Author: Lugh Sulian

Standing on the Ledge: Rebuilding from the Rubble—an ongoing, real-time record of what happens after collapse, when old rules stop functioning and new ones haven’t yet earned trust.

Graduated licensing

In Ontario Canada we have graduated licensing. In order to receive your full automobile license it takes nearly 2 years. I think this system needs to gi the way of the Dodo and bring back the old system.

Why, many younger people are not obtaining their license because the process is to long and even if they have it the restrictions over the 2 year period are to great. This i have seen is a barrier to employment. No ability to drive no job, unreliablity in employment.

What do you think do you have this type of system where you live? Do you think it is a problem ? Do you think it should go?

Item i was attached to as a youth

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

Army fatigues, what can i say. They are comfortable, have pockets and you can find them anywhere. For the most part i have not had true fatigues in a while, cargo pants in the style of fatigues are the closest i have. But again same reason, pockets, comfort and easy to find.

BLINK Security Cameras

BLINK Camera review

I have been using these cameras for a few weeks now. For the most part, they work well, but they do have some serious downfalls. I shall review the short list of issues I have found thus far.

  • The range is not stated anywhere I can find in its documentation that I have found yet, but the sync module has a range of approximately 100 feet from the router. This is an open-air range; 1 wall cut that range in half, and two walls cut it down to 2/3rds. However, this is fine for most small homes, not in my current situation.
  • Range lacks due to poor radio power on the sync module itself. Again, the module’s power is not stated anywhere in the documentation, but I suspect it is less than 1/4 of the output power of a standard router, possibly even 1/8th.
  • Lack of the ability to add an external antenna to increase the range.
  • Sync Module is vulnerable to disconnects in low or dirty power states. I have had one sync module disconnect every one and a half hours sometimes less and could not figure out what was going on. I moved the module several times, different outlets, dedicated outlets still the problem persisted. Suspected it was a faulty module, Blink support sent me a new one, still the problem persisted. Then I began suspecting internet issues and called my provider, again no issues found. I was stumped. Well since I had two sync modules I would move a camera to the other sync module. I moved my door bell camera, which is located at the perimeter gate of the property. HMMM no power there, so I hooked it up to a 20000 MAH power bank. It stayed up and running for 4.5 days on that power bank with no loss of connectivity. Mean while dropped connections still persisted on the other one. Both Modules still connect to the same wi-fi router, the only difference is power source. So I now have the second sync module connected to the exact same type of power bank we shall see what happens in the next 24 hours.