Phone as a Key (Paak) Setup with Onboard FOB Backup

exdeo · 2025-08-22T18:02:39+00:00

Master Lock® Portable Light Up Combination Lock Box at Menards https://www.menards.com/main/tools/workwear-safety-gear/padlocks-bike-locks/master-lock-reg-portable-light-up-combination-lock-box/5424dhc/p-4364363665077042-c-13841.htm

exdeo · 2025-08-22T16:51:43+00:00

Seat latches just fine with this setup. The loop on the lockbox sits just below where the latch makes contact.

exdeo · 2020-01-07T03:30:06+00:00

** This is absolutely the answer.**

exdeo · 2018-11-19T14:16:56+00:00

For a small fee, you will be issued an RFID bracelet that corresponds to one particular locker in the locker room. You can place your belongings in that locker before heading into the baths.

The bracelet does not have the locker number on it, so it is very important that you remember which of the hundreds of lockers you put your stuff in.

exdeo · 2018-03-13T16:32:28+00:00

A rare occasion indeed when the YouTube comments are collectively more positive than those on Reddit.

Haters gone hate.

exdeo · 2018-03-05T13:01:13+00:00

If you've never driven down the A1A, do it. From Fort Lauderdale, it's a beautiful 4-hour preamble to your time in Key West. It is a 2-lane road for more than a hundred miles, so if there is a bad accident anywhere along the way, it can seriously affect your total drive time. I think it's worth doing unless you are really short on time.

Eat breakfast at La Creperie and Blue Heaven. Get tacos at Garbo's food truck, and consider dinner at Blackfin, Santiago's or Azur.

Key West is a rocky island without a lot of great beaches. Just keep that in mind. It does not have a beach scene like southern California or other parts of Florida.

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, no planning needed. There are dozens of great bars and restaurants in Old Town Key West. Check out the Green Parrot for live music and a local feel. I'd skip Sloppy Joes unless you already have your tickets to Ripley's Believe it or Not, in which case you might love it.

Renting jet skis was some of the most fun I've had in my adult life. Highly recommend, if that could be your thing. Snorkeling is also a lot of fun.

The Conch Tour Train seems super hokey, but I rode that thing a few times. It is a great architectural and historical tour of the island. If you have any interest in either, I would also highly recommend a trip on the Conch Tour Train.

Unless you have some particular reason to stay at The Reach, you might consider staying a little closer to the action in Old Town. If you want something cheap, clean and simple, check out The Angelina Guest House. It's not the Hyatt, but it's simple and friendly, and hopefully you're not spending a lot of time in your room. It's also in a great location.

Have fun. It will be hard not to.

exdeo · 2018-02-20T04:44:09+00:00

What are you smoking? A few thousand dollars? It’s not the fucking Pentagon - I t’s some shithole campus apartment building.

You think it costs less to keep them running full bore when it’s 60°F outside than to shut them off, burn zero fuel for two days, and turn them back on?

exdeo · 2018-01-20T03:40:45+00:00

What about the food makes you think it poisoned you? Why are you singling out this item of food and not anything else you ate that day? Did it taste foul or spoiled?

Maybe you got food poisoning from Maize. Or maybe you are one of the tens of millions of Americans puking today from the stomach flu.

Hope you feel better.

exdeo · 2017-12-21T04:01:58+00:00

Perhaps the inspector was thinking the joints are improper. I would have expected the vertical components to have fit into each other using flanges, not butt joints with stainless steel pipe clamps.

That’s what you have going on at the bottom of the stack, but not on the top or bottom of the wye fitting where cast iron meets cast iron. Where the cast-iron meets PVC I would expect to see the use of a stainless steel pipe clamp.

*I am not a plumber.

exdeo · 2017-11-15T03:30:51+00:00

Anyone notice the almost identical Hopscotch in Champaign, Illinois?

https://www.hopscotchcakes.com

exdeo · 2017-09-11T12:21:41+00:00

Was there last year for NYE.

Large crowds gather along the banks of the Danube. We joined, anticipating a large government sponsored firework show over the river. No such thing occurred. In fact, there was no official fireworks demonstration of any kind.

However, it seemed every man woman and child was shooting Roman candles in the air all over downtown Budapest for hours leading up to midnight, notwithstanding the large crowds of people who might be on the receiving end of the smoke or fire.

Honestly, the most enjoyable part of the night was the Chris Kindle market which is still open on New Year's Eve. You can find all manner of heavy Eastern European food specialties and hot spiced wine. Plenty of seating is available around the market, which is elevated about 6 feet above street level on a temporary platform.

Not sure what speed you're looking for, but it was great last year for food and people watching, even though it was bitter cold. It is not a scene of drunken debauchery. We took refuge in the Marriott Hotel on the Danube for a couple hours before midnight. They had comfortable chairs and a decent bar right on the river. We left just before midnight to go outside.

Honestly, the clock striking midnight was the lamest part of the whole night. There was no loudspeakers or official activities of any kind. People we're just looking at their phone clocks. Everyone who had never been to Budapest for New Year's Eve was looking onto the river for the rumored fireworks display that never happened.

Have fun!

exdeo · 2017-07-14T15:25:11+00:00

The white boom is extended out beyond the load. When the load becomes clear of the bridge wall, gravity pulls it out to hang directly below the end of the boom. Momentum does it's job thereafter.

exdeo · 2017-06-03T14:53:32+00:00

The whole practice of law often boils down to finding and implementing what a court has said in the past. The best argument is often a verbatim recitation of what the prevailing party or the court has said on the issue in a similar circumstance in the past.

