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Monday, January 4, 2016

Follow Up on Last Month's SpaceX Launch and Reusing the Booster

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Four days before Christmas , SpaceX launched a mission that seems to have swapped its primary and secondary missions!  The primary mission w...
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Sunday, January 3, 2016

The Saudi Oil Plan Is On the Verge of Breaking Down

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Back in October, I posted about an article I had read saying the Saudi oil ministry had a plan to bankrupt the US oil industry .  Essentiall...
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Saturday, January 2, 2016

Climate Absurdity Reaches a New Height

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I'm tempted to call this the most absurd thing of the year, but being January 2nd, that doesn't mean much.  Let's just call it t...
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Friday, January 1, 2016

The Best Year in Review Posts

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In my mind, the Best of the Year awards go to Hope 'n Change cartoons, now added to my blog list, and Dave Barry .  In no particular or...
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Happy New Year - 2016

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New Year's Eve is upon us, and I just want to wish all of you a happy New Year.   I think 2016 may turn out to be pivotal year.  Many ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Maintenance Day

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Guitar maintenance day, that is.  One of the realities of owning and playing guitars is that sets of strings are disposable items.  Some p...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Techy Tuesday - Will Fuel Cell Cars Ever Be Practical?

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Design News editor Charles Murray opined this week that for fuel cell vehicles to be successful, cost-cutting will be critical .  While I kn...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

Staring At the Computer Screen

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With the exception of a run down to the Professional Bass to see if they had anything irresistible (they were out of pork rinds!  I'm sh...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Rechargeable Battery Basics

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Energy is life.  It's really that simple.  Anyone who has shivered through a cold night without fuel for their heater knows that simple ...
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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Merry Christmas!

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It's sort of annual tradition on my part to put up this post, or at least the essence of it, since I revise it regularly.   On this ni...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

My Favorite Christmas Song - A Repost

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Regulars here know that I'm somewhat of a blues fan.  I've introduced the outrageously talented Joanne Shaw Taylor ,  country blues ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Techy Tuesday - SpaceX Raises Their Bar

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Seems like only a month ago, we were talking about Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin landing a rocket on land for reuse.  Oh wait... it wa...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Not Quite With It Tonight

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Although last Friday was my last day of work, I had a dentist appointment looming today that felt like the last thing I needed to go through...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

OK, This Just Doesn't Fit

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I saw a report this weekend that Bruce Dickenson, the front man for the metal band Iron Maiden, is going to fly the band around for their n...
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Now This Is Knife Making!

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I have a Pinterest account , which I mentioned here when I first started playing around with it.  To be honest, I don't quite know what ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

I Can Can't See Clearly, Now

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A few weeks ago, with the coming retirement meaning benefits were going away, I went to use up my vision coverage benefit and visited the Op...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

R E T I R E D

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That's it.  Today was my last day - at least in this go around. I started working full time in late 1975.  Before that, I worked part ...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

It's Not Just The Spending

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For a long time, I've said, "it's the spending, stupid".  The year in/year out deficit spending that's slowly killing ...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Techy Tuesday - "Drone Control" Goes Live

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Got a new drone for Christmas?  The FAA's mandatory drone registration goes into effect December 21, with a staggered implementation.  ...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

The Paris Climate Conference

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Was a colossal waste of time and money, producing an agreement that will have no discernible effect on the global temperature.   The bottom ...
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