Today I read an article that in October Iceland officially classified the failure of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) as a national security risk. If the AMOC were to fail, temperatures in Iceland could plunge to -50º Farenheit and would glacier over.

I first heard about the AMOC in the highly recommendable book “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. From what I remember is that he said: look at where England is and then trace on a globe to see where that lines up at on North America. Why is one a tundra and the other highly populated? AMOC.

Read on to see my notes on AMOC.

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A while ago I saw a post where this guy did 50 different things with his Software Defined Radio (SDR) and I thought it was a really great idea to push something to the limit and explore it fully. So I have been wanting to do the same for my Flipper Zero, a “caprichho” (an extravagance or something I really did not need) that I bought over a year ago, and had fallen into the what I had seen people claiming on the internet: they were only using it as an over priced replacement for a remote control.
Unfortunately when I started this post and before researching my faulty memory remembered it as 101 things to do with SDR but in fact it was 50, but I already had started the post and although I almost certainly will set myself up for failure, but I will leave it at 101 uses for a Flipper!
The only caveat is that I will post this today (01/02/2026) with the tests I have done so far, and continue to add more as I go, updating this time stamp every time I add something: last update 04/03/2026.
Read on what will surely go down as my opus magnum!

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Eric Migicovsky had an incredible 2025: he announced the rebirth of Pebble, launched 2 new Pebble watches, shipped one of them, and launched a new weird wearable ring.
And then the SOB starts off 2026 with a bang by announcing a third new Pebble just on the second day of the year: Pebble Round 2! Oh man not sure if he can keep this up, but I sure hope so!
One of his rationals behind an early announcement of the Pebble Round 2 was to give people who have an open order for the Pebble Time 2 the option to switch their order to the Pebble Round 2, which after some internal debate I did. And the reason I did is because I really miss my Hamilton Khaki Automatic and thought: I bet I could program a watch face like it for my Pebble Round 2. The image above is the twelve iterations I did over a day, not programming but asking different AI models to do the heavy lifting for me. So read on for my experience!

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We have just finished un-decorating the tree, un-decorating the house, packed the boxes, and moved the tree to the terrace (where he will be happier as it is colder than the house) awaiting his pickup from the university students, so it is good time to reflect on how fun this silly season was, rather then be sad.

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The calendar aligned this new years to give a very nice long vacation with the expenditure of very few vacation days and with it I went down a long and varied rabbit hole exploring Conan the Barbarian. Read on if you dare!

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I have been using remarkable_news to have a fresh XKCD comic on my reMarkable’s sleep screen since I got it and have been really happy with it. The other day a co-worker asked how I was doing it and I pointed him to remarkable_news and had forgotten that it had all sorts of options for the sleep screen in addition to XKCD. I tried to set it up for Calvin and Hobbes but found it did not work and that led me down a rabbit hole leading to a fully customized sleep screen with a daily quote, Calvin and Hobbes, the Peanuts, and Bloom County! Read on for the details!

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October’s pick for my work book club was Halloween themed with Dracula or Frankenstein as candidates and I voted for Frankenstein and was pleased it won as I see it as a perfectly timely story given the hype around AGI and P(doom) and was interested in insights that could be gleamed from a 200+ year old novel and it did not disappoint!

I think this quote said by the monster to Victor pretty much captures the potential danger AGI presents and what I saw over in over in the movies I watched preparing for the AI apocalypse:

“You are my creator, but i am your master; obey!”

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I love when these big companies talk about how green and environmentally responsible they are, but then their actions just demonstrate the opposite. Microsoft did that on October 14th when they ended support of Windows 10 requiring an upgrade to Windows 11 to ensure you keep getting security updates (something that is a must given the current security landscape). The only problem is that there was an estimated 160 million to 200 million PCs running Windows 10 on October 14th that are not compatible with Windows 11. Sadly lots of those devices will end up contributing to the already existing enormous e-waste bin. Or will this be a making lemonade moment and finally give the linux desktop movement the bump we have been waiting for the last 10 years? One of the 200 million PCs is my Surface Go (o the sweet irony, a Microsoft device that they have turned their back on) so I decided give the Linux route a chance!

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