From chaos, order
It’s counterintuitive, or so we’ve been taught. God is a god of structure, of principles, of the laws of nature, the very statutes of which He penned Himself in perpetuity from before the dawn of time. God is a god of order, and naught can or could or...
The Carrots Can Wait: Why I Don’t Save the Best for Last
There is a particular bit of conventional wisdom surrounding food that I have never understood: save the best for last. Why? If there are three things on my plate and I love one of them, tolerate another, and begrudgingly accept the existence of the third, I am eating...
Building a Clean, Modular 3D-Printed Battery Box Using a $3 Harbor Freight Ammo Can
I had a couple of 7Ah LiFePO4 batteries sitting on the shelf doing nothing, so I finally got around to building them some proper smaller boxes. These aren’t meant to be monster power stations — they’re compact, lightweight, and useful for a bunch of...
Jailbreaking the Baofeng MP31 for GMRS and Ham Radio Use
UPDATE 9/14/2026: It looks like Chirp now offers native support for the Baofeng MP31. How to unlock the Baofeng MP31 GMRS radio and unleash(ish) its potential The Baofeng MP31 is not an exceptional radio. It’s better than some of the original BF-777s radios from...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.