Corey Snipes

This is one of my father's memoirs. He learned to use my mother's computer so he could write and print them for us. This is the short version, which was expanded the following year into a more detailed, longer version. For the full story and links to all memoirs, see this page. The following is a general history of my life as I remember it. Some dates may be slightly in error. No attempt was made to detail all my…

We are lucky to be an hour's drive from the world-class amusement park Cedar Point. We finally took the kids in October. The ride cameras aren't the best, but this one so perfectly captured our collective terror on the Magnum XL200... (Weird crop because I had to cut out their crappy auto-frame.) Me, just trying to figure out why I voluntarily got on this thing. She is willing to ride nearly any coaster, but she's not sure about this one.

I love this cute little Halloween ghost. No supports required, and if I scale down to 80% it prints in ~30 minutes on my Ender 3 Pro. Little Ghost by Gracewindale ('narnaa') on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4966110 Gracewindale is now selling their models on myminifactory. They pulled or replaced their Thingiverse models, so Little Ghost on Thingiverse now has a hole in the top. When I downloaded the original without the top hole in 2021, the model was licensed CC-BY-NC-ND (no commercial…

Two hundred ten years ago today (September 10, 1813), the Battle of Lake Erie was fought near the southern shore of the lake, not far from where I live. This returned control of the lake from the British Navy to the US Navy. It's crazy to think of British forces controlling waters near Ohio, but so it was. Commodore Oliver Perry used a white on blue battle flag bearing the words "Don't Give Up The Ship" which is now ubiquitous…

Here are two book recommendations related to the outdoors and mountaineering. "Accidents in North American Climbing" is an annual publication from the American Alpine Club, with frank and interesting accounts of problems encountered during the report year. I discovered the Accidents annual publication when I worked at XOR Network Engineering in Boulder Colorado many years ago. Someone always kept the latest copy in the bathroom. "Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance" by Peter Stark is a…

There was a lot of interest in my Croissants in the Solar Oven post so here is some information about the oven itself. Some photos are at the end of this post. Model: GoSun Sport As of July 2023 the plain Sport model appears to be sold out, but you can still find them on eBay. I paid about $US 150 with shipping in 2023. At the time of writing GoSun still has the newer Sport-E in stock which is…

Here's my first shot at cooking bread in my GoSun Sport solar oven. A can of store-bought crescent rolls. 8 to a can, I could comfortably fit 4 in the cooking tray, so I stashed the rest in the fridge for another day. I greased the tray with a bit of butter to make removal and cleanup easier. Cook time was about 50 minutes. This was too long; they were overcooked. Fresh bread requiring no fuel or electricity though! Miraculous!…

Bluegrass is one of the most social, and beginner-friendly styles of music on earth. If you are interested in getting started with bluegrass music, or just looking for some friends to play music with now and then, here are my suggestions. A great place to start is Pete Wernick's resources for slow jams and total beginners. They are inexpensive and I can vouch for the quality of Pete's material. I believe you can stream some or all of them. Also,…