo (which you can click to see larger)

Rants & Raves, Recommendations

Our New Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Car

October 19, 2013 Art Zemon

Mitshubishi i-MiEV

We just bought a Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car and boy-oh-boy is it fun! This little gem drives “just like a car,” costs about 3 cents per mile to run, has four doors (plus a hatchback), and is surprisingly spacious. Believe it or not, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is the “big” car in our family, being 10 […]

Rants & Raves, Recommendations, Technology, Travel

First Workbench

October 1, 2011 Art Zemon

Today was workbench day at the Zemon’s. I built the first of two 2′ x 5′ workbenches that I will use for my BD-4C construction. Believe it or not, this is the first real work table that I have ever had. This is a relatively small table but should be just right for my space, […]

Bede BD-4C, Recommendations

Do You Ctrl-F?

August 21, 2011 Art Zemon

Do you get an F, er, do you get a Ctrl-F? To be more precise, do you know how to use Ctrl-F to find a word on a web page or within a document? It seems that the vast majority of people do not. According to Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, 90 percent […]

Recommendations, Technology

Delightful Dialog

January 16, 2011 Art Zemon

This article is hard to write not because of any uncertainty about what I want to say but simply because I want to gently suggest an idea to you. I do not want to come across as a know-it-all and raise your defenses. Maybe I worry too much. I am quite sure that you are […]

Communicating, Family, Recommendations

Server Backups are Important

March 6, 2010 Art Zemon

I got a frantic email from a friend this week. One of his subcontractors went crazy and trashed several of my friend’s clients’ web sites as well as my friend’s own business site. The police have been involved but much damage has already been done. I wish I had been hosting my friend’s sites. Had I […]

Recommendations, Safety, Software, Technology

Garmin & XM Radio: The Best & The Worst in Customer Service

October 4, 2009 Art Zemon

We have many opportunities to experience both good and bad customer service. Rarely, though, do we bump into extremes at both ends of the spectrum in the course of one technical support issue. Doing so makes both experiences all the more poignant. I use a Garmin GPSmap 396 coupled with a hockey puck sized XM […]

Aviation, Business, Rants & Raves, Recommendations

Reduce Risk – Stay Alive – Live Well

April 12, 2009 Art Zemon

I like to feel safe and I like to know that my family is safe. I would wager that you do, too. John Goekler has written a crystal clear piece in CounterPunch, The Most Dangerous Person in the World?, which highlights the risks to our lives. Some snippets: A significant majority of Americans… list terrorism […]

Health, Recommendations, Safety

IE6: Get Over It

March 9, 2009 Art Zemon

I am fed up with wasting clients’ dollars “fixing” web sites so that they look good in Internet Explorer 6. IE7 has been out for 2 1/2 years. IE8 is available as a free beta. There are lots of other browsers available for free. All of these browsers work better than IE6. If you still […]

Business, Communicating, Internet, Rants & Raves, Recommendations

Dr. Lester Start, Ph.D.

November 16, 2008 Art Zemon

I very much enjoyed the time that I got to spend with my father-in-law, Lester Start. Sadly, he was taken from this world much too soon. My wife and her siblings have created a web site as a publishing platform for his sermons and talks. Please visit Lester Start’s Works.

Family, Philosophy, Recommendations

Cross Browser Testing

October 29, 2008 Art Zemon

Cross browser testing is always a pain to coordinate but at least it just got a lot less expensive. Amazon Web Services just released AMIs running Windows which means that you can now get Windows virtual machines for as little as $0.125 per hour. These beasties make great platforms for doing cross browser testing. The […]

Internet, Recommendations, Technology

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