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What is this rock?
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This was a rather hilarious YouTube recommendation, a geologist invites rockhounds/prospectors onto his show and identifies their rocks. Now, pretty boring, even for me, but worth it for the part where he tries to get some clues as to where this rock came from...
..."on the ground..."
More precisely?
"...in the desert..."
...
"Well, you see, we don't really want to say, be giving away our prime spot and all..."
Now I completely get it, who wouldn't, and the geologist, he sort of gets it, and the rock, it's pretty ugly, just a rock, but to them it's treasure, precious, and they'll go so far as to narrow down the area to a state, or a few hundred square miles, but more than that, well, it's just asking too much.
Robert Reich
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Audio & Podcasts
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Listening to a few of his videos, largely on American Politics, how we (because ours are heading in the same direction) got to where we are, and how we can implement far-reaching and reasonable change.
Of extra-relevance, given our reduced earnings, skyrocketing groceries/rental bills, and - of course, the unending Ferry Strike, which is definitely a harbinger of things to come.
He's good, a long-time left leaning activist with a reasonable and informed approach - something you don't come across very often in politics nowadays...
My Haunted Electric Toothbrush
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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So I bought a new electric toothbrush a few weeks ago, the old one, it was pooched, wouldn't charge, power on, it was done.
I was a little annoyed as I didn't feel I'd gotten my money's worth. It didn't live nearly as long as the warranty promised it would, the warranty that I threw away upon buying because who keeps that stuff anyways...
Anyways, no sooner than I get the new toothbrush home and up and running than the old one begins working again.
At first, it's just on for a 2 minute cycle, no turning it off. And as I'm fastidious about using things right up I put the new toothbrush away and use the old one. After a couple of weeks it begins to allow me to turn it off as well as on, and it would seem to be as good as new.
Yesterday it needed charging. I threw it on the charger, and from the bathroom all night it played a variety of tunes, beeps, chirps, like R2-D2, this morning, took it off the charger (heard it beeping for attention) - it wasn't charged, put it back on, it was charged, light turns green. I go in to the bathroom a few minutes later to find it fully on and brushing an imaginary set of teeth...
It's as if it belonged to the internet of things, useless items that need to go online like fridges and thermostats and light bulbs, and had been taken over by a playful Russian Hacker. My haunted electric toothbrush...
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I tried to brush my teeth before work. It wouldn't start. And so I chucked it away, time, overdue, piece-of-shit toothbrush.
And ever since then I've heard it powering on, off, on, off, beeping out Xmas Carols, in my garbage.
Time to take out the trash...
A New Cosmology
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This, a lengthy and thorough read well worth the effort.
In which Lawrence Roberts summarizes - with shortfalls, the current state of Cosmology, and makes suggestions and revisions that he thinks may help us on to a greater (and improved) understanding. One of his postulates suggests that gravity accreting at the end of the visible universe may help to explain the red-shifting we have long attributed to expansion.
There are some very good ideas here, well and simply explained so that someone with almost no experience in what he's discussing can come to a comprehension of what he's suggesting.
Link: The Expanding Awareness Cosmology: A New Vision of the Universe
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