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I had a sporadic cough for a long while – my brother says it was “years”. This was not an infection, just an occasional itch that could only be scratched with a cough. In March 2020, when the media started catastrophizing about people dropping like flies during the 2019-2020 cold and flu season, I thought… Continue reading Preparing for Colds & Flus, 2021 edition

Noticed an article about color vision this morning: The Red and Green Specialists: Why Human Colour Vision Is so Odd. This article, and re-reading some of my bookmarks, helped me better understand why red and orange lights are especially useful for humans at night, and why blue-white LEDs are fundamentally defective when used outside. tl/dr:… Continue reading color vision / night vision notes

About a year and a half ago my sister-in-law said something about how I should write something new for my blog, as the last post was (then) months old. Lots of ideas for posts have crossed my mind, and while I’ve started a few, I never finished any of them. I have been researching and… Continue reading An update for a neglected blog

I spent a few minutes in a local supermarket yesterday, and noticed a man in the cafe who was making himself busy by pushing in chairs, and straightening tables and napkin holders. He had a bit of a “homeless” look to him. A cart full of stuff confirmed my impression. Everyone else in the cafe… Continue reading Job Projects for those who have nothing else to do

I used to write a lot of letters-to-the-editor. It was mostly an exercise in futility – it’s been about 8 years since I sent the first one, and still nothing changes. The constant talk from the mainstream media about the “debt ceiling” is rather irritating, and this letter sorta flowed out of my fingertips. The… Continue reading Fixing the Government’s Finances

Haven’t posted anything in almost a year. I get a lot of inspiration for blog posts, but haven’t actually taken the time to flesh many of them out. Sorry about that. 🙂 I was at a local cafe this morning with my laptop. A 60-something year old man sat down at a nearby table with… Continue reading The opposite of genius

In June I formulated a plan to help clean BP’s oil from the Gulf of Mexico. To Save the Gulf, Send The Enterprise calls for using the U.S. Navy’s portable nuclear reactors to power air pumps for oxygenating ocean waters in the Gulf. Bacteria already present in the ocean use oxygen to consume whatever oil… Continue reading Cleaning Up the Gulf of Mexico

There’s a story up on slashdot about heavy sleepers. At one time I had trouble with sleeping, so I  posted a comment about how I enhanced my ability to fall asleep at night: My memories of going to sleep as a child are of tossing and turning every night in bed. My parents bought my… Continue reading Some thoughts on insomnia

I originally purchased teslabox.com some 7 years ago, when I was about to lose my longstanding email address. I didn’t put up a homepage until January 2009. After a year and a half of hand-coded webpages, I finally decided to switch to WordPress, a modern Content management system [CMS]. WordPress does all the work, and… Continue reading Welcome to Teslabox.com