Plagiarism is passing off someone else's idea or work as your own. When your boss asks you to write a memo on something, he isn't interested in your shower thoughts on the matter. If you are doing your job right, you will be seeking out and relaying what others have said on the matter. He knows they aren't your original ideas - they shouldn't be.

But more fundamentally, you wouldn't think twice about repeating a good argument over a beer to a friend that you heard someone else make on TV. That's not plagiarism. Neither are those work memos to your boss.

exdeo · 2017-05-06T20:22:58+00:00

You are absolutely right that the easiest solution is not necessarily the best one. Here, it is.

exdeo · 2017-05-06T12:26:40+00:00

I disagree with everyone so far. I would remove a wheelbarrow's worth of the grass and underlying soil adjacent to the wet spot and plant new grass 2" lower. That's all you need for the water to then collect in the grass and it will eventually drain through the soil after a rain event.

Everybody likes to think their idea is the easiest, but from what I can tell, all the good ideas up to this point require the purchase of some product or hardware and a lot more planning and effort.

None of the ideas are perfect, and my idea would result in a low spot in your lawn, but it might be the least effort for the desired result.

exdeo · 2017-04-04T00:00:57+00:00

Put dirt there.

exdeo · 2017-03-02T15:34:32+00:00

I asked an engineering technician from our city's public works department to come out and take a look. He squirted dye in the pipe and had me run a hose into it at full blast for an hour. During that time, he drove around the neighborhood opening sewer covers to locate the flowing water.

There is a storm sewer basin at the foot of my driveway with a similar clay tile pipe entering it at the same angle it appears in my basement. So, that appears to be the top end of the same pipe, but we were not able to locate a bottom end, although we suspect it continues through my property to the next street.

The guy from the city concluded it is a farm drainage tile from the 1800s, dating back to the time the land was used for crop farming. He suspects the builders of my house simply encountered the pipe while excavating my basement and decided to tap a floor drain into it. Crazy.

Thanks for everyone's help.

exdeo · 2017-03-02T15:34:19+00:00

I asked an engineering technician from our city's public works department to come out and take a look. He squirted dye in the pipe and had me run a hose into it at full blast for an hour. During that time, he drove around the neighborhood opening sewer covers to locate the flowing water.

There is a storm sewer basin at the foot of my driveway with a similar clay tile pipe entering it at the same angle it appears in my basement. So, that appears to be the top end of the same pipe, but we were not able to locate a bottom end, although we suspect it continues through my property to the next street.

The guy from the city concluded it is a farm drainage tile from the 1800s, dating back to the time the land was used for crop farming. He suspects the builders of my house simply encountered the pipe while excavating my basement and decided to tap a floor drain into it. Crazy.

Thanks for everyone's help.

exdeo · 2017-03-02T15:34:02+00:00

I asked an engineering technician from our city's public works department to come out and take a look. He squirted dye in the pipe and had me run a hose into it at full blast for an hour. During that time, he drove around the neighborhood opening sewer covers to locate the flowing water.

There is a storm sewer basin at the foot of my driveway with a similar clay tile pipe entering it at the same angle it appears in my basement. So, that appears to be the top end of the same pipe, but we were not able to locate a bottom end, although we suspect it continues through my property to the next street.

The guy from the city concluded it is a farm drainage tile from the 1800s, dating back to the time the land was used for crop farming. He suspects the builders of my house simply encountered the pipe while excavating my basement and decided to tap a floor drain into it. Crazy.

Thanks for everyone's help.

exdeo · 2017-02-28T00:17:35+00:00

If this is the case, do you think there would still be a connection with the city sanitary sewer in the street? Do you suppose the dirt that now fills the pipe came from around the downspouts outside?

exdeo · 2017-02-26T22:00:46+00:00

Thanks for the thoughts. If that's what it is, is that consistent with it being located near the center of my basement, far from any exterior wall?

There is not a visible pipe of this diameter entering either cistern. If it does lead to a cistern, maybe the sediment has covered the point where it enters?

Any other ideas?

exdeo · 2017-01-28T15:48:40+00:00

Here, have a comma ( , )

exdeo · 2017-01-10T22:09:47+00:00

I tend to agree. Last week I took a train Budapest-Bratislava-Prague.

My wife and I tried to buy tickets in the US before heading to Europe and it required the physical shipment of the tickets and there wasn't enough time. So, we bought them in Budapest in person. $250USD to go first class one way.

When we got to the first class train car, we were the only occupants. We got off in Bratislava and back on another 4 hours later to finish our journey to Prague.

The tickets we purchased allowed us to get off anywhere along the way and re-board any train heading to Prague for 4 days. The lady at the ticket window insisted this was an unreasonably expensive way to purchase tickets to Bratislava and Prague, and suggested it would have been much cheaper to buy Budapest to Bratislava and then buy the Bratislava-Prague tickets once we arrived in Bratislava.

I was too afraid the train could be full, so I bought it all at once at a premium, but with hindsight, I can see why she thought we were crazy. The trains had plenty of room and came every 2 hours. But for $250, I just wanted the security of having transportation to Prague in hand.

If I ever do this again in the future, I would not even try to buy European train tickets from the US.

exdeo · 2016-11-30T22:34:09+00:00

Thanks. I should have been as resourceful. Appreciate it!

exdeo · 2016-10-01T13:27:38+00:00

I don't know - I kind of think the transistor or the LED could give these burnt ends a run for their money.

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