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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Boxabl Factory Update 2021 - Factory Mass Production

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Apparently, Elon Musk lives in one of these as his primary residence in Texas, near his space base. Mass produced on assembly lines, small f...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Why the vaccine is a good choice, even if you've already had Covid

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If you've had Covid, do you need the vaccine? [...] Those with powerful natural immunity may be protected from reinfection for up to a ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Drunkenness is not disinhibition.
Drunkenness is myopia.

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Social and cultural effects on drinking alcohol, and behavior: Drinking Games How much people drink may matter less than how they drink it. ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

The Simplest and Most Powerful 5 Minute Evening Routine

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Monday, September 13, 2021

4 levels of BEING

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From one of my favorite Youtube content creators, Dr. Benjamin Hardy:
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

How to argue with someone who won't listen

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Stop using logic. You are likely dealing with someone who may be experiencing congnative dissonance. At least, that's what this youtub...
Friday, August 06, 2021

Our Current Political Reality: Where we are now. How we got here. And where it's taking us...

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"Bobos" stands for "Bourgeois-Bohemians". People from Ivy-league schools, with capitalist incomes and hippy values, who ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Chainsaw Carving Creates Sculptures

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A fine Oregonian Artform.  First prize this year, was a giant crab: Oregon Divisional Chainsaw Carving Championship Reedsport chainsaw c...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

If our favorite Sci-Fi Spaceships were real...

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If they were real, you might be able to go visit them at an Air-show.  This web site pretends that the ships were created for real for the T...
Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Georgia voting laws explained by Brits

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BBC fact checking: Georgia voting: Fact-checking claims about the new election law      
Monday, March 08, 2021

Linux OS choices for beginners

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Best Linux Distributions That are Most Suitable for Beginners Brief: It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the list of Linux distributions availa...
Monday, February 01, 2021

Story telling patterns

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These are the typical elements, or structure, of story telling: The Story Spine: Pixar's 4th rule of storytelling In 2012 Pixar Stor...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

The Girl From Ipanema is a far weirder song than you thought

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I have always loved the song, it's so hauntingly beautiful. This video goes into a lot of detail that helps explain why. It also expl...
Thursday, December 03, 2020

The Lost Arts of Empathy and Conversation. We need to revive them, and not let the extremists among us dominate our political conversation.

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From The Atlantic monthly: How We Got Trump Voters to Change Their Mind [...] Typically, when volunteers engage in a canvassing campaign...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Jordan Peterson, on Liberals and Conservatives

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And why we need them both: Jordan Peterson (Trump vs Biden 2020 Election) A plane needs both a left wing and a right wing to fly.  Somet...
Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Oregon voted to stop Daylight Savings Time. Yet we fell back anyway. Here's why.

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Didn't Oregon do away with daylight saving time? Why you still have to 'fall back' Nov. 3 [...] Oregon lawmakers said the ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Death of the working class... and of Capitalism, as we knew it?

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How fighting one pandemic can deepen another Review of “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” by Anne Case and Angus Deaton By C...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Kamala Harris: an interesting choice

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From the Guardian: What to make of the Kamala Harris VP pick? Our panel's verdict [...] Harris, like Biden, is a remarkably malleable...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Covid-19: it's not your grandfather's Influenza. In fact, it's not Influenza.

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The Covid 19 Pandemic is frequently compared to the Influenza pandemic of 1918-1920. But is the comparison correct? Corona viruses are not...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Windows 7 support ends. So where to now?

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Microsoft suggests upgrading to windows 10. That would be fine... if it worked. They offered free windows 10 upgrades. I tried that, and i...