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RGB Christmas Light Spheres - AKA: Paul's Balls

Our tallest tree in the front yard has never had lights on it. This year we have a plan to decorate it. Topiary Art Works makes a metal sphere for growing topiaries in. They call it a Wire Globe 20" Diameter. The nice thing about this sphere is that

iPhone

10 Gb/s USB-C Cable for iPhone 15 Pro Max

I tried almost every USB-C cable I have. None supported 10 Gb/s for my iPhone 15 Pro Max. But this cable from Amazon did: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VCPC8X1?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

We have to stop being a frivolous, goofball society

September 11 Is Worth RememberingThe September 11, 2001 attacks are a receding memory and led to one of the moments of national unity which are all too rare.Healthy SkepticKevin Roche We have to stop being a frivolous, goofball society and have some serious purpose for our collective life. Good

Review

Review: Del Taco Strawberry Shake

A certain missionary told me this was the hest shake. I tried it out and it was definitely good. There were actual real strawberries blended into it and I think it also had real ice cream. The chunks of strawberry were actually too much for me. Even with the giant

One year anniversary of the new blog

One year in on the new blog. I started pretty well with a post per day. Definitely fell off as the months progressed. I planned on looking at analytics to see what posts had the most traffic from search engines but there are no analytics so nothing to share.

How about never?

My favorite New Yorker cartoon has an article about it. The Story of “How About Never”I usually deflect questions about my legacy by joking that I’d like it to be not dying.The New YorkerCondé Nast

Google

Chrome's Ridiculous "Enhanced" Privacy Option

Chrome claims they are launching new privacy features. A new popup can be seen which will proclaim they have this "enhanced" privacy. This is a complete joke. Google wants to track what you like and send it to advertisers so they can target ads toward you. What a

Space

Observing Space X Launches After Sunset from Southern California

When Space X launches their Falcon rockets from Vandenberg in the evening it is easy to watch the launch from south Orange County. If you look toward the west about 2 minutes after the launch time you can see the rocket heading up. Then I believe the 1st stage stops

Review

Covenant Hills Bike Path

The bike path behind Convenant Hills Drive is dumb. It goes uphill both ways... literally! 3/10 :(

Tesla

Fixing a Tesla Model X Falcon Door That Won't Close

This Model X door wouldn't latch all the way closed. I was able to compare how the latch on the door looked compared to how it looked on the functioning door. So the door that wouldn't latch couldn't latch closed because the latch was

Palm trees

Stripped Palm Trees

I noticed Ladera Ranch had stripped or de-barked many of the palm trees. I had never seen this before. I think it makes the palm trees look a little nicer. I couldn't understand why they didn't do it all the way to the ground. They stopped

Review

Panda Express Chicken Sandwich

Panda Express is now testing a chicken sandwich. This article says it is only until July 11. I must have just barely gotten my chance to taste it because one of the Panda locations in Mission Viejo had it for sale on July 12. It was pretty good. It was

Cooooookie

We got yummy double tree cookies because we have to stay overnight in Newark. Later blog will update on our flight experience with United. It's not good. Anyways, sleeping in clothes but still have toothbrush because I forgot to put it into a checked bag. Who's

Airline Overhead Compartments

Why don't airlines ever have room for everyone to have 2 bags? You MUST pay if you want to not check a bag. They need to have more room or something where in the aisle over that there is also an overhead compartment. Or just have fewer seats.

The blanket trick

There is a fun trick that you can do with a blanket where you throw a blanket in front of you and duck down or run away so that it looks like you disappeared. On a ride at Six Flags Great Adventure, a magician did the same trick! This was

Fran's first post

I'm an author on rydell.com now. Since this is RYDELL.com, I have to maximize my time of being allowed to write posts, since if I ever get married I would likely no longer be a Rydell. So here is a post by Fran. Bye bye!

Changes to the blog

I have invited a few more Rydells to be authors on this blog. You will hopefully see some new posta from them soon!

I’m an author

Now I'm an author on this website. Woohoo!

Review

Columbia University's Reputation

The US News college rankings are interesting. Malcolm Gladwell has devoted a few podcasts to them that have been very interesting. I feel like the ranking is really just a rank of the reputation of a school by the world at large. Columbia cheated on their numbers they send to

Review

Review: Cheetos Mac 'N Cheese

I prepared a box of Cheetos Mac 'N Cheese to see how it compares to Kraft's. It did taste and smell like Cheetos. I ground up some actual Cheetos to drop on top of it also. I liked it. Not quite as good as Kraft but it

Review

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

We spent a few hours at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in June, 2023. The highlight for me was the old Air Force One that Reagan and some other presidents used. It is on display and you can walk through it and see the president's office on the

Missionary

Midjourney AI Illustrates Eddie's Mission

We tried having Midjourney's AI draw some photos of Eddie serving his mission in Georgia. Serving a mission, speaking spanish, holding peaches. We tried a few prompts and got these results. We couldn't get it to add the name tag reliably.

Review

Mt. Dew Summer

Mt. Dew has a new summer flavor called Summer Freeze. It isn't bad. Tastes like a rocket pop. A few years ago they made Liberty Brew in the summer. I liked Liberty Brew better. Summer Freeze Review: 5/6

July 4th

Ridiculous Flag Decorations in OC

I think Ladera Ranch and Mission Viejo should just hang up actual star-spangled banners and not banners that have photos of star-spangled banners.

McNugget

McNugget Shapes Have Names

I have always known that McNuggets only come in 4 shapes. Recently I got a 4 pack of McNuggets and got a bonus 5th nugget. Jim Gaffigan talks about God giving bonus fries. But a bonus nugget? Amazing! Its shape looked non-standard though. It was more of a sphere than