May 9, 2025
Used, Used Up, Replaced
While making the new (improved!) rolling system for the table saw, I found two old 2x4s that came from a concrete project when we first moved here. I salvaged and reused them...
May 8, 2025
Communication AI
Communication speaks for intelligence. Whether that is good enough might depend on your ability to understand. That takes far more than intellect. It requires moral capacity. “The psychologist’s stereotaxy caused many rats...
May 3, 2025
To Trees and Carbon, Yes
Rarely am I excited by losing trees. We took down both Chinese (Lifesaver shaped) peaches. They grew well, but produced lousy fruit that attracted green fruit beetles that ate the fruit, bored...
May 1, 2025
Another Inquiry Into Wealth of Nations
Meanwhile, back in Uganda, the impoverished community now has enough money to purchase land. After some discussion, we decided right down to the shilling how much we must have to effect the...
April 30, 2025
Families of Four
The US Federal Govt spent over $20,000 for every person last year. We owe a total of $106,000 per individual in federal debt. The GDP last year was $86,000 per person, while...
April 16, 2025
Relatively Absolute
“Light travels at the same speed in every direction, by definition.” Albert Einstein We can all laugh at something as strange as any of this. Einstein emphasized by definition in 1905 because...
April 13, 2025
Phylactery Wisdom
Society is obscured by straying worldviews. Communities divide justice between forgiveness and vengeance, sexist oppression and egalitarianism, racist separation and colorless integration, individual in society and one of the masses. Western Society...
April 12, 2025
Middling at Both Ends
This post is past due. My newest goal is to make everything “gentle and agreeable,” which is contrary to my nature. It also violates the current absolute division between I support Trump...
April 3, 2025
A Tarp and a Dream
I built a shop in New York. Several people helped, especially Jerry Matthews. I hope he is at peace in the afterlife. He was a pretty great guy. The shop was a...
April 3, 2025
What Tariffs? No Tariffs Here.
Donald Trump imposed no tariffs. We have no tariffs, any more than the EU, China, Canada, Mexico, India, Australia, the Philippines or Vietnam have tariffs on us. Fair trade means no tariffs....
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