Copasetic Flow

 At the time I'm writing this, United States I bonds are paying more than 3% interest. While they're not as easy to get as when I was a kid, savings bonds are still as good of a way as any for kids to learn about savings. The gang has been pestering me for two weeks, (pestering at my request, or I'd forgett to do it), to use a $100 windfall they came upon to buy savings bonds for them. I finally did it! Here's what I learned. Kids have to have an account managed by an adult I'm not happy about this, but there it is. Sure,  I'll write my politicians, but in the meantime, the kids' parent has to buy and manage the bonds in the kid's name. That means the parent needs an account on TreasuryDirect . This is not an easy task, but it's also not insurmountable. It's also something I set up for myself years ago and no longer remember how to do, so no info on that here except to click the link a few sentences back and have at it. Actually, one really big ...

 Halibut Electronics is working on a new satellite antenna kit! This is kinda cool for two reasons, first because we've recently started attending the high altitude balloon meetups at Noisebridge . Satellite antennas came up during one of the meetings. More tactically importanly though, the EggNogs docs inspired what be a better tuna can feedtrough for Projct TouCan's antenna! For notes, here's my original EggNogs documentation review reply : The documentation looks great so far! I've made it to page 17/22. One thing:     For those of us with partners heavily into fountain pens, those of us who like to print out manuals on JIS B5 paper and then store them in Kokuyo Campus binders, page numbers in the table of contents would be very cool. (I know, I know, such a niche group :) )   Mostly though, I wanted to thank you for jogging my memory into a, (I hope), better solution for Project TouCans antenna ports. At present, they're inverted bananna plug posts. Banana plug...